Kansas City Welcomes Rep. Schiff To Talk Democracy At Risk

A local event worth a peek and possibly the most "progressive" gathering that KCMO will enjoy ahead of the midterms . . .

Here's a sneak peek for those of us who might be napping . . .

Adam Schiff, Congressman & New York Times Bestselling Author, will be In Conversation with Steve Kraske, Host of Up To Date on KCUR / NPR 89.3 FM, about Adam's New Softcover Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could on Wednesday, August 24, 2022

In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump’s Russia and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within.

In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. The congressman chronicles step-by-step just how our democracy was put at such risk, and traces his own path to meeting the crisis—from serious prosecutor, to congressman with an expertise in national security and a reputation for bipartisanship, to liberal lightning rod, scourge of the right, and archenemy of a president. Schiff takes us inside his team of impeachment managers and their desperate defense of the Constitution amid the rise of a distinctly American brand of autocracy.

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Adam Schiff will be In Conversation for his New Softcover ~ Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

dam Schiff, Congressman & New York Times Bestselling Author, will be In Conversation with Steve Kraske, Host of Up To Date on KCUR / NPR 89.3 FM, about Adam's New Softcover Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could . . .