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About The “Descend on the Capitol” Conference Call was a call with an unknown number of Trump supporters that took place on Dec. 30, 2020. The call was helmed by Roger Stone associate Jason Sullivan and included at least one member of the far-right paramilitary organization 1st Amendment Praetorian. Sullivan told Trump supporters on the … Read more
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Background On Jan. 6, 2021, a violent mob supporting then President Trump and his false claims that the 2020 presidential election had been “stolen” from him attacked the U.S. Capitol. Immediately after a rally called the March to Save America, during which Trump implored his supporters to “fight like hell,” the angry crowd marched from the … Read more
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About Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) served Ohio’s 1st Congressional District the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995–2023, with a two-year hiatus from 2008–10. Prior to running for Congress, he served on the Cincinnati City Council for five years and as a commissioner of Hamilton County for another five years. Although Chabot had Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 … Read more
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About On Dec. 1, 2020, 37 House Republicans sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr about alleged procedural irregularities and fraud in tabulation methods that purportedly impacted the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The congressmen called on the Justice Department to investigate these issues. The following representatives signed the letter: The Big Lie
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About On Dec. 15, 2020, a group of 26 far-right incoming members of the U.S. House wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanding an investigation into baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. The letter signatories claimed to have “verified” reports of fraudulent mail-in ballots, missing voting machine equipment, and improper restrictions on poll … Read more
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About Several outside advisors came to the White House on Dec. 18, 2020 for what ended up being an expletive-filled, six-hour-plus meeting with Trump to hash out election fraud conspiracies and strategies to keep the president in power despite his electoral loss. The extremists participating included attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, former Overstock.com CEO … Read more
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About On Dec. 21, 2020, a group of congressional Republicans and Trump administration staff members met with the president at the White House to plot how to keep him in power by preventing Congress from certifying the Electoral College results on Jan. 6, 2021. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) organized the meeting, according to email records … Read more
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About On Dec. 28, 2020, Jeffrey Clark, a Trump loyalist within the Justice Department, drafted a letter pushing officials in Georgia to hold a special session of the state legislature and investigate supposed “irregularities” in the 2020 election. Clark collaborated on the letter with Ken Klukowski, another Justice Department lawyer and a legal analyst for … Read more
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About The Eighty Percent Coalition (EPC) was founded in late 2020 by Cindy Chafian, who was formerly affiliated with Women for America First. WUSA9 reported that Chafian founded the coalition in part to unite conservatives around shared beliefs, including questioning the validity of the 2020 presidential election. She explained that she “based the name on … Read more
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On Jan. 6, 2021, the U.S. House and Senate certified the Electoral College results of the 2020 presidential election during a joint session of Congress. Although the certification procedure is typically noncontroversial, in 2021 it was obstructed by scores of Republican members of Congress.