After obsessing over the January 6 Capitol Hill riot for the past year, the media are now
using its one-year anniversary to advocate for unprecedented, sweeping election reforms.

Democrats would have been foolish not to make political hay out of this anniversary, and
so they've decided to wield it as a justification for federalizing America's elections.
Naturally, their friends in the media quickly flooded the zone with articles and TV
segments supporting the party's cause.

Watch the video below for a glimpse of the media's shameless January 6 activism:

https://www.mrctv.org/videos/media-cynics-are-helping-dems-use-jan-6-federalize-elections

The media barrage began with a January 1 New York Times piece by the paper�s editorial
board, titled, �Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now.� The authors hyperventilated:

Jan. 6 is not in the past; it is every day� the Republic faces
an existential threat from a movement that is openly
contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to
use violence to achieve its ends.

A few key points comprised the article's thesis: that election reforms by Republican-led
state legislatures constitute a continuation of the January 6, 2021 mentality; that
American democracy is in dire peril; and that the only solution is to pass the sweeping
federal election reforms proposed by Congressional Democrats. These were to be the media's
talking
points on the topic, and journalists have been reciting them obediently all week.

Just a day after the Times piece was published, NBC political director Chuck Todd was
sounding the alarm bells on Meet The Press: �You got one party that�s being led by Trump
here that seems to be trying to delegitimize our democracy.� In a later segment, PBS
reporter Yamiche Alcindor added: �Overall, what we�re seeing is a fragility of American
democracy and Americans
really not quite, I think, grasping how dangerous this is.�

Boston Globe journalist Kimberly Atkins Stohr directly connected the Capitol Hill riot to
election reform on the January 3 edition of MSNBC�s Andrea Mitchell Reports: �There�s a
direct through-line between what we saw on January 6th and this issue of voting rights.
I�m surprised that it took a year after this attempted coup at the Capitol for the
President to really focus
in on this, but these two things really go hand in hand.�

The following day on CNN�s Inside Politics, Daily Beast Washington bureau chief Jackie
Kucinich warned darkly: �January 6th never ended in a lot of ways. It�s ongoing.�

With the 6th now upon us, Americans are in for a day jam-packed with cynical political
gamesmanship and overtures about Our Democracy�.

But don�t expect the press to stop haranguing about the Capitol riot once the fight over
election laws is gone from the news cycle. January 6 has been the media�s favorite
rhetorical cudgel for the past year, and they�re not likely to put it back on the shelf
anytime soon.

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Let's go Brandon!