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In a Bizarro World lawsuit against the federal government, Proud Boys who were pardoned by President Donald Trump for their roles in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are alleging “cruel and unusual” treatment and “politically motivated” prosecutions. They seek a minimum of $100 million in damages for alleged “violations of their constitutional rights.”

The suit is brought by former Proud Boys honcho Enrique Tarrio along with lieutenants Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, and Dominic Pezzola. The plaintiffs were all convicted of serious felonies — up to and including...

The Trump administration has reportedly agreed to pay $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt — a Jan. 6 rioter shot and killed by Capitol Police as she attempted to break into the House Speaker’s lobby — in order to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.

According to sources who spoke to The Washington Post, the Trump administration settled the $30 million wrongful death lawsuit filed last year by the right-wing activist group Judicial Watch on behalf of Babbitt’s husband. While the settlement was reached earlier this month, the final amount was previously undisclosed.

Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been the most chaotic and consequential in modern political memory. He has wielded the presidency like a king, seeking to bend America (and, far less successfully, the world) to his will. The result has been about what you’d expect from the first convicted felon and twice-impeached insurrectionist to return to the White House: a reckless campaign of overreach and lawlessness that has strained the federal judiciary, the Constitution, and American democracy itself.

Trump has emerged with few legislative accomplishments — the fewest in a president’s first 100 days,...

In a move sure to reignite debate about the January 6 Capitol riot, 60 Minutes Australia has secured an exclusive interview with Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the far-right Proud Boys. Tarrio, along with over 1,500 others, found himself behind bars for his role in the events of that day. Now, thanks to a presidential […]

60 Minutes Australia: Proud Boys Leader Speaks Out After Trump Pardon, This Sunday on Nine...

The US Capitol Police arrested Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys leader, after a rally near the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Tarrio was in DC for an event with other pardoned Jan. 6 defendants. Police said they arrested Tarrio for “simple assault” after officers saw him strike the arm and phone of a female counter-protester. Tarrio was pardoned by President Donald Trump in January 2025 for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. (Credit: @SatireAP via Storyful)

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On a Sunday morning, Dec. 13, 2020, Reverend William Lamar, pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., was home preparing to livestream for his virtual congregation, who were among the thousands forced indoors in the throes of the Covid pandemic. “As I was going down to my basement to go live, my phone began to vibrate and it was people offering their support saying they were sorry about what happened. I was unaware but then someone sent me a link.”

The link was a video of the Proud Boys,...

President Donald Trump’s mass pardons and commutations for Jan. 6 seditionists, terrorists, obstructionists, and hundreds of other felons dealt a stark blow against the rule of law. The executive action has done what Trump has long accused other countries of doing — flooded America’s streets with dangerous criminals.

Trump’s clemency spree wiped the slate clean for violent actors, including those who bashed Capitol police during the insurrection. And it’s likely to act as encouragement for militant Maga factions who think they, too, can now get away with anything.

Donald Trump has issued a blanket pardon to 1,500 of individuals who were convicted of offenses or faced charges relating to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He also signed 14 commutations, deeming the offenders to have fulfilled their sentences with time served.

“This is January 6,” Trump said, sitting in the Oval Office, holding a black folder with the proclamation. “And these are the hostages. Approximately 1,500 for a pardon. Full pardon.”

The clemency will extend to high-profile convictions for seditious conspiracy, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio,...

Updated: Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office to sign a series of pardons and executive orders, including his promise to delay implementation of a law restricting TikTok.

The order delays implementation of a law for 75 days, Trump said, as he said that he was determined to find a buyer and work out an arrangement in which the U.S. owns 50% of the platform.

Trump said that the order “gives him the right to sell it or close it,” although he said that he may need to get an approval from China. He insisted that “TikTok is worthless if I don’t approve it.”

The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, has given no indication that it was willing to sell the social media platform since Congress passed the divest-or-be-banned law in an overwhelming bipartisan vote last week.

Trump is following through on what has been described as a “shock and...

