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Five members of the Proud Boys are suing the U.S. government and certain employees in the FBI and Department of Justice for $100 million over their Jan. 6 prosecutions. Enrique Tarrio, Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Dominic Pezzola allege in the lawsuit the FBI and DOJ violated their constitutional rights... ... the men claim "egregious and systemic abuse of the legal system and the United States Constitution to punish and oppress political allies of President Trump, by any and all means necessary, legal, or illegal. "Through the use of evidence tampering, witness intimidation, violations of attorney-client privilege, and...

Cynthia Elliott and her husband moved into their home 22 years ago to help care for his father-in-law and manage the family home. They raised six children in this home and have worked hard. They endured hardship after hardship, including her husband’s battle with cancer and his resulting disability. They are still homeschooling the youngest children, and Cindy picks up sewing work to help pay the bills. Then came January 6th. Their son, James Elliott, was arrested and imprisoned by the DOJ for his involvement at the Capitol — a day when thousands of Americans exercised their constitutional rights and...

D.C.'s attorney general's office has ended a lawsuit against the far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for their role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, citing a lack of "potential recoveries the District could obtain," the agency confirmed to 7News. The decision follows other rollbacks on legal actions against those who took part in actions seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election after President Donald Trump's loss, many of whom were pardoned by the president when he returned to office in January. The 2021 lawsuit, filed by then-District Attorney General Karl Racine, sought...

Enrique Tarrio, the former national chairman of the Proud Boys, was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Friday following a press conference with other Proud Boys members and Oath Keepers’ founder Stewart Rhodes. A spokesperson for USCP said Tarrio was arrested for simple assault. A counter protester put a cell phone close to his face and he struck her phone and arm in response. The counter protester said she wanted to file charges, so Tarrio was arrested. The incident took place between the Capitol and Washington’s Union Station. Two counter protesters were seen filling out what appeared to be police...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The former leader of the Proud Boys and the founder of the Oath Keepers have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were wiped away by a sweeping order from President Donald Trump benefiting more than 1,500 defendants. Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes were two of the highest-profile Jan. 6 defendants and received some of the harshest punishments in what became the largest investigation in Justice Department history. Rhodes, of Granbury, Texas, was serving an 18-year prison sentence, and Tarrio, of Miami, was serving...

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that President Donald Trump’s pardon of approximately 1,500 January 6 defendants and prisoners and commuted the sentences of 8 more was a “grotesque display of his new power as president.” Host Jen Psaki said, “I just have to start, I mean, the in the last hour, Donald Trump was in the oval office, which i see as a choice and just pardoned 1500 people convicted for the attack on our Capitol. You did so much important work on the January 6th Committee. You have never held back in talking about the...

Trump commutes sentences of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in jail Breaking President Trump has commuted the sentences of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy in relation to the 6 January Capitol riot.

JUST ANNOUNCED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS DROPPING MY JANUARY 6 CASE!!!!!! 4 YEAR AND 4 DAYS IN THE GULAG WITHOUT A TRIAL IM FINALLY COMING HOME!!!! GOD BE MAGNIFIED!!! MOUNTAINS DO REALLY MOVE IN JESUS NAME!!!

A former police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was found guilty of leaking information to a former Proud Boys leader. United States District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson found Shane Lamond, the former head of the MPD’s intelligence unit, guilty of one count of obstructing justice and three counts of having lied to “federal law enforcement officials,” according to the Hill. Lamond was previously charged with alerting former Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio about a “warrant out for his arrest” prior to the January 6, 2021, riot at the United States Capitol. The Hill noted that...

The night was November 5th, 2024. Political prisoner Enrique Tarrio lay flat on the floor of a solitary jail cell in Mississippi with his ear pressed to the bottom of the door. The night turned into the early morning hours of November 6th. Tarrio waited breathlessly, listening to the noises of faint radio broadcasts. Around 1:00 AM, the news projected Donald Trump won Pennsylvania. Tarrio took a full breath of the air coming under the door of his tiny cell. Oxygen. Hope. In the rural Mississippi prison, surrounded by Trump-supporting guards and inmates, Tarrio heard chants of “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!”...

PHILADELPHIA — As Donald Trump yet again tells his supporters he can lose Tuesday only if there's massive voter fraud and as he ramps up violent rhetoric about Democrats and other "enemies," members of the far-right group that put more "boots on the ground" than any other at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, say they're mobilizing. The last time Trump tried to overturn his election loss, the Proud Boys played a critical role, jumping into action on Jan. 6 just weeks after Trump gave the group a major recruitment boost by telling it to “stand back and stand...

