Marjorie Taylor Greene

Former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who is known for his testimony at the opening Jan. 6 Committee hearing in July, wrote a letter delivered on Wednesday to Republican House of Representatives leaders asking them to speak out against political violence to commemorate the second anniversary of the attack on the Capitol.

As the Associated Press reports, the letter was also signed by over 1,000 law enforcement officers, active military members, military veterans and families of military members.

Many of the Republican commentators on MSNBC have been talking about the 20 Republicans that are against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) becoming the Speaker of the House by calling them "rebels." But host Nicolle Wallace refused to allow that word to be the one used for many of the far right.

"Let's be a little more blunt than that," Wallace began. "They're not rebels. I'm not going to use that word. They're coup plotters, 19 House Republicans were in the Roosevelt Room, which is four steps away from the Oval Office helping Donald Trump plan overturn the results of the 2016 election, which sent all of them back! Their names were on all the ballots there were trying to destroy and denigrate and smear, and call into question."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) of "lying" because he nominated Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for Speaker of the House even though he did not want the job.

Greene spoke to right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk on Wednesday following McCarthy's failure to secure the speakership on the fourth ballot.

Congressman-elect George Santos admitted to stealing a man's checkbook to buy clothing and shoes in 2008, according to Brazilian prosecutors.

CNN obtained 150 pages worth of case documents, including a statement Santos gave to police two years later, that showed he used stolen checks and a fake ID with the checkbook owner's name and his own photo to make purchases at a shop outside Rio de Janeiro, and he was called to speak to investigators several times the next two years.

Right-wing host John Fredericks ripped Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other Republicans on Wednesday because they supported Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to become the next Speaker of the House.

During an appearance with conservative podcaster Steve Bannon, Fredericks suggested that McCarthy would never be Speaker.

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) did not hold back on Tuesday when giving his analysis of the chaos being unleashed by House Republicans' repeated failure to confirm leader Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.

During an appearance on MSNBC, Jolly said that the fracturing of the GOP was entirely predictable given the kinds of right-wing extremists Republican leadership has catered to over the last several years.

Respected economist Paul Krugman recently shared a critical assessment of the current Republican Party and its lawmakers in an op-ed published by The New York Times.

In his piece, Krugman expressed concern about the possibility of the political party's unhinged aggressive movement will have supporters spending "much of 2023 feeling nostalgic for the good old days of greed and cynicism.”

In a newly released book, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund blames both the military and intelligence officials for a lack of planning that led to the severity of the Jan. 6 attacks.

His accusation is based on a series of delays he encountered from the military in his attempt to deploy National Guard at the beginning of the Jan. 6 attacks.

The upcoming vote for Speaker of the House is another public display of the split intentions and motivations of the Republican party, Democrats are telling the public via social media.

Democrat Representative Grace Meng posted on Twitter, "If you've run out of Netflix shows, there's a new one out at 12pm-starring House Republicans. Instead of fighting inflation, they're fighting each other."

Following what has been reported as a contentious and obscenity-filled House Republican caucus meeting over a vote on the speakership, Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) a leader of the members who are leading a revolt against Rep. Kevin McCarthy trashed the California Republican for not giving into his factions demands.

Speaking to the press after the meeting broke up where McCarthy proclaimed he "earned' the speakership -- only to have Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) reportedly fire back "bullsh*t" -- Perry gave no indication that McCarthy is any closer to gaining their votes than before the meeting and things might have gotten worse.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) blasted members of the House Freedom Caucus and her "friend" Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for ongoing opposition to Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) campaign to become House Speaker.

Greene spoke to members of the press during a break in the Republican caucus meeting on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, ahead of the swearing in of the new Republican House majority, the Huffington Post laid out how a small group of far-right lawmakers are poised to wield total power in the chamber — making Republican leadership, including Kevin McCarthy even if he manages to be elected Speaker, effectively subservient to their demands.

"With House Republicans holding just a four-vote majority, the influence of the party’s far right will only grow in the new Congress as each GOP vote holds sway. As Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute observed to The New Yorker recently, 'When your margin is small, the problem is you’re held hostage,'" reported Matt Shuham and Christopher Mathias. "The hostage takers, in this case — a far-right coterie that includes Biggs as well as Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) — don’t all necessarily oppose McCarthy’s speakership. Greene has endorsed him and received significant concessions."

Trumpist election deniers were soundly defeated in competitive midterm races this year, for the most part. But there's no shortage of far-right MAGA diehards who are joining Congress this week, mostly elected from safe Republican districts and states.

While the midterm elections served as a sweeping repudiation of fringe Trump-backed candidates in many swing states and purple districts, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's 21-point re-election victory in her rural district in northwestern Georgia makes clear that Trumpism is still alive and well in deep-red areas. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy predicted a "red wave" that never reached shore — and it's still not entirely clear that McCarthy can get himself elected speaker on Tuesday. Even so, there are 48 new Republicans entering Congress, at least half of whom count as election deniers.