Enrique Tarrio is officially seeking a pardon for the seditious conspiracy conviction he received as punishment for plotting and orchestrating violence on Jan. 6 2021. In a letter sent to President-elect Donald Trump, dated Jan. 6 of this year, Tarrio’s lawyer describes his client as guilty of nothing more than exercising his “freedom of expression.”

Tarrio was the leader of the Proud Boys in the buildup to the violence at the Capitol. Tarrio had recruited an elite corp of militants, dubbed the “Ministry of Self Defense,” to rep the militant group in Washington,...

With Donald Trump winning back the White House, his Big Lie that Jan. 6 was just an enthusiastic rally that got out of hand, rather than an insurrectionist mob he unleashed to disrupt the count of the 2020 electoral college, has new currency.

A new congressional Republican report, spearheaded by Maga lapdog Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) has recommended a criminal probe of former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for co-chairing the House Jan. 6 investigation. Loudermilk’s report reached a through-the-looking-glass conclusion that Cheney & co. had promoted “a false, pre-determined narrative that President Trump...

A key participant in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot has been apprehended in South Dakota, according to the FBI. The man, William George Knight, faces a multitude of charges in connection with the Capitol attack, which includes felony counts of assault of a federal officer and obstruction of law enforcement in a civil disorder.

The FBI’s affidavit vividly depicts Knight’s involvement in the riot. Video evidence compiled by “sedition hunters” shows him as one of the first to breach the initial barriers, actively ripping away police barricades as the mob confronted law enforcement. Eyewitness accounts and footage further depict Knight aggressively engaging with officers, at one point rushing toward the police line with an extended flagpole, only to then smash it against the concrete.

Online sleuths had previously dubbed Knight the “Dreaded Proud Boy” due to his distinctive blond dreadlocks and proximity to members of the far-right organization in the initial Capitol breach.

Proud Boys member Marc Bru was sentenced to six years in prison for his involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot – and he declared in court that he would storm the Capitol “all over again.”

Bru was convicted in October 2023 of five misdemeanor counts and two felony counts of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.

He declined to offer a defense during his trial and did not add anything substantial aside from repeating that he never consented to the proceeding.

“You are outside of your jurisdiction,” Bru stated instead of giving a closing argument. “You have trafficked me and you have committed war crimes against me.”

While facing the consequences of his guilty verdict for two felonies and five misdemeanors, Bru showed little concern while standing before the court, calling D.C. District Chief Judge James Boasberg a “clown” and a “fraud.”

He interrupted an assistant U.S. attorney to...

Back in September, Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison on “seditious conspiracy” charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, raid of the U.S. Capitol.

According to the Justice Department, the far-right group “played a central role in setting the January 6th attack on our Capitol into motion,” and as its leader, Tarrio created a special group within the militant organization called the Ministry of Self Defense that “established a chain of command, chose a time and place for their attack, and...

The Department of Justice filed notice of its plan to seek harsher prison sentences for five members of the Proud Boys, who were incarcerated for their participation in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The DOJ is calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to extend sentences for the leaders of the right-wing group: Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and Ethan Nordean.

Officials had originally asked for 33-year sentences for Tarrio and Biggs, 30-year sentences for Rehl, 27 sentences for Nordean and 20 years for Pezzola.

Instead, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly gave Tarrio 22 years, Biggs 17 years, Nordean 18 years, Rehl 15 years, and Pezzola 10 years – all were below sentencing guidelines.

The men were convicted in September and are currently incarcerated at Fdc Philadelphia.

The Proud Boys are a paramilitary group that espouses white nationalist views. They aligned themselves with former...

Donald Trump told so many lies during his Meet the Press interview that aired Sunday that NBC released a lengthy fact check chronicling his numerous mistruths. He claimed that bacon prices have increased five fold (they have not), that the 2020 election was “rigged” (there is no evidence of this), and that “15 million” undocumented immigrants are “flooding” the U.S. (that figure is a massive overestimate).

During the course of the interview, Trump used the word “rigged” in reference to the election nineteen times. The election, of course, was not rigged.

On Tuesday, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

District Judge Timothy Kelly gave the 39-year-old the longest sentence of anyone involved in the riot. More than 1,100 people have been charged for their involvement in the attack, which was staged by Donald Trump supporters in an effort to stop the certification of President Joe Biden.

