They protest both you and me and everyone around us, and they protect my freedom as well as yours.

Reasonable people have abdicated their place in our national discourse.

Don’t count on the 25th Amendment for help in Trump’s waning days in office. Impeachment and conviction would be hard. But history and justice demand an official reaction.

Trump, Boebert, Hawley and other officials were complicit in the national disgrace at the Capitol

"We have seen where a politics of lies, dysfunction, and division has brought us."

"As the hours unfolded, I became mad, sad and outraged the People’s House was desecrated and disrespected, and even worse, that people lost their lives."

"We are the guardians of this fragile democracy and its endurance rests on our shoulders."

It was a riot, an insurrection, a plot against America. It was Trump’s presidency in its death throes, and with every one of his enablers responsible for the assault on democracy.

Meanwhile in the real world, Democrats have won one Senate runoff race and seem poised to win the other in Georgia, which would, stunningly, give Dems effective control of the Senate.