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"You can be in favor or against more government regulation and still have home in the Republican Party… The ONLY thing you cannot be is in FAVOR of VOTING RIGHTS and against #TheBigLie." @marceelias @DeadlineWH

PLEASE FOLLOW @DemocracyDocket for updates.
Our United States leadership struggle is no longer Left versus Right.

Our choice is now DEFEND DEMOCRACY or enable DICTATORSHIP.

To DEFEND DEMOCRACY, reject the radicalized Republican Party.

#DemocracyOrDictatorship #ResignRepublican @MeidasTouch
“We need TWO political parties in this country that are both LIVING IN REALITY and you (Republicans) ain’t one of them!!“ @TimRyan

#TimRyan @RepTimRyan #TimRyanForSenate
If we want this to CHANGE, begin with:

1. Abolish police unions.
2. Abolish law enforcement qualified immunity.
3. Make convicted police officers pay court judgments with their own pensions.

WITHOUT THESE CHANGES, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. #GeorgeFloydRewind
“What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution? …What is wrong with having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”
Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
“Guaranteeing the right to vote and ensuring every vote is counted has always been the most patriotic thing we can do… John Lewis said, ‘Freedom is not a state; it is an act.’ …We WILL act… For our democracy, for America itself, we MUST act.” @JoeBiden
Tom Brady: “Not a lot of people think that we could have won. And in fact I think about 40% of the people still don't think we won.”

President Biden: “I understand that.

“My name is @staceyabrams. I live in Georgia… It’s important to me that the Senator supports #S1 the #ForThePeopleAct to protect our freedom to vote. Thank you!”
@fairfightaction #RestoreTheVRA ✨#HotCallSummer🔥

Senators work for us. CALL: 888-453-3211☎️
“They yelled, ‘No, [the Capitol] is our house. President* Trump invited us here. We're here to stop the steal.’ I responded, ‘Well, I voted for Joe Biden. Does my vote not count? Am I nobody?’ That prompted a torrent of racial epithets.”
Officer Harry Dunn
“The indifference shown to my colleagues is DISGRACEFUL! Nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of [January 6] and in doing so betray their oath of office.”
Officer Michael Fanone, 7/27/21
“Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are being lauded as courageous heroes. And while I agree with that notion, why? Because they told the truth? Why is telling the truth hard? I guess in this America, it is.”
Officer Dunn to January 6 select committee, 7/27/21
“Our democracy and our vote are under attack. Right now dangerous legislation is being proposed across our country that limits our freedom to vote, cast our ballots, and have our votes counted.”
@staceyabrams @MichelleObama

CALL YOUR SENATORS 888-453-3211
"We've seen a lot in these last 4.5 years of Donald Trump and nothing, in my experience, was more serious than this attempt to overthrow a lawful election, corrupting and weaponizing the Department of Justice. Absolutely horrifying."
@SenBlumenthal @maddow
"The very purpose of this law is to chill people. Not just abortion providers in Texas, but to chill the entire community of people who want to help women right now into second guessing whether they’ll be on the hook."
Dahlia Lithwick @maddow #WHPA #Bounty
“What I believe is unprecedented is for a member of House leadership of either party to be unable to condemn incitement of violence against a member of this body… What is so hard about saying that this is wrong?”
@AOC House speech, November 17, 2021

“Why hasn’t a single Republican member of Congress that was involved with January 6 been subpoenaed?”
Number 4 of 19 shocking unanswered Jan 6 questions

@donwinslow #ShockingUnansweredJan6Questions
“Any communications Mr. Trump has with this committee will be under oath and if he persists in lying then, he will be accountable under laws of this great nation and subject to criminal penalties for every false word he speaks.”
@Liz_Cheney @January6thCmte
Dear @January6thCmte, PLEASE subpoena Donald Trump Jr, Mo Brooks, Ted Cruz, Eric Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Jim Jordan, MTG, Andy Biggs, Kevin McCarthy, Josh Hawley, Jared Kushner, Paul Gosar, Charles A. Flynn, Ivanka… and 45*.
@donwinslow #SubpoenasNow✨
“There's this very large mass of Trump supporters who believe both that Biden is an illegitimate president who stole the office, and that violence is justified.”
@bartongellman to @maddow re: “Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun” (theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…)
“Mark, the President* needs to tell the people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.” Laura Ingraham

