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TruCon18 is one month away! We are excited to share that after considering the state of the broader national security and political spaces, we have decided to pursue an all-female slate of speakers: Our first keynotes announced former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy. Please take a moment to check out our
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Truman National Security Project ! This month, Truman promoted our new indications and warning system, Stop the Slide, and launched a click-and-pledge campaign for our TruDiversity initiative. In addition, Truman President and CEO Michael Breen testified before a congressional committee and spoke at IDEA Week at the University of Notre Dame.


Welton Chang

Welton Chang is a psychologist and senior professional staff member at the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). His work at APL supports a variety of sponsors at the Department of Defense and within the intelligence community on a range of technical topics. His other research focuses on helping people make better decisions and higher quality intelligence analysis, primarily via training interventions, accountability systems, and improving reasoning. From 2005-2014, Chang served as a Defense Department analyst and U.S. Army officer. His overseas experience includes 21 months in Iraq and a year in South Korea. He sits on the board of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and the American Resilience Project. He is a non-resident senior
associate at CSIS, a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council,\u200b and a Fellow with Truman National Security Project. Chang earned a BA in government from Dartmouth College, an MA in security studies from Georgetown University, an MA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.


\u200bSince the 2016 election, Chang has been working with the Truman community to develop Stop the Slide, an early warning system for the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. Meanwhile, at APL, he has been focused on understanding and countering Russian influence operations, developing models and simulations for national security applications, and leveraging data analytics to help defense customers answer high priority questions. An article about groupthink in foreign policy that Chang co-authored was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Politics, a top-ranked political science publication.

01-03 June 2018: TruCon18 in Washington, DC


October 2018: Truman's Annual Awards Dinner


Breen’s Congressional Testimony on Immigration

On Thursday, 12 April, Truman President and CEO Michael Breen testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security—specifically on the alleged threat of a “caravan” of migrants coming to the U.S. southern border. Breen’s testimony focused on the material cost of President Trump’s indefinite deployment of the National Guard to the board, the negative effects of this deployment on military readiness, and the non-threatening nature of refugees seeking asylum from extreme violence in Central American countries.


Truman at IDEA Week

On 21 April, the Truman Chicago Chapter organized a day trip to South Bend, Indiana, for the University of Notre Dame’s inaugural IDEA Week.

More than 20 Truman members from 6 states joined Truman President and CEO Michael Breen and Truman Board member and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg for a private lunch and a tour of South Bend's new
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Renaissance District . They then joined an audience of nearly 100 IDEA Week attendees for a
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discussion between Breen and Mayor Buttigieg on the intersection of innovation and national security. The conversation included a wide variety of topics, such as technology, climate, and the unique role of small cities in American national security.


Stop the Slide


Over the past month, Truman has promoted
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Stop the Slide, our indications and warnings system designed to monitor the risk of authoritarianism to American democracy.

This project tracks more than 180 indicators of the overall health of our democracy; by looking at them both individually and together, we can understand the importance of changes over time and monitor trends. Truman members, led by Security Fellow Welton Chang and together with Truman staff, began the work for this project during TruCon17, and then continued with small working groups of democracy experts and policy professionals in fall 2017. Stop the Slide was created is updated each month with the generous support of the Open Society Foundations.


TruDiversity’s Click-and-Pledge


This month, Truman’s TruDiversity initiative launched a
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click-and-pledge campaign to help support its strategic plan for 2018-2019. TruDiversity works to expand the diversity of Americans contributing to every level of the U.S. national security and foreign policy apparatus in order to enhance our nation’s security and global leadership. Its strategic plan lays out four priorities for 2018-2019: educating both the government and the public on the value of diversity in national security, mentoring and advocating for minority groups in national security positions of leadership, educating and building a diverse pipeline of individuals for the national security workforce, and increasing communications and collaboration within the TruDiversity membership so as to effectively carry out the previous priorities.


04/06/18, Concord Monitor,
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Pompeo is not the secretary of state America needs , by Michael Breen, President and CEO, Truman National Security Project


The Senate must insist that Americans have a Secretary of State with the experience and character to navigate some very dangerous terrain in Washington and around the world. The hour demands a remarkable leader—but based on his record, it is far from clear that Mike Pompeo is up to the challenge.


04/13/18, Truman Doctrine Blog,
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U.S Mexican Relations Could Get Worse , by Amanda Mattingly, Truman Security Fellow


A new and improved NAFTA, a more streamlined and fair immigration system, and a more secure and technologically-advanced border would actually be a win-win for both President Trump and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador\u200a—\u200aor whoever becomes Mexico’s next president.


04/16/18, Truman Doctrine Blog,
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Women, Peace, and Security at the Domestic Level , by Olivia Holt-Ivry, Truman Security Fellow


If the federal government does not act on the Women, Peace, and Security strategy, states and cities should, beginning by convening relevant stakeholders at the municipal and state levels to take stock of the differing security needs of men and women towards strengthening community stability.


04/18/18, Colorado Springs-Gazette,
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Mike Pompeo should not be confirmed , by Kendyl Salcito, Truman Security Fellow


As America's top diplomat, Mike Pompeo would be responsible for acting in support of vulnerable groups, promoting peace, and finding common ground with foreign countries; unfortunately, his consistently intolerant, belligerent, and phobic behavior disqualifies him from the post.


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Truman Project CEO interviews South Bend mayor, IDEA Week begins , featuring Truman President and CEO Michael Breen and Truman Board member and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg


The University of Notre Dame kicked off its IDEA Week with a one-on-one interview between Breen and Buttigieg on topics including the automaton of South Bend’s city departments and the city’s treatment of military veterans.


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