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The following individuals and organizations played a role in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Ali Alexander is a prominent election denier and right-wing conspiracy theorist who was raised in Fort Worth, Texas and gained national prominence in promoting the Big Lie after the 2020 presidential election.
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Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011–22, representing Alabama’s 5th Congressional District. He was a member of the far-right Freedom Caucus and claimed that during President Obama’s administration the Democratic Party had launched a “war on whites.”
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Cindy Chafian is a longtime conservative political activist who founded the Eighty Percent Coalition (EPC) shortly before the Jan. 6 insurrection—after allegedly being sidelined by the Women for America First organization that she had worked for on and off since 2019.
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Dan Cox is a far-right politician who represented the fourth district in the Maryland House of Delegates from January 2019–January 2023. A gubernatorial candidate in 2022, he won the Republican primary after receiving Trump’s endorsement but lost the general election in November.
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John Eastman is a right-wing lawyer and law professor who advised Trump on ways to hold on to the presidency despite losing the 2020 election. He has subsequently been subpoenaed by both the House Select Committee and the Justice Department in their ongoing investigations of the insurrection.
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The Eighty Percent Coalition (EPC) was founded in late 2020 by Cindy Chafian (formerly affiliated with Women for America First), largely to unite conservatives around shared beliefs such as questioning the validity of the 2020 presidential election, according to WUSA9.
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Karen Fann served as president of the Arizona State Senate from January 2019–January 2023. She is a lifelong Republican and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) member who served Legislative District 1 since 2011, first as a representative, then as a senator.
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Fox News is a highly influential conservative cable news channel founded and owned by Rupert Murdoch. Widely considered a quasi-arm of the Republican Party, it is the most prominent and far-reaching mainstream media platform for disseminating right-wing viewpoints. Many critics consider Fox News as having been critical to Trump’s political rise and win of the presidency in 2016.
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Nick Fuentes is a Chicago-based white nationalist and antisemite who created and stars in a nightly news/satire show called America First. As someone who has praised Mussolini and advocated for political violence, he intends to make sure that the Republican Party becomes “truly reactionary.”
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Rudy Giuliani is a right-wing lawyer, politician, and former mayor of New York City who helped Trump strategize about potential lawsuits and other options for overturning the results of the 2020 election after the president lost his bid for a second term.