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. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms.

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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Threats to Democracy

Protecting Elected Officials from Threats
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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It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity
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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Dozens of Commonsense Safeguards Vulnerable to GOP Rollback

Crypto Promoter Paul Atkins Named to Chair SEC
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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Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2021-2023

Report: Thirty-One Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties: 1991-2021
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 healthy 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. Learn more about our work.

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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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Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record
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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Unrigging our tax code and ensuring a well-funded government

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

The IRS’s Direct File: A Permanent Step in the Right Direction

The U.S. Needs a “Robin Hood Tax”

The government needs resources to oversee health and safety programs and make new investments in communities. That means corporations and the wealthy must pay their fair share. Meanwhile, our budget process is being hijacked by corporations and special interests using "poison pill" riders to roll back or stop public safeguards.

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Fighting to grow tax revenues in a progressive manner, to fix IRS rules for nonprofits and to keep the budget clean from harmful “poison pill” policy riders.

Groups Urge Congress to Reject Anti-Democracy Appropriations Riders

November 15, 2023

52 Groups Endorse the Wall Street Tax Act

July 26, 2023

59 Groups to Biden: Reduce the FY24 Pentagon Budget

February 14, 2023

Interior Department Must Fix Broken Oil and Gas Leasing System

December 21, 2022

IRS, FTC, CFPB Should Investigate Tax Filing Data Shared with Meta

December 12, 2022

New Gilded Age of Inequality Calls for Tax Fairness and Increased IRS Enforcement

May 26, 2021

Complaints Against Facebook

May 18, 2021

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Tell Congress: Pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Threats to Democracy

Protecting Elected Officials from Threats

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

Dozens of Commonsense Safeguards Vulnerable to GOP Rollback

Crypto Promoter Paul Atkins Named to Chair SEC

Tell President Biden: Make Meds Affordable

Win Medicare for All

Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2021-2023

Report: Thirty-One Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties: 1991-2021

Join the Trade Justice Movement

Tell Toyota: Go all-in on EVs

Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record

Subscribe to the Supreme Court Conference Preview

Unrigging our tax code and ensuring a well-funded government

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

The IRS’s Direct File: A Permanent Step in the Right Direction

The U.S. Needs a “Robin Hood Tax”

What you can do

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

Donate Now

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Groups Urge Congress to Reject Anti-Democracy Appropriations Riders

52 Groups Endorse the Wall Street Tax Act

59 Groups to Biden: Reduce the FY24 Pentagon Budget

Interior Department Must Fix Broken Oil and Gas Leasing System

IRS, FTC, CFPB Should Investigate Tax Filing Data Shared with Meta

New Gilded Age of Inequality Calls for Tax Fairness and Increased IRS Enforcement

Complaints Against Facebook

Public Citizen letter to Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittees

Public Citizen Testimony on COVID-19 and Taxes

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