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- Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times is “A New Book About Resisting Authoritarianism and the Actions Big and Small People Can Take in Their Lives To Do So” – Rolling Stone Washington, D.C. – Today, Rolling Stone published an excerpt of Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman’s upcoming book Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: How to Reclaim […]
- Houses of Worship File Motion to Enforce Court Order Protecting Them; Calls on Court to Address Reports of Federal Spying on Minnesota-Based Baptist Church 🏛️Federal Court Filing Asks Court to Require Department of Homeland Security To Show Cause As To Why It Is Not In Contempt Washington, DC – This morning, attorneys for houses of worship that have secured a court order preventing ICE from conducting indiscriminate enforcement asked a federal court to address recent reports of ICE agent […]
- Todd Blanche was just confirmed by the U.S. Senate in the early hours of the morning. Blanche has spent months helping President Trump turn the Department of Justice into a tool for his political agenda — and now he has been given even more power to do so. We’ve been facing Blanche in court for […]
- Democracy Forward to Launch an Investigation into the Death of Afghan Immigrant Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal in ICE Custody 🏛️The following is a statement from Democracy Forward: “The ongoing mistreatment of individuals being held in detention by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. Democracy Forward is honored to launch an investigation into the death of Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal on behalf of […]
- Dear Democracy Forward Community, Five years ago, I wrote to you for the first time as I took on the role of President and CEO at Democracy Forward. At that time – in June of 2021 – the organization had already proven that it could litigate against the anti-democratic schemes of President Trump’s first administration, […]
- This 4th of July marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. One thing is even more clear now than it was then: the power in this country still exists in the people – and We the People are still here. It has always been ordinary people – not kings, not institutions, not the […]
- Following the decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara, which overturned an executive order that would have stripped citizenship away from children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants or to non-citizens residing in the U.S. on a temporary basis, Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman released the following statement: […]
- A federal court on Thursday granted preliminary relief in the case of AANP v. McMahon, in which Democracy Forward represented the plaintiffs in challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s rule redefining “professional degree.” The government’s action at the heart of the case would have limited the ability of people seeking education in critically important fields […]