Transatlantic Democracy Working Group

TDWG was established at GMF in 2018 to coordinate the bipartisan expression of solidarity around U.S. foreign policy grounded in the shared interests and values of liberal democracy. At the time, Washington was in dire need of a bipartisan space to push back on the consolidation of autocratic power by illiberal leaders in Hungary and Poland. Since then, TDWG has evolved to focus on the most pressing flashpoints of autocrats threatening transatlantic democracies, from Ukraine to the United States. In 2024, TDWG’s bipartisan members recommitted to shared principles of civil society coordinating work that defends democracy by educating the public on foreign and domestic autocratic threats.