New Book 'Survival' Exposes Trump-Russia Connection, Urges Americans to Defend Democracy

Bestselling author Elizabeth Graham has released a new book, Survival - Democracy's Struggle To Survive, co-authored with eight of the country's leading experts on Donald Trump, including Craig Unger, David Andelman, Charles Sykes, Steven Beschloss, Dr. Bandy Lee, George A. Polisner, and Mersault. The book, available at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT, presents a comprehensive analysis of the Trump/Russia connection and argues that Americans are missing the crucial danger unfolding in the United States.

According to the source material, as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1992, Putin and his KGB colleagues recognized that Russia's military strength had declined and could not defeat the United States directly. They instead launched a covert campaign to weaken the U.S. from within. By the turn of the millennium, the CIA, believing the Cold War was over, shut down more than thirty overseas intelligence operations and reduced its Russian specialists by over 25%, exposing critical U.S. capabilities. Presidents Bush and Clinton, along with much of the public, no longer viewed Russia as an enemy. Yet, like a modern Trojan Horse, Russia only appeared to retreat as elite KGB/FSB operatives infiltrated American society, including the entanglement of a narcissistic American man who loved money and women/sex more than integrity. The trap was set.

The book asserts that Putin's efforts to undermine democracy quietly influenced every aspect of American government, politics, and daily life. Many Americans and the media overlook this interference, convinced that Trump is not aligned with Putin—a critical delusion based on false beliefs held despite conclusive evidence. Craig Unger, an award-winning New York Times bestselling author and political analyst, has proved without doubt and by providing solid evidence that Trump is "owned" by Putin/Russia. Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author, is a co-author of Survival and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, which accurately predicted the severity and timing of the nation's decline if a dangerously unfit president remained in office.

Graham, who lived in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed, stated, "Few Americans have observed the sweeping changes in the United States over the past decade as closely as I have or understood their corrosive connection to the evolution of Russian politics and government since the Gorbachev era. I witnessed the disbelief of thousands of Russians. I saw ordinary citizens endure joblessness, food shortages, inadequate medical care, and unpaid pensions and salaries. These early Yeltsin years were chaotic, leaving many Russians longing for the familiar stability of communism. Putin and the KGB capitalized on this volatility with a perilous, reticent rise to power."

Survival describes "Democracy's Struggle to Survive" and is intended as a comparative assessment, an inspiration, and an intriguing collection of Substack messages written by some of the best-known, best-informed, and New York Times best-selling nonfiction authors of the last decade. It concludes that the sovereign nation of Ukraine and American democracy face a common enemy. The key difference is that while Ukrainians endure daily bombing, infrastructure destruction, and death, Americans are largely uninformed or in denial about their adversary. What they do see is increasing prices at the pump—about a 50% price jump in one year; the loss of health care—ten million Americans will lose health care in 2026; contaminated foods—milk, eggs, meat, vegetables; an endless war costing nearly $2 billion per day which is depleting weapons, leaving the U.S. vulnerable to outside attacks, and increasing national debt; grocery store closures and grocery product price increases up to 40%; restaurants closing—Wendy's and Village Inn have announced closures; massive discrimination, bigotry, and deaths through ICE and the closure of USAID, with an estimated 22 million preventable deaths projected by 2030 in Africa, mostly children (The Lancet); an assault on elections and voting procedures—in 2024, sixty polling sites in Georgia received bomb threats, all traced to Russian IP addresses, with similar threats in other states; fires, arson, and bombings—a South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein's house burned down after she refused to give Trump's DOJ her state's voter registration; and a catastrophic explosion on Oct. 10, 2025, at the Accurate Energetic Systems munitions facility in Tennessee, killing 16 employees inside. This plant shipped munitions to Ukraine.

Like the roots of the magnificent tree on the cover of Survival, where slender fingers extend through the soil for nourishment to sustain its life, the United States must draw renewed strength from its own roots: the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The new book is available at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT.