Research & Publications
Access in-depth resources and analysis published by the Ƶ regarding our most pressing civil liberties issues.
Ƶ 2025 Annual Report
Our 2025 annual report details how the Ƶ's network of 2,175 staff and 7 million activists and members worked around the clock this year to protect free speech, immigrants' rights, LGBTQ equality, and much more from the Trump administration's unconstitutional agenda. To date, the Ƶ has already taken over 200 legal actions against the Trump administration. Alongside lists of the Ƶ’s key wins and efforts in 2025, the report tells the stories of Ƶ advocates, clients, and staff who are on the front lines of this fight.
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Trump on Voting Rights
A second Trump administration will renew efforts to erode constitutional foundations of our democracy, make it harder for Americans to vote. The Ƶ defeated the previous Trump administration’s attempt to do this and will use every tool at our disposal to stop it again.
Trump on DEI and Anti-Discrimination Law
The 2024 Trump campaign’s “anti-white racism” rhetoric threatens to unravel decades of progress on racial equality and civil rights. The Ƶ outlines our plan to fight back.
Out of Step: U.S. Policy on Voting Rights in Global Perspective
The Sentencing Project, Human Rights Watch, and the Ƶ today released a new report, “Out of Step: U.S. Policy on Voting Rights in Global Perspective,” revealing that the United States is out of step with the rest of the world in disenfranchising large numbers of citizens based on criminal convictions.
As of 2022, over 4.4 million people in the United States were disenfranchised due to a felony conviction, and thousands more eligible voters were unable to cast their ballot due to their incarceration status.
The report examines the laws of 136 countries around the world with populations of 1.5 million and above, and finds that the majority — 73 of the 136 — never or rarely deny a person’s right to vote because of a criminal conviction. In the other 63 countries, where some laws deny the right to vote in broader sets of circumstances, the United States sits at the top of the restrictive end of the spectrum, disenfranchising a wider swath of people overall.
Trump on Abortion
The Ƶ examines how a second Trump administration would further imperil abortion access and reproductive rights nationwide – and our roadmap to fight back.
Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigrant Detention
Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigration Detention, a new research report from the Ƶ (Ƶ), Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), and American Oversight, provides a comprehensive examination of the deaths of 52 people who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody from 2017-2021. Based on a review of over 14,500 pages of documents and independent medical expert reviews, the report exposes the ways in which the Department of Homeland Security has failed to conduct rigorous investigations, impose meaningful consequences, or improve conditions that cause immigrants to die in ICE detention. Report analysis also incorporates the review of ICE’s own investigatory reports into deaths in custody by independent medical experts, as well as interviews with two family members of people who died in ICE detention during the studied period. The report concludes with actionable recommendations for Department of Homeland Security, Congress, and state/local governments.
Ƶ Magazine
Published twice a year, Ƶ Magazine shares updates on the Ƶ's critical litigation and advocacy work across the country and tells the stories of the activists, attorneys, and clients at the heart of each case and campaign. To receive Ƶ Magazine by mail, become a monthly donor today.