Author Elizabeth Graham is offering her ebook 'From Democracy To Democrazy, A Warning to All Americans' at no charge on March 9 and 10, 2026 through Amazon. The book draws from Graham's extensive background, including holding a Top-Secret Security Clearance while in high school, working undercover with the CIA, and spending twelve years at SAIC's Foreign Systems Research Center, where she managed the largest Russian-language military, technical and intelligence database in the United States.
Graham lived under Communist systems in the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia long enough to become bi-cultural. Her work presents direct experiences with authoritarian regimes to American audiences. Publisher Clare Harwood noted that "Democrazy" reads not as partisan commentary but as a warning from someone who has seen these patterns before, with the book's strength lying in its comparative lens.
In a recent Substack post titled 'Heroes,' Graham referenced Alexei Navalny's description of Vladimir Putin in TIME100 Magazine, where Navalny wrote that Putin's path demonstrates how "a little election rigging" always ends with dictatorship. Graham connected this to former President Donald Trump's recorded call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, asking him to "find about 11,780 votes" to overturn the 2020 election, which was first published by The Washington Post and then The New York Times.
Graham applies Navalny's "duck test" analogy to Trump, suggesting that if someone destroys independent media, organizes political assassinations, and sticks to imperial delusions, then they are capable of causing significant violence. She claims Trump's policies have resulted in numerous deaths, including through closure of USAID programs that, according to Wikipedia, prevented an estimated 91.8 million deaths between 2001 and 2021 in low- and middle-income countries.
The author maintains an active presence on Substack, where she writes about democracy, Russia, and U.S. politics. Readers can subscribe for $5 per month at www.egraham.substack.com to receive her daily or weekly messages drawing on her decades of experience. Additional information about her work is available at her website https://democrazy2020.org/.
Graham's analysis suggests that patterns observed in authoritarian regimes abroad are now emerging in American politics, with potentially significant consequences for democracy. Her book serves as both documentation of these patterns and a warning about their implications, based on her unique professional background living and working within government systems and authoritarian environments.
