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Plaintiffs’ attorney argued that state officials and the Democratic Party of Virginia suppressed voters in the Dec. 20 ‘firehouse primary.’

Seven plaintiffs have filed suit in federal court against state and Democratic Party of Virginia officials over the Dec. 20 firehouse primary.

Ballots can be cast through Feb. 18 ahead of the Feb. 21 special election to fill Rep. Don McEachin’s seat in Congress.

It’s a Virginia voting specialty, and it doesn’t usually involve actual firehouses.

On Jan. 6, PolitiFact published an article about the storming of the U.S. Capitol and the baseless accusations about the presidential election results that led up to it. In the article, we asked whether it was accurate to call it a coup. But because the details of that day’s events were still emerging, we did not draw a firm conclusion. Now, an academic center that was the major resource for our analysis — the Coup D’etat Project at the University of Illinois’ Cline Center for Advanced Social Research— has made a determination that had not been made at the time we wrote our initial article.

Chase wrote, “Antifa is the culprit,” in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. She and other Republicans who have spread this myth have presented no evidence to back it up. There was an array of easily accessible information that refuted Chase’s claim at the time she made it. We rate Chase’s statement Pants on Fire.

Last Wednesday's riot marked the first time the U.S. Capitol was forcefully breached since 1814, when British forces marched into Washington D.C. and set fire to the White House and Congress. But the 1814 burning of Washington was not the only violent event in history evoked by the riot.

Virginia Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner decried Wednesday’s failed insurrection, when armed rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol. At separate press conferences Thursday, both senators placed the blame for the mob squarely at the president’s feet.

Black pastors and other clergy with the progressive Virginia Interfaith Center condemned Wednesday’s siege at the U.S. Capitol building.

After a day of rioting and tumult, after a woman was fatally shot inside the Capitol, after senators and representatives were driven from their chambers, Congress in the early hours of Jan. 7 affirmed that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the duly elected president and vice president of the United States.