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Our country recently experienced a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capitol, one perpetrated by right-wing seditionists and incited by numerous Republican lawmakers. Republican Congress members, like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, refused to certify the election results that name Joe Biden our president-elect, and by doing so, contributed to the violence at the Capitol. They fueled misinformation by declaring the election results fraudulent; they sowed the seeds of white nationalism; and, they encouraged baseless claims about the election that have already proven to have dangerous and deadly consequences.
This was not an isolated incident. The insurrection was an escalation of white nationalist violence against our communities that has been empowered and legitimized by the Republican party and its members, who have willingly failed to denounce such behavior. Corporate America gave over $10 million to the 147 Republican members of Congress who incited the recent white supremacist mob attack on the United States Capitol. These companies must take immediate action to hold the lawmakers they funded accountable. That is why corporations Disney and KPMG MUST act responsibly: they must cut off funding to all Republican candidates and entities until President Trump and those Congress members who incited the insurrection are removed from their positions.
