** Preparing for Upcoming Threats from Authoritarianism, Project 2025, and ALEC in 2026
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We live in an unprecedented time with ongoing threats from corporate and billionaire interests lobbying for laws that concentrate power and wealth, along with a federal government shifting toward authoritarianism through executive overreach and extreme and radical agenda.

Join SiX, the 22nd Century Initiative, the Center for American Progress, and the Center for Media and Democracy to learn and prepare for authoritarian threats from the Trump administration and right-wing special interests pushing to expand Project 2025 and ALEC model legislation. Learn from national thought leaders on what to expect this year and how to prepare for these challenges.

🗓️ Thursday, January 15, 2026

⏰ 3:00 PM ET/ 12:00 PM PT

Please note that this briefing is reserved for state legislators and legislative staff.
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Moderated by:

Georgia State Sen. Kim Jackson

Senior Vice President of Programs, State Innovation Exchange (SiX)

Speakers:

Lisa Graves is the Executive Director of True North Research and co-founded Court Accountability/Action, as well as the President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy and a Trustee for the Park Foundation. In 2011, she launched the award-winning investigation ALECexposed.org, and her research and analysis have been cited in numerous books, TV news programs, podcasts, newspapers, and magazines. Lisa is the author of the new book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.

Tom Moore is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP) and serves on CAP’s Democracy Policy team, focusing on democracy reform and campaign finance. In previous lives, he served as counsel and chief of staff to Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen L. Weintraub and served as a litigator, journalist, and elected local official. He is the architect of CAP’s Corporate Power Reset, which neutralizes Citizens United by redefining corporate powers under state law.

Scot Nakagawa is the co-founder and Executive Director of 22nd Century Initiative. He has served as an organizer, political strategist, and social movement analyst in the struggle against authoritarianism and for equitable and inclusive democracy since 1988, and he has worked with myriad national organizations and political campaigns to limit the power and influence of racist, antisemitic, patriarchal, and religious fundamentalist leaders and groups. His essays can be found on The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook on Substack.
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