In honor of Memorial Day, and the over half million soldiers who died fighting fascism in WWII, we urge all Americans to urgently defend democracy in the face of a rising 21st century fascist movement.
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How can Rusty Bowers and others testify before the #Jan6thCommittee about the criminality, treason and violence of Trump, and then state they would vote for him again in 2024? What are the rest of us to make of this insanity?
The potential for far-right Republicans to reshape the election systems of major battleground states is growing much closer to reality.
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On Monday, the Jan 6 Select Committee showed how Trump's baseless and persistent claims of election fraud led to a violent insurrection. Instead of backing off those lies and protecting democracy, the RNC is spending millions to keep fanning the flames. https://t.co/iOZDYGQ8Zp
#Democrats have suspected stolen elections many times, but never made wild allegations of fraud with NO EVIDENCE, or with ABSURD DELUSIONAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES. Why? Because they did not want to destroy democracy and their own credibility.
In 1864, Lincoln understood that he would likely lose his reelection bid. In anticipation, he wrote a memo detailing the importance of one of our most basic democratic principles: the peaceful transfer of power.
This precedent stood for 220 years— until Donald Trump.
The #January6thHearings are proving a widespread seditious conspiracy to overthrow American democracy, led by Donald Trump. There must be criminal prosecution, or we cannot call ourselves a nation of laws.
Trump’s own campaign advisors, his Department of Justice, and his cybersecurity experts all told him the same thing… the Dominion voting conspiracy was "complete nonsense."
Here, for example, is White House lawyer Eric Herschmann:
The fascist propagandist Tucker Carlson #tuckerterrorist is openly advocating for armed violent revolution based on the Big Lie that Democrats rule "illegitimately."
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Perhaps in service of continued, and largely unnecessary, personal access to Bannon, the author dangerously understates the threat he poses to democracy and society.
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