 In 2006, NVRI signed a formal affiliation agreement with the New York-based organization Demos (US think tank) and works in collaboration with Dēmos on many of its projects.NVRI was lead counsel or co-counsel in a series of lawsuits in the late 1990s and early 2000s arguing that reasonably drawn political campaign spending limits do not violate the U.S.Constitutional protections of free speech.