The ACLU received $24.1 million in online donations this weekend
- In a typical year, the American Civil Liberties Union gets about $4 million in online donations.
- But over this past weekend, the organization received $24.1 million from online donors, six times what it normally receives in a whole year.
- By the end of the night on Sunday, the group had received a total of $24,164,691 from 356,306 people over the weekend — many from people who had never donated to the ACLU before. Read more