I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

Five years ago today, Donald Trump ignited a violent mob to attack the Capitol and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Last year, Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 of those insurrectionists. It's an assault on American democracy.

We will never forget what happened on January 6: Insurrectionists attacked our Capitol with the goal of overturning a free and fair election. Thanks to our heroic Capitol Police, democracy prevailed. We must keep fighting for our democracy — as we have for nearly 250 years.

X is an orgy of J6 whitewashing and denialism today. My goodness no other event in U.S. history has been so thoroughly twisted by those who by now should be ashamed of their participation.

Sorry Elmer, all your members work for ICE now www.rawstory.com/stewart-rhod...

JACK SMITH: “The attack that happened at the Capitol does not happen without Trump. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”

Former special counsel Jack Smith also described President Trump as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a transcript of Smith's closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee. n.pr/49cmd6E

When Dems take it over and after Trump dies, they must pass a law to erase Trump from everything like he never existed and never happened.

In just over one week, the five year statute of limitations expires for federal charges to be brought for crimes committed at the Capitol on January 6th 2021

To nobody's surprise, violent felon J6er Landon Copeland is back in trouble following his presidential pardon www.kait8.com/2025/10/02/a...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Donald:"Why can't we get people from Norway?" Heckler:"Because they're happy there!" LEGEND. Poconos Rally 12/9/25. Approx 2 hours in.

Donald is not sharing the stage with the local Republican congressmen at his slurry provigil-powered rally in NE PA. He knows they will lose.

Just The News is the most hilarious name. Should be called A Little Bit of News Behind Lots Of Pop Up Ads And Between Rows And Rows of Grocery Circular Ads. justthenews.com

Trump’s FBI is building a list of individuals and groups who oppose and protest Trump, support immigrants and LGBTQ+ people, and criticize capitalism —in order to label and investigate them as domestic terrorists. This is the fascism we were warning about www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...

Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life — We will always refute it & combat it" Unless you’re J6 insurrectionist who attacks the capitol — then you receive a pardon & get called a patriot…

Trump opened his cabinet meeting, BLASTING reporters for questioning his stamina. Then he fell asleep.😢

Kristi Fulnecky, mother of the sub-literate anti-trans student reactionary, also represented this J6er who “repeatedly attacked officers” www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

Happy Thanksgiving! www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump is incredibly corrupt.

Zoomers... Texas men plotted coup to kill men, enslave women and children, prosecutors say www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Same energy

Someone needs to make a Norman Rockwell style painting commemorating this absolute triumph of press freedom

"“Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don’t like what your political opponents say, execute them,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that’s not what we do in America.” www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...

Mary Bruce on the right. Who is the person at the left and why isn't she a meme already?

🚨Swallwell running for CA Governor

Kimmel is on fire tonight. Talking directly to Donald through the camera.

Just another normal day of the press secretary telling us the president doesn't REALLY want his opponents executed

I added a whistle to my keychain weeks ago. Kristi Noem hates whistles.

Troubling

Jim Jordan: "We're all for protecting innocent victims, we're all for exposing the bad guys who did bad things, but— " Real rich coming from Jordan who knew about, & failed to report, the sexual abuse of athletes by OSU team doctor Richard Strauss when he was an assistant wrestling coach

Everyone, buy more whistles! Kristi Noem hates whistles! Buy more whistles! Whistles are working! Blow whistles when you see ICE!

"Piggy" should ask Donald if he would like to have her killed and dismembered.

Some notable J6 related quotes from today's NYT article outlining the brazen politicization of the DOJ under Donald archive.is/4puuG

Ban Sports Betting. It's a disaster waiting to happen and a scourge on our communities.

The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously cleared the way for a criminal case against six supporters of President Donald Trump’s attempt to undermine the 2020 election by falsely claiming to be presidential electors to continue. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Carl Nichols (one of the Trumpiest DC judges) getting impatient for DOJ's explanation of why they memory-holed Trump's role in radicalizing Obama stalker Taylor Taranto.

Make America Late Again

In March, a security guard at Club Dwntown sucker punched Rafeal Montoya and killed him. Police officers watched it happen and did nothing and the security has never been charged. Now he’s missing. Turns out the security guard was Charles "Brandon" Recor, a Proud Boy with a history of violence.

I know this feels like copium but the more I read the more it makes sense

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Awkward moment between Trump and the Syrian President in the Oval Office. Trump sprayed his branded cologne on the neck of his guest and then proceeded with asking him how many wives he had. FYI: The Syrian President was on the FBI wanted list for his allegiance to the terrorist group Al-Qaeda.

"Never has the dark side of the phrase “history is the propaganda of the victors” been so starkly apparent."

We need to end sports betting. This kind of thing is happening all the time and we're just not hearing about it. Yet. apnews.com/article/mlb-...