Doesn't this all feel a little familiar?

The slow drip of information about the heinous policies in store for us after January 20th, the seemingly endless stream of nonsense quotes from cabinet nominees, even the re-emergence of old characters in our national nightmare (remember Steve Bannon?).

Is this 2017 or 2025? I'm getting a little deja vu.

In this first week of the 119th Congress, the new Republican majority has already treated us to one of their signature internal (but very public) power struggles in the process of electing a new Speaker of the House. Mike Johnson won again by the skin of his teeth. But he is already under pressure to please the MAGA extremists in his conference with unworkable, unpopular, and very possibly unpassable legislation.Read More

Today marks the anniversary of the January 6th attacks on our Capitol: the day that insurrectionists who stormed Congress had the explicit goal of overturning the results of a free and fair election in order to seize power for Donald Trump.

As one of the last people evacuated off the House floor that day, I feel responsible to preserve the crucial memory of what exactly happened: an attack on our democracy.