“…Further evidence of President* Trump’s supreme dereliction of duty during those 187 minutes.” Liz Cheney

“Did Donald Trump — through action or inaction — corruptly seek to obstruct or impede Congress’s official proceedings to count electoral votes?”
Liz Cheney, re: Mark Meadows’s Trump coup attempt PowerPoint


“The committee has firsthand testimony now that [Trump] was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the attack on television [and] that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence.” @RepLizCheney✨
“[President* Trump] was in the dining room, gleefully watching on his TV as he often did — ‘look at all of the people fighting for me’ — hitting rewind, watching it again…”
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN

“We must decide what kind of nation we [will] be. Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?” @JoeBiden
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow

“The threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. Debate them, vote… If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.” @JoeBiden
“Our democracy has been declining over the last 5 years. In fact, right after January 6 of last year, our country was classified as an anocracy… The most important thing is for citizens to be aware of the dangers of democratic decline.”
@bfwalter @AC360
“Voting rights: It’s time to be a hero… Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote… We could be heroes. What do you say? Senators, don’t be on the wrong side of history.”


“This is gravest crime we could imagine that a president could commit. If you don’t at least look at this with the closest possible microscope, you are basically saying that a president is completely above the law.”
@gtconway3d @chrislhayes @allinwithchris
“The concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as American voters.”
Mitch McConnell #MitchPlease @MeidasTouch

“[Donald Trump] threatens prosecutors. He uses the same language that he knows caused the January 6th violence. And I think that it tells us that he clearly would do this all again if he were given the chance.”

@Liz_Cheney @January6thCmte #Jan6thCommittee
Question: Will you commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election? [asked on September 23, 2020]

Donald Trump: “We're gonna have to see what happens...”

“President* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election… Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”

@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
“If I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22

“Lincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ‘destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time — to both future Americans and the world — that a government of the people could not survive.’”@tribelaw
“January the 6th: We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next.”
Mitch McConnell, 2/8/22
“The [economic] data shows that GDP growth rises when Democrats get elected and falls when Republicans do. There are no exceptions.”



@StrikePac @RachelBitecofer #DemocratsForTheWin
“Putin is smart. He's taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I'd say that's pretty smart.”
Donald Trump 2/23/22 Mar-a-Lago fundraiser speech

“Very shrewd, very capable. I have enormous respect for him… He is very savvy… He would smile at me with a look that reminded me it's a tough world out there. I consider him an elegantly sophisticated counterpart…”
Mike Pompeo praising Putin 2/22/22

“I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. I said, ‘How smart is that?’ …Very savvy. I know him very well.”
Donald Trump 2/22/22 Clay Travis Buck Sexton show
“Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war. And now he and his country will bear the consequences…
In the contest between democracy and autocracy — between sovereignty and subjugation — make no mistake: Freedom will prevail.”
President Biden 2/24/22

“We must make sure within our own country, we are calling out those people who are giving aid and comfort to Putin, who are talking about what a genius he is, what a smart move it is — who are unfortunately being broadcast by Russian media.”@HillaryClinton
“@ZelenskyyUa’s address to the Russian (!) people might be the most moving speech that I've ever seen in my entire life. The whole world needs to see, understand and share this crucial Ukrainian message.”
@PMoelleken #IStandWithUkraine #IStandWithZelenskyy
“The problem is not that Putin is smart — which of course he's smart — but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb.”

