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A chronological record of major political events in modern American history.

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/who-are-the-key-players-in-the-jan-6-committee-hearings-so-far

2020

2020-01-01 Leaders of the “Stop the Steal” movement promoted false claims of fraud in the 2020 elections and organized protests leading up to the J6 insurrection.

https://www.komu.com/news/nationworld/stop-the-steal-leader-cooperating-with-dojs-investigation-of-capitol-riot/article_13dc0083-bb0f-52bd-9695-619d5e969f4d.html

https://abc7.com/post/stop-the-steal-leader-ali-alexander-trump-jan-6-committee/11358316/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/10/ali-alexander-twitter-reinstated-january-6

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/stop-the-steal-ali-alexander-testifies-january-6-grand-jury

https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2020/user-clip-stop-the-steal-ali-alexander/4941257#:~:text=Ali%20Alexander%20identifies%20himself%20as%20the%20national,he%20considers%20himself%20more%20of%20an%20organizer.

https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/democratic-leaders-introduce-stop-the-steal-bill-to-block-elon-musks-unlawful-doge-actions/5152339#:~:text=Democratic%20Leaders%20Introduce%20%22Stop%20the%20Steal%22%20Bill,meddling%20in%20the%20Treasury%20Department’s%20payment%20systems.%E2%80%9D

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/18/stop-the-steal-founder-jan-6-committee-gop-lawmakers-525345

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/06/trump-linked-figures-boosted-stopthesteal-movement-434733

https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/democratic-leaders-introduce-stop-the-steal-bill-to-block-elon-musks-unlawful-doge-actions/5152339

2021

2021-01-01 Unfounded claims were made that Charlie Kirk and Ginni Thomas funded transportation and encouraged attendance to the insurrection.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/18/donald-trump-election-interference-case-new-evidence/75714784007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/technology/no-there-is-not-evidence-that-ginni-thomas-paid-for-buses-to-bring-people-to-the-capitol-siege.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/man-charged-capitol-riot-went-dc-bus-turning-point-usa-2021-3

2022

2022-01-01 Julie Kelly published “January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right”.

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20220121/114349/HHRG-117-JU08-Bio-KellyJ-20220121.pdf

2022-10-22 Oath Keepers members testified about a cache of weapons stashed at a hotel for potential Jan 6 violence.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy-stewart-rhodes-witness-testifies-weapons-cache-today-2022-10-12/

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/12/oath-keeper-weapons-firearms-jan-6-hotel-00061449

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/oath-keeper-testifies-massive-gun-pile-stashed-hotel-eve-jan-6-rcna51749

https://www.wabe.org/oath-keepers-jury-hears-about-massive-weapon-cache-on-jan-6/

2023

2023-05-11 Trump called the J6 Insurrection a “beautiful day”.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Bg5-7e00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Bg5-7e00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJuNHI2KP5w

2023-12-06 During a campaign rally in Texas, Trump referred to the J6 prisoners as “hostages”.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kash-patel-tells-members-media-government-after-trumps/story?id=105432592

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-raises-new-alarms-dictator-except-day/story?id=105416124

2024

2024-10-17 During a campaign event in Miami Florida, Trump called January 6th a “day of love”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgnxej1dn0o

2024-10-31 During a TPUSA rally in North Carolina JD Vance claimed J6 was not a constitutional crisis, but rather the opposite and that Trump was trying to challenge an election through constitutional means.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jd-vance-once-compared-trump-hitler-now-they-are-running-mates-2024-07-15/

https://www.democracyinaction.us/2024/candidates/vancecal1024.html

2025

2025-04-21 Stephen Miller wrote on X, “If you were an American falsely accused of wrongdoing on January 6th it wasn’t merely difficult to get “due process,”, it was impossible. The entire system was rigged against you. All of it. Those persecuted Americans could only dream of the “due process” afforded illegal aliens”.

https://x.com/StephenM/status/1914347254942494849?lang=en

2025-07-23 Former J6er and “Q-Anon Shaman” Jacob Chansley turned on Trump and called him a fraud.

https://people.com/qanon-shaman-slams-donald-trump-as-fraud-11779154