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January 6
Trump’s Long Campaign to Steal the Presidency: A Timeline The insurrection wasn’t a one-day event. It was the culmination of a multifaceted, yearslong plot — and it isn’t over.
By Ed Kilgore
january 6 committee
July 12, 2022
Get the Look: Oath Keepers General Counsel’s Playful, Minimalist Kitchen Kellye SoRelle borrowed her Zoom background from Queer Eye (and West Elm).
By Zach Schiffman
early and often
June 29, 2022
The Most Explosive Revelations From Cassidy Hutchinson’s Testimony The ex–Mark Meadows aide testified that Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent on January 6 and said of the armed mob, “They’re not here to hurt me.”
By Margaret Hartmann
The Odds Are Going Up That Trump Could Be Charged Cassidy Hutchinson advances the 1/6 committee’s theory of the case, though it’s not a slam dunk.
By Ankush Khardori
the national interest
June 28, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
capitol riot
June 28, 2022
By Alissa Walker
Authorities Raid Home of Jeffrey Clark, Trump DOJ Official He played a key role in former president Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
By Nia Prater
early and often
June 21, 2022
Georgia Election Worker’s Gut-wrenching Testimony on Being Targeted by Trump In emotional testimony, Shaye Moss said being falsely accused by the president sparked death threats that drove her into hiding.
By Margaret Hartmann
the national interest
June 17, 2022
Republicans Will Do It Again They have not been chastened by the revelations of the January 6 committee.
By Jonathan Chait
capitol riot
June 16, 2022
Congressman: January 6 Participant Wasn’t Doing Recon on Capitol Tour Barry Loudermilk says a January 5 tour he led, which Republicans had previously denied had happened, was completely innocent.
By Benjamin Hart
early and often
June 14, 2022
Rudy Giuliani Insists He’s Not a Drunk (Again) The former mayor wants the American public to know he was totally sober when he urged the president to disregard their votes on Election Night.
By Margaret Hartmann
early and often
June 9, 2022
Mike Pence Doesn’t Deserve a Medal for Refusing to Lead a Coup We should thank the former vice-president for rejecting Trump’s unconstitutional demand on January 6, 2021. But let’s not get carried away.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 9, 2022
Senate Nears Much-Needed Deal to Stop Election Coups A bipartisan “gang” is close to agreeing on a fix to the 1887 law at the center of the January 6 tragedy. The time is exactly right.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 9, 2022
Democrats Need a Vision. Fast. It’s not enough to say the other side is evil.
By Sarah Jones
early and often
June 9, 2022
By Benjamin Hart
last night on late night
June 8, 2022
By Bethy Squires
early and often
June 7, 2022
Fake Trump Electors Told to Keep Their Activities Secret In Georgia, the Trump campaign wanted its self-appointed electors to act like they were engaged in a criminal conspiracy.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 3, 2022
Peter Navarro Got Arrested for Contempt of Congress Trump’s former trade adviser was indicted for refusing to cooperate with the House investigation into the Capitol riot.
By Matt Stieb
NYPD Veteran Convicted of Assaulting Police Officer in Capitol Riot The Department of Justice continues to rack up guilty verdicts in January 6 cases.
By Benjamin Hart
There’s a 7-Plus Hour Gap in Trump’s 1/6 Call Logs Investigators are looking into whether he might have even used burner phones as the Capitol was under attack.
By Benjamin Hart
Yes, Ginni Thomas Was at the January 6 Rally … But She Left Early Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife says she attended the Stop the Steal rally but “got cold” and split before the rioting started.
By Margaret Hartmann
Republicans’ Selective Amnesia About January 6 Keeps Spreading Even Mike Pence is now treating the Capitol riot as a one-time blip, rather than reckoning with what it meant or why it could happen again.
By Ed Kilgore
Pence Rebukes Trump, Calls His View of January 6 Powers ‘Un-American’ Less than a week after Trump claimed Pence could and should have overturned the 2020 election, the former veep laid down the actual law.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Jan. 30, 2022
Trump Dangles Pardons to His 2024 Insurrectionist Allies He said he would pardon the January 6 rioters, which really means he is soliciting insurrection next time.
By Jonathan Chait
Wait, Are Mike Pence and Donald Trump Not on Good Terms? The former VP’s claim that he’s spoken to Trump “probably a dozen times” in the last year has been downgraded to “we talked last summer.”
