In the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, a region shaped by reunification's unfinished promises, voters are being asked to choose — and in doing so, to reveal something about the limits of democratic exclusion. The Alternative for Germany, long cordoned off by every other party as too extreme to govern with, stands at the threshold of its greatest electoral test. What unfolds here is not merely a regional contest but a reckoning with how long a democracy can hold a line against a movement that millions of its citizens keep choosing.