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. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms.

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Coalition Calls on Americans to Reject Trump’s Threat to the Rule of Law and U.S. Democracy

Working With The Not Above the Law Coalition to Call for January 6th Justice
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.

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It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity
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.

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Twitter Likely Violated Consent Decree, Public Citizen Tells FTC, DOJ

FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses, Protecting Workers
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.

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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.

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Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2017-2019

Statement: FDA Must Reject Tanezumab as a Treatment for Osteoarthritis Due to Unacceptable Dangers, Little to No Benefit
Globalization & Trade [6]

Our Mission

Global Trade Watch’s mission is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy economic security, a healthy 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.

President Biden: No Secrecy in Indo-Pacific Trade Talks

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Climate Peace Clause Needed to Stop Trade Attacks on Climate Policies

Big Tech’s “Digital Trade” Power-Grab
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.

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Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record
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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Ensuring our government serves the public interest

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity

New Year, Same Fight for Government Transparency!

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.

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Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

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Help Pass the For the People Act (HR. 1)

This is the most sweeping pro-democracy, anti-corruption legislation in 50+ years. We must enact it immediately.

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We work for a strong regulatory system, challenge corporate influence, ensure access to government information and work to unrig our economy so that it serves all Americans.

Hypnotized by Wall Street: How Corporations Keep Congress From Holding Fair Hearings on Taxing Stock Trades

A small tax on Wall Street trades would reduce dangerous high-speed trading and raise real revenue in a progressive way. Here's why it's not happening.

Corporate Criminals Above The Law

Corporate Prosecutions Plunged to Their Lowest in a Quarter Century while Corporate Leniency Agreements Rose to the Highest in Trump’s Term

55 Corporations That Paid Zero in Federal Income Taxes Spent $450 Million on Political Spending

Had these companies paid a tax rate of 21 percent – the current federal rate – they would have owed the federal government $8.5 billion.

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Tell Congress: Pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act

Coalition Calls on Americans to Reject Trump’s Threat to the Rule of Law and U.S. Democracy

Working With The Not Above the Law Coalition to Call for January 6th Justice

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

Twitter Likely Violated Consent Decree, Public Citizen Tells FTC, DOJ

FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses, Protecting Workers

Fight Pharma Greed

Win Medicare for All

Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2017-2019

Statement: FDA Must Reject Tanezumab as a Treatment for Osteoarthritis Due to Unacceptable Dangers, Little to No Benefit

President Biden: No Secrecy in Indo-Pacific Trade Talks

Climate Peace Clause Needed to Stop Trade Attacks on Climate Policies

Big Tech’s “Digital Trade” Power-Grab

Tell Toyota: Go all-in on EVs

Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record

Subscribe to the Supreme Court Conference Preview

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity

New Year, Same Fight for Government Transparency!

What you can do

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

Join the Movement

Help Pass the For the People Act (HR. 1)

Our Work

Hypnotized by Wall Street: How Corporations Keep Congress From Holding Fair Hearings on Taxing Stock Trades

Corporate Criminals Above The Law

55 Corporations That Paid Zero in Federal Income Taxes Spent $450 Million on Political Spending

With Veto, Biden Moves to Protect Access to Crucial Retirement Investment Data

Welcome to Sunshine Week 2023

Public Citizen Statement on Biden’s FY24 Budget Proposal

IRS: Do Our Taxes!

Former White House Ethics Advisors Join Public Citizen Complaint Against Rep. McCarthy for Release of Jan. 6 Tapes

Public Citizen Comments on House Bill 1 Before the House Committee on Appropriations

New Year, Same Fight for Government Transparency!

Overspending Billions on the Pentagon Is a National Moral Failing – Lee-Pocan Bill Suggests $100 Billion Cut

Stop Super-Sizing the Pentagon Budget, 59 Groups Tell President Biden

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