2025 Elections: Voters Came Out in Record Numbers to Defend Key Civil Liberties Issues Across the Country

In big wins for civil liberties to protect abortion access and voting rights, and defy fearmongering, voters built the momentum needed to carry the fight forward to future elections.

A person stands at a voting booth marked with an American flag and the word “VOTE” inside a community polling place. The room has wooden floors, orange stacked chairs, and colorful landscape paintings on the walls, with a small U.S. flag displayed nearby.

Defending Veterans’ Rights for Over a Century

This Veterans Day, we renew our commitment to ensuring that the rights of those who serve are honored and protected.

A demonstrator wears a mask with the text ''Protect Veterans'' during the ''Veterans March'' at the National Mall in Washington.

There’s Only One State That is Asking the Right Questions About Digital Identity

A digital ID system involves value-laden choices that should be made through explicit political discussion and debate

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Border Patrol Agents Replace Top Leadership at ICE Offices Despite Human Rights Violations

As immigration enforcement expands nationwide, the Trump administration is replacing nearly half of top leaders at ICE field offices across the country with Border Patrol, an agency long criticized for its culture of cruelty and lack of accountability.

Heavily armed ICE and Border Patrol agents guard the Broadview ICE facility from peaceful protesters opposed to 'Operation Midway Blitz' in Chicagoland; their sign reads 'Immigrants Make America Great'

Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship

Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech

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Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell

With "Mobile Fortify" tool ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition

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What the First Amendment Really Protects

From protests and journalism to social media and campus speech, explore how the First Amendment safeguards everyone — including immigrants — and what it actually covers.

A demonstrator (with only their hands visible) holds up a sign that reads " FREE SPEECH, FREE COUNTRY - ACLU".

Surveillance Supporters Tout Police Audit Logs But They’re Not an Effective Check and Balance

If an officer had just left the word "abortion" out of an audit log, a vital national story would never have come to light

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Newsletter: October 2025

See what we have been up to this fall!

October 2025 Newsletter