Resources on Democracy Defense
This page contains links to resources related to the growing threats to, and defense of, U.S. democracy and electoral process. The focus here isn't on get-out-the-vote or anti-vote-suppression efforts, but rather on threats to foundational principles of democratic process.
This page is maintained by Bruce Hahne, bruce at maronmedia dot com.
WHITE PAPERS AND REPORTS
"Election Certification Under Threat: A legal roadmap to protect the 2024 election including from 35 officials who have refused to certify results", Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington, August 2024. CREW has also created a briefing page about the report.
"In this report, CREW identifies 35 rogue election officials across the country who have already refused to certify election results and may be in a position to do so again. The report focuses on the eight states where county officials have unlawfully refused to certify elections since 2020: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The report also identifies the legal remedies available to state and federal authorities, as well as voters, to protect the certification of the 2024 election."
"Decoding LGBTQ Scapegoating", Over Zero, May 2024.
"This report explores the connection between two escalating crises: the systematic targeting of LGBTQ communities and democratic backsliding worldwide. It examines how the rhetorical, political, and physical attacks targeting the LGBTQ community are, in addition to a critical rights issue, a central component of the authoritarian playbook."
"Pro-Democracy Organizing Against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations", Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks, Faculty Research Working Paper Series, Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Oct. 12, 2022
"This report aims to... prepare for effective organizing and mobilizing in the aftermath of a nationwide authoritarian transition, should one occur after the 2024 election."
"A Democracy Crisis in the Making: Year-End Update", from States United Democracy Center, Protect Democracy, and Law Forward. December 2023.
"As the 2024 election approaches, state legislatures continue to propose and enact laws that expose our election system to partisan disruption and manipulation. These laws ultimately increase the risk of subversion—that is, a declared outcome that does not reflect the true choice of the voters. They also abandon long-standing principles of nonpartisan election administration and instead allow for—or even encourage—dysfunction, misinformation, confusion, or manipulation by partisan actors..."
"Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy", Rachel Kleinfeld, senior fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sept. 15, 2022.
"... since the end of the Cold War, most democratic failure globally has been caused by elected governments using legal methods, such as gerrymandering and technical rule changes, to derail democracy. Their destructions of their own democracies have been supported by pluralities or majorities of their citizenries, whose polarization leads them to back policies that harm democracy to ensure their side prevails. America is on precisely this path."
"The Election Sabotage Scheme and How Congress Can Stop It", Brennan Center for Justice, Nov. 8, 2021
"This paper briefly catalogs recent election sabotage legislation... and explains how they threaten our democratic system. Specifically, there are four categories of legislation to sabotage the electoral process: (1) legislation to give state officials the power to change or reject election results; (2) legislation to give partisan state officials the power to seize control of the election administration and vote-counting processes; (3) legislation to restrict, control, or punish the conduct of local election officials; and (4) legislation to make it harder to vote."
"Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States", Richard Hasen, Harvard Law Review Forum, 2022. The link here is to the abstract - click "Download this Paper" to download the entire 33-page article.
Democracy Endgame essay series: a series of essays, from various scholars, published by Protect Democracy.
"Replacing the Refs: Tracking the Trend of Election Deniers Running for Statewide Office in 2022", reference page from States United Democracy Center.
ARTICLES
"There’s a danger that the US supreme court, not voters, picks the next president", David Daley, The Guardian, Sept. 17, 2024.
"Fears mount that election deniers could disrupt vote count in US swing states", Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, Sept. 13, 2024.
"Trump Isn't Finished", Thomas Edsall, New York Times, Aug. 21, 2024
"Trump is in the classic dictatorial position: He needs to die in bed holding all executive power to stay out of prison. This means that he will do whatever he can to gain power, and once in power will do all that he can to never let it go."
"Lone Democrat on Georgia state board defends elections amid new rules", Justin Glawe, The Guardian, Aug. 13, 2024
"Of the rules passed last week... the most problematic is one that allows for county election board members in Georgia’s 159 counties to refuse to certify results..."
"‘A different level than 2020’: Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape", Sam Levine, The Guardian, Aug. 12, 2024.
