Morning Briefing: The January 6th Committee Hearings Begin in Prime Time
Morning Briefing: The January 6th Committee Hearings Begin in Prime Time
The U.S. House Select Committee will 'provide the American people with a summary of our findings about the coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.'
Morning Briefing: The U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack will be holding the first of several committee hearings on Thursday night, and “according to the running order obtained by the Guardian, the panel will track the activities of the far-right Proud Boys group before and during the insurrection.”
The Select Committee will also reportedly be focusing on former President Donald Trump, “and is preparing to use its platform to argue that he was responsible for grave abuses of power that nearly upended US democracy.”
Watch the Select Committee Hearings Live:
Date: Thursday, June 9th, 2022
Time: 8:00pm EST
House Select Committee: YouTube Live Stream
PBS NewsHour: YouTube Live Stream
C-SPAN: YouTube Live Stream
Must Reads
Cassandra Jaramillo writes that “former PTA mom-turned-Tea Party activist, True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht has played a pivotal role in helping drive the voter fraud movement from the political fringes to a central pillar in the Republican Party’s ideology. Casting herself as a God-fearing, small-town Texan, she’s spread the voter-fraud gospel by commanding airtime on cable television, space on the pages of Breitbart News and even theater seats, as a new feature film dramatizing her organization’s exploits, ‘2000 Mules,’ plays in cinemas across the country. Along the way, she’s gained key allies across the conservative movement… A review of thousands of pages of documents from state filings, tax returns and court records, however, paints the picture of an organization that enriches Engelbrecht and partner Gregg Phillips rather than actually rooting out any fraud. According to the documents, True the Vote has given questionable loans to Engelbrecht and has a history of awarding contracts to companies run by Engelbrecht and Phillips.” [Reveal]
Tess Owen writes that the “burgeoning youth Christian ultranationalist movement recently came together in upstate New York for some good old-fashioned fun, like painting wooden crosses with images of 4chan icon Pepe the Frog. The three-day camping trip near Syracuse was the latest in an event series called ‘76 Fest,’ that extremely online white nationalists, incels and paleoconservatives view as opportunities to go outside, get back to basics, and foster real-world connections… But in the weeks leading up to the trip, cracks in the young ultranationalist movement were beginning to show. The catalyst was a major fallout between 23-year-old white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who runs the America First Foundation, and some of his top lieutenants.” [Vice]
Matthew Kriner, Meghan Conroy, Alex Newhouse and Jonathan Lewis write that “ultimately, a key strategic question about any right-wing extremist attacker’s motivations revolves around whether their role in the movement will be as an innovator or a product of accelerationism. Accelerationist innovators create new patterns of attack, which are designed to be replicated, remixed, and revised; neofascist networks often idolise Ted Kaczynski and the Christchurch shooter as innovators. These terrorists aim to generate products of accelerationism: the copycats and remixers who adopt well-defined pathways for their own goals. Based on our analysis, the Buffalo shooter was a product of militant accelerationism. Long-term monitoring of militant accelerationist spaces by the authors has shown that core networks in the movement explicitly seek to produce people like the Buffalo shooter, who are motivated by ‘material’ concerns like immigration and embrace accelerationist violence as the only possible solution.” [GNET]
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