By Margaret Hartmann
Never Mind the Facts. Trump Fans Feel Like a Majority When you’ve been convinced polls are fake and actual elections are rigged, it is easy to confuse visible signs of enthusiasm as a ticket to power.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Jan. 13, 2022
RIP ‘No January 6 Sedition Charges,’ the Right’s Favorite Trump Defense “Let’s base our view on whether 1/6 was an ‘insurrection’ on whether those arrested are charged with insurrection.” Yes, let’s!
By Jonathan Chait
What Will It Take to Stop a 2024 Election Coup? A warning from election-law expert Rick Hasen suggests options for stopping state legislatures from stealing electoral votes may be limited.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Biden Finally Went After Trump on January 6 It was a no-brainer for a commemoration of the insurrection Trump incited, but the bigger question is whether Biden keeps at it.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Jan. 6, 2022
Ted Cruz Begs Carlson’s Forgiveness for Being Mean to Violent Insurrectionists Cruz traded one of his few remaining scraps of dignity for a kind word on Fox News on Thursday night.
By Jonathan Chait
Newt Gingrich Tries and Fails to Use Lincoln to Attack Biden The former Speaker’s description of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address as a “unity” speech suggests he hasn’t read it in a while.
By Ed Kilgore
There Are Still Confederates in the U.S. Capitol Even as Joe Biden noted with horror January 6 insurrectionists carrying rebel flags, he was surrounded by images of Confederate leaders and officers.
By Ed Kilgore
Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene Speak for the GOP on January 6 Establishment Republicans stay away, leaving the MAGA fringe to play.
By Ben Jacobs
the city politic
Jan. 6, 2022
Voting Isn’t Enough to Protect a Democracy Under Threat New Yorkers must take individual action to ensure that January 6 wasn’t a preview of something much worse.
By Errol Louis
Biden Says Trump Held ‘Dagger at the Throat’ of Democracy on January 6 Biden marked the anniversary with a fiery speech denouncing Trump for spreading a “web of lies” because he couldn’t accept his election loss.
By Nia Prater
the national interest
Jan. 6, 2022
Republicans Want You to Think January 6 Was Random Violence Political violence that has major-party support is categorically different.
By Jonathan Chait
Trump’s January 6 Strategy Was All About Mike Pence In the last year, it’s only become clearer that Pence was Plan A for stealing the election, and Trump kept pressuring him to the bitter end.
By Ed Kilgore
capitol riot
Jan. 4, 2022
Trump Cancels January 6 Anniversary Speech He won’t draw attention to the nadir of his presidency after all.
By Matt Stieb
the national interest
Jan. 4, 2022
How the January 6 Insurrection Birthed a New Right Trump has transformed his party into something once unrecognizable.
By Jonathan Chait
Gina. Rosanne. Guy. What three January 6 insurrectionists wanted — and what they lost.
By Kerry Howley
Trump’s Great Escape Days before January 6, he was caught in a scheme to commit election fraud. A year later, there’s no sign the Justice Department is even investigating.
By Ankush Khardori
capitol riot
Dec. 14, 2021
Three Fox News Hosts Texted Meadows to Get Trump to Act on January 6 “Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” Laura Ingraham wrote. “This is hurting all of us.”
By Matt Stieb
January 6 PowerPoint Backer Says He Repeatedly Spoke With Meadows Phil Waldron claims he repeatedly visited the White House and spoke with Trump’s chief of staff while pushing plans for how Trump could stay in power.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
Party Like It’s January 6 A night out with Rudy Giuliani, Paul Gosar, and New York’s Young Republicans.
By Shawn McCreesh
the national interest
Nov. 12, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 8, 2021
Report: Corporations Ready to Resume Donating to Pro-Coup Republicans It’s not because they’ve solved the problem of Republican authoritarianism.
By Jonathan Chait
FBI Determined Threat of 1/6 Violence Was Largely ‘Aspirational’ A Washington Post investigation into the insurrection found new evidence of law enforcement failure prior to the attack.
By Matt Stieb
Trump Lawyer Blamed Pence for Capitol Riot While It Was Still Happening John Eastman, who wrote a legal blueprint for Trump’s authoritarian power grab, emailed the Pence team after rioters breached the Capitol.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
House Holds Steve Bannon in Criminal Contempt for Refusing to Testify About 1/6 The Justice Department will decide whether to charge him over his refusal to testify in the Capitol riot investigation.
By Nia Prater
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