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Protect Democracy is a legal and advocacy organization focused on democratic norms; tangentially relevant to AI safety through the lens of governance institutions needed to oversee transformative technologies.
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Protect Democracy is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing the United States from sliding into authoritarianism by strengthening democratic institutions, norms, and accountability mechanisms. The organization works through litigation, research, and coalition-building to defend democratic governance against abuses of power.
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- •Nonpartisan nonprofit focused on defending democratic institutions and preventing authoritarian consolidation of power in the U.S.
- •Uses legal, research, and advocacy strategies to hold government accountable and protect democratic norms
- •Works across political lines to build coalitions defending rule of law and checks and balances
- •Relevant to AI governance insofar as democratic institutions are needed to oversee powerful AI systems
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| Entity | Property | Value | As Of |
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| Protect Democracy | employee-count | 100 | 2025 |
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About Us Skip to content Protect Democracy is a cross-ideological nonprofit group dedicated to defeating the authoritarian threat. Our experts use litigation, advocacy, research, and technology to stop the consolidation of power, defend dissent, protect our elections, and build a thriving, multiparty democracy.
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Staff Members
Our staff includes conservatives, moderates and progressives. We are policy experts, lawyers, technologists, system builders, operations experts, legislative advocates, media strategists and more.
Our staff Our staff
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States
Our democracy exists far beyond Washington, D.C. We work across the country to protect our democracy on federal, state, and local levels.
Who we are Who we are
We use diverse expertise and a wide variety of tools to protect our democracy.
We are a public-interest litigation team. Our lawyers use litigation as a tool to defend the rule of law, to deter criminality, to prevent abuses of power, to counter disinformation, and to protect vulnerable communities.
Read more We are a legislative advocacy and policy organization. Our advocates work not only to uphold laws, but also to strengthen them in the face of evolving authoritarian threats. We advance policies to balance institutional power and keep our leaders in check.
Read more We are a nonpartisan research and analysis center. Our experts publish research, analysis, and ideas about how to protect the democracy of today — and how to build the democracy of tomorrow.
Read more We are a strategic communications and coalition partner. Our advocates and communicators work to engage, expand, and mobilize the alliance to protect our democratic form of government.
Read more We are a nonprofit technology startup. Our software team analyzes public data to improve transparency, security, and confidence in elections and leverages cutting-edge technology to support election officials across the country.
Read More mission statement
Our mission is to prevent our democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government.
Our Strategy Our strategy
We work to preserve democracy with a unified and cross-ideological strategy rooted in expertise.
Learn more about our cross-ideological strategy. Learn more about our cross-ideological strategy.
We protect free and fair elections, regardless of who wins. The greatest threat to democracy is a stolen or corrupted election. By protecting democracy at its source — the ballot box — we can guard the cornerstone of self-government.
Read more We stop the consolidation of power in the hands of the authoritarian. In the 21st century, democracies tend to die by the erosion of democratic norms and guardrails rather than at the barrel of a gun. The Constitution gives us tools to keep our leaders in check.
Read more We build pro-democracy collective action. Through collective action, we can resist autocratic tactics designed to force capitulation across a diverse array of se
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