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
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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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Lost Safeguards: Popular Public Protections Repealed in the Trump Era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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Businesses Should Not Get a Free Pass, National Consumer Groups Tell Congress

Trump Uses the Coronavirus as a Pretext to Reward Corporate Predators, Polluters
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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Combating Coronavirus

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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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Bernhardt Buddies

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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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

Businesses Should Not Get a Free Pass, National Consumer Groups Tell Congress

Trump Uses the Coronavirus as a Pretext to Reward Corporate Predators, Polluters

Fight Pharma Greed

Win Medicare for All

Combating Coronavirus

The Case for Medicare-for-All

Tell Congress: Freedom for Susana Prieto Terrazas!

Tell TV Networks to Call Climate Change a Crisis

Bernhardt Buddies

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

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Government Should End Monopoly Control of Remdesivir

Public Citizen, Scientists: Gilead and Federal Scientists Have Neglected a Potentially Promising COVID-19 Antiviral Drug

Public Citizen’s Health Letter

Half-Measures Won’t Bring Big Pharma To the Table

Executive Order on Drug Prices Falls Short of Providing Patients Relief

Tuesday: House Lawmakers Must Press Pharma Execs on Vaccine Affordability, Accessibility

Public Citizen Tracker Finds Taxpayers Have Funded $6 Billion in Coronavirus Treatment, Vaccine Development

State Officials, Groups Demand Trump, Azar Make Medications Available to All, End Structural Racism in Health Care

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