• Patrick Skinner is a police officer and a former case officer at the Central Intelligence Agency, handling foreign intelligence sources in places like Afghanistan, Iraq and Jordan.
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  • Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, and author of “Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020.”
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  • Norman J. Ornstein is a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he has been studying politics, elections, and the US Congress for more than four decades.
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  • Glenn Kessler is the head of the Fact Checker staff of the Washington Post and co-author of "Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies."
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  • Ryan Milner is an associate professor of Communication at the College of Charleston.
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  • Whitney Phillips is an assistant professor in Communications and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University.
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  • Daniel Ziblatt is an American political scientist and a professor at Harvard University with a research focus on comparative politics, democracy and democratization as well as the politics and political ...
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  • Steven Levitsky is an American political scientist and Professor of Government at Harvard University.
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  • Mark Jia is an associate professor of law at Georgetown and a Fellow (2023-24) with the Wilson Center. He specializes in comparative and transnational law, with special focus on the United States and Chi...
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  • Darius Kazemi is an American computer programmer and artist. He is a co-founder of the technology collective Feel Train.
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  • David Shimer is an expert on election security, U.S.-Russian relations, and covert action. He is the author of “Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference."
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  • Christian Brose is the former staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and John McCain's former senior policy adviser.
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  • Brandi Collins-Dexter is the senior campaign director at the advocacy organization Color of Change and a visiting fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kenn...
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  • Mona Yacoubian is a senior advisor on Syria, the Middle East and North Africa at the United States Institute of Peace.
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  • David Rohde is a writer for The New Yorker and author of "In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's 'Deep State.'"
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  • Maya Wang is a senior China researcher for Human Rights Watch, who has written extensively on the use of biometrics, artificial intelligence and big data in mass surveillance in China.
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  • Darren Byler is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder whose research focuses on Uighur dispossession.
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  • Jessica Batke is ChinaFile’s Senior Editor for Investigations. She researches China’s domestic political and social affairs, and served the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence as a Research Analyst.
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  • Jane Lytvynenko is a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News who focuses on disinformation.
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  • Katharine Moon is a professor of political science at Wellesley College and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Center for East Asia Policy Studies.
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