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Well-respected conservative Judge Michael Luttig warns: "Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how."

He writes: "There was a time not long ago when virtually every member of Congress could be expected to commit to the peaceful transfer of congressional power in advance of an election, just as every president could be expected to commit to the peaceful transfer of presidential power. But those times came to an abrupt end upon Donald Trump’s arrival in January 2017. In a damning indictment of the president and today’s congressional Republicans, it would be hard to find even one congressional Republican with the integrity, sense of duty to country, honor, and courage to put America above the Republican Party, let alone above Donald Trump.

"Yet America’s only hope for saving its democracy and avoiding another crippling constitutional crisis on January 3 is for the House Republicans to decide that they are not going to betray their oaths and their country one last time for Donald Trump, and telegraph to Trump and Mike Johnson that any unconstitutional plan they might be contriving to deny Democratic members-elect their rightful seats in the 120th Congress would be dead on arrival January 3.

"If there are any such Republicans in the Congress today, they should announce well before November 3 that they will not be party to Trump’s and Johnson’s attempt to steal the midterm elections from the American people.

"In fact, the House members of both political parties should stand united before November 3 and affirm to the American people that in the United States of America, government derives its just powers from the consent of 'We the People'—the governed. They should campaign in the fall on any refusal by their political opponents to affirm the same. Their political opponents should in turn campaign on House members’ refusal to affirm that they will not be complicit in any attempt to steal the midterm elections."

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"He’s packing the army with them. He’s also packing the army with Christian nationalists because he is a fervid Christian nationalist himself and has had ceremonies in the central courtyard of the Pentagon, for example, that were in essence Christian prayer meetings. Now we’re supposed to have separation of church and state in this country, but Hegseth does not believe in that and has said that he doesn’t believe in that, has formally said that to the troops. He leads prayer meetings in the Pentagon himself personally, and the audience is told where to sit and how to sit and how to come and how to go and listens even to some of Hegseth’s favorite preachers who say things like, 'Women are only good for having babies and that’s all women are good for and that’s all they should do.' Or says such things as, 'f you’re not involved in this war, then you’re not for Jesus because you’re not fighting for the Constitution or for the security of America, you’re fighting for Jesus.' This is Pete Hegseth."—Retired U.S. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
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In case you missed it, Trump posted this on his social media accounts Sept. 6 https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/trumps-insanity-has-become-dangerous