Today the Guardian is launching The Fight for Democracy, a series focused on investigating of the threats facing the democratic system in one of its supposed bastions.

Building off an impactful series on US voting rights, it will scrutinize the movement to undermine election legitimacy, weaken voting rights, and target election officials – a movement that ultimately seeks to codify a system of minority rule fundamentally opposed to the promise of a multiracial, multicultural, representative, constitutional democracy.