"Get Ready Now: Republicans Will Refuse to Certify a Harris Win - Trumpist county election officials are preparing to throw the process into chaos", A.B. Stoddard, The Bulwark, Aug. 8, 2024.
"Their goal: Refuse to certify anywhere—even a county that Trump won—and prevent certification in that state, which prevents certification of the presidential election. A Harris victory could become a nightmare."
"Will Voters Decide the 2024 Election? The GOP Plan for Trump to Win Even if he Loses", Don Moynihan, July 26, 2024
"... if Trump loses, they have a plan to contest and possibly overturn the outcome. "
"Trump allies test a new strategy for blocking election results", by Amy Gardner, Patrick Marley, and Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, June 26 2024.
"In five battleground states, county-level officials have tried to block the certification of vote tallies — which election experts worry is a test run for trying to thwart a Biden victory."
"Overcoming Despair and Apathy to Win Democracy", George Lakey interview with Ivan Marovic, May 20, 2024
"Lessons on movement building from one of the founders of the Serbian student movement that brought down dictator Slobodan Milosevic."
"The Real Dangers of Generative AI" (paywalled), Danielle Allen and E. Glen Weyl, Journal of Democracy, Jan. 2024.
"By allowing deception and de-contextualized information sharing at a previously unimaginable scale and pace, [Generative Foundation Models] could undermine the foundations of democracy. At the same time, the investment scale required to develop the models and the race dynamics around that development threaten to enable concentrations of democratically unaccountable power..."
"Here’s what Trump 2.0 will bring: ignorance and vengeance in the US, chaos for world order", Gordon Brown, The Guardian, Dec. 7 2023
"When Trump engages in the conspiracy-theory politics of destroying “the deep state”, what he really means is that he will rule by presidential decree..."
"Possible Trump CIA pick threatens to 'come after' media critics 'criminally'", Tatyana Tandanpolie, Salon, Dec. 6, 2023
"Far-right Trump allies Steve Bannon and Kash Patel said that the former president would target "conspirators" in the media if he wins another term in office..."
"Donald Trump's Plot Against America", Mark Elias, Democracy Docket, Dec. 6 2023
"Donald Trump is plotting to overthrow American democracy. It is not a secret, and he is not subtle. The only question is whether enough people will care enough to stop it..."
"If Trump Wins": The staff of The Atlantic on the threat a second term poses to American democracy. 24 essays from the Jan/Feb 2024 issue, with 16 essays pre-published as of Dec 6, 2023.
"The Fear of a Looming Trump Dictatorship", Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, Dec. 4 2023
"... [Liz] Cheney said a Trump victory could mark the end of the American republic. 'He’s told us what he will do,' she said. 'It’s very easy to see the steps that he will take.'"
"America's Election Officials Fight Disinformation and Death Threats Ahead of 2024", JustSecurity, Dec. 4 2023
"... Many of the difficulties faced by election administrators were brought on by a flood of disinformation from Trump and his allies..."
"A Trump Dictatorship is Increasingly Inevitable. We Should Stop Pretending", Robert Kagen, editor at large, Washington Post, Nov. 30, 2023
"Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day."
"If Trump Wins Again, There May Be No Stopping Him - If a presidential candidate is telling you that he wants to end the republic, believe him", Matt Ford, The New Republic, Nov. 29, 2023
"Trump, as I’ve noted before, all but promises authoritarian rule..."
"'Lock Them Up': Trump's Authoritarian Plans for 2025", Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Nov. 22, 2023
"The recruiting of enablers and accomplices of future state persecution is taking place before our eyes. If Trump returns to the White House, we cannot say we were not warned. He is telling us clearly that he will finish the job he started in his first term: wrecking U.S. democracy."
"With the world on fire, a cowardly, timid news media is a threat to U.S. democracy", Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 5 2023
"...as bad as things are for the media today, things will get worse in less than two years if journalists... can’t stop cowering and won’t adopt a much more aggressive posture in defending democracy... "
"Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America", Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 27, 2023
"...What we call the Republican Party is barely a political party in any sense of the word but a dangerous antisocial movement that has embraced many of the tenets of fascism... We need the media to see 2024 not as a traditional election but as an effort to mobilize a mass movement that would undo democracy..."
