Wren Collective post illustration shows an image of a man in suit testifying in the CA Assembly in support of AB 2605.
Positive news alert! CA AB 2605 advances to Appropriations. The bill would require counties to report public defender caseload numbers, a significant step in tackling the state's caseload crisis.
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Wren Collective newsletter on voting restrictions features an image of a mural supporting voting rights.
Read today's Wren Collective newsletter about the expansion of criminal penalties for voting as part of federal and state efforts to suppress the franchise.
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In this week’s Wren Collective newsletter we discuss the raft of Islamophobic action coming from the states— it’s dangerous rhetoric and goes well beyond rhetoric.
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In this week’s Wren Collective newsletter we discuss the raft of Islamophobic action coming from the states— it’s dangerous rhetoric and goes well beyond rhetoric.
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In this week’s Wren Collective newsletter we discuss the raft of Islamophobic action coming from the states— it’s dangerous rhetoric and goes well beyond rhetoric.
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Writing for On The Sixth, the Wren Collective’s @ntbaszynski.bsky.social writes about Ohio’s “HB 741—another legislative attempt to reinforce a two-tiered system of justice, where your pretrial freedom is tied to the money in your pocket”
Parole, clemency, second look laws are safety valves to provide mercy and second chances. Today’s Wren Collective newsletter explores how they are underutilized and narrowing. #parole #secondlook #justiceforall
Wearesafety.info tells the story of hte unprecedented diversion of federal resources away from public safety, vital programs that prevent crime, and into terrorizing residents in targeted cities to distract from a corrupt agenda that rewards actual crimes by political supporters and donors.
It is for journalists, so that they can have facts about what is happening in one place, and also activists, organizers, and electeds.
An image from the wearesafety.info website launched by the Wren Collective showing white lettering on a dark blue background reading "We want safety, they want power"
Today the Wren Collective launched wearesafety.info: a new website that documents the various ways that this administration is attacking public safety in order to obtain unearned power.
Rewatching Frederick Wiseman’s film Domestic Violence is an exercise in epistemic humility, writes Rebecca Silber of The Wren Collective
#frederickwiseman #domesticviolence #wrencollective
Image shared by The Wren Collective in a 3/10/26 bluesky post including information for an event on April 1 about human rights abuses in the Fulton Co., GA jail. The image behind the text shows ominous jail bars.
April 1 @ 6pm: Community Over Cages and PAD Atlanta host Tale of the Jail-- centering the lived expertise of advocates fighting for human rights in Fulton County, GA.
The Wren Collective is a proud participant in the Community Over Cages Coalition.
#diversion #pretrialreform #FultonCounty
In this week's Democracy Under Attack, The Wren Collective looks at the Prairieland trial, FL's new domestic terrorism bill, and the many ways governments are trying to prosecute, investigate, and surveil its way out of opposition.
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The Trump Administration’s attacks on cities are part of a pattern of assault on local governance. The Wren Collective’s Jay Jenkins writes about recent preemption fights for Defending What Matters
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Their actions are doing more to protect our democracy right now than those of any elected official anywhere. Full stop.
People are documenting harm in real time. Making it impossible to spin. Making the lies unsustainable. That's not nothing — that's everything.
That reality is being created by ordinary people. In Minnesota. Maine. Portland. LA. DC. Everywhere ICE shows up — the people show up right back.
As The Wren Collective: "Trump didn't talk about ICE because he knows he can no longer lie about ICE. Too much reality is breaking through."
Trump's SOTU last night contained a multitude of lies about the economy, crime, and immigrants. But he never once mentioned ICE or CBP. That silence is telling. 🧵
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In this week's newsletter, we look at the right's war on journalists and their willingness to use the criminal and civil rights system to suppress the truth. Read in this week's democracy under attack.
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ICYMI: In Texas on Fire, Nikki Baszynski of The Wren Collective highlights how a new TX law is trying to end telehealth and medication abortion in the state.
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#wrencollective #reproductivehealth #texas
The Wren Collective is proud to be part of the Community Over Cages coalition fighting against the expansion and overcrowding at the Fulton County jail. This ACLU-GA report digs into the problems there and with proposed solutions for county leaders.
#criminaljustice #jails #wrencollective
The Wren Collective's Jay Jenkins writes in Texas on Fire that Taylor Rehmet's victory in the SD-9 race last week is "the latest battle in Tarrant County’s war on the basic democratic rights of its citizens."
The scale of incarcerated people who are pregnant in local jails in Texas is shocking: more than 400 people per month across the state between Sept. and Nov. 2025. Amazing advocacy from the Texas Jail Project to keep our state focused on health, safety and transparency in our jails.
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