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Donald Trump’s political operation and allied Republican committees funneled into the Jan. 6, 2021 rally and related organizers through campaign and PAC payments, fundraising efforts, and payments to ...
Federal prosecutors charged 18 people in connection with the Jan. 6 attack with the rarely used Civil War–era count of seditious conspiracy; according to reporting aggregated in these sources, 14 of t...
The claim that ; multiple statements from the FBI and testimony to Congress found no indication of Antifa involvement and identified far-right groups and supporters of then-President Trump as the prim...
Christian nationalist ideology in the United States frequently overlaps with white supremacist ideas: scholars and surveys link Christian nationalist beliefs to white identity, anti-Black and anti-imm...
Insurrection (18 U.S.C. § 2383) criminalizes taking up arms or otherwise against the United States or giving aid to such efforts; seditious conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 2384) criminalizes an to use force t...
Multiple contemporary news accounts and eyewitness reporting establish that supporters of then-President Trump at the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” erected a makeshift gal...
Federal prosecutors have charged Donald Trump under the Espionage Act (primarily 18 U.S.C. §793(e)) in the classified-documents case — the indictments include dozens of counts tied to unlawful retenti...
Donald Trump’s second-term use of clemency has been large and idiosyncratic: on January 20, 2025 he issued a sweeping mass action that pardoned roughly 1,500 people charged in connection with the Janu...
The count of people federally charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to January 6, 2021 is — four Oath Keepers convicted in January 2023 plus two Oath Keepers leaders convicted in November 20...
The evidence shows played organizing and planning roles for January 6: the permit applicant Women for America First misled authorities about marching plans, and extremist groups including the Oath Kee...
Donald Trump is widely seen by reporting and civil-society observers as someone whose rhetoric, appointments and actions have attracted admiration and active support from white supremacist and far‑rig...
The available analyses show wide disagreement over who attended former President Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021, “March for Trump” rally and how many people were present: organizers and conservative a...
The sweeping clemency actions President Trump took on his first day back in office wiped federal sentences and halted prosecutions for roughly 1,500 people charged in connection with January 6, 2021, ...
There is no credible evidence in the supplied reporting that the Democratic Party planned the January 6, 2021, attack; mainstream accounts and investigations attribute planning to pro‑Trump extremist ...
Courts have convicted leaders and members of two far‑right groups — the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — of seditious conspiracy for actions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, producing senten...
The most recent federal convictions for seditious conspiracy cited in available reporting relate to prosecutions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol: several Oath Keepers were convict...
The Justice Department charged and later secured convictions against leaders and members of two extremist groups — the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — on seditious conspiracy in connection with Jan....
Donald Trump spoke at the “Save America” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, and prosecutors and civil plaintiffs say his remarks and directions to supporters helped fuel the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, dis...
FBI public reporting and independent datasets show a rise in domestic terrorism attention and arrests tied largely to the far right over the past decade, with the bureau reporting 355 DT-related arres...
Federal prosecutors did pursue the most serious charges available: dozens of defendants tied to organized groups were charged with seditious or seditious‑conspiracy counts (e.g., Oath Keepers and Prou...