The Latest Breaking News from Capitol

‘Red wedding’: Video shows far-right promoting plans for ‘wild’ protest after Trump tweet, Jan 6 hearing told

’He is now calling on we the people to take action and show our numbers’, Alex Jones said in a video from December 2020

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2022

Jan. 6 hearing to focus on how right wing extremist groups came together to attack Capitol

WASHINGTON — The ties between allies of former President Donald Trump and the far right extremists who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will be the focus of Tuesday’s hearing by the House committee investigating the insurrection.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 12, 2022

Jan. 6 hearing focuses on how right-wing extremist groups came together to attack Capitol

WASHINGTON — The ties between allies of former President Donald Trump and the far-right extremists who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is the focus of Tuesday’s hearing by the House committee investigating the insurrection.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 12, 2022

Capitol attack panel examines Trump’s ‘summoning a mob’ on January 6

In the seventh public hearing, the committee is focusing on extremists such as Proud Boys and Oath Keepers

The Guardian - US · Jul 12, 2022

Jan. 6 panel probes Trump's 'siren call' to extremists

The Jan. 6 committee is preparing to highlight how violent extremist groups answered what one lawmaker says was Donald Trump’s “siren call” to come to Washington

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2022

Donald Trump accused of a sprawling 'conspiracy': recapping the first eight Capitol riot hearings

There's been chilling testimony from the January 6 public hearings, revealing graphic video and bombshell testimony from inside the White House. Here's every hearing re-capped and what's coming next.

ABC News · Jul 12, 2022

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‘Horrified’ former House Speaker Paul Ryan wept during Jan. 6 attack on Capitol, book says

Tribune News Service · Jul 12, 2022

Here's what we know about links between extremists and Trump allies

Aides to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol said the next hearing would focus on extremist groups and their possible links to Trump and his allies.

WEKU · Jul 11, 2022

US judge refuses to dismiss key count against 'bullhorn lady' accused in Capitol riot

PITTSBURGH — A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss a count of obstruction of an official proceeding against accused Capitol rioter Rachel Powell, saying she had joined her "almost uniformly unsuccessful fellow January 6 defendants" in trying to get that count tossed out.

Tribune News Service · Jul 11, 2022

Jan. 6 committee to connect Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and QAnon to Trump allies

WASHINGTON — The committee investigating the Capitol insurrection will focus for the first time this week on the relationship between people in former President Donald Trump’s orbit and the extremist groups that planned and orchestrated the violence on Jan. 6, 2021.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 11, 2022