January 6 Archives - Flux

MAGA has brought America’s forever wars to the homeland

Norman Solomon — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 03:59:37 +0000

Ever since Donald Trump became a former president, news outlets and commentators have cited polls showing that many Republicans believe violence might be needed to save the country. As Trump’s legal woes increase, so do mainstream media alarms about the specter of violent responses. But we’ve heard virtually nothing about connections between two decades of nonstop U.S. […]

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Pledging to pardon insurrectionists, Trump and DeSantis disqualify themselves from presidency

Jim Carroll — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:47:55 +0000

In recent campaign appearances for their respective presidential nomination campaigns, both former president Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pledged to pardon participants in the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol. In doing so, both candidates sent a terrifying but useful reminder to the American public that the insurrection of that day has […]

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This was a GOP-inspired assassination attempt against Pelosi, and media must say so

Joan McCarter — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 08:41:46 +0000

“Here’s a job for the national political press corps, if they can take time out from declaring doom for the Democrats in the midterms: Put elected Republicans and every GOP candidate on the ballot everywhere on the record about how their vilification of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi resulted in an assassination attempt against House Speaker Nancy […]

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Oath Keeper tells jury: It was ‘conquer or die’ to keep Trump in White House on Jan. 6

Brandi Buchman — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:00:23 +0000

James Dolan, a former member of the extremist Oath Keepers network, told jurors that when he came to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 to storm the Capitol under the leadership of the group’s founder Stewart Rhodes, he understood the outcome may have been the start of a violent, armed war of pro-Trump factions against the U.S. government. On […]

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Ted Cruz votes against bipartisan bill to prevent another Jan. 6

Matthew Choi — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:00:31 +0000

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, broke from his own party in voting against a bipartisan bill that would bar him from singlehandedly objecting to presidential election results, as he did on Jan. 6, 2021. The bill, dubbed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, aims to prevent a constitutional crisis like the one that […]

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‘Corrupt as hell’: Demands for Clarence Thomas to resign follow new details of wife’s election scheming

Jake Johnson — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:00:04 +0000

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced fresh calls to step down Thursday after new reporting revealed that his wife’s involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election was broader than previously known, extending to the battleground state of Wisconsin as well as Arizona. Emails obtained by the Washington Post and the organization Documented show that Ginni Thomas, a longtime […]

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Liz Cheney believes the country is on the ‘edge of an abyss’ and thinks young women can save it

Amanda Becker — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:00:23 +0000

Back in 2012, when Liz Cheney was first weighing a congressional bid, she said on Fox News that she was “fed up” with the Democratic Party’s focus on abortion and contraception. It resulted in women being “sidelined” on issues such as national security and the economy, she said: “It’s completely condescending and really offensive as a […]

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At CPAC, conservative Texans show Donald Trump loyalty and support for another presidential run

William Melhado — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:00:07 +0000

In the corner of the brightly lit, heavily bannered conference hall for this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, an empty jail cell sets the scene of a Make America Great Again performance art piece. A sign fixed to the exterior of the cell warns “#younext.” The would-be prisoner is an actor playing the […]

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After Trump, Christian nationalist ideas are going mainstream – despite a history of violence

Samuel Perry — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:00:24 +0000

In the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections, some politicians continue to ride the wave of what’s known as “Christian nationalism” in ways that are increasingly vocal and direct. GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Donald Trump loyalist from Georgia, told an interviewer on July 23, 2022, that the Republican Party “need[s] to be […]

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Fallout: How Trump’s Big Lie is threatening the future of elections

Kristen Doerer — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:00:20 +0000

The Jan. 6 hearings closed for the summer last Thursday night with a plea from Republican House Vice Chair Liz Cheney. Citing the conservative heroine British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Cheney called on the public: “Let it never be said that the dedication of those who love freedom is less than the determination of those […]

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