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Most Americans recoil from calls for political purges. Despite that, Republicans are contemplating just such a measure over the conduct of two members of their House caucus. The participation of Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger in the Jan. 6 Committee convened by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has led many conservatives, both in the House and out of it, to demand their ouster from the GOP conference.

Although it might not have been her intent, Cheney just gave Republicans a compelling reason to expel her from the party. When Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., wrote to the Department of the Interior demanding that, as the person appointed by the Republican Conference to be the ranking minority member of the Jan. 6 Committee, he be given all copies of any information they give to the body, Cheney spoke on the floor of the House claiming his assertion was incorrect.

Cheney claims that since Pelosi named her to be the vice-chair of the committee, she is the ranking member. But that assertion merely confirms she is operating not merely independently of the GOP caucus but as an agent of Democrats, something that is clearly incompatible with her continued membership in the conference.

Even more than Cheneys ouster from the House GOP leadership this past spring, an effort to expel them from the conference would allow the pair to pose as martyrs to what they and their media enablers describe as an intolerant and proto-authoritarian Trump cult. For that reason, and because it would provide both Cheney and Kinzinger undeserved publicity as well as giving Democrats an excuse to ignore the abysmal failures of the Biden administration, its likely that House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy would prefer to avoid a formal expulsion vote.

Besides, both are living on borrowed time in the House. Kinzinger has already announced that he wont seek re-election in 2022. Cheney is running for re-election and, despite the magic of the Cheney name in Wyoming and a formidable campaign war chest, she is facing an uphill primary battle against a Trump-endorsed opponent.

But those calling for formally tossing Cheney and Kinzinger out of the party are not out of line. On the contrary, they are taking notice of something that many in the GOP establishment inside the Beltway still prefer to ignore.

Rather than just another special congressional committee that its members will use to grandstand on a given issue, the Jan. 6 committee is different.

The Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a shocking disgrace. But almost from the moment the incident began, Democrats began to inflate what happened from a shameful affront to public order and the sanctity of a national shrine into something far more politically useful.

Although the rioters had behaved similarly to those who engaged in hundreds of mostly peaceful convulsions of violence and looting the previous summer on behalf of the Black Lives Matter movement, they were immediately labeled as insurrectionists and criminal traitors by the same liberal media that had winked or cheered when BLM rioters had attacked police and government buildings.

One didnt need to sympathize with President Trumps complaints about an election in which the guardrails against fraud had been discarded because of the pandemic and which was affected by big tech companies silencing stories that might have hurt Biden and otherwise tilted the scales against the Republicans to understand what was happening.

Not satisfied with their election victory or the opprobrium that was directed at Trump in the aftermath of the riot, Democrats and their media cheering section sought to expand the list of Jan. 6 villains. They began to treat not just the rioters, but all of the thousands of people who had attended a lawful rally and then all those who supported Trump election claims or even who had voted for him, as somehow responsible for what happened.

Rather than just a riot, it was now the moral equivalent of the Confederates firing on Fort Sumter or the 9/11 attacks. What Democrats had done in the previous four years as they consciously sought to portray their efforts as a resistance to a supposedly authoritarian fascist rather than a loyal opposition was forgotten. The same applied to three years of lies and conspiracy theories about Trump colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election that had been endlessly echoed by Democrats and their talking heads on the broadcast networks as well as CNN and MSNBC.

Branding all Republicans as terrorist sympathizers would effectively make the culture war about Trump a permanent feature of American politics and make opposition to what they claimed was a Trumpist assault on the entire idea of democracy the defining issue of every debate and all future elections.

The presence of Cheney and Kinzinger on the committee was already an affront to other Republicans. Pelosi had rejected McCarthys choices of GOP members to serve on the committee and instead invited the pair to join. As outrageous as that was, it is the actions of the committee on which the Republican renegades have sat that is especially damning.

There wasnt much to investigate about Jan. 6 over and above the prosecutions of those involved. The entire event took place on live television and we all know what Trump and those who had organized the rally protesting the certification of the Electoral College vote did and didnt do and how, once that event ended, a small portion of the crowd went to the Capitol, where the demonstration turned ugly.

To justify a proceeding of indefinite length, the Jan. 6 Committee began casting a wide net in a fishing expedition aimed at treating all those involved in a legal rally or entirely legal if foolish efforts to find a legal stratagem that would somehow prevent Biden from taking office, which was something that many Democrats and their Never Trump former Republican allies mooted in the weeks and months preceding Trumps inauguration in 2017, as conspirators.

Thus began the process by which both White House officials, like chief of staff Mark Meadows as well as those who were tangential to the Trump effort, like former Breitbart CEO and White House strategist Steve Bannon were subpoenaed. Even more egregious, the committee is now attempting to haul in some Republican House members like Rep. Jim Jordan for an inquisition.

There is no likelihood of any proof nor any likelihood of any being found that any of those who are being brought before the committee were in any way involved in the riot, let alone that Trump and his inner circle were even contemplating anything so absurd as having a few hundred people barge into the Capitol to no particular purpose.

But if your goal is to invent a grand conspiracy behind an alleged coup detat out of thin air in order to delegitimize one of Americas two major parties, none of that matters. That is why newspapers like The New York Times and networks like CNN and MSNBC have continued to breathlessly report new developments in the Jan. 6 investigation much the way they did similarly mendacious accounts of claims that would justify the Russia collusion hoax throughout Trumps presidency.

Cheney and Kinzinger tell fawning reporters that in joining the Democratic crusade against Trump they are putting patriotism over partisanship. But at no point have either of them pushed back against the rhetorical excesses of their committee colleagues demonizing all those who supported Trumps claims.

Nor have they attempted to use their outsized influence on the proceedings to limit its scope or prevent it from seeking to put House GOP colleagues in the cross-hairs of its investigators. On the contrary, they have nodded along when Democrats make extravagant claims about an insurrection or what they seem to be asserting is a vast conspiracy on the part of Republicans to support a coup and played a helpful role in their attack on figures like Meadows.

