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Participants in our National Advocacy Institute for youth and our broader community joined us to honor our collective fight to build a more perfect union and to uplift key individuals' contributions.

Our honorees included Bruce Springsteen and Colin Kaepernick for their tireless, powerful advocacy.

Bruce Springsteen honored alongside Colin Kaepernick by ACLU

Bruce Springsteen accepted an ACLU award and reflected on activism. See what he told the crowd.

We commemorate the 250th anniversary of this nation by carrying on the American tradition of dissent.

Challenging those in power is woven into the very fabric of our nation.

Winning 25 Grammys and selling over 100 million records, Stevie Wonder is considered one of the best-selling and most influential musicians of all time.

Stevie Wonder was born partially blind and continues to advocate tirelessly for disability rights, especially for children with disabilities.

The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire after an audit revealed that 161 cars were falsely flagged as stolen in a two month span.

Mass surveillance doesn't keep us safe. LAPD must permanently cut ties with this tech and other cities must follow suit.

LAPD was one of Flock Safety's biggest government customers. Now it’s renegotiating its partnership over ‘serious concerns around civil liberties’ | Fortune

The department recently announced it would not renew its contract due to how Flock collects and shares data.

BREAKING: We’re suing the government for preventing our client from attending an official vice presidential event because she makes fun of JD Vance online.

The First Amendment protects our right to make jokes about elected officials.

BREAKING: A federal court blocked the DOJ from illegally seizing the private data of millions of Connecticut voters.

16 out of 16 courts have stopped the Trump administration from stealing our personal data.

BREAKING: In another win for our democracy, a federal court shut down the Trump administration's unlawful attempt to seize Kentucky voters' sensitive information.

The DOJ is now 0 for 17 in voter file grab attempts across the country. We're not stopping.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just upheld the right of the voters to have our timely mailed ballots counted under state law.

In Washington state, a proposed bill threatens to force all girls, but not boys, to undergo invasive, medically unnecessary genital inspections or hormone tests to play sports with their friends.

Policies that seek to exclude transgender youth end up putting all youth at risk.

Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters

Megan Rapinoe pens an op-ed for Marie Claire about anti-trans legislation in sports.

NEW: A federal court ruled that our lawsuit can move forward challenging President Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting.

BREAKING: A federal court permanently blocked Governor DeSantis’ classroom censorship law, the "Stop WOKE Act," from taking effect.

The law would've restricted students and educators in Florida from discussing things like race and gender in higher ed classrooms.

BREAKING: An appeals court rejected the Trump administration's bid to re-detain Dr. Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown peace scholar who ICE arrested and sent to Texas for his speech in support of Palestinian rights.

This makes it clear: The government can't weaponize immigration law to silence dissent.

The government shouldn't force us to fork over our personal information to private companies in order to access social media.

We filed an amicus brief urging the courts to block Texas' new law and protect our privacy online.

Bluesky asks Texas users to verify their ages, citing new law

"Why do you need age verification on a site where everyone is 38?"

Newsflash: Media companies have no obligation to bend the knee to President Trump and do as he wishes.

That's the whole point of the First Amendment.

Trump threatens to revoke licenses of US networks for not carrying primetime speech

Two of the three major U.S. television networks and CNN did not broadcast a prime-time address on Thursday by President Donald Trump on their primary platforms, drawing a rebuke from a president who h...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls from school sports.

This is a devastating ruling for trans students across the country who simply want the freedom to play with their friends.

BREAKING: We’re suing to stop Florida’s baseless designation of the country’s leading Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and its Florida chapter as “domestic terrorist organizations.”

If the court doesn’t intervene, they’ll be required to shut down in the state.

We demand nothing less than equal justice under the law.

Nothing has stopped us from fighting for that vision in the over 100 years since our organization’s founding, and nothing ever will.

President Trump’s blatant disregard for the will of the American people was on full display during tonight’s speech.

His sweeping, recycled claims are an attempt to undermine previous results and sow chaos into our current election processes.

BREAKING: Federal courts have prevented the DOJ from seizing private data on millions of voters in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.

Courts have now blocked the Trump administration from illegally accessing voter data 11 out of 11 times.

Trans kids should be able to exist freely, fully, and joyfully.

BREAKING: A federal court stopped the DOJ from illegally seizing the personal and private data of voters in West Virginia.

Courts have prevented the Trump administration from unlawfully accessing voter data 13 out of 13 times.

BREAKING: ICE is telling some of its agents to pause vehicle stops after ICE officers shot and killed two people in the past week.

This is good news, but nothing will bring back the victims of ICE's abuse. We need real, permanent policy changes to stop this rogue agency from killing any more of us.

Flock Safety cameras are tracking and sharing our data without a warrant, but local communities across the U.S. are fighting and winning against this gross privacy violation.

Get involved in the nationwide movement to say Get the Flock Out at aclu.org/gtfo_

Megan's calling it like it is: These are regressive, oppressive attacks on women and girls.

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