Thread by @capitolhunters

What motivated #SeditionHunters? For many, a sense that democracy itself was & is under attack. The Joint Chiefs' letter of Jan 11 suggested the chain of command was fraying. A new book validates this sense - Gen. Milley feared a 'Reichstag moment' 1/
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Many of us asked ourselves - what if we were Germans in 1933, watching events unfold? When do you know that it's time to drop everything, put your life on hold and go to work? Turns out Milley made the same analogy... 2/

There've been over 4 news articles about the #SeditionHunters community; all use words like "motley", "amateurs", "sleuths" playing detective. But whenever the U.S. was attacked, citizens have stepped up, always, to do their part. In uniforms they don't look so "motley"... 3/

So we don't have uniforms, or guns. Doug Mastriano called the #SeditionHunters "keyboard warriors" after they caught him on video strolling through the insurrection. That's an honorable term! Plenty of "keyboard warriors" have contributed in the past too. 4/

Gen. Milley is a smart guy; the Reichstag analogy is telling. In 1933, Nazis had only 1/3 of the vote, but had infiltrated police. Hitler claimed "Communists" were a danger, attacked his own Capitol, & used the chaos as an excuse to invoke martial law & seize absolute power. 5/

Was Jan 6th a Reichstag moment in the U.S.? Are more attempts coming? The Joint Chiefs' Jan 11 letter means they didn't think the danger was over. We can wait and find out the hard way - or we can investigate and prosecute fully, all the way to the top. 6/
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Trump has now weighed in: "if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley".

Hopefully people will now understand how serious Jan 6 was - & continues to be, as other players take over the playbook 7/
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