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For years already, the Democrats and their media cheering section have harped on the “insurrection” on January 6, 2021, when hundreds of those supporting President Donald Trump flooded the U.S. Capitol to object to what they saw as a faulty election.Now, a retired newspaper editor and author of “What Matters Most: God, Country, Family and Friends,” is explaining why a thousand people have been accused of crimes and jailed, another thousand are predicted to face arrest, and the messaging continues unabated.

The DC Kangaroo Court today found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes guilty of seditious conspiracy. Several other Oath Keepers members were also found guilty today in the DC court. Rhodes will now serve many years in prison for being found guilty of trumped-up charges. Steve Baker listed out the Oath Keepers members and the verdicts against them. As you read the verdicts below, please understand that these men and woman did nothing wrong. They committed no violence. They planned no violence. They were unarmed. Rhodes did not ever enter the US Capitol. The members who did enter the capitol committed...

A very different view of the riots.

WASHINGTON — An attorney for a man who took a coat rack and a bottle of liquor during the U.S. Capitol attack argued to a jury on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump "authorized" the Jan. 6 assault on the building by convincing "vulnerable" people like his client that the election was stolen. Dustin Thompson, a 38-year-old from Ohio, is the third Jan. 6 defendant to face a trial by jury after the convictions of Guy Reffitt and former police officer Thomas Robertson. Samuel Shamansky, at attorney for Thompson, told jurors on Tuesday that his client had "snatched the coat...

New professionally edited video has emerged of police officers allowing protesters into the Upper West Terrace Doors of the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. A trusted source exclusively released the video below to The Gateway Pundit. Tightly edited with markers and commentary narration, it is meant to be presented in court to defend Brady Knowlton and Patrick Montgomery. Both men are facing felony charges for “Obstruction of an Official Proceeding” on January 6th. This new video will indisputably exonerate Brady Knowlton, Patrick Montgomery and all the rally-goers seen entering these doors by any reasonable jury or fair judge....

January 6 political prisoner Nathaniel “Nathan” DeGrave has released a letter from D.C. jail, through attorney Brad Geyer, in which DeGrave details the horror and physical and mental torture that American patriots suffer in lockup. The tyrannical government is clearly trying to make an example of patriotic protesters by torturing people who attended the Election Integrity protest on January 6 and entered the U.S. Capitol. DeGrave’s story of torture at the hands of anti-American government agents is a tragic indictment of the United States in the age of the Joe Biden regime. Here is DeGrave’s story Letter...

A newly-revealed video records the Proud Boys’ activities on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, and appears to show leaders meandering aimlessly, showing the lack of any clear plan. Zachary Rehl’s legal filing in court Wednesday claims that the video proves that Jan. 6 protesters had no plan to attack the U.S. Capitol and no advance plan to enter the Capitol building. They are being accused of a conspiracy, but the video reportedly shows a different story. Documentary film-maker Eddie Block followed protesters through the crowds demonstrating at the Washington Monument and walking over to the Capitol. A segment...

On Tuesday, the chairman of the Capitol riot committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), claimed that “the rioters came dangerously close to succeeding” in their effort to “upend American democracy.” That statement is, quite frankly, ludicrous, but there are serious threats to American representative democracy at work today, and we need to fight against them. While the Capitol riot was a national disgrace, it did not represent a serious threat to America’s constitutional system of government. Rioters broke through the strangely weak police lines and breached the Capitol, but the senators and congressmen evacuated safely. Vice President Mike Pence did not...

Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec WATCH: White House uses Jan 6 Capitol riot as justification for federal voting legislation "State legislatures across the country are passing a wave of anti-voter laws based on the same repeatedly disproven lies that led to an assault on our nation's capital," Psaki said. thepostmillennial.com 2:12 PM · Jun 22, 2021

Since Jan. 6, when hundreds of protesters breached Capitol security as Congress certified Joe Biden's ostensible Presidential victory, the prevailing narrative blamed President Donald Trump and his supporters for the subsequent mayhem. But as facts come to light, a different picture emerges. Evidence suggests that Antifa staged the breach to discredit Trump and his supporters. Trump's opponents then would manipulate the disorder to justify another impeachment attempt and repress his supporters further. In the ensuing bedlam, however, federal agents who penetrated Antifa took valuable information -- including a laptop belonging to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House....

