Sedition

Clarence Thomas doesn't need his wife's help to be a far-right law-shredding extremist

I am extremely wary of any sort of take that presumes two married people share the same brain and that a career path taken by one must necessarily bar their spouse from following a career of their …

Mon Feb 7, 2022

Trump PAC transferred $1 million to a Mark Meadows nonprofit as House coup probe got underway

NBC News is reporting that, only weeks after the formation of the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, Donald Trump’s “Save America” …

Tue Feb 1, 2022

Fascism: Trump vows pardons for Jan. 6 seditionists, calls for nationwide protests if indicted

Republican Party leader and traitor to the nation Donald Trump continues to test new rally waters in anticipation of a repeat presidential bid. On Saturday the delusional narcissist made no particular …

Mon Jan 31, 2022

Madison Cawthorn's support for an insurrection could get him kicked off the 2022 ballot

Two weeks ago, we learned that a group of fed-up North Carolina voters had filed a challenge to Madison Cawthorn’s 2022 congressional candidacy with the state’s Board of Elections, citing …

Wed Jan 26, 2022

Fulton County D.A. asks for special grand jury to hear evidence of Trump's election tampering

It’s well over a year since the 2020 elections and the subsequent Republican attempted coup, and there have still been zero consequences for even the most outrageous of attempts to satisfy …

Thu Jan 20, 2022

Ted Cruz is trying to discredit the prosecution of violent seditionists. Any guesses why?

Sen. Ted Cruz has been beating pro-seditionist conspiracy theory drums since before the Jan. 6 insurrection ever took place. It’s still a bit novel to see Cruz use his pro-sedition conspiracy …

Wed Jan 19, 2022

Charges of 'seditious conspiracy' undercut the claims Fox News has been pushing about Jan. 6

There’s bad timing. There’s awful timing. And then there’s Brit Hume from Fox News. As The Washington Post reports, Hume went on the Twitter Thursday morning to continue Fox’s ongoing sneer at the …

Fri Jan 14, 2022

The 14th Amendment bars insurrection plotters from government. It's about to be tested

The House Republican caucus is at this point comprised almost exclusively of terrible people, but somehow North Carolina’s Rep. Madison Cawthorn is forever among the worst. It could be the weird …

Mon Jan 10, 2022

House committee investigating Jan. 6 insurrection asks Rep. Jim Jordan to testify on Trump contacts

We’ve long known that Republican Rep. Jim Jordan was in contact with Donald Trump on Jan. 6, the day Trump and his allies mounted a last-ditch attempt to erase an American presidential election …

Thu Dec 23, 2021

Top law firms have donated nearly $500,000 to the pro-sedition lawmakers they said they'd shut out

In Rolling Stone, Andy Kroll reports that the pledges the nation’s top law firms took—you know, those promises to stop funding Republican lawmakers who allied themselves on Jan. 6 with a …

Sat Dec 11, 2021

Trump's election saboteurs were paid for by his campaign. The 'privilege' debate is over

We’ve known for some time now that the “official” attempt by Donald Trump’s inner circle to find a strategy for nullifying a United States presidential election was deadly …

Wed Nov 3, 2021

Coup planner used violence of Jan. 6 to pressure Mike Pence while attack on Capitol was under way

Earlier this week, news leaked that the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 is planning to subpoena conservative lawyer and former Trump adviser John Eastman. But the real question isn’t when, or even …

Sat Oct 30, 2021

Violent seditionists are being arrested by SWAT teams and it's making them very upset

It turns out that when arresting some of the participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection, police departments have been using SWAT teams and similarly heavily armed teams to do the actual arresting part. …

Wed Oct 13, 2021

Top allies to Trump's violent insurrection are ignoring Congress' subpoenas. Jail them

Today is the deadline for four of Donald Trump’s most notorious toadies to provide documents to the House special committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection. Chief of staff Mark Meadows, aide Dan …

Thu Oct 7, 2021

Indefensible Bulk: Steve Bannon needs to be behind bars

When it comes to events surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection, there are some whose involvement remains unclear. Did Rep. Lauren Boebert lead future insurgents on a tour of the Capitol in order to help …

Mon Sep 27, 2021

Republicans that backed Trump's sedition want Milley punished for 'undermining' him

The good news is that there does seem to be some appetite for discussing, in political circles, just how close members of Trump’s inner circle believed Trump came to attempting an overthrow of …

Thu Sep 16, 2021

Capitol police officer reportedly disclosed information on lawmakers' secure location on Jan. 6

Reports surfaced during the weekend that at least six Capitol Police officers were recommended for “disciplinary action” for various conduct violations during the Jan. 6 insurrection. This was after …

Thu Sep 16, 2021

Not 'tourists' after all: Prosecutors say roughly 1,000 assaults on police during Jan. 6 attacks

Tucked into a long court filing in which federal prosecutors update a judge on the steps they’ve been taking to try to bring searchable order to a gargantuan pile of video and other evidence …

Thu Sep 2, 2021

Politico: Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz begged Trump to call off violent crowd during Jan. 6 insurrection

We still do not know many details about the conversations sexual assault enabler Rep. Jim Jordan had with Donald Trump during the violent Jan. 6 attempt to nullify the results of a presidential …

Mon Aug 30, 2021

Do Republicans still support American democracy? Here's who reporters should be asking

The more the Jan. 6 insurrection recedes in the face of other national and global crises, the easier it is for reporters to forget—or perhaps ignore—the fact that 147 congressional Republicans voted …

Thu Aug 19, 2021