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#JamieRaskin: #Jan6 Never Ended

…5 years after Jan 6, 2021, we are still caught up in a struggle between forces who are willing to use #authoritarian #violence outside the #Constitution to take & wield power & those who stand up nonviolently for our Constitution in the streets & in the polling places. Neither side can claim victory yet.

It’s still very much Jan 6 in #America.

#NeverForget #insurrection #Trump #democracy #law #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/opinion/jamie-raskin-jan-6-anniversary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.IEzf.1h69ekSslxqe&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Happy the-current-president-of-the-United-States-of-America-conspired-to-steal-an-election-overthrow-the-government-&-end-democracy-&-when-that-didn’t-work-sicced-a-violent-armed-mob-on-the-entire-congressional-body-&-then-you-mother-fuckers-actually-reelected-him anniversary!

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#JamieRaskin: #Jan6 Never Ended

…5 years after Jan 6, 2021, we are still caught up in a struggle between forces who are willing to use #authoritarian #violence outside the #Constitution to take & wield power & those who stand up nonviolently for our Constitution in the streets & in the polling places. Neither side can claim victory yet.

It’s still very much Jan 6 in #America.

#NeverForget #insurrection #Trump #democracy #law #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/opinion/jamie-raskin-jan-6-anniversary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.IEzf.1h69ekSslxqe&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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#MAGA’s Foundational #Lie

The movement claims to stand with the #police. #Trump’s decision to pardon the cop-beaters of January 6 exposed his movement for what it is.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-indecency-jan-6-pardons/685324/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxWy3eiBMSVyEY5bkV2VjbZk

This #Jan6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the #Capitol

The official plaque honoring the #police who defended #democracy that day is nowhere to be found.

It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by #law. Its whereabouts aren’t publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage.

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https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2

Happy "Ashley Babbitt was a terrorist that fucked around and found out" day to all who celebrate! #January6th #neverforget

In the entire #history of the #UnitedStates, ALL elections except 2020 have resulted in peaceful transitions of power where the losing party "willingly & peacefully" relinquished power to the opposition.

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Happy "Ashley Babbitt was a terrorist that fucked around and found out" day to all who celebrate! #January6th #neverforget

“We have slowly adjusted to this entirely new culture from the top, perhaps in the hope that it will somehow be sated soon—but then new indecencies happen,” Sullivan wrote.

The subject of #Trump’s #indecency came up in a conversation I had with Barack Obama in 2017. I asked him to name the most norm-defying act of his successor to date.

#AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #NeverForget

Yet, even when weighed against this stunning record of #degeneracy, the pardoning by #Trump of his cop-beating foot soldiers represents the lowest moment of this presidency so far, because it was an act not only of naked #despotism but also of outlandish #hypocrisy. By pardoning these #criminals, he exposed a foundational #lie of #MAGA ideology: that it stands with the #police & as a guarantor of #law & order. The truth is the opposite.

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Among those pardoned were Peter Schwartz, who had received a 14-year sentence for throwing a chair at #police officers & repeatedly attacking them with pepper spray; Daniel Joseph Rodriguez, who was sentenced to 12.5 years for #conspiracy & assaulting an officer with a #StunGun (he sent a text message to a friend, “Tazzzzed the fuck out of the blue”); & Andrew Taake, who received a 6-yr sentence for attacking officers with bear spray & a metal whip.

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6 months later, in the summer of 2024, #Trump, who would come to describe the #Jan6 #insurrection as a “day of love,” said that, if reelected, he would #pardon rioters, but only “if they’re innocent.” Dempsey was NOT innocent, but on Jan 20, 2025, shortly after being inaugurated, Trump pardoned him & roughly 1,500 others charged with or convicted of offenses related to the Capitol insurrection.

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I [Goldberg] attended the #Jan6 rally on the Ellipse, at which #Trump told his supporters, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Then I walked with the crowd to the Capitol. One woman, a #QAnon adherent dressed in a cat costume, told me, “We’re going to stop the steal. If Pence isn’t going to stop it, we have to.”

#NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

Dempsey, who was heard yelling “Fuck you, bitch-ass cops!,” assaulted other officers with broken pieces of furniture, crutches, & a flagpole. Prosecutors would later argue that “Dempsey’s violence reached such extremes that, at one point, he attacked a fellow rioter who was trying to disarm him.” All told, >140 police officers were injured in the riot, many seriously.

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Shortly before he assaulted several police officers, he shared his perspectives in an interview given while standing near a #gallows. The gallows had been erected as a reminder to Vice President #MikePence to do, in Trump’s words, “the right thing.”

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At 1:42 AM on Dec 19, 2020, Donald #Trump — disturbed, humiliated, livid — posted the following message on Twitter: “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”

In California, David Nicholas Dempsey, a 33-year-old man-child with multiple felony convictions & a profound affection for the president, answered the call. On #Jan6, wearing a tactical vest & an American-flag gaiter, Dempsey came to the Capitol.

#NeverForget