It’s October and before this month is over, we’ll know which members of Congress stood up for civil liberties and which ones failed freedom. Our job now is to put them on notice — before they vote — that we won’t tolerate wavering, waffling, or wimping out.

The ACLU’s Don’t Wait for ’08 campaign — a 100-day effort urging Congress to restore liberties lost during the relentless Bush assault on our rights — is at a critical “make-or-break” point with FISA votes coming as early as next week. Unbelievably, there’s a push to make permanent the vast new spying powers that Congress gave to the President for a six-month period that ends in February, 2008.

Help us continue the FISA Flood of 2007 by overwhelming Congress with your voice demanding immediate action to defend freedom. Write. Call. Demand Action. Make noise now before our rights are stripped away permanently.

Tell Congress: Fix FISA, Defend the Constitution!

Before leaving for August recess, Congress caved in to President Bush and his demand for out-of-control authority to spy on Americans’ emails and phone calls by passing the so-called “Protect America Act.” We’re calling this bill the “Police America Act,” because it allows for the massive, untargeted collection of Americans’ international communications without court order.

The only good news about this bill is that it's set to expire 6 months after it was signed into law. But Congress is rushing forward. Critical votes happening within three weeks could permanently grant vast new spying powers to Bush and all future presidents, with no meaningful oversight by Congress or any court