Look, there's really one thing on the ballot this year. Do you like democracy or don't you?

Do you want democracy or don't you? Do you want a party that believes in democracy or do you want

authoritarianism? That is former GOP congressman Adam Kinsinger talking about what is at stake in the upcoming

presidential election. He's ringing an alarm, an alarm that went off on January 6, 2021 and has not stopped.

It's been a year since the January 6 report was published,

but there's been an avalanche of political agitation since then.

In so many ways, January 6th is at the core of a living public debate,

one where different factions are relitigating the impact of the insurrection with renewed vigor. For example, former President Donald Trump was charged with 91 felony counts across four

separate indictments. Then there were a series of court cases testing whether the Constitution

itself could be used to bar former President Trump from appearing on state ballots in this year's

presidential election.

And in December, the Colorado State Supreme Court became the first in the nation to come out

to disqualify the former president to appear on Colorado's Republican primary ballot.

It cited the 14th Amendment.

Breaking news from Capitol Hill this hour, Representative

Kevin McCarthy has now been elected Speaker of the House in the 118th Congress. This comes

after 15 rounds of voting. And who can forget the unprecedented battle for Speaker of the House,

with Trump apologist Kevin McCarthy lasting a mere nine

months. It took a chaotic three weeks before Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana was voted in.

Speaker Johnson, who has long crusaded against abortion access and LGBTQ rights and against laws making it easier for citizens to vote,

repeatedly claimed that Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, won the 2020 election.

Until now, we focused on the legal eagles of the January 6th Committee.

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