Were the pair interested in defending ordinary Republicans or the party, they might use their places on the committee to act as a check on its activities or to reassure ordinary Republicans who voted for Trump and think there was plenty that was fishy about the 2020 election that this isnt about targeting them or their beliefs. They might speak up when people like Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., refers to the support for Jan. 6 terrorism in the Republican Party.

But they have done none of those things and instead, seem all too happy to be the token Republican members of a kangaroo court that respects no limits to its efforts to paint the GOP with the broad brush of insurrection.

As such, participation in this farce isnt mere dissent from a Republican consensus or opposition to the ongoing influence Trump exercises over the party. It is instead a demagogic effort to destroy the GOP for its sin of backing the former president. That this harassment of legitimate opponents is done in the name of protecting democracy is an irony that would be laughable if it werent itself such a serious threat to democracy.

Seen in that light, Cheney and Kinzinger arent just anti-Trump establishment outliers. They are instead part and parcel of their Democrat friends attempt to falsely label every Trump voter and conservative as would-be authoritarians and traitors.

Their role in this vile effort means they have forfeited any right to call themselves Republicans or conservatives since they are actively assisting the left in its effort to forestall any challenges to their rule. Whether they are formally expelled from the conference or not, their indecent behavior means they should be treated as pariahs undeserving of respect or a place in any party that purports to uphold the principles they once claimed to support.

Jonathan S. Tobin is a senior contributor to The Federalist, editor in chief of JNS.org, and a columnist for the New York Post. Follow him on Twitter at @jonathans_tobin.

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For J6 Help, Cheney And Kinzinger Should Be Booted Out Of The GOP - The Federalist

Theres this movie about a giant celestial body thats going to destroy Earth. In fact, its making an impact right now. No, its not Michael Bays triumph of American ingenuity, heroism, and a fathers love for his daughter that we lovingly call Armageddon. Rather, its Adam McKays really bad and really derivative iteration of that classic of American cinema.

On its surface, Dont Look Up, the film making the above-mentioned impact, should have been equally impactful. Its got the chick from X-Men portraying Ph.D. candidate Kate Dibiasky with Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy, her mentor. There are some other people. Its about a giant comet. Were all gonna die. But theres a chance we wont.

This is really where the two films diverge, and for the worse. This isnt Spider-Man: Far from Home territory, where multiple plotlines and possibilities merge in a glorious synthesis. This is an unnecessary reboot that only serves to remind us of why the original was awesome.

Since this is about Dont Look Up, though, perhaps I should at least discuss it a little. The movie begins with Kate discovering a new comet while working on another project. She calls Dr. Mindy to share news of the discovery. He calculates its size and trajectory and figures out that it was going to destroy the planet, so he calls some other people.

After a few minor twists and turns, the two plus one of the people they called finally get to visit President She-Trump, played by Meryl Streep, who brushes them off until it becomes electorally disadvantageous to do so, then sells them out for some Big Business interest who was overtly distinct enough from Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs to not plausibly be either of them.

Naturally, Generic Evil Business Guy Who Totally Isnt Zuck Or Jobs takes over the mission to try to mine the comet for its rare-earth elements. I mean, why would a company need to do that, especially since comets are giant balls of ice, unlike asteroids that are made of metals?

In response to this, Dr. Mindy shrieks a lot about science and peer-reviewed science and Science and also peer-reviewed science before pivoting to how some things are beyond politics and only peer-reviewed politics should be trusted. At least I think thats what he said. To be honest, my eyes were glazing over by that point. Oh, Mindy also becomes a shill for the evil billionaire. For science.

At a similar point in Armageddon, Harry Stamper, portrayed by Bruce Willis, and his entire crew, including Ben Affleck playing A.J. Frost, had negotiated a deal, albeit one with the government, for learning to fly into space. Theyd also learned how to fly into space, flown into space, and started their actual mission, one which dealt with an actual asteroid, one which likely had some valuable elements in it. Why the oilmen didnt switch to mining the asteroid for computer parts is a question to which we will never get the answer.

Stamper, A.J., and company could have, instead, moped around and bought a sustainable, farm-raised, organic dinner to nourish them for the coming apocalypse, as Mindy, Dibiasky, and their families did. Like, they could have done that really easily. They were in a movie named Armageddon. Yet they chose not to.

Instead, these fictional heroes, from way back just over a decade ago when we were still allowed to have fictional heroes, forged ahead, despite Stampers ship and crew only almost landing in the right place, just around 26 miles away from where they were intending to land. Frost and his crews ship, on the other hand, crashed elsewhere even farther away on the asteroid.

As a result, Frost almost died, but didnt, unlike several other members of his crew. This meant that he and the other survivors only needed to navigate their super sweet moon buggy to the drilling site where the other crew, which had suffered far fewer fatalities, was working.

Of course, they did this with lots of help from science, though its unclear whether it was peer-reviewed. More importantly, they did so thanks to the American spirit that leads to things like movies and trips into space and movies about trips into space. Although I suppose movies like Dont Look Up mean we can at least still make movies about getting killed while sitting on Earth while the heroes gather around the dinner table to await imminent death, which is a climax of sorts, I suppose.

At Armageddons climax, we see A.J., who lost a game of shortest straw, prepare to meet his doom by manually detonating the nuke to blow up the asteroid to save the planet. But even though Stamper had some justifiable anger at A.J. for cavorting with his daughter Grace, played by Liv Tyler, Bruce knew she loved A.J.

As such, he ripped out the tubes for A.J.s oxygen supply, forcing him to return to the ship, where he and the others began their return to Earth while Stamper stayed behind to detonate the nuke, which he successfully did, thus saving the planet.

In other words, they actually saved the planet rather than just whining about it and pestering the government, unlike the protagonists of Dont Look Up, a film that doesnt exactly get everything wrong, although it does get its central thesis horribly wrong.

