Donald Trump pardoned over 1,000 January 6 insurrectionists on his first day in office but wouldn’t forgive the extremist organizers behind the seditious conspiracy.
His Justice Department asked a court today to entirely erase their convictions. The last time we forgave insurrectionists who attacked us, we spent 161 years subsidizing their memorial societies and watching Lost Cause mythology settle into school textbooks. In Virginia, Governor Abigail Spanberger signed a bill this week to finally end those tax breaks. Now a court is being asked to start the cycle over.
The Republican Party has spent five years insisting that the people who beat police officers with flagpoles and sprayed them with chemicals on live television were not attacking the Capitol. They called it a day of love. This November, vote for people who refuse to rewrite history to protect themselves and who will give consequences to the people who try to hurt us.
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Source: Colorado Newsline
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Source: NOTUS
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: Reuters
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Source: CNBC
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Source: UPI
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Source: UPI
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Source: CBS News
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Source: The Washington Post
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Source: NBC News
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Source: The Washington Post
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Source: The Kentucky Lantern
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Source: The Sacramento Bee
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Source: Mediaite
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Virginia Gov. Spanberger signs bill ending state tax exemptions for the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other Confederate memorial organizations.
Source: The Hill
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Source: Newsweek
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Source: The Lewiston Sun Journal
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