Aaron Bastinelli

Writer/Editor @protectdemocracy.org. Views are my own. NeverTrump from the jump, Bulwark fam & stan. Former reporter, Hill staffer, CNN contributor. Subscribe to our FREE newsletter! http://IfYouCanKeepIt.org 🇺🇸

Counsel @ Protect Democracy. Consumer of carbs (preferably bagels). Opinions and excellent jokes my own.

Lover of well-assembled words. Lawyer by training. North Carolinian always. I believe in the America we haven’t yet built.

defend democracy and build homes / policy advocate @protectdemocracy.org / author ifyoucankeep.it / co-prez ‪@sacyimby.bsky.social / rash opinions my own No kings but Sac Kings 📍Sacramento

Policy Strategist for @protectdemocracy.org Punster, parent, patriot. Former staffer for @January6thCmte, et al. All views are my own, and retweets mean nothing.

Head of Democracy of Tomorrow Team & Counsel @protectdemocracy.org. Views are my own.

Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.

Attorney fighting for voting rights and democracy with @protectdemocracy.org and as an @organizetn.bsky.social board member. Teach "Democracy and Voting Rights Litigation" at VLS. Film photography hobbyist. Sorry for the soccer stuff. Opinions my own.

dad, dog walker, Nebraskan @ProtectDemocracy.org *and because time is short, cofounder of workfour.org Skeets my own

Special Counsel, Protect Democracy. Fmr federal civil rts prosecutor; current American history geek and democracy advocate. K-State/Oxford/Harvard Law alum. Lifelong #ChiefsKingdom member. Believer in the baseball gods. Personal account, personal views.

Writer-editor @protectdemocracy.org Contributing Editor @vanityfair.com NYT & WSJ Best Wine Book: “Shadows in the Vineyard” http://amzn.to/2H5ikFW Ghost in some memoirs. Facts are facts. My opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/maximillianpotter

Political Scientist | Ex-Professor | Democracy Advocate Personal account, views are my own, etc.

Serial policy nerd: led President Obama's Domestic Policy Council after 20 years at Unidos US; now growing new NGOs. On way too many boards. Author: More Than Ready.

Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/

staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum

Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant

Policy Editor, The Bulwark Syndicated columnist Opponent of all forms of illiberalism Author of four books

Author, Lecturer, CNN contributor, (soon again) Justia’s VERDICT columnist, contributor THE CONTRARIAN, fmr Nixon White House Counsel, fmr Goldwater Chair at Az State Un., Senior Fellow, CCLP, Annenberg USC.

Father, friend, believe love conquers hate, and truth wins over prevarication.

Democracy & political violence expert, work globally and U.S., lover of street food, fiddle music, unforgiving landscapes, and my kiddos. All views my own.