"Trump's free-speech defense in January 6 case is danger to democracy, experts say", Peter Stone, The Guardian, Aug. 16, 2023
"Former House Republicans and DoJ Veterans Lambast Efforts to Curb FBI and Justice Department", Peter Stone, The Guardian, July 12, 2023
"...To defend Trump means you have to attack our democratic institutions like our elections, our justice system and the rule of law..."
"A deranged ploy": How Republicans are Fueling the Disinformation Wars, Nick Robins-Early, The Guardian, July 10, 2023
"Several actions by the far right in the last month could result in a flood of conspiracy theories before the 2024 election"
Press release, May 1, 2023: The Democracy Solutions Project, from Chicago Public Media and the Center for Effective Government.
"Extended Series will Explore Issues Facing our Democracy in the Run-up to the 2024 Election..."
"Conservative donors pour 'dark money' into case that could upend US voting law", Peter Stone, The Guardian, Dec. 16, 2022.
"...They are pushing for a ruling that would take ultimate decisions about voting rights and congressional gerrymandering away from state courts and hand those powers to state legislatures, of which Republicans now control the majority."
"The Threat to Democracy is Still in Congress", David A. Graham, The Atlantic, Dec. 13, 2022
"Nobel peace laureate Maria Ressa: ‘In 2024, democracy could fall off a cliff’", Zoe Williams, The Guardian, Nov. 12, 2022
"Organizing Against Autocracy in the U.S.", interview with Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks, Convergence, Nov. 11, 2022
"...people want to move on this now, ordinary people who are worried about democracy in America...But there’s nowhere for them to express a pro-democracy energy right now. And that’s a challenge that we have to be able to address imminently..."
"Inside Steve Bannon's disturbing quest to radically rewrite the U.S. constitution", Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, Oct. 19, 2022
"The state-based model for rewriting the US constitution is perhaps the most audacious attempt yet by hard-right Republicans to secure what amounts to conservative minority rule in which a minority of lawmakers representing less-populated rural states dictate terms to the majority of Americans..."
"How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party", Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine Intelligencer, Oct. 12, 2022
"Semi-fascism contains many features of democracy, like contested elections and permissible criticism of the ruling party, but without the liberal guardrails that maintain democracy’s openness and stability, such as a judiciary, bureaucracy, and news media that are empowered and motivated to check abuses of power... The Republican Party’s ascendant semi-fascist wing wishes to take several steps down this road. I watched the conference’s attendees practically declare they would do so..."
"Democracy, poisoned: America's elections are being attacked at every level", Sam Levine and Ed Pinkington, The Guardian, Oct. 4, 2022
"While there have long been fights in America over who gets to vote, this new toxin is focused on how the vote is counted and on undermining confidence in results... The threat posed by individuals prepared to throw out legitimate election results is especially pronounced in the handful of key battleground states that were decisive in 2020."
"Election officials confront a new problem: whether they can trust their own poll workers", Zach Montellaro, Politico, Oct. 4, 2022
"What you’ve seen is a robust, comprehensive effort by purveyors of election myths and disinformation to try and sabotage future U.S. elections..."
"President Biden is finally sounding the alarm about democracy. Good", Thomas Zimmer, The Guardian, Sept. 10, 2022
"With 10 weeks until midterms, election deniers are hampering some election preparations", ABC News, Aug. 30, 2022
" 'The US Could Lose the Right to Vote Within Months': Top Official Warns on Threat to Democracy", Lauren Gambino, The Guardian, Aug. 28, 2022
"A Democracy Crisis in the Making: August 2022 Edition", States United Democracy Center, Aug. 24, 2022
"Election Workers Abruptly Quit, Upending Rural Texas County", PBS News Hour, Aug. 22, 2022
"...death threats, harassment and unfounded accusations have driven local election officials from their jobs. Citing the potential effect on democracy, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force last year to address rising threats against election officials."
