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ACLU 2024 Annual Report

The ACLU鈥檚 2024 annual report highlights how the organization worked around the clock this year to safeguard voting rights ahead of the November elections, protect bodily autonomy, defend free speech, and much more. Alongside breakdowns of the ACLU鈥檚 key wins and efforts throughout 2024, the report tells the stories of ACLU activists, advocates, and clients who are on the front lines of this fight.

 

 

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Scorecard for State Supreme Court Transparency

Issue Areas: Civil Liberties
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ACLU Digital ID State Legislative Recommendations

Around the country, state legislatures are embracing digital driver licenses 鈥� a nightmarish new electronic national identification system that has the potential to track everybody both online and off. In his new report, ACLU鈥檚 Jay Stanley lays out the risks of implementing digital IDs without safeguards and the need for state legislatures to pass legislation that protects our rights before going all in on digital IDs. He also provides guidance on what these laws should include.

Issue Areas: Privacy & Technology
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Trapped in Texas: How Federal 鈥� and Now State 鈥� Immigration Enforcement Traps People Trying to Escape Texas鈥� Abortion Ban

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas鈥� report, Trapped in Texas: How Federal 鈥� and Now State 鈥� Immigration Enforcement Traps People Trying to Escape Texas鈥� Abortion Ban, explores how immigration enforcement severely limits undocumented people鈥檚 access to abortions. Because of the state's extreme abortion ban, Texans in need of abortion care are forced to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic. But on top of distance, time, and expense required, noncitizens and those in mixed-status families in south Texas face an additional obstacle to travel 鈥� federal immigration checkpoints and with them, the risk of arrest, detention, and deportation.

Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
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The Trump Memos Compilation

The ACLU's Roadmap for Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Under a Trump Administration.

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The Harris Memos Compilation

The ACLU's Roadmap for Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Under a Harris Administration.

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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 Fall 2024 cover.

ACLU Magazine Fall 2024

This issue of ACLU Magazine focuses on the ACLU鈥檚 voting rights and election protection work across the country as well as our ongoing fight for abortion rights, free speech, immigrants鈥� rights, and transgender justice. There are features on the ACLU of Pennsylvania鈥檚 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鈥� rights鈥攆rom protest to academic freedom. The issue also highlights the ACLU鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檛 deepen racial inequities in public life. The issue also spotlights the ACLU of Alaska鈥檚 鈥淒Ecarcerated鈥� 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 decision to overturn Roe and what it means for abortion access in hostile states. It also includes stories about defending protesters鈥� rights, the ACLU of Northern California鈥檚 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.