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Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders (specific antifa-adjacent cell)
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Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders is a specific anarchist / antifa-adjacent cell organised around opposition to the Atlanta Police Department's planned Public Safety Training Center (the 'Cop City' facility) on Weelaunee / South River Forest land in DeKalb County Georgia. The September 2023 Georgia state RICO indictment of 61 individuals is the largest movement-wide indictment in US history. The January 2023 Tortuguita shooting death and the wider movement's affinity-group cell structure place this entry distinctly higher on the CLCI than the broader antifa umbrella (CLCI 14). Distinct from but lineally connected to the broader antifa movement profiled at /groups/antifa-umbrella-movement.
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High Control
BITE breakdown
Behavior Control5/10
Information Control6/10
Thought Control6/10
Emotional Control5/10
Modifiers (+1)
+1 for the Georgia state RICO indictment of 61 individuals (the largest movement-wide indictment in US history) filed September 2023, the January 2023 Manuel 'Tortuguita' Terán shooting death by Georgia State Patrol officers in the Weelaunee / South River Forest occupation, and the documented affinity-group cell structure with severance pressure on participants who exit early or cooperate with police investigations.
Profile facts
Founded
2021 (forest-occupation began)
Members
Affinity-group cell structure: low-hundreds active core; broader Stop Cop City coalition: tens of thousands sympathetic
Active in
USA
In context
The Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders movement organised in 2021 around opposition to the Atlanta Police Department's planned Public Safety Training Center (publicly announced April 2021 by the Atlanta Police Foundation) on a 380-acre site in unincorporated DeKalb County Georgia, on land historically known as Weelaunee Forest by Muscogee Creek descendants and South River Forest by Atlanta-area conservationists. The opposition combined three constituencies: (a) anarchist / antifa-adjacent forest-defender cells practising direct-action tree-sit occupation and sabotage, with affinity-group cell structure modelled on Pacific Northwest insurrectionary tradition; (b) Atlanta-area racial-justice and abolitionist organisers opposing the police-training facility on policing-policy grounds; (c) Muscogee Creek descendant and environmental-justice constituencies opposing the development on indigenous-land and conservation grounds. The first two constituencies overlap most heavily with the antifa umbrella; the third operates under different organisational logics.
The most-significant single incident is the January 18 2023 shooting death of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán ('Tortuguita'), a 26-year-old anarchist forest defender killed by Georgia State Patrol officers during a multi-agency forest-occupation raid. DeKalb County medical examiner findings (released February 2023) showed Tortuguita was shot 57 times; the shooting officer claimed Tortuguita fired first, but no body-cam footage was available (Georgia State Patrol does not deploy body cameras), and an independent autopsy commissioned by the family found Tortuguita's hands were raised at the time of fatal shots. The case became a national flashpoint; multiple federal civil-rights complaints were filed.
The September 5 2023 Georgia state RICO indictment filed by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr named 61 individuals associated with the Stop Cop City movement, charging them collectively with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. The indictment alleged that the named defendants constituted a 'criminal enterprise' under the state RICO definition, with specific predicate acts including the 2022–2023 forest-occupation actions, fundraising for legal defence as 'money laundering', and what the indictment characterised as 'mutual-aid networking' as conspiracy infrastructure. Multiple defence groups, civil-liberties organisations including the ACLU, and editorial boards (NYT, Atlanta Journal-Constitution) characterised the indictment as a substantial overreach of RICO doctrine; trial proceedings beginning 2024–2025 are ongoing.
The entry's CLCI 23 (High band, lower end) score reflects the documented affinity-group cell structure with severance pressure on participants who exit early or cooperate with police, the substantial criminal-prosecution exposure of named defendants, and the dispensing-of-existence framing of police-and-state-actors as enemy-class — patterns that distinguish this specific cell from the broader antifa umbrella (CLCI 14). The score is in the High band rather than Extreme because exit imposes ordinary criminal-defendant rather than cult-of-organisation costs, and because the cell's structure is genuinely affinity-group rather than hierarchical-cadre.
Canonical journalistic record: NYT 2023+ coverage, Atlanta Journal-Constitution daily reporting, The Intercept investigations of the Tortuguita case, The Nation and Mother Jones RICO-indictment analysis, Truthout ongoing coverage. Academic context: David Pyrooz CU Boulder ongoing work on antifascist cell structure (Justice Quarterly papers 2023–2025).
Recovery resources
- International Cultic Studies Association — General high-control-group recovery resources
- Hope Not Hate (UK) — Counter-extremism resources spanning both far-right and far-left exits
- National Lawyers Guild Atlanta chapter — Legal-defence and exit-support resources for movement participants navigating prosecution
See the full curated list at /resources.
Notable public ex-members
- Manuel Esteban Paez Terán ('Tortuguita', 1996–2023, deceased)
- Multiple named September 2023 RICO defendants
Legal cases & controversies
- State of Georgia v. Crawford et al. (RICO indictment 2023+, ongoing)
- Georgia State Patrol shooting of Tortuguita (no charges filed against officers as of 2025)
- Multiple federal civil-rights complaints
Evidence by BITE axis
Behavior Control
- September 5 2023 Georgia state RICO indictment of 61 individuals — largest movement-wide indictment in US history
- January 18 2023 Tortuguita shooting death (57 shots fired by Georgia State Patrol; independent autopsy found hands raised at fatal shot)
- Affinity-group cell structure with documented severance pressure on participants who exit early or cooperate with police
Information Control
- Dispensing-of-existence framing of police and state actors as enemy-class
Thought Control
- Indictment characterised by ACLU, NYT, AJC editorial boards as substantial overreach of state RICO doctrine
Timeline
- 2021-04Atlanta Police Foundation announces Public Safety Training Center plan
- 2021-2022Forest-occupation begins; affinity-group cell structure consolidates
- 2023-01-18Manuel 'Tortuguita' Terán shot dead by Georgia State Patrol (57 shots fired)
- 2023-02DeKalb County medical examiner autopsy released
- 2023-09-05Georgia state RICO indictment of 61 individuals
- 2024-2025RICO trial proceedings ongoing in Fulton County Superior Court
Evidence matrix
Structured sources cross-linked to the claims they document. Tiered per the source hierarchy. For free-text citations see the Sources section below.
Sources
- State of Georgia v. Crawford et al. (Fulton County Superior Court, RICO indictment September 5 2023, 61 defendants) search ↗
- DeKalb County medical examiner Tortuguita autopsy report (February 2023) search ↗
- Independent family-commissioned Tortuguita autopsy (March 2023) search ↗
- NYT 2023+ Stop Cop City coverage search ↗
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution daily reporting 2021–2025 search ↗
- The Intercept Tortuguita investigations (Eyal Press et al.) search ↗
- ACLU Georgia statements on the RICO indictment (2023) search ↗
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- Court Sentences Two Oath Keepers Leaders to 18 Years in Prison on Seditious Conspiracy and Other Charges Related to U.S. Capitol Breach — https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/court-sentences-two-oath-keepers-leaders-18-years-prison-seditious-conspiracy-and-other open ↗
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- Trial of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2021-02-11/pdf/CREC-2021-02-11-pt1-PgS645-2.pdf open ↗
- Loss of USCP Officer Brian D. Sicknick — https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/loss-uscp-colleague-brian-d-sicknick open ↗
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- Domestic Terrorism and the Attack on the U.S. Capitol — https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11573 open ↗
- January 6 Plaque — https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/january-6-plaque open ↗
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- FBI Seeking Information Related to Violent Activity at the U.S Capitol Building — https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/violence-at-the-united-states-capitol open ↗
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- How the Proud Boys Breached the Capitol on Jan. 6: Rile Up the Normies — https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000008392796/rile-up-the-normies-how-proud-boys-breached-the-capitol.html open ↗
- Our President Wants Us Here': The Mob That Stormed the Capitol — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/capitol-rioters.html open ↗
- Capitol assault a more sinister attack than first appeared — https://apnews.com/article/14c73ee280c256ab4ec193ac0f49ad54 open ↗
- Democracy under threat after 2020 national elections in the USA: 'stop the steal' or 'give more to the grifter-in-chief? — https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00131857.2021.1889327 open ↗
- The Capitol riot shows the growing danger of right-wing extremism — https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/steve-chapman/ct-column-capitol-riot-right-wing-extremism-chapman-20210111-rygjyo7ohzb6ld5pm53ukuwts4-story.html open ↗
- U.S. Capitol siege emboldens motley crew of extremists — https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-extremists/u-s-capitol-siege-emboldens-motley-crew-of-extremists-idUSL1N2JJ0A0/ open ↗
- Donald Trump is gone but his big lie is a rallying call for rightwing extremists — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/24/donald-trump-big-lie-american-democracy open ↗
- This Kettle Is Set to Boil': New Evidence Points to Riot Conspiracy — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/oath-keepers-capitol-riot.html open ↗
- Nation's capital braces for violence as extremist groups converge to protest Trump's election loss — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/04/january-6-dc-protests-against-election-certification-could-violent/4132441001/ open ↗
- What happened in Washington DC yesterday? A timeline of insurrection — https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/capitol-riots-what-happened-washington-dc-timeline-b1783562.html open ↗
- Stunning Images as a Mob Storms the U.S. Capitol — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/trump-riot-dc-capitol-photos.html open ↗
- First Inventory of Damage to U.S. Capitol Building Released — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/arts/design/us-capitol-damage.html open ↗
- Smoke grenades being deployed on Senate side of the US Capitol — https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-college-vote-count-2021/h_dbbf8e4709f7dfcc4729ed32fe0337b9 open ↗
- Architect of the Capitol Outlines $30 Million In Damages From Pro-Trump Riot — https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/2021/02/24/970977612/architect-of-the-capitol-outlines-30-million-in-damages-from-pro-trump-riot open ↗
- Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 Rioters — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-pardons-jan-6.html open ↗
- White Supremacists Among Those Who Stormed the U.S. Capitol, Live Streamed From Inside — https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/white-supremacists-among-those-who-stormed-the-u-s-capitol-live-streamed-inside-1.9431649 open ↗
- Four officers who responded to U.S. Capitol attack have died by suicide — https://www.reuters.com/world/us/officer-who-responded-us-capitol-attack-is-third-die-by-suicide-2021-08-02/ open ↗
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- The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations — https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fgov.2022.13 open ↗
- Four Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy in Jan 6 attack — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/oath-keepers-members-convicted-seditious-conspiracy-rcna66622 open ↗
- January 6 Vice Chair Cheney said Trump had a 'seven-part plan' to overturn the election. Here's what she meant — https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/jan-6-hearing-cheney-trump-overturn-election-plan/index.html open ↗
- The committee is arguing Trump had a 'seven-part plan' to overturn the election. Here's what that means — https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/january-6-hearings-june-28/h_c0195fffa9900609e2924b7dbf2225bb open ↗
