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Join the ACLU for Coffee & Conversations in Vermillion! This is your chance to socialize with other ACLU supporters, learn how our mission is changing South Dakota, and create protest signs for the upcoming No Kings rally. While we’ll share a bit about our upcoming priorities, we want to hear from you and learn more about the issues you care about most. Change happens in our state when we talk to each other and share our ideas. So let's grab a coffee together and discuss the change that we would like to see. We'll provide the brewed coffee and snacks. We hope you can make it!

Deputized for Disaster, details how the Trump administration is drastically expanding the federal 287(g) program to transform state and local law enforcement into a national deportation policing force — fueling racial profiling, civil rights violations, and widespread fear in communities across the country.

Despite government attacks against protesters and the press, documenting interactions with law enforcement and federal agents is protected by the First Amendment. ACLU experts break down what you need to know.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is only 45 words, but those words are powerful. They protect our right to dissent, to question power, and to speak freely without fear of government retaliation.