Watch the Jan. 6 hearings like your democracy is at stake. (It is.)

This article was originally published in USA Today.

Americans who tune in for Thursday’s primetime hearing about the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, will have a front-row seat to one of the largest investigations ever undertaken by Congress.

Will our fellow citizens watch and listen to the facts? Or will they channel surf and ignore one of the most consequential moments in our democracy’s history? The proceedings are sure to feature present dangers to our republic but also acts of heroism by individuals who served the Constitution and our country.

Read the full op-ed in USA Today, here.

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