- Officer Brian Sicknick: What We Know About His Death — https://www.wsj.com/articles/officer-brian-sicknick-what-we-know-about-his-death-11619010119 open ↗
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- It is difficult, if not impossible, to estimate the size of the crowd that stormed Capitol Hill — https://theconversation.com/it-is-difficult-if-not-impossible-to-estimate-the-size-of-the-crowd-that-stormed-capitol-hill-152889 open ↗
- Trump Supporters Clash With Capitol Police At Protest — https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/953616207/diehard-trump-supporters-gather-in-the-nations-capital-to-protest-election-resul open ↗
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- Let's have trial by combat': How Trump and allies egged on the violent scenes Wednesday — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/06/lets-have-trial-by-combat-how-trump-allies-egged-violent-scenes-wednesday/ open ↗
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- Pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol as armed standoff takes place outside House chamber — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/us-capitol-lockdown/index.html open ↗
- FBI appeals for information from public on Capitol rioters — https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/06/dc-protests-trump-rally-live-updates/ open ↗
- Deadly siege focuses attention on Capitol Police — https://apnews.com/article/capitol-police-death-brian-sicknick-46933a828d7b12de7e3d5620a8a04583 open ↗
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- Incited by the President, Trump Supporters Violently Storm the Capitol — https://time.com/5926883/trump-supporters-storm-capitol/ open ↗
- He looted Speaker Pelosi's office, and then bragged about it — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/richard-barnett-pelosi.html open ↗
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- Journalists were attacked, threatened and detained during the Capitol siege — https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/01/09/he-was-documenting-chaotic-scene-when-suddenly-trump-supporters-turned-their-ire-him/ open ↗
- House votes to create select committee to investigate January 6 insurrection — https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/politics/house-vote-january-6-select-committee/index.html open ↗
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- Here's every word of the sixth Jan. 6 committee hearing on its investigation — https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108396692/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript open ↗
- Here's every word of the seventh Jan. 6 committee hearing on its investigation — https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/1111123258/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript open ↗
- Here's every word of the eighth Jan. 6 committee hearing on its investigation — https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112138665/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript open ↗
- Here's every word from the 9th Jan. 6 committee hearing on its investigation — https://www.npr.org/2022/10/13/1125331584/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript open ↗
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- Proud Boys' Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy — https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-da60222b3e1e54902db2bbbb219dc3fb open ↗
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- House joins Senate in passing Electoral Count Act overhaul in response to Jan. 6 attack — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/19/electoral-count-reform-omnibus/ open ↗
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- Biden's 306 Electoral College Votes Make His Victory Official — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/14/us/elections/electoral-college-results.html open ↗
- Biden officially secures enough electors to become president — https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-electoral-college-3e0b852c3cfadf853b08aecbfc3569fa open ↗
- Trump Targets Michigan in His Ploy to Subvert the Election — https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/us/politics/trump-michigan-election.html open ↗
- Trump asks Pennsylvania House speaker for help overturning election results, personally intervening in a third state — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pennsylvania-speaker-call/2020/12/07/d65fe8c4-38bf-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html open ↗
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- 77 Days: Trump's Campaign to Subvert the Election — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html open ↗
- Pro-Trump supporters have flooded DC to protest president's election loss — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/pro-trump-supporters-dc-protest/index.html open ↗
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- The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations — https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0017257X22000136/type/journal_article open ↗
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- Gallows or guillotines? The chilling debate on TheDonald.win before the Capitol siege — https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/15/thedonald-capitol-attack-advance-democracy/ open ↗
- Videos show 'Stop the Steal' rally organizer saying he would work with extremist groups — https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/politics/ali-alexander-january-6-extremists-kfile/index.html open ↗
- Extremists intensify calls for violence ahead of Inauguration Day — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/us/online-extremism-inauguration-capitol-invs/index.html open ↗
- Stop the Steal' Organizer in Hiding After Denying Blame for Riot — https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-in-hiding-after-denying-blame-for-riot open ↗
- Publix heiress was willing to spend $3 million on Jan. 6 rally, documents show — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/22/publix-heiress-jan-6-financing/ open ↗
- Jan. 6 Rally Funded by Top Trump Donor, Helped by Alex Jones, Organizers Say — https://www.wsj.com/articles/jan-6-rally-funded-by-top-trump-donor-helped-by-alex-jones-organizers-say-11612012063 open ↗
- Low-profile heiress who 'played a strong role' in financing Jan. 6 rally is thrust into spotlight — https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/publix-heiress-capitol-insurrection-fancelli/2021/12/08/5144fe1c-5219-11ec-8ad5-b5c50c1fb4d9_story.html open ↗
- Alex Jones says he paid $500,000 for rally that led to Capitol riot — https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/alex-jones-paid-rally-capitol-riot-b1784603.html open ↗
- How Trump's pied pipers rallied a faithful mob to the Capitol — https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protest-organizers-insight/how-trumps-pied-pipers-rallied-a-faithful-mob-to-the-capitol-idUSKBN29G2UP open ↗
- CNN Transcripts — https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/nday/date/2022-07-15/segment/05 open ↗
- A bloody and desperate fight:' U.S. Prosecutors release Oath Keepers' communications — https://www.reuters.com/world/us/a-bloody-desperate-fight-us-prosecutors-release-oath-keepers-communications-2022-01-13/ open ↗
- Prosecution Says Oath Keepers 'Concocted a Plan for Armed Rebellion — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/jan-6-oath-keepers-trial.html open ↗
- Four People Stabbed and At Least 23 Arrested at Pro-Trump Rally in D.C. — https://time.com/5921156/stabbing-trump-rally-washington/ open ↗
- New charges say Proud Boys discussed plan to attack U.S. Capitol — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/proud-boys-leader-arrested-capitol-riot-conspiracy-rcna19164 open ↗
- New Years Revolution': What the Proud Boys said on Parler ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/31/proud-boys-trial-parler-messages-path-jan-6/11153687002/ open ↗
- Devastating piece of evidence': Filing reveals a Proud Boys plan to storm buildings Jan. 6 — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/15/1776-returns-proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-zachary-rehl/7640565001/ open ↗
- Guns, ammo ... even a boat: How Oath Keepers plotted an armed coup — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/14/oath-keepers-leader-charges-armed-plot-us-capitol-attack open ↗
- Who could have predicted the Capitol riot? Plenty of people – including Trump allies — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/28/who-could-have-predicted-capitol-siege-plenty-people/ open ↗
- The Rioters Who Took Over The Capitol Have Been Planning Online In The Open For Weeks — https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/trump-rioters-planned-online open ↗
- The storming of Capitol Hill was organized on social media — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/protesters-storm-capitol-hill-building.html open ↗
- Feds aren't using posts about plans to attack the Capitol as evidence — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/we-found-hundreds-posts-about-plans-attack-capitol-why-aren-n1264291 open ↗
- FBI warns 'armed protests' being planned at all 50 state capitols and in Washington DC — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/fbi-bulletin-armed-protests-state-us-capitol/index.html open ↗
- FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week — https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-politics-inaugurations-capitol-siege-ec75b26289166b4afd30c15b0dd2ded5 open ↗
- Be ready to fight': FBI probe of U.S. Capitol riot finds evidence detailing coordination of an assault — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-capitol-riot-coordination-planning/2021/01/30/c5ef346e-6258-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html open ↗
- FBI report warned of 'war' at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming violence — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capitol-riot-fbi-intelligence/2021/01/12/30d12748-546b-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html open ↗
- FBI has opened 160 case files for crimes committed during Capitol riot — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mind-blowing-number-crimes-committed-during-capitol-riot-160-case-n1253961 open ↗
- Trump Plans to Fight the Election Even After 'Stop the Steal' Rally Ends — https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-plans-to-fight-the-election-even-after-stop-the-steal-rally-ends open ↗
- Violent threats ripple through far-right internet forums ahead of protest — https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/violent-threats-ripple-through-far-right-internet-forums-ahead-protest-n1252923 open ↗
- Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-capitol-siege/2021/01/09/e3ad3274-5283-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html open ↗
- Capitol Police intelligence report warned three days before attack that 'Congress itself' could be targeted — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-police-intelligence-warning/2021/01/15/c8b50744-5742-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html open ↗
- Trump Fires Mark Esper, His Defense Secretary — https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/politics/esper-defense-secretary.html open ↗
- Trump administration and Biden team at odds about presidential transition in the Pentagon — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-trump-transition-pentagon-dispute/2020/12/18/d8142d94-415f-11eb-a402-fba110db3b42_story.html open ↗
- All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory — https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html open ↗
- Trump told Christopher Miller: Do 'whatever is necessary' to protect demonstrators ahead of Capitol riot — https://www.newsweek.com/trump-told-christopher-miller-do-whatever-necessary-protect-demonstrators-ahead-capitol-riot-1590993 open ↗
- DC National Guard commander says 'unusual' Pentagon restrictions slowed response to Capitol riot — https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/politics/us-capitol-riot-hearing-dhs-fbi-pentagon/index.html open ↗
- Pentagon restricted commander of D.C. Guard ahead of Capitol riot — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/dc-guard-capitol-riots-william-walker-pentagon/2021/01/26/98879f44-5f69-11eb-ac8f-4ae05557196e_story.html open ↗
- Where Was Security When A Pro-Trump Mob Stormed The Capitol? — https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/07/954349992/where-was-the-security-when-a-mob-stormed-the-capitol open ↗
- New Evidence Undercuts Jan. 6 Instigator Conspiracy Theory — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/jan-6-ray-epps-evidence.html open ↗
- There's still no evidence the FBI incited the Jan. 6 riot, despite claims otherwise — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/politics/jan-6-conspiracy-theory-ray-epps.html open ↗
- Ray Epps, a Jan. 6 protester now at the center of a far-right conspiracy, says he relives the Capitol riot every day — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ray-epps-jan-6-capitol-protest-60-minutes-transcript-2023-04-23/ open ↗
