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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A pattern that the GOP is an authoritarian crime regime:

Each time Trump has been caught red-handed committing crimes, in unison the GOP attacks the investigators & whistleblowers, as intimidation & provoking real threats of violence.

Raffensperger is just the latest target.
It's scary. An associate of Donald Trump Jr emailed a threat to go after my job with a made-up story a year ago. Then there are the anti-semitic trolls.
But I can't even imagine what Marie Yovanovich, Vindman, Raffensperger & their families are experiencing.
I kept the receipts.
I saved twitter screenshots and the email.
We all should keep these receipts from 2017-2020.
Thank goodness the real whistleblowers and public officials kept their receipts.
Justice is coming.
(Screenshot of the email from Donald Trump Jr's friend. Clearly a bogus story. I shared the threat with my administration, and they were totally supportive. I'm not including his email address or identity. For now.)

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6 Jan
The joint congressional session just started. Pence had already issued a statement rejecting the Trump “theory” that a VP can unilaterally ignore certified electors, consistent with @maggieNYT reporting.
But Pence didn’t read it live (yet)...
Thread.
nytimes.com/2021/01/05/us/…
Here is Pence’s statement rejecting the crazy coup theory, but stretching to “both sides” this debate with a strawman: “Others believe that electoral votes should never be challenged in a joint session... Neither view is correct.”

Who says “never”? Sincerely I have no idea.
3/ As the states are called alphabetically, @amyklobuchar recognizes Arizona's electors for Biden as valid.
Far-right nut from Arizona @DrPaulGosar rises to challenge the Arizona electors, and cheers and applause erupt from the nut gallery.
Shame on them.
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3 Jan
Trump said: “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than [Biden has]. Because we won the state.”

Arguably, Trump criminally solicited fed and state election fraud:
See GA Code § 21-2-604, 21-2-597
h/t @alegalnerd @lewoofla
GA 21-2-604a1
A person commits...criminal solicitation to commit election fraud...when, w/ intent that another person engage in...a felony, he solicits,requests,commands,importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct.
law.justia.com/codes/georgia/…
GA Code 21-2-586
(b) If the Sec of State or any employee willfully destroys, alters, or permits to be destroyed or altered any document described in subsection a... the Secretary of State or employee of his or her office shall be guilty of a felony.
law.justia.com/codes/georgia/…
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3 Jan
The Hawley-Cruz faction & most House GOP are now "Bleeding Kansas" Republicans:

I've been thinking about Kansas 1854-59 for a while.
Let's be clear about what happens when political parties reject elections and democracy:
Violence & bloodshed.
Thread.
2/ The Compromise of 1850 & the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 undid the Missouri Compromise (see map), leaving the question of slave state/free state to voters in the territories, leading to local violence, disputed elections, & ultimately the Civil War.
images.app.goo.gl/PNerRpPjGay6z6…
3/ The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened what would become Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana to a territory-by-territory vote on slavery vs. freedom.

Pro-slavery Missourians moved west into Kansas to vote for the westward expansion of slavery.
images.app.goo.gl/zL4ZYMss229Mw1…
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30 Dec 20
My vote for Tweet of the year:
Leading Republican @SenMikeLee confesses that they don’t believe in democracy...

but some other values that reflect theocracy, plutocracy, and authoritarian order. Perfectly explains GOP efforts to support a coup.

Plus a chef’s kiss misspelling.
True story thread: I met Senator Lee when he and I won Harvard Federalist Society Awards (they honored my open-minded teaching, as a liberal prof open to conservative & libertarian ideas). I gave a talk about judicial independence and the importance of the rule of law... 1/
2/ I said the rule of law is not a Republican idea or a Democratic idea, but among the core ideas of republicanism and democracy, along w/ liberty and equality.
@SenMikeLee gets up & says something like, “Folks, we need more liberals like that. And more professors like that.”...
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29 Dec 20
Polling aggregators like @FiveThirtyEight should take a hard look @Rasmussen_Poll's threads yesterday spreading false pro-coup propaganda in favor of Pence overturning an election.
@NateSilver538 et al. exclude unreliable polling firms.
@Rasmussen_Poll has burned its credibility.
Here's the @Rasmussen_Poll thread, first quoting Stalin. Not ironically. It gets worse, because it is serious about authoritarian tactics to override an election.
@Rasmussen_Poll's next tweet is false and a flagrant misrepresentation of the 12th Amendment, as a matter of basic reading comprehension:
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28 Dec 20
Republicans file another delusional lawsuit today:
Gohmert v. Pence.
Text of complaint linked here.
Last week, I explained why Pence can't overturn the 2020 election b/c of the 12th A. & the Electoral Count Act.
This GOP complaint is nonsense.
/Thread/
electioncases.osu.edu/wp-content/upl…
2/ My thread last Friday here:
"I've been getting inquiries worrying that Pence will block the Biden electoral college win when he presides in the Senate on Jan 6.
Don't worry.
Neither the 12th A nor the Electoral Count Act gives him that power."
3/ I turned the thread into this blogpost linked below (for easier sharing with my non-Twitter-using anxious older relatives).
Next, I'll explain why this new lawsuit is baseless and moot.
shugerblog.com/2020/12/26/pen…
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