Kamala Harris Instagram – Shortly before 3 p.m. three years ago, extremists broke into the Senate chamber, a place where I had spent so much time as senator from California. My thoughts immediately turned not only to my colleagues, but to my staff, who had been forced to seek refuge in our office, converting filing cabinets into barricades. The extremists who roamed those halls not only sought to degrade a building, or target the lives of elected leaders. What they were assaulting were the institutions, the values, the ideals that generations of Americans have marched, picketed, and shed blood to establish and defend: our democracy.