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NextGen Meeting: Find your voice. Create change.
The goal of this program is to provide students with a place to meet other young advocates, connect with community leaders, and learn new skills and information that will allow them to be better advocates in their schools and communities.
The purpose of this first meeting is for students to get to know each other and meet community organizing leaders in OKC. Students will also have a chance to brainstorm ideas on how to approach pressing issues in their communities.
Moving Forward: Muslims Belong Here
Manar Waheed, Senior Legislative and Advocacy Counsel, ACLU
Four years ag
Transgender Voting Guide: Information for Poll Workers
Poll workers have a reposnsibility when it comes to protecting the voting rights of our transgender community.
At the Polls, Episode 7: Why Do We Take Voting Rights Away in America?
Across the country, over 5 million people who are of voting age cannot vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws, including one in five Black Americans. These laws are a relic of the Jim Crow era, and were intentionally designed to suppress the vote — particularly the Black vote — by limiting the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
Racial Justice Demands That Every Vote Is Counted
Lucia Tian, Former Chief Analytics Officer, ACLU
Election Protection and Protest Hotline
The ACLU of Oklahoma is partnering with the National Lawyers Guild of Oklahoma to help protect Oklahomans during early voting through post election. Please call our election protection and protest hotline with any concerns: (405) 849-5220.
We’re Ready for the Election
Sarah Brannon, she/her/hers, Managing Attorney, ACLU Voting Rights Project
Dear Congress: Platform Accountability Should Not Threaten Online Expression
Kate Ruane, Former Senior Legislative Counsel, ACLU
Tomorrow, the
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