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Renewing Mass Surveillance Just Got A Whole Lot Harder

by Alex Marthews, National Chair When last week began, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was pushing hard for controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act, due to expire June 1, to be renewed for more than five years without any changes or reform. He had the backing of Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), the chair of […]

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Go Big or Go Home: Pass the New Surveillance State Repeal Act

by Alex Marthews, National Chair Nearly two years after Snowden began revealing them, Congress has done nothing to fix the US government’s massively abusive surveillance practices. They think Americans will be OK with an unconstitutional, sprawling, mass-surveillance empire intruding into every part of our lives. We’re not. It’s time to take a stand. We’ve seen […]