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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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About Jenna Ellis is a right-wing Christian lawyer who served as a legal adviser to Trump during his final year in office. With a law degree from the University of Richmond in Virginia, she began her legal career as a deputy district attorney in Weld County, a rural area of Colorado. Ellis later worked at … Read more
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About Darrell Issa (R-Ca.) has represented California’s 48th, 49th and most recently, 50th Congressional districts in the U.S House of Representatives since 2001. He is a member of both the far-right House Freedom Caucus and the Republican Study Committee, and won his 11th term in 2022—with Trump’s endorsement—in the solidly Republican 48th district. From 1982 … Read more
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About Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) was first sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 3, 2021, representing Texas’ 13th Congressional District. He ran for his second term in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in his solidly Republican district. A medical doctor, he has called the Omicron variant of Covid the “Midterm Election … Read more
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About Trent Kelly (R-Miss.) is an attorney who has represented Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since winning a special runoff election in June 2015. A member of the conservative Republican Study Group, he ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in his solidly Republican district. Previously, Kelly served … Read more
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About Charlie Kirk is a young, conservative activist whose organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was involved with the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that preceded the insurrection. In 2012, Kirk founded TPUSA, which aims to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government,” according to … Read more
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Mark Meadows is a right-wing Republican and Trump ally who served North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 2013–20 before becoming the former president’s chief of staff in 2020.
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About Robert Mercer is a reclusive, multimillionaire hedge-fund manager and a major financier of Trump’s two presidential campaigns. In 2016 he donated $15.5 million to the pro-Trump Make America Number 1 PAC and in 2020 the Mercer Family Foundation funneled an estimated $20 million in dark money to Donors Trust, which is not legally required … Read more
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About Pete Sessions (R-Texas) first served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997–2019. In 2020, he regained his seat representing Texas’ 17th Congressional District and won again in the 2022 midterm election. Throughout his more than two decades in Congress, Sessions has gained a reputation for his right-wing positions and hypocrisy. He holds a … Read more