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ā€œWE COULDNā€™T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughterā€¦It mustnā€™t happen again. We canā€™t let it. We simply canā€™t let it happen again.ā€
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
ā€œCalifornia [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to allā€¦
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.ā€
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
ā€œFreedomĀ is under attack in [Florida]ā€¦ In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Donā€™t let them take yourĀ freedom.ā€
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022

@GavinNewsom:
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Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.

Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.

Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your fā€”ing hands.

#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.

#CassidyHutchinson: Thatā€™s correct. That is my understanding.

#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes maā€™am.
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ā€œThat could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortionā€”on the order of the U.S. Supreme Courtā€¦ They will now wield [power] however they wantā€¦to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.ā€@maddow

ā€œWhat makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Courtā€¦would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? Iā€™ll tell you the answer: THEY WONā€™Tā€¦as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our countryā€¦ā€
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
ā€œ[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ā€˜60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.ā€™ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesnā€™t, I want to know why it doesnā€™t.ā€
Jane Elliott
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Just 3 minutes after President* Trumpā€™s #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking ā€œcourage,ā€ a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.

#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings

ā€œDr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign wasā€¦a coup in search of a legal theory.ā€
Judge David Carter 3/28/22

#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
ā€œI've lost my name [and] sense of securityā€”all because a group of peopleā€¦scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.ā€
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
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ā€œPresident* Trumpā€¦followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giulianiā€”to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulentā€¦ Millions of Americans believed him.ā€

#January6thHearings:
ā€œThe Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ā€˜The Official Election Defense Fund.ā€™ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.ā€

#January6thHearings:
ā€œI said to him: ā€˜Are you out of your fā€”ing mind?ā€™ I said, ā€˜I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.ā€™ā€
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21

@AccountableGOP šŸ¼ #January6thCommitteeHearings:
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ā€œI made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolenā€¦which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshitā€¦ The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.ā€ Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: ā€œDid that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?ā€

Ivanka Trump: ā€œIt affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.ā€

#January6thHearings:
ā€œAny legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States ā€” all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.ā€
Bennie Thompson

#January6thHearings:
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It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (šŸŽ„:#RealSports 2014)

Gun show loopholes still exist.

Senate Republicans wonā€™t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
ā€œWe are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movementā€¦ Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.ā€@CoryBooker

ā€œWomen and mothers have political powerā€¦ We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers donā€™t act, hold them accountableā€” [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.ā€
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
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ā€œJustice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. Thatā€™s simply not true. Weā€™ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.ā€
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
ā€œJustice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.ā€
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
ā€œOut of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ā€˜Justiceā€™ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.ā€
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesmaā€¦
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ā€œWe now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.ā€ Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what ā€œis being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on boardā€¦ to take the next election regardless of who wins.ā€

@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
ā€œIn America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortableā€¦ If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.ā€
@Trevornoah #WHCD

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ā€œPresident* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the electionā€¦ Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.ā€

@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
ā€œIf I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.ā€
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22

ā€œLincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ā€˜destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time ā€” to both future Americans and the world ā€” that a government of the people could not survive.ā€™ā€@tribelaw
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ā€œ727 insurrectionists arrestedā€¦ Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?ā€ @colbertlateshow

ā€œThe threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. Debate them, voteā€¦ If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.ā€ @JoeBiden
ā€œOur democracy has been declining over the last 5 years. In fact, right after January 6 of last year, our country was classified as an anocracyā€¦ The most important thing is for citizens to be aware of the dangers of democratic decline.ā€
@bfwalter @AC360
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ā€œ[President* Trump] was in the dining room, gleefully watching on his TV as he often did ā€” ā€˜look at all of the people fighting for meā€™ ā€” hitting rewind, watching it againā€¦ā€
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN

ā€œWe must decide what kind of nation we [will] be. Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?ā€ @JoeBiden
ā€œ727 insurrectionists arrestedā€¦ Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?ā€ @colbertlateshow

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