- US Capitol breach — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/baked-alaska-the-qanon-shaman-who-led-the-storming-of-the-capitol open ↗
- Longtime Trump advisers connected to groups behind rally that led to Capitol attack — https://abcnews.go.com/US/longtime-trump-advisers-connected-groups-rally-led-capitol/story?id=75261028 open ↗
- Roger Stone Did Something Wrong — https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/roger-stone-did-something-wrong/ open ↗
- Roger Stone faces fresh scrutiny as Capitol attack investigation expands — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/22/roger-stone-capitol-attack-investigation-far-right open ↗
- Oath Keeper who guarded Roger Stone before Jan. 6 attack gets more than 4 years in prison — https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy-sentencings-7a826241ad3a667cfec9a8c4538c36b2 open ↗
- New images released of suspect in pipe bombs found at RNC, DNC before Capitol riot — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-releases-images-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect/story?id=76341036 open ↗
- An explosive device is found at the R.N.C., and the D.N.C. is evacuated — https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/electoral-vote#pipe-bomb-rnc open ↗
- FBI releases new video of suspected pipe bomber walking near RNC and DNC headquarters — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-new-video-pipe-bombs-outside-rnc-dnc-headquarters/ open ↗
- FBI, ATF and DC police increase reward for information on pipe bombs found near RNC and DNC headquarters to $500,000 — https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/politics/fbi-pipe-bombs-suspect-reward-rnc-dnc/index.html open ↗
- FBI arrests suspect in 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case, sources say — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pipe-bomb-suspect-arrest/ open ↗
- Suspect arrested in Jan. 6 pipe bomb case: Sources — https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-arrested-jan-6-pipe-bomb-case-sources/story?id=128093323 open ↗
- Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/pipe-bomb-suspect-told-fbi-believed-2020-election-conspiracy-theories-rcna247544 open ↗
- A Trump lawyer wrote an instruction manual for a coup. Why haven't you seen it on the news? — https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/sullivan-eastman-memo/2021/09/29/68d93000-211f-11ec-9309-b743b79abc59_story.html open ↗
- Oath Keeper claims she was VIP security at Trump rally before riot and says she met with Secret Service agents — https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics/oath-keepers-vip-security-capitol-riot/index.html open ↗
- Oath Keeper now says she didn't meet with Secret Service around the January 6 rally — https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/politics/oath-keepers-watkins-changed-story/index.html open ↗
- Oath Keeper sentenced to eight and a half years for role in Capitol attack — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/26/oath-keepers-jessica-watkins-sentenced-capitol-attack open ↗
- Before Capitol Riot, Republican Lawmakers Fanned the Flames — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/politics/republicans-capitol-riot.html open ↗
- Trump's sons declare war on GOP — https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-jr-eric-trump-election-protest-b1783318.html open ↗
- Chapman University will not fire law professor who spoke at pro-Trump Capitol rally — https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-13/chapman-university-will-not-fire-john-eastman open ↗
- Chapman professor will retire after uproar over his speaking at Trump rally — https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-13/chapman-professor-spoke-pre-riot-trump-rally-retire open ↗
- Trump publicly acknowledges he won't serve a second term a day after inciting mob — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/trump-biden-us-capitol-electoral-college-insurrection/ open ↗
- Trump's presidency finishes in 'American carnage' as rioters storm the Capitol — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-rioters-incite/2021/01/06/0acfc778-5035-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html open ↗
- How one of America's ugliest days unraveled inside and outside the Capitol — https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/capitol-insurrection-visual-timeline/ open ↗
- What Trump said before his supporters stormed the Capitol, annotated — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/annotated-trump-speech-jan-6-capitol/ open ↗
- Incitement to Riot? What Trump Told Supporters Before Mob Stormed Capitol — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/us/trump-speech-riot.html open ↗
- Updates: Capitol breached by protesters, shots reported fired inside — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/capitol-breached-protesters/story?id=75081629 open ↗
- Before mob stormed US Capitol, Trump told them to 'fight like hell — https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/06/metro/heres-what-trump-told-his-supporters-before-many-them-stormed-capitol-wednesday/ open ↗
- Before riot, Trump said 'we got to get rid' of Rep. Liz Cheney — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cheney-trump-house-impeach/2021/01/12/648c677a-54d2-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html open ↗
- Witness recalls being told Trump grabbed the wheel when he couldn't go to the Capitol — https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108301900/witness-recalls-trump-lunging-for-the-wheel-when-told-he-couldnt-go-to-the-capit open ↗
- Among the Insurrectionists — https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists open ↗
- Planned, Coordinated Attack': Former Capitol Police Chief On The Insurrection — https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/957371206/planned-coordinated-attack-former-capitol-police-chief-on-the-insurrection open ↗
- Northam recounts call for help from Speaker Pelosi during Capitol siege — https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/07/capitol-protests-dc-live-updates/ open ↗
- Analysis: The Jan. 6 committee's evidence spoke for itself. Is the Justice Department listening? — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-committees-evidence-spoke-justice-department-listening-rcna32906 open ↗
- Documentary footage from filmmaker shows evidence that Jan. 6 was a planned attack — https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1104291172/documentary-footage-from-filmmaker-shows-evidence-that-jan-6-was-a-planned-attac open ↗
- Hazardous' suspected explosive devices found outside RNC and DNC — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-news-exclusive-photo-suspected-explosive-device-found/story?id=75105481 open ↗
- FBI posts photo of person who placed suspected pipe bombs outside DNC, RNC — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-posts-photo-person-suspected-pipe-bombs-dnc/story?id=75126041 open ↗
- What We Know About The Suspect Who Planted Bombs Before The Capitol Riot — https://www.npr.org/2021/04/14/986457987/what-we-know-about-the-suspect-who-planted-bombs-before-the-capitol-riot open ↗
- Outgoing Capitol Police chief: House, Senate security officials hamstrung efforts to call in National Guard — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sund-riot-national-guard/2021/01/10/fc2ce7d4-5384-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html open ↗
- Justice Dept. Pursues at Least 150 Suspects in Capitol Riot — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/politics/capitol-riot-justice-department-investigation.html open ↗
- Watchdog: Capitol Police Need to Boost Counterintelligence to Address Rising Threats — https://www.npr.org/2021/05/10/995433965/watchdog-capitol-police-need-to-boost-counterintelligence-to-address-rising-thre open ↗
- Before Ascending to Top Tier of F.B.I., Bongino Fueled Right-Wing Disbelief — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/politics/dan-bongino-trump-fbi-director-conspiracies.html open ↗
- Far Right's Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.'s Top Ranks — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/dan-bongino-jan-6-pipe-bomb.html open ↗
- FBI arrests Virginia man in Jan. 6 pipe bomb case — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/04/jan-6-pipe-bomb-dc-arrest/ open ↗
- Arrest reportedly made in case of pipe bombs planted on eve of US Capitol riot — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/dc-pipe-bomb-attack-arrest-january-6 open ↗
- As Bongino Celebrates Arrest in Pipe Bomb Case, Others on the Right Remain Skeptical — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/dan-bongino-pipe-bomb-arrest.html open ↗
- FBI Says DC Pipe Bomb Suspect Brian Cole Kept Buying Bomb Parts After January 6 — https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-says-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect-brian-cole-kept-buying-bomb-parts-after-jan-6/ open ↗
- Dispute Over Claim That Proud Boys Leader Urged Attack at Capitol — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/proud-boys-capitol-riot.html open ↗
- Jan. 6 rioters who U.S. says 'ignited' path for Capitol attack convicted — https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/02/jan-6-capitol-riot-samsel/ open ↗
- Three Characters at the Heart of an Unsettling Jan. 6 Narrative — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/us/politics/jan-6-proud-boys-capitol-police.html open ↗
- Proud Boys Led Major Breaches of Capitol on Jan. 6, Video Investigation Finds — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/us/politics/proud-boys-jan-6.html open ↗
- New Jan. 6 tape shows 3-hour battle in Capitol tunnel — https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/12/24/january-6-video-capitol-riot-schneider-ath-vpx.cnn open ↗
- Scenes From an American Insurrection — https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/photos-trump-supporters-storm-capitol/617577/ open ↗
- We got to hold this door — https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/dc-police-capitol-riot/ open ↗
- Trump allegedly attacked his own Secret Service agent. That's not even the most explosive news from Tuesday's hearing — https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/trump-hutchinson-secret-service-attack-january-6/ open ↗
- Jan. 6 rioters exploited little-known Capitol weak spots: A handful of unreinforced windows — https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-04/jan-6-rioters-exploited-little-known-capitol-weak-spots-a-handful-of-unreinforced-windows open ↗
- How a Presidential Rally Turned Into a Capitol Rampage — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/12/us/capitol-mob-timeline.html open ↗
- The Latest: Schumer says Jan. 6, 2021, will live in infamy — https://apnews.com/article/ap-electoral-college-congress-7af85d3c702e070464d7713c42cf254a open ↗
- Trump pressured Pence to engineer a coup, then put the VP in danger, source says — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/trump-pence-riot/index.html open ↗
- How the rioters who stormed the Capitol came dangerously close to Pence — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-rioters-capitol-attack/2021/01/15/ab62e434-567c-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html open ↗
- How a lone Capitol Police officer lured rioters away from the Senate chambers — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/us/capitol-police-eugene-goodman-riots-senate-chambers-trnd/index.html open ↗
- Black officer seen risking his life to lead Capitol mob away from Senate chamber hailed as a hero — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eugene-goodman-us-capitol-riots-police-officer-senate-chamber/ open ↗
- Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman hailed as 'a hero — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55623752 open ↗
- QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/conspiracy-theories-will-doom-republican-party/617707/ open ↗
- Capitol Police officer being hailed as a hero for drawing angry mob away from Senate floor — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/11/capitol-police-officer-praised-drawing-angry-mob-away-senate/6619883002/ open ↗
- Where They Countin' the Votes?!': New Video Details Tense Moments as Capitol Mob Sought Out Lawmakers — https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-eugene-goodman open ↗
- Biden, lawmakers honor officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6 — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lawmakers-biden-honoring-officers-defended-capitol-jan-6/story?id=96237709 open ↗
- Watch the moment House floor forced into recess as protesters enter Capitol — https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/watch-the-moment-house-floor-forced-into-recess-as-protesters-enter-capitol/2021/01/06/5bc75687-a0e8-4954-9b50-28065f67dc59_video.html open ↗
- Senate Being Locked Down': Inside a Harrowing Day at the Capitol — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/capitol-lockdown.html open ↗
- Emory student reflects on experience at U.S. Capitol during Electoral College vote certification — https://news.emory.edu/stories/2021/01/er_capitol_electoral_votes_virginia_brown/campus.html open ↗