But it got one big thing right: By destroying the entire cast and the planet on which they existed, it makes a sequel impossible. For that, we have to thank its writers and producers. We are talking about a movie that Neil deGrasse Tyson, a man who hated the glory that is Armageddon, loved.

Richard Cromwell is a senior contributor to The Federalist. Husband. Father of three rambunctious daughters. Arkansan. Fan of whiskey and whisky. Originally an English major, Rich earned a degree in music business from Belmont in 2002. By day he produces shows and events for a local museum with a focus on giving back to the community. His writing can also be found at Pocket Full of Liberty. Follow him on Twitter, @rcromwell4.

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'Don't Look Up' Is The 'Armageddon' Reboot That None Of Us Needed - The Federalist

Anyone waiting for the first hysterical 9/11 comparison on the first anniversary of Jan. 6 didnt have to wait long.

Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault, Vice President Kamala Harris said early Thursday morning. Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. And January 6th, 2021.

A few minutes later, President Biden compared it to the Civil War.

Rioters rampaging, waving for the first time inside this Capitol, the confederate flag that symbolized the cause to destroy America, to rip us apart, he said. Even during the Civil War, that never, ever happened. But it happened here in 2021.

This, Biden gravely intoned, represented a dagger at the throat of America, at American democracy. It was nothing short of an armed insurrection.

Only it wasnt, according to prosecutors and courts of law. Of the more than 725 people arrested and charged in connection with the Jan. 6 incident, none have been charged with rebellion or insurrection under 18 U.S. Code 2383.

The law, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison, applies to whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto.

If, as Biden and Harris (and pretty much every Democrat in America) suggest, the Jan. 6 defendants had stormed the Capitol with the intent of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election, then why have none of them been charged with it?

In addition, if, as they have been alleging for a year now, this insurrection was really aimed at toppling the incoming Biden government and reinstating Donald Trump as president, then why have none of the more than 725 defendants been charged with seditious conspiracy under 18 US Code 2384?

The statute provides that if two or more persons conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Doesnt that behavior sound exactly like what Biden, Harris, and the rest of the Democratic Party have claimed happened on Jan. 6? Didnt a group of conspirators egged on and perhaps even directly guided by former President Trump take the Capitol by force in an attempt at destroying the government (as well as democracy itself)?

And if Trump or anyone else supposedly fomenting and guiding the insurrection was indeed advocating for the overthrow of the Biden government, then why have they not been charged accordingly? 18 US Code 2385 criminalizes advocating the overthrow of government, which it defines as knowingly or willfully advocat[ing], abet[ting], advis[ing], or teach[ing] the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States.

After 365 days of criminal investigations, there has not been enough evidence to bring such charges against any of the more than 725 people arrested in connection with what is now hyperbolically (and laughably) considered a 9/11-like attack on the Capitol.

Were this an actual domestic terror attack, it would have been charged as such. It was not. Not one of the more than 725 Jan. 6 defendants has been charged with a terror-related offense. This will undoubtedly come as a shock to Biden, Harris, and any Democrat who believes their hysterical rhetoric.

Domestic terrorism is defined in federal law as acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State that appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.

If the Jan. 6 terrorists really had brought gallows into the Capitol with the intent of hanging then-Vice President Mike Pence if he didnt acquiesce to their demands to stop the electoral vote certification, then why have none of them faced a domestic terrorism sentencing enhancement?

Under the law, such an act calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct is considered a federal crime of terrorism and can thus be used to enhance a federal sentence.

Wasnt the whole point of the Jan. 6 insurrection to affect the certification of the election through intimidation and coercion? Why havent the charges or sentences reflected this?

The answer is as simple as it is predictable: The reality of Jan. 6 is nowhere near Democrats rhetoric about it. Jan. 6 was a riot and a national embarrassment, but it was not an insurrection, an attempted coup, or the worst attack on America since 9/11 or Pearl Harbor.

If it were, the criminal charges would have reflected it.

Dan ODonnell is a talk show host with News/Talk 1130 WISN in Milwaukee, Wis. and 1310 WIBA in Madison, Wis., and a columnist for the John K. MacIver Institute.

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Jan. 6 Was Neither A Terrorist Attack Nor An Insurrection - The Federalist

President Donald Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter one year ago this day. In the ensuing turmoil, its easy to forget why. Ask near-any self-declared politico around Washington, D.C., and youll hear an unsure and uncertain allusion to the Capitol riot.

Its important to understand their reasons, however, to understand whats in store for the rest of our country.

Fortunately, we dont need to wonder; Twitter was open and upfront on the issue at least as much as they ever are: The sitting president of the United States, they declared, had sent two terrible and unpardonable tweets.

First, hed written that the political movement hed started would continue into the future, and wouldnt be disrespected:

The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!

Second, he said he wouldnt be attending President-elect Joe Bidens inauguration in two weeks time. To all of those who have asked, he wrote, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.

These violated their Glorification of Violence policy, Twitter claimed, and so the president was immediately permanently suspended from the service.

Its a private company, Twitters defenders insist, so it doesnt need remotely passable reasons to ban the president from messaging his 90 million followers. If you dont like it, build your own, sort of thing.

But that was as much a lie as the justification for banning the president, and the next night, Parler an alternative to Twitter that had rocketed to the most-downloaded app on the planet literally overnight was nearly destroyed by a combined attack from Apple, Google, and Amazon Web Services.

Parler had been used to organize the riot, Big Tech claimed. This turned out to be another lie, but it didnt matter. The weeks riot had given them all the rope they needed for hangings, with corporate media those bold lovers of the First Amendment jeering and cheering them on their way.

The Capitol riot was used as an excuse for deplatforming an American president and smashing a private company, but it wasnt the reason: The illiberal left has long used any pretense at all to justify its centralization of control and crushing of dissent; and Big Tech, once a free-wheeling vehicle for decentralized innovation, is now no more than an arm of the illiberal left.

