Many people on the list don't even have active security clearances.
#Kinzinger said as much himself. But this is what idiotic autocrats do: remember when Putin banned Joe Biden's father from entry into Russia?
Even their bluster is misinformed.
Pamela Hemphill,
a grandmother in her seventies who was jailed for taking part in the attempted insurrection at the US Capitol four years ago,
has said 
she will “refuse” a pardon from President-elect Donald Trump once he takes office.
A retired substance abuse counsellor from Boise, Idaho, who was being treated for breast cancer at the time of the riot,
Hemphill was spotted pushing past police lines three times when the attack was underway
and was later seen inside its rotunda telling fellow members of the mob:
“Come on in, come on, have fun… This is your house!”
Hemphill – who filmed her actions, posted the footage on Facebook and became known as the “#MAGA #Granny”, only to later break with Trump’s movement
– has said she wants no part of the 47th president’s clemency outreach.
️“I’m not going to be bullied by MAGA anymore, as those who went as far as calling my Probation Officer trying to get me in trouble backfired on them, thinking I would stop speaking out, just give me more confidence to continue!”
she wrote on X on Sunday.
“I will refuse a pardon from felon Trump!”
Hemphill was responding to a post by former Republican congressman #Adam #Kinzinger, who served on the bipartisan House committee that investigated the riot
and has likewise said he would reject a presidential pardon from Biden to shield him from retaliatory measures by Trump’s FBI or Justice Department.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jan-6-rioter-pamela-hemphill-170612476.html
Within a couple of minutes, I knew 
“The Last Republican”
(in theaters)
would be different.
That’s in part because #Adam #Kinzinger himself is a different kind of subject.
He gave a long interview to Pink in what appears to be his mostly emptied office just before he left the House of Representatives.
He’d been one of a handful of Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching Donald Trump in 2021
(after speaking against his first impeachment in 2019),
then served alongside Democrats and fellow Republican Liz Cheney on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Needless to say, he was not popular in his party,
especially as other Republicans who had opposed Trump began to change their views.
The documentary spends most of its time letting Kinzinger explain why he feels as he feels and did what he did,
and why he’d do (most of) it again.
In late 2021, he announced he would not run for re-election
(a new congressional map had eliminated his district),
and a few months later his party voted to censure him.
At one point in the movie, the House minority leader at the time, Kevin McCarthy, refers to Kinzinger and Cheney as “Pelosi Republicans.”
Kinzinger reserves his most passionate anger in “The Last Republican” for McCarthy,
whom he sees as weak and traitorous for changing his behavior toward Trump.
But Kinzinger is as frustrated with his party as he is steadfast in his conservative Christian convictions,
pro-military views and socially traditional beliefs.
Now, without occupying an elected position, he feels comfortable letting loose.
That turns out to be why the movie works.
Pink is on the political left;
when Kinzinger half-jokingly dubs him “basically a Communist” near the film’s start, Pink corrects him.
“Progressive,” he says, and they carry on.
They talk about why Kinzinger chose to allow Pink to follow him and his staff through their final months in Congress,
which boils down to a hilarious fact:
Pink directed the 2010 comedy
“Hot Tub Time Machine,”
which Kinzinger declares a “cinematic masterpiece.”
There’s clearly some shared sensibility between the two men even if,
as they both freely admit,
they have no respect for each other’s beliefs.
More than Kinzinger’s story,
this is why “The Last Republican” is worth watching.
At times it seems like exhortations to “reach across the aisle” and “heal political divisions” have become platitudes, clichés without any firm ideas about how that might be accomplished.
But the combative camaraderie that Pink and Kinzinger demonstrate respects both of them as humans
— without softening their stances one bit.
I hope to see more films like this one in the years to come.
Via @emptywheel:
I've written about the logic behind #Harris' campaigning with Liz #Cheney. But one thing it'll do IN ADDITION to electoral help is create a nub of Republicans who can fight back against fuckery in real time
Adam #Kinzinger:
I will do a longer video on this, but the real pressure point after the election will be in state houses. MAGA will pressure republican state houses where Kamala wins to simply not certify. Then what?
Likely Supreme Court, possible violence. Be aware
@philip_cardella @jamesmarshall @marcas
Yup #Kinzinger also falls into that category. My #politics are more center left and don’t align with these folks but I admire their steadfast refusal to compromise with #Trump. Would that there were more that had character.
