Tag: Civil Rights
By MoveOn. Friday, April 25 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia still isn’t home, despite the Supreme Court’s unanimous order to facilitate his return. Last week, Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland travelled to El Salvador to check on Kilmar’s well-being. Days after he returned, he joined MoveOn’s monthly Volunteer Network Call to provide a report-back on his visit with Kilmar and to […]
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Civil Rights | Immigration
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, July 30 2015
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Abortion Rights | Civil Rights | Health Care
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, June 26 2015
Moments ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of an Ohio gay couple in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, ruling that marriage is a fundamental constitutional right, protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, that extends to same-sex as well as opposite-sex couples. Responding to the decision, Anna Galland, executive director of MoveOn.org Civic […]
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Civil Rights | LGBTQ+ Rights
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, December 4 2014
On December 3, MoveOn executive director, Anna Galland, hosted an incredible lineup featuring: Cristina Jimenez, co-founder of United We Dream, the nation’s largest immigrant youth-led organization, which was instrumental in winning executive action from President Obama; Heather McGhee, president of Demos, a progressive public policy shop working for an equal say and an equal chance […]
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Civil Rights | Economic Justice | Immigration
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, October 31 2014
Robert Reich explains the impact that a Republican Senate would have on women’s economic well-being.
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Civil Rights | Economic Justice | Elections
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, October 3 2014
When the Koch brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity mailed false voter registration information to hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians, MoveOn members fought back, chipping in to correct the misinformation by running ads and contacting voters. This full-page ad correcting the misinformation will run this Sunday in North Carolina’s four largest newspapers. The newspaper ads […]
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Civil Rights | Democracy
By MoveOn Staff. Monday, September 22 2014
Register to vote here, using this easy online form to get started: http://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/register-to-vote/
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Civil Rights | Democracy | Elections
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, February 4 2014
In August 2013, Montana Judge G. Todd Baugh sentenced a former high school teacher to just 31 days in prison for the repeated rape of a 14-year-old student. Disturbingly, Baugh argued that the victim was “older than her chronological age” and “as much in control of the situation” as her 49-year-old rapist. That’s why Billings, Montana, resident Kate Olp started a MoveOn Petition urging Judge Baugh to resign.
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Civil Rights | Health Care
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, January 16 2014
S. 1975, a new election modernization bill in Massachusetts, would allow early voting, online voter registration, and preregistration, as well as other updates to make voting more fair. These reforms are vital for making elections accessible to as many Bay Staters as possible. That’s why Sara Brady of the organization MassVOTE started several MoveOn Petitions to the legislature, encouraging them to pass the bill.
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Civil Rights | Democracy
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, November 5 2013
Listen to where she’s been and the horrors she has seen, and why she’s fighting for abortions to be “safe, legal, and rare.”
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Abortion Rights | Candidates | Civil Rights | Elections