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What is the most significant impact of the insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol? – The American Legion

While the attack on the Capital is abhorrent, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Politics has been getting ugly for decades, but took a turn for the worse when Harry Reid forced through the ACA on a party-line vote, using raw, ugly political power, and against the wishes of half the country. Then he changed the rules for approving federal judges, opening up the door for Mitch McConnel to do the same for SCOTUS. The right-wing has been mostly peaceful over the years, while the left-wing has become more and more violent. Compare the Occupy Wall Street to the TEA Party. Compare ANTIFA and BLM "peaceful" protests to anything. Now having endured almost a year of violence in our largest cities, that the Democrats have yet to condemn, it was only a matter of time that the right-wing exploded.

The extreme right-wing is pretty much disavowed by rank and file Republicans, but the extreme left-wing is the rank and file Democrats. This will not end until the Democrat leadership puts an end to their own radical movement and violence, and the Republican leadership sits down with the Democrats and comes up with a way to diffuse the powder keg that violence created.

In the meantime, our Republic is on shaky grounds, more dangerous than anything since the Civil War. The nation will not make it to 300 years if something doesn't give. I'm just glad I'll be dead when the nation implodes in a violence that is unimaginable.

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Uihleins, owners of Wisconsin company, gave millions to group sponsoring the Jan. 6 March for Trump – Wisconsin Examiner

Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, owners of Uline shipping supply company located in Pleasant Prairie, WI, and major donors to Republican candidates including President Donald Trump, contributed more than $4 million to the Tea Party Patriots.

The group participated in the rally before the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. While the organizers have taken down their website, and many tweets, since the rally led to the mob takeover of the Capitol, Mother Jones and others have reported on the March to Save America, AKA the March for Trump, sponsors.

That contribution of $4.3 million, reported by Chicagos public radio station WBEZ, has led the Democratic Attorney General Association (DAGA) to call on attorneys general and its counterpart the Republican Attorney General Association (RAGA) and Republican attorneys general and candidates to refuse any future contributions from the Uihleins.

This declaration and other corrections to their association are necessary actions on the only path forward for those who claim to believe in the rule of law and protecting our democracy, said Sean Rankin, executive director of DAGA in a statement. Republican AGs or candidates who choose to accept Uihlein money moving forward will be turning their backs on our country and ignoring the deadly attack on Congress on January 6th.

According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC)s website, the Uihleins (and others related to Uline shipping) have given nearly $1.5 million to Wisconsin candidates including the annual maximum $32,500 in donations to former Attorney General Brad Schimel who frequently used the slogan law and order to describe his views in the race he lost in 2018 to Attorney General Josh Kaul.

RAGA also has direct ties to the Jan. 6 rallies. WDC reported this week that an arm of RAGA, called the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF) urged followers to attend a Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally making robocalls, according to reporting from Documented, a watchdog group.

WDC describes RAGA as a Washington, D.C.-based group, which raises and spends unlimited amounts from special interests to help elect state GOP attorneys general throughout the country. The group was active in the 2018 Wisconsin state elections, doling out more than $2.8 million on electioneering activities to attack Democratic candidate Josh Kaul.

Between January 2018 and late November 2020, RAGA took in around $279,000 from about two dozen Wisconsin contributors, including MillerCoors (now Molson Coors), Foley & Lardner, Wisconsin Realtors Association and Kwik Trip.

The Uihleins have also given amounts of $1,000 each election cycle to many Republican legislative candidates, WDC records show.

Rankin continued: We must demand accountability from our elected leaders and future leaders, and we must refuse to let funders of terror and spinners of dangerous conspiracy theories undermine our democracy.

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Making Waves: Protesting with a heart – West Hawaii Today

There is a touching story about how Queen Liliuokalani bid farewell to her people.

Every Hawaiian remembered the sad days a few years before when intruders stormed the capitol of their country and stole their kingdom. Worst of all, the intruders had put their beloved queen in jail, keeping her captive in her own palace.

The day finally came when the proud Hawaiian people had to watch their flag lowered and a flag of a foreign country raised in its place. The foreigners cheered while the crowd of Hawaiians stood in silent protest watching their noble kingdom pass away.

