From the brutality of Bloody Sunday and the Edmund Pettus Bridge came historic voting rights legislation.

So now let's step up, right? The next chapter in American history, where January 6 marks not the end of democracy, but the beginning of a renaissance of liberty and fair play.

I did not seek this fight brought to this capital one year ago today,

but I will not shrink from it either.

I will stand in this breach.

I will defend this nation.

I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.

We will make sure the will of the people is heard.

I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the bestsellers, The View for Flyover Country, and Hiding in Plain Sight,

and of the upcoming book They New, out this September.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising autocracy around the world.

This week's Gaslit Nation Early Show, available for Patreon subscribers at the truth-teller level and higher,

is a recording of the sounds of Sarah and I smashing furniture following the news of Paul Manafort's

book deal from Simon & Schuster, a blood money machine apparently. Be sure to tune into that.

We're also answering questions for our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher,

as Gaslit Nation's community continues to keep us sane. Thank you for all your questions.

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We just need to get through these years together and we appreciate all your support.

So first up, we are going to be diving into the big Merck Garland speech on January 5th in tribute to the horror show of January 6th,

2021, when Trump and his white supremacist terrorist army tried to violently overthrow our democracy

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