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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Dec 26

    MATCH NOW: Every dollar donated to support our work through 12/31 will be doubled. If you've got fighting for justice at the top of your New Year's resolutions, now is the time to give.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    ⏰ ICYMI: All donations to support our work will be doubled through 12/31.

    MATCH NOW: Every dollar donated to support our work through 12/31 will be doubled. If you've got fighting for justice at the top of your New Year's resolutions, now is the time to give.
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  3. 5 hours ago

    A helpful chart on the differences between a border wall and a border fence:

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  4. 6 hours ago

    📽 Among our staff’s movie picks in the latest episode of At Liberty: An impassioned, historically grounded Die Hard recommendation from our very own Full episode:

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  5. 23 hours ago

    Every person who exercised their First Amendment right to protest this year.

    What watered you this year? Helped you grow?
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  6. Dec 28

    From family separation to the asylum ban, courts stepped in to ensure the president is not above the law.

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    Dec 28

    Abolish private prisons

    ICE paid private prisons $807 million this year. Those companies pay incarcerated workers from migrant communities as little as $1 a day. That’s exploitation and shows again why prisons should NEVER be for profit.
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  8. Dec 28

    Congress has a way out of this crisis of Trump's making, and it doesn’t involve rewarding his administration for its attacks on immigrants.

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  9. Dec 28

    While the law ends gender-specific indignities such as the shackling of pregnant women and restrictions on access to menstrual hygiene products, it only begins to scratch the surface for incarcerated women.

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  10. Dec 28

    ICYMI: The Ninth Circuit made it clear that being incarcerated never means you lose your right to health and dignity.

    Big win in the Parson's case: An appeals court ruled that Judge Duncan has the power to order to develop a staffing plan to improve the quality of health care in Arizona prisons.
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  11. Retweeted
    Dec 28

    That 115-mile wall contract President Trump "gave out" on Christmas Eve? Well, we’re in the giving mood, too. That’s why we just gave this FOIA request to to see if that contract exists and what it says.

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  12. Dec 28

    ICE paid private prisons $807 million this year. Those companies pay incarcerated workers from migrant communities as little as $1 a day. That’s exploitation and shows again why prisons should NEVER be for profit.

    A Daily Beast investigation found that nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money went to ICE's for-profit prisons this year—where migrants work for pennies in conditions advocates say resemble slave labor
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  13. Dec 27

    We resolve to keep fighting with you for the country we want to live in — no matter how long it takes.

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  14. Dec 27

    From : It’s time to stop letting institutions protect men accused of abuse.

    109 replies 294 retweets 984 likes
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  15. Dec 27

    REMINDER: Raising our voices can make a difference. We'll be loud throughout the new year, too.

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  16. Dec 27

    South Dakota's version of "Marsy's Law” allows police officers involved in violence to withhold critical information from the public.

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  17. Dec 26

    How a Congolese mother and child set into motion a series of events that exposed unprecedented government cruelty — and a nationwide reaction.

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  18. Dec 26

    DMV officials systematically passed the private information of legal driving permit applicants directly to ICE — even in cases where ICE agents hadn’t asked for it.

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  19. Dec 26

    Thankfully, Portland's journalists seem to have a better grasp of the First Amendment than the city itself.

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  20. Dec 26

    Saying it louder for the people in the back. The new Congress should show up to work on day one ready to: 📝 Investigate 📝 Stop ICE and ’s jailing of children and families 📝 Hold Trump's detention and deportation machine responsible for its abuses

    The ACLU called for the incoming Congress to investigate DHS and its practices. “This is a horrific tragedy. CBP must be held accountable and stopped from jailing children,” the organization said in a statement.
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