The hearing I believe we should be having is one focused on the 200th anniversary—this year—of the bilateral relationship between the United States and Brazil, the two largest democracies in the Western Hemisphere. This is another essential question I would have liked to see reflected in the framing of this hearing: How, precisely, did 2020 U.S. election deniers and the January 6th attack here in the United States enable the attempt to reject the results of the 2022 election in Brazil and to attempt a coup on January 8th? Let us approach our vital relationship with Brazil as a partnership of equals—not one in which the United States seeks to dictate events or interfere with Brazilian democracy.