By Paul Brandus, Market Watch America’s heavily armed far-right extremists fit the mold of those who’ve started insurrections in other countries. When I was writing my first book, a history of the White House and the presidency, I came across a quote from John Adams. “Remember,” he wrote […]
By Michelle Goldberg New York Times Barbara F. Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has interviewed many people who’ve lived through civil wars, and she told me they all say they didn’t see it coming. “They’re all surprised,” she said. “Even when, to […]
By Catherine Garcia, The Week Vice President Kamala Harris was at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pipe bomb was found outside the building, four people familiar with the matter told Politico. At the time, Harris was the vice president-elect, and this raises […]
Florida Man. By Catherine Garcia, The Week One year after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Florida has had more residents arrested in connection with the riot than any other state. Since last January, 76 Floridians have been charged with participating in the assault on the Capitol, and at […]
Team Rising debate the real-life threat of the growing number of Americans who say violence against the government can be justified,
By Sam Jacobs, Ammo.Com, an interview with the author by Joseph Cotto here The Constitution contains a powerful set of ideals and a wise system of governance, based on a deep reading of classical and medieval history as well as Renaissance philosophy. However, none of this matters if […]
National divorce does not have to result in a civil war.
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic One year ago, the siege began. Politicians and their staffers ran for cover as the Capitol effectively became a war zone. When the haze cleared, we vowed not to forget. But the attack on American democracy did not end that day. A […]
This just keeps on getting better. The neocons continue their multi-front strategy of forming an alliance with neoliberals and progressives while embedding themselves in Trumpism and forming their own parallel Trumpism without Trump (“national conservatism”). They are also seeking to weaponize J6 as a pretext for increasing state […]
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times Seattle police officers falsified a report of armed Proud Boys members heading toward the autonomous zone in the city in 2020, a watchdog found. The Seattle Police Department abandoned a precinct on June 8, 2020, and activists soon after established an armed protest […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week On its one-year anniversary, Vice President Kamala Harris said the date of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will be remembered in a similar fashion as Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Harris delivered remarks Thursday on the anniversary of […]
Well, that’s kind of the point. The partisan sides are essentially rival countries at this point. By Brigid Kennedy The Week President Biden spoke Thursday regarding the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, delivering a potent and powerful address in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. His speech, held […]
This piece of shit can go fuck himself. By Brendan Morrow The Week Former Vice President Dick Cheney joined his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), in Congress on Thursday as lawmakers marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a moment […]
By David Faris The Week Democrats failed to coup-proof America after the Capitol riot Tomorrow marks a year since the outgoing president of the United States instigated a mob of his most fervent supporters to sack the Capitol building, where they set about taking selfies, occupying offices, and […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week One year ago today, a violent mob of right-wing extremists stormed the heart of American democracy trying to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after his election loss. Egged on by Trump and his top cronies, they seriously injured dozens of Capitol Police […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week How the left’s 1960s playbook gave us the Capitol riot. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s right, the assorted fanatics, thrill-seekers, and nutjobs who stormed the Capitol one year ago today have surprising precursors. The respectable backgrounds of […]
By Christopher Jones, P. Nick Curran, Akela Lacy The Intercept Four years after being elected to the Parkersburg City Council with help from progressives, Eric Barber was all in for Trump. Eric Barber was elected as a Democrat to the Parkersburg City Council in West Virginia in 2016. […]
By Peter Maass The Intercept We are no longer observers of the distressed futures that afflict other people. We are those people now. It was the winter of 1991, and the country I was working in, the Soviet Union, was months away from its demise. Yet the collapse, […]
by Timothy W. Luke, Telos Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com. In this series of critical essays written over the course of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, from its chaotic early days to its calamitous end, Timothy W. Luke explores how the recent twists and turns in […]
By Ellie Silverman Washington Post The mother of Ashli Babbitt, the pro-Trump rioter who was killed when she stormed the Capitol last January, joined Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday to talk about her daughter and criticize Capitol Police. Micki Witthoeft stood next to Greene outside the […]
By John Wagner Amy B Wang Mariana Alfaro Eugene Scott and Felicia Sonmez Washington Post President Biden on Thursday decried the violent mob of Trump supporters who breached the Capitol a year ago, saying that “democracy was attacked” and urging Americans to ensure such an attack “never, never […]
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times The hardened-steel baton made the most disturbing sound as it bounced off Victoria White’s skull. It varied between a hollow click and a deeper snap, depending on where on her head the metal weapon made contact. “Please don’t beat her!” a man […]
Ryan Grim breaks down a detailed timeline of President Trump’s known communications on January 6, 2020.
