We stand with former FBI Director and Kettering Foundation Senior Fellow James @Comey and his family. And we stand for a Department of Justice that is faithful to the law, not captive to the personal grievances of any president.
KF Senior Fellow @DavidAFrench: "Fascism on the right. Communism on the left. Ancient antisemitic conspiracies seemingly everywhere. Tariffs. War in Europe. Gilded Age corruption. So many bad ideas re-emerging all at once." What is going on?
https://t.co/BTB9r0oE4z
KF Senior Fellow @judgeluttig on the reopening of POTUS' $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS: "As of today, for the first time, I'm prepared to say that Donald Trump has lost his war on the federal judiciary, the Constitution, and the rule of law in America."
https://t.co/UbXDzPwrUs
KF Senior Fellow @DavidAFrench on Real Time w/ @billmaher: "You want to know how to help heal our country? Make a friend." More specifically, make friends inside the communities of people who don't feel they belong here.
“From where we stand now there are two ways forward: one is the self-induced downfall of the American republic; the other is to reconsider American ideals and to restructure American politics so as to bring the people greater power over a more just future.”
KF Senior Fellow @TimothyDSnyder walks through the existing strain on each of 13 traditional bases of state power and considers how the United States measures up today.
https://t.co/fBGZkLxR1s
Catch up on what you missed at the @AoDemocracies Copenhagen Democracy Summit: "Building an Alliance of Democracies in a New World (dis)Order." https://t.co/c6gIt7850s
Next Monday, we’re taking #TheContext podcast live!
Join us and @GroupDemocracy on June 8 for a special live episode taping in Washington, DC, featuring KF Senior Fellow @SarahLongwell25 (@BulwarkOnline).
Free tickets for both the reception and the live recording are going fast: https://t.co/KRT2o2RlCt
“This Medal of Honor is more than a recognition of the past; it is a mandate for our future.” 🏅
KF Senior Fellow María Teresa Kumar shares what the Ellis Island Medal of Honor means to her in a new Substack essay: https://t.co/St3vSENBjQ
"Visibility alone does not guarantee rights, so it has become essential to resist and denounce the lip service to the LGBTQ+ agenda and demand real protections.” https://t.co/0dFzE8LhmR
KF Senior Fellow @BillKristol, editor-at-large of The @BulwarkOnline, joins us to discuss how eroding trust is helping authoritarianism gain ground in America and what that shift means for democracies around the world.
New episode of #TheContext out now: https://t.co/7LRXJjN4Es
We are delighted to share that KF Senior Fellow @JudgeLuttig and Fanning Fellow @JudyWoodruff will be among the panelists celebrating America 250 with the Task Force for American Democracy in a webinar on June 30.
Register now to listen to their discussion of the vision of the Founders and their hope for the future, despite the challenges ahead. https://t.co/sea1G4YNz5
🏳️🌈 Join us on Thursday, June 4, at 7:00 p.m. at the Levitt Pavilion in Downtown Dayton for a free concert featuring Flamy Grant, trailblazing drag queen and musician, as part of the Levitt’s Pride Month Celebration.
We are proud to kick off Pride Month in partnership with the Levitt! https://t.co/bM4Rv4MhPa
He’s calling on leaders to have the courage to confront the growing overlap between church and state—specifically addressing the administration’s overreach concerning Christian nationalism.
https://t.co/qkswRQsMwS
You're invited to the live taping of @KetteringFdn's podcast The Context!
Host Alex Lovit will be joined by Sarah Longwell, publisher of @BulwarkOnline, host of The Focus Group Podcast and senior fellow at the Kettering Foundation.
Details: https://t.co/TaT3ned83q
Step 7 in KF Senior Fellow @StaceyAbrams' 10 Steps to Freedom and Power campaign: Deny. "Denying means staying loud, connected, and making it harder—every single day—for those in power to pretend that what’s happening is normal business."
https://t.co/PB75ADiHw8
By locating and honoring the graves of Revolutionary War veterans, Ohio volunteers are connecting communities to the nation’s founding and showing how ordinary people play a vital role in carrying forward the story of American democracy: https://t.co/TNx5CE3gNj
Next week, @KetteringFdnCEO Sharon L. Davies will be the guest speaker for the June Community Conversation Series held at the Franciscan Center at St. Leonard in Centerville, Ohio.
Attend the free session on “Our Democracy at 250” by reserving your seat at [email protected] or by calling 937.436.2203.
Watch KF David Mathews Democracy Fellow Kathleen Sebelius discuss her work with the Aspen Institute Health Strategy Group, which recently published a report called Meeting the Health Needs of Rural America. Here, she explores bipartisan solutions aimed at fixing rural health care.
https://t.co/fWvuEZV6p0
How do Americans of different ages, political viewpoints, and religious groups compare in terms of their perceptions our democracy?
KF Research Fellow Andrew Whitehead analyzes data from the Kettering-Gallup Democracy for All Project to explore why some Americans hold negative perceptions of democracy: https://t.co/C1b2SGXw99