“It is kind of hard to put into words how important the peaceful transfer of power is,” Judge Kelly said. “Our country was founded as an experiment in self-government by the people, but it cannot long endure if the way we elect our leaders is threatened with force and violence.”

“Mr. Tarrio was the ultimate leader, the ultimate person who organized, who was motivated by revolutionary zeal,” the judge continued.

Prior to his sentencing, Tarrio told the...

Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right hate group The Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in prison this week, for his role in the January 6 attacks on the Capitol. His sentence marks the harshest received for the attacks yet, and on Wednesday morning, the hosts of ABC’s “The View” suggested it might be a precedent for how Donald Trump’s case will turn out.

One of Trump’s four indictments does indeed pertain to his role in January 6, with charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.

Host Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that though Tarrio faced far different charges than Trump, there was one key similarity between the two that could work out to Trump’s detriment.

“I do think it’s significant for Trump. It’s different,...

Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in prison Tuesday for his role in planning the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. His sentence is the longest of any of the January 6th defendants.

In May, Tarrio was found guilty of seditious conspiracy along with three others: Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl.

Tarrio was not present at the Capitol that day, but prosecutors said that he played a key role in the planning.

At his sentencing, Tarrio called January 6th a “national embarrassment” and expressed remorse for what happened, according to the Associated Press. “Inflicting harm or changing the results of the election was not my goal,” he said as he pleaded for leniency.

Prosecutors, though, characterized the right-wing group’s efforts a “calculated act of terrorism.”

The judge in the case, Timothy Kelly, who was nominated by President Donald Trump, gave a shorter...

Enrique Tarrio — the capo of the Proud Boys on Jan. 6 — has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for his part in the seditious conspiracy to block the peaceful transfer of power to President Joe Biden following the 2020 election. Tarrio’s two-decade sentence — the stiffest yet for a Jan. 6 defendant — was handed down Tuesday afternoon in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom.

Tarrio’s prison term tops that delivered to Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, who received 18 years for leading that militia’s seditious conspiracy plot on Jan.

A day of historic accountability for the crimes of Jan. 6 left a pair of rough-and-tumble Proud Boys in tears on Thursday. On Friday, a third Proud Boys convict choked up before he learned he’ll be spending a decade in behind bars. Only a fourth member of the infamous fight club, sentenced Friday afternoon, made it through his proceedings without blubbering.

Joe Biggs — the “tip of the spear” of the Proud Boys assault on Capitol on Jan. 6 — was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison Thursday for his role in the...

A member of the Proud Boys disappeared from house arrest days before he was due to be sentenced for pepper spraying a police officer during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Authorities have issued a warrant for Christopher Worrell, who was arrested in March 2021 and this May convicted of seven charges related to his involvement in the Capitol attack. Prosecutors were seeking 14 years of prison time, and a terrorism enhancement to the sentence, at a now-canceled hearing originally scheduled for Friday.

In 2021, Worrell filed a complaint against the D.C.

Shane Lamond — a Washington, D.C., police lieutenant whose texts with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio were featured in the group’s seditious conspiracy trial — was arrested on Friday on charges of obstructing an investigation and lying to federal law enforcement.

Tarrio and three other Proud Boys were convicted of sedition for their connection to the Capitol riot earlier this month, but the group’s leader wasn’t actually there on Jan. 6. This is because Tarrio had been arrested two days earlier, on Jan. 4, on a warrant stemming from an...

Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right group Proud Boys, was convicted along with three other members of the organization for their roles in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The convictions were perhaps the highest profile cases so far brought by the Justice Department. Tarrio was found guilty of seditious conspiracy, which has a sentence of up to 20 years.

According to the Associated Press, Tarrio did not show any emotion as the verdict was read. Tarrio was not at the January 6th attack itself, but prosecutors argued that he nevertheless played a key role in its planning.

Also convicted of seditious conspiracy were Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl. They also were convicted of conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding of Congress on Jan. 6, as well as of destruction of government property.

Jurors found another defendant, Dominic Pezzola, not guilty on the seditious conspiracy charge, but...

