Press Releases Archive
E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: The Jan. 6 Committee Has A Narrow But Priceless Opening “The task before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol this week is to demonstrate that day’s viciousness was not some spontaneous outbreak of mayhem but an organized, radical, and dangerous assault on […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer One of the greatest dangers facing our democracy today is the systematic poisoning of the integrity of our elections by former President Trump and the unrelenting spread of his Big Lie in our nation. This has led to millions of Americans doubting the honesty of our elections, despite […]
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority sided with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday, ruling that a federal ban on outsiders repaying a candidate’s campaign loan to himself after an election violates the constitutional guarantee of free speech,” National Public Radio correspondent Nina Totenberg reported on Monday. The decision, Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer told NPR, […]
More than 120 civil rights, democracy, and public interest groups, including Democracy 21, called on the major social media companies to combat and curb election disinformation on their platforms ahead of this year’s midterm elections. In a May 12 letter to the CEOs of Meta (Facebook), Twitter, YouTube, Snap, Instagram, TikTok, and Alphabet (Google), the groups urged […]
If Donald Trump is nominated again in 2024, “another attempt at a Trump presidential coup is far more likely to succeed – unless flawed laws, enacted in 1845 and 1887 and still on the books today, are repaired,” Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer warns in a new op-ed published today by Just Security. While most of […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has demonstrated that we need a new word for “chutzpah.” Because “chutzpah” does not even begin to capture the extent of Senator Manchin’s gall in expressing his “concerns” during a Senate hearing last week that there is “a lot of work to do” to […]
“Every piece of evidence that Trump committed a crime should be at the forefront of the hearings.” – D21 President Fred Wertheimer “Our democracy is sleepwalking toward catastrophe,” E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in his new column in The Washington Post. “With the Jan. 6 committee expected to hold hearings soon — in May or early […]
The battle against voter suppression and election sabotage must be fought in the states and local communities, D21 President Fred Wertheimer tells The New Republic “It’s been thoroughly overtaken by events since, but by the time the midterm elections roll around in November, the implications of Congress’s failure to pass democratic reforms this term will […]
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer on Inside America with Ghida Fakhry, TRT World. April 13, 2022.
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer on Background Briefing With Ian Masters on March 31, 2022. (25 minutes)
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