Post-Election Spotlight
Our 47th President Is Donald Trump
Our 47th President Is Donald TrumpDonald Trump has secured a second presidential victory — learn more about how the ACLU plans to take action in the administration ahead.
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Ready On Day One
Ready On Day OneDuring the first Donald Trump administration, we fought his unlawful policies more than 400 times. We’re even better prepared today.
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Our Playbook for Trump 2.0
Our Playbook for Trump 2.0Trump’s second term agenda is influenced by the Heritage Foundation’s extreme Project 2025 agenda. We have the playbook to fight back!
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No Mass Deportations
We're calling on Congress to cut funding to DHS immigration enforcement and prevent Trump from targeting immigrant community members.
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The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
Issues
Learn about what's happening across the most pressing civil liberties issues of our time, and what you can do.
Systemic Equality
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 . When we have full and equal access to education, jobs, housing, voting rights and more, better futures are possible.
News and Commentary
How the ACLU Is Celebrating 105 Years and Staying Focused on the Fight Ahead
How the ACLU Is Celebrating 105 Years and Staying Focused on the Fight AheadAs the nation prepares for a second Trump presidency, the ACLU has never been more focused on how to preserve and expand our most vital civil liberties and civil rights.
How “Stay-or-Pay” Contracts Are Used to Abuse Immigrant Workers
How “Stay-or-Pay” Contracts Are Used to Abuse Immigrant WorkersShiny Lal came to the U.S. to chase the American dream, instead she found herself in an abusive employment contract that could cost her nearly $40,000. Today, we’re urging the world’s largest private dispute resolution company to stop abusing workers.
We're Fighting Back Against Efforts to Intimidate Professors into Silence
We're Fighting Back Against Efforts to Intimidate Professors into SilenceA SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) suit brought against Columbia professors who criticized the school’s response to student protests is a classic – and unlawful – way to weaponize our legal system to punish and silence constitutionally-protected speech. The ACLU is back in court to protect our right to free speech.
