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United to Preserve Democracy

United to Preserve Democracy

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The United to Preserve Democracy & the Rule of Law speaker series is a nonpartisan initiative that brings together experts on American history, economics, political science, global affairs, and the U.S. Constitution to raise public awareness about the historic anti-democratic threat facing the United States. The program is sponsored by democracyFIRST.

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Episodes
  • Benjamin Carter Hett on "The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power"
    Mar 6 2025

    Historian Benjamin Carter Hett and author of "The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic," is a leading expert on fascism, the alarmingly rapid decline of German democracy, and Hitler's rise to power. In this video, he discusses the future of American Democracy and the lessons we can learn from history.

    Join us for an insightful conversation on democracy, the rule of law, and the future of America! This event, hosted by United to Preserve Democracy and the Rule of Law, features a discussion between Benjamin Carter Hett and democracyFIRST Executive Director, Jordan Wood. 🔍 What You’ll Learn: ✅ The biggest threats to democracy in the U.S. and globally ✅ How history helps us understand modern democratic decline ✅ What Americans can do to protect democracy and the rule of law

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    43 mins
  • Sen. Jeremy Moss & Constitutional Scholar Richard Primus
    Feb 7 2025

    Richard Primus works with constitutional law on the state level as well as the federal level. He has helped state governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, His writing has appeared in many leading law reviews as well as in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Politico, The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. Opinions of the justices of the US Supreme Court have cited his scholarship.

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    1 hr
  • "How Democracies Die: A Discussion with Daniel Ziblatt & Conor Lamb"
    Jan 28 2025

    The United to Preserve to Democracy and the Rule of Law speaker series event is a conversation with Harvard Professor Daniel Ziblatt and former Pennsylvania Congressman Conor Lamb. The event is co-sponsored by DemocracyFIRST and was recorded in Harrisburg, PA.

    Daniel Ziblatt is a historian, expert on democracy, and the author of four books, including How Democracies Die (2018), co-authored with Steven Levitsky, a New York Times best-seller and described by The Economist magazine as “the most important book of the Trump era.” In 2023, he published Tyranny of the Minority, also with Steve Levitsky. The book is an analysis of American democracy in comparative perspective, also a New York Times bestseller.

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    33 mins
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