After a trial that stretched nearly four months, four Proud Boys have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection to the insurrection of Jan. 6.

The jury delivered guilty verdicts for Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of Proud Boys; Ethan Nordean, who was the leader on the ground in Washington; Zachary Rehl, a top Proud Boy from Philadelphia; and Joseph Biggs, one of the best known militants, with a big social media following.

After several hours of additional deliberation, the jury found a fifth Proud Boy, Dominic Pezzola, who smashed...

On the stormy evening of Jan. 5, 2021 on a stage at Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C., Cindy Chafian warmed up the crowd. “Are you all pissed? Are you ready to fight back? Tomorrow we’re going to make history!”

Chafian — a right-wing activist who helped organize D.C. rallies that preceded the insurrection of Jan. 6 — asked the crowd to give thanks to “people who often go unseen and unknown.” First, she gave “a huge shout out to Enrique and the Proud Boys.” Lamenting that the Proud Boys’ leader, Enrique Tarrio,...

The connection between the Oath Keepers militia and the Proud Boys has been a subject of fascination for anyone trying to puzzle together the events of Jan. 6, 2021. The two far-right groups were instrumental in storming the Capitol. Their leaders were both hit with seditious conspiracy charges. But were they actively working together? After all, the two groups were infamously caught on film in a surreptitious Jan. 5 meeting in an underground hotel parking garage in Washington D.C.

The Jan. 6 Committee released key transcripts from its investigation Wednesday evening. Many witnesses...

The sedition trial of former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio is ramping up in Washington, D.C., this week, with jury selection due to begin Monday.

The federal government charges that Tarrio, along with four key deputies, conspired to oppose the transition of power from President Donald Trump to President-Elect Joe Biden by force — with several Proud Boys members wreaking havoc on Jan. 6, 2021, and celebrating afterward.

Following the conviction last month of Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes, the Tarrio trial marks the Department of Justice’s second attempt to...

Kanye West sat down for an interview on an episode of Timcast Irl, but left the premises before commenting on his antisemitic statements. The podcast was hosted by Holocaust denier, Nick Fuentes, alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopolous and Tim Pool.

West made little sense in his attempts to complete the interview. He said he has been getting “hosed down by the press and financially.”

“I thought I was more Malcolm X but I find out I’m more MLK,” West said.

Ye (formerly Kanye West) walks out of an interview with Tim Pool when pushed on his claim that Jews control the media.

Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos followed him off set too. pic.twitter.com/eKAUeDS9kd

— Jewish News Syndicate (@JNS_org) November 29, 2022

After West stormed out, Pool said he was simply looking for West to elaborate, as if West’s clear and repeated antisemitic behavior could be explained away.

The Jan. 6 committee returned from its summer hiatus and cast a spotlight on the actions of former Trump adviser Roger Stone. The committee laid out Stone’s connections with members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, several members of which have been charged with seditious conspiracy in relation to the attack on the Capitol, as well as his thirst for violence should Trump lose.

“I said fuck the voting, get right to the violence,” Stone said in footage shot by a Danish film crew that was obtained by the committee.

It almost seemed like they came out of nowhere: burly, bearded white men in their forties in tactical vests, streaming in and out of the Capitol shouting expletives and violent threats targeted at government officials. In the first few days after the terrifying events of Jan. 6, 2021, many Americans watched the footage from the attempted insurrection with horror, wondering how it could possibly have happened or who could have orchestrated the attacks on the Capitol. Those in the anti-fascist community, however, as well as journalists on the ground covering the events leading up to Jan.

Last week, Nick Quested went to Washington and pulled off a rarity for filmmakers these days: He captured the public imagination without the benefit of Spider-Man or Tom Cruise.

Quested, as some of the 20 million people who tuned into the primetime hearings may recall, testified before Congress about the actions of the Proud Boys during the January 6 insurrection. A veteran documentarian who produced the Oscar-nominated “Restrepo,” Quested was on the ground at the Capitol trailing the extremist group when hundreds of them amassed in Washington. By then, he had been tracking the Proud Boys for months. The night before the riots, he even trailed Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio as he was released from jail and held a clandestine parking-lot meeting with the head of another extremist group, the Oath Keepers’ Stewart Rhodes.

