The select committee’s subpoena required Trump to appear for a deposition on Monday.
Trump Ready To ‘Burn It All Down’ If He Doesn’t Get His Way With GOP: NYT Reporter
Big Midterm Victories That Give Me Hope For The Future While…
Big Midterm Victories That Give Me Hope For The Future
While it’s still too soon to know the full results of the midterms, there were some major victories on Tuesday night that spanned the entire country.
Numerous election denying candidates in key battleground states lost their races for both Secretary of State and Governor.
Abortion rights were protected in five states, minimum wage increases were approved by voters in Nebraska and Washington DC, collective bargaining rights were enshrined in the Illinois constitution, and Medicaid coverage was expanded to more than 40,000 people in South Dakota.
Control of state legislatures flipped to Democrats for the first time in years in Michigan and Minnesota — as well as in the Pennsylvania House. Maryland elected its first Black Governor – only the third Black governor elected in U.S. history. The first openly lesbian U.S. governor was elected in Massachusettes. New Hampshire elected the first trans man to a state legislature in U.S. history.
John Fetterman ran as a voice of the working class and flipped a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, dozens of other progressive candidates defeated big monied interests to win elections to the U.S. House, including Maxwell Frost, the first Gen Z member of Congress.
Friends, regardless of the overall outcome of the midterms, have no doubt: progressives are the future.
Why else would election deniers, monied interests, and bigots be fighting so hard to defeat us?
For one simple reason: They’re terrified of our power.
America still has a long way to go. But it is far better and stronger now — more inclusive, more diverse, more dynamic — than it has ever been.
Remember this as we continue our work. The fight isn’t over — and it won’t get easier. But WE can win. Tuesday was proof.
Georgia pro-Trump ‘electors’ say they weren’t clued in on Trump’s Jan. 6 plans
This One Thing May Stop Trump From Running For…
This One Thing May Stop Trump From Running For Re-Election
Far-right politicians are dragging America back to the 19th century.
Reproductive rights in Wisconsin are now governed by an abortion law passed in 1849 — and in Arizona, a judge recently reinstated a ban on abortion first adopted in 1864.
Well, if Republicans are so keen to wind back the clock, I suggest reviving a different 19th century provision of the Constitution : Section Three of the 14th Amendment.
It states that, anyone who has taken an oath to protect the Constitution can be barred from holding public office if they “have engaged in insurrection” against the United States.
Sound familiar?
A judge in New Mexico thought so — and recently used it to permanently ban an insurrectionist from ever holding any state or federal office again.
The official — Commissioner Couy Griffin — spent months normalizing violence to keep Trump in office and urged supporters to travel to Washington with him on January 6th.
Griffin also voted twice against certifying New Mexico’s 2022 primary election, fueled by conspiracy theories about the security of voting equipment.
His case proves that it is possible to expel public officials who violate their oaths to the Constitution.
Any lawmakers who engaged in insurrection on January 6th must be held accountable and barred from holding public office now and in the future.
And yes, that includes Donald Trump.