by Common Dreams | Jun 17, 2022 | Quick Facts, Opinions & Commentary
Yesterday’s public hearing of the House January 6 committee focused largely on former President Donald Trump’s futile attempt to convince Mike Pence, his vice president, to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. “In today’s...
by Common Dreams | Jun 16, 2022 | Quick Facts, Human Rights & Justice
The U.S. House panel probing last year’s insurrection released a video and letter on Wednesday that led to fresh calls for Republican Congressman Barry Loudermilk of Georgia to answer questions about a tour he gave of the U.S. Capitol complex the day before the...
by Common Dreams | Jun 14, 2022 | Politics, Corruption & Criminality, Quick Facts
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection on Monday detailed how the Trump campaign blatantly deceived the former president’s supporters by using the “Big Lie” of a stolen election to bilk hundreds of millions out of them in...
by Governing Magazine | Jun 13, 2022 | Politics, Corruption & Criminality, Quick Facts
The House of Representatives Jan. 6 select committee began what is billed as up to six televised hearings last week, some of them in prime time, hoping that it can convince the American people of the gravity of the conspiracy that led to the storming of the U.S....
by The Conversation | Jun 13, 2022 | Quick Facts, Politics, Corruption & Criminality
A spate of high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. has sparked calls for Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-called assault weapons—covering the types of guns used in both the recent Buffalo grocery attack and that on an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Such a...
by Marty Kassowitz | Jun 11, 2022 | Politics, Corruption & Criminality, Opinions & Commentary, Quick Facts
There have been a lot of headlines about Ginni Thomas these days. But in somewhat lazy editorial fashion the description of her in these headlines typically includes the description, “right wing activist.” Nope. She is an insurrectionist. A Washington Post...