- Analysis – A top Democrat ties Pence's 'I'm not getting in the car' to Jan. 6 'coup — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/26/pence-car-raskin-comments/ open ↗
- Video of Senate Office Ransacked in Capitol Chaos Viewed Over 5 Million Times — https://www.newsweek.com/video-senate-office-ransacked-capitol-chaos-viewed-5million-times-1559688 open ↗
- As riot raged at Capitol, Trump tried to call senators to overturn election — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/mike-lee-tommy-tuberville-trump-misdialed-capitol-riot/index.html open ↗
- Inside the assault on the Capitol: Evacuating the Senate — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/reporter-senate-evacuated/2021/01/06/3e7d5456-5061-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html open ↗
- They Were Out for Blood — https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/was-there-a-plan-for-hostages-or-killings-at-the-capitol.html open ↗
- Trump Launched A Deadly Attempted Coup, Encouraging A Mob To Breach The US Capitol Building Because He Lost The Presidential Election — https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/trump-dc-maga-election-protests-capitol open ↗
- Video shows fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol — https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/08/ashli-babbitt-shooting-video-capitol/ open ↗
- As House Was Breached, a Fear 'We'd Have to Fight' to Get Out — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-breach-trump-protests.html open ↗
- Violent pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol — https://www.bbc.com/news/live/election-us-2020-55558355 open ↗
- Lawmaker says staff were able to remove electoral ballots before rioters breached Senate floor — https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-college-vote-count-2021/h_54d83f1c965ed437e20ebda36839bd14 open ↗
- Police draw guns inside the Capitol — https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/washington-dc-protests#police-draw-guns-inside-the-capitol open ↗
- Trump supporters storm U.S. Capitol, with one woman killed and tear gas fired — https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trump-supporters-storm-capitol-dc/2021/01/06/58afc0b8-504b-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html open ↗
- It was like looking at evil': The Capitol attack through the eyes of the Massachusetts delegation — https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/13/nation/it-was-like-looking-evil-capitol-attack-through-eyes-massachusetts-delegation/ open ↗
- One mystery involving the insurrection may be close to getting solved — https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/08/one-mystery-involving-insurrection-may-be-close-getting-solved/ open ↗
- Lawmakers recount feeling unsafe because of colleagues' behavior during Capitol siege — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/us/lawmakers-capitol-aoc-boebert.html open ↗
- Marauding protesters vandalize Speaker Pelosi's office — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/marauding-protesters-vandalize-speaker-pelosis-office.html open ↗
- We're training our own insurrectionists: Extremists like the Oath Keepers use their military skills to advance their plots — https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/15/oath-keepers-stewart-rhodes-sedition/ open ↗
- Congressman recalls moment woman was shot inside Capitol building — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/2020-election-results-transition/?id=75022086#75108231 open ↗
- Clear the Capitol', Pence pleaded, timeline of riot shows — https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-army-racial-injustice-riots-only-on-ap-480e95d9d075a0a946e837c3156cdcb9 open ↗
- Investigators recommend no charges for US Capitol Police officer accused of killing pro-Trump rioter during insurrection, sources say — https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/politics/us-capitol-police-shooting-insurrection/index.html open ↗
- Harrowing new footage shows how close the mob got to Pence, Congress and staff during Jan. 6 assault — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/10/trump-impeachment-trial-capitol-mob-videos-show-violence-jan-6/6712324002/ open ↗
- California woman killed during Capitol riot was a military veteran and staunch Trump supporter — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/07/dc-riots-ashli-babbitt-killed-capitol-attack-military-veteran/6577488002/ open ↗
- Fanone resigns from D.C. police force 11 months after battling rioters at Capitol — https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/20/fanone-resigns-police-capitol-riot/ open ↗
- Capitol rioter describes his assault of police officer — https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/politics/capitol-rioter-assault-michael-fanone/index.html open ↗
- Man who used a stun gun to attack Michael Fanone on January 6 sentenced to over 12 years in prison — https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/politics/michael-fanone-daniel-rodriguez-january-6-sentenced/index.html open ↗
- Officers maced, trampled: Docs expose depth of Jan. 6 chaos — https://apnews.com/article/docs-expose-depth-january-6-capitol-siege-chaos-fd3204574c11e453be8fb4e3c81258c3 open ↗
- Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump's failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mob-failure/2021/01/11/36a46e2e-542e-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html open ↗
- Capitol Attack Leads Democrats to Demand That Trump Leave Office — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/trump-leave-office-resignation.html open ↗
- They're Being Told to Stay Away from Trump': After a Day of Violence and 25th Amendment Chatter, Trump's Allies are Jumping Ship — https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/after-a-day-of-violence-and-25th-amendment-chatter-trumps-allies-jumping-ship open ↗
- Special counsel probe uncovers new details about Trump's inaction on Jan. 6: Sources — https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-probe-uncovers-new-details-trumps-inaction/story?id=106131854 open ↗
- New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters — https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html open ↗
- White House withdraws nomination of Wolf to head DHS — https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-dhs/white-house-withdraws-nomination-of-wolf-to-head-dhs-idUSKBN29C2EG/ open ↗
- Trump issued a call to arms. Then he urged his followers 'to remember this day forever! — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-capitol-building/2021/01/06/3e9af194-5031-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html open ↗
- Trump knew crowd at rally was armed yet demanded they be allowed to march — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/28/trump-jan-6-rally-guns-capitol-attack open ↗
- Fact check: Five enduring lies about the Capitol insurrection — https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/politics/fact-check-capitol-insurrection-january-6-lies/index.html open ↗
- What are 'mags,' and why did ex-Meadows aide bring them up at the Jan. 6 hearings? — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/28/magnetometer-mags-definition-trump-january-6/7759067001/ open ↗
- Jan. 6 committee holds sixth hearing — https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/january-6-hearings-june-28/index.html open ↗
- Accounts of Trump angrily demanding to go to Capitol on January 6 circulated in Secret Service over past year — https://us.cnn.com/2022/07/01/politics/secret-service-lunging-incident/index.html open ↗
- DC police officer in Trump Jan. 6 motorcade corroborates details of heated Secret Service exchange to committee — https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/politics/trump-secret-service-january-6-metropolitan-police-officer/index.html open ↗
- Pence chief of staff alerted Secret Service of risk to Pence on eve of Jan. 6 — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marc-short-alerted-secret-service-pence-risk-before-jan-6/ open ↗
- QAnon Supporters Are Calling for Violence at Pro-Trump Protests — https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdqq7/qanon-supporters-are-calling-for-violence-at-pro-trump-protests open ↗
- Hurt feelings, anger linger after Pence, Trump clash — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/hurt-feelings-anger-linger-pence-trump-clash-75127167 open ↗
- The four-hour insurrection — https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/politics/trump-insurrection-capitol/ open ↗
- How They Stormed Congress — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/podcasts/the-daily/capitol-mob-police-social-media.html open ↗
- So what': Trump's alleged reaction to news that Mike Pence was in danger on Jan 6 — https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-reaction-mike-pence-danger-capitol-riot-b2623005.html open ↗
- Trump Said to Have Reacted Approvingly to Jan. 6 Chants About Hanging Pence — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/politics/trump-pence-jan-6.html open ↗
- Jan. 6 panel is told that Trump indicated support for hanging Pence during insurrection — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/25/jan-6-panel-is-told-that-trump-indicated-support-hanging-pence-during-insurrection/ open ↗
- Pence will get the Profile in Courage Award from JFK Library Foundation for his actions on Jan. 6 — https://apnews.com/article/mike-pence-profile-courage-award-jfk-3b6b54ca2738575c2777a4b9ec4d7f1f open ↗
- January 6 committee has 'firsthand' knowledge of Trump's behavior during the riot from multiple sources — https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/politics/january-6-committee-firsthand-knowledge-trump-actions/index.html open ↗
- Trump Was at the Center': Jan. 6 Hearing Lays Out Case in Vivid Detail — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/us/politics/trump-jan-6-hearings.html open ↗
- Trump 'failed in duty' on Jan. 6, 'reveled in' riot, says GOP Rep. Tom Rice — https://www.newsweek.com/trump-failed-duty-jan-6-reveled-riot-says-gop-rep-tom-rice-1714957 open ↗
- Capitol Police officers give vote of no confidence in leaders — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-police-officers-give-vote-of-no-confidence-in-leaders/ open ↗
- Trump did not sign an order to deploy 20,000 troops on Jan. 6 — https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-order-national-guard-156055113284 open ↗
- Pelosi did not block the National Guard from the Capitol on Jan. 6 — https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-235651652542 open ↗
- Jan. 6 video undermines Trump's repeated efforts to blame Pelosi for Capitol security — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/14/trump-jan-6-pelosi-video/ open ↗
- The new Jan. 6 video, and the other baseless GOP claim about Pelosi — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/14/republicans-pelosi-jordan-banks/ open ↗
- Jan. 6 committee yet again debunks Trump claim of 10,000 troops — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/04/jan-6-committee-yet-again-debunks-trump-claim-10000-troops/ open ↗
- Army falsely denied Flynn's brother was involved in key part of military response to Capitol riot — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/flynn-national-guard-call-riot/2021/01/20/7f4f41ba-5b4c-11eb-aaad-93988621dd28_story.html open ↗
- Exclusive: How officials' fear of Donald Trump paralyzed intelligence agencies, led to Capitol riot — https://www.newsweek.com/2021/01/08/exclusive-how-officials-fear-donald-trump-paralyzed-intelligence-agencies-led-capitol-riot-1563221.html open ↗
- Propublica Capitol Videos 12:53 — https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/ open ↗
- Former acting defense secretary testifies he was trying to avoid another Kent State on Jan. 6 — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-oversight-committee-chair-testify-government-unprepared-capitol/story?id=77639074 open ↗
- Lawmakers grill officials on Jan. 6 timeline for deploying National Guard to Capitol — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lawmakers-grill-officials-jan-timeline-deploying-national-guard/story?id=76226030 open ↗
- Ex-Capitol police chief: FBI, DHS, Pentagon failed on Jan. 6 — https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/01/steven-sund-capitol-police-book-jan6/ open ↗
- QAnon Congresswoman' Lauren Boebert faces calls to resign after tweeting information about Nancy Pelosi during Capitol riot — https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/qanon-lauren-boebert-nancy-pelosi-capitol-riot-b1785663.html open ↗
- A Republican Lawmaker for Whom the Spectacle Is the Point — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/us/politics/lauren-boebert-republican.html open ↗
- The lockdown room was a safe space for lawmakers under siege. Now some say maskless Republicans made it a coronavirus hot spot — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-riot-coronavirus-lockdown-room-super-spreader/2021/01/12/db00d85c-54f8-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html open ↗
- Probe widens into federal watchdog over missing Jan. 6 Secret Service texts — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/06/homeland-security-watchdog-secret-service-texts/ open ↗
