memeorandum: I Fear for Our Democracy — Mr. Carter was the 39th president of the United States. (Jimmy Carter/New York Times)

9:20 AM ET, January 6, 2022

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Republicans' Jan. 6 Responsibility — The GOP has a duty to condemn the riot and those who refuse to acknowledge it. — We're in an acrimonious period of partisan tribalism and have been for some time. Both parties are guilty of overwrought denunciations of their political opponents.

Discussion: New York Times, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, Wide World of News, Mediaite, Washington Post, The Western Journal, Political Wire and Politico

George T. Conway III / Washington Post:

Trump must have his day in court for his crimes on Jan. 6 — Attorney General Merrick Garland said all the right things. His speech marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection was a studied call for patience — and a promise of full justice. He explained how massive …

Discussion: The Nation, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Signal, Insider, U.S. Department of Justice, ⚡️ …, RedState, Press Herald, Mother Jones, Washington Times, The Daily Beast, New York Times, One America News Network, New Republic and UPI

Alayna Treene / Axios:

Mike Pence's team helping Jan. 6 committee — People in and around former Vice President Mike Pence's office have been particularly cooperative as the Jan. 6 select committee focuses on what former President Trump was doing during the more than three hours the Capitol was under attack, sources familiar with the testimony tell Axios.

Discussion: NBC News, Insider, Talking Points Memo, Alternet.org, Bulletin, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, New York Post, Washington Post, The Hill, USA Today, Mediaite, National Zero, Politico and Balloon Juice

Jon Ward / Yahoo News:

Does Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 documentary hold up under scrutiny? — For the last several months, Tucker Carlson has been arguing that the effort to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's election victory, which culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection, was “a setup,” a trap set for ordinary patriots by shadowy forces in the government.

Discussion: The Mutant Toe, New York Post and NBC Los Angeles

Jimmy Carter / New York Times:

I Fear for Our Democracy — Mr. Carter was the 39th president of the United States. — One year ago, a violent mob, guided by unscrupulous politicians, stormed the Capitol and almost succeeded in preventing the democratic transfer of power. All four of us former presidents condemned …

Discussion: USA Today, CBS News, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, Althouse, Digby's Hullabaloo, Axios, Democracy Diary, Daily Kos, New Republic, Insider, CNN, The Moderate Voice, Alternet.org, Mediaite, New York Post, KRQE-TV and Rochester Beacon

Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:

Ted Cruz criticized for calling Jan. 6 riot a ‘violent terrorist attack’ — Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz got blowback from some on the right, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson, after he called the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol a “violent terrorist attack.”

Discussion: The Federalist, New York Times, The Daily Beast, American Greatness, Page Array, The Hill, Washington Post, Raw Story, Conservative Caucus and CNN

Annie Linskey / Washington Post:

Biden to squarely blame Trump for Jan. 6 assault — President Biden will squarely blame former president Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and for continuing to propagate falsehoods and unrest over the past year, when he speaks Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the insurrection.

Discussion: Fox News, YouTube, Reuters, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, USA Today, InQueensland, Breitbart, The BRAD BLOG, ArkLaTexHomepage, TheBlaze, Politico, New York Post, The Daily Wire, Todd Starnes and The Guardian

Scott Stump / TODAY.com:

Liz Cheney says too many in GOP are ‘looking the other way’ on Jan. 6: 'That's how democracies die' — On the one-year anniversary of the riot at the U.S. Capitol, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney believes the country's democracy remains under attack. — “The threat continues,” …

Discussion: Bloomberg, CNN, KTLA, Mediaite and The Guardian

Peter Baker / New York Times:

A Year Later, Jan. 6 Becomes Just Another Wedge in a Divided Nation — The nearly universal outrage after the assault on the Capitol has reverted to separate blue and red realities, and former President Donald J. Trump has remained the dominant force in his party.

Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: Your guide to Jan. 6 anniversary coverage — DRIVING THE DAY — Jan. 6 is about DONALD TRUMP. — For those who always despised him, feel betrayed by him, or fear his return to power, today is about remembering — never forgetting — his lowest point as president …

Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, Deadline, Voice of America, Can We Still Govern?, The Federalist and The Daily Caller

Kyle Cheney / Politico:

The 1/6 question: Not what, but when — DELIVERED — It's the timestamps, stupid. — Investigators, prosecutors and journalists have spent a year reconstructing the horror of Jan. 6 in granular, painstaking detail — unearthing eye-popping vignettes about a president obsessed with subverting …

Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story, Bloomberg and Politico

Reuters:

Biden to call Trump a threat to democracy on U.S. Capitol attack anniversary — President Joe Biden will accuse his predecessor Donald Trump of posing a continuing threat to democracy on Thursday, the anniversary of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who tried to overturn his election defeat.

Discussion: New York Times, HuffPost, Bloomberg, NBC Boston, CNN and Political Wire

John Wagner / Washington Post:

Nation marks anniversary of Jan. 6 storming of U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump mob … President Biden plans to address the nation Thursday from the U.S. Capitol, marking the first anniversary of its attack by a violent mob of supporters of President Donald Trump as Congress met to confirm Biden's electoral college victory.

Discussion: The Hill, USA Today, Fox News, HuffPost, ABC News, CNN, Associated Press, Metro.co.uk, UPI, Al Jazeera, Washington Times, The Guardian, The Duckpin, NBC4 Washington, One America News Network, Kwan's America and Press Herald

Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:

Garland needs to bring Jan. 6 criminal charges against Donald Trump — Garland: Justice Department will hold all Jan. 6th rioters ‘accountable under law’ — Attorney General Merrick Garland has not yet charged any of the alleged ringleaders of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol …

Discussion: BuzzFeed News, NPR, CBS News, Associated Press, The Atlantic and Washington Post

FiveThirtyEight:
The Insurrection — Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Safety Information …

Discussion: Rolling Stone

David Rohde / New Yorker:
The January 6th Criminal Case Against Donald Trump

Discussion: NPR, Breitbart, The Shipler Report, Washington Post, Associated Press, Townhall, Chicago Sun-Times, The Lid, emptywheel, Los Angeles Times, Politico and Political Wire

YouTube:
Remarks to Mark One Year Since the Deadly Assault on the Capitol

Discussion: Las Vegas Review-Journal, UPI, Balloon Juice, National Zero and WINK NEWS

Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says his phone records were subpoenaed by House Jan. 6 committee

Discussion: NBC News, Politico, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, NOQ Report, New York Post, The Daily Beast, Insider, The Hill and AP-NORC

Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Georgia Republicans planned a vigil for ‘J6 Patriots’ on Jan. 6. One critic called it an ‘homage to treason.’

Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and The Hill

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Sean Hannity's bottomless corruption

Discussion: Insider, The Morning Dispatch, Washington Post, Media Matters for America, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Al Jazeera, The Federalist, The Mahablog, Select Committee …, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »

Carl Hulse / New York Times:
One Year Later, Assault Still Casts a Pall Over the Capitol and Its Occupants

Discussion: USA Today, Brookings, Roll Call, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Townhall, January 6th Truth Seekers, Missouri Independent, HuffPost, Fox News, PolitiFact, Politico and Mother Jones

Washington Post:
How Republicans became the party of Trump's election lie after Jan. 6

Discussion: Election Law Blog, New York Times, American Thinker, Associated Press, NBC News, Raw Story, Wall Street Journal, America, America, Sabato's Crystal Ball, CBS Philly, The Hill and The Guardian

Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Cobb GOP cancels ‘homage to treason’ for Jan. 6 insurrection

Discussion: Politico, Breitbart, CNN, HuffPost, Raw Story, Washington Times, FiveThirtyEight and The Hill

Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
The AP Interview: Pelosi says ‘democracy won’ on Jan. 6

Discussion: NBC Boston, NBC New York, The Hill and New York Times

Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times:

Seattle police improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys as CHOP formed in 2020, investigation finds — At a crucial moment during 2020's racial justice protests, Seattle police exchanged a detailed series of fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of menacing right-wing extremists.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Hill, Raw Story, MyNorthwest.com, Associated Press, WTOP News and National Zero

Axios:

Scoop: Bipartisan Senate group in talks about election reform measure — A new bipartisan Senate group is in early discussions about crafting an election reform measure, as the Democrats' sweeping voting rights proposals continue to run into steep procedural hurdles.

