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Love Thy Neighbor: Defend our Communities: Protect Our Democracy, Part 1
A Voter Registration Event and Community Training! This training facilitated by Dream Action Oklahoma will give you a breakdown of the authoritarian playbook, and help prepare you to make sense of the nonsense by sharing your power and tools to make a difference in your community. ACLU-OK will also provide free voting resources and voter registration.
Before Ketanji Brown Jackson Came Pauli Murray’s Letter to Nixon
Murray knew that one does not “apply” to be a justice of the Supreme Court. That was an unspoken rule, alongside another implicit requirement: being a white man.
Defending Our Right to Learn
What you need to know about the new string of classroom censorship and book ban attacks impacting students and teachers across the country.
If You Care About Freedom, You Should Be Asking Why We Don’t Fund Our Public Defender Systems
Four out of five criminal defendants can’t afford a lawyer, but in many places, the system promised to them by our state and federal constitutions is chronically in crisis.
The White House Can Do More to Expand Voting Access
Biden has made progress implementing his executive order to promoting voting access, but more work is needed.
The Breakdown: Week of March 7, 2022
The ACLU OK Oklahoma's weekly policy and advocacy newsletter.
My Family Came to Seek Asylum, But Found Danger Instead
An ACLU client shares her family's story of survival while waiting at the border for months as they sought asylum.
Texas Wants to Take Trans Kids From Their Supportive Parents. We’re Suing.
Families in Texas are worried that supporting their transgender kids will lead to a report of child abuse. We are already seeing families being investigated. Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, saves lives, and shouldn’t be the subject of an investigation.
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