As their flag was slowly dropping down, they heard a beautiful voice singing above. They looked up to the balcony of the palace and there was their royal queen sweetly singing Aloha Oe. Farewell to you. Tears flowed as hundreds of Hawaiians said goodbye to their kingdom with peace in their hearts.

This is fairly close to what happened and the protest was based on truth with a heart of goodness and aloha.

Journeying back many years to early America, trouble was brewing in the colonies. England was oppressing the colonists by over-taxing them and pushing them around in the streets. Taxes were too high we all know that problem.

The tax they paid on tea was especially high. and they had no voice in how they were governed. It was making life hard for the people. They had to fight back.

A few daring patriots in Boston came up with a plan.

One night, they dressed up with painted faces and wore feathers, and with danger all around they snuck onto British ships in the harbor and tossed all the tea into the sea.

It was called the Boston Tea Party. They had fought back and gave themselves dignity.

Like the queen and her people singing their song, the Boston Tea Party was a protest of truth and justice with a heart of goodness.

There were many marches yet to come, the right of women to vote was a big issue.

From the very beginning, women could not vote. America was a country for 140 years and women still had no say in elections. Right after the Civil War, former male slaves got the vote, but not women. They had to wait another 50 years for equality.

Women marched in the streets, were beaten down and put in jail but they kept on until justice prevailed and they had the same rights as men.

All their protests were based on truth and justice with a heart of goodness.

The biggest wrong of all is racial prejudice. Blacks went through so many hardships until Rosa Parks sat down on a bus, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up with a dream and marched until finally African Americans had equal rights. But the fight goes on.

They protested with truth and with heart and finally won.

Hawaiians, Native Americans, and many others have marched for their beliefs to gain a better life. And every single protest from the beginning of this country, and of all time has had a bit of truth and heart behind it.

That is until last week at the U.S. Capitol. It was not a protest with a cause, it had no cause.

Another riot with looters.

It was not based on truth and goodness. It was based on a lie and darkness.

Time for all of us to join together and step into the light.

Dennis Gregory writes a bi-weekly column for West Hawaii Today and welcomes your comments at makewavess@yahoo.com

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Armed Insurrections In The U.S. Aren’t New. This Is Why The Capitol Attack Was Different – Connecticut Public Radio

The U.S. Capitol has seen countless protests and a number of violent incidents over its two centuries. But what we observed last week, when a mob of President Trumps supporters stormed the Capitol intent on stopping the count of electoral votes, has been called unprecedented.

Robert Churchill is a professor of history at the University of Hartford and studies political violence.

The transcription below has been edited for clarity.

Lori Mack: What makes this incident so different?

Robert Churchill: I think its different in two ways. The first way is weve had a tradition in this country where a president who loses an election cedes power, not only peacefully, but gracefully. And this tradition goes back all the way to 1800.

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson took over the presidency from the Federalist Party. It was the first transfer of power between parties in American history. It almost did descend into violence. And ever since then, we have had the principle that we would never allow that to happen. So thats the first thing thats different.

The second thing that I think was different is while we have had protests in the Capitol, and indeed in American history have had armed insurrections, theyve always been targeted at particular laws.

We have never had an armed insurrection that was targeted at seizing power and voiding the results of an election. That is completely unprecedented in American history. And even in 1860, the South didnt try to void the election. They simply withdrew from the country. But this is a very new thing in American history.

Its very new for people to take up arms and go beyond saying, We will not tolerate this particular law, to say, We will dictate what the laws and policy are going to be. We and others will be the sovereign people to the exclusion of everybody else in the body politic. Thats very new.

Its been talked about that an insurrection in Washington has been building long before this election cycle. So what about that?

Well, I think that there have been building blocks that have been building slowly. I dont want to assume that theres anybody behind the scenes putting these in place, but you have had the emergence of militia groups now going back 20 to 25 years.

Those militia groups have primarily been anti-government in their orientation. They have been targeting particular kinds of federal policies and attempting to sort of craft a deterrent against the kind of state-sponsored violence that we saw in Ruby Ridge and Waco in the 1990s. Whats new is that some portion of that movement seems to [have] grafted itself onto Donald Trump and now see themselves essentially as an armed partisan militia that has decided to do the presidents bidding. Thats a new development.