During the 2020 election, Big Tech worked hand in glove with Democrats and corporate media to suppress the true story of Hunter Bidens corruption and defend their candidate under completely unproven pretenses.

In 2021, they went after conservative leaders on their platforms and cut the foundations out from a competitors platform.

Barring dissenting voices from social media wasnt enough, however. Democratic politicians had fled Texas for weeks in an attempt to stop their colleagues from curtailing their states abortion regime, but once the left was defeated, Big Tech deplatformed Texan Christians on their own website. Corporate media cheered.

Public health is the excuse used to silence doctors, scientists, and parents challenging the administrations COVID orthodoxy. Graphic content is used as the excuse to silence artists highlighting the Talibans brutal rule in the wake of the administrations retreat from Afghanistan.

Every week, the left grows bolder in their censorship-and-control campaign: On Jan. 6, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee introduced legislation to, outlaw attempts by candidates and elected officials to spread lies about free and fair elections when it has the likelihood to spread violence.

What constitutes a lie and what constitutes violence well, thats up to Jay and the boys.

There was a day when Americas Democratic leaders claimed to stand for freedom, individuality, and speech. That day is long gone, as is the day Silicon Valley stood for an open and interconnected planet.

Today, these forces stand for centralization. They want to control our opinions, decide who speaks and who doesnt, decide who can do business and who cant, and decide whos in power in Washington. The sooner we understand this, the better.

On Jan. 7 and 8 last year, they went too far, and now an alternative economy is afoot. Its incredibly rare to see a dominant industry turn so wildly on half its customers, and entrepreneurs of all stripes have seized the opportunity it affords.

Big Tech hates us, and they arent going to stop. We, however, can stop working with them. We know who they are; its time they learn what were about.

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A New York Magazine writer took to Twitter on Tuesday to mock a conservative group trying to help drivers stranded on snow-covered I-95 in Virginia.

After a snowstorm and subsequent accidents trapped hundreds of motorists in their vehicles for nearly 24 hours, The Reagan Battalion, a conservative media group, offered to connect people in need of food, water, and other help to rescuers armed with supplies.

New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait, however, used The Reagan Battalions neighborly offer to take political shots at the conservative groups namesake, former President Ronald Reagan.

The Reaganites used to believe in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, Chait tweeted.

Chaits insensitivity to the ongoing crisis was quickly reprimanded by several Twitter users including The Reagan Battalion which encouraged the writer to assist the people in need.

Now if you can use your account to help people in dire need of assistance and put your politics aside for a few hours that would be great, the group tweeted.

As of Tuesday morning, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam still had not called in the National Guard. Instead, he claimed that the Virginia Department of Transportation had all of the resources it needed to rescue people.

We have the manpower and people have been working through the night, the National Guard is on standby, Northam said, before switching his attention to the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

That doesnt happen at the snap of a finger. I dont know if anybody remembers the Insurrection. But that happened in the afternoon, we had the National Guard on the ground the following morning. These are civilians that have jobs and need to muster and then be deployed. So again, those are all options that are on the table, Northam said in a press conference.

Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine was among many of the drivers who slept in his car Monday night while temperatures outside stayed below freezing.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.

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Despite officials at Riverside Unified School District claiming critical race theory is not taught in the California district, public records, as well as a cursory glance at the districts website, proves such claims are blatant lies.

According to records of the minutes taken at two local school board meetings, one of which was held on July 15, 2021 and another on August 5, 2021, multiple public employees at Riverside Unified School District claimed that critical race theory was not taught in the school district. Superintendent Renee Hill is one such public employee.

The records note that during the meeting on July 15, Hill addressed various topics that seemed to be on the minds of some RUSD stakeholders. First, she said, RUSD does not teach Critical Race Theory. The divisive theory was discussed again during the August 5 meeting, when community members spoke on CRT during the public comments section of the meeting. It was directly after these public comments that Board of Education member Tom Hunt also lied about the presence of CRT in the district.

The minutes records noted that Hunt addressed the fact that there are rurmors floating around that RUSD is teaching critical race theory, but they are not. A company was hired to work with RUSD staff in order to enhance ethnic relations, and this has created a misconception, because the design for Ethnic Studies is not critical race theory. Hunt said there is fake news happening across the nation, including Riverside.

The Local Control and Accountability Plan revealed the district spent a whopping $942,103 on programs for cultural proficiency training, culturally responsive teaching, and other programs that frequently feature the themes of CRT.

One hired to deliver such trainings was Epoch Education, which, according to the districts LCAP, was commissioned to train as many as 400 administrators in cultural proficiency. On August 15, 2020, Assistant Superintendent Jacqueline Perez gave a presentation to the board that outlined the districts partnership with Epoch Education, as well as their strategic plan to advance CRT.

The presentation, which can be downloaded and accessed through the meetings records, left no room for doubt regarding the presence of CRT in the district. One slide, labeled Superintendent Call To Action, demands that the board reflect on your own mindset on race and privilege. It also says that an equity champion Explore[s] Whiteness [sic] as Property through Critical Race Theory.

Its also evident that these themes are intended to affect the instruction of students. For one thing, the presentation quickly transitions to a conversation on the new ethnic studies curriculum the district will be teaching. The presentation also features an Equity, Access, and Community Engagement Division graphic that includes District Student Equity Leaders, further evidence that the student body is directly involved in equity initiatives that are explicitly rooted in CRT.

While public records offer ample proof that CRT is being taught at Riverside Unified School District, even a cursory glance at their websites Equity, Access, and Community Engagement Resources page disproves the claims of Hill and Hunt.The resources page links to an academic article called The Integration of Response to Intervention and Critical Race TheoryDisability Studies: A Robust Approach to Reducing Racial Discrimination in Evaluation Decisions.

Particularly striking was a link to a pdf entitled Transforming Our Public Schools: A Guide to Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education, which preached the need for culturally responsive education.

