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Via Business Insider:

The American Civil Liberties Union has received a record 14,000 online donations totaling $940,000 since Donald Trump’s upset victory Tuesday evening.

“In terms of online donations in a single-day, it far exceeds anything we’ve seen before,” the ACLU’s chief development officer Mark Weir told Business Insider in a statement.

Donations skyrocketed on Wednesday, after the organization published a harsh message for the President-elect, promising its “full firepower” should Trump seek to undermine the Constitution or violate Americans’ rights with the proposals he campaigned on.

A message emblazoned on the homepage of the ACLU’s website read “See you in court” next to Trump’s photo, with a “Donate” button underneath.

The ACLU warned Trump that it will be “eternally vigilant every day of your presidency” and will “never waver” from protecting Americans’ Constitutional rights.

The statement was in stark contrast to the conciliatory tone many of Trump’s harshest critics took on Wednesday in the wake of his upset victory,

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