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Jun 18 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Proud Boys Led Major Breaches of Capitol on Jan. 6, Video Investigation Finds

A months long Times investigation using court documents, text messages and videos reveals how teams of Proud Boys instigated critical breaches of the Capitol on Jan. 6.

#Jan6
nytimes.com/2022/06/17/us/…
"More than 40 members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, have been indicted in connection with the assault, among them several of its leaders who are now facing charges of seditious conspiracy."

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"members of the group [Proud Boys] maneuvered in a coordinated fashion that day in a way that was not previously known and in a manner that was unlike that of the hundreds of other rioters who stormed the building."

#Jan6
#Jan6thInsurrection
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"following the orders of their leaders, [the Proud Boys] did not wear their typical black-and-yellow uniforms that day. Instead, they intentionally dressed to blend into the crowd & look like other protesters in a way that disguised their actions"

#Jan6
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"Enrique Tarrio & four of his subordinates ... go on trial in Washington in August. As that prosecution moves forward & as other members of the Proud Boys are arrested, more details will surface about the central role the group played on Jan 6"

#Jan6th
nytimes.com/2022/06/17/us/…
Here's a Gift link so you can see this article and the VIDEO of the Proud Boys' coordinated and violent actions on #Jan6 even if you don't have a subscription:

nytimes.com/2022/06/17/us/…

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"The clear and present danger to our democracy now is that former President Donald Trump & his political allies appear prepared to... seize the presidency in 2024 if Trump or his anointed candidate is not elected by the American people."
~@judgeluttig

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"Republican senators like Ted Cruz of Texas & Josh Hawley of Missouri tried to capitalize on those ambiguities in the law to do Trump’s bidding, mounting a case for overturning the results in some Biden-won states on little more than a wish."

#Jan6th
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"Trump is once again counting on a sympathetic and malleable Congress and willing states to use the Electoral Count Act to his advantage.

He confirmed as much in a twisted admission of both his past and future intent earlier this month"

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"he told Eastman that the plan violated the Electoral Count Act and that “Mr. Eastman acknowledged that that was the case.”
...
Knowledge of the plot being illegal is significant when it comes to whether the Jan. 6 plotters committed a crime."

#Jan6
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"Eastman told Giuliani: “I’ve decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works.”

This is big — and not just because Eastman sought a pardon, thereby acknowledging his own legal liability."

#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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#Jan6thInsurrection
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Never mind that the same factions who have argued that mask-wearing and books about Tommy’s two mommies are unacceptably traumatizing for young children are now implying that kindergartners should be kitted out with makeshift body armor."
~@crampell

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"Perhaps, with unlimited funds and an indifference to child psychology, every school could be converted to something akin to a maximum-security prison.

Perhaps a moat and a round-the-clock occupying army ..."

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What does GOP policy protect: Our kids or the guns?

GOP policy protects the guns.

At the expense of our children's lives.
The GOP LOOSENS gun laws after shootings:

“Seven of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the US happened in the past decade.

And four of those shootings, including the Uvalde shooting, happened in Texas."

#Uvalde
#TexasSchoolMassacre
You know how those Uvalde cops stood around & did NOTHING...

while the children of Robb Elementary were being gunned down?
😡

The GOP is preventing gun safety laws from even being discussed...

while American children are being gunned down.
😡
#EndTheFilibuster
#GunSafetyNOW
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"Our democracy doesn’t work when the will of the majority is consistently ignored (repudiated, even) by a minority out of step with the nation’s views and values.

This takes place primarily with four antidemocratic tools:..."
~@JRubinBlogger

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Antidemocratic tools of the minority:

-the electoral college
-thinly populated, overwhelmingly White states’ disproportionate power in Senate
-the filibuster, gives minority party a veto over the majority
-lifetime tenure of Supreme Court justices
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"The problem is not lily-livered Democrats or “polarization."

Our democracy is being thwarted again and again by an increasingly radical, antidemocratic GOP driven by white grievance and nostalgia for a pre-civil-rights America."

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"The “fight for America,” as Brooks puts it, is premised on the idea that Republican election losses are intolerable by definition, even if they’re procedurally legitimate."

#DemocracyInDanger
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"What will the institutions of democracy do when Republican officials simply refuse to concede Democratic victories?

The question isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem, and the reckoning may be coming far sooner than most expect."
~@DavidOAtkins

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"Republican Party operatives instructing activists to become paid election operatives in Democratic precincts and giving them tools to collaborate with party lawyers to contest the validity of votes."

#DemocracyInDanger
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