446 days ago insurrectionists ransacked the US Capitol and *hours later* 138-of-202 (68%) House republicans voted to make trump a dictator. They tried to finish the rioters’ job and end democracy. Never forget it.
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"An examination ... of Cruz’s actions between Election Day and #Jan6, 2021, shows just how deeply he was involved, working directly with Trump to concoct a plan that came closer than widely realized to keeping him in power."
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"As Eastman outlined a scenario in which Vice President Mike Pence could deny certifying Biden’s election, Cruz crafted a complementary plan in the Senate."
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"The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means.
Given the opportunity, they will act.
They are acting already."
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"For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft."
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The #Jan6 attack on Capitol was meant to delay the electoral count long enough for 🧵
"Only later, as Congress prepared to count electoral votes, did legislators in some of those states begin talking unofficially about “decertifying” the Biden electors."
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"The clock was ticking. Several of Trump’s advisers, Rudy Giuliani among them, told allies that friendly legislatures were on the brink of convening special sessions to replace their Biden electors."
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:If Merrick Garland wants to silence his critics he only has to do one right thing: Appoint a special prosecutor.If he won’t, then Biden needs to do one right thing: Appoint a new AG. It’s that simple.
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Thanks Bill…a disgrace that representatives from NY-NJ area voted to finish rioters’ plan.. @RepLeeZeldin and #JeffVanDrew... NEVER FORGET 1/6/2021 and the @GOPLeader support of it! Who will join in saying they were wrong?
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