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6 Jan, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Crowd here should fill in after Trump rally but pretty underwhelming rn
Proud Boys arrive
Folks crowding around phones to watch Trump speak
A q chant outside the senate
Some heckling of the press interspersed with vague threats
“DC police, stand with us.” Some frustration that protesters aren’t allowed into the building.
Signing the “declaration of authority”

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7 Jan
Best part of this is Domenech's smug aside about "the media" saying a protest was "justified because of the wars." Once Trump was president, "the wars" became a bad Democrat thing and the Federalist was against them, safe behind their keyboards. Image
I'm particularly sensitive to this because I was wrong about Iraq and once helped interrupt an anti-war protest, something I've regretted for 18 years. The protesters were right.
It's been written about, it comes up when I annoy people on here, but I was in college and joined some counter-protesters who were *invited onstage* to address the crowd anyway. But of a clue about which side was right...
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7 Jan
New Mexico's probably got the first House race of 2021 - the special for Deb Haaland's seat - and Rs are starting it by trying to overturn an election they lost by 11 percentage points.

A fun issue for the eventual GOP nominee to be asked about endlessly
This is one lawmaker, but the NM GOP gathered the Trump electors on December 14 and claimed that they represented an alternate slate.

One argument - I am serious - was that the state legislature didn't vote to approve every drop-box individually, making the election invalid.
This is a problem in Haaland's seat; if Rs turn out every single Trump voter there and Ds turn out just 4 in 5 Biden voters, Ds win.
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6 Jan
More of a second day story, but there are some swing seat Rs, like Mike Garcia, who announced that they'd support the electoral contest when they thought it would be a box-checking thing. How much of this do they own in 2022?
People forget things like shutdowns, but the footage of armed men storming the House at gunpoint is going to stick with people. And years of "we're the jobs, not mobs" party branding, poof.
Social justice protests are politics, but they're not about electoral politics. When they turn into riots, it's not because Democratic politicians told them to be "wild" and "stand up and stand by" to keep them in power.
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4 Jan
Pence tells the crowd he "needs you" to turn out the vote.

"We need you do the right thing January 6!" yells someone in the crowd, followed by applause.
There are some more shouts about the election certification. “We’ll have our day in Congress. We’ll hear the evidence," Pence says. "But tomorrow is Georgia’s day.”
("We'll have our day in Congress" is a phrase I have genuinely never heard before, replacing the more common "we'll have our day in court.")
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4 Jan
Rep. Austin Scott kicks off Pence rally by noting that Obama and Clinton get less than 100,000 absentee votes in Georgia, while Biden got many more.

"Something's not right with that. Now, he may end up getting sworn in as president..."

There are shouts of "no!" from the crowd.
But Scott ads that Biden is "less scary to me" if Perdue holds his Senate seat.
Rep. Drew Ferguson says that the Democratic agenda is straight of out "Communist China," citing "defund the police" (not part of the actual agenda) etc.

"How many of you think that sending children to colleges for indoctrination right now is a good idea?" he asks.
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3 Jan
Kim Klacik, a speaker at this Save America near Atlanta, jokes that she can't be called racist "because I'm a black woman," then compares Stacey Abrams to a "crazy ex-girlfriend" and describes Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner as "her sister who looks just like her, unfortunately."
This is followed by Klacik calling Ossoff a "domestic enemy" (due to a Chinese media company paying for one of his documentaries) - someone yells "soy boy" and she calls him that instead.
Small problem with flying in guest speakers: One called Warnock "Ralph" and one attacked "David Ossoff."
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