present with them. guide our legislators with your wisdom and truth. as they seek to meet the requirements of the united states constitution. lord inspire them to seize this opportunity, to demonstrate to the nation, and world how the democratic process can be done properly and in an orderly manner. help them to remember, that history is a faithful stenographer. and so are you. we pray in your sovereign name, amen. the fact that we even have a senate chaplain and the house chaplain, it s kind of a weird thing. it s a contradiction in the country in which separation of church and state is a constitutional hallmark, even james madison came to believe it wasn t entirely kosher. but it chaplain open every day of congressional business starting with the continental congress in 70 74 and the tradition has continued the way this contradictions been resolved over the years, is whatever his or her specific the domination personally, and they have all been christian, the chaplain pra
dumpster fire. but we begin with the age of illiberalism, a movement proclaimed by hungarian prime minister viktor orban. they have elections of a sort but so hamper voters abilities to make informed choices and heavily control the outcome that the elections are essentially a show. these are the autocratic dreams of a far light leader obsessed with solidifying a christian mono culture and who in 2014 declared his intention to build a illiberal new state citing china, russia an turkey as role models. flash forward to today where cpac, the once conservative gathering that is a cesspool of the far right running amock in holding its conference it in budapest. speakers include tucker carlson and mark meddo and the hungarian prime minister who recently won a fourth term. orban made it clear he s an ally to the american right selling cpac that the u.s. must align troops for 2024 votes, to fight together and reconquer institutions in washington and brussels from liberals who threate
ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form
in metastasize ho bach broadly, is the core people who claim there been massive fraud, and that donald trump is the real winner of the election, was really quite small. it was a very loud chorus, because it included the sitting president of the united states, but in the first weeks after the election, it was really just rudy giuliani and his ragtag bunch of conspiracy theorists, of rag right-wing lawyers. they spewed a bunch of nonsense at the four seasons total landscaping press conference in pennsylvania, and the equally in from his hair dye press, or where rudy giuliani appeared to be melting. but there are a losing court case after court case, in their attempt to get biden s victory overturned in various swing states. failing in court, they try to get republican state legislatures to overturn the election results instead. but the republican leaders there would not playable. but in pennsylvania, they did find one guy who would help them. a first term republican state senat
moment, now the stop the steal election denialism has metastasized so broadly, it s at the core of the people that insisted that there been massive fraud and vote rigging, and donald trump is the real winner the election was really quite small. it was a very loud chorus, we because it included the sitting president of the united states, but in the first weeks after the election, it was really just rudy giuliani and his ragtag bunch of conspiracy theorists, of rag right-wing lawyers. they spewed a bunch of nonsense at the four seasons total landscaping press conference in pennsylvania, and the equally infamous hair dye press, or where rudy giuliani appeared to be melting. but there are a losing court case after court case, in their attempt to get biden s victory overturned in various swing states. failing in court, they try to get republican state legislatures to overturn the election results instead. but the republican leaders there would not playable. but in pennsylvania, th