An American Congressional Hero
“Getting to meet so many incredible people across California has been an honor. This is Adam’s first statewide race, and he’s meeting so many new voters for the very first time.
As always, when Adam meets people on the campaign trail, he asks, “How can I help? What can I do to make a difference for your family?” He really listens and cares deeply — even if it makes us terribly late for our next meeting or dinner event.
Hearing Californians’ stories, learning the challenges people are facing, and working to find solutions to ease people’s burdens is what drives Adam in his work. It’s what motivated him to run for office in the first place (and reminder, he lost the first two times he ran for office), and it’s what motivates him today.
That’s the Adam I know and love. And the Adam I’ve been so happy to share with his constituents all these years.” – Eve Schiff, Adam Schiff’s wife
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Recommended Reading
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump’s Russia and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within.
In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. The congressman chronicles step-by-step just how our democracy was put at such risk, and traces his own path to meeting the crisis—from serious prosecutor, to congressman with an expertise in national security and a reputation for bipartisanship, to liberal lightning rod, scourge of the right, and archenemy of a president. Schiff takes us inside his team of impeachment managers and their desperate defense of the Constitution amid the rise of a distinctly American brand of autocracy.
Deepening our understanding of prominent public moments, Schiff reveals the private struggles, the internal conflicts, and the triumphs of courage that came with defending the republic against a lawless president—but also the slow surrender of people that he had worked with and admired to the dangerous immorality of a president engaged in an historic betrayal of his office. Schiff’s fight for democracy is one of the great dramas of our time, told by the man who became the president’s principal antagonist. It is a story that began with Trump but does not end with him, taking us through the disastrous culmination of the presidency and Schiff’s account of January 6, 2021, and how the antidemocratic forces Trump unleashed continue to define his party, making the future of democracy in America more uncertain than ever.
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