January 6
Meet the ‘American Frontline Nurses’ Telling Parents to Give Kids Ivermectin
Nicole Sirotek has been using social media to spread disinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines—and going after fellow nurses who try to push back.
The GOP Power Grab That Could Gut What’s Left of Voting Rights in North Carolina
This week the state’s new GOP-dominated court made the very unusual decision to rehear recently-decided cases on controversial voting restrictions.
What Makes a Person Storm the Capitol?
An investigator on the January 6 committee on how Trump supporters became “foot soldiers.”
What Bolsonaro’s Thugs Learned From Jan. 6
“There is a wide constellation of far-right influencers from the United States... that are disseminated in the digital ecosystems of the Brazilian far-right.”
The Val Kilmer Lookalike Who Stormed the Capitol Has Finally Been Identified
Two years after the insurrection, a nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks extremists has identified a rioter that online sleuths nicknamed #WannaBeKilmer.
Brazil’s ‘Trump of the Tropics’ Stoked Riots—Then He Fled to Florida
Former president Jair Bolsonaro was in Orlando when Brazil's National Congress and Supreme Court were stormed by protestors in an incident broadly compared to the Jan.6 2021 Capitol riots in the US.
Prominent Trump Supporters Are Cheering on Brazil’s Congress Attacks
"Brazilian Freedom Fighters,” Steve Bannon posted on Gettr. “Lula stole the Election, Brazilians know that …Release the Machines.”
A Jan. 6 Comic Book Asks the Terrifying Question: What if the Coup Had Worked?
“1/6” imagines the dystopian MAGA future that almost was.
Jan. 6 ‘Poster Boy’ Sentenced to 5 Years for Role in Riot
Doug Jensen, one of the first people to breach the Capitol building, was known as the rioter who chased a police officer.
Inside the Supreme Court Case That Could Break American Democracy
The case, which centers on the fringe “independent state legislature” theory, could weaken the power of voters’ ballots more than gerrymandering ever could.
How the Oath Keepers Seditious Conspiracy Verdict Could Lead to Trump
“Everyone’s going to see serious time... seditious conspiracy is a big-ticket item that can lead to others who are connected to the marauders on Jan. 6.”
QAnon Is Back on Twitter—and It’s About to Get Much Worse
Elon Musk is expected to reinstate the tens of thousands of QAnon accounts that were banned after the Capitol Riot.