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Working to make the promise of the Bill of Rights a reality.

CVE Is Not Our Friend

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CVE programs combine profiling, surveillance, censorship, and even thought control. They aren’t the right tool to help us fight white supremacy, because they have been, and will continue to be, used to enforce institutional white supremacy.

Resistance Cities Coalition Grows

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What do communities of color, environmentalists, animal rights activists, civil rights activists, immigrant communities, Muslims, the labor movement, and a host of others all have in common?

Constitution in Crisis :: September Newsletter

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Dear Troublemaker, We don’t often ask you to donate to support our work. But today, I have to. Please Donate Now. The next several months are crucial to our mission to fulfill the promise of the Bill of Rights. We face ominous threats: Congress will consider renewing the NSA’s wildly broad mass internet surveillance program (Section… [Read More]

FBI Paid Informant + Mentally Ill Man = Another Fake Terror Plot

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How low will an FBI paid informant go? How about preying on a young man with such severe paranoid schizophrenia that he has been declared legally ‘incompetent’ by enticing him into a terrorist plot created by the FBI? We’ve actually seen it before — usually targeting young Muslims or idealistic activists. This time, the target… [Read More]

Resisting Surveillance Forum

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Over 120 people came together on a hot muggy Sunday afternoon in August to learn about our government’s Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs in Montgomery County, MD, and around the country.

Constitution in Crisis :: August 2017

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Dear Troublemakers When you are dedicated to defending rights and dissent, every day is a busy one. Yet, this month was particularly jam packed. Just last week, I was on Capitol Hill talking to Congress about the Israel Anti-Boycott Act. If passed, individuals who participate in boycotts of Israel or its settlements, led by intergovernmental… [Read More]

16,000 People Stand With Reality

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Advocates for whistleblower protections, free expression, and government transparency celebrated Whistleblower Appreciation Day on July 27, by Standing With Reality. We delivered 16,000 signatures to the Department of Justice demanding that the charges against Reality Winner be dropped (you can still add your name, see below). As she prepared to hand the petitions to DOJ officials,… [Read More]

How Will YOU Celebrate Whistleblower Appreciation Day?

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To celebrate Whistleblower Appreciation Day on, we’ll deliver thousands of signatures to the Department of Justice tomorrow (July 27) in support of the latest person to be charged with espionage for allegedly sharing important information with the American people. Add your name to the petition below now! Reality Winner, a 25-year old veteran, is being held in… [Read More]