Donald Trump praising Putin while insulting NATO
CPAC 2022 speech, 2/26/22 #PutinWarCriminal

“[Trump] has exhibited little regard for democracy or human rights… What we have now is a Trump policy agenda that aligns far more closely with the interests of Putin and Russia than the interests of the United States.”
Clinton campaign video October 2016
“We desire to see our children alive. I think it's a fair one. Yesterday 16 children were killed… We are fighting for survival… Life will win over death and light will win over darkness.”
Volodymyr Zelensky speech to European Parliament 3/1/22
“[Russian soldiers] don't know why they’re here… These are not warriors of a superpower. These are confused children who have been used. Take them home.”
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky speech 3/2/22
@ZelenskyyUa #StandWithUkraine️ #PutinWarCriminal
“We are all here defending our independence and our country. And it will stay that way. Glory to the men and women defending us. Glory to Ukraine.”
Zelensky selfie video, Kyiv 2/25/22


🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
“Take these seeds and put them in your pockets, so at least sunflowers will grow when you all die here… You came to my land. Do you understand? You are occupiers. You are enemies.”

In a world of Putins, be the Sunflower Seed Woman.

🌻 #SunflowerSeeds 🌻
“Good Lord, what do you want? Leave our land. If you don't want to leave now, sit down with me at the negotiating table. But not from 30 meters away… Sit down with me and talk. What are you afraid of? We're no threat to anyone.”
Zelensky to Putin, 3/3/22

“How long do you need? How many legs, arms, heads should be severed so that you understand? …If you don’t have the strength to provide a no-fly zone, then give us planes. Would that not be fair?”
Volodymyr Zelensky 3/3/22

#UkraineUnderAttack #CloseTheSky
“Even if Putin destroys all our Ukrainian cathedrals and churches, he will not destroy our faith, our sincere belief in Ukraine and God, our belief in people.”
President Zelenskyy vows to rebuild the country 3/3/22

#UkraineUnderAttack #StandWithUkraine 🌻
“In the battle between Democracy and Autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment. The world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security. Freedom will always triumph over tyranny.” President Biden

@pttrn_ntgrty @MeidasTouch #FundUkrainianFreedom
“I was shocked to see how many reporters — around the world, by the way — seem to think it’s more of a tragedy when white people have to flee their countries.” Trevor Noah

@Trevornoah @TheDailyShow #UkraineUnderAttaсk
“There are no humanitarian corridors… We will not forget. We will punish everyone who committed atrocities in this war on our land… There will be no quiet place on this earth for you. Except for the grave.”
Zelensky speech 3/6/22 🌻#ExceptForTheGrave🌻

“We will not give up. We will not lose. We will fight until the end. At sea, in the air... We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets.”
Zelensky UK speech


#StandWithUkraine🌻
“Our military replenished its arsenal with equipment it took on the battlefield. Enemy tanks, armored vehicles, ammo will now work for our defense. What could be more humiliating for the invaders? We’ll beat the enemy with its own weapons.”
Zelensky 3/9/22
“Air bomb on the maternity hospital is the final proof. Proof that the genocide of Ukrainians is taking place… You must tighten sanctions against Russia so that it no longer has any chance of continuing this genocide.”
Zelensky address 3/9/22 #CloseTheSky
Reminder: Donald Trump’s first impeachment was about his attempt to extort President Zelensky by withholding military defense aid (javelins) until Ukraine announced a bogus investigation of Joe Biden’s son.

Trump’s quid-pro-quo denial, sung Ramones-style:
"Supporting Ukraine is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing to do. If Russia prevails and Ukraine falls to Russian dominion, we can expect to see other attempts by Russia to expand its territory and its influence."
Marie Yovanovitch 11/15/19

“Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.”
President Zelensky address to US Congress 3/16/22

🌻 #StandWithUkraine️ #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine 🌻
“We are fighting for the values of Europe and the world, sacrificing lives in the name of the future… American people are helping not just Ukraine, but Europe and the world to keep our planet alive. To keep justice in history.”
Zelensky address Congress

“This is an illegal war. Your lives, your limbs, your futures are being sacrificed for a senseless war condemned by the entire world… Help me spread truth: Let your fellow Russians know the human catastrophe that is happening in Ukraine.” @Schwarzenegger

“It’s ridiculous that we’re focused on the border in Ukraine. I gotta be honest with you: I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.”
JD Vance 2/19/22
#OHSen