The committee showed this footage and more in a roughly 10-minute assemblage during the first January 6 hearing this month,...

Hundreds of Proud Boys assembled near the Capitol on the mid-morning of Jan. 6 — well before Donald Trump’s speech at the ellipse — and appeared to perform reconnaissance for the attack on the Capitol that they would spearhead later that afternoon.

That was the testimony of British documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, live before the Jan. 6 Committee on Thursday night. Quested was embedded with Proud Boys on that day, and his raw footage of violence during the insurrection was featured at length by the committee.

In his testimony, Quested recalled how hundreds...

Jim Watkins, the 8chan/8kun operator and an influential figure among adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, met with the Jan. 6 committee on Monday.

Watkins posted about the meeting on his Telegram account. “The committee decided to do it by zoom. So I didn’t go to DC,” he wrote in response to followers questioning why he posted a picture of himself in Chicago rather than Washington, D.C. Watkins posted on Friday that he was scheduled to have “an appointment with Congress on Monday.”

A spokesperson for the Jan.

Enrique Tarrio, the national chairman of the Proud Boys during the events of Jan. 6, 2021, has been charged with seditious conspiracy, in a new, superseding indictment filed Monday. Tarrio is already in custody, with a federal judge ruling recently that he should remain locked up until trial.

The new indictment (embedded below) brings Tarrio and four other Proud Boys into dubious company, joining Stewart Rhodes and a slew of militia members from the Oath Keepers, who also face sedition charges in relation to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The...

Enrique Tarrio — the national chairman of the Proud Boys during the events of Jan. 6, 2021 — will stay in jail pending his trial on charges that he led a conspiracy to obstruct the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College.

Federal District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled on May 27, that “the evidence against Tarrio [is] very strong,” including that Tarrio “approved of and took credit for the events of the day.”

Weighing whether to grant Tarrio bail, the judge pointed to the fact that he has “seven adult arrests that have resulted in three convictions,...

GiveSendGo, the Christian right’s version of GoFundMe, is a top platform for Jan. 6 defendants seeking help with legal bills related to the insurrection at the Capitol. “QAnon Shaman” Jake Chansley raised 13,000; Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes has collected (a surprisingly modest) 12,000; Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio has raked in 113,000.

But one of the most successful Jan. 6 crowdfunding efforts is providing a legal war chest for a man who is not a defendant at all. At least not yet.

John Eastman is the far-right attorney who juiced Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to subvert 2020 election,...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building has been examining the role far-right militant groups played in efforts to overturn President Trump’s election loss and the violence that erupted that day. As part of the investigation, the committee has obtained footage of Proud Boys leaders — including four minutes that may contain audio of a key meeting — and testimony linking the right-wing group First Amendment Praetorian to the organizers of the Jan. 6, 2021, rally on the White House Ellipse, where Trump urged the crowd...

Proud Boy brawler Tusitala “Tiny” Toese has been extradited to Oregon to face 11 charges stemming from a street battle with Antifa counterprotesters in Portland last August.

Toese was arrested — and had been jailed in Washington state since January — on charges of unlawfully breaching the grounds of the Washington governor’s mansion and assaulting an officer on Jan. 6 2021, in an echo of the violence at the U.S. Capitol. While those charges are still pending, Toese was moved to Oregon Tuesday and arraigned Wednesday on multiple counts of assault, riot, unlawful use of a weapon,...

A documentary film crew attended an illicit, parking-garage meetup between the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers in downtown Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, according to a memo filed by prosecutors seeking to keep Enrique Tarrio locked up pending trial.

Tarrio was the National Chairman of the Proud Boys during the events of Jan. 6, 2021. The Proud Boys are a violent “Western chauvinist” organization designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. Tarrio faces federal conspiracy charges for attempting to obstruct Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over Donald Trump.

Enrique Tarrio, who served as National Chairman of the Proud Boys on Jan. 6, has been hit with federal conspiracy charges for working to obstruct Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over Donald Trump.