Producer of “American Insurrection,” A.C. Thompson, details his documentary and reflects on the events of January 6th.
Robby Soave weighs in on who must be held responsible for the Capitol attack on January 6, and whether Democrats’ continued outrage is justified.
Krystal and Saagar’s kick off the January 6th show by diving into the real underlying reasons why American democracy is in crisis and how the elites have only made it worse
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave reflect on the first anniversary of the January 6 Capitol breach and react to the violent unrest occurring in Kazakhstan.
Before there was January 6, there was March 1. It’s often been said that today’s liberalism is tomorrow’s conservatism. Case in point: The left attacked the Capital in 1971and 50 years later the right does the same thing. Nothing original. History.Com A bomb explodes in the Capitol building […]
By Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One After the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol that left members hiding in offices or crouching under desks on the House floor, lawmakers clamored for a military quick reaction force that could protect against more violence. One year after the attack, the idea […]
Michael Lind, Tablet It’s within metro areas, not between the states. America’s states seem increasingly disunited. Divisions over controversies related to COVID— lockdowns, vaccine mandates, school closures—have accentuated existing splits among blue Democratic and red Republican states with respect to partisanship and attitudes toward crime and public policy. […]
WATCH HERE From the comments: The fact that John Sullivan so easily walked into the Capitol that day, without so much as anyone batting an eyelash, DISPROVES the fanatical belief, held even by Sullivan, himself, that all Trump supporters are inherent hWhite Supreeemists. Holding Sullivan’s explanation of the […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week A majority of Americans believe events akin to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — the one-year anniversary of which falls on Thursday — are likely to occur again in the next few years, according to a new Axios/Momentive poll. Fifty-seven percent of respondents […]
By Damon Linker, The Week One year ago this Thursday, President Donald Trump attempted to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election by exploiting ambiguities in the 1887 Electoral Count Act. Thankfully, Senate Democrats have set out to reform the act — and senior […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Protesters in the oil-rich former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan burned the country’s presidential residence Wednesday as protests that began earlier in the week continue to escalate, The Associated Press reports. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who took office in 2019, declared a two-week curfew, threatened […]
The Editorial Board The Republicans are reviving American apartheid. Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the day seditionary forces sacked and looted the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn a lawful democratic election and install Donald Trump as fuhrer-king. The violence stopped long ago, but the […]
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
By Michael Bluhm The Signal What really happened on January 6? Seth Masket on how Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election continue to endanger U.S. democracy. Americans believe vastly different versions of what happened in Washington a year ago, when a group of Trump supporters breached the […]
By Michael Paul Williams Richmond Times-Dispatch In hindsight, Virginia was a testing ground and a grim portent of the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in January 2020, theologian Corey D.B. Walker, then a visiting professor at the University of Richmond, was among a […]
By Jonathan Chait New York Magazine January 6, 2021, may be the most contentious date in American history. To Democrats and the surviving remnant of anti-Trump Republicans, the event was a spasm of right-wing political violence aimed at terminating the republican experiment. To most Republicans, it was something […]
“When faced with extinction any other option is preferable” “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolutions inevitable” You can not take everything from people and leave them with no hope, desperation breeds violence, and those with nothing to lose have no problem putting it all on […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave weigh in on the reported assassination attempt against Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry
Team Rising reacts to new findings from the House Committee investigating January 6.
By Damon Linker The Week It’s not inevitable. Maybe not even likely. But it’s still worth debate. With the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection looming later this week, analysts and pundits have put the worst-case scenario for the American future on the table for public debate […]
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — What students are learning about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 may depend on where they live. In a Boston suburb in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, history teacher Justin Voldman said his students will spend the day […]
–A chilling draft of a Trump letter calling for the “seizure” of election materials is obtained by the House Committee investigating the January 6 Trump riots
Neocons vs Trumpists in a heel vs. heel match. –Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is on the House Committee investigating the January 6 Trump riots, tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that they have received firsthand
–Three retired military generals warn about a coup in 2024 that could involve the military itself
By David E. Gumpert The Nation If 1920s Germany could punish Hitler for leading a coup attempt, why can’t America go after Trump? Pulling off a successful coup d’état in a dictatorship is a risky affair. It invariably involves the military, and failure usually results in long prison […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Nearly a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, there are two things most Americans agree on: That the insurrection was an attack on democracy, and that democracy itself remains incredibly fragile. Too bad we’re not acting like it. On […]
By Peter Weber, The Week The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has “interviewed more than 300 witnesses, collected tens of thousands of documents, and traveled around the country to talk to election officials who were pressured by Donald Trump,” The Associated Press reports. Now, the […]
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