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7 Jan, 10 tweets, 5 min read

How did Liz Cheney become the only Republican to attend the House of Representatives’ Jan. 6 memorial? Let’s explore the actions of a complicit Republican caucus one year after Trump’s attempted coup.
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The key allies in Trump’s efforts to undermine the 2020 election, "Trump’s coup accomplices," as @digby56 notes, primarily come from the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
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Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania traveled to Trump’s campaign headquarters to hash out a strategy of publicly attacking the election. The two have since been slapped with subpoenas by the Jan. 6 committee, as @jonsskolnik reports.
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Every Republican representing Georgia in Congress quickly signed onto a letter sent to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as part of Trump’s pressure campaign.
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@AmandaMarcotte

One month after the election, as @AmandaMarcotte reported, Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama were still falsely claiming that Trump won. A majority of House Republicans refused to publicly acknowledge Biden’s win.
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The two, with over a dozen other House Republicans like Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina and Andy Biggs of Arizona, have been accused of helping to plan Jan. 6. "If they did," Brooks said of his staff. "I'd be proud of them."
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Josh Hawley was the first GOP senator to say he would object to Biden’s win.

"There's no doubt that the damage inflicted on America's political system by the toxic tire-fire of the 2020 election will get even worse," @andohehir predicted at the time.
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Retiring Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois said he warned House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy of the potential for violence before the Jan. 6 riot.
"Kevin dismissively responded with 'ok Adam, operator next question.' And we got violence."
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Republican rabblerouser Marjorie Taylor Greene spent much of her first year promoting the Jan. 6 riot, going on a grievance tour with Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz to protest the prosecution of insurrectionists.
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Greene also joined with Texas Republican Louis Gohmert to push legislation preventing the awarding of Congressional Gold Medals to the Capitol Police and D.C. Metro Police.
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