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6 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Degree of difficulty of what Dems did in GA cannot be overstated.

Rs had incumbency/money advantage, and a rigged runoff process which has made it historically impossible for Dems to win.

Despite all that Dems outperformed Biden - powerful repudiation of Trump/McConnell/GOP.
And today what's left of the GOP is going to beclown themselves, further reinforcing the righteousness of the rejection of Trump's politics we've seen.

Opening up of the New South/Hispanic SW by Dems in recent years - around new electorates - has allowed Democrats to strategically gain a degree of political power to match their ongoing popular vote advantage.

Like with GA, there was a Southwest project in the Democratic Party, and it has turned a region which in 2004 yielded no EC votes, no Senate seats to one today where Dems have all 8 Senate seats, all EC votes.

ndn.org/blog/2020/12/a…
When I ran for DNC Chair in 2004-2005, one of my core planks was to open up the early Dem primary window, so Black and Hispanic voters would become far more central to our politics. This effort ended up adding NV, SC to early calendar - and it has changed Dem Party, nation.

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7 Jan
On Jan 6th Trump extremists not only broke into the Capitol while the VP was there/both Houses in session, but appeared in capitols in at least 20 states.

Not plausible FBI/DHS didn't understand enormity of what was happening, threat level. (1/x)

Current heads of DOJ, DHS, DOD all acting, hacks.

DOJ, DOD heads active enforcers of "violent left wing" fictions of the summer/fall, very clued into domestic threat environment.

DHS Acting Sec Wolf OUT OF THE COUNTRY for a domestic event of this magnitude. (2/x)
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7 Jan
Are we really supposed to believe, given the level of organization evident across the country by Trump extremists, that US security services were unprepared for what happened in Washington/other capitols on Jan 6th?

DHS Sec out of the country, DC Nat’l Guard held back....
We know the acting AG is very focused on the concept of sedition and insurrection.

Are we going to see a DOJ led task force established today to ID, pursue and prosecute the criminals who broke into the Capitol? wsj.com/articles/top-j…
2 men who made it in the Senate chamber yesterday had zip ties, meaning they were planning on taking hostages. Like in MI wit Gov. Whitmer.

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Precedent here of sending criminal referrals to FBI/DOJ is important. It's a vital tool at Congress' disposal that may need to get employed a great deal over next few yrs as we learn more about the misdeeds of the Trump era.

Important leadership from @tedlieu @RepKathleenRice.
There are at least three live criminal investigations into Trump which can begin the afternoon of Jan 20th - the Stormy affair, CIA referral from Ukraine fiasco, and now Georgia.

Repeated pattern makes prosecution more likely.
Documenting potential crimes by Trump, his family and his staff helps create a record for any future prosecution or court activity. The more evidence of wrongdoing the more likely prosecution and conviction are.

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President pressuring the GA Sec of State to cheat on his behalf. Yesterday. It was recorded.

Why one wonders is the President so desperate to stay in office? I don't believe this is just abt his ego - he seems genuinely worried abt what will happen if he loses....jail? Novichok?
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The US needs an urgent, public conversation on how best to speed up our vaccination regime. There is an alarming lack of urgency to the current efforts, and we can't expect the Biden team to be able to make huge changes right away. Offer some initial thoughts in a thread below...
And it needs to be a national project, all of us working together, and not something left to the states. Huge opportunity for the Biden team to create a sense of common purpose in our collective defeat of the virus - not something he did, but something we all did together.
Here's a smart doc making the case for rethinking our current strategy

Current leisurely Trump approach did not take into account 1) dramatic spread in recent weeks 2) emergence of the variant. We have to mass vaccinate now as way to slow spread/variant.
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Essentially the only strategy Trump has had to defeat COVID was to hope vaccines would come quickly. They have - but of course this godawful corrupt Administration had no plan for how people would actually get the vaccine.

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The failure to establish a national and testing regime, with the feds working alongside the states in a single command and control structure, is haunting the vaccine rollout now. There simply is no federal system to oversee the vaccine rollout - it has never been established.
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