It's your party, cry if you want to

 The three men sat before the committee, two of them described as "HON."  Each in turn answered the prosecutor's questions.  Yes, I am a state official.  Yes, I am a Republican.  Yes, I supported Trump and worked to get him re-elected.  And then he lost, and bad things began happening to me.  And yes, he caused them to happen.

Three well-connected white men, men of some power and standing in their communities, experienced the terror of being the targets of lynch mobs.

They still have their jobs, they still have their lives, and they are being saluted as heroes because they did not bow to threats and menacing.  In this time that is considered heroic.  

The two Black women who followed them (one on recording) were not elected officials.  Wandrea Arshaye "Shay" Moss was an election worker and her mother, "Lady Ruby" Freeman was the owner of a clothing business, hired temporarily to work on election night 2020.  When the lynch mobs came after them there were no security personnel to protect them.  Instead, the FBI told them to leave their homes and find somewhere to hide until it all blew over.  It did not blow over on January 6, when the Electoral College votes were tabulated by Congress; it did not blow over on January 20, when Joe Biden was inaugurated.  It may never blow over.  

Shay Moss gave up a job she loved and fears leaving the house.  She blames herself because her mother and even her grandmother were traumatized.  Ruby Freeman no longer identifies herself as "Lady Ruby," the name by which her community knew her.  These three women know in their lives, as they always knew in their bones, what lynching feels like.  They were lied about, harassed, their homes invaded by cowardly mobs who considered them powerless and fair game, because female, Black and far from wealthy or well-connected.

I respect what Rusty Bowers, Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling did over the course of a few weeks at the end of 2020.  But I'm sorry they're not central to my thoughts tonight.