Equal Freedom Institute

Election Day is one week away. Do you have a plan to vote?

The Trump administration’s anti-voter campaign is unprecedented. But the response by citizens and civic groups alike has been unrelenting. It’s also been successful, so voters can go to the polls with confidence. bit.ly/4z2QLna

The best thing you can do for democracy is vote. It's not the only thing, and people do lose sight of that, but it's the #1 thing.

President and CEO Chris Boom will represent EFI at the PPE Society's tenth annual meeting in New Orleans. Late registration is still available: ppesociety.org/ppe-society-...

In our new testing of AI models’ safeguards against creating election disinformation, ChatGPT showed improvement while Meta AI and Google’s Gemini did worse. See the images they made: bit.ly/4hZve8P

The Trump administration is continuing to target public officials that publicly oppose their agenda like Representative Ilhan Omar. Enough is enough. Sign our petition to oppose these abuses of power.

EFI discourse rapid fire: • Please pay your property taxes, living in a society isn’t cheap • Our social media manager quite liked Digger (2026) • Is Jimothy still a thing?

Social liberalism can prevent this.

Last year, 200 law enforcement officers descended on a majority-Latine family event in rural Idaho, throwing flashbang grenades, brandishing guns, and violently detaining families. Along with the ACLU of Idaho, Cooley LLP, and Stoel Rives LLP, we filed a lawsuit to hold the government accountable.

More than 90 percent of voters want correctional approaches focused on helping incarcerated people succeed after release — and governors have power to help make that happen. bit.ly/4AYOVVx

Indigenous Peoples Day is an opportunity to tell the truth about our history, including stories too often erased. Learning for Justice explores the history of Indigenous enslavement and those working to recover it. https://bit.ly/3BrSzbx #IndigenousPeoplesDay #TheMarchContinues

Guardrails aren't enough. Automatic license plate readers must be banned.

Happy DAF Day! All gifts made to the ACLU Foundation today through donor-advised funds will be matched 2X, up to $50,000, fueling the fight for voting rights, immigrants’ rights, and more. Join us at aclu.org/DAFday to learn more.

For the past two months, hundreds of Haitians in Springfield have been targeted by immigration authorities and forced to wear ankle monitors, as the Trump administration metes out collective punishment to appeal to its far right base.

BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow essential health care to be withheld from transgender people in federal prisons. Denying medically-necessary care to any incarcerated person is cruel and unusual punishment — period.

The taxpayer-funded pro-Trump ad "is an astonishing misuse of public resources in the campaign context," @danw329.bsky.social told @wsj.com.

When people know their neighbors, oligarchs can't divide them. Touching grass isn't just good for you, it's good for the world!

The Supreme Court has delivered yet another defeat for the Trump administration’s illegal efforts to take over the election process and undermine public confidence in our democratic system. bit.ly/4rfW930

The president does not have the authority to interfere with our elections.

NEW: Professors shared details of the impact of Texas A&M's new censorship policy and urged a court to block it from being enforced. The policy means educators can't teach LGBTQ literature, the film Moonlight, Women's and Gender Studies courses, and more.

During Suicide Prevention Month, we are reminded that transgender respondents to the 2022 USTS who had thought about moving because of hostile policies but did not were more likely to consider suicide than those who did move. Read the full report: tinyurl.com/Trans-Suicide

We can create a better world than this.

Three sides with a slice of pizza? That’s the kind of abundance you can only get with principled social liberalism. Or something like that. The joke is almost there. It’s taking some time to workshop it.

There is no place for this kind of horrific treatment.

The fact that "Alligator Alcatraz" ever existed is a travesty. We challenged it in court and celebrated its closure. But systemic patterns of abuse are rampant at ICE facilities nationwide, and too often deadly. We'll keep fighting against this inhumane and illegal treatment of people.

We spoke to 35 sitting and retired federal judges about the threats, intimidation, and harassment they experience for doing their jobs. Improving judicial security is essential for protecting the public and the rule of law. bit.ly/460Z0mQ

A ProPublica analysis found that the spike in deaths has elicited almost no public health response.

25 years after the September 11 attacks, as we remember the victims of this tragedy, ACLU deputy legal director Ben Wizner reflects on the damage done to our democracy and what the courts can do to repair it.

We shouldn't have to escape to the woods to hide from mass surveillance. It's time for our leaders to follow Vermont's lead and ban automatic license plate readers.

Germany’s far-right AfD just won a state election with the slogan “Everything is possible.” Meanwhile, establishment parties like Germany’s own CDU have committed to phrases like “There is no other alternative.” To defeat the far-right, we need people who believe a better world is possible.

More school board candidates should be people who play in rock bands, in fact. People who are strong participants in their community are awesome.

The far-right, illiberal forces of the world have a powerful global network for convincing people they don't need pesky things like human rights. Good people can and should create an equally strong network.

There are too many good things to say about Dolly Parton, but most of them would be off-topic and others will say it better. Just promise us that you’ll strive to be like her. Help your community. Give back. Start something.

What voters hear when your grand vision for liberalism is just more of the status quo:

There are gaps in local communities. We need to fill them before people with bad intentions do.

A lot of memes about getting involved in your community lately. You should listen to them.

"Starting in 2021, the ultra far-right think tank and boy’s club the Claremont Institute began to recruit sheriffs, around a dozen each year, to immerse themselves in Claremont ideology for a week before returning to their home county." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberty-vala...

It’s not difficult to see the gross violations of human dignity that these cause, even when working as intended.

Ideas/movements from a specific kind of liberal sphere starting as amazing but quickly becoming a defense of the status quo happens very, very often. How do we fix it?

When someone tells you that you’re powerless, don’t get fooled. Bad actors want you to be hopeless. It’s what they’re counting on.

We absolutely cannot accept the far right’s racialized immigration policies.

NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.

We're not done with this bit. What does incomprehensibly awesome urban planning look like to you?

Social liberalism creates kinds of urbanism you cannot even fathom. Imagine the visions you would see if a Lovecraftian elder god were a YIMBY. That’s what we’re up to. You have no idea what beautiful communities can be unleashed by embracing both pragmatic wonkery and a strong eye for equity.

What is happening to trans people is genuinely an internal displacement crisis. If you aren’t yet familiar, the Liberal Currents article is an excellent place to start:

A better world, one where we have institutions that reward pro-social behavior and the development of everyone's true potential, is possible.

Just got off the phone with Jimothy the mutant raccoon. He actually believes in social liberalism.

Do you like when our VP of Scholarly Research Bill Glod talks about Mill? Great news! He does it a lot. Here's another excellent article: www.libertarianism.org/articles/mil...