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At 5:01 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 2, Tim Ramthun was sitting in his living room with the TV on when his cellphone rang. He turned to his wife of four decades, Carolann. “Oh, the president’s calling,” he told her. She scoffed. “Hello, Mr. President,” Ramthun said to the caller. “This …

“It is really bad up here on the hill.” “The president needs to stop this ASAP.” “Fix this now.” Those were all text messages from Republican members of Congress to Mark Meadows during the Capitol siege on Jan. 6, according to testimony Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) gave on Tuesday morning. …

Philip Waldron, a retired Army colonel who shared a PowerPoint presentation titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN” detailing options for how to overturn the 2020 election, says he briefed lawmakers in Congress ahead of Jan. 6, according to reports from multiple outlets. Waldron also says he …

“Many” of the more than 200 witnesses who have testified to the Jan. 6 committee were former Trump administration staff who voluntarily came forward, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) told CNN’s Jim Acosta. “Many of them are people who were in the administration during the former president’s term who have information …

Donald Trump‘s attempt to block Jan. 6 investigators from obtaining a trove of White House records pertaining to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election has been denied. Judge Tanya Chutkan determined Trump does not have the authority to overrule President Biden’s decision to waive executive privilege …

Donald Trump really, really doesn’t want the House committee investigating Jan. 6 to get ahold of White House documents about his attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Late Monday night, the former president filed an emergency request to block the National Archives from sending the material to the committee on …

More legal trouble for Donald Trump. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the Westchester County district attorney’s office has subpoenaed tax records from both Trump National Golf Club Westchester and Ossining, the town that sets its property taxes. The Times notes that District Attorney Mimi Rocah is likely …

Truth be told, we are a nation of spectacular liars. We lie to ourselves about our origin, our exceptionality, that our wealth and power stems from that exceptionality rather than from economic systems of exploitation. Lies are embedded in our founding and our growth and probably our eventual doom. Spurred …

UPDATE: January 6th Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) announced on Thursday that the committee will meet Tuesday, October 19th, to vote on a criminal contempt referral for Steve Bannon, the former Trump adviser who has defied a subpoena to appear before the committee. “Mr. Bannon has declined to cooperate …

The Republican Party has turned into “an autocratic cult around Donald Trump” that only cares about “maintenance of their power,” House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said. On Sunday, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan asked Schiff about Democrats trying to pass legislation “only on party lines.” “It once …