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Right wing sedition in U.S. adds another chapter with 1/6 trial

The Rachel Maddow Show

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The Conservative Political Action Coalition, CPAC, put the hashtag America First on their tweet in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing the annexation of parts of Ukraine. Around the same time that Laura Ingalls was coming under investigation for being a paid Nazi agent in the late 30s, her husband, Charles Ingalls, was also implicated in a nationwide plot involving hundreds of armed 13-man cells who were all going to violently attack government targets around the country simultaneously. He and his co-conspirators expected that FDR was gonna win reelection in 1940, but they thought Americans on the far right would be upset by that outcome. In order to channel that upset into something much more dangerous, they plan

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