In the months before American voters go to the polls, U.S. intelligence agencies have identified a renewed Russian campaign to corrode public faith in the democratic process itself — not through the hacking of systems, but through the quieter erosion of belief. The Kremlin, following a pattern it has refined across multiple electoral cycles, is deploying coordinated digital influence operations designed to widen existing fractures in the American electorate. It is a reminder that the most durable threat to democracy may not come from outside its walls, but from within the space between what ci