The guide discusses what culturally responsive education would tangibly look like and encourages teachers and administration to receive anti-bias trainings on race, power, and privilege. The guides glossary includes CRT buzzwords like oppression, decolonize, intersectional, privilege, and liberation.

The document was created by the NYC Culturally Responsive Education Working Group and the Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJ-ROC) at the NYU Metro Center. Their website prominently features a CRT toolkit that explains how leftwing school administrations and teachers can defend CRT against the right, whom they claim are amping up their racist strategies. The document also uses the term culturally responsive sustaining education virtually interchangeably with CRT and even cites the aforementioned Transforming our Public Schools guide.

A reading guide for Robin DiAngelos White Fragility is linked by the district as a resource under professional development. It presents a list of discussion questions for each chapter, such as what are some examples of white feminism? It also doubles down on DiAngelos assertion that it isnt enough for white people to be nice and that, in fact, racism depends on white people simply being nice.

A document called Justice in June showcased a calendar, with each day featuring an article, video, podcast, or an action item for those who want to be an active ally. One such action item reads Help reallocate city budgets by defunding the police. Robin DiAngelos White Fragility, as well as Ibram X. Kendis How to be an Antiracist, both prominent texts in the critical race theory movement, are also promoted by the document.

Key Equity Terms and Concepts were also promoted on the districts website. The glossary perpetuates the lie that white people cant be victims of racism, arguing in the definition of the term that Racism differs from prejudice, hatred, or discrimination because it requires one racial group to have systematic power and superiority over other groups in society. It also contends that racism exclusively targeted those who are racialized as non-white, as means to uphold white supremacy.

The blatant lies from Hill and Hunt are in no way unique. Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers union, denied the divisive theory was taught in public schools after she bragged about teaching it.

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in America, also claimed that CRT is not taught in K-12 schools despite hosting a critical race theorist to conduct a training for staff members and even hosting the director of UCLAs Center for Critical Race Studies to give input while they crafted their ethnic studies curriculum.

The persistent presence of CRT in public schools coupled with the dishonesty that surrounds it may drive some parents to support measures that would grant them more authority over their childrens education, such as a recently announced school choice initiative in California.

Neither Hill nor Hunt responded to requests for comment.

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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis understands the media better than any other governor in America. By redefining what it means to run a conservative governorship in the COVID era, DeSantis has become a mascot on the right and a villain on the left. Or in other words, a prime target of a hostile media establishment that was eager to prop up Andrew Cuomo and Stacey Abrams.

DeSantis, therefore, is no stranger to dubious reporting from propagandists who masquerade as objective crusaders for the truth, whether it be a made-up scandal from 60 Minutes or an NBC hit piece that complained about DeSantis vaccinating holocaust survivors. On Thursday, DeSantis displayed his understanding of the corporate press with a free master class on how to approach lynchpin issues.

On the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot, DeSantis went on a tangent about the Democrats obsession with the roughly two-hour turmoil which Vice President Kamala Harris equated to Pearl Harbor and the terrorist attacks on 9/11 in the same morning.

I think its going to end up being a politicized Charlie Foxtrot today, DeSantis said. I dont expect anything good to come out of anything that Pelosi and the gang are doing. I dont expect anything from the corporate press to be enlightening. I think its going to be nauseating, quite frankly.

DeSantis went on to raise issue with the federal governments secrecy surrounding the events Democrats claim are so important to probe while investigations instead have focused on private citizens who have no connection to the chaos.

I do think that if you have this Jan. 6 Committee, why do we not know some of the people who we know were really involved in orchestrating this? They got pulled off the most-wanted list, DeSantis said, in reference to new reporting that the FBI silently stripped names from its website on the same day The New York Times revealed agency informants were in the crowd.

I think that this is something that has really been used for political narrative and posturing purposes. I dont think its been effective, DeSantis added. People here in Florida, they care about inflation and they care about gas prices and education and crime. There is an obsession with this amongst the D.C., New York journalist class and again I think its because it allows them to spin a narrative that they want to spin.

Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.

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Ron DeSantis Gives Master Class On How To Respond To Propaganda Press Over Dem Hoaxes - The Federalist

Three hundred emails and more than 50 phone calls in just eight weeks: either I had been targeted by a spam factory, or someone desperately needed my help.

It was a cry for help, from a young man who is too much like me. I fell for one of the biggest medical frauds in history in April 1983 when I agreed to what they call sex change surgery.

This young man was in his mid-20s and, in the spring of 2021, concluded that he had one great hope in life: to be a husband and father with a family of his own. For him lets call him Adrian that conclusion was not easily reached. Sexually abused as a child, diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and assailed with relentless post-traumatic stress disorder, his life has been hard.

His mother recently passed; his father rejected him after his forays into drugs, homelessness, and gender-confused behaviors; his older brother died only months ago. Adrians life had been in deep despair for some time.

Then came an unexpected answer: doctors and therapists told him his mental chaos was driven by gender dysphoria. Swiftly following that diagnosis, the doctors and therapists affirmed his social transition to female and prescribed feminizing hormones. His rebirth into a trans identity was praised and celebrated by new circles of friends.

But changing behavior and dosing hormones didnt help. There was a next step, and he took it. Making no effort to address his multiple, serious psychiatric disorders, one of Americas largest health-care providers sent him to the surgeons who, after a brief consultation, assured him that excising his healthy organs and fabricating female-appearing genitalia would resolve his mental distress.

That was March 2021. A scant five months later, he reached out to me, extremely upset, and wanting to restore what had been inalterably taken from him. All I want is to be a husband and a father, he said, I want to detransition.

His hundreds of emails and phone calls were one extended plea to restore his male reality. It resonated painfully with my own experience of suffering regrettable, unnecessary surgery. Yet having successfully gone back to life as a male allowed me to provide comfort and encouragement to Adrian that his life, too, can get better, although detransitioning is neither easy nor quick.

