The Coup Attempt Isn’t Over Yet

Voter suppression and power grabs are nothing new in America

Amy Shearn
Momentum
Published in
2 min readJan 8, 2021

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The insurrection or coup attempt or mob riot or whatever you want to call what happened at the Capitol building on January 6 is not actually over yet. As Michael Arceneaux writes for LEVEL: “The courts stood up for democracy this time, but my fear is that if next time around Republicans control more state…

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Amy Shearn
Momentum

Formerly: Editor of Creators Hub, Human Parts // Ongoingly: Novelist, Essayist, Person