ACLU of Missouri

07/25/2025

The ACLU of Missouri is taking applications for a fall internship with our Policy and Campaigns Team. Our work covers several issues including free speech and association rights, voting rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ equality, and more. Apply at https://www.aclu-mo.org/en/who-we-are/internships

07/04/2025

Breaking: A Jackson county judge issued a new preliminary injunction again blocking Missouri's abortion ban and several restrictions clearing the way for Planned Parenthood to provide procedural abortion care.

07/03/2025

"The vote last November was historic, offering a fierce rebuke of Republican state lawmakers who had spent decades restricting access. The constitutional amendment overturned a near-total ban that was enacted in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade."

07/02/2025

Breaking: We filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State for certifying an intentionally misleading and inaccurate summary statement and fair ballot language for a ballot measure that would overturn the recent voter-passed constitutional protections for reproductive freedom. The bill passed as HJR 73 but has been assigned Amendment 3.

Today, we asked the court to declare Amendment 3’s summary statement and fair ballot language unfair and insufficient and to certify a new, compliant summary statement for voters, or to declare Amendment 3 in violation of the state Constitution and deny it from being placed on any ballot.

07/01/2025

You have the right to be loud, courageous, and boldly you. Pride has always been a protest—and it does not end here.

06/30/2025

You can’t legislate people out of existence. Trans people of all ages deserve to live unapologetically and boldly as their authentic self.

06/27/2025

06/27/2025

Pride is protest, today and every day. Our existence cannot be erased, and we will continue to speak truth to our power.

06/26/2025

Pride calls for the freedom to be safe, visible, and control over our own lives.

06/25/2025

The ACLU of Missouri is hiring an Executive Assistant based at our St. Louis office. Our work covers several issues including free speech and association rights, religious freedom, voting rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ equality, immigrants’ rights, racial equity, education equity, and privacy rights.

Learn more at https://www.aclu-mo.org/en/about/careers

06/19/2025

Recognized as a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when the Union army advanced in Texas and Oklahoma declaring the last enslaved people there free.

This declaration in 1865 came two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

Juneteenth was first celebrated by formerly enslaved people on June 19, 1866.

Emancipation’s full history can scarcely be summed up by a single day or announcement.

Enslaved people’s knowledge of their own freedom, born of their own organized and multifaceted resistance, posed a particular threat to those who sought to silence them.

Before and during the Civil War, enslaved people engaged in all manner of resistances, armed and otherwise.

They fled plantations, organized work stoppages and slow downs, engaged in violent resistance and joined the Union Army.

Today, we celebrate our ancestors who secured their own freedom and who gave a clear path to do the same for ourselves.

06/18/2025

“What the Court once recognized as an imperative check against discrimination, it today abandons.”
-Justice Sotomayor dissent in U.S. v. Skrmetti