Here's a few more details I didn't have the space to include in this story ↓: bit.ly/39koeyw
After the shelter-in-place order ended, Rep. Keating went over to his friend's office across the hall. Rep. Juan Vargas of California was sitting there with two firefighter axes that had been mounted on his wall. "It wasn't a joke," Keating said. "He'd been prepared to use them."
Pressley's staff used to post mugshots of dangerous people flagged by police on an office wall. But the threats became so routine that they took them down and put them in a binder. The wall is now papered with notes of love. @emarvelous had it first here. 19thnews.org/2020/12/ayanna…
The day after the armed insurrection Rep. Trahan was on the first flight back to Massachusetts with several maskless Trump supporters. "It was a beautiful day until Antifa came along," she heard one of them falsely claim.
She sat there saddened and exhausted having slept only about an hour after Congress spent most of the night counting electoral votes. "It was less than 24 hrs and the narrative was not that they had committed an act of terror but that they were patriots," Trahan said.
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