A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is now live. Josh and Kate discuss the fate of the January 6 commission as Kevin McCarthy struggles to unify his caucus.
When impeachment was on the table, the House minority leader was all about putting together a Jan. 6 commission in lieu of a trial.
We’ve covered an endless number of stories over the twenty year history of TPM. But if there’s one through-line, one consistent and especial focus throughout, it’s voting rights and democracy. The site started in a contested election, our big stories in 2002 were big voter suppression stories in South Dakota and New Hampshire. The US Attorney Firing scandal was in fact a voter suppression story. Firing those US Attorneys was just a step to get the suppression moving.
I’m proud to say there’s no publication in the United States that has devoted more of its resources to this issue over a longer period of time than TPM. The franchise is the central architecture of equality and the sheet anchor of the American republic. That’s always been the case. But people are especially attuned to that fact now after the shocking events of the 2020 election and the Republican party’s current effort to clamp down on voting across the country.
That’s why we’re launching The Franchise, a weekly newsletter devoted to democracy and voting rights in the United States.