About: Protect Democracy

Protect Democracy is a nonprofit organization based in the United States. A nonpartisan group, Protect Democracy seeks to check authoritarian attacks on U.S. democracy. The group states that it seeks to counter the politicization of independent institutions, the spreading of disinformation, the corruption of elections, and other anti-democratic tactics. The group has released "The Authoritarian Playbook," a media guide for how to distinguish authoritarianism from other forms of politics. It has also issued reports and policy proposals examining the links between anti-democratic extremism and the U.S. electoral system.