Election Defense Scenarios is a field guide for protecting democracy. This resource walks readers through eighteen detailed scenarios — from voter roll purges and redistricting attacks to armed intimidation at polling places and post-election certification battles — giving organizers, poll workers, community leaders, and everyday citizens the knowledge they need before a crisis hits. Each […]
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Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy
A practical guide for organizers, communities, and individuals defending democracy.
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The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy
Abstract The Dispersion of Power is an urgent call to rethink centuries of conventional wisdom about what democracy is, why it matters, and how to make it better. Drawing from history, social science, psychology, and critical theory, it explains why elections do not and cannot realize the classic ideal of popular rule, and why prevailing strategies of democratic reform often make things worse. Instead, Bagg argues, we should see democracy as a way of protecting public power from capture—an alternative vision that is at once more realistic and more inspiring. Despite their many shortcomings, real-world elections do prevent the most extreme forms of tyranny, and are therefore indispensable. In dealing with the vast inequalities that remain, however, we cannot rely on standard solutions such as electoral reform, direct democracy, deliberation, and participatory governance. Instead, Bagg shows, protecting and enriching democracy requires addressing underlying inequalities of power directly. In part, this entails substantive policies attacking the advantages of wealthy elites. Even more crucially, deepening democracy requires the organization of oppositional, countervailing power among ordinary people. Neither task is easy, but historical precedents exist in both cases—and if democracy is to survive contemporary crises, leaders and citizens alike must find ways to revive and reinvent these essential democratic practices for the twenty-first century.
Cambridge Analytica and the end of elections
The latest Cambridge Analytica leaks show just how compromised voting - one of the pillars of democracy - has become.
Reimagining American Elections to Combat Gerrymandering
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Simulating Aggregate Electoral Opinion Trajectories with LLM Personas and Media Exposure
LLM-based election simulation has largely been evaluated against a single final outcome, in many cases neglecting how much it can recover the trajectory shaped by media exposure and shifting candidate support. We propose evaluating election simulations in terms of trajectory fidelity: whether persona-conditioned LLM agents can update their beliefs in response to media to reproduce the temporal movement of public opinion, both in aggregate and across demographic subgroups. We design a framework in which each LLM agent carries its belief across time and updates it as new campaign information arrives. We further investigate how performance can vary across simulation design choices such as media exposure model, election context, and survey questionnaire. In a study on the 2026 Seoul mayoral and local elections, we validate simulated trajectories against weekly public-opinion polls and find that simulations that carry prior beliefs across time—rather than simulating each poll date independently—substantially improves alignment with observed polling movement, while the way media exposure is personalized leaves aggregate movement largely intact but reshapes subgroup-level dynamics. We propose a framework for validating simulated opinion trajectories against real-world traces, and discuss the simulation design choices that can influence the performance.
Opinion | This Is What Will Ruin Public Opinion Polling for Good
Instead of navigating the obstacles to conduct polls with human respondents, pollsters are running A.I. simulations instead. Why?
Recent Utah, Texas incidents fuel rumors and political narratives undermining trust in election integrity
A CIP Election Rumor Rundown
On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former White House senior advisor, a deeply reported manual for how individuals can resist America's slide away from democracy, based on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across the world. The United States has crossed into a new and unfamiliar realm--one in which daring to challenge the state carries real danger. Ordinary Americans now face a government that feels more like foreign autocracies, with a White House stretching the powers of the presidency beyond recognition. The sitting president wields fear as a weapon, punishes political enemies, intimidates sitting members of Congress, bends private businesses to his will, and disappears student protesters off the streets. Based on their acclaimed The New Yorker essay "So You Want to Be a Dissident: A Practical Guide to Courage in Trump's Age of Fear," Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin and former White House senior advisor Ami Fields-Meyer deliver a guide to courage in America's age of fear. On Courage is a captivating collection of stories and lessons from the front lines of the fight for the future of the free world that invite action and rouse hope. Step into the room where the world's new dissidents--ordinary people, in the U.S. and around the world, who never aspired to be activists--are writing the playbook for courage, risk, and resistance in the age of authoritarianism and unprecedented digital surveillance. On Courage simplifies the calculus of activism by making more accessible than ever the fundamentals of taking political risk. It's a handbook that is equal parts practical and spiritual, a valuable resource and a powerful message for anyone, anywhere, who feels the walls of history closing in on them.
Election 2026 — Boulder Colorado Voter Guide
Boulder Colorado Voter Guide from Eric Budd covers 2026 Boulder City Council candidates — Colorado, Boulder County, and City of Boulder ballot issues, candidates, and judicial retention questions
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It's Safer in the Front
Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is not always the most effective strategy.
PR Library: How Proportional Representation Would Finally Solve Our Redistricting and Gerrymandering Problems - FairVote
By Douglas J. AmyDepartment of PoliticsMount Holyoke College This piece is part of the Proportional Representation Library. (This piece is...
