Former GOP officials and other prominent Republican figures in Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona are warning that their party’s candidates are a threat to democracy.

Experts in extremism say fanatical far-right groups and ideas have solidified their grip on the Republican Party since Jan. 6.

The ruling cited the 14th Amendment, which bars anyone who ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ from holding state or federal office.

News of the photo’s existence broke this weekend, with Democrats condemning them and far-right conservatives defending them.

Sheriff Joe Lombardo of Clark County, Nevada, the Republican nominee for governor, successfully sought tens of millions of dollars in Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department contracts for companies that donated more than $50,000 to his political campaigns.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) became the latest House Republican pushed out of Congress by GOP primary voters.

Pennsylvania Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the GOP nominee for governor, has chosen to engage only with media outlets that share his right-wing views.

Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem would be the latest election conspiracy theorist to win a Republican primary for secretary of state.

Although a number of Republican senators are openly stating their continued support for overturning the 2020 election, they have yet to be asked to testify before the Jan. 6 committee.

Today’s cartoon from Clay Jones.

‘He lied, he bullied, he betrayed his oath,’ said select committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS).

Gov. Larry Hogan said he would not vote for his own party’s nominee, Dan Cox, who helped send people to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Government and legal experts ask: Can further limits be put on presidential authority to make sure there are no repeats of 2020 in future administrations?

State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor, attended the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally before the U.S. Capitol attack.

Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows said ‘things might get real, real bad,’ on Jan. 6, 2021, Cassidy Hutchinson testified on Tuesday.

Michigan state Rep. Steve Carra, who is running for Congress with Donald Trump’s endorsement, also wants to make January 6 a statewide ‘Remembrance Day’.

‘I am in awe. The revolution has started. The revolution has started!’ Derrick Evans said in a cell phone video taken at the U.S. Capitol.

Arizona state House Speaker Russell ‘Rusty’ Bowers said Donald Trump waged an illegal and unconstitutional campaign to steal the 2020 election — but said he’d vote for him again anyway if he ran in 2024.

‘Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?’ one Georgia election worker asked in an emotional testimony.

‘This problem is on a scale that I don’t think we’ve seen before,’ one Michigan voting rights advocate said.

In footage released by the House committee, an unidentified man walked toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, holding a flagpole that appeared to have a sharpened end, which he said was ‘for a certain person.’

The House panel will examine Donald Trump’s ‘relentless effort on Jan. 6, and in the days beforehand, to pressure Vice President Pence to refuse to count lawful electoral votes,’ Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the GOP nominee for governor, has been called to testify before the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

State Sen. Doug Mastriano hired ex-Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis as a legal adviser for his Pennsylvania gubernatorial bid.

Republican candidate and election denier Ryan D. Kelley was arrested by the FBI on Thursday in yet another twist in the Michigan GOP’s gubernatorial primary.

‘I am not combat-trained. That day it was just hours of hand-to-hand combat,’ Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards told the House select committee investigating the insurrection.

Targets of right-wing commentator Kathy Barnette’s bigoted criticism include LGBTQ people, Muslims, and former President Barack Obama.

Republican Dave McCormick’s credibility and consistency have been a repeated issue in the Pennsylvania Senate primary.

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) has said politicians should be judged by ‘who they hang around with.’

J.R. Majewski will face incumbent Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in the general election for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District.