When I agreed to so-called sex change surgery in 1983, I had suffered 25 years of psychological distress, confused about my gender identity. Twenty-five years and no escape, until I sought out the advice of top experts in the novel field of gender identity, a surgeon and a gender therapist. They assured me that realigning my male body to confirm my female feelings would heal my broken psyche.

This promise of a medical miracle was incredibly encouraging. But its reality played out differently: it took me eight years living as Laura to rediscover the truth. Sex is who I really am; gender is simply a feeling. No hormones, no surgery, and no feeling will ever be strong enough to undo the truth of being irrevocably male or female, which is established at conception.

The promise of being a true woman was a lie; the promise of improved mental health was fiction. The day I returned to understanding that I was a man began a long journey back to objective reality.

Psychosis and despair dogged me for much of that time. The physical toll and complications of the sex change surgery wore at me. Yet I would not relent in restoring reality as best I could. With the grace of a good woman who became my wife and a God who would not leave my side, today I am a sound and healthy male.

I wish that my story and suffering were unique. But they are not, and for many years my role has shifted to helping others detransition from a misperceived gender identity and to restore a life grounded in their male or female reality.

These surgeries amount to fraud in so many ways. Medical doctors and surgeons have never objectively proven the effectiveness of any gender-affirming technique in relieving the mental stress termed gender dysphoria of a trans-identifying person.

For Adrian, the future it offered was a fraud. Nothing was said about his impending, permanent sterility, or the true burdens and impacts of having to take cross-sex hormones for the rest of his life. No effort was made to deal with the mental health issues detected and diagnosed by the providers own staff before clearing him for surgery.

If this sounds like malpractice to you, it sounds like it to me, too. Thankfully, Adrian is now working with an attorney to gain justice. But Adrian hopes for more than that that exposing the dangerous, ineffective treatments to the public eye and legal liability will protect the next Adrian, or the next Laura, from making the mistake of a lifetime.

That mistake was believing the doctors tale that counterfeit womanhood would be a real solution. And counterfeit it is. Adrians breast implants are purely cosmetic; they will never serve the motherly function of breastfeeding. His bottom surgery is no more a gateway to a womb and new life than a cul-de-sac is a freeway on-ramp. Where once was a man with the great hope of fathering and raising a child, surgeons left a faux woman lacking any capacity to procreate.

Adrian and I are scarcely alone in having erred so deeply, been misled so wildly, and working so hard to restore our true selves after suffering devastating gender affirmation surgery. When I wrote Trans Life Survivors, I had to sift through hundreds of similar, agonizing stories to focus on a manageable number of 30 detransitioners stories.

Thousands of sex change regretters like Adrian are not counted in the medical literature. No regret database exists where regretters officially can make their complaints known to researchers or even to their own medical providers.

Medical researchers say regret is rare, based on junk science. They fail to disclose that up to 90 percent of trans-identifying people included in research studies have been lost to follow-up, according to the book Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery. Any conclusion about the percentage who regret is based on the 10 percent or so that could be found: hardly a meaningful number.

Consider this: my wife and I have spoken directly to, exchanged emails with, and sat directly across from thousands of sex-change regretters. Adrian is just one among the thousands I have had the pleasure of knowing personally. Not one has ever been included in any systematic, rigorous research.

Why do so many sex change regretters contact me? Its because I was among the first to speak out through my website sexchangeregret.com and ask others for their stories. More than 2 million visitors in the last seven years have come to the website to read the stories of sex-change regret.

We thought we were following the science to find healing, not knowing that gender identity ideology is unhinged from sound, controlled, reliable research. Now we know better. With Adrian and others courageously seeking not just personal healing but reform through the legal system, there is hope that these wayward, dangerous transgender treatments will soon fall away into a dark corner of history.

If you, like Adrian and myself, regret your so-called transition, feel you were misled by the idea, and want to detransition, or even file a medical malpractice case against a medical provider or therapist, drop me a note at sexchangeregret@yahoo.com and we will do all we can to help you get your life back. Just remember you do indeed count with me.

Walt Heyer is an accomplished author and public speaker with a passion for mentoring individuals whose lives have been torn apart by unnecessary gender-change surgery.

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Americans are starting to feel the increasing collateral damage from our unprecedented, ineffective, and ill-advised Covid lockdowns. It was known before March 2020 that lockdowns would cause lifelong and avoidable damage to billions, yet the worlds ruling classes who claim to have earned their place atop a meritocracy strenuously demanded such damage be inflicted especially on children and other vulnerable people.

This ruling class used all their massive financial, communications, and government powers to ensure these tragic outcomes, even though anyone who was an actual expertor, like me, just someone who reads and has common sensepredicted this false cure would hurt worse than the disease.

Now that people are beginning to more deeply feel the foreseeable evil consequences of ruling class responses to a novel virus, that ruling class is pulling what propaganda experts call a limited hangout. Thats admitting to bits of the truth in order to re-establish yourself as a credible authority while attempting to keep the whole truth hidden.

So we have outlets such as The Atlantic and The New York Times, which have throughout the Covid era worked as government butt-coverers, now publishing articles admitting that lockdowns and continued rolling blackouts of school instruction is irrevocably damaging Americans, especially children and even more especially the poorest. The kids, as I pointed out in April 2020 and numerous times thereafter, will never as a generation recover.

Now that the damage is done, major corporate media organizations have decided to pivot to acknowledge just enough of the truth to cover their complicity. The Atlantic, for example, last week published an article titled Americas Covid Rules Are A Dumpster Fire (It took you two years to figure out what was apparent within the first month?).

CNNs Brian Stelter recently did a segment acknowledging the foreseeable mental health crisis from lockdowns that is causing suicides, ruining marriages, putting formerly perfectly normal kids into rocking fetal positions, and erasing the credibility of formerly mostly ignored public health experts at institutions like the Centers for Disease Control and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Stelter made multiple statements that have gotten numerous conservatives punished by and erased from social media, such as that Covid zero isan impossibility and the CDC has turned into a punchline.

