Leading thinkers and hundreds of Americans from across the ideological spectrum came together for a day-long summit, Autocracy in America: A Warning and A Response to address the urgent need to focus on the autocratic threat to our nation. We are all motivated by our shared confidence in the American experiment, and in the capacity of the American people, to transcend this challenge as they have transcended others throughout history.

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The event was co-hosted by: Democracy Defenders Action, Principles First, Democracy Forward, and The American Autocracy Threat Tracker, in partnership with convening co-chairs Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Ty Cobb, Norm Eisen, Bill Kristol, Heath Mayo, and Skye Perryman.

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Coming out of the conference, co-hosts, partners and others have signed on to 10 principles that guide our shared cross-partisan alternative vision of where we want to take our country in 2025 and beyond. View the Freedom 2025 – 10 Principles.