Section 215 of the Patriot Act expired over a year ago. Did you notice?

We don't need more surveillance to make us safer, we need the government to stop spying on innocent Americans without a warrant and take the threat of right-wing extremism seriously.

Tell Congress: "No more PATRIOT Act and no more spying on people without a warrant." SIGN THE PETITION! Section 215 of the Patriot Act expired over a year ago. Did you notice? Most people didn't. That's because the controversial and intrusive surveillance authority wasn't actually necessary to keep the US safe from terrorist attacks. Instead Section 215 of the Patriot Act allowed for an unprecedented level of spying on US citizens, from things like medical records all the way to internet search and browser history. Section 215 is dead, and it needs to stay that way. Sign the petition: Tell Congress not to bring back Section 215 of the Patriot Act! The Patriot Act was rushed through Congress nearly 20 years ago after 9/11. It was jammed through so fast most members of Congress hadn't read the whole thing and didn't know what was in it when they voted on it. What followed was two decades of the US intelligence community overreaching and prying into the daily lives of Americans without needing a warrant. For years, surveillance hawks in Congress beat their chest about how essential the Patriot Act is to preventing a 9/11-type catastrophe. But pandemic aside, the only major threat to national security in the past year was an insurrection that was planned and organized in broad daylight, with law enforcement and the intelligence community widely ignoring the threat of white nationalist extremist violence. We don't need more surveillance to make us safer, we need the government to stop spying on innocent Americans without a warrant and take the threat of right-wing extremism seriously. The Patriot Act wasn't designed to do either of those things, which is why we don't need it to come back. Sign the petition: Tell Congress not to bring back Section 215 of the Patriot Act! Thanks, Team Progress Paid for by Progress America.   Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Progress America, please click here.