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Thursday, January 6, 2022

Changing America - Solving the mystery of long COVID-19, climate change and blackouts, and filmmaker Horacio Marquínez reflects on what he saw on the Capitol steps on January 6, 2021

 
 
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By Brooke Migdon
 
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Portraits from the Capitol steps: January 6, 2021
By Robin Stern, opinion contributor
 
One year after the Capitol insurrection, filmmaker Horacio Marquínez reflects on what he saw, who he photographed, and where we may be headed: "What I found on January 6 and on my eight month journey on the road ... was that [despite everything] Americans are in essence optimistic and hopeful."
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