So a few key states are supposed to be certifying their results today. Trump is leaning hard on the GOP members to not certify the results, which drive the conclusions to state courts or delay them so Congress ends up choosing the President by state delegation.

As always, we need to be clear about what’s happening. Joe Biden won six million more votes than Donald Trump. He won 306 Electoral college votes from the states vs 232 for Trump. There is no evidence of voter fraud.

And yet Trump and the Republican Party are working incredibly hard to deny reality, lie through their teeth and find a way to force themselves to stay in power. It is no more and no less than an attempted coup.

Trump’s attempted coup will almost certainly fail, but that ‘almost’ is doing a hell of a lot of work and represents an terrifying outcome in which any pretense that the US was a functioning democracy, republic or governed by the rule of law would be swept away.

If you’re in any of these states - can I strongly recommend you contact your elected representatives, particularly if they’re Republican - especially if *you’re* Republican and let them know you’re not okay about this.