Republicans in the Senate held together to thwart attempts to form a commission to investigate the trespassing and minor property damage that happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. We should all refuse to call it an insurrection or even a riot at this point if for no other reason than to frustrate the left—in particular, leading Democrats like this bitter former presidential candidate who keeps lying to her followers:An angry mob attacked our Capitol, our lawmakers, and our election. They killed a policeman. And Republican leaders would rather we all not know more about what happened.— Hillary Clinton...

Something is deeply wrong with the mind of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Toni Williams, writing at Victory Girls, has her number:AOC has proven to be emotionally fragile and uses that fragility as a politically manipulative tactic. Who could ever forget her fake crying in an empty parking lot when she was trying to drag President Donald Trump for putting kids in cages at the border? Sandy Ocasio-Cortez sobbed during the Congressional testimony of a migrant mother whose 19 month old daughter died of a lung infection weeks after the child's release from the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.). The video...

A group of leftist activists is plotting to “shut down” the inauguration of Donald Trump on Jan. 20 – forcing the president-elect to take his oath of office “behind closed doors” – “if Trump is to be inaugurated at all.” The group, known as the D.C. Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee, or #DisruptJ20, says it calls on “all people of conscience to shut down the ceremonies.” It continues, “If Trump is inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the world that the vast majority of people in the U.S. do not support his presidency or consent to his rule.”

Federal authorities in Buffalo arrested four people Wednesday who are accused of participating in the January 6 unlawful entry into the US Capitol Building. Brought into custody were William Michael Sywak, 45, of Hamburg, and his son William Jason Sywak, 27, of Arcade; Traci Sunstrum, 44, of Amherst; and John Juran, 51, of Williamsville.

“People are tortured mentally, physically, socially, emotionally, legally, and spiritually,” Jacob Lang wrote to his dad. He has been in a federal jail since he was arrested on January 16 for his part in the mostly peaceful demonstration at the Capitol on January 6.“I’ve been in solitary confinement for a hundred days now and haven’t been convicted of any crime with no end in sight,” he continued.Lang is accused of assaulting a Capitol police officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. As per a text message received by his mother, Lang was...

A 44-second clip of what is reported to be a much longer video shows Jacob Chansley, also known as “Q Shaman,” “Q Anon Furbaby,” etc., being told by police that he and others could enter the Capitol if they kept things peaceful.The permission to enter the Capitol was given by a Capitol policeman, identified as Officer Keith Robishaw.“We’re not against . . . you need to show us . . . no attacking, no assault, remain calm,” Robishaw is seen saying to Chansley and other Trump supporters.This video, obtained by American Greatness, is yet another gut punch to politicians and...

The first active duty service member has been charged in connection to the January 6 Capitol breach on Thursday, out of the more than one thousand people estimated to have entered the Capitol building that day. The service member is Marine Corps Maj. Christopher Warnagiris, 40, according to the Justice Department. According to the DOJ, his charges stem from Warnagiris allegedly “violently” entering the Capitol, “pushing through a line of police officers guarding the East Rotunda doors,” and once inside, preventing an officer from shutting the doors and helping others get inside. He is charged with: 1) Assaulting, Resisting, or...

Although President George W. Bush received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history, not everyone will be celebrating his second inauguration in the nation’s capital today. Pro-terrorist socialists and violent extremists pledge “direct action” – including initiating physical confrontations with police officers – that could divert critical attention from a terrorist attack. Among those who will take part in today’s protests is a group known as Anarchist Resistance, but is more commonly called “the Black Bloc” for the black ski masks its members wear destroying property. Its history of riotous incitement is well-known. On the first day of...

The wife of a decorated combat veteran who was inside the Capitol suffered a miscarriage one day after the FBI raided their home. Christopher Kuehne maintains that he had travelled to the Capitol to protect Trump supporting civilians from Antifa. Inside the Capitol, he was seen on video cleaning up trash before, he says, he helped to clear people out so police could get control of the situation. In the early morning of February 11, Kuehne, his pregnant wife Annette, and their four-year-old child were awakened to sirens, cell phone rings, and bursts of colorful lights reflecting through their windows....

In building an armed camp to protect themselves, Democrats implicitly endorse the case for D.C. remaining a federal district and not a state.When riots swept the nation’s capital on Jan. 6, 2021, National Guard troops were called up to help keep the peace. Two months later, they’re still there. The Capitol Building remains surrounded by a seven-foot fence. The area looks more like an occupied capital in one of our small wars of empire than the seat of government in the land of the free. That said, if anyone is going to station and control troops in D.C., it probably...