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…Corp., Justice & Public Safety, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democracy PAC, and Forward Majority Action, to name just a few (each with multimillion-dollar budgets). Notably, the first iteration of Democracy…

…the organization’s warped view of “protecting our democracy.” In an executive summary, the organization claims a “specific agenda” to tackle “systemic racism” and “repair American democracy” by limiting voter ID…

…to preserve dictatorships, rather than promoting democracy in the Middle East? As Cruz pointed out, the choice is almost never between “democracy” or “preserving” dictators, but rather living with the…

Three prominent leaders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement were sentenced to prison this week for leading a protest last year. Joshua Wong received 13 and a half months; Agnes Chow,…

…a brief to disenfranchise millions of Americans, baselessly challenging Biden’s electors) … Simply put: We need to shore up democracy.” To be sure, by “shore up democracy,” Rubin means for…

…political ravings. With the election of Trump, the paranoid style of politics threatens to subsume more normal opposition from the Left as members of the “Resistance” act as though the…

…the various, very serious threats to American democracy, things would *mostly* be fine if the balance of elected power more closely reflected the popular will (e.g. Senate seats proportional to…

…in fact, that helped me last week.” He called out the media and Democrats for painting him as a “threat to democracy.” “What did I do to democracy?” Trump said….

…new rules to the maximum extent. The reality is that those skeptical about the integrity in our brave new election world are not a “threat to democracy.” They are defenders…

…his allies, whom they believed to be a threat to democracy itself. “Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and…

…run mostly on abortion extremism and hysterical fearmongering about “threats to democracy” — issues that appeal to a rather narrow, left-wing slice of the American electorate that already reliably votes Democratic?…

…keep a lid on the Islamist radical threat rather than overthrowing them and having to deal with the threat ourselves. The larger threat: radical Islamists of both the Shia and…

…crackdown of Hong Kong demonstrates once again, China is no closer to democracy today than it was in 1989 when tanks confronted pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. It remains an…

…to “catch this threat” of the “right.”  “Are you going to catch this threat if your focus is only on the traditional, right-wing extremist, those groups that we know about,…

…that led to a swarm of death threats against board members. The Post’s original report falsely accused the board of cruelly pulling the Waukesha School District out of the federal…

…say, “Well, it’s a threat to our national security.” That’s a conclusion. The debate has to be: Are they a threat to our national security? Our national security doesn’t have…

…federal government’s “perspective” of “threatening circumstances.” Absent that lived experience, it might have been possible to imagine the government would only solicit Big Tech’s cooperation when truly faced with “threatening…

…bomb threat is apparently the same as threats by lawmakers to defund the obviously corrupt investigation of former President Donald Trump by DOJ special counsel Jack Smith. Garland then says…

…values. 3- Authoritarianism is often more popular than freedom. 4 – Democracy and liberalism are not the same. (I argue this point – not coincidentally! — in detail in my…

In a strong show of support for the pro-democracy movement, more than 600,000 people voted in the Hong Kong opposition’s unofficial primary elections. Now, Beijing has declared the primaries illegal…

…for the defenders of democracy.  Democracy’s ‘Backup?’ The States United Democracy Center also launched in 2020 as the Voter Protection Program. It was “founded as one of many organizing coalitions…

…apparatus conspiring with Big Tech to suppress information, go touch grass. What matters is “democracy.” The left’s constant subversion and erosion of democratic norms don’t matter. Because “democracy” just means…

…criminal division of the DOJ, claimed the agency’s Election Threats Task Force — which was launched in July 2021 to address this alleged “rise in threats” against election workers —…

…of Americans, which of course the White House and intelligence agencies oppose. All of it just goes to show that the most serious threat facing America isn’t Russian nukes in…

…U.S. military intervention to bring about regime change in Venezuela. Ignoring the predictable response to our threats, Bolton responded to the Russian troops by claiming they pose “a direct threat…

…threats to various students or faculty of bringing a gun or bomb to school. While schools beefed up their security or kept students away, many students who made threats were…

…self-government is effectively dead even if the rituals are still observed. Because self-government is distinct from its institutional embodiments, a government can undermine the substance of democracy even while retaining…

…another administration is sworn in. Is Our Democracy at Stake, or Just Left-Wing Policies? “Our very democracy is on the line,” Warren said in her speech. Neera Tanden, CEO of…

…non-governmental organizations pushing the disinformation narrative are uniformly directed and run by former government employees, left-wing media types, and left-leaning or anti-Trump individuals. Alliance Securing Democracy Of the think tanks…

…talk about “threats to democracy.” They don’t care about democracy, they care about power. And they will use every ounce of it they have to advance their policies — the…

…thinking on the matter of “semi-fascism” when he gives a prime-time speech about threats to our “democracy” this Thursday—a week after he broke millions of existing contracts and unilaterally “forgave”…

Georgia has partnered with an absentee ballot tracking service backed by Democracy Works, an organization that is funded by left-wing groups including Democracy Fund. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced…

…or to which it aspires. In fact, the religious component takes primacy in the region. In “Democracy In Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed,” Misagh Parsa quotes…

…mobilized masses in an unprecedented manner. Significantly, the authoritarian regimes that supplanted democracy craftily used and abused democratic freedoms and institutions in order to abolish democracy itself. The National Socialists,…

…Kyi and other democratically elected political leaders. Only a decade ago, Myanmar’s transition from military dictatorship to democracy was celebrated as one of President Obama’s foreign policy accomplishments. Now, the…

…record high, cast votes in last weekend’s local district elections. After the 2015 election, all district councils were under the control of pro-Beijing candidates. This time, the pro-democracy side gained…