Where was Stelter a year and a half ago, when data reflecting the exact same outcomes were also plentiful? Heck, Stelter was still legitimizing Covid panic one month ago, when CNN and other news organizations reinstituted lockdown measures amid omicron panic they helped inflame. Six months ago, Stelter was indicating Fox News had blood on its hands for reporting less hysterically than all the other major media organizations about Covid.

Clearly, Democrats are becoming ensnared by their own trap, and theyre trying to get out with this public reversal of their messaging. The limited hangout is afoot.

Brave NYT truth-teller David Leonhardt also recently published an article and an accompanying tweetstorm on the topic.

The number of E.R. visits for suspected suicide attempts by 12- to 17-year-old girls rose by 51 percent from early 2019 to early 2021, according to the CDC, he tweeted.

Data now suggest that many changes to school routines are of questionable value in controlling the viruss spread. Some researchers are skeptical that school closures reduce Covid cases in most instances. Other interventions, like forcing students to sit apart from their friends at lunch, may also have little benefit, he noted in the article.

No sh-t, Sherlock. So why did The New York Times run hit pieces on Trump medical advisor Scott Atlas for being one of the few scientists courageous enough to point this long-ago known data out more than a year ago, when the damage could have been mitigated? Why did Stanford University colleagues and formerly respected medical journals, boosted by corporate media attack campaigns, try to discredit Atlas and colleagues such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for saying things The New York Times, Atlantic, and CNN are admitting now?

Why did the CDC punish world-renowned vaccine scientist Dr. Martin Kulldorff for publicly disagreeing with them on vaccine safety? Why does Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook shadowban nearly every Federalist article on anything touching Covid-19, and why did they spend two years on massive information suppression campaigns against scientists, politicians, podcasters, and just ordinary citizens who had some questions, contrary data, and objections to elites demanded Covid response?

Because it was politically expedient to sacrifice science, Americans civil rights, human lives, and the worlds future then, and it is not politically expedient to face the consequences for that choice now. And they think nobody can or will hold them accountable for their deadly and despicable lies.

All the misery these too-late admittals underscore appears to be true, but it also could have been prevented. CNN and The New York Times not only did nothing to help prevent this kind of irreversible damage, they willingly, even gleefully, participated in this completely unwarranted mass abuse of Americans. The left lied, children committed suicide.

The corporate lefts morally abominable Covid propaganda operation demands justice. The people who could and should have known, and in fact likely did know, that lockdowns would harm millions of innocents while not protecting the vulnerable can never be trusted again.

Did any of these people tell the truth back when it could have saved the generation that comprises the worlds future? Nope. They not only watched it happen, they cheered it on and viciously ostracized all who told the truth.

All these people have erased all their moral authority and their claims to expertise. The same goes for all the education experts and leaders who didnt spend the last two years screaming at the top of their lungs that school shutdowns are a stupid, scientifically unwarranted, and evil idea. Yes, thats basically all of them.

Experts who knowingly allow mass child abuse because they dont want to harm their careers are not experts, they are cowards. They deserve not one ounce of public trust or even to retain their jobs. They certainly should have no public funds nor authority over any portion of the upbringing of American children.

Not one parent or elected official should give these education and public health experts the time of day. In a time of dire need, these keepers of the nations children and controllers of billions in public funds piled American children on a funeral pyre, lit it on fire, and cheered as it burned. Requiring that they find a more honest line of work would be an act of mercy.

These experts and leaders have shown themselves to be grossly incompetent at discharging their crucial public trust and duties. They should be relieved of those duties as soon as possible. If state lawmakers will not do it, citizens must. If they do not, they are also complicit cowards and also deserve to be sanctioned and socially shamed for their willingness to sacrifice the most vulnerable for their personal comfort.

For a long time now, American parents have registered deep dissatisfaction with the public schools they feel forced to stick their kids in. Even before lockdowns, unscientific and education-damaging forced masking in schools, ridiculous repeated quarantines of healthy kids, and rolling brownouts of in-person schooling, polling shows most American parents wish they didnt feel like the public schools in their ZIP code were their only option.

After all this incompetence-imposed life chaos, the current surge of parent outrage at local school board meetings is only the tip of the spear. As more evidence emerges of the unnecessary harms we knew beforehand would result from lockdowns, public anger will only grow. It wont be limited to schools, either.

If more exciting school board meetings, primaries for craven politicians, and parents yanking funding from schools that dont serve them are what it takes to run every one of these moral cretins out of every position of power theyve abused throughout their careers, then go, Americans, go. Do it for the kids. Our future will remember who stood up for the truth, lives, and liberties, and who made billions of precious humans needlessly suffer.

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosis January 6 Commission was supposed to help Democrats hold onto their slim majority during tough 2022 midterm elections. Instead, it stumbled out of the gate, failed to gain legitimacy among the public, and has been plagued with serious legal and ethical problems.

Pelosis decision to politically exploit the riot at the Capitol was a no-brainer. Democrats nearly lost the chamber in 2020 when Democrats took control of the Senate and presidency. The presidents party almost always loses significant numbers of House seats during midterm elections. The only time that didnt happen in recent history was 2002, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Pelosi understandably felt her best bet to preserve power was, with a massive assist from left-wing media, to somehow turn disgruntled Donald Trump supporters riot at the Capitol into the next 9/11.

There were massive problems with the scheme. For one thing, Republicans had immediately and vociferously denounced the riot. This was a far cry from the Summer of Violence, when Democrats and their media enablers cheered as leftist groups destroyed sectors of cities throughout the country, resulting in some 15 times more injured police officers, 23 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot.

Democrats did not condemn these serious and lengthy attacks on the White House, federal courthouses, police buildings, private businesses, and homes. Instead, they joined with the rioters in calling for the defunding of police and other radical measures.

