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Remarks by Timothy E. Wirth, July 2023 Boulder, Colorado Fifty years ago I was first elected to Congress, a beneficiary of voter backlash against the chaos of the previous decade. Our country had just been through a significant stress test: could our governing structures withstand the pressures of an unpopular war, widespread anti-war protests, RFK…

Unconventional Threats to the U.S. Electoral System and the Power of Civic Engagement June 6, 2024 | Deborah McCarthy | Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative Ambassador (Ret.) Deborah McCarthy, a 2020 Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow and current Senior Editor, interviews Mark Medish, co-founder of Keep our Republic, regarding unconventional threats the U.S. Electoral System…

What Might Make Joe Biden Unelectable Is a Very Scary Threat | Opinion May 1, 2023 | Tom Rogers | Newsweek I wrote a piece recently on how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made himself unelectable by doing the politically foolish thing of changing his position on abortion—denying abortion access after six weeks or even earlier.…

Artificial Intelligence Poses a Huge Threat. It's Time to Put a Seatbelt on It | Opinion April 17, 2023 | Tim Wirth, Richard Gephardt, Kerry Healey, and Jonathan M. Winer | Newsweek The 2024 presidential election is rapidly approaching, and we aren't prepared for how new artificial intelligence models will affect our elections. Fake, A.I.…

Democracy Protection Group Outlines “Hyper-localized” 2024 Election Plans April 13, 2023 | Walker Kmetz | The Dickinsonian Keep Our Republic, a non-partisan group organized in 2020 to protect election laws and strengthen the power of checks and balances in the electoral system, hosted a conversation called “Our Fragile Republic — Sounding the Alarm in Defense…

Pennsylvania gets targeted for voter education efforts by bipartisan advocacy group April 3, 2023 | Charles Thompson | Penn Live CARLISLE - A group of folks who’ve benefitted at the highest level from American electoral politics unveiled plans for a new civic education campaign Monday designed to neutralize what they fear will be fresh waves…

Former Gov. Corbett calls for ‘hyper-localized’ dialogue on democracy, civics Corbett said conversations at the local level could be the solution to distrust in elections. April 3, 2023 | Justin Sweitzer | City & State Pennsylvania Speaking Monday during a panel discussion on democracy and civics at Dickinson College, Tom Corbett, who served as Pennsylvania’s…

The Threat of Election Denial Is Still Real—and Very Dangerous February 27, 2023 | Tim Wirth and Tom Rogers | Newsweek A lot was written after the 2022 midterms of how election deniers promulgating the Big Lie were defeated in the major races, depriving the Republicans of a major victory many had wrongly predicted. Certainly…

January 6th Report Exposes Ongoing, Converging Threat of Anti-Democracy Schemes and Paramilitary Violence And Lessons on Where to Go Next January 6, 2023 | Mary B. McCord and Jacob Glick | Just Security Two years ago, when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol and ruptured our country’s tradition of the peaceful transfer of power, images of…

Smerconish.com: The Independent State Doctrine May Soon Be Adopted by the Supreme Court— Frightening! December 6, 2022 | Madame Justice Sandra Schultz Newman and Ari Mittleman | Smerconish After the unrelenting crusade by election deniers to overturn the 2020 election, which reached its low point, if not its end, with the January 6 riot, many…

Supreme Court case on state legislatures could have ‘devastating consequences’ December 5, 2022 | Wilson Huhn & Jonathan Winer | City & State Pennsylvania This week the Supreme Court of the United States is hearing Moore v. Harper, a case with potentially devastating consequences for our democracy. In that case the Court is considering whether…