Protecting Democracy [1]

American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights and the corporate authoritarian in the White House. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms.

Overturn Citizens United

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New Hampshire Is 20th State to Call for Overturning Citizens United

House Passes Historic Democracy Reform and Corruption Overhaul Legislation
Making Government Work [2]

The U.S. government should work for the public, not corporations or industry. It should safeguard consumers, workers and the environment, and be funded well enough to do so. The budget process must not be obstructed by partisanship.

Lost Safeguards: Popular Public Protections Repealed in the Trump Era

Stronger Summertime Safeguards Are Needed
Consumer & Worker Safeguards [3]

Every day, big banks, big polluters and big tech companies are threatening our economy, our environment and our democracy – sacrificing Main Street Americans and our families on the altar of corporate profits. Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government.

Act Now to Avoid Another Financial Crash

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Forced Arbitration Clauses Are Everywhere

CPSC Should Be Allowed to Name Deadly Products Without the Corporate Maker’s Permission
Safe & Affordable Drugs & Devices [4]

Prescription drugs are unaffordable and new drugs and devices often are approved without being proven safe and effective. Public Citizen challenges Big Pharma, device manufacturers and federal regulators to make drugs and medical devices safe, effective and accessible to all.

Fight Pharma Greed

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Health Care [5]

Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials.

Help Win Medicare for All

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The Case for Medicare-for-All

Crossing the Line: Sexual Misconduct by Nurses Reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank
Globalization & Trade [6]

Global Trade Watch’s mission is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy economic security, a clean environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the matters that affect our lives. Global Trade Watch has led the fight against corporate-rigged “trade” agreements that provide special powers for Big Pharma to raise medicine prices, promote the outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries and undermine the food safety and other safeguards on which our families rely. For decades, we have fought for progressive alternatives that benefit people and the planet.

Call Congress: No Vote on NAFTA 2.0 Until It’s Fixed!
Climate & Energy [7]

The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power—and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy. We also must fight the corrupting power of fossil fuel companies and ensure that energy regulators are effective and publicly accountable.

Tell TV Networks to Call Climate Change a Crisis

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The Amazon Fires Get the Full Climate Treatment by the Media

NRC Denies Public Citizen’s Application to Intervene in Nuclear Case
Justice & the Courts [8]

Litigation can remedy or deter wrongdoing, impact policy and meaningfully slow abuses of power. Whether suing on behalf of our members to ensure the honest functioning of government, or representing individual consumers seeking redress in court, our litigation draws on our expertise in administrative law, constitutional law, and government transparency.

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Working for more and better media coverage of the climate crisis

What you should know

Carbon Omission: How the U.S. Media Failed to Connect Extreme Weather to Climate Change in 2018

No Green Deal: Widespread Media Silence on One of the Biggest Climate Stories of 2018

Call it a Crisis: The Role of U.S. Network News in Communicating the Urgency of Climate Change

News outlets are giving the crisis of our time far less attention than it merits – and far less than the public wants. We can’t solve the climate crisis if we aren't talking about it. Public Citizen believes that the media have a major role to play in jump-starting the kind of national conversation we need to rise to this challenge.