A civic project · Est. 2026
Power should answer to people. Policy should answer to facts.
Americans for Propriety is a civic project advancing public policy that respects democratic limits, serves the common good, and treats public power as a trust — not a tool of private fortune.
14
issue clusters
61
sourced policy briefs
28
letter templates
0
trackers, ads, or harvested data
Where we're focused
The fights worth picking, the ones we can win.
Issue clusters where public policy has drifted from the public good. We track the legislation, surface the stakes, and give people a way to weigh in.
Issue area
Economy & tax fairness
An economy where productivity gains lift wages, where corporations pay their share, and where concentrated wealth doesn't translate into concentrated political power.
Read the issue →Issue area
Labor & wages
The right to organize, fair pay for full-time work, and worker protections that don't expire when a company restructures.
Read the issue →Issue area
Healthcare
Universal coverage, transparent pricing, and a pharmaceutical market that serves patients before shareholders.
Read the issue →Issue area
Housing
Affordable, stable housing as a public commitment — through supply expansion, tenant protection, and limits on extraction by corporate landlords.
Read the issue →Issue area
Reproductive rights
The right to make decisions about one's own body, with access to abortion, contraception, fertility care, and pregnancy-related healthcare wherever you live.
Read the issue →Issue area
Climate & energy
An orderly, just transition off fossil fuels — built around public investment, durable jobs, and communities that bear the costs of the old system.
Read the issue →Issue area
Democracy & voting rights
Free, accessible elections; independent redistricting; and limits on the role of unaccountable money in public life.
Read the issue →Issue area
Civil rights & immigration
Equal protection, due process, and a workable immigration system that treats people as people — not a wedge issue or a political prop.
Read the issue →Issue area
Foreign policy & war powers
Congressional authority over war restored; military spending subject to real oversight; arms transfers transparent; diplomacy treated as a serious tool.
Read the issue →Latest research
Briefs
Brief · reproductive rights
Abortion on the 2026 ballot
Three abortion measures are certified for the November 2026 ballot — and for the first time since Dobbs, voters are being asked to roll back an abortion-rights amendment they already passed.
Brief · foreign policy and war powers
AUMF repeal — a partial victory, and the 2001 fight that remains
Congress repealed the 1991 and 2002 Iraq war authorizations in December 2025 — the first such clawback since 1971. The broader 2001 AUMF is still in force.
Brief · veterans and service members
Camp Lejeune, four years on
The 2022 law gave Camp Lejeune water-contamination victims a path to compensation. Four years later, roughly $421 million has been paid — and less than 1% of more than 400,000 claims has been resolved.
Brief · reproductive rights
Abortion shield laws on trial
State shield laws protecting telehealth abortion providers are facing their first courtroom tests. What the New York and Delaware cases turn on, and why the question is headed for the Supreme Court.
Field notes
Recent posts
Post
DACA, back where it started: the work-permit question before Judge Hanen
After the Fifth Circuit's January 2025 ruling, no party asked the Supreme Court to review DACA's legality. The case returned to the district judge who first declared the program unlawful — and the question he now has to answer is whether work permits survive at all.
Post
Louisiana v. FDA: mifepristone access, paused at the Supreme Court
A Fifth Circuit order would have ended mail and telehealth dispensing of mifepristone nationwide. On May 14 the Supreme Court stayed it, leaving access intact while the case is litigated — over a Thomas and Alito dissent.
Post
The offshore wind stop-work orders, and what the courts said
In December 2025 Interior halted construction on five major offshore wind projects, citing classified national security concerns. Federal courts reversed all five. By April 2026 Interior let its appeal deadlines lapse — and a separate ruling enjoined the broader permitting freeze.