Friend,

Republican members of Congress who incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences. They have broken their sacred Oath of Office.

Add your name as a co-signer of Rep. Cori Bush’s bill to investigate and expel these members from Congress.

Over the last week, we’ve heard the repeated phrase “This is not America” from media pundits and others in response to the frightening domestic terror attack on the U.S. Capitol, which resulted in at least five deaths and numerous injuries.

That denial and ignorance of our history serves no one. We must look at this problem directly. White supremacist violence IS America. We cannot turn away from our history of white terror in response to growing Black and brown liberation.

As Erin Evans points out in HuffPost:¹

“Nooses, unambiguous symbols of mob mentality and racial terror against Black Americans, were strung up on the Capitol grounds to remind everyone exactly what the rioters stood for — and who they stood against. It was an apt end to a presidency fueled by white backlash to racial progress, as Georgia turned blue for the first time in 28 years, as the state voted to send its first Black senator to Washington, as Kamala Harris prepared to take her place as vice president.”

In order to move forward, we must acknowledge this reality and hold accountable the political leaders who got us here, including Trump’s enablers in Congress.

Republican national leaders have been swift to decry this past week’s insurrectionist attack. But these events clearly came out of a buildup of hate, distrust, and disregard for reality that the Republican Party has been brewing for years, even before Donald Trump announced his run for office.

The right-wing has advocated authoritarianism since the end of slavery, subverting the will of the American people to maintain minority elite control. And we’ve seen ever since Trump ran for office how he and his allies have tapped into the currents of white supremacy in this country to foment unhinged hate.

It’s no surprise this led to the siege of the United States Capitol in an attempted coup.

Please add your name now to co-sign Rep. Cori Bush’s bill to investigate and expel the members of Congress responsible for the siege on the U.S. Capitol.

We also cannot be surprised about the double standard in policing that we saw last week. Policing has long varied based on your race and the threat your message poses to the status quo. It’s easy to see the contrast in how police brutalized racial justice protestors this year alone vs. how they treated terrorists with kid gloves.

Founded through rounding up enslaved people who escaped, our police system is inextricably tied to anti-Blackness and the maintenance of racial inequity.

We must now reckon with our nation’s history, and we must center accountability and truth in our response. That’s why I am co-leading the introduction of Articles of Impeachment and am joining efforts to hold the congressional members who supported efforts that led to the attack accountable.

There is no place in the People’s Congress for so-called representatives who would subvert our democracy and the will of the voters.

The 150 GOP members of Congress who stoked false claims about the election and then attempted to block Biden’s certification now have blood on their hands. All who participated in this directly or as an accomplice must be removed from office. They chose tyranny and fascism over their country.

Please add your name now to co-sign Rep. Cori Bush’s bill to investigate and expel these members from Congress.

We’re in this together, Friend.

Always serving you,

Rashida