January 6 Commission 
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4/12/2022
On "Smoking Guns"—Yesterday and Today (and Tomorrow?)
by Jim Zirin
As text messages between Donald Jr. and Mark Meadows surface, it seems the last roadblock to a prosecution of Donald Trump over January 6 is a lack of will, not a lack of evidence.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/13/2022
History's Guidance to the January 6 Committee
by Stephen A. West
The 1872 report of the Congressional Ku Klux Klan Committee offers lessons for the January 6 Commission: expect partisans to weaponize the report, and don't trust "the judgment of history" to clear up doubts about culpability.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/2/2022
Jan. 6 Commission: Trump Allies Engaged in Potential Criminal Conspiracy to Block Certification
"The court filing is the strongest assertion yet from the committee that it believes Trump and some of his allies potentially committed crimes during the effort to overturn Biden’s victory and by falsely stating repeatedly that the election was stolen."
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1/6/2021
We Almost Lost Our Democracy – and Still Could: A Conversation with Congressman Adam Schiff
by Robin Lindley
"There's no division in our purpose. We're all united in wanting to get to the truth and expose the truth to the American people and then legislate in a way that protects our country going forward."
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SOURCE: Uncivil Religion
1/4/2022
Uncivil Religion: A Collaborative Effort to Understand January 6, 2021
Historians including Kristin Du Mez and Matthew Gabriele contribute to a new collaborative project analyzing the flood of digital imagery associated with the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and the election results.
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SOURCE: CNN
12/16/2021
The US Keeps Failing the January 6 Test
by Nicole Hemmer
Between Republican obfuscation and Democratic indifference, "it is fair to say that American democracy is in a far more tenuous position today than it was during the January 6 insurrection."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/10/2021
Framing Political Violence as Patriotism is Even More Dangerous Than it Sounds
by Jeremy Best
The Republican Party has agreed to label the Capitol rioters of January 6 as patriots resisting a dubious (if not stolen) election result. This is a step toward endorsing more political violence and endangering democratic government.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/10/2021
White Supremacists Attacked Democracy and Have Thus Far Faced No Consequences
by Carol Anderson
Threatening to demolish the structure of government to preserve white supremacy is a time-honored American tradition, as is escaping consequences for doing so.
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7/27/2021
The House January 6th Commission Begins Hearings
The hearings began with the testimony of beseiged Capitol Police.
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SOURCE: CNN
The Story of January 6 Will be Told
by Julian Zelizer
Republican obstructionism makes it likely that the full story of the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the election certification will be told in popular culture.
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SOURCE: Substack
6/4/2021
9/11 and 1/6: How an American Nightmare Becomes Real
by Timothy Snyder
A historian and analyst of democratic collapse describes a slow-moving nightmare unfolding to ensure minoritarian rule. Will Americans, and their elected representatives, wake up in time?
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6/6/2021
The New Meaning of "The Loyal Opposition"
by Glenn C. Altschuler
The concept of a loyal opposition depends on the deference of non-governing parties to the authority of democratic institutions and the normative framework in which they operate. That deference seems to be collapsing.
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6/6/2021
Whataboutism Didn't Get Nixon Off the Hook. It Shouldn't Stop Investigation of the Capitol Riots
by James Robenalt
There's a long and ignominious tradition of playing "whatabout" to thwart investigations into official misconduct, so it's no surprise the move was part of Republicans' rejection of a January 6 commission.
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SOURCE: Substack
6/3/2021
We Don't Need a Commission to Study January 6
by Claire Potter
The Republicans' success in blocking a January 6 Commission is a disturbing sign of political extremism in one party, but there's no reason to believe that such a commission would have solved the problems underlying the insurrection.
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