Morning Briefing: Ahead of 2024 Election, Republicans Attempting to Rewrite History of January 6th
Morning Briefing: Ahead of 2024 Election, Republicans Attempting to Rewrite History of January 6th
Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Congressional Republicans are using a U.S. House committee to attempt to rewrite the history of the January 6th Insurrection.
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Morning Briefing: Congressional Republicans are launching a new investigation into the January 6th Insurrection, and are reportedly “seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump, who has been indicted over his actions or those of his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election.”
U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the Republican chairman of the House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee, has questioned why the builders of the infamous gallows have “never been identified publicly,” and claimed that Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis “coordinated its investigative actions” with the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.
The Desert Dixie Active Club, part of a growing network of White Supremacist neo-Nazi fight clubs, reportedly “placed a propaganda sign last week on the campus of a southern Utah university,” and the sign appeared on the campus of Utah Tech University and urged “on-lookers to ‘defend your heritage’ and ‘stop white erasure’.”
In Warren, Michigan, David Bluer been charged with federal hate crimes for “allegedly spray-painted swastikas, graffiti and the word ‘die’ on a Roseville church,” and Bluer also “allegedly spray-painted racist symbols including swastikas, a racist slur and other graffiti on a Trombly Park public bathroom.”
Cory Young, a White Supremacist neo-Nazi, is reportedly “asking a Maricopa County judge to lower his bond from $100,000 to $25,000 for his involvement in the savage beating death of a gay Phoenix Man.”
In Frederick County, Virginia, a group of residents “has launched an effort to organize a self-described militia, with a muster scheduled next month to gauge public interest,” and the number of far right militias in the state have increased as have the groups involvement in state politics.
There are links between mass violence and online incel communities, as the “unique interaction between evolved male psychology, the dynamics of the sexual marketplace, and modern technologies can create an ecology in which incel beliefs can thrive and make violence attractive,” according to new research published in the journal Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology.
Similar to how the rise of the far right in the United States coincided with the rise of Donald Trump, “the growth of the far right in Brazil paralleled [Jair] Bolsonaro’s rise,” and “violence has followed the movement’s growth and threats against marginalized communities have been on the rise,” according to a new report published by Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE).
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Outstanding briefing. Frightening. Any suggestion as to how we can find out who is organizing similar efforts in individual states? I'm aware of the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate map. Thanks.