A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
FACT SHEET: Hamilton 68 Dashboard (2017-2018)
The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) began hosting the Hamilton 68 dashboard in August 2017 to track Russian influence operations on Twitter. By analyzing a dynamic list of more than 600 Twitter accounts linked, wittingly or unwittingly, to Rus [...]
Laura Thornton in The Hill: Another American Gift to Autocrats
A favorite tune in the foreign information operations playlist is that democracies are in disarray, are inefficient, and do not deliver for citizens. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, China attacked the ability of democracies to ha [...]
David Levine in Idaho Statesman: Three Steps Idaho Can Take to Bolster Election Integrity and Trust in Voting Process
Despite fears of false and misleading election information resulting in more election worker threats and doubt about the 2022 elections, Idaho appears to have emerged from the midterms relatively unscathed. Idaho election officials and their partner [...]
15 Minutes with Elections Expert David Levine
OSET Institute's feature interview is with David Levine, Elections Integrity Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy of the German Marshall Fund. David is a non-practicing lawyer and previously, the Ada County, Idaho Elections Director. David [...]
Josh Rudolph in Just Security: Extend US Leadership on Ukraine to Post-War Reconstruction Too
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, taking the security risk to come to Washington for meetings with President Joe Biden and lawmakers, reassured a joint session of Congress yesterday that, “Your money is not charity. It’s an investment in the [...]
David Salvo Discusses Efforts to Bring Home Paul Whelan from Russia on Fox News
David Salvo, deputy director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined LiveNOW from FOX on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. He discussed why Russia did not include Paul Whelan in the Brittney G [...]
David Levine in The Fulcrum: Reforming the Electoral Count Act Remains Critical to Ensuring Free and Fair Presidential Elections
Should members of Congress be able to object to election results as part of a strategy to draw greater attention to election reform efforts, as two Democratic members tried to do following George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004? Should members of Congr [...]
Vassilis Ntousas in Encompass: All Should Be Quieter on the Western Front after the US Midterms
Almost a month after an extremely consequential US midterm election, the initial collective sigh of relief felt by most Europeans seems to have given way to pause, if not revived concern. President Macron’s recent official state visit to Washington [...]
David Salvo Speaks on Brittney Griner’s Release on Newsy
David Salvo, deputy director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Newsy to discuss the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who had been sentenced to serve a nine year sentence in a Russian penal colony. Griner returned to the Uni [...]
Bret Schafer Joins Background Briefing to Discuss How Top US Conservatives Push Pro-Kremlin Narratives on Ukraine
Bret Schafer joins Background Briefing with Ian Masters to examine who is giving aid and comfort to the enemy or who is a useful idiot and expand on his quotes in an article at The Guardian “Top US conservatives pushing Russian spin on Ukraine war, [...]
Rachael Dean Wilson on Newsy: Biggest Takeaways from the 2022 Midterms
Rachael Dean Wilson, Head of External Affairs at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Newsy to discuss the results of the 2022 US Midterm elections. She discussed what we can expect from this split Congress and how voters widely reject [...]
Vassilis Ntousas in Progressive Post: Democrats and Democracy Defied Expectations in US 2022 Midterms
On 8 November 2022, two years after Joe Biden was elected president of the United States, Americans cast their ballots in a highly consequential midterm election. Although the final results may take days or weeks to be known, the vaunted ‘red wave’ [...]