Out of the 43 Senate Sedition Caucus, These Are Up for Re-Election in 2022

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31. My letter to Tim Scott before the defense presented their argument:

I want to thank you for your reply to my previous note. I know these are busy days for you, and I want to be respectful of your time.

I appreciate your wanting to work in service of unity, and I wish for it as much as you, but how do we unify with insurrectionists? How do we come together with those disrespect our Constitution and find propriety in sacking and defiling our Capitol, and threatening our leaders? How do we move on without accountability for all those responsible? To do so is to countenance the actions of the mob and do a disservice to those who fought, were injured, and died protecting those of you in that building that day. I’m not sure how someone put in a position to be a leader can live with that.

To not hold Donald Trump responsible for what happened on January 6th is to condone his sedition and attempted coup. From what I’ve seen in recent weeks I can only conclude there is one political party that stands in support of democracy while the other stands, for better or worse, with conspiracy theorists, white supremacists, and violent thugs. It appears most people in that party serve in fealty to an individual, as opposed to fidelity to our Constitution. And there’s no excuse for that.

It’s often said “Democracy is fragile”, and it is. To bear witness that you and so many of your Republican colleagues have concluded there’s no price to be paid, and there should be no sanction for the person who instigated a riot that put your lives, and our democracy, in danger, is unconscionable.

It would be a sad irony for you to engage in jury nullification and to give your imprimatur to rule by mob.

I stand for those who stand for democracy without fear and without equivocation.

I, my family, and our friends now know that if you do not convict Donald Trump for what he has done we cannot count on you to protect us and our fragile democracy. We can only support someone who will.


I promise my family and I will do everything we can, using our voices, volunteering, votes, and as much cash as we can, to get Tim Scott out of office. If it could happen to David Purdue, it can happen to Scott.