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We're Proud and Free and Always Will Be

The Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti was devastating for the trans community, but it will not impact health care for trans people in Nevada, who still have every right under our state’s Constitution and laws that we had last Pride Month.

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Nevada Legislature Passes Resolution Urging Congress to Protect Places of Worship and Schools from ICE

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Stay informed on civil rights issues. Discover our latest actions and updates in the Press Release section.

Let Trans People Vote

Here at the ACLU we will continue the fight to improve access to updated identification and remove barriers to exercising your right to vote. In the meantime, we hope everyone who is eligible will vote! We need all of our voices in this democracy to keep moving toward justice for all.

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ICE is Trying to Deport My Husband While I Treat COVID Patients

by Urooj Alavi

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Let People Vote: Our Fight for Your Right to Vote During 2020

2020 has been an unprecedented year in many ways; a pandemic during a presidential election being one of them. Not unique to 2020, however, is politicians’ and states’ systematic efforts to suppress voting and disenfranchise Americans.

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An Indigenous Woman Made it to Safety in the U.S. DHS Won’t Let it Go.

The months she spent in Matamoros were a nightmare. Temperatures oscillated between blazing heat during the day and frigid cold at night. One of those nights, she and her daughter huddled in their tent as the sound of a gun battle between police and a local drug cartel echoed through the streets.

Barbed wire fence at a refugee camp for migrants and asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, October 2019. Guillermo Arias for the ACLU.

Why Are Police the Wrong Response to Mental Health Crises?

Over the last months on our podcast, At Liberty, we’ve explored different conversations on the subject of policing: abolition, violence and accountability, protest, and activism. This week, we dug into a topic that has gained more attention in the wake of Daniel Prude’s death in March at the hands of the Rochester Police Department: the startling connection between mental health-related 911 calls and police brutality.

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The Trump Administration is Banning Talk about Race and Gender

President Trump’s executive order unconstitutionally requires every single individual or company with a federal contract to certify that they won’t provide trainings on so-called “divisive concepts,” even on the contractor’s own time and dime.

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At the Polls, Episode 4: What Does it Take to Get Younger Voters to the Polls?

The younger you are, the less likely you are to vote. At least, that’s been the enduring trend in American politics for decades. But that trend is beginning to shift — today’s young voters are more engaged than ever before

ACLU At the Polls.

The Law That Sent a Man to Prison for Life for Stealing a Pair of Hedge Clippers – and What Prosecutors Can do About It

Habitual offender statutes, known in some states as “three strikes” laws, are a relic of failed “tough on crime” policies that have had devastating consequences for families and communities across the country.

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NDOC needs to stop raiding inmate accounts

This editorial was first published in the Nevada Current. 

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