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Harris on Immigration

The ACLU will encourage a Harris administration to exercise executive power to expand pathways for people inside and outside the United States — including our nation’s military veterans and people who have been wrongfully deported — to safely seek lawful status.

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Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
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Harris on Voting Rights

The ACLU will work on all fronts to make certain a Harris presidency builds on her pro-voting record and lives up to her campaign promise to increase access to voting and protect our democracy.

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Issue Areas: Voting Rights
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Vote Your Rights 2024 Conversation Guide

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Harris on LGBTQ Rights

The ACLU would push a future Harris administration to build on the Biden-Harris history and use the power of the federal government to protect LGBTQ people from harm in as many ways as possible.

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Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
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Harris on Abortion

The American Civil Liberties Union will use every tool available to ensure that a potential Harris administration delivers on the promise to protect the right to abortion by signing legislation that ensures everyone who needs abortion care can access it, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they have.

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Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
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Published twice a year, ACLU Magazine shares updates on the ACLU's critical litigation and advocacy work across the country and tells the stories of the activists, attorneys, and clients at the heart of each case and campaign. To receive ACLU Magazine by mail, become a monthly donor today.

The front cover of ACLU Magazine's Fall 2024 cover.

ACLU Magazine Fall 2024

This issue of ACLU Magazine focuses on the ACLU’s voting rights and election protection work across the country as well as our ongoing fight for abortion rights, free speech, immigrants’ rights, and transgender justice. There are features on the ACLU of Pennsylvania’s legal and advocacy efforts to ensure free and fair elections; litigation against the state of Alabama to preserve the existence of birth centers in communities without abortion access; and an ACLU guide to students’ rights—from protest to academic freedom. The issue also highlights the ACLU’s Freedom to Be campaign, Nebraska activist Jason Witmer, the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, and more. ISSN (online): 2640-3579 To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.
The front cover of ACLU Magazine's Spring 2024 cover.

ACLU Magazine Spring 2024

This issue of ACLU Magazine covers recent litigation efforts for voting rights, free speech, and racial justice as well as historic electoral victories for reproductive freedom. There are features on the ACLU’s wave of redistricting cases across the South after Allen v. Milligan, the decade-long fight to secure federal protections for pregnant workers, and ongoing advocacy to ensure that advances in artificial intelligence don’t deepen racial inequities in public life. The issue also spotlights the ACLU of Alaska’s “DEcarcerated” art exhibition, border activist Fernie Quiroz, Reynolds v. Sims, and more. ISSN (online): 2640-3579 To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.
The cover of ACLU Magazine Fall 2023 features a close-up of Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell, a legal fellow at the ACLU Racial Justice Program.

ACLU Magazine Fall 2023

The stories in the Fall 2023 issue of ACLU Magazine cover the ACLU’s work to expand voter access, defend abortion rights, and challenge housing discrimination and racist jury bans. There are feature stories on the next generation of social justice advocates, the ACLU of Louisiana's Justice Lab, and how the ACLU of Massachusetts and its partners jumped into action when immigrant families were sent to Martha's Vineyard from Texas as part of a political stunt. The issue also spotlights the ACLU's Drag Defense Fund, criminal law activist Marq Mitchell, Tinker v. Des Moines, and more. ISSN (online): 2640-3579 To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.
The cover of ACLU Magazine Spring 2023 features an image of a school in the distance and child of color sitting outside alone at a desk facing the school with her back to the viewer.

ACLU Magazine Spring 2023

The spring 2023 issue of ACLU Magazine covers state litigation and advocacy efforts for education equity, trans justice, bail reform, abortion access, and more. There are stories that celebrate major victories, including Michigan's groundbreaking reproductive freedom ballot measure and Shelby County's new bail system, and others that detail ongoing fights for students of color in California and transgender people in Iowa. This issue also features a critical Alabama redistricting case, the civil rights legend Leona Tate, a Texas teen who started a banned book club, and a reflection on Loving v. Virginia. ISSN (online): 2640-3579 To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.
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ACLU Magazine Fall 2022

In the lead-up to the midterm elections, the Fall 2022 issue of ACLU Magazine highlights a few of the many people in the trenches protecting access to the ballot and fortifying local election infrastructure in the battleground states of Michigan, Ohio, and Georgia. The magazine covers the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe and what it means for abortion access in hostile states. It also includes stories about defending protesters’ rights, the ACLU of Northern California’s efforts to stop sheriffs from secretly transferring immigrants from local jails to ICE, and the fight against a deluge of classroom censorship bills in Oklahoma, Idaho, and beyond. To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.
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ACLU Magazine Spring 2022

This issue of ACLU Magazine features a cover story on the Texas Abortion Access Network and the future of the fight for reproductive rights. It also includes a feature story on the U.S. highway system's destruction of Black communities and how the NYCLU's I-81 Project in Syracuse is a blueprint for repair; an explainer on how the ACLU is advancing transgender justice through gender-affirming care, school sports, and accurate IDs; an update on the ACLU's redistricting work; a first-person piece by Collette Flanagan, the founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality; and much more. To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.

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