A President Or An Autocrat In The Making?

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Just days after taking the presidential oath of office and swearing to “faithfully execute” his office and “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution, Donald Trump […]

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50+ Civil & Human Rights Organizations, Including D21, Urge Senators To Oppose Kash Patel’s Nomination To Lead FBI

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Ahead of Friday’s Senate confirmation hearing on Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, 58 civil and human rights organizations, including Democracy 21, have urged […]

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D21 President Fred Wertheimer To Receive The Prestigious Paul H. Douglas Award For Ethics In Government

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Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer has been awarded the 2025 Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government. The prestigious award is given annually by […]

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Trump 2.0 — “Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss.”

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Some people seem to be giving President Donald Trump a pass these days. As he himself recently noted: “In the first term everybody was fighting […]

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Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons & Commutations Are A National Disgrace

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Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer President Donald Trump’s pardons and commuting of sentences today of convicted criminals who carried out the January 6 […]

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Mr. Super Rich Goes To Washington

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In the 1939 movie Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Jimmy Stewart, as newly appointed Sen. Jefferson Smith, arrives in Washington to fight against government corruption. In […]

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Trump Can’t Rewrite History, No Matter How Hard He Tries

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“Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note” is coming out on Tuesday instead of Thursday this week, out of respect for President Jimmy Carter, whose state funeral will […]

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