Electoral Spotlight
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Defend Abortion Rights
Defend Abortion RightsThe decision to get an abortion shouldn't belong to politicians — it should belong to individuals.
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Safeguard Free Speech
Safeguard Free SpeechWe have a First Amendment right to read and learn free from censorship and discrimination.
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Fight Voter Suppression
Fight Voter SuppressionDemocracy is free and fair only when every eligible American has the freedom to vote.
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Protect LGBTQ+ Rights
Protect LGBTQ+ RightsLGBTQ+ people deserve to live without discrimination due to who they are and whom they love.
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Learn about what's happening across the most pressing civil liberties issues of our time, and what you can do.
Systemic Equality
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Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systemically locked out of opportunities in education, housing, employment, and more.
Through our Systemic Equality agenda, we will use nationwide litigation, advocacy, and public education to advance laws and policies rooted in racial equity and end discriminatory policies, laws, and practices that have an outsized impact on Black communities.
Help us in our fight to ensure all people have equal access to housing, voting rights, education, and more by learning more, pledging your support, or donating. When we have full and equal access to education, jobs, housing, voting rights and more, better futures are possible.
News and Commentary
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W. Kamau Bell and Michigan's Top Rap Stars Get Down for Voting Rights
W. Kamau Bell and Michigan's Top Rap Stars Get Down for Voting RightsAt the last stop on the ACLU's Know Your Rights Bus Tour, a live podcast taping with the comedian W. Kamau Bell and a rap concert featuring Danny Brown helped the Michigan residents make a plan to vote.
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The Drag Queens Helping You Vote
The Drag Queens Helping You VoteOn tour with the ACLU’s Know Your Rights bus tour, drag queens and other artists from Philadelphia and Detroit helped audiences test their knowledge of democracy.
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How Border Policing Harms Undocumented People Seeking Abortion Care
How Border Policing Harms Undocumented People Seeking Abortion CareThe ACLU’s latest report outlines how interior immigration checkpoints and anti-immigrant state policing trap noncitizens trying to leave Texas for abortion care.
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