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Our Impact

A winning track record

We know how to push back against authoritarians. Our litigation, advocacy, tech solutions, coalition-building, and communications have led experts to call us an “absolutely essential institution.”

At A Glance

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How the Trump administration plans to interfere with the 2026 elections

We’re briefing major groups within faith, business, veterans, public health, and other sectors so that millions of constituents know about the Trump administration’s plan to subvert the midterms.

DHS’s Home Entry Memo violates the constitutional rights of immigrants and citizens alike

We filed a lawsuit against ICE and DHS on behalf of immigrants and U.S. citizens who have had their Fourth Amendment rights violated by DHS’s secret warrantless home entry memo.

Federal agents can’t be sued, but one law could change that 

We are working with legislators in a number of states on legislation that would allow people to sue any official — federal, state, or local — who violates their constitutional rights.

Virginia Readmission Act litigation

In our lawsuit challenging Virginia’s racially-motivated felony disenfranchisement law, a federal court paved the way for hundreds of thousands of Virginians to have their voting rights restored.

Litigating

Suing to stop abuses

Stopping election subversion

After the losing candidate in a North Carolina election tried to subvert the results, we filed a lawsuit that helped prompt a federal judge to require the certification of the lawful outcome.

Restoring Congressionally-mandated funding

We partnered with other organizations and individual citizens to sue the Office of Management and Budget to restore funds that Congress mandated for critical education services.

Holding leaders accountable for election lies

A federal jury awarded our clients, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, $148,169,000 in damages in a lawsuit we brought on their behalf against Rudy Giuliani after he falsely accused them of election fraud.

Protecting voter data

We worked with partner organizations to sue DOJ on behalf of voters whose states have voluntarily turned over data to the federal government as part of an effort to build a surveil-and-purge database.

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Shaping Policy

Shaping public policy

Protecting election officials in Arizona

In Arizona, we helped craft and coordinate bipartisan support for laws that enhance protections for election officials and provide clear and timely procedures for resolving election disputes.

Preventing voter intimidation in Minnesota

In Minnesota, we provided testimony and technical assistance on provisions enacted to enhance protections for election workers, and wrote the blueprint for a bill that prevents voter intimidation.

Prohibiting firearms at polling places in Michigan

In Michigan, we organized business leaders to support a constitutional amendment that has led to a prohibition on firearms at polling places, and helped enact a bill to fortify state elections.

Disclosing AI-generated campaign content in Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, we were the leading non-governmental actor behind legislation which requires campaign advertisements using AI-generated audio or video to disclose the content as AI-generated.

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Creating New Tools

Using tech expertise to create new tools

Supporting election administrators

We built VoteShield, an election monitoring software that supports election administrators of all parties by using data analysis to protect 167 million public voter records across 26 states.

Tracking government spending

We created OpenOMB, a website that makes it easier for journalists, members of Congress, NGOs, and the public to assess whether the White House is following or flouting spending laws.

Checking AI threats to democracy

We launched the AI for Democracy Action Lab to incubate AI-enabled civic tools and develop policy and governance solutions to check AI-enhanced threats.

Following changes to the civil service

We created The Civil Service Archive, a website which tracks all of the changes being made to the federal bureaucracy under the Trump administration.

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Assembling Coalitions

Assembling broad coalitions

Pushing back on government chilling of press freedoms

We supported a bipartisan coalition of former FCC chairs and commissioners in filing a petition calling on the FCC to rescind a rule that has increasingly been weaponized to chill press freedom.

Convening cross-partisan election experts

The National Task Force on Election Crises that we convened in 2019 has served as a cross-ideological resource for hundreds of media outlets and has been credited for protecting a free, fair process.

Forging partnerships between election officials and law enforcement

We co-created the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections to forge partnerships between election officials and law enforcement. CSSE has hosted 150 trainings and tabletop exercises in 35 states.

Pushing back on domestic deployments

We represented a group of former service secretaries and retired four-star admirals and generals in filing amicus briefs to repeatedly condemn the deployment of the National Guard to American cities.

Educating & Engaging

Educating and engaging

Preparing nonprofits for government investigations

We distributed this primer to orient civil society organizations to the risks posed by politicized government investigations and to help them identify concrete actions they can take to prepare.

Exploring the impact of proportional representation

We collaborated with Democracy Fund to publish a symposium issue of Democracy Journal, assembling over a dozen leading scholars to explore the prospect of proportional representation in America.

Explaining the threat to the 2026 midterms

We published an update to our 2026 election interference report so that the constituencies we brief and convene have the latest information about how, the Trump administration has been acting to interfere with the midterms.

Helping Gen Z understand the midterms

We developed a toolkit for Gen Z designed to help them understand the threats to the midterm elections, and the unique role they play in forging a path forward for democracy.

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What People Are Saying

Disrupting the cycle of authoritarianism starts here

Through litigation, advocacy, and technology solutions, our team is challenging the Trump administration’s abuses of power and working to build a more resilient democracy.

Our Strategy