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Your Questions Answered: How the ACLU Is Safeguarding the 2026 Midterms
President Trump and his allies are trying to interfere with the 2026 midterm elections. Here’s what that means for your vote, and how the ACLU is fighting back to ensure power remains where it belongs — in the hands of voters.
By Sophia Lin Lakin, Molly McGrath
Your Questions Answered: How the ACLU Is Safeguarding the 2026 MidtermsPodcast
What Happens When the President Defies a Judge?
On March 15, 2025, the Trump administration deported more than 100 people to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador — in defiance of a federal judge’s orders. They hadn’t been found...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and democracy.
NIH Censors Crucial Research in Alzheimer's, Kidney Disease, and More, Researchers Share
NIH is targeting and terminating grants for research studies that it thinks will communicate disfavored viewpoints on diversity, gender identity, climate change, and more, violating First Amendment rights and threatening the future of public health.
By Amanda Walgrove
NIH Censors Crucial Research in Alzheimer's, Kidney Disease, and More, Researchers Share
Meet the Hosts: ACLU Launches New Podcast 'Let the Record Show'
Hosts Shereen Marisol Meraji and Matthew Beat give a glimpse into the ACLU’s new podcast covering some of the most influential court cases in history.
By Hibah Ansari
Meet the Hosts: ACLU Launches New Podcast 'Let the Record Show'
Deaths in Detention: Mortality Rate for People Detained by ICE More Than Doubles Under Trump Administration
Due to recent cuts to reporting requirements of deaths occurring after release, the complete number of deaths in and outside of detention could be even higher.
By Sofia Gonzalez
Deaths in Detention: Mortality Rate for People Detained by ICE More Than Doubles Under Trump AdministrationPodcast
What Happens When the President Defies a Judge?
On March 15, 2025, the Trump administration deported more than 100 people to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador — in defiance of a federal judge’s orders. They hadn’t been found...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and democracy.
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By Alisha Coleman
By Alisha Coleman
Why We Must Defend Free Speech
If we defended speech only when we agreed with it, on what ground would we ask others to tolerate speech they oppose?
If we defended speech only when we agreed with it, on what ground would we ask others to tolerate speech they oppose?
We’re Suing California Because It Threw Out More Than 45,000 Ballots in the 2016 Presidential Election Over Handwriting ‘Mismatches’
Trump’s Most Recent Shout to White Supremacists: I’m With You
By Cecillia Wang
By Cecillia Wang
VIDEO: ‘SB 4 Is Patently Unconstitutional and Is Bad Policy’
On September 1 in Texas, SB 4 will take effect. And on that day, all law enforcement across the state will be immediately transformed from police...
On September 1 in Texas, SB 4 will take effect. And on that day, all law enforcement across the state will be immediately transformed from police...
Anti-Distracted Driving “Textalyzer” Technology: Not as Simple as it Seems
By Jay Stanley
By Jay Stanley
Artificial Intelligence at Any Cost Is a Recipe for Tyranny
By Ben Wizner
By Ben Wizner
Five Reasons Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio Should Not Receive a Presidential Pardon
Against All Decency, the Government Is Indefinitely Detaining a Man It Cannot Deport
By Andy Hoover
By Andy Hoover
We Must Remove Shrines to White Supremacy From Public Property
By Karen Anderson
By Karen Anderson
