Myth and reality collided on Capitol Hill recently. Senate Democrats convened a hearing provocatively titled “Jim Crow 2021” and featuring a who’s who of liberal activist witnesses, including Stacey Abrams. They likely wished for a national stage to cement their straw-man attacks on Georgia’s new voting law and set the stage for Congress to take the unprecedented step of rewriting every state’s voting laws.

They were in for a shock. After weeks spent repeating misleading and even false talking points to a largely uncritical media, liberals’ outlandish rhetoric ran headlong into a bipartisan, myth-busting barricade. For four hours, people watched Georgia’s Republican House Speaker Pro-Tempore Jan Jones and New Hampshire’s Democratic Secretary of State Bill Gardner methodically debunk one claim after the other.