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Unlike the women who descended on Washington in 2017 to protest the inauguration of President Trump, the women of January 6 did not come as women. They came as Americans, as patriots, as defenders of the republic. They did not wear pink hats. They wore MAGA hats. Their issues were indistinguishable from those of the men in their lives—the rule of law, free and fair elections, and the preservation of constitutional rights. They brought no laundry list of special needs like, say, “reproductive rights,” because they understood that no one was challenging their right to reproduce.

In 1994 The Grand Jury of Yuba County played politics hooking up with a right-wing militia group with an axe to grind against a fine wine sipping fine arts loving yuppie cult situated in the middle of red-neck foothill country by taking control of the grand jury process to blast the local planning and building department and by publishing an explosive defamatory Grand Jury Report with the intention of changing the outcome of the county election and stirring up the citizenry and making news throughout California. The fiasco that ensued started a lawsuit that ended up changing state law to ...