- Letter to Gary C. Peters and Bennie G. Thompson — https://www.cnn.com/interactive/uploads/20220714-letter-to-house-select-committee.jpg open ↗
- Watchdog Informs Secret Service of Criminal Inquiry into Missing Texts — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/politics/secret-service-criminal-inquiry-missing-texts.html open ↗
- Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover — https://apnews.com/article/us-capitol-trump-supporters-1806ea8dc15a2c04f2a68acd6b55cace open ↗
- Militant Christian Nationalists Remain A Potent Force, Even After The Capitol Riot — https://www.npr.org/2021/01/19/958159202/militant-christian-nationalists-remain-a-potent-force open ↗
- Dozens of people on FBI terrorist watch list came to D.C. the day of Capitol riot — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/terror-watchlist-capitol-riot-fbi/2021/01/14/07412814-55f7-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html open ↗
- The Capitol Attack and the 5th Terrorism Wave — Terrorism and Political Violence (2021) — https://doi.org/10.1080%2F09546553.2021.1932338 open ↗
- What We Learned About Trump, Pence, and the January 6th Mob — https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/what-we-learned-about-trump-pence-and-the-january-6th-mob open ↗
- Former Proud Boys leaders Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl sentenced for Jan. 6 sedition — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/proud-boy-leaders-joe-biggs-zachary-rehl-sentenced/story?id=102832655 open ↗
- Proud Boy who smashed Capitol window with police shield sentenced to 10 years — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/proud-boy-sentenced-rcna102857 open ↗
- The Oath Keepers and Their Role in the January 6 Insurrection — https://ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CTC-SENTINEL-102021.pdf open ↗
- A Broadway actor was with Oath Keepers on Jan. 6, feds say. His Michael Jackson jacket gave him away — https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/24/capitol-jan6-james-beeks-oath-jackson/ open ↗
- An Oath Keeper Was at the Capitol Riot. On Tuesday, He's on the Ballot — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/nyregion/oath-keeper-nj-assembly.html open ↗
- Oath Keepers Leader Charged With Conspiracy in Jan. 6 Investigation — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/politics/oath-keepers-stewart-rhodes.html open ↗
- Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes guilty of seditious conspiracy — https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/29/rhodes-oathkeepers-sedition-verdict-jan6/ open ↗
- Oath Keepers: Two members of far-right militia guilty of US sedition — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63802649 open ↗
- Justice Department appealing prison sentences given to convicted Oath Keepers members — https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/politics/doj-appeals-oath-keepers-sentences/index.html open ↗
- Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack — https://apnews.com/article/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-b3ed4556a3dec577539c4181639f666c open ↗
- More Oath Keepers convicted with Rhodes for Jan. 6 attack are sentenced — https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/05/26/oath-keepers-jessica-watkins-sentencing-jan6/ open ↗
- 2020Natur.587...21G — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020Natur.587...21G open ↗
- The next-generation bots interfering with the US election — Nature (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fd41586-020-03034-5 open ↗
- The far right is struggling to contain Qanon after giving it life — https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/far-right-struggling-contain-qanon-after-giving-it-life-n899741 open ↗
- Pence shares picture of himself meeting a SWAT officer with a QAnon conspiracy patch — https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/01/pence-shares-picture-him-meeting-swat-officer-wearing-qanon-conspiracy-patch/ open ↗
- Trump Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Right-Wing Social Media Trolls — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/business/trump-social-media-summit.html open ↗
- Gender, Populism, and the QAnon Conspiracy Movement — Frontiers in Sociology (2021) — https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffsoc.2020.615727 open ↗
- The Apocalypse and Political Discourse in an Age of COVID — Journal for the Study of the New Testament (2021) — https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0142064X211025464 open ↗
- QAnon' conspiracy theory creeps into mainstream politics — https://apnews.com/article/e230131513bf3df60c76bb1151bc6b7c open ↗
- QAnon and the Emergence of the Unreal — https://doi.org/10.21428%2F7808DA6B.6B8A82B9 open ↗
- Who were the Capitol insurrectionists? — https://www.ft.com/content/8ee1f26a-619a-46d2-98c2-be3eb34fcd5e open ↗
- QAnon supporter from Arizona dressed in fur and horns joins storming of US Capitol — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/06/arizona-qanon-supporter-jake-angeli-joins-storming-us-capitol/6570514002/ open ↗
- Woman killed in Capitol was Trump supporter who embraced conspiracy theories — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-killed-capitol-was-trump-supporter-who-embraced-conspiracy-theories-n1253285 open ↗
- Woman killed in siege of U.S. Capitol was veteran who embraced conspiracy theories — https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-death-idUKKBN29C2NX/ open ↗
- Neo-Nazis Boast About Participation In Capitol Hill Invasion — https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wnja/neo-nazis-boast-about-participation-in-capitol-hill-invasion open ↗
- Before Wednesday, insurgents waving Confederate flags hadn't been within 6 miles of the US Capitol — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-confederate-flag-fort-stevens/index.html open ↗
- Confederate Battle Flag in the Capitol: A 'Jarring' First in U.S. History — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/politics/confederate-flag-capitol.html open ↗
- Trump's Maga insurrectionists were perverse US civil war re-enactors — https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/09/trump-maga-us-american-civil-war open ↗
- The Whole Story in a Single Photo — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/confederates-in-the-capitol/617594/ open ↗
- Capitol riot images showing Confederate flag a reminder of country's darkest past — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/01/07/capitol-riot-images-confederate-flag-terror/6588104002/ open ↗
- Evening Briefing Special Edition: A Pro-Trump Mob Storms the Capitol — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/briefing/pro-trump-mob-storms-the-capitol.html open ↗
- Amid the Rampage at the U.S. Capitol, a Sweatshirt Stirs Troubling Memories — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/world/europe/us-capitol-rampage-camp-auschwitz.html open ↗
- Man in 'Camp Auschwitz' sweatshirt during Capitol riot identified — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/10/politics/man-camp-auschwitz-sweatshirt-capitol-riot-identified/index.html open ↗
- Woman charged with stealing a laptop from Pelosi's office during US Capitol riot — https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/riley-williams-laptop-capitol-riot/index.html open ↗
- U.S. Capitol siege emboldens motley crew of extremists — https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-extremists/us-capitol-siege-emboldens-motley-crew-of-extremists-idUSL1N2JJ0A0 open ↗
- Identifying far-right symbols that appeared at the U.S. Capitol riot — https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/far-right-symbols-capitol-riot/ open ↗
- Leaders of the anti-vaccine movement used 'Stop the Steal' crusade to advance their own conspiracy theories — https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/politics/anti-vaxxers-stop-the-steal-invs/index.html open ↗
- I do regret being there': Simone Gold, noted hydroxychloroquine advocate, was inside the Capitol during the riot — https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/simone-gold-capitol-riot-coronavirus/2021/01/12/d1d39e84-545f-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html open ↗
- Capitol photos, videos lead to California doctor's arrest — https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/capitol-photos-videos-lead-california-doctors-arrest-75351374 open ↗
- Founder of America’s Frontline Doctors is sentenced to prison for role in Capitol riot — BMJ (2022) — https://doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmj.o1533 open ↗
- In wake of Capitol riot, active-duty Army officer under investigation — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/11/capitol-riot-calls-grow-pentagon-probe-troop-participation/6626102002/ open ↗
- Nearly 1 In 5 Defendants In Capitol Riot Cases Served In The Military — https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/958915267/nearly-one-in-five-defendants-in-capitol-riot-cases-served-in-the-military open ↗
- Police departments across the U.S. open probes into whether their own members took part in the Capitol riot — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/01/09/investigating-police-rioters/ open ↗
- 2 Capitol police officers suspended, 1 possibly arrested over pro-Trump riot, congressman says — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/2-capitol-police-officers-suspended-one-possibly-arrested-over-pro-n1253822 open ↗
- 2 Capitol Police officers suspended and at least 10 more under investigation for alleged roles in riot — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/capitol-police-officers-suspended-tim-ryan/index.html open ↗
- The Capitol Rioters Aren't Like Other Extremists — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/the-capitol-rioters-arent-like-other-extremists/617895/ open ↗
- Internet detectives swarmed the effort to ID Capitol riot mob, with mixed results — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/01/14/internet-detectives-swarm-effort-id-capitol-riot-mob/6643515002/ open ↗
- Acting Capitol Police chief: More than 10,000 rioters came onto Capitol grounds and more than 800 breached the building — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/25/joe-biden-live-updates/#link-SASQGWOOPVHTJBSYQPIR2KSASQ open ↗
- Jan. 6, America's Rupture and the Strange, Forgotten Power of Oblivion — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/opinion/jan-6-memory-memorial-forgetting.html open ↗
- New radio and video footage from Capitol riot shows a coordinated attack and officers' restraint — https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/15/politics/video-dispatches-capitol-riots/index.html open ↗
- Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops — https://apnews.com/article/ex-military-cops-us-capitol-riot-a1cb17201dfddc98291edead5badc257 open ↗
- Attorneys: Tennessee man in Capitol riot danger to community — https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-tennessee-nashville-7cb13b8eb3ee02436a0df68a59070234 open ↗
- Authorities found sniper rifle, handcuffs in home of accused 'zip tie guy' in Capitol riot — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/22/eric-munchel-court-documents-sniper-rifle-handcuffs-found-home/6668520002/ open ↗
- Guns, Knives, And A Skateboard: A Guide To The Weapons At The Capitol Riot — https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot-weapons-charges open ↗
- Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt speaks after months in hiding: 'I saved countless lives — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-during-capitol-riot-breaks-silence-n1277736 open ↗
- I see this as a global fascist moment': author Jeff Sharlet on interviewing far-right Americans — https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/30/jeff-sharlet-undertow-fascism-far-right-religion-trump open ↗
- Trump to blame for death of woman trampled in Capitol riot, family member says — https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-deaths/trump-to-blame-for-death-of-woman-trampled-in-capitol-riot-family-member-says-idUSKBN29D2B1/ open ↗
- Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who engaged rioters, suffered two strokes and died of natural causes, officials say — https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/brian-sicknick-death-strokes/2021/04/19/36d2d310-617e-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html open ↗
- A Capitol Police officer who was seriously injured Wednesday remains on life support — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/admin/a-capitol-police-officer-who-was-seriously-injured-wednesday-remains-on-life-support.html open ↗
- Capitol Police officer dies from injuries after clashing with pro-Trump mob — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/capitol-police-officer-has-died-after-clashing-pro-trump-mob-n1253396 open ↗
- Police officer in Capitol riot died from natural causes, says coroner — https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20210420-police-officer-in-capitol-riot-died-from-natural-causes-says-coroner open ↗
- Brian Sicknick: US Capitol riot policeman 'died of natural causes — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56810371 open ↗
