The ongoing threat to democracy can be found inside Mark Meadows’ phone

Republicans have been crowing about the “Twitter Files” and Hunter Biden’s laptop, but maybe it’s Mark Meadows’ texts they should have been worried about all along. Thousands of text messages that Meadows turned over to the House’s Jan. 6 committee were obtained by Talking Points Memo, shining new light on the role that Meadows and other Republican officials played in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The more than 2,300 texts detail the extent to which Donald Trump’s allies floated conspiracy theories, absurd legal tactics and even violence. As Trump’s chief of staff, Meadows was at t...