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1:20 AM ET, January 7, 2022

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Susan Glasser / New Yorker:
Biden, Back Into the Breach  —  A year after the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, the President delivered the speech that he never wanted to give.  —  He never mentioned Donald Trump by name.  He didn't have to.  Joe Biden gave the speech of his Presidency on Thursday …
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Dick Cheney comes to Capitol on Jan. 6, says he's ‘deeply disappointed’ in GOP leadership  —  He spoke with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.  —  While most Republicans were absent on Capitol Hill for the Jan. 6 anniversary Thursday, one of the party's most prominent elder statesmen was there.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ted Cruz Begs Tucker Carlson's Forgiveness for Being Mean to Violent Insurrectionists  —  Senator Ted Cruz has tried to cling to what has become the safest ground in the Republican Party: Denouncing the violent attack on the Capitol one year ago without criticizing either the lies that inspired …
Yacob Reyes / Axios:   Gaetz: “We're proud of the work we did” on Jan. 6
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Trump did not want to tweet ‘stay peaceful’ during January 6 riot, key former aide says  —  (CNN)A former Trump White House official said then-President Donald Trump initially refused to tweet the words “stay peaceful” as the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was escalating.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Biden breaks his silence: Inside his decision to forcefully denounce Trump  —  Throughout the first year of Joe Biden's presidency, Donald Trump was the name that shalt not be spoken.  —  As the former president solidified control over the Republican Party, spread lies about the 2020 election …
Discussion: CNN and Breitbart
Washington Examiner:
The cult of Jan. 6  —  A year ago today, a mob determined to intimidate Vice President Mike Pence and Congress into delaying the certification of the 2020 presidential election descended upon the Capitol from the Ellipse, where President Donald Trump had falsely told them, “We won this election, and we won it by a landslide.”
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Ignoring Trump Didn't Work. Biden Goes After ‘a Defeated Former President.’
Geneva Sands / CNN:
DHS warns online threats have increased on extremist platforms over past 48 hours with some against lawmakers
Discussion: The Guardian and GovExec.com
Axios:   In photos: An hour-by-hour record of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Politico:
Harris was inside DNC on Jan. 6 when pipe bomb was discovered outside  —  Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was inside Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pipe bomb was discovered outside the building, according to four people familiar with her movements that day.
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Katelyn Caralle / Daily Mail:   SEVENTH aide since Kamala Harris's disastrous June border trip announces he is leaving in staff exodus: Press director Peter Velz heads to the State Department …
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
White House, USPS finalizing plans to begin shipping coronavirus test kits to U.S. households  —  The White House is finalizing details with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver 500 million coronavirus test kits to households across the country, according to four people familiar with the plans …
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Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
White House backs Dem chances in midterm races amid high turnover: 'we'd rather be us than them'
Discussion: Townhall
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Mike Pompeo tells The Post how he lost 90 pounds in six months  —  America isn't just seeing less of Mike Pompeo because the Trump administration is no longer in the White House.  We are seeing less of the former Secretary of State because there is literally less of him — 90 pounds, to be exact.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Advisers to Biden's Transition Team Call for Altered U.S. Strategy  —  Here's what you need to know:  —  Some health advisers to Biden's transition team call on the administration to change its Covid strategy.  —  On the day President Biden was inaugurated …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Is a Civil War Ahead?  —  A year after the attack on the Capitol, America is suspended between democracy and autocracy.  —  The edifice of American exceptionalism has always wobbled on a shoddy foundation of self-delusion, and yet most Americans have readily accepted the commonplace …
Discussion: Today in Tabs
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John F. Harris / Politico:
We Are In a New Civil War ... About What Exactly?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Woman tied to Capitol riots was wrong-way driver in fatal crash in Franklin County  —  FRANKLIN COUNTY — A woman tied to the U.S. Capitol riots a year ago was drunk and driving the wrong way on Interstate 44 on Wednesday night when she killed a woman and seriously injured the man driving another car …
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Zoe Richards / The Daily Beast:
Family Fumes After Capitol Rioter Out on Bond Kills Young Mom in Drunken Crash
Discussion: KMOV-TV
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Mo Brooks was ‘cheering on’ Trump supporters invading the Capitol: Former Kevin McCarthy staffer  —  A former staffer for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday made an explosive claim about Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and his reaction to the January 6th Capitol riots.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Democrats Will Have to Do More to Save Democracy From Trump  —  As 2022 begins, the risk American democracy faces is not just that Donald Trump supporters will repeat the events of January 6, 2021—attempting to overturn a free and fair election to illegitimately install Trump as president.
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Laura Cassels / Florida Phoenix:
DeSantis admits, up to 1 million COVID test kits DID expire in FL  —  Ag Commissioner Fried, who exposed the issue, blasts governor for unused stockpile  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis and Kevin Guthrie, director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management, acknowledged Thursday that 800,000 …
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Associated Press:
Taking on Trump is Biden's reluctant calling
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
We Reviewed All 733 Arrests From the Insurrection.  Here Is What We Found.  —  We reviewed all 733 criminal cases connected to the insurrection.  Here is what we found.  —  Thursday marks one year since a violent mob stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the democratic transfer of power.
Ken Bensinger / BuzzFeed News:
The Government Says A Key Informant In The Michigan Kidnapping Case Was A “Double Agent”  —  Federal prosecutors say a key FBI informant in the alleged plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan was a “double agent” who was “working against the interests of the government” by trying to destroy evidence and prevent arrests.
Washington Post:
In the nation's hospitals, this covid wave is different  —  The number of Americans hospitalized with covid-19 reached more than 126,000 this week — the highest level in a year.  But this wave of the pandemic looks different from what came before, with dueling variants on the move.
Hillary Borrud / Oregonian:
Democratic hopeful Nick Kristof doesn't qualify to run for governor, Secretary of State Shemia Fagan says  —  Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Nick Kristof does not meet Oregon's residency requirement to qualify to run for governor, Secretary of State Shemia Fagan announced Thursday morning.
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Selene San Felice / Axios:
Florida leads nation in Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases
Discussion: Palm Beach Post and National Zero
Haley Talbot / InStyle:
I Was in the Capitol on Jan. 6, and I Won't Stop Telling My Story
Discussion: Daily Kos
Shannon Bond / NPR:
Kicked off Facebook and Twitter, far-right groups lose online clout
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
If the Jan. 6 coup succeeded, what would Michigan Republicans have done?
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Don't come to Atlanta without a plan to pass voting laws, groups tell Biden, Harris
Discussion: Supercreator and The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Tom Porter / Insider:
QAnon networks are evading Twitter's crackdown on disinformation to pump out pro-Capitol-riot propaganda, study says
Discussion: Raw Story
The White House:
Remarks By President Biden To Mark One Year Since The January 6th Deadly Assault On The U.S. Capitol
Wall Street Journal:
White House Nominates Airborne Officer to Lead Central Command
David Gilbert / VICE:
Anti-Vax Podcaster Who Got COVID at a Conspiracy Conference Has Died
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