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 -Nevada GOP attorney general nominee, Sigal Chattah, having a normal one

The House January 6 Committee held its fourth public hearing Tuesday on the pressure and threats Donald Trump and his co-conspirators directed at state-level Republicans to overturn the election and holy cow that was a hearing. 

• The first panel featured in-person testimony from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R-GA), Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling, and Arizona's GOP House Speaker Rusty Bowers. Raffensperger and Sterling broke with Trump very publicly during the insurrection, but Bowers was the most compelling witness, offering rich, detailed testimony about the lengths Trump and Rudy Giuliani went to to suborn him into overturning the election in Arizona, and about the abuse and threats of violence he and his family and neighbors suffered because he refused to bend. 
   
• We also learned more about how involved members of Congress were in the coup plot. Bowers testified that Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) asked him to voice his support for decertifying the election on the morning of January 6. Biggs would later ask Trump for a pre-emptive pardon. Separately staff for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) tried to arrange a meeting between Johnson and Vice President Pence so Johnson could deliver fraudulent elector slates from Wisconsin and Michigan to Pence.   
   
• The committee further demonstrated, through video testimony from RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, that Donald Trump was at the center of the fraudulent electors scheme, and personally put her in contact with John Eastman to help facilitate the scheme. McDaniel and some of these fake electors testified that the Trump campaign misled them into submitting these fake certifications by telling them "their votes would only be used in the event that President Trump won his legal challenges."

Having thoroughly pantsed Trump, the committee turned to the terrorism he unleashed against regular election workers, who don't have security details, by singling them out for defamation.

• The committee heard live, infuriating testimony from Shaye Moss, and taped, infuriating testimony from Ruby Freeman—both of whom were Georgia election worker whom Trump and Giuliani defamed, falsely accusing them of tabulating suitcases full of fraudulent ballots and of passing passing around USB drives during the vote count meant to spoil the tally. MAGA drove both of them and many other Georgia election workers out of their jobs. 
   
• In a possible preview of hearings to come, Vice Chair Liz Cheney singled out former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to place direct pressure on him to testify publicly. The committee has also obtained documentary footage from inside the White House on January 6 (and 11 hours of footage altogether) and will depose the filmmaker who captured it. Thanks to all this new information, it is now considering at least one additional hearing, and maybe even subpoenaing Pence and Ginni Thomas.

The terror Trump unleashed on innocent people and those who refused to go along with his attempted coup continues to this day. We are seeing now, belatedly, what sustained pushback on the national stage looks like, and how badly needed it is. That sustained pushback shouldn't end in June. 

This week on PSTP, DeRay, Myles, De’Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including the Uvalde police department cover up, Wells Fargo's hiring policy that lead to fake interviews for women and PoC applicants, and new music from Beyonce. Then, DeRay interviews author David Dennis Jr. about his new book The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son and the Legacy of the Freedom Ride. 

You can listen to new episodes of Pod Save the People every Tuesday on Amazon Music or whoever you get your podcasts. 

We have the first comprehensive account of the failed police response to the Uvalde, TX, school massacre—based on hard evidence, rather than police accounts—and it's about as damning an indictment of the people in charge you can imagine. Footage reveals that well-armed, well-armored officers entered the school almost immediately after the shooting began, but pulled back when they heard shooting from inside the classroom, and didn't re-engage for nearly an hour, disproving (among others) the Uvalde school district police chief, Pete Arredondo, who claimed he'd tried to open one classroom door, and other officers tried to open the other. Some of the officers a stone's throw from the carnage—including ones with family members who had been shot—wanted to engage, but were told to await orders. Nobody has lost their job. 

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• The six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices held Tuesday that states must provide public fundings to private religious schools, part of its ongoing effort, in the words of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, "to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state."  
   
• Facebook will have to change its algorithms to prevent discriminatory housing advertising and its parent company will have to submit to court oversight of its ad targeting as part of a settlement with the Justice Department.
   
• Missouri GOP Senate candidate/disgraced former Missouri governor/guy who bound his mistress in a sex dungeon and took photos of her against his will/guy who abused his family Eric Greitens produced a campaign ad encouraging the summary execution of RINOs; social-media companies flagged the ad for violating platform rules, and at least one leading GOP state senator has reported Greitens to law enforcement over it.
   
• A group of fascists at the Texas GOP convention assaulted Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and his entourage, while shouting "eyepatch McCain"—an insult taken directly from Tucker Carlson—and that he "he needs to be hung for treason."  
   
• The actual Texas GOP, by contrast, is the height of reasonableness adopting such measures in their platform as declarations that LGBT people are abnormal, that Joe Biden didn't win the 2020 election, and in support of secession.
   
• The South Dakota Senate has convicted Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R-SD) on two articles of impeachment two years after he ran over and killed a man on the highway, drove off, and lied about what happened. 
   
• Simon & Schuster will publish the House January 6 Committee's final report, but has commissioned a foreword from white nationalist Darren Beattie cuz you gotta consider both sides. 
   
• Most states still not have adopted Juneteenth as a holiday, and not just the ones you would expect...
   
• Elon Musk's trans daughter has requested a name change, both to align it with her gender identity and because, in her words, "I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form."
   
• President Biden fell over after coming to a stop on his bicycle, and Republicans couldn't believe their great fortune. 

A couple of hold-on-to-your-butts developments in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Over the weekend, Russia's foreign ministry responded to a recent decision by Lithuania to prohibit Russia from using its railways to ship sanctioned goods to the military outpost of Kaliningrad. Russia called it "provocative," "hostile," and threatened to "protect its national interests" unless Lithuania restores rail access. Lithuania is a member of the NATO alliance. Also, a Russian warship entered Denmark's territorial waters, prompting Denmark to summon Russia's ambassador. In happier news, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with fellow Jewish-leader-with-a-big-weight-on-his-shoulders, Attorney General Merrick Garland, providing a ray of hope that Garland might be inspired to do what he knows he ought to do...

Did you know that since 1872, the laws that govern mining operations on public lands have remained unchanged? The Biden administration recently announced plans to update our country’s mining laws and regulations. 

To avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis, we need to ramp down our reliance on fossil fuels and transition to clean energy. But building all of those solar panels, electric vehicles, and wind turbines is going to require more critical minerals like lithium and cobalt. And here’s the problem: US law doesn’t require mining companies to clean up the toxic byproducts of mining, it doesn’t require them to compensate taxpayers with a fair royalty when they dig on public lands, and it offers no protections against mining that would destroy special places, like Indigenous sacred sites or critical wildlife habitats.

We cannot justly move to a clean energy future at the cost of harming people or the environment. That’s why we need to find sustainable solutions to meet the demands for these critical minerals. The current policies in place do not guarantee a sustainable supply chain that protects communities from the impacts of mining and extraction of critical minerals. 

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