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7/31/2022
Don't Call them Conservatives
by Alan J. Singer
As we confront what is happening in this country, we need to stop calling the MAGA movement conservative.
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SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
7/1/2022
Politics and Priorities: The January 6 Hearings and American Values
by Walter G. Moss
Pragmatism does not mean acting without principles, but only openly, undogmatically. Is the glimmer of bipartisanship on display at the January 6 hearings a sign of hope?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/15/2022
The Secessionist Roots of January 6
by Elizabeth R. Varon
"The story of Southern secession provides illuminating evidence that the Jan. 6 insurgency was, indeed, precedented, rooted in long-standing efforts to preempt, delegitimize and suppress Black voting."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
6/14/2022
Prosecutor: The Two-Prong Test that Could Determine Trump's Legal Risk
Isaac Chotiner interviews former federal prosecutor and current law professor Barbara McQuade about the prospects of a criminal case against Trump over January 6.
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SOURCE: Substack
6/6/2022
Proud Boys Indictment Charges Attempt to Overthrow Government. Does it Matter?
by Heather Cox Richardson
The charge of seditious conspiracy by a paramilitary organization with close ties to the Trumpian Right is incredibly serious, but will it be met with a shrug?
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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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SOURCE: CNN
2/8/2022
NC Elections Board Affirms it has Power to Bar Rep. Cawthorn from Ballot over Jan. 6 Actions
Without stating whether such action would proceed, North Carolina's elections authority affirmed that it has the power to bar Rep. Madison Cawthorn from seeking reelection if his actions on January 6 are determined to amount to support for insurrection.
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SOURCE: Slate
1/11/2022
Is the Challenge to Madison Cawthorn's Re-Election Eligibility For Real?
The text and historical application of the 14th Amendment means that the courts could bar the North Carolina MAGA Congressman from seeking reelection because of his endorsement of the January 6 attack on the Capitol which sought to overturn Joe Biden's election.
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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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7/27/2021
The House January 6th Commission Begins Public Hearings
After months of interviews with witnesses, the committee opened its public presentation on June 9. With Republicans, Trump allies, and Fox News preemptively denouncing the hearings, will they sway public opinion about the attempted coup or move Congress to protect democratic instititions in the future?
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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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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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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/16/2021
Congress Must Invoke the 14th Amendment to Stop Trump from Running Again
by Tom Coleman and John C. Danforth
A former Congressman and former Senator, both Republicans from Missouri, demand that Congress invoke the 14th Amendment's provisions on insurrection to bar Donald Trump from holding office in the future.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1/28/2021
Did Trump and His Supporters Commit Treason?
Carlton F.W. Larson has studied the legal history of treason. Until January 6, he argued that critics of Donald Trump were off base in leveling that charge.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/12/2021
Impeachment May Not Work. Here’s the Next Best Way to Dump Trump
by Eric Foner
The 14th Amendment empowers Congress to bar persons involved in insurrection against the United States from holding office. This can't remove Trump, but it can stop him (and anyone found to have plotted the Capitol rioting) from returning to office.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/7/2021
What Pro-Trump Insurrectionists Share — and Don’t — With the American Revolution
by Jordan E. Taylor
Wednesday's Capitol rioters believe they carry on the legacy of the revolution, but it's not in the way they think. The Declaration of Independence reflects the prevalence of conspiracy theories and fake news among the colonial rebels.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/1/2020
The Double Standard of the American Riot
by Kellie Carter Jackson
Many people are asking if violence is a valid means of producing social change. The hard and historical answer is yes. Riots have a way of magnifying not merely the flaws in the system, but also the strength of those in power.
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