The riots were the result of a deeply destructive lie, pushed by top Democrats, that the country and its policing are irredeemably evil and racist. Whats more, any and all attempts to quell the siege of federal buildings were condemned in the most hysterical terms by Pelosi and other Democrats.

Kamala Harris, then a senator from California and the Democrats vice-presidential nominee, supported bailing out rioters who destroyed much of Minneapolis. Pelosi pooh-poohed the destruction of federal statues and historical markers. Republicans had consistently opposed political violence, beginning in the summer of 2020, but Democrats had not.

Still, the plan might have worked had Pelosi put together a decent committee. Yet she made several critical errors if she hoped it would be taken seriously.

Consider, first, how Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy managed a similarly important committee with a confidence that Pelosi has lacked.

Democrats threw together their first impeachment of President Trump in 2019 after their long-promised Russia collusion impeachment fell apart due to lack of evidence. Democrats and their media enablers had been claiming for years that Trump was an illegitimate president, and some Republicans had helped them in their general efforts to oust him. McCarthy had a difficult task, knowing that Republican voters werent nearly so weak as some of their leaders and would desert the party if it helped Democrats impeach President Trump.

McCarthy was constrained by Democrats avoidance of the Judiciary Committee as the venue for the impeachment investigation. Pelosi was concerned that Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-New York, didnt have what it would take to run impeachment. Impeachment was instead run through the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, then led by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

That committee included a few Republican members known for opposing Trump, such as Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas. He and Mike Conaway, also of Texas, had already announced they werent running again. Some were urging McCarthy to remove Hurd and replace him with someone else. But McCarthy let everyone who wanted stay, while also encouraging any members who enjoyed performing oversight of the intelligence community but didnt want to take part in an impeachment circus to step away temporarily. When Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Arkansas, graciously agreed to such a move, McCarthy replaced him with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

Even that choice showed McCarthys confidence, since both McCarthy and Jordan had run for the top leadership spot not long prior. Jordan had also successfully helped block McCarthy from becoming speaker a few years prior. But once McCarthy was made Republican leader, he made Jordan the top Republican on the Houses Oversight and Reform Committee, even over the objections of his supporters on the Steering Committee.

The diverse Republican group on the Intelligence Committee ran an effective opposition, even with Schiff and Pelosi manipulating the proceedings for maximum gain. In the end, Republicans held together, with not a single member of the conference voting to impeach Trump over his phone call with the Ukraine president. It was significant that conservatives and moderates all agreed the charges didnt pass muster. In the Senate, only Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah fell for the impeachment trial as led by Schiff, leading to Trumps first acquittal.

By contrast, Pelosis roster management has been something of a disaster.

Chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi is not even pretending to aim for impartiality and is not well versed in due process. He filed a lawsuit against Trump months before Pelosi chose him as her chairman. And he recently told rabid MSNBC conspiracy theorist Rachel Maddow that if you invoke your constitutional rights against being forced to testify, you are part and parcel guilty of crimes.

Pelosi picked Schiff for the committee despite or perhaps because of his years of fabulism and lies concerning the Russia collusion hoax. Schiff falsely claimed for years that he had secret evidence that Trump had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election, leaked fake Donald Trump, Jr. emails, fabricated the transcript of a 2019 phone call between former President Donald Trump and Ukraines president, and lied about his interactions with the so-called whistleblower behind House Democrats first impeachment of Trump.

Far from protecting members from the politicized committee, Pelosi also harmed a few vulnerable members by putting them on it. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Florida, was viewed as a rising star in the party, even being floated in May as a tough potential opponent for Republican Sen. Marco Rubio. But a few weeks ago, she announced she would not even try to win re-election for her House seat.

Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia is also facing a tough re-election race, in a district the Republican governor-elect just won. Her seat is being targeted by Republicans. Being part of a uniparty probe with ethical problems can not be helping.

Pelosis fatal error, however, was blowing up her own committee by taking what she herself admitted was the unprecedented step of removing the Republican ranking member and another top member from it. Pelosi said that she would not allow Rep. Jim Banks, R-Indiana, a distinguished Afghanistan veteran and leader of the Republican Study Committee, from serving. She also banned Jordan, now ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.

Pelosi later claimed the members concerns with the integrity of the 2020 election were the reason. But that made no sense, since she appointed Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, and he objected to Trumps election in 2017. Pelosi herself objected to President George W. Bushs election in 2004 and said there was no question that the 2016 election was hijacked.

The resolution establishing the committee requires the committee to follow House rules on the ranking member and minority party representation. But since Pelosi removed the ranking member, its subpoena and deposition activities are at best questionable, and at worst illicit.

Worse, the committee has been falsely claiming to witnesses to have ranking representation. Pelosis hand-selected co-chair is Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who is expected to lose her re-election bid in a few months. The Republican Party of Wyoming does not recognize her as a member, and she lost her Republican leadership position last year because of her vindictive obsession with fighting Trump, whose less interventionist foreign policy she regularly opposed during his time in office.

Known for being a primary pusher of the false Russian bounties claim, Cheney has falsely been presented as the ranking member of the committee. She is not. She was chosen even before the Republican-appointed members were removed by Pelosi.

After Pelosi removed the choices of the Republican conference, she added another hand-selected Republican to represent her Democratic conference. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Illinois, also announced he would decline to run for re-election, rather than face defeat from his voters. No Republican-appointed member serves on the committee.

Pelosi wanted to run the commission as a star chamber, and thats precisely how its being run. Its being used to persecute political opponents, violate due process, and obtain the private communications of Republican members, citizens, and journalists. It has been exposed for repeatedly fabricating evidence. And Pelosi herself has blocked the release of evidence implicating her office in mishandling security at the Capitol.

Pelosi is expected to step down from Congress following her lame-duck term and expected loss of the majority in November. Her handling of her J6 Committee shows she has lost her leadership skills and lacks the confidence necessary to run such a political operation.

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