@RepJasonSmith. Your staffer didn't get this email from @RepCindyAxne's staffer because you're a Republican. It came to you because you earned your power through a democratic election and then used that power to try and overturn our democracy. Not once, but three times.
First, when you signed onto the Amicus brief to the Supreme Court asking them to throw out the certified results of free and fair elections in GA, MI, PA and WI. projects.propublica.org/represent/memb…
Second, when you voted to reject the will of the voters in Arizona in the late hours on January 6th, AFTER terrorists had attacked the Capitol seeking to accomplish the same anti-democratic ends. clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll0…
Third, a few hours later when you also voted to reject the will of the voters in Pennsylvania, again choosing to side with the terrorists rather than with our democracy. clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll0…
So you incited people to believe that you can overturn an election, watched those people attack the Capitol seeking to accomplish same, watched five people die and then voted to align yourselves with them two more times.
And now you have the gall to complain that you're being held accountable for your choices.

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28 Jan
Expect to see a lot more stories like this. But let's also use this to have a more sophisticated conversation about why the rising tide of cheaper, cleaner energy - like all prior energy transitions - doesn't necessarily lift all boats. Brief thread: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
1/ First to state the obvious: the domestic fossil fuel industry in the US wouldn't exist without massive subsidies. $650B/year according to the IMF. imf.org/en/Publication…
2/ That in turn means that the transition to cleaner, cheaper energy is delayed by those market distortions. Taking away the subsidies is smart economic and environmental policy. It is FANTASTIC that @POTUS is doing so.
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25 Jan
When Trump won in 2016, lots of Americans knew who he was. They listened to what he said and understood the stakes. So they peacefully protested, marched and organized. @GOPLeader didn't.

That is a judgement on him, not us.
@GOPLeader is descended from a long strain in American history who excuses violence from the privileged as the result of non-violent protest from the less fortunate. Equating an attack on the Capitol to Women's Marchers with #resist signs is only the latest incarnation.
Take this, for example. Do you read this as a righteous call for good trouble, or as cancel culture? @GOPLeader argues the latter.
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21 Jan
@GOPLeader's utter lack of a moral or factual north star will be his legacy.

400K dead of COVID. Massive WH criminality. Surging white supremacy. Record-breaking deficits. Frayed international alliances. January 6.

And a man with the gall to call himself a leader says this.
Look: unity is important right now, and some may see this as provocative. But we cannot move forward if we just sweep everything that got here under the rug. We tried that after the Civil War. It didn't work.
A commitment to unity and accountability shouldn't be partisan. But as long as it is, we have to be call out those fanned the flames of insurrection and now call for bipartisan unity to avoid personal accountability.
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21 Jan
A few thoughts and some reflection on the day while memories are fresh. In electing @JoeBiden, we just elected a very good man to be our President.

We just might have elected a great one. Thread:
1/ I woke up this morning reflecting on a fascinating and thoughtful interfaith conversation we had last night with @edstetzer (and others), focused on how we heal from January 6. For the full discussion, see here. facebook.com/RepSeanCasten/…
2/ My opening comments focused on the fact that America has only twice been attacked from within. At Fort Sumter in 1861 and earlier this month.
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Since you asked, here is peer reviewed research of large scale epidemiological data showing that COVID-19 spread significantly slowed down in states that mandated mask wearing vs those that didn't. healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…
In other words, people are alive today because other people paid attention to science and wore a mask. That is nothing to be angry about.
Here is a similar study looking at international data that found slower spread in countries with more cultural receptivity to mask wearing. researchgate.net/publication/34…
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1/ For context: this was the speech he gave the day before he was assassinated. He was facing tension from within the civil rights community asking whether he was past his prime. His agenda was to expand the cause beyond issues of race to launch a poor people's campaign.
2/ The timelessness. He understood then, as was true in reconstruction as is still true today that the biggest barrier to racial equality in the US has always been those who would convince poor white people that they are better than poor black people.
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