- US officer died of natural causes after Capitol riot: Coroner — https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/19/us-officer-died-natural-causes-after-capitol-riot-coroner open ↗
- Capitol Rioter Rosanne Boyland Died From Drug Overdose, Not Trampling — https://www.thedailybeast.com/capitol-rioter-rosanne-boyland-died-from-acute-amphetamine-intoxication/ open ↗
- Transcript: Cause of Death — https://www.nbcnews.com/msnbc-podcast/american-radical/transcript-cause-death-n1288906 open ↗
- Two officers who helped fight the Capitol mob died of suicide, Many more are hurting — https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-officer-suicides-capitol-riot/2021/02/11/94804ee2-665c-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html open ↗
- U.S. Capitol Police 'must be held accountable' says wife of officer who died by suicide — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wife-of-officer-who-died-by-suicide-after-capitol-riot-says-uscp-must-be-held-accountable/ open ↗
- Family of D.C. officer who died by suicide after Capitol riot files lawsuit against alleged attackers — https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-officer-suicide-lawsuit-capitol-riot/2021/08/13/5601aedc-fc5b-11eb-943a-c5cf30d50e6a_story.html open ↗
- DOJ finds police officer's suicide after Jan. 6 attack was a death in the line of duty — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-finds-officers-suicide-jan-6-was-death-line-duty-rcna100648 open ↗
- 2 more DC police officers who responded to Capitol insurrection have died by suicide — https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/politics/dc-metropolitan-police-officer-suicide-january-6-capitol-riot/index.html open ↗
- Senate chamber trespasser pleads guilty and faces more than a year in prison — https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/02/politics/senate-chamber-trespasser-plea/index.html open ↗
- Beaten, sprayed with mace and hit with stun guns: police describe injuries to dozens of officers during assault on U.S. Capitol — https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-capitol-injuires-trump/2021/01/11/ca68e3e2-5438-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html open ↗
- How are we going to defend ourselves?' Inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection — https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-01-04/jan-6-third-anniversary-inside-capitol-retrospective open ↗
- Curators Scour Capitol for Damage to the Building or Its Art — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/arts/design/us-capitol-art-damage.html open ↗
- U.S. taxpayers to pay Capitol siege tab as government shuns insurance — https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-insurance/u-s-taxpayers-to-pay-capitol-siege-tab-as-government-shuns-insurance-idUSKBN29C38M open ↗
- Mob swarms media outside Capitol, damages equipment — https://www.nbcnews.com/video/mob-swarms-media-outside-capitol-damages-equipment-98983493908 open ↗
- Behind the viral photo of Rep. Andy Kim cleaning up at midnight after riots — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/behind-viral-photo-rep-andy-kim-cleaning-midnight-after-riots-n1253519 open ↗
- Jan. 6 riot caused $1.5 million in damage to Capitol – and U.S. prosecutors want defendants to pay — https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-riot-defendants-pay-damages-restitution/2021/06/03/74691812-c3ec-11eb-93f5-ee9558eecf4b_story.html open ↗
- Wood from Madison laboratory headed for U.S. Capitol repairs — https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-madison-wisconsin-3d51c13876bc316245a06a17a7252ee4 open ↗
- Clyburn's spokesperson tells CNN they found his iPad, was not taken by rioters — https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/washington-dc-riots-trump-news-friday/h_c0028e708eef7426f2d4926e5e610781 open ↗
- Lawyer Says Nancy Pelosi's Laptop Has Not Been Recovered From Riley Williams, Who Is Accused Of Stealing It — https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/lawyer-says-pelosi-laptop-hasnt-been-recovered-from-suspect/ open ↗
- Capitol rioter who stormed Nancy Pelosi's office jailed — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65060096 open ↗
- Senate Acquits Trump In Impeachment Trial — Again — https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-trial-live-updates/2021/02/13/967098840/senate-acquits-trump-in-impeachment-trial-again open ↗
- Tech Giants Join Corporate Reckoning Over Political Spending — https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955709181/tech-giants-join-corporate-reckoning-over-political-spending open ↗
- Capitol Police Chief Sund has stepped down, leaving earlier than expected — https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/sund-resigns/2021/01/10/f3a9ceca-5365-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html open ↗
- It may be a long time, if ever, before everyone involved in January 6 is punished. Here's why — https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/politics/january-6-rioters-justice/index.html open ↗
- Over 300 charged from more than 40 states: What we know about the 'unprecedented' Capitol riot arrests — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-riot-arrests-2021-03-18/ open ↗
- Capitol riot arrests: See who's been charged across the U.S. — https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/capitol-riot-mob-arrests/ open ↗
- Facebook Removes 'Stop The Steal' Content; Twitter Suspends QAnon Accounts — https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/2021/01/12/956003580/facebook-removes-stop-the-steal-content-twitter-suspends-qanon-accounts open ↗
- House passes $1.9 billion Capitol security bill by a one-vote margin — https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/05/20/us/joe-biden-news-today open ↗
- Inside Donald Trump's Embrace of the Jan. 6 Rioters — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/us/politics/trump-jan-6.html open ↗
- One attack, two interpretations: Biden and Trump both make the Jan. 6 riot a political rallying cry — https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-january-6-anniversary-speech-campaign-0777d1f89342fac32bcc230d0d854043 open ↗
- Rewrite history:' Trump and allies downplay Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/08/rewrite-history-trump-allies-downplay-jan-6-violence-capitol/6027071001/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p open ↗
- Trump says Jan. 6 was a "day of love," glossing over his supporters' assault on officers - CBS News — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-january-6-univision-town-hall/ open ↗
- New York City is latest to cut Trump business ties — https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55642717 open ↗
- Meet Fred C. Trump III, who just wrote tell-all memoir All in the Family — https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3272461/meet-fred-c-trump-iii-who-just-wrote-tell-all-memoir-about-his-uncle-donald-trump-and-family-us open ↗
- Fitch downgrades US credit rating, citing mounting debt and political divisions — https://apnews.com/article/credit-rating-downgrade-deficit-68fb6c578190d8361b6639e603714e5a open ↗
- Trump says he's received target letter from special counsel Jack Smith in Jan. 6 probe — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-says-s-received-target-letter-special-counsel-jack-smith-rcna92691 open ↗
- Trump's ex-lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election case — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/19/sidney-powell-guilty-plea-trump-georgia-elections open ↗
- Trump would have been convicted of election interference, DoJ report says — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqld79pxeqo open ↗
- How Prominent Evangelicals Reacted to the Capitol Riot — https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/01/trump-capitol-riot-evangelical-leaders-reactions.html open ↗
- No regrets': Evangelicals and other faith leaders still support Trump after deadly US Capitol attack — https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/12/evangelicals-donald-trump-capitol-riot-voter-fraud/6644005002/ open ↗
- U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/08/trump-administration-job-candidates-loyalty-screening/ open ↗
- State legislators maneuver to preserve history of U.S. Capitol riot — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-legislators-u-s-capitol-riot/ open ↗
- Suspect arrested in January 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/suspect-arrested-january-6-dc-pipe-bomb-case-rcna247308 open ↗
- White House publishes website that rewrites history of Jan. 6 attack — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/06/trump-white-house-jan6-website/ open ↗
- He Knew He F--ked Up': Facing Legal and Political Peril, Trump Is Turning On Even His Most Devoted Allies — https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/facing-legal-and-political-peril-trump-is-turning-on-even-his-most-devoted-allies open ↗
- Democrats Ready Impeachment Charge Against Trump for Inciting Capitol Mob — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/politics/democrats-trump-impeachment.html open ↗
- READ: Military Joint Chiefs statement condemning 'sedition and insurrection' at US Capitol — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/joint-chiefs-memo-capitol-insurrection/index.html open ↗
- Mob was fed lies': Mitch McConnell accuses Trump of 'provoking' riot — https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/mob-was-fed-lies-mitch-mcconnell-accuses-trump-of-provoking-riot-20210120-p56vew.html open ↗
- Live Updates: F.B.I. Director Warns Senators That Domestic Terrorism Is 'Metastasizing Across the Country — https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/02/us/joe-biden-news open ↗
- FBI director suggests 'serious charges' coming in probe of Capitol attack — https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-grill-fbi-director-over-inaction-ahead-capitol-attack-2021-06-10/ open ↗
- Jan 6 a 'violent attempt' by 'terrorists' to hold 'power': Biden — https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/5/jan-6-a-violent-attempt-by-terrorists-to-hold-power-biden open ↗
- Reducing the Risk of Extremist Activity in the U.S. Military (2021) — https://doi.org/10.7249%2FPEA1447-1 open ↗
- Trump has not lowered flags in honor of an officer who died from injuries sustained amid the riot — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/politics/flag-lowering-trump-sicknick.html open ↗
- After refusing to do so, Trump orders flags to be flown at half-staff — https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/10/us/joe-trump-biden#after-refusing-to-do-so-trump-orders-flags-to-be-flown-at-half-staff open ↗
- White House orders flags lowered to honor late police officers who responded to US Capitol breach — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/10/politics/brian-sicknick-howard-liebengood-white-house-flag/index.html open ↗
- Father of slain Capitol officer hopes son's death brings end to 'lunacy — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/father-slain-capitol-officer-hopes-son-s-death-brings-end-n1253686 open ↗
- Political Attitudes and Evaluations — https://uh.edu/hobby/tx2021/attitudes.pdf open ↗
- Republican party calls January 6 attack 'legitimate political discourse — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/republicans-capitol-attack-legitimate-political-discourse-cheney-kinzinger-pence open ↗
- Smithsonian Continues Collecting Artifacts From Jan. 6 Capitol Attack — https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-continues-collecting-artifacts-jan-6-capitol-attack open ↗
- Capitol Police response to rioters draws claims of racist double standards — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/capitol-police-response-rioters-draws-claims-racist-double-standards-n1253363 open ↗
- Kamala Harris speech: January 6 will 'echo' in U.S. history like Pearl Harbor, 9/11 — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/06/harris-jan-6-like-pearl-harbor-9-11/9116617002/ open ↗
- Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-55580806 open ↗
- US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55568613 open ↗
- The Populists Finally Breaking With Trump — https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/01/europes-populists-break-away-trump/617605/ open ↗
- Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6 — https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/trump-jan-6-insurrection-conservatives.html open ↗
- 10.58112/uplr.172-3.1 — https://doi.org/10.58112%2Fuplr.172-3.1 open ↗
- Judge removes local official for engaging in Jan. 6 'insurrection — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-removes-local-official-engaging-jan-insurrection/story?id=89463597 open ↗
- Supreme Court rules for Jan. 6 rioter challenging obstruction charge — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-jan-6-rioter-challenging-obstruction-char-rcna155902 open ↗
- Supreme Court to examine federal obstruction law used to prosecute Trump and Jan. 6 rioters — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-january-6-obstruction-law-trump/ open ↗
