Turkish investigative journalist Can Dündar, exiled in Germany since 2016, opens a new DW series on democracies under strain by turning his camera on the United States. Traveling with co-director Demid Sheronkin between college campuses and a political convention, he tracks how deeply the country's political camps have split ahead of the 250th anniversary of its founding in 2026. The film's central case study is Mark Bray, a Rutgers professor branded "Dr. Antifa" after Turning Point USA members petitioned to get him fired; the ensuing death threats pushed him and his family to leave the country for Spain. Dündar, who has reported similar stories from Mexico, Belarus, and his native Turkey for the series "Guardians of Truth," treats Bray's ordeal as one data point in a wider argument about President Trump's governing style and his supporters' treatment of critics. Interviews with academics, activists, and convention-goers build a picture of a country where institutions once taken for granted, universities, a free press, are increasingly contested ground.