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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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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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Scott Chafian is a retired U.S. Naval officer and husband of conservative activist Cindy Chafian, founder of the Eighty Percent Coalition (EPC), a group she established in support of Trump after he lost the 2020 presidential election.
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Members of the Proud Boys were among the approximately 100 people who gathered in front of the Florida state Capitol in Tallahassee on Jan. 6, 2021 to protest Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
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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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About Let the Church ROAR! was a political and religious rally held on Dec. 12, 2020 on the National Mall and at the Capitol in Washington. Rally-goers criticized perceived corruption and fraud in the 2020 presidential election and called for declaring Trump the rightful winner. The event was organized through a partnership between Jericho March and … Read more
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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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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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Oath Keepers is a far-right militia group established in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, a graduate of Yale Law School. The group was heavily involved in the insurrection, helping to spearhead the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and found guilty of seditious conspiracy in 2022.
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About On Jan. 6, 2021, pro-Trump demonstrators protested at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. The protest descended into violence when right-wing protesters fought with BLM members and other progressive groups. Ohio Highway Patrol troopers and Columbus Police officers were called in to break up the skirmishes. The right-wing activists held their rally under the banner … Read more