Secret Service email on Riot US President 

January 6 Committee takeaways

On July 21, the committee heard testimony from former White House officials who said Trump was unmoved for hours by the many pleas from aides, lawmakers, friends and family members to intervene during the Capitol attack. Two White House aides, Sarah Matthews and Matthew Pottinger, said that they argued with colleagues and Trump that he should condemn the violence. White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the committee that Trump was alone in refusing to take action to send the rioters home. Testimony and documents show that Donald Trump and his…

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Ten things to know about voting Voting 

Ten things to know about voting

An election checklist for voters before and as they vote Study the issues and candidates using nonpartisan resources: Make use of fact check organizations who seek to offset inaccurate, misleading, or false claims by politicians and partisan political groups. The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, is a good source for election information. Know your rights and responsibilities before heading out to the polls: To vote in many states, voters must provide a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or government document that shows the name…

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USPS unions, top House Democrat back bill setting harsher sentences for robbing letter carriers

Ryan Pierani remembers getting robbed when he used to deliver pizzas. But he never expected to be robbed on the job while delivering mail and packages, as a letter carrier for the Postal Service. “When you carry cash on you, you always expect to be robbed,” Pierani, now a letter carrier in Cincinnati, Ohio, said in an interview Wednesday. “You have to be on high alert, and it happens here and there.” But Pierani wasn’t on guard, when a young man approached his USPS-marked delivery van in January 2022. He…

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D.C.’s Crime Problem Is a Democracy Problem

Matthew Graves is not shy about promoting his success in prosecuting those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. By his count, Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has charged more than 1,358 individuals, spread across nearly all 50 states and Washington, D.C., for assaulting police, destroying federal property, and other crimes. He issues a press release for most cases, and he held a rare news conference this past January to tout his achievements. But Graves’s record of bringing violent criminals to justice on the…

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Doctor Challenges Official Narrative on COVID-19 Vaccine Safety

From President Joe Biden to the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to your local physician, those in authority repeated the mantra that COVID-19 vaccines were “safe and effective.” However, Dr. Pierre Kory, a pulmonary critical care physician and the head of a team of medical professionals who develop prevention and treatment protocols for COVID-19, begged to differ. Appearing on “The Tucker Carlson Encounter” on X, Kory said the data didn’t support such a statement but actually supports the opposite conclusion. Kory is president of the…

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ICYMI: USA Today: “No Labels tells me they don’t want to be a 2024 election spoiler. It’s time to prove it.”

Rahna Epting: “They’re inconsistent. They’re unclear. The math doesn’t add up.”  READ THE STORY HERE Washington, D.C. – A new piece from USA Today highlights No Labels’ third-party campaign, supported by dark money and a secret nomination process that is nearly universally believed to be a spoiler effort to reelect Trump.  “They are contradicting themselves regularly,” MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting says in the story. “They’re inconsistent. They’re unclear. The math doesn’t add up. The facts don’t add up to what they say they intend to do. And…

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