Outspoken impeachment foe Rep. Mark Meadows, the co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus, was concerned when the House Intelligence Committee opened its impeachment hearings.

Huddling with fellow Trump supporters in the House, he asked, “How are we going to compete with mainstream media when they are out there each and every day trying to form a narrative suggesting this president should be impeached?”

Then it hit him. Use social media to spread the GOP narrative. “I’ve got this one statistic,” the North Carolina Republican told a conservative group. “[Rep.] Jim Jordan and my Twitter feeds, just two members of Congress, with all of you retweeting, ended up having 163 million impressions over that five-day period, which is more than the viewership of all the networks combined,” he said. …

— Famed gym rat U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become the unofficial face of Washington’s new Rumble boxing studio.

(Washington Examiner)

The just-opened downtown gym is decorated with a larger-than-life painting of the justice with boxing gloves and a crown on. Dubbed by the media as “Notorious RBG,” she is shown beside another noted Brooklyn native, the real Notorious B.I.G. ...

(Washington Examiner)

-- There are few conservative writers who draw the kind of heat Michelle Malkin does. But she not only embraced it, she fosters it and encourages others in that space to be more aggressive too. At the United in Purpose’s 2019 Impact Awards held at Trump International Hotel in D.C., she praised other award winners such as Sinclair’s Sharyl Attkisson and moviemakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. “We all share a common zeal, an extreme zeal — I embrace that word. Yes, I am an extremist when it comes to telling the truth,” she said. …

-- There’s really no chance that the Washington Redskins will get to the Super Bowl, but the annual Washington Auto Show, which draws administration officials and celebrities, made that official when it announced that star Redskins running back Derrius Guice would be the top fan favorite to attend the 10-day show at the end of January. ...