Discussion: Common Dreams, Politico, HotAir, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post

Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
The Time Is Now for Democrats To Save Democracy

Discussion: CNN, The Hill, Politico, The 19th and Stephanie's Newsletter

Jill Tucker / San Francisco Chronicle:

‘Shut the whole system down’: S.F. teachers plan sickout as schools struggle amid omicron surge — A group of San Francisco teachers has organized a “sickout” Thursday, saying they will skip school because they feel the district failed to adequately protect them during the pandemic.

Discussion: HotAir

Allahpundit / HotAir:
More liberals are turning against school closures — and teachers unions too?

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Louder With Crowder and New York Post

Washington Post:

Russian troops arrive in protest-roiled Kazakhstan, where security forces have killed dozens of protesters — MOSCOW — Kazakhstan's sweeping anti-government protests turned deadly early Thursday, as overnight clashes saw “dozens” of demonstrators “eliminated,” authorities said, and Russian troops arrived to help the government.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Reuters, Insider, Bloomberg, Associated Press, NPR, UPI, Metro.co.uk, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, WINK NEWS, One America News Network and Japan Times

Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:

Accused Capitol Rioter Edward Jacob Lang Blasts Trump and Begs For His Help in Jailhouse Call — Calling in to a right-wing show, Edward Jacob Lang told Trump that “We are rotting in jail because we stood up for what you told us to stand up for!” — On the eve of the first anniversary …

Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner

Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:

F.B.I. Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts — Filippo Bernardini, an Italian citizen who worked in publishing, was charged with wire fraud and identity theft for a scheme that prosecutors said affected hundreds of people over five or more years.

Discussion: The A.V. Club, UPI and Variety, more at Mediagazer »

Reuters:

Djokovic stuck in airport, Serbian president demands Australian entry — Novak Djokovic was left stranded at a Melbourne airport overnight, caught in a internatonal political maelstrom over whether Australia would honour the World No. 1's medical exemption from vaccine requirements or send him home due to a visa blunder.

Discussion: Washington Post, CBS News, LifeSite, TASS, The Last Refuge, Japan Times, Breitbart, One America News Network, WTOP News, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, Associated Press and UPI

New York Times:

For C.D.C.'s Walensky, a Steep Learning Curve on Messaging — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has stumbled in explaining her policy decisions. — WASHINGTON — Two days before Christmas, with the Omicron variant driving a near-vertical rise …

Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times

American Greatness:

Who Are the Real Insurrectionists? — Stone-cold sober elites are systematically waging a far more dangerous and insidious revolution in the shadows than anything threatened by the American Right. — Recently, Democrats have been despondent over Joe Biden's sinking polls.

Discussion: Bloomberg and Small Dead Animals

Issues & Insights:

Think Jan. 6 Was A Big Deal? Here Are 30 Far More Significant Events On That Day In History — The rest of the nation may have moved on, but Democrats are determined to squeeze the events of a year ago for every ounce of political juice they can from the events that happened at the U.S. Capitol.

Discussion: NPR, Associated Press and Instapundit

Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:

The Strangest Ongoing Mystery of January 6 — The security-camera footage is grainy and gray with no sound, like an old silent film. Night has fallen in Washington, and a person wearing a light-colored hoodie, a face mask, and Nike Air Max Speed Turf sneakers strides down the sidewalk along South Capitol Street carrying a backpack.