
The Authoritarian Playbook
How reporters can cover and distinguish threats from politics-as-usual
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Aaron Baird is a Communicator for Protect Democracy, where he leads efforts to engage the media on the threat of democratic decline in the United States. He also helps staff the National Task Force on Election Crises, a cross-partisan group of 50+ experts dedicated to ensuring free and fair elections. Before Protect Democracy, Aaron was a senior policy advisor to Rep. Adam Schiff for six years, and helped grow the business side at Quartz, a media startup. He majored in Political Theory at UCLA and earned a masters in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics.
How reporters can cover and distinguish threats from politics-as-usual
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