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Jul 12, 2022, 23 tweets

Today's #January6thCommitteeHearings starts soon, are you watching?

We hope you'll join us after the hearing for a debrief!
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Ms. Cheney talking about "willful blindness" of Trump.

Breakdown from Daniel Richman 👇: lawfareblog.com/actual-knowled…

Proposed Trump order to seize voting machines.

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Broke the thread, here's the next one:

"The Tweet," Trump's explosive tweet which repeated The Big Lie.

Pro-Trump organization changing their scheduled meeting to January 6.

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For later, not right now obviously--- but @qjurecic and @evelyndouek did an interview with @katestarbird on The Big Lie and social media ecosystems in 2020, Bookmark for later--

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@qjurecic @evelyndouek @katestarbird Pro-Trump social media messages in the lead up to Jan 6.

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More social media posts in the lead up to January 6.

The Cmte says that following Trump's tweet, these violent posts showed a "laser-focus' on the date of January 6.

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Phew, okay recess now. A lot to take in!

Don't forget, we will be breaking it down tonight at 4pm ET or 30 minutes after the hearing ends.

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Head of Florida Oath Keepers declaring an alliance.

Various posts showing alliance coordinating January 6.

Trump Allies with militia members.

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We are having senior editor @rparloff on our Twitter Spaces panel tonight because he is our resident expert on the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on January 6.

Join us tonight but bookmark his articles (or podcasts) too.

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@rparloff Communication between Oath Keepers and Roger Stone.

Roger Stone being guarded by Oath Keepers.

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Texts between Kyle Kremer and Katrina Pierson about "crazies" invited to speak at Trump's rally.

Katrina Pierson text to Mark Meadows asking to talk.

Pierson email on how Trump described his rally.

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*Kylie

The committee shows that the call to march on the Capitol was not spontaneous, but planned.

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Senior editor @qjurecic might have a thing or two to say about today's hearing so be sure to join our Twitter Spaces tonight.

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@qjurecic ICYMI, per @cspan-- Kylie Kremer is the executive director of Women for America First, one of the pro-Trump groups organizing for Jan 6.

Pierson was a spokesperson for Trump's campaign.

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Trump tweet from Jan 5.

After the Cmte shows this tweet, they play an interview with a Twitter employee who described feeling on January 5th that "people were going to die" unless there was an intervention.

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Trump draft speech with additional line about Mike Pence, calling for him to intervene in the 2020 election. Cmte calls it "part of pressure campaign" against Pence.

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Trump initially was persuaded to remove the Mike Pence language from the speech, but Trump later ordered for it to be re-inserted.

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Texts between Brad Parscale and Katrina Pierson after the events of January 6. Parscale feels "guilty for helping [Trump] win," and says that Trump's rhetoric "killed someone."

Pierson says "You do realize this was going to happen."

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Bookmark for later--- Witness Van Tatenhove says everything goes back to Bundy. (paraphrase)

@S_R_Anders did an interview on extremism in America and the road from Bundyville.

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We will be meeting at 4 15 PM ET to debrief. Come with questions.

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