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Biden is finally 'in the arena' on the fight of our time

This week, President Joe Biden finally delivered the speech I wasn’t sure he was capable of giving. After a year in which Biden and his White House have labored diligently to beat back the …

In the year since Jan. 6, America’s radical right has hardened into an anti-democratic insurgency

With the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection upon us, researchers and experts in monitoring right-wing extremism have been busy compiling and analyzing the data and other information …

Jan. 6 prosecutions get a boost from judge’s ruling that ‘obstructing Congress’ charges are OK

The wheels of justice turn slowly enough as it is, and when it comes to complex cases like the Jan. 6 insurrectionist prosecutions, the pace can be positively glacial, especially because evidence is …

‘There will be blood’: Fresh indictment shows trio of Californians eager for violence at Capitol

Most of the attention to the conspiracy prosecutions in the Jan. 6 insurrection has been directed at the largest known (and overlapping) plots to besiege the Capitol involving the Oath Keepers and …

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Chansley’s 41-month sentence for besieging Capitol signals tough sledding for defendants

When the first sentences were handed down in the earliest Jan. 6 insurrection cases—many of them involving less violent defendants accused of minor crimes—in late summer, many observers expressed …

Hacked Oath Keepers data exposes how deeply ‘patriot’ extremism has penetrated the mainstream

The recent exposure of the Oath Keepers’ membership through hacked data revealed a great deal about their spread—both within the ranks of law enforcement and among elected officials. But the …

With only each other for company, insurrectionists’ extremism deepens in ‘Patriot Wing’ of D.C. jail

Incarcerating right-wing extremists with other criminals is always a fraught proposition since they are free to proselytize their beliefs, and prisons have proven over the years to be congenial …

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Jan. 6 panel flat-out rejects Bannon's bid to obstruct its inquiry as Trump files lawsuit

All signs still point in the direction of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 voting to hold Donald Trump ally and former aide Steve Bannon in contempt for failing to comply with its …

Delay in Oath Keepers’ conspiracy trial for Jan. 6 insurrection forced by growing pile of evidence

The federal judge overseeing the Oath Keepers conspiracy case in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection ordered their trial delayed this week, primarily because of the overwhelming amount of evidence still …

Whistleblower confirms that Facebook intentionally profits from sowing social chaos, violence

For a while, many of us have known from external studies and leaked documents that Facebook played a significant role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection as the chief engine of radicalization and …

Trump Republicans lose interest in prosecuting Jan. 6 rioters

A couple months after the country watched supporters of Donald Trump storm the Capitol, the vast majority of Americans felt a notable sense of urgency around finding and prosecuting the perpetrators …

Capitol braces for Saturday far-right ‘Justice for J6’ protest, but the threat is more diffuse now

The security fencing around the U.S. Capitol building has gone back up, and members of Congress have sounded off about their fears of potential violence, all in anticipation of Saturday’s far-right …

Presence of Trump-friendly DOJ prosecutor on Proud Boys insurrection case raises red flags

The federal government’s prosecution of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists continues to roll along with hardly any change in direction or pace: Participants in the attack continue to be arrested as …

House Republicans in absolute panic over their Jan. 6 communications going public

Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy finally found something about Jan. 6 he will never forget: Telecom companies that turn over the phone records of GOP lawmakers to the House Select Committee …

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Republicans' racist 2022 playbook is the same one that lost them the House, Senate, and White House

President Joe Biden isn’t a hot seller in the right-wing circles where Republicans need to stoke a lot of anger heading into 2022. The economy is recovering faster than most analysts predicted, …

As insurrectionists turn into snitches for federal prosecutors, circle tightens around conspirators

As the number of participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection turning state’s witnesses against their fellow rioters keeps adding up, so does the evidence against their cohorts—particularly the …

GOP stonewalling aside, Jan. 6 insurrection investigations continue to raise fresh evidence

While Republicans have been doing their damnedest to stonewall an investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, new information about the event continues to emerge as congressional …

Amid mounting arrests, investigations of insurrection, flood of threats aimed at Congress rises

The indictments and arrests from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol keep piling up—they’re currently over 450 and counting—and the official investigations, including those by congressional …

Pentagon task force wrestles with how to root extremists out of military amid free-speech issues

It became painfully self-evident in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—in which one in five of the arrested insurgents turned out to be veterans of the U.S. military—that American …