The fight for our democracy continues today.

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** The Fight for Our Democracy in 2024
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It has been three years since the storming of the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and arguably, the ripple effect of that day is just as strong today as it was then; and that’s a problem. It was a problem to undermine our elections, it was a problem that the confidence in our institutions was eroded by the former President, and it was a problem that the most extreme elements of our politics were elevated by members of the Republican Party, INCLUDING, my opponent Representative Russ Fulcher. It’s beyond hypocritical that the party that stands for law & order, betrayed their most sacred oath, and we must never forget.

During the first January 6th Committee hearing I penned an op-ed, outlining my reaction to the events unfolding on my screen, that rings just as true today.

Thanks for taking the time to read it, it’s just as important then as it is now, especially as I continue to mount a challenge to Fulcher, the Idaho Freedom Foundation, and destructive, reductive, extremist ideology that has metastasized across this nation.

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As I watched the first January 6th Committee Hearing, I watched not as a congressional candidate and not as a Democrat or a Republican, but as an American

The point was driven home as police prepared to confront the mob under a John Turnbull painting entitled “George Washington Resigning His Commission.” Washington’s example of a peaceful transition of power, despite division in the burgeoning nation, established a framework by which we have avoided tyranny for more than 200 years.

There was a sense of grief and horror as we watched Americans in a battle for their lives with fellow Americans. Never since the Civil War have we seen such images, and they are burned into my brain: police officers huddled in a doorway surrounded by militia-clad rioters, snatched from the arms of their fellow officers, beaten with sticks and flag poles, blinded with bear spray.

As Officer Caroline Edwards described the carnage, “it was like a scene from war… friends wiping blood from their faces, slipping on blood…”

The evidence was clear: this was not a spontaneous event; it was triggered by President Trump’s call to action, and carefully planned in the days ahead. Hundreds of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers marched to the Capitol, hours before President Trump began his speech, and once there, parroted Trump’s tweets through a bullhorn as they raised gallows and chanted “hang Mike Pence.”

As his aides and Republicans in Congress begged Trump to call off the mob, he watched on TV, liked what he saw, and refused to act. Despite the fact many of Trump’s closest allies, including his daughter, Ivanka, and Attorney General William Barr, knew he had lost the election and had told him so in no uncertain terms, including some I won’t use here.

There was a sense last night that for once, party did not matter. Certainly, there will still be some who are unconvinced. One of them may be my opponent, Russ Fulcher, who went ahead, despite the riot, and voted not to certify the legitimate election results, and against the creation of this committee.

But for most of us, the consensus was felt most deeply as former Vice President Mike Pence made it clear he understood the attempt to hijack the Justice Department and Trump’s demand that he refused to certify the election, were wholly un-American.

I spent the first 11 years of my life in Connecticut, the Constitution State, and as I walked to school every day along the stone tunnels and past the monuments to the fallen soldiers of the American Revolution on Fort Griswold Battlefield, it gave me a profound appreciation for our Constitution. Checks and balances, inalienable rights and the peaceful transition of power are the bedrock by which our democracy survives…
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I’m running in this race, the next one, and the next one, to unite this state, defend our principles, and challenge those who sat back and allowed January 6th. Our nation and our traditions are sacred, and I cannot sit by and let opportunists and reactionaries dismantle them without a fight.

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