When politicians show us who they are, believe them.
“He was an awful president… If anybody tries to look back and say that Donald Trump would’ve been better at this it is just utter garbage… You can dislike Joe Biden but don’t pretend that Donald Trump is any good.”
@AdamKinzinger @jimsciutto @CNN 3/17/22
“I do think [Donald Trump] was responsible [for January 6]…
It appears that part of the plan was to send this group up to Capitol Hill. I think the whole idea was to intimidate Congress, and I think that that was wrong.”
Bill Barr 3/4/22 @LesterHoltNBC✨

“Trump is not the champion of besieged democracies. His initial instinct was to call Putin’s actions ‘genius’ and characterize his description of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border as peacekeepers as ‘very savvy.’” @JoyceWhiteVance

🌻@AccountableGOP🌻
“[96 year old Boris Romantschenko survived 4 Holocaust concentration camps] and he was killed by a Russian projectile that hit an ordinary Kharkiv high-rise building. Each passing day makes clear what Putin’s ‘denazification’ is.”
Zelensky address 3/21/22

“We WILL win… There will be new cities. There will be new dreams. There will be a new story. There will be; there’s no doubt… Ukraine was beautiful, but now it will become great.”
Zelensky WAS video 3/20/22

@ZelenskyyUa #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraine🌻
“Russia criminally interfered in the 2016 election, they did it to help Trump win, and the Trump campaign knew and expected to benefit. These are facts.” Elie Honig


@StrikePac #StrikePac #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
“If I am confirmed, I commit to you that I will work productively to support and defend the Constitution and the grand experiment of American democracy that has endured over these past 246 years.”
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson opening statement 3/21/22 #KBJ

“You are my harbinger of hope. This country is getting better and better and better… The greatest country in the world — the United States of America — will be better because of you. Thank you.”
Cory Booker to Ketanji Brown Jackson 3/23/22 #AJustice4All

“A Black woman I did not know was passing me on the sidewalk. And she looked at me, and I guess she knew how I was feeling. And she leaned over as we crossed and said, ‘Persevere.’”
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson persevere kindness story

via @SenAlexPadilla:
“Clarence Thomas voted to hide from the J6 committee and the American people, deeply damaging evidence of his wife’s misconduct. And it wasn’t just shoplifting. It was an attempt to overthrow our government.”
@glennkirschner2 @StephMillerShow @tommyxtopher
“President* Trump and Dr Eastman justified the plan with allegations of election fraud, but President* Trump likely knew the justification was baseless, and therefore that the entire plan was unlawful.”
U.S. District Court Judge David Carter

@PaulaReidCNN:
“The question here is: Can you subvert the Constitution and the law?”
Bob Woodward on 457 minutes gap in White House phone logs of calls placed to and by Trump (1/6/21, 11:17am—6:54pm)

What’s in the 7-hour gap?

@realBobWoodward #7Hours37Minutes #7HourGap
"Attorney General Garland, do your job." @RepElaineLuria


✨ @January6thCmte #MerrickGarlandDoYourJob ✨
Ginni Thomas texts conspired with Mark Meadows to overturn the 2020 U.S. election, and then, instead of recusing, Clarence Thomas voted to block investigators from seeing the evidence.



@SRuhle @BarbMcQuade:
“[Donald Trump] should not be asking a foreign country to investigate a political rival. That is just improper.”
Susan Collins first impeachment 2/4/20 @NorahODonnell


“It’s time for [Russian] people to call on the people of the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early and to again help our partner Trump to become President*.”
Russian state TV host Evgeny Popov 3/28/22

@JuliaDavisNews
“I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term.”
Donald Trump 3/29/22

What was Trump doing during #7HourGap?


@MeidasTouch #TrumpCoverUp #7hours37minutes
“The issue is not whether Trump lied about not knowing what a Burner Phone is. The real question is: WHY is he lying?”@MichaelCohen212

@January6thCmte #TrumpCoverUp #BurnerPhone

“If Trump’s plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution.”
Judge David Carter ruling against John Eastman, 3/28/22


“Trump’s ‘stolen election’ [lie] succeeded in provoking violence on January 6. On this point, there is no doubt. The committee has videos, interviews, and sworn statements from violent rioters demonstrating these facts.”
Liz Cheney 3/28/22 @January6thCmte

