Enhancing Congressional Capacity
At Protect Democracy, we believe that strengthening Congress is key to strengthening American democracy.
November 4, 2021
There’s just one Department of Homeland Security. So why does it have so many bosses in Congress?
Why is congressional oversight of DHS so convoluted? How does this affect the bureaucratic functions of the department? And why hasn’t this situation changed?
October 21, 2021
Weisenbach v. Project Veritas et al.
Protect Democracy, represents Erie, Pennsylvania postmaster Robert Weisenbach in a defamation lawsuit against Project Veritas and others.
August 13, 2021
Can Democracy Survive Racism as a Strategy?
As a practical matter, at the present moment the survival of democracy in the United States hinges upon the electoral success of the Democratic Party.
July 9, 2021
Partisan Election Review Efforts in Five States
The reviews, both proposed and ongoing, fail to satisfy basic security, accuracy, and reliability measures.
July 8, 2021
Preventing efforts to interfere with and weaponize federal law enforcement
From his earliest days in office, Trump sought to bring the Department of Justice and FBI under his complete control in order to be able to run a similar play in 2020.
July 4, 2021
The National Task Force on Election Crises
The Task Force played a crucial role in protecting the 2020 election by successfully executing a five-pronged strategy.
July 4, 2021
VoteShield and BallotShield
To address the threat of voter file interference, we built VoteShield, a data analytics tool created to protect the integrity of American elections.
July 4, 2021
Revitalizing the Ku Klux Klan Act to Protect Voters
The Klan Act has been used more and more frequently in recent years in situations core to the reasons it was first enacted.
July 4, 2021
Pushing Back on Sham Election Reviews
Extreme factions in key states are using legislatures as laboratories of authoritarianism, systematically undermining the basic principle that voters, not politicians, should decide elections.
June 29, 2021