To effectively counter economic competition, global security threats, and assaults on the rules-based global order from authoritarian nations, democratic allies must work together to build support and push the adoption and integration of two core national strategies: 1) building stronger domestic economies and strengthening democracy within nations- through large-scale inward place-based investments in people, innovation and infrastructure—but 2) doing so in an allyshoring manner. Essentially baking a bigger economic collective pie and enhancing the economic heft of allied nations—through expanded trade, co-production and supply chain relations with countries with shared values and interest in strengthening the rules based international order. Now as the current US leadership animates the same authoritarian behaviors as leaders of China and Russia, seeking to quash internal dissent, undermine democratic institutions at home and attack democratic partners and allies across the globe, launch a mercantilist economic policy and values-free “might makes right” foreign policy, sadly the US now must be counted as authoritarian and similarly contained. By working together the family of rules and rights respecting nations can strengthen their own political and economic hand vis-à-vis a rising authoritarianism in order to protect a rules-based order.