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## Defend the rights of all people nationwide

With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, we’re in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s rights — and we need you with us.

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### Defending Veterans’ Rights for Over a Century
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.

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### How to Vote Amid Trump's Attacks on Elections
How to Vote Amid Trump's Attacks on Elections

ACLU experts explain how to cast your ballot while the Trump administration challenges our most valuable democratic process.

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### How to Push Back on Abuses of Power
How to Push Back on Abuses of Power

What actions actually work to hold the Trump administration accountable and protect democracy?

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### ICE: Stop Terrorizing Children
ICE: Stop Terrorizing Children

Tell Congress to introduce legislation to ensure no child is denied their due process rights by immigration police.

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## Our Work

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.

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## Freedom To Be

### Freedom To Be

Over the past several years, politicians across the country have banned health care access for transgender youth and their families put themselves between trans people, their families, and their health care providers on how they can live their authentic lives.

Consistent with our 105-year history of defending the right of self-expression and self-determination, the ACLU is committed to the freedom of transgender people and their families. We have fought laws that censor LGBTQ people, ban gender-affirming medical care, make schools less safe for trans students, and force trans people to carry documents outing them as trans.

Our Freedom to Be campaign and programming also serves to celebrate trans individuals around the country who are building solidarity within their communities and finding joy and happiness among their families and friends. Through their powerful and poignant storytelling, as well as our landmark Freedom to Be Monument, which showcases artwork and messaging by over 1,000 trans people and allies across the United States, we are uplifting the dynamic and diverse trans voices around our nation.

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## News and Commentary

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Voting Rights

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

Civil Liberties

### Defending Veterans’ Rights for Over a Century
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.

Immigrants' Rights

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

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