“The most important thing you can realize right now is that there are no rules in war. And this war is psychological. PSYOP.”
Ginni Thomas text to Mark Meadows 11/14/20

Clarence Thomas also believes no rules apply to them, and he protects Ginni Thomas:
“Federal law requires that spouses of the Supreme Court Justices disclose payments that they have received…[Ginni Thomas] received more than $680,000 from the Heritage Foundation and yet somehow the Thomases failed to report that.”
@SenWarren @chrislhayes
“Supreme Court Justices are subject to federal law… 28 U.S. Code §455 requires them to disqualify themselves from any proceedings in which their ‘impartiality might reasonably be questioned.’”@JaneMayerNYer


“Sadly, the people who helped deprogram Ginni were also apparently involved in right-wing causes. As with SO many former members, she was overly susceptible and went from one cult to another (The Cult of Trump).” @CultExpert

Ginni Thomas speaking in 1986:
“Donald Trump is the first president* in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.”
General Mattis, June 2020



@ProjectLincoln:
“Say [Russia] starts blatantly interfering in our election again to help Trump. Can you have the least bit of confidence he'll protect our national interest over his own? YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T — which makes him dangerous to this country.”
@AdamSchiff 1/23/20

“We defend our freedom. To live. To love. To sound. On our land, we are fighting Russia, which brings horrible silence with its bombs. The dead silence. Fill the silence with your music.”
Zelensky Grammy speech 4/3/22

🌻@ZelenskyyUa @johnlegend #GRAMMYs🌻
“Concentrated evil has come to our land. Murderers. Torturers. Rapists. Looters. Who call themselves an army… Why were ordinary citizens in a peaceful city tortured to death? How could women be raped and killed in front of children?”
Zelensky Bucha 4/3/22
“Are you ready to close the UN? Do you think the time of international law is gone? If not, then you must act immediately… The aggressor must be brought to peace immediately.”
Zelensky Speech UN video 4/5/22

@UN #StopRussianAgression #BuchaMassacre
“[Josh Hawley] is blocking the staffing of senior leadership of the Dept of Defense. And this comes from a guy who raised his fist in solidarity with the insurrectionists… A guy who, just about a month ago, voted against Ukraine aid.”
@brianschatz 4/7/22

“It’s absolutely clear that what President* Trump was doing — what a number of people around him were doing — that they knew it was unlawful. They did it anyway.”
Liz Cheney, CNN State of Union 4/10/22 #CNNSOTU

@Liz_Cheney @CNNSotu
“Please give me something to work with. I just need to know what I should be saying. Please tell me what I should be saying.”
Mike Lee texts to Mark Meadows 11/20/20
[begging him to justify overturning 2020 election]

🎥:@georgehahn
“I know that hate will only win if people like me stand by and let it happen… Call me whatever you want. I know who I am. I know what faith and service mean, and what it calls for in this moment. We will not let hate win.”
Senator @MalloryMcMorrow 4/19/22
“It think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you [Trump] should resign… I’ve had it with this guy [Trump]. What he did was unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it.”
Kevin McCarthy audio tape 1/10/21

#Maddow @maddow
“Trump and Kevin McCarthy did speak by phone last night, and Trump was not upset — at least for now — in part because McCarthy did not follow through with his plan to tell Trump to resign.”
@MZanona @therecount 4/22/22

#ResignKevin thiswillnotpass.com
“Trump and I, we've had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my God, I hate it. From my point of view, he's been a consequential president*. But today — all I can say is COUNT ME OUT. Enough is enough.”
Lindsey Graham 1/6/21 after the attack

“[Trump] bears responsibility for his words and actions. No ifs, ands, or buts. I asked him personally today… He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. And he needs to acknowledge that.”
Kevin McCarthy audio 1/11/21 ✨ #McCarthyTapes

“Kevin McCarthy [in embracing cancel culture] called for more members of his caucus — other Republican members of Congress — to have their Twitter accounts cut off. The same way that Trump was cut off from Twitter.”

@jmartNYT @alexburnsNYT #McCarthyTapes
“How would [Jan 6 mob] know Mike Pence was the proper target of their wrath? …When I heard that he said, ‘I’m not getting in that car,’ that was utterly chilling to me. Those are six of the most chilling words in American history.”
@RepRaskin @chrislhayes
Steve Scalise 1/10/21: “It’s potentially illegal what he’s doing.”