The second thing thats new is weve got communications technology today that we didnt have 25 years ago. And particularly in the age of social media, its extremely easy for misinformation to spread rapidly. And when you have the president and quite a few members of the congressional caucus of one political party bent on spreading that misinformation, it spreads like wildfire.

The idea that an entire political party would dedicate itself to the proposition for which there is no evidence whatsoever that their loss in the recent election was in fact, due to fraud. Thats a very new thing and its a very explosive allegation. Its not an allegation to be played with lightly and yet folks seem to have played with it lightly. And then there are some folks who even today are doubling down on that allegation.

As someone who has studied political violence, what was going through your mind as you watched these events unfold?

One was disbelief. But the second was that it seems to me that in confrontations with the militia movement over the last few years, the federal government has allowed itself to get beat several times.

When you say beat, what do you mean?

The federal government decided to have a showdown with Cliven Bundy and then back down. The federal government had a showdown at the Malheur National Wildlife reserve and then was unable to secure convictions. And then on Capitol Hill, obviously the federal government, the Capitol police, were overrun. When that happens in the face of an armed insurgency, it simply emboldens the insurgency to be more bold and more violent. The federal government, if it wants to go up against these guys, is going to have to win.

How do they do that?

Its a really, really good question. Its a very difficult question. And I would say that you have to ask the question a little bit differently: How do you do it in a way that you dont create martyrs, which is even more difficult.

Nevertheless, if you want to begin to bolster federal authority again, youre going to have to enforce the laws and youre going to have to punish those who take up arms against the laws.

We hear the phrase that history doesnt repeat itself but it often rhymes. Have you seen any of those rhymes so far, and more broadly, what can we learn from history about what may happen next?

I think that what we want to be careful of is that we want to find a way to isolate these insurgents from the larger political community.

There are going to be some people who are just hellbent on taking arms up against the government. Were going to have to deal with them. But you want to find ways to assuage the anger in the broader public, if that is at all possible. If you dont do that, then I think you get into a situation thats much more like 1860, where you have two factions of the public that are angry and getting more angry and getting more violent and alienating each other even further, and that just leads to chaos and bloodshed.

What can we learn? Well, to be sort of broad-minded about this, 40 years ago we had a pretty tight wall between the extremes of the political spectrum and the mainstream. We had a way of walling off this kind of misinformation and conspiracy theories. That wall began to break down due to communications technology.

That wall also broke down because the Tea Party was designed to break it down. The Tea Party was designed to bring the far right into the Republican tent. I think when you look at what tech companies are doing now with de-platforming, what youre seeing is an attempt to build that wall back up.

And so one of the things that we can learn is that when you invite the extremes into the mainstream public sphere, they have a tendency to alienate and radicalize more and more people. Suddenly you wake up and realize that a significant portion of one of the major political parties really no longer supports the democratic republic of the United States of America, which is a terrifying thing.

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These Pop Culture Cooking Classes Are Inspired By Food From ‘Harry Potter’ And ‘The Mandalorian’ – Delish

While watching our favorite TV shows and movies, we've all had a moment where we've wanted to eat whatever is on-screen...like the bugs in The Lion King, don't @ me!! And though I would not advise going out and digging up some slimy creatures for yourself, I WOULD suggest this series of cooking classes inspired by your favorite movies and TV shows.

Cozymeal, the online cooking class platform, has introduced a new pop culture series, rolling out some new lessons inspired by your favorite characters and their diets. And no matter what type of fan you are, there is definitely something for you on here. Harry Potter fans will love the Quidditch Cup After Party class, where you can make things like Slytherin Spinach Artichoke Dip, the Sex and the City-themed Sushi Night, which features rainbow rolls and Carrie Bradshaws favorite Cosmopolitan, and The Crown-themed Afternoon Tea Party. Our personal favorite is the Out of This World Mandalorian-themed Meal, where you'll make Grogu's faves like bone broth and Blue Milk Macaroons.

You can book each Zoom class for $39 per device. Each class is fully interactive and you can ask the chef as many questions as you need to throughout the cooking session (phew!). You can also easily order all the groceries you'll need for each class online, or head to the grocery store with a full list of ingredients. All that's left to do is clear a space in your fridge for all that delicious food!

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