The indictment, embedded below, brings charges against Tarrio and five other members of the Proud Boys, a “Western Chauvinist” street brawling organization designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “hate group,” and which Trump infamously told in a 2020 presidential debate to “Stand Back and Stand By.”

The Justice Department alleges that Tarrio,...

The FBI is investigating a clandestine meeting between Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in a downtown Washington, D.C., parking garage the day before the Capitol Riot.

Reuters reported on Tuesday that the FBI is looking into a meeting between about half a dozen far-right leaders, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio, and several other extremists, including a lawyer who worked for both the Oath Keepers and the Latinos for Trump coalition.

The FBI has been looking for evidence that leaders of the most violent militia movements present at Jan.

Just a day after the House committee investigating Jan. 6 subpoenaed Trump ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the committee has subpoenaed the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, both right-wing extremist groups with members who were present during the insurrection.

The panel issued four new subpoenas going to the groups, as well as their leaders, Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys, which is designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Stewart Rhodes of the paramilitary organization Oath Keepers. According to U.S. prosecutors, Rhodes was...

Enrique Tarrio, leader of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys and a known federal informant, was sentenced to over five months in jail after pleading guilty to burning a Black Lives Matter banner in Washington, D.C., The Associated Press reports.

Tarrio pleaded guilty to the destruction of property charge last month; he also pleaded guilty to possession of a large-capacity ammunition feeding device. Tarrio told the court via videoconference he was “profusely” sorry for his actions, and said he made a “grave mistake.”

During the sentencing hearing, Judge Harold L.

“Let’s take the fucking Capitol.”

A burly, bearded man in a ballistic vest and a baseball cap that says “God, Guns, and Trump” is trying to rally members of the crowd. The man’s name is Daniel Lyons Scott, but he goes by Milkshake. It’s around noon on January 6th, a frigid day in Washington, D.C., and even though most of the men there are wearing orange ski hats and winter jackets, they’re still shifting from one foot to another to keep warm. “Let’s not fucking yell that,...

As the days go on, we learn more and more disturbing details about the day the Capitol was attacked. Over the weekend, the Associated Press revealed that Trump campaign aides and independent contractors were listed on the permit for the “Save America Rally” that turned into a deadly riot. And the Wall Street Journal reported that members of the hate group the Proud Boys, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as “anti-Muslim and misogynistic,” were among those who helped lead the insurrection at the Capitol.

The AP’s Richard Lardner and Michelle R.

In light of mass deplatforming on big tech social platforms like Twitter, as well as the right-wing social network Parler doing dark on Sunday night, everyone from casual Trump supporters to far-right militants are flocking to alternative social networks such as the encrypted messaging apps Telegram and Signal. On Tuesday, Telegram announced that it had increased by 25 million users over the past few days, bringing its total user base to 500 million people.

Many of these new users have flocked to far-right extremist channels (essentially, group chats), where they are being subject to increasingly heated rhetoric,...

On Monday night, Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys, was arrested in Washington, D.C. for allegedly burning a Black Lives Matter banner at a historically black church. He faces misdemeanor destruction of property charges for the alleged offense, which took place at a pro-Trump rally last month.

Since the arrest, aided by social media platforms like Parler, Tarrio has raised more than $90,000 for his legal defense on the so-called Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, more than 90 percent of his crowdfunding goal of $100,000. The campaign...

Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was arrested Monday, weeks after allegedly burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a Washington D.C. protest.

The city’s Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that Tarrio, 36, had been charged with destruction of property in connection with the December 12th incident, which occurred during a rally protesting President Trump’s November election defeat. According to USA Today, Tarrio was arrested while in possession of two high-capacity firearm magazines and was also charged with “Possession of High Capacity Feeding Device.”

The Asbury United Methodist Church,...

Protesters, mostly maskless, gathered in D.C. from across the country this weekend to show their support for President Trump and express their refusal to accept the 2020 presidential election results. At one point, the crowd chanted “Destroy the GOP!” to express their anger with the party for failing to keep Trump in the White House. The rally was held just one day after the Supreme Court delivered a likely fatal blow to Trump’s hopes of remaining in power.

Nick Fuentes speaks to a crowd of Trump supporters and gets them chanting “destroy the GOP!