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6 Jan, 18 tweets, 6 min read
At least six House Democrats have already called for Trump's impeachment for inciting today's violent coup attempt:

Cicilline
Moulton
Omar
Pressley
Takano
Wexton

Please let me know if you see others.
NY Rep. Mondaire Jones has also called for impeachment
Hawaii Rep. Kai Kahele is also on board with impeachment. Notably, he just replaced Tulsi Gabbard, who voted "present" on Trump's first impeachment
Things are moving very fast. We're now up to at least 13 House Democrats who have called for Trump's impeachment. Publicly viewable whip list here: dkel.ec/3nmCJHl
This is a very big one: Carolyn Bourdeaux, who was just elected to a historically red district in the Atlanta suburbs and was the only Dem to flip a GOP House seat w/o a boost from court-ordered redistricting, just came out for impeachment
MA Rep. Katherine Clark, who is now the #4-ranking Dem in the House, has called for Trump's "removal" but hasn't yet used the word "impeachment." Out of an abundance of caution, we're not adding her to the whip list just yet, but this is still big
Note that we're not tracking calls to invoke the 25th Amendment in our whip list, just calls for impeachment, because Democrats have control only over the latter
We're also not tracking supporters of Cori Bush's expulsion resolution. Cosponsors of that measure will appear on congress.gov
Does anyone have a clip of this?
We're now up to 20 House Democrats who are calling for Trump to be impeached. As several people have pointed out, that's more the the number of terrorists arrested so far as a result of today's attempted coup dkel.ec/3nmCJHl
WHOA. Conservative Blue Dog Rep. Jim Cooper just came out for impeachment
So far, we have 35 House Democrats—and zero Republicans—on our Trump impeachment whip list. Find the complete version here: dkel.ec/3nmCJHl
Now up to 42 House Dems calling for Trump's impeachment, just 7 hours after the first (David Cicilline) did so. I'd stress that these calls are coming from every corner of the party: moderates, progressives, freshmen, veterans, every region.

Full list: dkel.ec/3nmCJHl
I started today triumphantly updating my long-dormant filibuster reform whip list. I ended it updating an impeachment whip list instead. My heart is heavy.
It's truly snowballing. In the 20 mins since my last tweet, we're now up to 48 House Dems for impeachment *that we're aware of*. Keep in mind that we have to research these all one by one. Thanks to the MANY folks who have been helping out!
50 Democrats are now on record supporting impeachment of Donald Trump. Note that this all began just 8 hours ago, when Rep. @davidcicilline said, "This is outrageous, and the president caused it. We should impeach and convict him tomorrow."

Whip list: dkel.ec/3nmCJHl
I'm signing off for the night w/52 names on the impeachment whip list. Let me know if you see any new names—and please include links. (Also, I'm not cataloging people calling for the 25th amendment to be invoked) Thanks again to everyone who helped today

dkel.ec/3nmCJHl
Good morning. We're now up to 58 House Democrats calling for Trump's impeachment. That's up from 52 when I signed off just after midnight last night. However, it's not the flood we'd need to see this happen. Please call your representatives dkel.ec/3nmCJHl

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