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David Pepper is a lawyer, writer, democracy activist, former elected official, and adjunct professor who served as the Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party between 2015 and 2021. His recent non-friction works dissect the attack on democracy taking place in states like Ohio, and guide everyday citizens on steps they can take to lift democracy. Pepper's book Laboratories of Autocracy (2021) has been called "arguably the most important" recent book on American democracy by Salon Magazine, and his follow-up book Saving Democracy: A User's Manual (2023) has been widely praised and featured on MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN and other networks. Pepper has also written four novels that bridge real-world politics and fiction-including A Simple Choice (Putnam, 2022). His first novel, The People's House, earned praise for having "predicted the Russia scandal." The wall Street Journal named Pepper "one of the best pollical-thriller writes on the scene." Book purchases can be picked up on 2/22 at the event.