William Brangham:
In the meantime, rioters like Jenna Ryan appeared to revel of their white privilege.
She mentioned: “Sorry I’ve blonde hair, white pores and skin, an ideal job, an ideal future, and I am not going to jail.” In actual fact, Ryan reported to jail proper earlier than Christmas for a 60-day sentence.
One other January 6 rioter from North Texas, Mark Middleton, charged with assaulting D.C. law enforcement officials, is now working for a seat within the Texas legislature on a platform of constructing Trump’s border wall, gun rights, and doable secession from the union.
And the massive lie conspiracies proceed. This county is one among 4 in Texas the place officers have launched extra audits of the 2020 election. Preliminary outcomes, launched on New 12 months’s Eve, discovered what all different audits discovered, no proof of widespread voter fraud.
For many who’ve borne the brunt of lies and conspiracies, this new 12 months couldn’t come quickly sufficient.
