Mar 31, 2023

QAnon is a cult that gained popularity in 2017, when a person known only as “Q” began posting an anonymous message board.  QAnon adherents believe that President Trump is battling the forces of the “deep state” and a Satanic pedophile ring operated by leading Democrats and the American elite. As January 6th...

Mar 30, 2023

There was another group anti-government extremists who viewed President Trump’s December 19th, tweet as a call to arms. The Three Percenters believe that three percent of American colonists successfully overthrew the British during the American Revolution. As with the Oath Keepers, many Three Percenters have turned...

Mar 29, 2023

Nick Fuentes is an online provocateur who leads a white nationalist movement known as “America First,” or the “Groypers.” Fuentes responded to President Trump’s “be wild” tweet, writing on Twitter on December 19, 2020, “I will return to Washington DC to rally for President Trump on January 6th!” After...

Mar 28, 2023

This section describes how a number of different groups came together in late 2020 as part of the “Stop the Steal” cause. Roger Stone, arguably President Trump’s oldest political advisor, maintained contact with these groups through a Signal chat group named “F.O.S.”—or Friends of Stone. The Select Committee...

Mar 27, 2023

Stewart Rhodes’s and Oath Keepers’ lawyer Kellye SoRelle arrived in Washington on the afternoon of January 5th. They immediately went to Freedom Plaza, where President Trump had instructed rally organizers to give some of his most extreme supporters time to speak. Leaders of different groups, including Rhodes...