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Mid-Term Election 2022: August 2 Primary Elections and Ballot Initiatives [UPDATE-3]

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Rayne
Big bellwether ballot initiative in Kansas and some MAGA candidates to keep an eye on. What do you see in the other primary races and ballot initiatives tonight?
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The Evidentiary Hole in the Middle of Ari Melber's "Not anything but evidence"

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emptywheel
We know that the December 18, 2020 meeting at which Sidney Powell pitched Trump to seize the voting machines led almost immediately to his December 19 tweet that led hundreds of rioters to start planning for January 6. We just don't know what happened between the two.

More than Twenty Transcripts: The January 6 Committee's Investigation into Fake Electors

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emptywheel
The January 6 Committee is going to share 20 transcripts from its depositions with DOJ. That's interesting because the Committee interviewed far more than 20 people with knowledge of or involvement in the fake electors scheme.
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Mapping the Scenes of the Crimes

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Rayne
If we had a better map of the conspiracies and conspirators, could we resolve some open questions about the attack on the Capitola Building on January 6, 2021?
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Constructive Action: Make It Rain [UPDATE-1]

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Rayne
Don't readily accept news media's positioning on Congress going into the mid-term elections. We can make our own flood. We can make it rain.
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Three Things: Let's Give Them Something to Talk About

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Rayne
In which some are shocked, SHOCKED, to learn the Department of Justice has been investigating Trump and persons in his immediate circle. This is an open thread.
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A Tale of Three January 6 Misdemeanors: Steve Bannon, Baked Alaska, and Hatchet Speed

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emptywheel
Steve Bannon's guilty verdict for misdemeanor contempt of Congress was probably less important than the developments in several other January 6 misdemeanor cases last week.
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Liz Cheney's Women in White Fighting Donald Trump's Deceit

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emptywheel
Liz Cheney opened the January 6 hearings by attempting to claim the mantle of Reagan. Last night, she closed the hearings by giving that mantle of conservative truth teller a distinctively female face.
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House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings - Day 8

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Rayne
This post is dedicated to content and comments related to Day 8 of the House J6 Committee's public hearings — the last before August in-district break, scheduled for prime time television viewing.
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What Lisa Monaco Said about Charging a Hypothetical Former President

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emptywheel
Back in May, Lisa Monaco answered some questions about charging Trump for January 6 at length.
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If You Need to Panic about DOJ's Investigation into January 6, Panic First about Doug Mastriano

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emptywheel
If you want to panic about charges relating to January 6 that DOJ's election guidance might prevent, then panic about Doug Mastriano, who poses a more imminent threat to democracy.
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The Discovery Refrigerator: When Joshua Schulte Social Engineered His Cellmate's Brother

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emptywheel
Behind one of Joshua Schulte's guilty counts, there was a whole lot of social engineering and false identities.
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How Adam Schiff Proves that Adam Schiff Is Lying that It Is "Unprecedented" for Congress to Be Ahead of DOJ

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emptywheel
Adam Schiff claimed that it is unprecedented for a congressional committee to be so far ahead of DOJ on an investigation as he imagines the January 6 Committee is with the DOJ investigation into January 6. His and Andrew Weissmann's histories on the Russian investigation easily disprove that.
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How Josh Schulte Got Judge Jesse Furman to Open a File in Internet Explorer

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emptywheel
Back in 2018, Joshua Schulte allegedly wanted to encourage a global cyberattack using his stolen CIA hacking tools from prison. That's why some of his behavior associated with the trial alarms me.
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How Trump's Ad-Libbed Changes Led Directly to Assaults on Cops

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emptywheel
At least a dozen January 6 defendants attributed their decision to go to the Capitol -- and in at least one case, to get angry enough to join the attack in the Tunnel -- to Trump's claim he would join his supporters walking to the Capitol. As Stephanie Murphy explained, that line was ad-libbed.
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House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings - Day 7

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Rayne
This post is dedicated to content and comments related to Day 7 of the House J6 Committee's public hearings.
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Cassidy Hutchinson Is a Superb Witness -- to Get Other Witnesses against Trump

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emptywheel
Yet another post noting that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony is incredible valuable -- but for a prosecution of Donald Trump, its use thus far would be in securing the cooperation of witnesses who more directly interacted with Trump.