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January 6 Capitol attack

The January 6 Capitol attack was a catalytic public moment that prompted intensified social-media crackdowns and broader scrutiny of QAnon's real-world harms.

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Jan 12, 2026
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Did congress demand trump to resign

Members of Congress have, on multiple occasions, publicly demanded that Donald Trump leave office—primarily in the wake of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack—while advocacy campaigns and some local of...

Jan 18, 2026
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Is Jake Lang a nazi

Jake Lang is a far‑right provocateur with a record of racist, anti‑Muslim, and antisemitic statements and violent behavior tied to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, but the available reporting does not provi...

Jan 29, 2026
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Has Visa, Inc given money to Trump?

has financially engaged with ’s political orbit in more than one way: the company was listed among corporate donors to Trump’s 2025 inaugural committee and has said it will participate in “” employer ...

Jan 7, 2026

How many pardonedjan 5 rioters are employed by ICE

No publicly available reporting reviewed here identifies a specific number of presidentially pardoned January 6 defendants who are currently employed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE);...

Jan 13, 2026

Congress demands Trump resignation

Congressional calls for President Donald Trump to leave office after the January 6 Capitol attack were significant but not monolithic: dozens of Democratic lawmakers and more than 200 members publicly...

Jan 17, 2026

Which historical episodes involved temporary transfers of presidential power under the 25th Amendment and how were they documented?

The Twenty‑Fifth Amendment’s Section 3 — the president’s voluntary, written transfer of powers to the vice president — has been used a handful of times for planned medical procedures, most notably by ...

Jan 16, 2026

How did House members vote on the second impeachment of Donald Trump in January 2021 and which districts did dissenting votes come from?

The House of Representatives impeached President Donald J. Trump a second time on January 13, 2021, adopting a single article—incitement of insurrection—by a 232–197 vote; that tally reflected all 222...

Jan 13, 2026

resignation trump

Public discussion of “resignation, Trump” collapses two different realities into one phrase: mass departures from his administrations (actual resignations and dismissals of officials) and recurring pu...

Jan 13, 2026

Have any pardoned January 6 participants been employed by other federal law enforcement agencies?

No reporting in the provided sources documents a pardoned January 6 participant actually being hired into or serving in another federal law‑enforcement agency after receiving clemency; contemporary co...

Jan 15, 2026

What contemporaneous communications (emails/memos) exist showing private Cabinet deliberations about invoking the 25th Amendment?

Contemporaneous, verifiable emails or internal memoranda showing Cabinet members formally deliberating to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment are not produced or cited in the reporting provided; mo...

Feb 5, 2026

What are the origins and historical development of QAnon?

began as anonymous “Q” posts on fringe imageboards in October 2017 claiming insider knowledge of against a global cabal of satanic pedophiles, then ballooned into a sprawling, adaptable conspiracy mov...

Feb 4, 2026

Is Q Anon real, or just a left-wing imagination?

as a social and political movement built around a set of fabricated claims that first appeared online in October 2017 and were propagated by . Its core allegations—of a hidden cabal of Satan‑worshippi...

Feb 3, 2026

Is Trump the most overtly corrupt US president

is widely portrayed in contemporary reporting and advocacy research as unusually overt in mixing private financial interests with public office, and his presidency generated multiple high-profile lega...

Feb 2, 2026

Who were the recipients of Donald Trump's most high-profile pardons?

’s highest-profile clemency moves span a mix of well-known political allies, convicted figures from the , businessmen and mass pardons tied to , with critics arguing the pattern favors friends and don...

Jan 28, 2026

Has george farmer been investigated by government agencies or subjected to regulatory inquiries?

Public reporting provided for this review does not document a government agency or regulator opening a formal investigation specifically into himself; it does show regulatory scrutiny of organizations...

Jan 27, 2026

How have false social‑media accounts and disinformation affected law‑enforcement attribution of political violence?

and disinformation have distorted the inputs that law enforcement uses to attribute political violence, producing both false positives—where benign actors are misidentified as threats—and false negati...

Jan 17, 2026

How many times has AOC accused she was nearly sexually assaulted?

Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez has publicly disclosed that she is a survivor of a past sexual assault and has also said she feared being sexually assaulted during the January 6 Capitol attack; those two pub...

Jan 15, 2026

Has Nick Fuentes ever worked for or cooperated with federal law enforcement?

Nick Fuentes has publicly and under oath denied ever speaking to or cooperating with federal law enforcement, and the reporting provided contains no verified evidence that he has worked for or acted a...

Jan 13, 2026

What are documented instances of extremist groups amplifying law-enforcement recruitment or incidents online?

Extremist actors have demonstrably used online platforms to amplify narratives that intersect with law enforcement recruitment and incidents — from sympathetic promotion of officers at events like Jan...

Jan 11, 2026

How many people have been killed in protests in the USA while Trump has been president

Reporting shows multiple protest-related deaths during Donald Trump’s first term, but there is no single authoritative tally in the supplied sources that covers every protest death across his presiden...