In today’s Morning Memo: Has there ever been anyone like George Santos? @TPM_dk was determined not to lead a 3rd Morning Memo with the saga of George Santos, but Santos is a demigod of political scandal, bamboozlement, and chicanery. Some updates: 🧵(1/6) tpmmorningmemo.substack.com/p/has-there-ev… The current Republican congressman from Queens was for a time in Brazil more than a decade ago competing in drag queen pageants (2/6)

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In today’s Morning Memo: More Bad Things George Santos Did. Where to even start with this stuff? The List keeps growing every day. 🧵(1/6)
tpmmorningmemo.substack.com/p/george-santo… You might expect the lowest hanging fruit would have already been picked, and the new revelations would start to seem derivative or duplicative. But, oh no, not at all. It keeps getting worse! (2/6)

In Today’s Morning Memo: A losing GOP candidate for the New Mexico House was under the thrall of his own Big Lie and allegedly masterminded a string of shootings targeting the homes of local Democratic officials. 🧵(1/7) tpmmorningmemo.substack.com/p/the-george-s… Solomon Pena, 39, unsuccessful in his 2022 state House run, was arrested Monday by an Albuquerque police SWAT team. “It is believed that [Pena] is the mastermind that was behind this, and that was organizing this,” said the Albuquerque Police Chief. shorturl.at/aefiZ (2/7)

Kari Lake’s Cameo In The Meadows Texts Shows How 2020 Election Denial Became An Enduring Movement
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/kari-l… Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake makes only one appearance in the 2,319 text messages former President Trump’s last chief of staff Mark Meadows provided to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

The latest in #TheMeadowsTexts: Texts Expose Giuliani Legal Team’s Divisive Election ‘Circus’ And Requests For Cash
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/meadow… The texts provide a dramatic illustration of how Giuliani’s team was consumed by election conspiracy theories. They also show how Giuliani was both a key player in the former president’s push to reverse his election loss and a divisive figure in Trump’s world 🧵

Texts Show How Members Of Congress Advanced ‘Antifa’ Conspiracy Theories In The Wake Of Jan. 6
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/meadow… Within 2 hours of protesters breaking the first barricades at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, right-wing politicians and media figures were already texting Mark Meadows to lay blame on “antifa” agitators. The first message to mention the group came from Fox New host Laura Ingraham 🧵

NEW: Texts Reveal Four Trump Allies Mixed Requests For Pardons With Big Lie Boosterism
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/texts-… The text messages Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack show how frantically former President Trump and his allies worked to reverse the results in the 2020 election.
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Inside Team Trump’s Chaotic Attempts To Overturn The 2020 Vote In Georgia
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/inside… You thought we were done? 🧵
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Rep. Rick Allen Shared ‘Wild’ Romanian YouTube Conspiracy Theories As He Challenged The 2020 Election:
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/rep-ri… Allen’s attempts to challenge the vote included passing unproven YouTube conspiracy videos from Romania to the White House and pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state. At least one of the paranoid election theories Allen texted to Meadows made its way directly to Trump. 🧵⬇️⬇️⬇️

As The 2020 Election Slipped Away, Andy Biggs And Mark Meadows Schemed To Reverse The Vote In Arizona
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/as-the… The election-night exchanges between Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Meadows on Nov. 3, 2020, read like any other conversation between a campaign stakeholder and his ally in a battleground state. But the record of texts between the two took a darker turn over the next few weeks 🧵⬇️⬇️⬇️

Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry’s Work To Overturn 2020 Election Included A ‘Cyber Team’ And An Italian Job:
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/freedo… It had been one week since the 2020 presidential election and three days since news outlets called the race, and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) was frantically working to reverse President Trump’s loss 🧵⬇️
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Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark-m… Meadows exchanged text messages with at least 34 Republican members of Congress as they plotted to overturn President Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.

Those messages are being fully, publicly documented here for the first time ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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The Meadows Texts: A Plot To Overturn An American Election talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/a-plot… TPM has obtained the 2,319 text messages that Mark Meadows, who was President Trump’s White House chief of staff, turned over to the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack ⬇️
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The House Jan. 6 select committee announced a surprise public hearing. One of the witnesses we'll hear from is Cassidy Hutchison, a top former aide to Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Follow this thread for updates. Hutchinson was extremely plugged in to Trump’s effort to stay in power, interfacing with top WH and Trump campaign aides and members of Congress who sought to overturn the election. Her video-taped testimony has been repeatedly cited by the committee. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cassidy-h…

The House Jan. 6 Committee’s holding its fifth hearing today at 3:00 p.m. ET. It’s the DOJ-centric hearing that got postponed last week.

Follow our live blog here: bit.ly/3zZkemm or this thread for updates 🧵 Who we're hearing from today:

➢ Ex-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen

➢ Ex-Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue

➢ Steven Engel, the former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel

Since he defied the Trump effort to assist in the theft of a second term in office, Rusty Bowers told the Jan. 6 Committee “it is the new pattern, or a pattern in our lives, to worry what will happen on Saturdays.”
#January6thHearing On Saturdays, he said, groups have come by his house with screen-paneled vehicles and loudspeakers, declaring him to be a pedophile and leaving literature on his property and threatening him and his neighbors.
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Shaye Moss, who we'll hear from at today's #January6thHearing is a former GA poll worker who suffered targeted harassment including death threats from the Trump campaign to steal the 2020 election. @mattshuham reported this in The Franchise last July talkingpointsmemo.com/newsletter/the… @mattshuham Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman were poll workers in Atlanta on Election Day 2020. When the Trump campaign later attempted to steal the state’s Electoral College votes, their strategy included presenting a misleadingly edited video to Georgia lawmakers ⬇️

For nearly a year, TPM has published a weekly newsletter focused on voting rights and Republicans' attacks on the election system. It's called The Franchise. Here's why now is an *especially* good time to start following voting rights news 🧵 In Ohio, Republicans are sabotaging the redistricting process in order to get Trump-appointed federal judges to let them use district maps that the state’s Supreme Court said were illegal. And it’s working! talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ohio-repu…

G'morning! Coming at you with a Monday Morning Memo #TPMMorningMemo One of the women who had anonymously accused GOP Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster of groping her has now identified herself publicly: Elizabeth Todsen, a former political aide, was among eight women who originally alleged last month that Herbster groped them.