According to the ACLU’s annual report to date, the ACLU has taken more than 200 legal actions, including filing over 110 lawsuits—53 of them within the first 100 days of the president’s second term.

Their success rate is notable.

“In more than 70 percent of our cases, we’ve successfully defeated, diluted, or delayed President Trump’s unconstitutional agenda. We’re holding the line in courts across the country, forcing this administration to back down when it matters most.

The ACLU is uniquely positioned to defend against such widespread attacks on our rights, as our greatest strength is our reach across issues, tactics, and geographies. With our affiliates in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, the ACLU is responding nimbly to the Trump administration’s unconstitutional actions with litigation, advocacy, and grassroots mobilization of our 6.5 million supporters and activists.

Our 550 attorneys litigated across every state, while our 501(c)(4) advocacy arm influenced policy and galvanized public pressure to defend and advance our fundamental freedoms on the state, city, and local levels. In 2025, the Trump administration has shown extraordinary hostility toward our First Amendment freedoms. Attacks on free speech are a hallmark of authoritarianism.

When the Trump administration attacks our civil rights and liberties, it has to get through us—all of us—first. Fight Together, Win Together 4 and the ACLU is successfully defending against the administration’s efforts to dismantle organizations, suppress protest, and silence students, lawyers, government agencies, journalists, and institutions that have the power to push back.”

Locally, the ACLU of Arizona in a late December message from the Executive Director at the ACLU of Arizona, Victoria Lopez, wrote, “I have turned to the strength of our history and our collective power to lead in challenging times. For 66 years, we have fought to defend civil liberties and hold those in power accountable.”

Arizona’s ACLU has a large volunteer and community activist base in the Valley and across the state.

Weekly meet-ups and community outreach as well as direct political action is on the daily agenda.

Interested members of the community are urged to get involved in order to mobilize their collective objections over the attacks on the First Amendment by the Trump administration through the state and local level.

On Tuesday, January 27 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, ACLU People Power is hosting the first national Action Call of the year.

To get involved, contact the ACLU of Arizona.