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This week and in recent years, a growing number of states and cities across the country celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It comes as an important corrective after decades of celebrating the “discovery” of the Americas by Christopher Columbus each year. We know, of course, that no such discovery happened — what did happen was colonization, and centuries of subjugation, murder, disenfranchisement, and displacement of Native Americans. As we reflect on our history and on the stories that have been too often excluded, we consider the importance of not just what stories get told, but of who gets to tell them.

Here at the ACLU we will continue the fight to improve access to updated identification and remove barriers to exercising your right to vote.

Everything we’ve fought for is at stake in this election. Our right to protest a broken system, our right to equal treatment at work, and even our right to vote. It’s up to us to decide what comes next. The ACLU does not endorse or oppose candidates, but we do want to give you the information you need to make informed decisions. It is crucial that you study where the candidates land on the issues. See below for the presidential candidates’ positions on key civil liberties issues.

An ICU nurse needs your help to stop her husband from being deported by ICE.

Voters with disabilities make up the largest minority voting bloc in the country, but too often, voting is inaccessible. It’s a bigger problem than it may seem: One in four American adults has a disability and 45 percent have a chronic illness, including health conditions that impact their ability to vote safely during a global pandemic.

Twenty-seven victories to safeguard our fundamental right to the ballot.

As our country grapples with an economic recession that has plunged millions of people into financial crisis — with Black and Brown communities hardest hit — the Supreme Court’s ruling on the bankruptcy question raised in Chicago v. Fulton is of critical importance nationwide.

I am a first-generation immigrant. My parents were both born in Colombia, and while I was born in the United States, I was raised surrounded by our culture.

When Flor got word that she was going to be able to make her way into the U.S. and reunite with her family last May, she was ecstatic. The joy didn't last long.