"How Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election", Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, July 29, 2022
"...If you give the legislature a blank check on the manner of appointing presidential electors, then a Republican majority could... simply disregard a Biden victory in the state’s popular vote and appoint Trump electors instead."
"How January 6 Hearings Plot a Roadmap to Autocracy", Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, July 24, 2022
"... [The GOP] discovered that there is a plethora of opportunities for subverting an election, from blocking certification to sending alternate slates of electors to Congress. Armed with that knowledge, they may well do it much better next time.”
"Is Democracy Constitutional?", Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, July 23, 2022
"Democratic backsliding in the U.S. has followed a pretty clear historical pattern: The Supreme Court directly or indirectly enables state legislatures to restrict civil and political rights, and Congress decides whether to get its act together to stop them—and it often doesn’t..."
"Trump's Forces are Preparing for the Next Storming of the Capitol. This Time, they Plan to Win", Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, June 10, 2022.
"Republican Party Building 'an Army' to Overturn Election Results", David Smith, the Guardian, June 1, 2022
"...The alleged scheme includes installing party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, creating a website to put these workers in touch with local lawyers and establishing a network of district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts..."
" 'A Plot to Destroy Democracy': Civil Rights Group Raises Alarm at Threats to US Elections", Maya Yang, The Guardian, April 13, 2022
"Inside the GOP's Purge of Local Election Officials in Michigan", Trey Bundy, Reveal News, April 4, 2022
"The Dictator's New Playbook: Why Democracy is Losing the Fight", Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, Feb. 22, 2022
"...disoriented by the multiple layers of dissimulation that modern autocracy involves, democratic societies have not even fully grasped that they are in a fight to protect their freedoms. This is a key strategic advantage for autocratic leaders: they know that they must undermine democracy to survive, whereas democrats have yet to realize that they need to defeat the new autocracy if they are to survive."
"Combatting Authoritarianism: The Skills and Infrastructure Needed to Organize Across Difference", Maria J. Stephan and Julia Roig, Just Security, Jan. 27, 2022
"America must take steps now to avoid a slide into authoritarianism", Thomas Zimmer, The Guardian, Jan. 19, 2022
"...Without effective federal legislation to protect and reform democracy, the country will rapidly turn into a dysfunctional pseudo-democratic system at the national level..."
" 'The Timothy McVeys are still there': fears over extremism in the US military", Sergio Olmos, The Guardian, Jan. 10, 2022
"It's Time for Democrats to Break the Glass", Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic, Jan. 6, 2022
"...The real choice for today’s congressional Democrats on voting rights and democracy protection is not whether to act alone or act with Republicans; it’s whether to act alone or not act at all..."
"I Fear for Our Democracy", Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Jan. 5, 2022
"... I now fear that what we have fought so hard to achieve globally — the right to free, fair elections, unhindered by strongman politicians who seek nothing more than to grow their own power — has become dangerously fragile at home..."
"The Riot and the Republic", Jonathan Allen, NBC News, Jan. 5, 2022
"...We are facing a historic crisis. The fate of the republic really is at stake.”
"We are Living Through a Democratic Emergency", Kate Guarino, The Atlantic, Jan. 5, 2022
"Here's where election-denying candidates are running to control voting", NPR, Jan. 4, 2022
"Bannon and allies bid to expand pro-Trump influence in local US politics. Growing drive by hardcore Trumpists spurs election watchdogs to voice alarm about threat to American democracy", The Guardian, Jan. 3, 2022
"We’re seeing a dangerous trend of election deniers lining up to fill election administration positions across the country... And the efforts by Flynn, Bannon and other promoters of the big lie are all part of this playbook to hijack elections in 2022 and 2024 if their preferred candidate doesn’t win."
"Every Day is Jan. 6 Now", New York Times editorial, Jan. 1, 2022
"...the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends. No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists."
"The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare", Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Globe & Mail, Dec. 31, 2021
"By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship..."
"Slow-motion Insurrection: How the GOP Seizes Election Power", Nicholas Riccardi, AP News, Dec. 30, 2021
"The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring 'Big Lie' ", NPR, Dec. 23, 2021
"...We can lose democracy just like anybody else can, just like most people have in the history of democracy. We can lose it, and we're losing it right now..."
