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9:55 AM ET, January 5, 2022

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Matt Fuller / The Daily Beast:
The Real Tragedy of Jan. 6 Is That It's Still Not Over  —  I had a front-row seat to the riot.  A year later, one thing is clear: Nothing has changed. … It was around noon on Jan. 6, 2021, and I was already late.  —  I was supposed to be covering the counting of the electoral votes …
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Did the January 6 Coup Fail?  —  By warping the Republican party, Trump made another coup attempt possible.  —  January 6th should have been the point of no return, the pivot point at which even the most blinkered sugarcoaters of Trumpism recoiled in disgust from what they had wrought.
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Prosecutors Move Quickly on Jan. 6 Cases, but Big Questions Remain  —  In the year since the assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, more than 700 people have been arrested, with little public indication from the Justice Department of how high the investigation might reach.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans dodge and deflect ahead of Jan. 6  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HOT JOB: “The Virginia Department of Transportation seeks a Communications Manager to handle emergency response and crisis communications duties as needed.”  —  THE LEAD-UP TO ONE YEAR — Republicans don't want to talk about Jan. 6.
Discussion: Good Faith, Mediaite and HuffPost
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee to request Sean Hannity's cooperation  —  The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to ask Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity for his voluntary cooperation with its investigation of the assault on the U.S. Capitol, a source with direct knowledge of the plans tells Axios.
Associated Press:   Images of chaos: AP photographers capture US Capitol riot
Francis Fukuyama / New York Times:
One Single Day. That's All It Took for the World to Look Away From Us.
Emily Davies / Washington Post:
Another U.S. Capitol Police officer sues Trump for damages from Jan. 6
Politico:
Trump cancels Jan. 6 event amid GOP complaints
Politico:
Sean Hannity tried to dissuade Trump from Jan. 6 strategy, texts show
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Democrats haven't learned from Harry Reid's mistakes
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Top Senate Republican signals support for election reform  —  A top Republican is signaling his party isn't necessarily opposed to joining with Democrats to clarify an existing federal law to reduce the potential for election subversion.  —  Driving the news: While broader federal voting …
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Washington Post:
How Congress can fix the Electoral Count Act  —  Edward B. Foley is a professor of constitutional law at Ohio State University, where he heads the university's election law program.  Michael W. McConnell, formerly a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit …
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin floats modest Senate rules changes
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Omicron, snowstorm thwart Schumer's midterm year quick start
Discussion: email.punchbowl.news and RedState
Alejandro Alvarez / WTOP News:
I-95 in Va. reopens as motorists battle bailout traffic jam on Route 1  —  Have you or someone you know been stuck on I-95?  Tell WTOP about your experiences.  —  Listen to WTOP live online and on the radio at 103.5 FM.  Download the free WTOP News app for Android and Apple phones to sign up for custom traffic and weather alerts.
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Jordan Boyd / The Federalist:
New York Magazine Writer Mocks Conservatives Helping Stranded Drivers On Snow-Covered I-95
Discussion: WTVR-TV
Leila Abboud / Financial Times:
Macron says his strategy is to ‘piss off’ France's unvaccinated as Covid surges  —  Parliament suspends vaccine pass debate and rivals criticise president for ‘vulgar’ expression and ‘lack of empathy’  —  President Emmanuel Macron has come under fire from political rivals for saying he wanted to …
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Politico:
White House embraces a manage-not-contain Omicron game plan  —  When President Joe Biden took office last January amid a winter Covid-19 surge, he vowed an all-out federal assault aimed at vanquishing the virus.  —  A year later, with the country facing unprecedented levels of disease once again …
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David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
2022 House Overview: Still a GOP Advantage, but Redistricting Looks Like a Wash  —  The surprising good news for Democrats: on the current trajectory, there will be a few more Biden-won districts after redistricting than there are now — producing a congressional map slightly less biased in the GOP's favor than the last decade's.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Punchbowl News
Ben Winslow / KSTU:
Entrata founder emails Utah tech CEOs, claiming COVID vaccine part of extermination plot by ‘the Jews’  —  SALT LAKE CITY — The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silcon Slopes tech firm, sent an email to a number of tech CEOs and Utah business and political leaders, claiming the COVID-19 vaccine …
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Ben Smith Can't Say What His New Media Venture Is  —  The departing Times media columnist and former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News wants to push the envelope but isn't yet ready to say just how.  —  Ben Smith had a hundred-and-forty-four unread text messages when we talked …
Jack Healy / New York Times:
How Gunfire Is Killing More American Children  —  Toddlers are discovering guns under piles of clothes and between couch cushions.  Teenagers are obtaining untraceable ghost guns made from kits.  Middle school students are carrying handguns for protection.
Melissa Nann Burke / Detroit News:
Rep. Brenda Lawrence to retire from Congress, leaving Detroit-area seat up for grabs  —  Washington — U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence said she plans to retire from Congress at the end of her term, becoming the 25th House Democrat to decide against seeking reelection in 2022.
Reuters:
Kazakhstan government resigns after violent protests over fuel price  —  Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government's resignation on Wednesday, his office said, after a fuel price increase in the oil-rich Central Asian country triggered protests in which nearly 100 police were injured.
Michael David Smith / ProFootballTalk:
One MVP voter says he won't vote for Aaron Rodgers, calling him “the biggest jerk in the league”  —  Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the favorite to win the league's MVP award.  But one voter has already ruled out Rodgers for consideration.  —  That voter is Hub Arkush …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Lawmakers begin early talks about another round of coronavirus relief targeting businesses  —  Democrats and Republicans have discussed setting aside billions to help restaurants, gyms and performance venues, though GOP concerns about spending could scuttle the effort
Discussion: CNN
BBC:
North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile into the sea  —  North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, in its first such launch since October.  —  The missile landed in water between the Korean peninsula and Japan, bringing condemnation from Seoul and Tokyo.
 