On the eve of the 2016 Presidential election, Issue #464 of Revolution announced in its headline, “In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America. . .Rise Up. . .Get Into The Streets. . .Unite With People Everywhere to Build Up Resistance in Every Way You Can. . .Don’t Stop: Don’t Conciliate. . .Don’t Accommodate. . .Don’t Collaborate”.Revolution is an online newspaper published by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a Maoist group descended from splinters of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In 1969, RCP founder Bob Avakian and fellow Maoist H. Bruce Franklin had cofounded the...

Jan. 6 political hostage Zachary Rehl is already serving a staggering 15-year prison sentence for his “role in the Capitol.” But the authoritarian regime at the helm of the executive branch is hellbent on continuing to hang “Trump’s footsoldiers” out to dry. Especially the veterans, those who sacrificed it all to answer the call to duty, are taunted, shamed, and denigrated by progressive federal judges Agent Smiths running the Justice Department. Now the government is demanding Rehl pay back every red cent in military benefits he received after attempting “to violently overthrow the United States government” on Jan. 6, 2021,...

A San Diego judge said that on Jan. 9, 2021, in Pacific Beach, antifa members "sought to crush, through the use of violence, the First Amendment rights of others" during a pro-Trump rally A San Diego judge sentenced eight defendants to prison and jail terms Friday for their roles in a series of politically motivated attacks during a January 2021 rally in Pacific Beach, calling the defendants “hypocritical” for professing to be anti-fascist while violently assaulting political opponents practicing free speech. San Diego Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein said that after presiding for years over the first-of-its-kind case alleging an...

NOTE TO READERS: NOT ONE single mainstream media outlet is willing to be honest with the American public and play video of John Sullivan’s extensive history as a BLM and Antifa organizer. NOT ONE! Antifa-BLM organizer John Sullivan was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for his actions on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol. Antifa-Insurgence leader John Earl Sullivan was arrested in Utah after the US Capitol riots. As reported previously, Antifa protester John Sullivan was caught on video posing as a Trump supporter during the rioting at the US Capitol on January 6th.

Officer Byron Evans and seven black Capitol Police Officers sued Brandon Straka and several Trump supporters under the KKK Act for “racist” attacks on him and seven other police officers on January 6, 2021. Officer Evans sued Brandon Straka and Roger Stone who was not even at the US Capitol that day along with leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and others. Brandon Straka released video on Wednesday of Officer Byron Evans admitting he was watching the January 6 protests on a TV in a room in a secure location. CNN let the cat out of the bag

A former U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officer claims to have information that implicates the department's former assistant chief in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. So far, 1,201 people hailing from all 50 states have been charged in relation to the Capitol riots and 719 have pleaded guilty. Of those charged, 119 have been convicted of all charges, three have been acquitted, and 64 of 728 sentenced have served some sort of prison time. Eight cases have been dismissed. Tarik Johnson, an ex-Capitol Police lieutenant who was part of the department on January 6, has come out...

Nancy Pelosi’s nepo-baby, Alexandra, was caught on camera admitting essentially that January 6 and the ensuing prosecutions were a marketing gimmick to propagandize the public for the benefit of the Democrat Party. The video, apparently filmed surreptitiously in the style of Project Veritas and released by CitizenLens, reportedly between Pelosi and a January 6 defendant she was courting so as to appear in her documentary of the event, featured Pelosi discussing the political implications of the Jan 6 show trials and their effects on the upcoming 2022 mid-term elections.After the Democrats lose the House and then they get rid of...

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) owes President Trump an apology. The FBI announced on Thursday during a press conference that it thwarted a plot by a so-called “right-wing militia” to kidnap and kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and overthrow the state government. Early Thursday morning, federal agencies raided a house in Hartland, Michigan and arrested six men: Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta. Whitmer immediately blamed the plot on President Trump telling the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” “Hate groups heard the president’s words as a rallying cry, as a...

A onetime Miami Proud Boy and former Miami-Dade Republican Executive Committee member has been convicted of two felonies for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. As a mob of Trump supporters descended upon the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Gabriel Garcia hopped on Facebook live to record himself inside the building while he taunted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to "come out and play." Sporting a red Make America Great Again cap, he allegedly encouraged other members of the crowd to flood into the building and called police "Fucking traitors." The former U.S. Army captain and ex-Proud Boy leader...