- U.S. Attorney Opens Investigation Into Justice Dept.'s Jan. 6 Cases — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/rhodes-oath-keepers-dc-capitol-trump.html open ↗
- Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin launches probe of Jan. 6 prosecutions — https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/27/edward-martin-us-attorney-jan6/ open ↗
- Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for siblings, Fauci and 6 Jan riot committee — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r5g5dezk4o open ↗
- Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says — https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293447/jan-6-evidence-captiol-riot-donald-trump open ↗
- Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege — https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-riots-media-8000ce7db2b176c1be386d945be5fd6a open ↗
- From 'Protest' To 'Riot' To 'Insurrection' — How NPR's Language Evolved — https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2021/01/14/956777105/from-protest-to-riot-to-insurrection-how-nprs-language-evolved open ↗
- Opinion | Jan 6 Was Worse Than We Knew — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opinion/jan-6-trump-eastman-election.html open ↗
- Around the Halls: One year since the January 6 insurrection — https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2022/01/05/around-the-halls-one-year-since-the-january-6-insurrection/ open ↗
- Trump on Trial: A Guide to the January 6 Hearings and the Question of Criminality — https://www.brookings.edu/research/trump-on-trial/ open ↗
- This Is a Coup — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/attempted-coup/617570/ open ↗
- Call it what it was: a coup attempt — https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/06/trump-mob-storm-capitol-washington-coup-attempt open ↗
- Be There. Will Be Wild!': Trump All but Circled the Date — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-trump-supporters.html open ↗
- January 6th and De-Democratization in the United States — https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fsocsci12040238 open ↗
- Federal Judge Finds Trump Most Likely Committed Crimes Over 2020 Election — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/28/us/politics/trump-election-crimes.html open ↗
- It Wasn't Strictly a Coup Attempt. But It's Not Over, Either — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/world/americas/what-is-a-coup-attempt.html open ↗
- With coup label, Capitol rioters join communist party in plotting against USA, university project says — https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/us/capitol-coup-attempt-communists-white-supremacists/index.html open ↗
- It Was an Attempted Coup: The Cline Center's Coup D'état Project Categorizes the January 6, 2021 Assault on the US Capitol — https://clinecenter.illinois.edu/coup-detat-project-cdp/statement_jan.27.2021 open ↗
- How experts define the deadly mob attack at the U.S. Capitol — https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/13/autogolpe-self-coup-capitol/ open ↗
- FBI chief warns violent 'domestic terrorism' growing in US — https://apnews.com/article/fbi-chris-wray-testify-capitol-riot-9a5539af34b15338bb5c4923907eeb67 open ↗
- FBI Director Wray knocks down conspiracy theory that January 6 rioters were 'fake Trump protesters — https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/politics/fbi-director-chris-wray-january-6-riot-hearing/index.html open ↗
- Biden may have trouble cracking down on domestic terrorism because of free speech and the FBI — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/biden-may-have-trouble-cracking-down-domestic-terrorism-because-free-n1256727 open ↗
- Sloppy' wording this week? Ted Cruz actually called the Capitol assault a terrorist attack at least 17 previous times — https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/politics/fact-check-ted-cruz-capitol-terrorist-attack/index.html open ↗
- Which senators supported a Jan. 6 Capitol riot commission — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/january6-commission-senators-vote/ open ↗
- 12m Americans believe violence is justified to restore Trump to power — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/january-6-trump-political-violence-survey open ↗
- Police say Jan. 6 plaque is unlawfully hidden from public at U.S. Capitol — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/11/january-6-plaque-capitol-police-lawsuit/ open ↗
- US Capitol's last breach was more than 200 years ago — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/06/us-capitol-building-washington-history-breach open ↗
- U.S. Capitol replacing flag display over Confederate imagery — https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-flags-idUSKCN0XI2JY open ↗
- Faculty: Douglas Brinkley — https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/douglas-brinkley open ↗
- Historians mark 6 January with urgent warning on threats to US democracy — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/06/us-capitol-attack-historians-democracy-threat open ↗
- I've Hesitated to Call Donald Trump a Fascist. Until Now — https://www.newsweek.com/robert-paxton-trump-fascist-1560652 open ↗
- Republicans try to reframe January 6 as a sightseeing tour – will it work? — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/11/republicans-reframing-january-6-attack open ↗
- Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers is now displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay — https://www.npr.org/2026/03/07/nx-s1-5741158/january-6-plaque-honoring-police-officers-displayed-us-capitol open ↗
- CNN Special Report: American Coup: The January 6th Investigation — https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2022/09/13/cnn-special-report-american-coup-the-january-6th-investigation/ open ↗
- Transcript: CNN Special Report: American Coup: The January 6th Investigation — https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/csr/date/2022-09-18/segment/01 open ↗
- This Video of Jan. 6's Insurrection Should Be Mandatory — https://time.com/5938095/video-capitol-riot-impeachment-trial/ open ↗
- Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack — https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/ open ↗
- The politicians who tried to overturn an election — and the local news team that won't let anyone forget it — https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-politicians-who-tried-to-overturn-an-election--and-the-local-news-team-that-wont-let-anyone-forget-it/2021/05/01/cc8764f6-a91e-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html open ↗
- Critical Moments in the Capitol Siege — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/15/us/trump-capitol-riot-timeline.html open ↗
- US Capitol stormed — https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c37r4jqnn21t/us-capitol-stormed open ↗
- Jan. 6 insurrection: The Washington Post's investigation of the causes, cost and aftermath — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/ open ↗
- Donald Trump Is Not Above The Law — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/opinion/trump-documents-jan-6-prosecute.html open ↗
- January 6 U.S. Capitol attack — https://www.britannica.com/event/January-6-U-S-Capitol-attack open ↗
- From Charlottesville to the Capitol: how rightwing impunity fueled the pro-Trump mob — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/capitol-mob-attack-rightwing-rallies-trump open ↗
- Decoding the extremist symbols and groups at the Capitol Hill insurrection — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/us/capitol-hill-insurrection-extremist-flags-soh/index.html open ↗
- Decoding the Far-Right Symbols at the Capitol Riot — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/video/extremist-signs-symbols-capitol-riot.html open ↗
- Un golpe es un golpe es un golpe» _The New York Times_ (en español). — https://www.nytimes.com/es/2021/01/06/espanol/opinion/golpe-estados-unidos.html open ↗
- El autogolpe de Donald Trump». _El Universal_ (en español). — https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/opinion/esteban-illades/el-autogolpe-de-donald-trump open ↗
- Asalto al Capitolio: "Esto fue un intento de autogolpe de Estado incitado por Trump": entrevista con Steven Levitsky, politólogo de la Universidad de Harvard — https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-55568588 open ↗
- Schumer calls pro-Trump mob 'domestic terrorists' as Senate resumes election certification – live — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/06/georgia-election-latest-news-senate-ossoff-warnock-democrats-republicans-trump-biden open ↗
- Armed standoff taking place at House front door — https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-college-vote-count-2021/h_20490097776eb05d7c29ddf3c4792834 open ↗
- 1 shot dead, Congress evacuated, National Guard activated after pro-Trump rioters storm Capitol — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/we-will-never-concede-trump-baselessly-asserts-voter-fraud-speech-n1253011 open ↗
- At least two real explosive devices in DC rendered safe by law enforcement — https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-college-vote-count-2021/h_a8427f16f5c09d46e0dcff011e3d48c0 open ↗
- Fears as Trump supporters, including anti-Semitic groups, rally in Washington — https://www.timesofisrael.com/fears-as-trump-supporters-including-anti-semitic-groups-rally-in-washington/ open ↗
- Analysis: Why it's too late for Republicans to say sorry — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/donald-trump-electoral-college-riot-us-capitol/index.html open ↗
- Trump openly condones supporters who violently stormed the Capitol, prompting Twitter to lock his account. — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/trump-protesters.html open ↗
- Aumentan llamados para destitución de Trump por disturbios en Capitolio — https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2021/01/07/aumentan-los-llamados-en-el-congreso-para-destituir-a-trump-por-juicio-politico-o-la-enmienda-25/ open ↗
- House GOP leader says Trump both sought to blame antifa for Capitol violence and admitted he's partly responsible — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-capitol-riots-blame/ open ↗
- Capitol riots: What are far-right Trump supporters saying? — https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-55679813 open ↗
- Investigators Eye Right-Wing Militias at Capitol Riot — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/politics/capitol-riot-militias.html open ↗
- The symbols of hate and far-right extremism on display in pro-Trump Capitol siege — https://abcnews.go.com/US/symbols-hate-extremism-display-pro-trump-capitol-siege/story?id=75177671 open ↗
- California Man Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach — https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/california-man-pleads-guilty-felony-charge-actions-during-jan-6-capitol-breach-3 open ↗
- Cópia arquivada em 1 de agosto de 2023 — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/01/us/politics/trump-jan-6-indictment-2020-election-annotated.html open ↗
- Trump keeps up false claims of widespread fraud at Georgia rally for U.S. senators — https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-georgia-idUSKBN28F0EK open ↗
- Invasão ao Congresso: o que a violência em Washington significa para o legado de Trump — https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-55572397 open ↗
- What we know about the 5 deaths in the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol — https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-mob-deaths/index.html open ↗
- Pence took lead as Trump initially resisted sending National Guard to Capitol — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/pence-national-guard/index.html open ↗
- Vergonha' e 'decepção': o que dizem agora participantes de ato que culminou em invasão do Congresso e impeachment de Trump — https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-55656608 open ↗
- Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/us/jan-6-capitol-attack-takeaways.html open ↗
- Woman was fatally shot by Capitol Police, officials say — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/woman-shot-capitol-dead.html open ↗
- Pentagon placed limits on D.C. Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests due to narrow mission — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-protests-washington-guard-military/2021/01/07/c5299b56-510e-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html open ↗
- Democratic leaders call for Trump's removal from office — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/democrats-call-for-trump-removal-office-pelosi-schumer open ↗
- Capitol attack: Congress certifies Joe Biden's victory after deadly violence — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55568621 open ↗
- lire en ligne — https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/12/20/assaut-du-capitole-les-conclusions-accablantes-pour-donald-trump-de-la-commission-d-enquete-parlementaire_6155130_3210.html open ↗
- Assaut du Capitole : cinq choses à retenir des premières conclusions de la commission d'enquête, qui pointe la responsabilité de Donald Trump — https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/presidentielle/donald-trump/assaut-du-capitole-cinq-choses-a-retenir-des-premieres-conclusions-de-la-commission-d-enquete-qui-pointe-la-responsabilite-de-donald-trump_5188951.html open ↗