 
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CNN:
Fact check: Five enduring lies about the Capitol insurrection
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Wall Street Journal:
New York's Trump Inquisition
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Schools Got $130B To Re-Open. Some Of It Went To CRT. Now Many Are Closed.
C. Bradley Thompson / The Redneck Intellectual:
Who Shall Educate the Children?
Discussion: National Review
Wall Street Journal:
As China Tensions Smoulder, Japan and Australia Move to Sign Defense Treaty
Discussion: Reuters, Japan Times and Bloomberg
Washington Free Beacon:
It's Official: More Americans Dead From COVID Under Biden Than Trump
Discussion: Townhall
Liz Crampton / Politico:
GOP sees ‘huge red wave’ potential by targeting critical race theory
Discussion: The Federalist
 Earlier Items: 
Courtland Milloy / Washington Post:
Radio host Joe Madison is on a hunger strike for voting rights
Discussion: Daily Kos
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Biden ‘Over-Promised and Under-Delivered’ on Climate. Now, Trouble Looms in 2022.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Daniel Moritz-Rabson / New York Focus:
Ron Kim Targets a Progressive Heavyweight in Allegations of Wage Theft
Discussion: Vulgar Marxism
Jim Newell / Slate:
Aw, Apple Made Me a “Memory” of the Time I Hid From Rioters in the U.S. Capitol
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
‘Vaccine Police’ Leader Traveling Country With Flamethrower Jailed for Trespassing
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Leftists Are Ascendant in Latin America as Key Elections Loom
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Sen. Ted Cruz says Republicans are likely to impeach Biden if they retake House
 

 
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College Media Association:
A coalition of collegiate and professional press freedom groups urges campus administrators to respect the rights of student journalists covering protests

Matt Pearce:
A California state senator unveils a bill to impose a data-mining fee on Big Tech companies to fund $500M a year in local journalism jobs through tax credits

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Audible tests a lower-priced AU$8.99/month tier, Audible Standard, in Australia, without credits that roll over, as Spotify expands its audiobook offerings
 
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