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Since January 2025, independent researchers and global democracy watchdogs have documented an unprecedented erosion of American democratic institutions — and are now asking a question the Founders never wanted asked lightly: does systematically dismantling the constitutional order constitute treason?

Voting under threat is real. Here's how you can help protect it. If you've been watching the news, you know the 2026 midterms are shaping up to be unlike any in recent memory. Steve Bannon has publicly called for IÇE agents to "surround the polls." †rump officials have refused to explicitly rule it out. IÇE has been deployed to airports, and with Bannon openly describing it as a "test run" for Election Day. Whether or not IÇE actually shows up at polling places, the threat it

"We're the only country that does mail-in voting. Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating." — DONALD TRUMP, MEMPHIS CRIME ROUNDTABLE, MARCH 23, 2026 ⚠ FALSE

In 2012, a small group of political scientists at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden set out to build the most rigorous global dataset on democracy ever constructed. They called it the Varieties of Democracy Institute, or V-Dem. At the time, global democracy was near its historic peak. Their colleagues called them alarmists. The data, they said, was exaggerating the risk. Democracy was fine. The data was not exaggerating.

Sixteen days into an unauthorized war with no exit strategy, 200+ U.S. troops injured across seven countries, oil at $105 a barrel, every major ally refusing to help — and a president who says he might bomb Iran "just for fun" and wants to "take Cuba." The 25th Amendment was written for exactly this moment. Here is the case, the process, and exactly what you can do today.