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.

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

House Passes Historic Democracy Reform and Corruption Overhaul Legislation
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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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Trump’s Corporate Cabinet

Lost Safeguards: Popular Public Protections Repealed in the Trump Era
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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Consumer Carnage: How Federal Enforcement of Consumer-Protection Laws Has Declined Under Trump

Facebook Can’t Be Trusted. Regulators Are Unprepared.
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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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.

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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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Major Media Fail to Connect Hurricane Dorian to Climate Change

Then and Now: Media Must Cover U.N. Climate Summit Better Than Five Years Ago
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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Exposing Trump's lies and corporate ties

Forgetting the Forgotten: 101 Ways Donald Trump Has Betrayed his Populist Agenda

The Koch Government: These 44 Trump Officials Have Close Ties to Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers

10 Weird Tricks Trump Is Pulling to Profit from the Presidency

President Trump has handed control of government to the corporate class. Former Wall Street executives and lobbyists for polluters are driving forward anti-regulatory, corporate-friendly policies that harm ordinary Americans while corporations, foreign governments and Trump businesses profit.

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We Can Trump-Proof The Presidency: Executive Branch Ethics Laws That Require Immediate Fixes

The U.S. never before has had a president so intent on subverting federal ethics laws as well as ethical norms.

‘Law and Order’ Trump Is Soft on Corporate Crime and Wrongdoing

Trump promised a nation of "law and order" and to be "tough on crime." So why is he letting corporate criminals off the hook?

Hotel Swamplandia: More than 200 Big Spenders at Trump’s Businesses

More than 200 foreign governments, interest groups, corporations and other entities have spent money at Trump properties, ostensibly to curry favor with the president.

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Overturn Citizens United

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

House Passes Historic Democracy Reform and Corruption Overhaul Legislation

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

Trump’s Corporate Cabinet

Lost Safeguards: Popular Public Protections Repealed in the Trump Era

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

Consumer Carnage: How Federal Enforcement of Consumer-Protection Laws Has Declined Under Trump

Facebook Can’t Be Trusted. Regulators Are Unprepared.

Fight Pharma Greed

Win Medicare for All

The Case for Medicare-for-All

Crossing the Line: Sexual Misconduct by Nurses Reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank

Join the Trade Justice Movement

Tell TV Networks to Call Climate Change a Crisis

Major Media Fail to Connect Hurricane Dorian to Climate Change

Then and Now: Media Must Cover U.N. Climate Summit Better Than Five Years Ago

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Forgetting the Forgotten: 101 Ways Donald Trump Has Betrayed his Populist Agenda

The Koch Government: These 44 Trump Officials Have Close Ties to Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers

10 Weird Tricks Trump Is Pulling to Profit from the Presidency

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We Can Trump-Proof The Presidency: Executive Branch Ethics Laws That Require Immediate Fixes

‘Law and Order’ Trump Is Soft on Corporate Crime and Wrongdoing

Hotel Swamplandia: More than 200 Big Spenders at Trump’s Businesses

GAO Report: A Damning Rebuke of White House Lies

Bernhardt’s Revolving Door Network Attracts Millions From Former Clients Lobbying the Federal Government

Bernhardt Buddies

Violation of Oath of Office by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

Eight Senators Pressured by Home State Billboards and Digital, Field Campaigns to Hold Trump Accountable for His Crimes

This Pro-Drilling Trump Official Says the Founding Fathers Wanted to Sell Off All Public Lands

Term Extension for Pro-Drilling Interior Department Official Shows Normalization of Radical Views

Impeachment Was Necessary to Protect Our Democracy

Bipartisan Groups Push for House Approval of Impeachment Articles Against Trump After Thousands Attend Pro-Impeachment Mobilizations Nationwide

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