Amee Vanderpool

The size of the Right Wing and far right media ecosystem has grown in size, power, and its willingness to disregard facts, outright lie, foment conspiracy theories, and abandon all integrity. The goals now are power, influence, and money - democracy be damned.

Hellscape Christian Nationalist plan to be enacted if Trump's wins in 2024. Backed by the right-wing extremist Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is an authoritarian Christian nationalist movement with 900+ pages of detailed plans to turn America into an autocracy. Legal experts state clearly that it would undermine the rule of law and the separation of powers - and the Heritage Foundation, Trump, and their ilk have no problem with that because this is precisely what they want to accomplish.

Twice-impeached 45th POTUS and wannabe authoritarian dictator who orchestrated a violent insurrection to overthrow the US Government in order to remain president despite losing re-election to Joseph R. Biden by 7,059,547 votes.

Matt Gaetz, American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives, elected representative for Florida's 1st congressional district

The 60th quadrennial presidential election, scheduled for Tuesday, November 5, 2024, is considered to be the most consequential election of our lifetimes where Americans will have the opportunity to protect democracy and democratic norms from extreme right-wing policies, racial violence and growing threat of authoritarianism by Republicans.

One of the great threats to our democracy planned the end of the American Experiment from behind the Resolute Desk. Never again.

Some say fever dream. Others say inevitable. We say, no democracy can survive without accountability mete out through the rule of law, and its equal application regardless of status, power, or position. The threat of the GOP's fascistic authoritarian movement increases with the belief that there is no accountability for people at the top.