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• Democracy Playbook 2025 | Brookings

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  Norm Eisen and Jonathan Katz provide actionable steps for democratic actors in the U.S. and globally to strengthen democratic institutions and resist illiberal forces.

• We've Got to Try

  How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible

  O'Rourke, Beto,

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  In We’ve Got To Try, O’Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and the west Texas town where he made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tyranny of the Minority

  Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

  Levitsky, Steven,

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  With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, "How Democracies Die," a global bestseller, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent framework for understanding these volatile times. They draw on a wealth of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disproven

  My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data That Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections

  Block, Ken,

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  If you value the integrity of our elections—or want a behind-the-scenes look at an attempt at overturning one—Disproven by Ken Block takes you out of the voting booth and into the chaos that was the attempt to challenge the results of the 2020 U.S.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• America's Deadliest Election

  the Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History

  Bash, Dana,

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  From CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana—and changed the course of politics in our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unthinkable

  Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

  Raskin, Jamin B.,

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• The Big Lie

  Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020

  Lemire, Jonathan, 1979-

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  Jonathan Lemire uncovers that “The Big Lie,” as it’s been termed, isn’t just about the 2020 election. It's become a political philosophy that has only further divided the two parties. Donald Trump first tried it out in 2016, at an August rally in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Unfinished March

  the Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-- a History, a Crisis, a Plan

  Holder, Eric H., 1951-

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  America is a fragile democracy, Eric Holder argues, whose citizens have only had unfettered access to the ballot since the 1960s. He takes readers through three dramatic stories of how the vote was won: first by white men, through violence and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What You Need to Know About Voting and Why

  Wehle, Kim,

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  Want to change the world? The first step is to exercise your right to vote! In this step by step guide, you can learn everything you need to know. In "What You Need to Know About Voting—and Why," law professor and constitutional scholar Kimberly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Electable

  Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House... Yet

  Vitali, Ali,

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  Following the 2020 race minute by minute as the reporter embedded with Elizabeth Warren, Ali Vitali witnessed up-close the way that our most recent election was unique—not simply for the way in which the incumbent conducted himself, but for the ways…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Person, One Vote

  a Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America

  Seabrook, Nick,

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  Nick Seabrook, an authority on constitutional and election law and an expert on gerrymandering (pronounced with a hard G!), has written an illuminating, urgently needed book on how our elections have been rigged through redistricting, beginning with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Midnight in Washington

  How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

  Schiff, Adam B.,

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  In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Person, No Vote

  How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally

  Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine),

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  Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Democracy in One Book or Less

  How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think

  Litt, David,

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  Poking into forgotten corners of history, translating political science into plain English, and traveling the country to meet experts and activists, Litt explains how the world's greatest experiment in democracy went awry. (He also tries to crash a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Democracies Die

  Levitsky, Steven,

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  Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nervous States

  Democracy and the Decline of Reason

  Davies, William, 1976-

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  The University of London political economist draws on four hundred years of history to examine the systematic discrediting of scientists and experts by a modern public that disregards objective facts in favor of emotions, particularly fear and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fault Lines in the Constitution

  the Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today

  Levinson, Cynthia,

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  Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution. Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Democracy in Black

  How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

  Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-

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  Part manifesto, part history, part memoir, it argues that we live in a country founded on a "value gap"--with white lives valued more than others--that still distorts our politics today. Whether discussing why all Americans have racial habits that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Democracy for Realists

  Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

  Achen, Christopher H.,

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  Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for

  Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-

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  "Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2011, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues for the importance of self-cultivation in pursuit of justice as a critical feature of Black politics, what Eddie S. Glaude Jr. calls…Read moreRead more of this annotation