Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys, has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for his involvement in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. This is the longest sentence handed down in a January 6th case so far, surpassing the 18-year sentence given …
Read More »Proud Boy Who Caused Breach Of Capitol Sentenced To 10 Years
Dominic Pezzola, a Marine Corps veteran and Proud Boy who played a key role in the January 6th Capitol breach by using a stolen police riot shield to break a window, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Pezzola was convicted in May alongside four other members of the …
Read More »Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Charges He Tried to Overturn Election
In a courtroom in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to charges related to his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election and incitement of the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump, who is the frontrunner in the Republican primary …
Read More »Trump Indicted for Trying to Overturn 2020 Election
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was indicted by a federal grand jury in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump—now the leading candidate for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination—faces four charges: conspiracy …
Read More »Trump Says He Has Been Told He Is A Target Of Special Counsel’s Jan. 6 Investigation
Jacob Fischler, Iowa Capital Dispatch Donald Trump has received a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith, he said Tuesday, indicating another indictment of the former president is likely over his role in encouraging the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump posted to his social media site, …
Read More »Jan. 6 Defendant Arrested With 2 Guns, Machete Near Obama’s D.C. Home
According to federal authorities, a Trump supporter, Taylor Taranto, who participated in storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was arrested near former President Barack Obama’s home. When he was arrested, he had two guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van, which he appeared to be living in. …
Read More »Senate Probe Finds DHS, FBI Ignored ‘Massive’ Amount of Intel Before Jan. 6 Insurrection
The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation “failed to fulfill their mission” by dismissing or downplaying ominous intelligence in the weeks and days leading up to the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to a Senate investigation …
Read More »‘Disturbing’: 12 Million US Adults Think Violence Is Justified to Put Trump Back in White House
Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams More than two years after the deadly January 6 insurrection, 12 million people in the United States, or 4.4% of the adult population, believe the use of violence is justified to restore former President Donald Trump to power, The Guardian reported Friday. This percentage has declined …
Read More »Green Beret-Turned-Oath Keeper With Jan. 6 Ties Sentenced To 7 Years
Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix Jeremy Brown, a self-described Oath Keepers member and lauded 20-year U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, was sentenced on Friday in Tampa to more than seven years in federal prison on weapons charges related to a federal investigation into his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot …
Read More »‘Nonsense!’: Jamie Raskin Rips Republicans Over Unending January 6 Lies
As right-wing politicians and pundits continue to peddle lies and conspiracies related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, Democratic Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin on Wednesday delivered a passionate rebuttal of Republicans’ “nonsense.” Speaking on the House floor, Raskin asserted that …
Read More »McConnell Among GOP Senators Calling ‘Bullsh*t’ on Tucker Carlson Jan. 6 ‘Whitewash’
After Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson falsely dismissed the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump as mostly nonviolent, numerous Republican senators including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blasted the right-wing opinion host’s “whitewashing” of the deadly insurrection. Carlson—who publicly promoted former …
Read More »Man Who Assaulted Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Sentenced To 80 Months In Prison
A man who joined supporters of former President Donald Trump in attacking the U.S. Capitol on January 6. 2021 was sentenced Friday to 80 months in prison for using pepper spray to assault police officers, one of whom died a day after the siege. Julian Khater didn’t mention the death …
Read More »Democrats Praise U.S. Capitol Police And Pledge To Seek Accountability On Jan. 6 Anniversary
Jacob Fischler, Ohio Capital Journal Two years after a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undo Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election, Democrats in Congress on Friday vowed to remember the Capitol police officers who died, hold Trump accountable and prevent similar …
Read More »Biden Honors More Than A Dozen Americans For Upholding Democracy On Jan. 6
Ariana Figueroa, Nebraska Examiner On the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden on Friday awarded citizen medals to 14 Americans who protected democracy and law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol. “Two years ago on Jan. 6 our democracy was attacked,” Biden …
Read More »D.C. Goes Into Jan. 6 Anniversary With Warnings About Extremism, Awards For Courage
Ariana Figueroa, Kansas Reflector On the eve of the second anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, congressional Democrats and dozens of veterans on Thursday in a press conference called on incoming House Republican leaders to condemn political violence and hold their members who supported the attack accountable for their actions. …
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