The Conversation U.S. asked nonprofit law scholar Ellen Aprill, who served in the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy in the late 1980s, about possible ramifications.

"In my op-ed here back in November, I wrote '[a]s we have seen in the past few days, supporters and politicians are taking [Trump] literally and seriously — and we need to be vigilant.' We were not vigilant," says guest columnist Ben Goebel.

For those of us who grew up and/or lived under authoritarian regimes this is hauntingly and horribly familiar.

Nobody could have guessed what would be on the bingo card this year.

To many Americans, the word "coup" may seem alarmist and excessive when describing what is happening in the U.S. today. But now that Trump's calling MI Republicans to the White House, an attempted executive coup is what it is.

“If they had died of COVID-19 at the same actual rate as white Americans, about 21,800 Black, 11,400 Latino, 750 Indigenous and 65 Pacific Islander Americans would still be alive,” according to the Color of Coronavirus Project.

"I believe knowledge is the most powerful tool to achieving our goals," says guest columnist Ami Patel Hopkins.

There are dates in the normal electoral process leading to the January 20 swearing-in of a president and vice president that are important to note.