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Trump on Surveillance, Protest, and Free Speech

Enforcing the law is the central role of the executive branch, regardless of who is president. And though Donald Trump has threatened to abuse this power, the ACLU will work to change the politics around the First Amendment and individual liberty so politicians are more likely to defend them.

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Issue Areas: Civil Liberties
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Trump on Voting Rights

A second Trump administration will renew efforts to erode constitutional foundations of our democracy, make it harder for Americans to vote. The ACLU defeated the previous Trump administration’s attempt to do this and will use every tool at our disposal to stop it again.

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Issue Areas: Voting Rights
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Trump on DEI and Anti-Discrimination Law

The 2024 Trump campaign’s “anti-white racism” rhetoric threatens to unravel decades of progress on racial equality and civil rights. The ACLU outlines our plan to fight back.

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Issue Areas: Racial Justice
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Out of Step: U.S. Policy on Voting Rights in Global Perspective

The Sentencing Project, Human Rights Watch, and the American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report, “Out of Step: U.S. Policy on Voting Rights in Global Perspective,” revealing that the United States is out of step with the rest of the world in disenfranchising large numbers of citizens based on criminal convictions.

As of 2022, over 4.4 million people in the United States were disenfranchised due to a felony conviction, and thousands more eligible voters were unable to cast their ballot due to their incarceration status.

The report examines the laws of 136 countries around the world with populations of 1.5 million and above, and finds that the majority — 73 of the 136 — never or rarely deny a person’s right to vote because of a criminal conviction. In the other 63 countries, where some laws deny the right to vote in broader sets of circumstances, the United States sits at the top of the restrictive end of the spectrum, disenfranchising a wider swath of people overall.

Issue Areas: Voting Rights
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Trump on Abortion

The ACLU examines how a second Trump administration would further imperil abortion access and reproductive rights nationwide – and our roadmap to fight back.

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Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom

ACLU Magazine

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 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.
The cover of ACLU Magazine featuring filled ballot bags stacked upon another.

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.
The cover of ACLU Magazine featuring woman looking off into the distance.

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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ACLU Magazine Fall 2021

The Fall 2021 issue of ACLU Magazine includes feature stories that investigate America’s history of racial covenants and systemic racism, showcase the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties’ work to provide safe haven for asylum seekers, and highlight activists curtailing police surveillance in their neighborhoods. Plus, there are updates on the ACLU’s free speech cheerleader case, D.C. statehood, and the battle against an unprecedented wave of voter suppression bills as well as profiles of ACLU President Deborah N. Archer, actress and singer Peppermint, and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown. To download a more print friendly spreads layout, click here.

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