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Community Voices: Getting rid of democracy will only make things worse - The Bakersfield Californian
- In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission - Democracy Docket - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- What the World Cup Teaches Us About Democracy: Finding Unity Across Differences in the Classroom - The Fulcrum - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- Democracy works best when everyone is heard; homeless situation; no point in voting (Letters) - Daily Camera - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- Trump DOJ to target Democratic strongholds for election monitoring: The more eyes on elections the better - Democracy Docket - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- Trump DOJ threatens election officials with criminal prosecution over noncitizen voting - Democracy Docket - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- Democracy | Proof Through the Night: Driving America and Scaling Walls on America 250 - Mississippi Free Press - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- Trump fired the entire Election Administration Commission. Now what? - Democracy Docket - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- Federal judges take a bus tour to spread the message of democracy to communities - USA Today - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- Its threats, its intimidation: Nevada secretary of state slams Trump DOJ letters targeting election officials over noncitizen voting - Democracy... - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- This Week in Democracy Week 77: ICE Kills Again, White Supremacists Descend on DC, and Trump Wants Birthright Citizenship Case Reheard - Zeteo - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- Letter to the Editor | Chuck Putney: The beacon of democracy - Bennington Banner - July 11th, 2026 [July 11th, 2026]
- The Supreme Court Is Imposing a New Kind of Democracy. Its a Scam. - Slate Magazine - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- The Supreme Courts Continuing Role in Undermining American Democracy: The 20252026 Term in Review - Center for American Progress - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Democracy has a participation problem. AI may help solve it. - FIRE | Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Too Many Pro-Democracy Groups Are Weakening the Cause - Yale Insights - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Recording of the webinar with Stephan Lewandowsky: Is the Internet compatible with democracy? - EDMO.eu - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Envisioning Federal Scientific Integrity As a Tool to Protect Democracy and Fight Corruption - | Knight First Amendment Institute - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Democracy Is the Unfinished Work - Ford Foundation - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Trump is a danger to US democracy. But the resistance is working | Kenneth Roth - The Guardian - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- UC Berkeley will launch new Nancy Pelosi Institute focused on strengthening democracy - University of California, Berkeley - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Flowers: Of democracy, independence and birthright citizensh... - seMissourian - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Historian reflects on 250 years of American democracy, political crisis and reinvention - WBUR - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- U.S. democracy wasnt inevitable neither is 250 more years - The Japan Times - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Tech, Power, and the Struggle for American Democracy - Tech Policy Press - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Iran Fires on Two Ships in Strait of Hormuz as Trump Threatens to Finish the Job - Democracy Now! - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Venezuelans apply the social media savvy that pushed democracy in 2024 to a disaster in 2026 - WLRN - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Langston Hughes Saw Democracy As Something We Owe One Another - Forbes - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- 1776 Against 1787: Constituent Power and the Forgotten Meaning of American Democracy - Pressenza - International Press Agency - July 7th, 2026 [July 7th, 2026]
- Democracy under assault from significant third parties at 2025 federal election, parliamentary inquiry finds - The Guardian - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Between the Vote and the Street: Rethinking Democracy in East Africa - Kettering Foundation - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- The Ranked Ballot Is the Pro-Women, Pro-Voter, Pro-Democracy Reform America Needs - Ms. Magazine - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Experiencing Democracy in the Classroom - Education Next - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- 250 years in, ASU experts weigh in on evolving democracy in America - ASU News - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Americas 250th anniversary is also a test for Western democracy - Decode39 - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Opinion: 250th anniversary a time to celebrate the sacred messiness of democracy - ASU News - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- The Founders Never Meant the US to Be a Democracy - Jacobin - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- African Union's Role in Elections: Promoting Democracy or Whitewashing Illegitimacy? - Amani Africa - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Nancy Pelosi Is the Wrong Namesake for Berkeley's 'Institute for Representative Democracy' - Reason Magazine - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Venezuelas interim regime is using the earthquakes to bury democracy - The Hill - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Democracy is alive and well on the Upper West Side: Voters in Morningside Heights cast their votes on Election Day - Columbia Daily Spectator - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Defenders of Democracy: The Thin Blue Line - THIRTEEN - New York Public Media - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Trojan trap of the National Endowment for Democracy: unmasking its hypocrisy - Global Times - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Legislation to Freeze the Arrest of Haredi Draft Evaders - The Israel Democracy Institute - July 1st, 2026 [July 1st, 2026]
