Protect Democracy Project

The Protect Democracy Project (PD), founded in 2017, works to inform Americans of specific threats to their right to free, fair, and fully-informed self-government. It is a nonpartisan nonprofit with an urgent goal: to hold the President and the Executive Branch accountable to the laws and longstanding practices that have protected our democracy through both Democratic and Republican administrations. PD advances its educational mission through monitoring, investigating, public outreach, and when appropriate, litigating against government actions that threaten our democracy and the free, fair, and fully-informed pursuit of self-government.  

The Protect Democracy Project (PD), founded in 2017, works to inform Americans of specific threats to their right to free, fair, and fully informed self-government. It is a nonpartisan nonprofit with an urgent goal: to hold the President and the Executive Branch accountable to the laws and longstanding practices that have protected our democracy through both Democratic and Republican administrations. PD advances its educational mission through monitoring, investigating, public outreach, and when appropriate, litigating against government actions that threaten our democracy and the free, fair, and fully informed pursuit of self-government.

PD works closely with other nonprofits litigating in support of voter rights so that cases are covered. PD has five work streams focused on voting and election integrity: preparing for an electoral crisis (most of this work is complete, given the timing), protecting voter registration databases, preventing new forms of voter suppression, preventing unfair governmental interference, and protecting voting machines. It also is actively preparing for the post-election period (November 4, 2020-January 20, 2021) by creating a group of election validators, which includes faith leaders, athletes, and celebrities. This grant would provide general operating support for PD to pursue its activities.