January 6

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/14/2022
  

  Does Disqualifying a January 6 Participant from Office Threaten Democracy?

  Disqualifying particular candidates does nothing to fight the broad-based embrace of election denialism and authoritarianism, and it further deprives voters of the right to repudiate those things at the polls, say three law professors. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  8/16/2022
  

  Whatever Else, Applaud Liz Cheney's Defense of the Constitution

  by James M. Banner Jr.

  James M. Banner writes "as difficult as it may be for Democrats, like me, who reject most of Cheney’s positions on specific issues to do, we owe her a salute for her elemental moral and civic clarity."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/4/2022
  

  Milbank: January 6 Roots Begin with Gingrich, Not Trump

  While relatively little of Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America" became law, the House Speaker who rose to power in 1994 set the tone for the Republican Party's rigid partisanship and demonization of the opposition, a stance that justifies antidemocratic steps to keep power. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/21/2022
  

  The Dangerous Misunderstanding of America's History of Mob Action

  by Stefan Lund

  Contrary to the protestations of January 6th apologists, mob action in America has usually worked to suppress, rather than defend, democracy.

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• 6/15/2022
  

  Far Right Extremism, Paramilitarization, and Misogyny – Statement of Alexandra Stern to the January 6 Committee

  by Alexandra Minna Stern

  The alt-right groups represented at the Capitol on January 6 drew organizing power from online communities where grievance politics around race and gender flourished. Key features were heavy doses of irony that gave deniability to violent rhetoric and extreme misogyny. 

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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: Democracy Now!
  6/15/2022
  

  Garrett Graff: A "Conspiratorial Mindset" Links Trump and Nixon Actions

  Garrett Graff, author of "Watergate: A New History" argues that both January 6 and Watergate were the logical culminations of the broader politics of the Trump and Nixon administrations and the movements that sustained them. 

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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: Rolling Stone
  3/27/2022
  

  Historian Jeff Shesol: Ginni Thomas's 1/6 Involvement Poses Unprecedented Crisis for Court's Legitimacy

  "In a very real sense, Clarence and Ginni Thomas are answerable only to Clarence and Ginni Thomas. The Trump Administration gave us all a hard lesson in how few actual rules bind the behavior of our national leaders."

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  2/10/2022
  

  Missing from the Conversation on Christian Nationalism? Whiteness

  by Peter Laarman

  The extreme wing of the Christian right is attracting attention for its rhetoric equating freedom with their own power to determine the course of society. A minister argues that recent works in religious history show that it's a mistake to leave out the significance of white racial identity to that movement. 

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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: Washington Post
  1/26/2022
  

  Capitol Attack Pushed Christian Nationalism to Center of Shifting Far-Right Movement

  Christian nationalism, particularly the sense that America's white, Christian identity is threatened, is a force uniting disparate strains of the far right and a potential bridge between extremists and millions of American Evangelicals, say scholars Kelly J. Baker and Anthea Butler. 

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• 1/23/2022
  

  Patrick Henry and the Defense of Democracy

  by John A. Ragosta

  Patrick Henry has become a hero of the Tea Party and the January 6 insurrectionists. But his famous demand for liberty or death doesn't capture his personal commitments to liberty under the rule of law and acceptance of the outcomes of elections. 

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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: Organization of American Historians
  1/7/2022
  

  The Assault on Democracy from Historical Perspectives: The January 6 Insurrection One Year Later

  George Sanchez moderates a discussion featuring Anthea Hartig, Clarence Lange, Erika Lee and Nancy MacLean on the state of democracy on the anniversary of the capitol riot and attempted coup. 

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• SOURCE: CSPAN
  1/6/2022
  

  Meacham, Goodwin Join Librarian of Congress to Discuss January 6 a Year Later

  Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden moderates a discussion between historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham, as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, to "establish and preserve the narrative of Jan. 6."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/8/2022
  

  We Must Fight the New Lost Cause Myth Trump has Birthed

  by David Blight

  "Yes, disinformation has to be fought with good information. But it must also be fought with fierce politics, with organization, and if necessary with bodies, non-violently."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/6/2022
  

  Meacham, Goodwin: Threat to Democracy is Dire

  “We have to retell the story of what happened on January 6, with all of the gaps filled in,” Goodwin said. “And I do believe that a line will be drawn.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/6/2022
  

  It’s 2086. This Is What American History Could Look Like

  by Jon Grinspan and Peter Manseau

  Think it's ridiculous that the likes of "QAnon Shaman" could be venerated and memorialized in 75 years? Think about Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. The "judgment of history" depends on action today.

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• SOURCE: Globe and Mail
  1/2/2022
  

  Should Canadians be Preparing for the Collapse of U.S. Democracy?

  by Thomas Homer-Dixon

  "The country is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. How should Canada prepare?"