Veterans Against Trump Call for Democratic Reforms

Jan 11, 2024

During the three years after the at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than a thousand people have been , and hundreds have been convicted in the largest criminal investigation in the nation鈥檚 history.聽

But Donald Trump, the of the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, remains free. Trump has begun referring to the January 6 convicts as 鈥溾€� and has promised to if he returns to office.聽On the third anniversary of the insurrection, lawmakers and democracy advocates in front of the U.S. Capitol to demand the passage of federal democracy reforms such as the protection of voting rights. Among them was Naveed Shah, a veteran of the U.S. Army and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and political director of . Shah spoke with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about protecting democracy from Trump.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined 大象传媒 in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.