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Nearly a year ago, while delivering closing remarks during Trump’s impeachment trial, Congressman Adam Schiff offered a prescient warning:

Even after MAGA-hat wearing insurrectionists got their marching orders moments earlier from the president. Even after these same rioters stormed the capitol building and vandalized the “people’s house,” the Kansas congressional delegation couldn’t, in that defining moment, find the courage to say what needed to be said.

Congressman-elect Luke Letlow of Louisiana died of COVID-19 on Dec. 29 at only 41 years old. Although dozens of members and staff in Congress have tested positive for the virus, he is the first elected federal official to die from it.