Kevin McCarthy: “He’s putting people in jeopardy. And he doesn’t need to be doing this. We saw what people would do in the Capitol.”

#McCarthyTapes @January6thCmte thiswillnotpass.com
“Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away too?”
Kevin McCarthy to GOP leaders 1/10/21

In a moment of clarity, Kevin McCarthy openly hoped that big tech would invoke cancel culture to strip Republican members of Congress of their social media accounts:
“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”

@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD

“Fox News, I’m really sorry your preferred candidate lost the last election. To make it up to you, I’m happy to give my Chief of Staff to you all so he can tell Sean Hannity what to say everyday,” President Joe Biden jokes at #WHCD.

@JoeBiden @POTUS @Acyn
“69% of people across this country — across this country, red states and blue states, old people and young people — want #RoeVsWade to maintain as the law of the land… We have a right. Extremists? We’ve heard enough from extremists.”
@SenWarren @ewarren✨
“How dare they tell a woman what she can do and cannot do with her own body. HOW DARE THEY. How dare they try to stop her from determining her own future.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speech to Emily’s List 5/3/22

@VP @KamalaHarris @emilyslist #RoeVsWade
“Roe vs Wade is an important precedent of the Supreme Court.”
Samuel Alito confirmation hearing 2006 #RoeVWade

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.”
Justice Alito 2022

Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas testifying under oath:
“They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own… No neonatal care, no day care, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool…”
George Carlin

“So go, be unafraid. We will not be delayed. We will not be masquerade to the tale of a handmaid. We will not let Roe v. Wade slowly fade, because when we show up today, we’re already standing up with the tomorrow we made.”
Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman)
“There's incredible pressure on you all to deliver heat instead of shed light, because the technology is changing so much. The system is changing. But it matters… The truth matters. American democracy is not a reality show.”
@JoeBiden #WHCADinner 4/30/22

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“These Bubba the Love Sponge tapes should be distributed everywhere so every COMPASSIONATE person can hear just how Tucker Carlson REALLY thinks about women.” @JohnFugelsang @StephMillerShow

Re-upping @mmfa audio in light of Matt Gaetz’s TERRIBLE actions:
“Tucker Carlson says he has no recollection of what Matt Gaetz is talking about. Generally Gaetz appears to be saying she was 18 by the time he bought her airline tix and hotel rooms so technically the federal charges fail. Not a great look. Going to get messier.” @harrylitman 🎯
Reminder: Tucker Carlson is a millionaire paid by billionaires.
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May 13, 2021
January 6 was a failed attempt to overthrow American democracy.

By purging Liz Cheney, the Republican Party completed its transformation into a fascist, Authoritarian cult.

OUR DUTY as Americans is to DEFEND DEMOCRACY and #RejectGOPFascism. @MeidasTouch
“I am sure Matt Gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today.”

That evergreen sentence was uttered by Fritz Scheller, lawyer for Joel Greenberg, associate of Matt Gaetz (Q-FL), on April 8, 2021:
“One of the most influential Dark Money groups in Republican circles is WRITING VOTER SUPPRESSION LAWS IN SECRET to make it harder for Black, Brown, and Young people to be able to VOTE.” @AriBerman to @chrislhayes

“Keep pointing this out.” @brooklynmarie
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May 10, 2021
#ClangClangClangWentJoshHawley
Yap, yap, yap went Ted Cruz
“Crap, crap, crap” went McCarthy
‘Cause his party continued to LOSE …

🌈 Thank you @RandyRainbow for this lovely little ditty. 🌈
“I want people to understand the significance of January 6… I want people to understand that thousands of rioters came to the Capitol hell-bent on violence and destruction and murder." DC Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone 4/27/21 @donlemon @CNNTonight

“The President* of the United States sending an angry violent mob to disrupt proceedings at the Capitol cannot stand… This is not something we can look past or pretend didn’t happen or move on… We’ve got to make sure this never happens again.” Liz Cheney
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