The Cut - The Pain and Glory of Cori Bush

Just three days after Cori Bush arrived in Washington, D.C., as the first Black woman to represent Missouri in Congress, election deniers descended on the Capitol. The January 6 insurrection was convulsive in a way Bush couldn’t fully fathom, yet she felt prepared. “I wasn’t afraid for my life or anything,” she says. “I come from protests; it ain’t no big deal.” She was more concerned for her staff than for herself. “I was like, I may go down, but I’m gonna go down fighting using staplers, printers — whatever was needed was gonna have to fly through the air.” She laughs, but it’s serious.

It’s remembering this welcome to Congress that most animates Bush, draped in a red raglan-sleeved tee with her signature acrylics intermittently punctuating her words, over a video call. In that moment, she says, she remembered her promise to her district: “I told the people of St. Louis, ‘If you elect me, I’ll be ready on day one.’”

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