This is a dangerous and upsetting time – and it’s also one that calls us to action. Even as all of us – Public Citizen staff and our wonderful supporters – are mourning the electoral outcome, we are simultaneously springing into action to organize for the work ahead.
The good news is that we have a clear playbook for dealing with Donald Trump.
Public Citizen was enormously effective in confronting Trump and his administration in his first term. By highlighting conflicts of interest and corruption and through vigorous use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), for example, we helped drive three cabinet secretaries from office and generated major media focus on Trump’s personal conflicts of interests and the corporate capture of his administration.
We also won multiple lawsuits against the administration – wins that forced disclosure of the White House visitor logs, preserved a teen pregnancy prevention program, and forced the U.S. Postal Service to deliver ballots in a timely way.