"3 Retired Generals: The Military Must Prepare Now for a 2024 Insurrection", Washington Post, Dec. 17, 2021
" 'We are closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe', new study says", Dana Milbank, Washington Post, Dec. 17, 2021
"If you know people still in denial about the crisis of American democracy, kindly remove their heads from the sand long enough to receive this message: A startling new finding by one of the nation’s top authorities on foreign civil wars says we are on the cusp of our own..."
"Latest Warning Sign: Stacking Election Posts with Big Lie Supporters", Jackie Calmes, L.A. Times, Dec. 9, 2021
“We have people who don’t actually believe in our elections running to have control over them,” Joanna Lydgate told me. She said the actions — along with new vote-suppression laws in some states — could amount to “election hijacking.”
"Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun", Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, Dec. 6, 2021
"For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft... They are fine-tuning a legal argument that purports to allow state legislators to override the choice of the voters..."
"Are We Doomed? To Head Off the Next Insurrection, We'll Need to Practice Envisioning the Worst", George Packer, The Atlantic, Dec. 6, 2021
"Can Democracy Survive Racism as a Strategy?", Ian Haney López, Dec. 2, 2021
"'A Core Threat to Our Democracy': Threat of Political Violence Growing Across US", The Guardian, Nov. 27, 2021
"'We are going to make you beg for mercy': America’s public servants face a wave of threats", Vox, Nov. 18, 2021
"The intimidation of poll workers, school administrators, and public health officials reveals a democracy rotting from within..."
"Terrifying for American Democracy: Is Trump Planning for a 2024 Coup?", The Guardian, Nov. 14, 2021
...“What’s unique about Trump and about what he’s trying to do in 2024 is that he’s applying McCarthy-like tactics to voting, and that’s never happened before.”
Letter from Former High-Ranking National Security Officials to Congress: Election Subversion Poses National Security Threat, Nov. 10, 2021
"In the course of our careers, many of us have analyzed the threats posed by unstable democracies elsewhere, never imagining we would begin to see similar threats at home. Sadly, that moment has arrived."
An Open Letter in Defense of Democracy, signed by several dozen public intellectuals, published simultaneously in The New Republic and The Bulwark, Oct. 27, 2021. The Bulwark version is here.
"... liberal democracy itself is in serious danger. Liberal democracy depends on free and fair elections, respect for the rights of others, the rule of law, a commitment to truth and tolerance in our public discourse. All of these are now in serious danger."
"I was Wrong about Donald Trump", David Brock, New York Times, Oct. 21, 2021
"Democrats now face an opposition that is not a normal political party, but rather a party that is willing to sacrifice democratic institutions and norms to take power."
"The hollowness of the ‘but it didn’t work’ defense of Trump’s attempt to retain power", Philip Bump, The Washington Post, Oct. 8, 2021
"Kamala Harris Might have to Stop the Steal", Russell Berman, The Atlantic, Oct. 6, 2021
"What if 2020 was just a Rehearsal?", interview with UC Irvine Law School Professor Rick Hasen, Politico, Sept. 26, 2021
"Our Constitutional Crisis is Already Here", Robert Kagan, The Washington Post, Sept. 23, 2021 -- non-paywalled version here.
"How to Secure American Democracy", Larry Diamond, Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, September 2021
"The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election", Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, The Atlantic, July 9, 2021. This essay is also published at Protect Democracy.
"The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election. Contemporary democracies that die meet their end at the ballot box, through measures that are nominally constitutional. The looming danger is not that the mob will return; it’s that mainstream Republicans will “legally” overturn an election."
ORGANIZATIONS
Protect Democracy and the Protect Democracy Project
"Our democracy is facing threats we haven’t seen in generations. Protect Democracy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting efforts, at home and abroad, to undermine our right to free, fair, and fully informed self-government."
The National Task Force on Election Crises
"The National Task Force on Election Crises is a diverse, cross-partisan group of more than 50 experts in election law, election administration, national security, cybersecurity, voting rights, civil rights, technology, media, public health, and emergency response. The Task Force’s mission is to prevent and mitigate a range of election crises by calling for critical preventative reforms to our election systems."