- États-Unis : l'intrusion au Capitole est "une tentative de coup d'État", assure Leah Pisar, ancienne conseillère du président Clinton — https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/presidentielle/donald-trump/intrusions-de-pro-trump-au-capitole-on-peut-absolument-parler-d-une-tentative-de-coup-d-etat-selon-une-ancienne-conseillere-du-president-bill-clinton_4247797.html open ↗
- Wall Street, Donald Trump et la “populace” — https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2021/01/13/wall-street-donald-trump-et-la-populace_6066045_3232.html open ↗
- Etats-Unis : Joe Biden qualifie d'"insurrection" les violences au Capitole — https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/joe-biden/video-etats-unis-joe-biden-qualifie-d-insurrection-les-violences-au-capitole_4247225.html open ↗
- This is domestic terrorism': Meghan McCain, Cardi B and more react to Capitol riot — https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/01/06/capitol-riot-chris-evans-maria-shriver-and-more-stars-react/6570298002/ open ↗
- lire en ligne — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/world/europe/trump-capitol-2020-election-mob.html open ↗
- lire en ligne — https://www.ft.com/content/4e079e29-6fe0-4f57-a4d9-2b1fb2f15766?segmentID=123e3ec1-bd15-daa7-108f-daf6e1e67ded open ↗
- QAnon et l’assaut du Capitole : l’effet réel des théories du complot en ligne — https://theconversation.com/qanon-et-lassaut-du-capitole-leffet-reel-des-theories-du-complot-en-ligne-152853 open ↗
- lire en ligne — https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/12/12/presidentielle-americaine-la-cour-supreme-rejette-un-nouveau-recours-soutenu-par-donald-trump_6063117_3210.html open ↗
- lire en ligne — https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/les-recours-de-donald-trump-sont-sans-fondement-selon-un-juge-en-pennsylvanie-20201122 open ↗
- This is what Trump told supporters before many stormed Capitol Hill — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-told-supporters-stormed-capitol-hill/story?id=75110558 open ↗
- Donald Jr warns GOP: ‘We’re coming for you’ — https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/donald-jr-warns-gop-were-coming-for-you-M0tIaN9Pl open ↗
- Comment des dizaines de manifestants pro-Trump ont accédé au cœur du Capitole — https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2021/01/07/comment-des-dizaines-de-manifestants-pro-trump-ont-accede-au-c-ur-du-capitole_6065533_3210.html open ↗
- Insurrection Day: when white supremacist terror came to the US Capitol — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/09/us-capitol-insurrection-white-supremacist-terror open ↗
- Abschlussbericht des Sonderstaatsanwalts Smith an Justizminister Garland vom 7. Januar 2025 über die Ergebnisse seiner Ermittlungen gegen Donald Trump — https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf open ↗
- Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55575260 open ↗
- US Capitol riots: Footage shows Nancy Pelosi seeking help — https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-63250182 open ↗
- Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol — https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007606996/capitol-riot-trump-supporters.html open ↗
- Transkript des 1. Hearings — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg48998/pdf/CHRG-117hhrg48998.pdf open ↗
- Transkript des 2. Hearings — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg48999/pdf/CHRG-117hhrg48999.pdf open ↗
- Transkript des 3. Hearings — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg49351/pdf/CHRG-117hhrg49351.pdf open ↗
- Transkript des 4. Hearings — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg49352/pdf/CHRG-117hhrg49352.pdf open ↗
- Transkript des 5. Hearings — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg49353/pdf/CHRG-117hhrg49353.pdf open ↗
- Transkript des 6. Hearings — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg49354/pdf/CHRG-117hhrg49354.pdf open ↗
- Transkript des 7. Hearings — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg49355/pdf/CHRG-117hhrg49355.pdf open ↗
- Transkript des 8. Hearings — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg49356/pdf/CHRG-117hhrg49356.pdf open ↗
- The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations — Government and Opposition (2022) — https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2022.13 open ↗
- 10.15203/ozp.4066.vol52iss1 — https://doi.org/10.15203/ozp.4066.vol52iss1 open ↗
- Democracy and Capitalism in the Interregnum: Trump’s Failed Self-Coup and After — Critical Sociology (2021) — https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205211049499 open ↗
- “Woman Shot Dead as Mob Overran Capitol ID'ed as Air Force Vet” — https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-woman-shot-six-hospitalized-as-trump-loving-mob-swarms-capitol open ↗
- “바이든, 선거인단 투표서 306명 최종 확보..."대선 승리 확정"” — https://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/12/15/2020121500388.html open ↗
- “경찰, 국회의사당 폭동 사망자 5명 확인” — https://www.wsj.com/articles/police-identify-those-killed-in-capitol-riot-11610133560 open ↗
- Trump White House Archived — https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/ open ↗
- “【米大統領選2020】トランプ氏、「整然とした」政権移行を言明 動画を投稿” — https://www.bbc.com/japanese/55583660 open ↗
- “Army Sec. Says A 'Non-Scalable' 7-Foot Fence Is Going Up Around U.S. Capitol” — https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/07/954469642/army-sec-says-a-temporary-fence-is-going-up-around-u-s-capitol open ↗
- “House cancels Thursday session after police warn of 'possible plot to breach the Capitol'” — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/03/house-cancels-thursday-session-police-warn-possible-plot-breach-capitol/6911228002/ open ↗
- “A Bodybuilder, A Neo-Confederate, A Tattoo Artist: These Are The Trump Rioters Arrested For Storming The Capitol” — https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/rioters-storming-capitol-trump-election-lies-social-media open ↗
- “FBI moves on alleged members of extremist groups Oath Keepers, Three Percenters” — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/oath-keeper-three-percenter-arrests/2021/01/17/27e726f2-5847-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html open ↗
- “A Major Trump Forum Scrubs Its Archives of Thousands of Pre-Riot Posts” — https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/thedonald-win-deleted-posts/ open ↗
- “Montreal servers hosted TheDonald, far-right site blamed for stirring up violence at Capitol riot” — https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/capitol-hill-riot-montreal-thedonald-1.5877950 open ↗
- Decoding the extremist symbols and groups at the Capitol Hill insurrection — https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/us/capitol-hill-insurrection-extremist-flags-soh/index.html open ↗
- “Rallies ahead of Capitol riot were planned by established Washington insiders” — https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/capitol-rally-organizers-before-riots/2021/01/16/c5b40250-552d-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html open ↗
- Rod of Iron Ministries Stormed US Capitol — https://freedomofmind.com/moon-insurrection/ open ↗
- “‘Cowboys for Trump’ Leader Charged in Capitol Riots Met Ex-President ‘Several Times’” — https://www.thedailybeast.com/couy-griffin-cowboys-for-trump-leader-charged-in-capitol-riots-met-trump-several-times open ↗
- “Trump's Christian supporters and the march on the Capitol” — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55578096 open ↗
- “What we know about the 5 deaths in the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol” — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-mob-deaths/index.html open ↗
- “Prosecutors 'looking at all actors,' including Trump, as charges are filed against Capitol rioters” — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/law-enforcement-capitol-riot/index.html open ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210109151718/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-arrests/four-deaths-52-arrests-made-after-trump-supporters-storm-u-s-capitol-idUSKBN29C0G — https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-arrests/four-deaths-52-arrests-made-after-trump-supporters-storm-u-s-capitol-idUSKBN29C0GG open ↗
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/capitol-police-reaction-details/index.html — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/capitol-police-reaction-details/index.html open ↗
- District of Columbia — https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/36-months-jan-6-attack-capitol-0 open ↗
- The Failed Attempt to Overthrow the American Government: Crime and Insurrection — https://research.library.kutztown.edu/jcjl/vol5/iss1/1 open ↗
- As he seeks to prevent certification of election, Trump plans to attend DC rally — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/seeks-prevent-certification-election-trump-plans-attend-dc/story?id=75042176 open ↗
- Capitol Police say cop, reportedly hit with fire extinguisher during Hill mob, dies of his injuries — https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-capitol-police-officer-dies-20210108-f5sy2jrnj5d7jibygzcgiamtny-story.html open ↗
- Trump publicly acknowledges he won't serve a second term a day after inciting mob — https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/trump-biden-us-capitol-electoral-college-insurrection/index.html open ↗
- Trump commits to 'orderly transition' after mob storms Capitol — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-commits-orderly-transition-statement-after-mob-stormed-capitol-n1253223 open ↗
- The framers would have seen the mob at the Capitol as traitors — https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/07/capitol-mob-treason/ open ↗
- President Trump has committed treason — https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/06/president-trump-has-committed-treason/ open ↗
- Un-American.' 'Treasonous.': North Texas leaders decry mob breach at U.S. Capitol — https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/01/06/un-american-treasonous-north-texas-leaders-decry-mob-breach-at-us-capitol/ open ↗
- Washington : un coup d’Etat populiste — https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2021/01/08/washington-un-coup-d-etat-populiste_1810651 open ↗
- Ein amerikanisches Verbrechen — https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/washington-sturm-auf-das-kapitol-donald-trumps-putsch-a-a26cfdda-bb1c-445c-aa00-17032511d1ea open ↗
- Agents will be knocking»: FBI warns of «mind-blowing» number of cases from Capitol attack — https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-13/fbi-warns-many-cases-to-come-from-capitol-attack/13053672 open ↗
- Trump tries to leverage power of office to subvert Biden win — https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-local-elections-arizona-7174555c2545f8afb69f0ce2ac0b2156 open ↗
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- 2026-05-20Score band scheme migrated from 4 bands to 5 (Minimal 0–5 / Low 6–12 / Moderate 13–20 / High 21–30 / Extreme 31–40). No CLCI value changed; the new Minimal band was carved out of the bottom of the previous Low band.
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Q.Is Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders a cult?
CLCI Hub deliberately avoids the binary label "cult." Instead it places groups on a transparent 0–40 spectrum of documented control using Steven Hassan's BITE model (Behaviour, Information, Thought, Emotional). Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders scores 23 out of 40 — "High Control", at high confidence. The score describes documented control patterns, not a judgement of members' sincerity or beliefs; many members do not personally experience the patterns listed.
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Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders scores 23 out of 40 on the Cult-Like Control Index, which falls in the "High" band. That total is the sum of four BITE axes — Behaviour 5, Information 6, Thought 6, Emotional 5 — plus a signed modifier of +1 for aggravating or mitigating factors.
Q.Why does Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders score 23 on the CLCI?
The score reflects publicly documented patterns including: September 5 2023 Georgia state RICO indictment of 61 individuals — largest movement-wide indictment in US history; January 18 2023 Tortuguita shooting death (57 shots fired by Georgia State Patrol; independent autopsy found hands raised at fatal shot); Affinity-group cell structure with documented severance pressure on participants who exit early or cooperate with police; Dispensing-of-existence framing of police and state actors as enemy-class. These map onto the BITE axes of behaviour, information, thought, and emotional control, and a signed modifier of +1 is applied for factors such as financial demands, leadership accountability, and exit costs. Every claim is backed by the citations in the Sources section on this page.
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