"Can we hear it for constitutional patriots like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger," said @RepRaskin tonight.

"Progressives and liberals can never defeat fascism on their own."

"It is always progressives and liberals and the center right that come together to defend democracy."
"We saved democracy," says @RepJayapal of Jan 6.

"And when I say 'we' I am not talking about 'we members of congress.' I am talking about 'we the people'" she says, commending those who voted out Trump.

She adds there "wasn't enough courage" to convict Trump on impeachment.
DC Congresswoman @EleanorNorton pointed out that DC's local police department worked to defend the Capitol "yet House Republicans fight DC by fighting against the DC statehood bill only a few months after the attack."
"January 6 can either mark the end of our democracy or the beginning of our march towards expansion of rights and justice and equity and fairness for all," said @RepEscobar.

"And I choose the latter."
Senator @VanHollenForMD said that "while the violent mob failed to overturn the results of the election one year ago, that the 'big lie' did not end there."

He says he sees "the big lie materializing in a different form" of state-level voter suppression.
Here is my uncut video of the January 6 anniversary speeches by Representatives Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Veronica Escobar as well as Senator Chris Van Hollen.

As always, all footage available to license.

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27 Dec 21
Reminder: According to the IRS, if you stole property this year, you must return it to its rightful owner before New Years.

If you keep it, you will be required to declare its fair market value in the income section on your taxes.

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More end-of-year tax advice: According to the IRS, you may still be able to get a tax credit for your child, even if they were kidnapped this year.

The IRS only requires the child lived with you for half of the year before the date of the kidnapping.

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More advice: If you decide to snitch to the IRS for money this year, your “whistleblower’s award” will be taxable.

You may write off court costs/attorneys from the snitch tax, but not in excess of the award itself.

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23 Dec 21
Mainstream media continues to be plagued with use of the exonerative tense when it comes to government acts.

Nobody denies Kim Potter shot Daunte Wright, an act for which she has been convicted of a crime.

Still, the caption on the header image detaches her from her actions. Image
As all gun owners know, bullets don’t magically fly into people’s bodies.

A human being, through a decision or through negligence, fires a bullet, and the firearm is a tool to do so.

Mainstream media weaponizes grammar to separate people from actions, especially state agents.
To be clear, the problem of exonerative language blaming situations or tools for actions committed by people is not exclusive to government acts, nor to guns.

With narrow exceptions perhaps like self-driving cars, a person crashes a car.

A car does not spontaneously crash.
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19 Dec 21
Truckers are calling for a boycott of Colorado after mandatory minimum sentencing meant trucker Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, 23, got 110 years for an accident that left four dead.

He had no drugs/alcohol and government agrees it was an accident.

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Prosecutor Kayla Wildeman is absolutely ecstatic about the conviction of Aguilera-Mederos.

After achieving a 110-year prison term for the 23-year-old truck driver whose brakes failed (no drugs/alcohol), she calls a brake shoe trophy a “special gift.”

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Chief Deputy District Attorney Trevor Moritzky, who apparently gave Wildeman the brake shoe trophy, gave a misdemeanor plea deal (90 days jail) to a cop in 2017 who “brutally raped” an intoxicated arrestee in the back seat of his police car.

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18 Dec 21
Robert J. Contee, who has since become Chief of Police, once voted to overrule the firing of a DC officer who admitted to drunkenly attempting to solicit sex work and pointing his MPD-issued Glock at the sex worker when they refused, @DCist reports.

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Out of 24 cases in which MPD officers were found by MPD’s Disciplinary Review Division to have committed crimes and recommended for firing, the Adverse Action Panel blocked all but three firings.

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The cops got “an average of a 29-day suspension without pay. These officers amassed disciplinary records for domestic violence, DUIs, indecent exposure, sexual solicitation, stalking, and more. In several instances, they fled the scenes of their crimes.”

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15 Dec 21
NEW: I have obtained another independent videographer's complete recording of January 6 at the United States Capitol.

Later this afternoon, I'll be publishing all of the roughly 33 minutes of footage taken by @Paulisconi. Stand by.
These are the first 2 mins of footage shot by @Paulisconi on January 6.

He approaches the east side entrance and goes up the stairs, where the doors have already been breached.

Some Oath Keepers stand outside.

Note: It appears the mic he plugged into didn't work, so no audio.
On the east entrance, @Paulisconi's (audio-less) footage shows the fighting as police struggled to regain control from the crowd, both using riot weapons and attempting to calm them.

I've quote-tweeted my own shot from about the same time below.

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14 Dec 21
Today @RevDrBarber held a presser with @UniteThePoor for low-income workers outside the Hart Senate building, where he accused Senator Joe Manchin (D) of hiding "behind COVID" to keep the group out as they wanted to meet (or have a sit-in) to demand he support #BuildBackBetter.
Amidst the presser, a Capitol Police officer threatened to arrest @RevDrBarber and his group for speaking too loudly outside while the senate was in session, but said that marching on the sidewalk at the Capitol without obstructing or being too loud would be okay.
Ultimately, @RevDrBarber attempted to go into the Hart Senate Building where Capitol Police denied him entry based on COVID protocols.

The group left behind boxes of petitions for @Sen_JoeManchin and promised to return.

Uncut livestream quoted below.
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