- Drake University Appoints Jessica Vanden Berg as Executive Director of the Olson Institute for Public Democracy - Drake University Newsroom - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- Sing Democracy 250: A Musical Reflection on Americas History and a Call to Citizenship - Kettering Foundation - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- The Floor Was Always Ours: Ballroom, Belonging, and the Democracy We Built Before They Let Us In - Nonprofit Quarterly - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- Congress Directs Trump to End U.S. War on Iran - Democracy Now! - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- In big win for voters, court permanently blocks key parts of Trumps first anti-voting executive order - Democracy Docket - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- Second Nature: Elliot Page on New Film Exploring Animal World Beyond the Binary - Democracy Now! - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- Food AND Medicine Members Went to Workers Revive Democracy Jobs with Justice National Conference - Maine AFL-CIO - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- Ousted Dan Goldman warns antisemitism will be undoing of our democracy - Jewish Insider - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- LAZARRE: Who Is Pro-Democracy Content Actually Reaching? - The Washington Informer - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- Remembering Ahmed Wishah, the Latest Palestinian Journalist Killed by Israel in Gaza - Democracy Now! - June 24th, 2026 [June 24th, 2026]
- Trump weaponized the government against American democracy: Dem blasts GOP for spooking voters - MS NOW - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- The people in this room are the backbone of our democracy. 67 complete state elections training. - Rhode Island Current - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Tang Wing for American Democracy Opens on Eve of USA's 250th - World-Architects - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Ben Wikler: My state was a democracy desert. This is how we turned it around. - WisPolitics - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Democracy, the Military, and Americas Future: A Conversation with Admiral McRaven - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Shared Stewardship: How We Build a Thriving Democracy Together - The Fulcrum - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Letters to the Editor: Preserve a healthy Cubberley, protect democracy, support housing near transit - Palo Alto Online - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- At Atlanta church, Ossoff casts Senate race as test of faith, character and democracy: "Georgia's spirit of tolerance will overwhelm and defeat... - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Walt Whitman Saw New York as Key to the Future of Democracy in his Publications Celebrating Americas Centennial. What Would He Make of the US at 250?... - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- What the Knicks and a White House UFC Spectacles Reveal About Ritual and Power in Today's American Democracy - ZME Science - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- For Imre Huss, Fixing Democracy Starts With Talking to a Stranger - The Fulcrum - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Why Somaliland needs democracy more than ever? - The Times of Israel - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Threats to UK democracy: Disinformation, foreign interference and declining public trust - House of Lords Library - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- On the Necessity of a Political Parties Law as a Prelude to Democracy in Syria - The Syrian Observer - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Video: The Democracy of The Dive Bar - The New York Times - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Top Grants, Fellowships and Research Opportunities for Democracy and Governance - fundsforNGOs - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- First-Time Voters Ahead of the 26th Knesset Elections - The Israel Democracy Institute - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Opinion: IRIS, ACLU and LWV unite in Connecticut to shield democracy - CT Insider - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- UKs tech strategy failure is a threat to democracy, experts - Computing UK - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- Procedural Justice Sustaining Sports and Democracy - - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- GUEST VIEWPOINT: There is no democracy without journalism - dailyrecordnews.com - June 22nd, 2026 [June 22nd, 2026]
- The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman - The Guardian - June 17th, 2026 [June 17th, 2026]
- Georgia Republicans backtracked on gerrymandering because they feared a showdown over Black voting rights - Democracy Docket - June 17th, 2026 [June 17th, 2026]
- Europes fractured politics and what they reveal about democracy - Brookings - June 17th, 2026 [June 17th, 2026]
- Two Declarations, One Democracy: On Freedom, Exclusion, and the American Project - Nonprofit Quarterly - June 17th, 2026 [June 17th, 2026]
- Democracy needs more than just opinions - EBU - June 17th, 2026 [June 17th, 2026]
- Defending Democracy in the 2026 Midterms: What Public Health Needs to Know - American Public Health Association - June 17th, 2026 [June 17th, 2026]