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2024 Anti-Autocracy Summit

Autocracy in America: A Warning and A Response

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.

2024 Anti-Autocracy Summit

About the Conference

The conference took place on Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at New York University. The co-chairs of the conference were Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Ty Cobb, Norm Eisen, Bill Kristol, Heath Mayo, and Skye Perryman. Confirmed speakers included George Conway, ohn Dean, Charlie Dent, Geoff Duncan, Keith Ellison, David Frum, Nancy Gertner, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Bob Kagan, Dahlia Lithwick, Sarah Longwell, J. Michael Luttig, Joanna Lydgate, Sarah Matthews, Norm Ornstein, Danya Perry, Skye Perryman, Matthew Platkin, Asha Rangappa, Jen Rubin, Olivia Troye, Steve Vladeck, Joe Walsh, and Maya Wiley.

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View the post-conference press release here and our video library below.

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