Plus, the former special prosecutor in the Ayotzinapa case, Omar Gómez Trejo, joins us for an event in San Francisco.

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** THE WEEKLY REVEAL
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Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022

Hello! In this issue:
* Anti-abortion activists are falsely claiming ([link removed]) that hormonal contraception can cause abortions.

* In attacks on democracy: Key moments ahead for the Jan. 6 committee, the Georgia criminal investigation and the Supreme Court.

* The former special prosecutor in the Ayotzinapa case, Omar Gómez Trejo, joins us for an event ([link removed]) in San Francisco on Oct. 24.


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On this week’s episode ([link removed]) : Anti-abortion influencers are leading the newest front in the post-Roe v. Wade battles.
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** Your Guide to the Attack on Democracy
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The Jan. 6 committee’s final public hearing is next week. “The panel – comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans – has not yet provided an agenda, but Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said recently that the hearing would ‘tell the story about a key element of (former President) Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the election,’ ” the Associated Press writes ([link removed]) .

Since the last round of public hearings in June and July, the committee has interviewed ([link removed]) conservative activist Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who maintained during her testimony that the 2020 election was stolen; has received ([link removed]) 800,000 pages of communication materials from the Secret Service; and obtained ([link removed]) text messages that show Roger Stone, a Trump ally, promoted violence around the 2020 election and then sought a pardon for his connection to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The committee also has key issues unresolved, like whether it will issue subpoenas to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence or enforce subpoenas issued to Republican members of Congress who have refused to cooperate. And time is ticking. If Republicans take the majority in the midterm elections, it is expected that the committee will be dissolved. Either way, it plans to issue a “final report by the end of December that will include legislative reforms it says would help prevent future attempts to subvert democracy,” according to the AP ([link removed]) .

Trump’s Big Lie is defining the stakes in most of the 35 states selecting their secretary of state (directly or indirectly) next month. “Seventeen Republicans are running for secretary of state – or for governor in states where the governor appoints the secretary – after denying the results of the 2020 election, seeking to overturn them, or refusing to affirm the outcome. A handful of additional Republicans haven’t outright questioned (President Joe) Biden’s win but have still amplified Trump’s false statements about widespread fraud,” Bolts writes in its new secretary of state guide ([link removed]) .

As the chief election officials in their states, secretaries of state often handle election administration. Regardless, they have the potential to cause election chaos. In its guide, Bolts explains how officials could affect the outcome of elections far beyond election subversion.

Plus: Listen to this Reveal episode ([link removed]) to understand how one of these candidates, Kristina Karamo, rose to power and the influence she could have in Michigan if she wins.

Indictments in the big investigation into Trump’s election meddling could come in December. “The Georgia probe – set off by an hour-long January 2021 phone call from Trump to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to ‘find’ the votes necessary for Trump to win the Peach State – has steadily expanded. It now covers presentations on unfounded election fraud claims to state lawmakers, the fake elector scheme, efforts by unauthorized individuals to access voting machines in one Georgia county and a campaign of threats and harassment against lower-level election workers,” CNN reports ([link removed]) .

A case that challenges the Voting Rights Act was heard this week in the Supreme Court. So what happened? Last week ([link removed]) , we dove deep into Merrill v. Milligan ([link removed]) , the Alabama redistricting case that could gut what’s left of one of the prized pieces of legislation that came out of the civil rights era. After oral arguments, SCOTUSblog writes ([link removed]) that the conservative judges will likely rule in favor of Alabama, striking a big blow to the act.

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** Ending on a Good Note
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** Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez (from left), Mexico’s undersecretary for human rights; Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador; and Omar Gómez Trejo, then-special prosecutor in the Ayotzinapa case, at a September 2019 press conference. Credit: GDAPHOTO/Associated Press
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Last week ([link removed]) , we brought you an update in the Ayotzinapa case, which detailed the significance of special prosecutor Omar Gómez Trejo’s resignation. Gómez Trejo was also a key source in our After Ayotzinapa ([link removed]) series, which investigated the 2014 kidnapping and disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College.

We’re pleased to announce that Gómez Trejo will be joining the lead reporters in the series, Reveal’s Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Kate Doyle from the National Security Archive, for an event Oct. 24 at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

Other panelists and guests include:
* Cristina Bautista Salvador, mother of disappeared student Benjamín Ascencio Bautista

* John Lindsay-Poland, coordinator for Stop US Arms to Mexico and co-director of the California Healing Justice Program at the American Friends Service Committee

* Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, executive director, National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (moderator)

The event is free and open to the public. Register here ([link removed]) .
This issue of The Weekly Reveal was written by Kassie Navarro and Andrew Donohue. If you enjoyed this issue, forward it to a friend ([link removed]) . Have some thoughts? Drop us a line (mailto:[email protected]) with feedback or ideas!

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