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The attack began around 2 pm on Jan. 6, 2021, shortly after Trump finished speaking at the March to Save America rally, where he urged his supporters to proceed to the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop the certification of the Electoral College results underway in a joint session of Congress.
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David Eastman is a right-wing Republican state representative in Alaska and a member of the Oath Keepers militia. After the 2020 presidential election, he helped spread the Big Lie and on Jan. 6, 2021, he participated in the March to Save America on the Ellipse in Washington.
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Joe Biden won the state of Arizona in the 2020 presidential election by a narrow margin of approximately 10,000 votes, winning 1,672,143 votes to Trump’s 1,661,686.
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Mark Finchem (R) is a far-right member of the Arizona House of Representatives who maintains ties to multiple extremist and white nationalist groups. A member of the Oath Keepers militia group himself, he has also vocally supported the QAnon cult and conspiracy theories.
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About Clay Higgins (R-La.) was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016, representing Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District. He is a member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus and the conservative Republican Study Committee, and won reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement. Although Higgins had won easily in previous elections, he faced a … Read more
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Alex Jones is a right-wing conspiracy theorist based in Austin, Texas, who rose to prominence over the past two decades through his total distrust in government, his promulgation of wild ideas about “the Deep State,” and the apparent appeal of his aggressively anti-establishment InfoWars website and eponymous radio and video talk show.
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The March to Save America was the key rally at the Ellipse in Washington prior to the violent assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The event is also often referred to as the Save America March or Stop the Steal rally.
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Doug Mastriano is a far-right state senator who won the May 2022 Republican primary for governor of Pennsylvania and ran with Trump’s endorsement, but ultimately lost to Democrat Josh Shaprio in November. Since the 2020 presidential election, he has insisted that the election was stolen and is so extreme in his views that Axios has called him “Trumpier than Trump.”
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The Million MAGA March (also known as Stop the Steal and the March for Trump) was a political rally in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 14, 2020 with thousands (not remotely close to the “million” proclaimed in the title of the event) of participants who insisted that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election.
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Proud Boys is a hate group that promotes white nationalism, along with misogynist and anti-Muslim views. Members played a key role in the insurrection after being called on to wage “all-out revolution” to keep Trump in the White House.