Ex-CIA Analyst's Free Ebook Warns of Trump-Putin Parallels

Bestselling author Elizabeth Graham, an authority on the Trump/Putin relationship with extensive intelligence and foreign policy credentials, is offering her ebook "From Democracy To Democrazy, A Warning to All Americans" for free on March 9-10, 2026 through her Amazon author page. Graham leverages her unique background—including a Top-Secret Security Clearance from high school, CIA undercover work, and 12 years at SAIC's Foreign Systems Research Center studying Russia—to deliver what publisher Clare Harwood describes as a vital warning rather than partisan commentary. Her analysis draws direct parallels between authoritarian patterns she witnessed firsthand while living under Communism in the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia and current political developments in the United States.

In her work, including her popular Substack where she invites readers for discussions, Graham employs a powerful comparative lens, citing Alexei Navalny's assessment of Vladimir Putin's dictatorship to frame Donald Trump's actions. She highlights Trump's recorded call to Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" votes as echoing the "little election rigging" that Navalny warned leads to dictatorship. Graham extends the "duck test" analogy from Putin to Trump, arguing both exhibit traits of destroying independent media, organizing political attacks, and holding imperial delusions. She makes grave allegations about Trump's impact, claiming his policies led to deaths in containment camps, military actions in Venezuela and Iran, and a genocide in Africa through USAID closure—asserting this death toll surpasses historical atrocities.

The book and Graham's Substack posts, accessible via her website, present these insights as urgent warnings based on her bi-cultural experience and decades of government systems analysis. She frames the 2022 TIME100 Magazine featuring Putin and Zelensky as a symbolic contrast, with Navalny's description of Putin serving as a mirror for Trump's trajectory. Graham's personal tragedy—her daughter's unsolved homicide in Japan, which she suggests bears Russian signatures—adds a poignant layer to her critique. Through this multifaceted approach, "From Democracy To Democrazy" positions itself as an essential read for Americans concerned about democratic erosion, available freely through her Amazon author page and supplemented by her Substack content.