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Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade spoke to MSNBC on Sunday about the lawsuits against Republican officials who participated in the Jan. 6 events that led to the attacks on the Capitol. Both Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) are launching civil lawsuits against those officials.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), in particular, has been dodging a process server after Swalwell launched his lawsuit. While Brooks hasn't explained why he's so afraid of the subpoena, he avoided it for over a month, until Sunday.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her Thursday show by addressing the possibility of another insurrection attempt coming in August. During a speech at a QAnon conference, former DNI Michael Flynn was asked why the U.S. can't have a coup like what was happening in Myanmar. He said that it's possible and it should happen. It was within days that Donald Trump and his allies began talking about a new conspiracy theory that the ex-president will be "reinstated" in August.

"Now, this is akin to the ex-president hunting for a bathroom scale to show him weighing in at 200 pounds," said Wallace. "Any scale showing Trump weighing 200 pounds is broken or rigged."

A second U.S. Capitol rioter has pleaded guilty to charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, and his agreement shows what punishment others might expect.

Paul Hodgkins, of Florida, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to one count of obstructing an official proceeding, and MSNBC's Scott MacFarlane explained what his case could mean for other Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol as lawmakers certified Joe Biden's election win.

Qanon adherents are getting elected to local office and sowing chaos with outlandish claims and contentious behavior.

At least 19 congressional candidates, including two current lawmakers, who've shown support for the right-wing conspiracy theory are running in next year's midterm election cycle, and other Qanon cultists have won local elections -- such as a school board member in Grand Blanc, Michigan, reported CNN.

While standing with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona fudged some facts about the filibuster that left some legal experts scratching their heads.

Sinema, who has only been in office for about a year and a half, claimed that she'd always supported the filibuster because it prevented radical swings back and forth with changes of power. She then claimed that she sees it as a tool to "protect" Democracy.

Don Lemon introduced a segment about President Donald Trump's Justice Department obtaining phone records from the New York Times, CNN and Washington Post immediately after being sworn into office. But he cracked up once he announced the two panelists whose faces were filled with disgust.

That news adds to the report that Trump believes that he'll suddenly take over the presidency in August while QAnon cultists are advocating a coup.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is so terrified of the lawsuit by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) that he has been hiding from process servers for almost a month, just to avoid being subpoenaed.

Brooks was among many Republicans who spoke at the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally that led to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Former Breitbart staffer turned Democratic consultant Kurt Bardella explained how Republicans want to pretend they're fierce and powerful, but the reality is that they're "weak" and "fragile" little snowflakes.

MSNBC's Joy Reid asked how Republicans keep playing the victim over the tiny cloth mouth and nose coverings that are required for anti-vaccine people. One shop owner began offering yellow stars modeled off of those the Nazis made Jews wear during the Holocaust. Instead, however, the star signified an anti-vaccine person.

MSNBC host Joy Reid walked through the specifics on why Fox News host Tucker Carlson is pretending to be against Jim Crow-era policies while playing a Jim Crow Republican role.

Speaking Wednesday, Reid explained that Fox and the GOP's anxiety about masks and vaccines is another example of the fragile victimhood the GOP loves to embrace.

On CNN Wednesday, correspondent Jim Acosta broke down the implications of former President Donald Trump's full embrace of QAnon conspiracy theories that he will be "reinstated" as president.

"It is potentially very dangerous to hear this talk from the former president, who still has an enormous amount of supporters out there," said anchor Wolf Blitzer.

Lawyers can do a lot, but election lawyer Marc Elias warned that he and a team of lawyers can't stop Republicans from trying to stop people from voting by themselves. If Americans want to hold onto their right to vote, it's only going to happen with the "For the People Act" that has been passed by the House but not by the Senate.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Elias explained that he's going to keep doing the best that he can, but that it's him against hundreds of Republicans, conservative think-tanks and right-wing groups working to block Democrats from their access to the polls.

Raw Story broke the news that former President Donald Trump killed his blog Tuesday night without much of an announcement. It was just 29 days that the ex-president's rantings and ravings existed on his "From the Desk of Donald Trump" page on the website. Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes thinks it's because he couldn't handle the lack of interest in the page.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, Sykes ridiculed the decision, tying it to Trump's insecurity.

CNN contributor S.E. Cupp said on Wednesday that, in an ideal world, no one would care what former President Donald Trump believes.

But in the actual world, Trump retains an iron grip on the Republican Party, which is why it's news when he reportedly believes he's going to be reinstated in the White House in August.