Trump promotes claim of extremists that Capitol rioter was shot ‘for no reason’
Intelligence agencies say extremists are using lies about Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt to stir violence.
By Oliver Willis - July 08, 2021Intelligence agencies say extremists are using lies about Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt to stir violence.
By Oliver Willis - July 08, 2021The chair of the Oklahoma Republican Party is supporting a primary challenge to Sen. James Lankford (R-OK).
By Emily Singer - July 06, 2021Those being sought include many accused of violent attacks on officers.
By Associated Press - July 06, 2021The New York Times concludes that the majority of rioters were Trump supporters caught up in the frenzy of the action.
By Associated Press - July 03, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has the power to nix any of the GOP’s selections.
By Emily Singer - July 02, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has threatened to punish any Republican who accepted Pelosi’s appointment to the investigative panel.
By Emily Singer - July 01, 2021Just two Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, voted in favor of the resolution on creating the select committee.
By Emily Singer - July 01, 2021Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R-MN) claimed the select committee to investigate the Capitol insurrection would be more partisan than the Benghazi select committee.
By Emily Singer - June 30, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has veto power over who Republicans appoint to the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot.
By Emily Singer - June 30, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking to appoint a bipartisan select committee to investigate the Capitol insurrection.
By Josh Israel - June 29, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a select committee to investigate the insurrection, after Republicans blocked a bipartisan commission.
By Emily Singer - June 29, 2021Members of Congress who receive donations from Toyota continue to oppose LGBTQ rights and racial justice.
By Josh Israel - June 28, 2021Former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election were repeated by the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
By Oliver Willis - June 28, 2021The new committee comes after Republican senators blocked legislation that would have set up a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack.
By Associated Press - June 24, 2021The former New York City mayor and lawyer to former President Donald Trump was reprimanded by a state court for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - June 24, 2021A member of the Oath Keepers extremist group also pleaded guilty in a conspiracy case and has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
By Associated Press - June 23, 2021‘I think it’s fair to say and fairly objective to say we don’t want taxpayer money to fund illegality,’ said tax law professor Samuel Brunson.
By Associated Press - June 19, 2021There has been no evidence presented to show FBI involvement in the riot on Jan. 6.
By Oliver Willis - June 16, 2021Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) called it ‘a sad commentary’ on the House GOP.
By Emily Singer - June 16, 2021Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene complained that the Jan. 6 riot undid her work to overturn millions of votes cast for Joe Biden.
By Oliver Willis - June 15, 2021The report seems to have only added to the unanswered questions about the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
By Associated Press - June 15, 2021Republican Jason Riddle is banned from the nation’s capital over charges stemming from the Jan. 6 insurrection. That could complicate his run in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District.
By Emily Singer - June 15, 2021‘The public deserves to know how the government assesses the threat to our country from those who would act violently on such beliefs,’ said Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico.
By Associated Press - June 14, 2021Susan Voyles was a central figure in the effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory in Georgia.
By Emily Singer - June 11, 2021The Republican congressman continues to assert the conspiracy theory despite multiple fact-checks.
By Oliver Willis - June 10, 2021Christopher Wray testified on Thursday that at least one rioter brought a gun inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
By Emily Singer - June 10, 2021It was not a ‘normal tourist visit,’ as one GOP lawmaker said.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has alleged that Brooks’ ‘campaign of lies and incendiary rhetoric … led to the sacking of the United States Capitol.’
By Emily Singer - June 07, 2021‘It’s inconceivable that they don’t even want to find out how to prevent this in the future,’ Officer Aquilino Gonell said.
By Emily Singer - June 04, 2021Republicans in Pennsylvania and Georgia want to force more reviews of 2020 presidential election results.
By Emily Singer - June 03, 2021