An update on some developments as the focus shifts away from individual criminal defendants in the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and towards the figures at the center of the scheme to overturn the election victory of Joe Biden, as we look ahead to the public hearings scheduled for June 9th, now less than a month away. Some notes on latest developments, to include information requests from three additional members of Congress as well as new emails from John Eastman, this time sourced via a FOIA request made to his university email address at the University of Colorado. The rest of the episode then turns to the question of how the narrative that Democrats will inevitably lose the upcoming midterm elections is factually incorrect, defeatist and dangerous to electoral democracy in the US, as it will certainly be used by the Trumpist movement to amplify their fraudulent claims of fraud in if that Democrats do well in the midterms. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000180-b081-d3ee-a392-b19b26750000 https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing-political-geography-of-covid-19-over-the-last-two-years/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/15/public-expresses-mixed-views-of-u-s-response-to-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/