(🔐) ICYMI: Yesterday PROOF answered the second-most-asked question of the PROOF project: "Who's reading your research?" The index below—which includes hundreds and hundreds of names you know from national politics, media and popular culture—will stun you. sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-some-n…
(PS) As I mentioned when I published this index yesterday—and as I noted in the brief essay introducing the index—what you see here is ~30% of what the finished archive will look like. For instance, it names the 79 people at CNN who follow PROOF, but the final tally will be 100+.
(PS2) For those curious about the Congressional list—currently at 50+ (see the list for all names and affiliations)—my guess is that it will land someone between 60 and 70 by the final tally, but it could be higher—this whole indexing process has consistently surprised/amazed me.
(PS3) I promise to keep improving the list. Besides adding hundreds of names since yesterday, I'm now distinguishing between MPs and members of the House of Lords in the UK section, adding new Australian and British pubs and much more. Check back in occasionally to see the edits.

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29 Jul
These insurrectionists should already have been subjected to document preservation demands, subpoenas for documents and testimony, interrogations, seizures of digital equipment, Congressional questioning and more. Because nothing has been done, they get to do TV stunts like this.
It's essential that we no longer view these individuals as mere politicians. They're part of an active domestic insurgency that they perpetually incite with both their actions and words behind the scenes and their actions and words in public. They aim to overthrow our government.
This preposterous stunt is in many respects far more sinister than it seems. These are high-profile leaders of a domestic insurgency storming the federal facility where the domestic terrorists they lead are being held—and filming the storming to incite other domestic terrorists.
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29 Jul
This is how far behind most of the country is: the picture below has gone viral today as Americans "discover" that all of Trumpworld knew violence was coming January 6. The investigation of January 6 by independent journalists has moved so far beyond "What did Steve Bannon know?" Image
Prior to January 6, Trump was provided with a security assessment for the Capitol by the Secret Service, per Reuters. Bannon was Trump's top political advisor post-election according to numerous media outlets. His minions Stockton and Lawrence were working with the Oath Keepers.
Every attendee at a Trump "war room" event on January 5 either fled the city or fled the Capitol area either before Trump's speech or just after it. None went to the Capitol. The reason is that all of Trump's inner circle knew violence was coming. And that includes Trump himself.
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28 Jul
(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: Congress's investigation of Trump's armed revolt has just begun. If you're unaware of the work indie journalists have been doing on this historic topic, PROOF has you covered. Read these articles to catch up—and please RT this thread! sethabramson.substack.com/p/exclusive-a-…
(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: You've heard about the hundreds of Trumpist foot soldiers the FBI has arrested—about 550 so far, with many more to come—but now is the time to get acquainted with the insurrection kingpins. The article below will help get you started. sethabramson.substack.com/p/a-comprehens…
(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: More than any federal criminal investigation in U.S. history—and make no mistake, the January 6 investigation is the largest FBI case in history—the key events of January 6 were filmed.

But *as important* are videos from *other* days. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-five-mus…
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28 Jul
(🔐) NEW at PROOF: Since I started this project in mid-2018, the top question I've been asked is, "Will Trump be held accountable?" The second most-asked question has been, "Is anyone who matters seeing your research?"

The second question is now answered. sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-some-n…
1/ This is an issue I should've addressed earlier, and I'm annoyed with myself that I didn't. Critics of the PROOF project benefitted enormously from me not having the time or energy to give readers a sense of how far and wide—in politics and media—PROOF research goes every day.
2/ This one weirdo, who's now been stalking me for 4+ years, asked rhetorically in a 2018 article, "Does anyone still read Seth Abramson?" I was so exhausted by stuff like that—that particular article said I was in a group with a bunch of people I didn't know—I just did nothing.
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26 Jul
(🔐) NEW: For just the second time, the Lost Classics of the 60s series has a subscriber-only entry. It took a lot of work, and is the series' strangest-ever entry. It's about novelty songs—but not like you think. I hope you'll subscribe, listen and share. sethabramson.substack.com/p/lost-classic…
1/ Included in this article is everything from a 20-minute story-joke-protest song to a song about a cartoon character, from heavy metal music with yodeling to an album about Middle Earth, from "wizard rock" to a song in a made-up language. And much more. Novelty music is so odd.
2/ What I try to do here is show how much more novelty music became in the Long 60s than just the sort of Justin Timberlake spoof—linked to here—we find in INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS. There was innovation in some such songs, a lot of "meta" content, and the birth of new genres of music.
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25 Jul
Political analysts who didn't understand what Trump meant when he said, in Phoenix, that certain legislators in Arizona want to go "several steps beyond" what anyone would expect them to do are AWOL from their jobs.

There is a plot afoot to try to "decertify" Arizona's electors.
Can Arizona decertify its electors? No—of course not. But was Arizona Senate president Karen Fann lying when she said the audit was about 2024—not 2020? Yes. Arizona legislators plan to decertify Biden electors—forcing a lawsuit to prevent other states from trying to do the same.
Trump's plan is to promote fake audits in every battleground state he lost that's controlled by Republicans, ending in a decertification of electors in those states. That'll force lawsuits that have to go to SCOTUS. Trump says SCOTUS can't overrule legislatures (which is insane).
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