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The first year of the second Trump administration reminds us that the promise of this country — equality, freedom, and justice for all — has never been self-executing. It’s been carried forward, generation after generation, by the many people willing to defend it and turn its principle into practice.

U.S. federal courts are retreating from the judiciary’s traditional role as a check on unlawful government action. In response, the ACLU is assessing the landscape, pivoting our strategies, and figuring out how to continue to fight.

The philosophy and spirit of collective power drive the monthly immigration advocacy training series that Luis Ojeda helps lead for the ACLU of Northern California.

The Trump administration is weaponizing technology to build a mass-surveillance state.

A Trump administration presidential executive order threatens to whitewash our nation’s history and silence people’s true experiences. But we're pushing back.

On Thursday, the Trump administration sent federal immigration agents to the Bay Area. They fired flash bangs at peaceful protesters.

In the past month, we have sued the Trump administration twice to stop illegal arrests of immigrants by ICE.

As an organization committed to racial justice and the rule of law, it is our obligation to put a spotlight on racism and its overzealous cousin, white supremacy. The Trump administration’s immigration policies are explicitly and implicitly fostering a belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that this nation will be better or stronger, whatever superlative fits, with more white people and fewer people of color.