What is left of the #GOP is a bunch of sycophants who deserved to be dropped into the ‘Profiles In Cowardice’ category
President Kamala Harris should make every effort to keep Joe Biden’s Cabinet superstars
— Energy Secretary Jennifer #Granholm,
Commerce Secretary Gina #Raimondo and
Transportation Secretary Pete #Buttigieg
— as she assembles her own team.
At the Justice Department, however, she will need someone far more aggressive and politically astute than the current attorney general
— perhaps former acting attorney general Sally Q. #Yates or North Carolina Gov. Roy #Cooper, a former state attorney general who, by then, will be out of office.
Harris also should make every effort to find one or more Republicans who can reinforce the bipartisan coalition she is assembling.
Adam #Kinzinger for Veterans Affairs would make sense,
with Liz #Cheney perhaps at the FBI or in a top ambassadorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/29/changes-harris-improve-biden-white-house/
“God bless Adam Kinzinger for telling the truth about his (and my) party, now corrupted to its core. MAGA snowflakes get triggered by him, suggesting he’s a RINO Judas. But the actual reason they hate him is that he reminds them of something they abandoned years ago: their integrity.”
~ Matt Labash
#Trump #Republicans #Kinzinger #integrity
/4
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/opinion/scorecard-night-4-democratic-convention.html
Wow! #Kinzinger is on fire! He’s pulling no punches!
Ex-Republican Rep. Adam #Kinzinger at the #DNC: "#Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong. A small man pretending to be big. A faithless man pretending to be righteous. A perpetrator who can't stop playing the victim. He puts on quite a show. But there's no real strength there."
Billy Graham's granddaughter joins 'Evangelicals for Harris,' quotes Isaiah to blast Trump supporters
The granddaughter of the late Rev. Billy Graham endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris during an ️"Evangelicals for Harris" ️
Zoom call Wednesday
and suggested that 
Christians who support former President Donald Trump are causing people to turn away from Christianity.
#Jerushah #Duford, whose mother Virginia "Gigi" Graham Tchividjian is Graham's oldest daughter, spoke in a recorded video because she was unable to attend the virtual event,
which also included speakers such as former Rep. Adam #Kinzinger, R-Ill
The event reportedly reached 40,000 people as the Harris campaign attempts to court Evangelical voters despite her liberal views on issues such as abortion and sexuality.
'Voting Kamala, for me, is so much greater'
"Denver Riggleman and Adam Kinzinger WANT SANITY…"
#Riggleman & #Kinzinger served together on the #Jan6 Committee. "Adam was in the room — and those 'behind the door' experiences will shock the sane and anger those who deal in reality. From China’s Xi to Syria to the January 6th Committee, you will find out why Adam Kinzinger was sometimes the only rational person in the room— and why he belongs in the COTS Hall of Fame."
https://www.youtube.com/live/c8qtOZ0D2JQ?si=YD4Xcd99nByvYw3e
@spiegelmama @cindyweinstein
When the #Trump saga is written, Fani #Willis will be on the list of unlikely and quirky heroes who paid a high price. Liz #Cheney, Adam #Kinzinger, Jack #Smith, Alex #Vindman. Feel free to add your favorites.
An ill-advised affair and $10k in shared travel. Big deal. Less than one day of fees of #TFG 's lawyers, paid by hapless contributors.
@rogue_corq Adam #Kinzinger had a few theings to say about Tucker #Carlson 's visit to #Russia.
https://www.newsweek.com/adam-kinzingers-reaction-tucker-carlsons-russia-trip-1866702
AKA putting your money where your mouth is. 
“Former Rep. Adam #Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said he would vote for President #Biden instead of #Trump “in a heartbeat.””
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4404785-kinzinger-says-hed-vote-for-biden-instead-of-trump-in-a-heartbeat/
@uspolitics Kinzinger can be very proud of his accomplishments, including loosing Hannity’s trust!… He is indeed a remarkable man compared to all these spineless Trump followers in the Congress. His day is yet to come. #Kinzinger
Via Scott MacFarlane:
DAY EIGHT in #House of Reps for Rep George #Santos (R-NY):
On-line petition promoted by former Rep Adam #Kinzinger (R-IL) seeking Santos’s resignation has yielded tens of thousands of on-line signatures
Facts matter. Why, here's one now!
Kyle Griffin:
Adam #Kinzinger blasted Kevin #McCarthy on Charlie Sykes' podcast: "Kevin's a piece of shit. And let's just be honest about this, because he will say whatever he needs to say to stay in power. I'm not even saying that gratuitously to be mean to him. It's just a fact."