Fair Elections and Free Speech Center at UC Irvine (discontinued in 2024 when Professor Richard Hasen moved to UCLA in 2024 to lead the Safeguarding Democracy Project)
"Established in 2021 after the contentious 2020 U.S. Presidential elections, which culminated in the dangerous January 6, 2021 insurrection in the United States Capitol, the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center at UCI Law... is dedicated solely to advancing an understanding of, and offering means to counter, threats to the stability and legitimacy of democratic governments exacerbated by the unregulated growth of digital media and other technological changes in mass communication."
Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law
"The Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law promotes research, collaboration, and advocacy aimed at ensuring continued free and fair elections in the United States, conducted in accordance with democratic norms and the rule of law."
States United Democracy Center
"The States United Democracy Center is a nonpartisan organization advancing free, fair, and secure elections. We focus on connecting state officials, law enforcement leaders, and pro-democracy partners across America with the tools and expertise they need to safeguard our democracy."
Democracy Docket
"... the leading progressive media platform dedicated to providing information, opinion and analysis about voting rights, elections, redistricting and democracy."
Choose Democracy
"Choose Democracy trained people on what to do if there was an election-related power grab [in the United States in 2020-21]. We shared evidence-based lessons about stopping a coup from movements from around the world. Our virtual trainings were attended by over 10,000 people from all over the country and across the political spectrum."
The Choose Democracy home page continues to offer links to additional videos, articles, and books that provide anti-coup training.
Faith Election Sabotage Response Network - upcoming events are listed at https://linktr.ee/faithesrn
BOOKS
When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day, Archon Fung, David Moss, and Odd Arne Westad, Oxford University Press, 2024
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder (2017 edition). "A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism." The book has also been updated by the author and re-released in 2021 in a graphic/illustrated edition.
How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Penguin Random House, 2019
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could, Adam Schiff, Random House, 2021
Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-up Call from Behind the Lines, David Pepper, St. Helena Press, 2021
Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know, Erica Chenoweth, Oxford University Press, 2021
PODCASTS
Democracy Paradox Podcast, Justin Kempf, 2020-present. Includes recent (May 2024) episodes "When Democracy Breaks: 1930's Japan" and "When Democracy Breaks: Ancient Athens"
VIDEOS
"Is Democracy Doomed? The Global Fight for Our Future", Timothy Snyder, Feb. 10, 2023
"Understanding the Threats to the 2022 and 2024 Elections, and What We Can Do", webinar by Alexandra Chandler of Protect Democracy, Feb. 13, 2022.
"Democracy Endgame? Not if we Join Together!", webinar with Ian Haney Lopez, Feb 10, 2022.
"Election Subversion and the Threat to US Democracy", talk given by Bruce Hahne as part of a larger online event by Indivisible South Peninsula, January 5, 2022. Bruce's talk starts about halfway through the video. The slides are available in the Other Resources section below.
Disinformation in American Elections: The View of Election Officials
Panel discussion, Oct. 6, 2021, convened by the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center.
Election Subversion: Is American Democracy in Danger?
A 3-hour series of four panels convened on September 24, 2021, by the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center.
Is the U.S. Constitution Up to the Task of Preserving American Democracy?
Panel discussion, September 9, 2021, convened by the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center.
"On Tyranny" Youtube series by Yale History Professor Timothy Snyder
More lessons are available - see the official Youtube series site for the full list.
OTHER RESOURCES
Web site: "What if Trump Wins?", a project of Choose Democracy, 2024.
Web site: "The Landscape of Election Denial in America", a project of States United Action.
Slide deck: "Election Subversion and the Threat to US Democracy" (revised version), talk given to Indivisible San Jose, Feb. 12, 2022
Slide deck: "Election Subversion and the Threat to US Democracy", talk given to Indivisible South Peninsula, Jan. 5, 2022. The recording of the talk is linked from the Videos section above.
Hold the Line and the Hold the Line Guide
"Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy was developed to help people organize and ensure that the 2020 election was free and fair, and that the results were upheld."