One year ago, many prominent Republicans predicted Donald Trump’s behavior on and ahead of Jan. 6 would relegate him to the fringes of the right, shaming the GOP back into the mainstream. Instead, the opposite has happened https://t.co/MgXGZ971vo

— POLITICO (@politico) January 2, 2022

A few hundred demonstrators were met by a heavy law enforcement presence today at the "Justice for J6" rally outside the fenced-off U.S. Capitol.

Media and police officers vastly outnumbered the demonstrators in attendance.https://t.co/y2vhldshsx

— Axios (@axios) September 18, 2021

ALERT – newly released court exhibit from US Justice Dept show the brutality and injuries on the frontlines on Jan 6 pic.twitter.com/mzl2FzNs4g

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 20, 2021

"It took 44 Presidents of all political stripes and temperaments, good ones and bad, until this President [Trump] today became the first former President ever to deny… planning to launch a coup," says @andersoncooper #KeepingThemHonest pic.twitter.com/L6dlFG5chc

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) July 16, 2021

12 lies on a single topic in a single Fox interview.

We break them all down. h/t @MarshallCohen pic.twitter.com/D49kdCaNP8

— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) July 12, 2021

If you only watch 1 thing tonight, please watch this rather chilling video that my producer, the great & powerful Ivy Green made, putting Trump's lying pro-terror words on Fox over images of the actual violence from January 6th.#mustwatch @MehdiHasanShow pic.twitter.com/JGkI6K1Ox8

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 13, 2021

Speaking on “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” on the Fox News Channel, Trump also said the rally participants were patriots and that some of them were unjustly arrested and jailed. https://t.co/1pe3zMjeXM

— POLITICO (@politico) July 11, 2021

TRUMP LIED repeatedly today about the January 6 insurrection. Here's my quick tally from his interview with @MariaBartiromo, who enabled these lies. He lied about his comments at the rally, the violence of the crowd, and Babbitt's death, and more. Just absolutely shameless. pic.twitter.com/StAd2Aw8bd

— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) July 11, 2021

“Donald Trump’s description of Jan 6…is a lie. That was not what I experienced. What I experienced was incredibly brutal hand-to-hand combat,” Officer Michael Fanone said, pushing back on the fmr. president's characterization of the riot as a ‘love fest’ https://t.co/l3YiMp9F2L

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 13, 2021

Kevin McCarthy really does not seem to want us to get answers about the insurrection. Wonder why…. https://t.co/S8tsa838bd

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 16, 2021

NOW #Oathkeepers leader Elmer Steward Rhodes is strolling the halls of CPAC…with an official event pass.

He didn't enjoy being spotted, and apparently got in reporter @ZTPetrizzo's face…yelling obscenities.

Story: https://t.co/PGBoyg7gRi pic.twitter.com/SKeX65nWBy

— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) July 10, 2021

On CPAC — an event headlined by a former president — attracting far right anti-government extremists, @TimPawlenty⁩ said “if I went to a number of leftist gatherings I could find goofballs as well,” so I asked him for an example. He didn’t have one. https://t.co/ycGTw7kypq

— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) July 12, 2021

.@SpeakerPelosi announces members of Select Committee on January 6th: @BennieGThompson (Chair)@RepZoeLofgren @RepAdamSchiff@RepPeteAguilar @RepLizCheney @RepStephMurphy @RepRaskin
@RepElaineLuria

Full video here: https://t.co/QMldDIizSs pic.twitter.com/wUIPyVGib0

— CSPAN (@cspan) July 1, 2021

House to probe Capitol riot — over Republican opposition

https://t.co/ryhv8YzhwT

— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) July 1, 2021

JUST IN: House votes to establish a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack at the US Capitol, the only step needed to formalize the panel's creation.

Rep. Kinzinger and Rep. Cheney were the only Republicans to vote in favor of the committee.https://t.co/kZAFbALYIh

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 30, 2021

When it comes to the January 6th Select Committee, all Democrats have to do is show the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Republicans know that, and they’re terrified of it. It’s time to find out why. 

I write for @usatodayopinion.https://t.co/zw5vq2EBuU

— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) June 28, 2021

I truly can’t stop thinking about the NYT’s recreation video of 1/6. It’s just masterful as an act of journalism and makes the contortions some elected Republicans have taken to downplay the day seem even more painful than they already seemed. https://t.co/YiTgLySFaG

— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 30, 2021

Rep. Kevin McCarthy says he wants to ‘get to the bottom’ of the Jan 6 Capitol riot… after voting against a commission to do just that pic.twitter.com/bJLrjKuJ42

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) June 25, 2021

What did the White House know and when did they know it? A masterful examination of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, with tons of new detail. @propublica https://t.co/38FvWiSpxr

— T. Christian Miller (@txtianmiller) June 25, 2021

Court orders General Counsel of US House of Representatives to respond by July 27 to request by Rep Mo Brooks (R-AL) to certify he was acting in the "scope of his employment" on Jan 6

Brooks is being sued by Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA) for role in inciting Insurrection pic.twitter.com/46POWKM7Ay

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 7, 2021

In historic move, Oregon lawmakers expel legislator over state Capitol breach. https://t.co/gcbMDePgmb

— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) June 11, 2021

Yesterday I sat down w a remarkable a Capitol Police officer who was in some of the most intense combat zones in the US Capitol on Jan 6.

He trusted us @NewsHour w his story, thoughts on where we are.

Here’s the full interview. https://t.co/CC0aluy4yP

And here’s a thread.

— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) June 10, 2021

I think the dynamic is pretty simple. When Republicans originally supported a 1/6 panel, they thought they'd be moving past Trump. When they realized they wouldn't, they lost their will to investigate him. https://t.co/87O3AMWWiX

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) May 28, 2021

“We did hear a very good question that he was asked. Which is, ‘Are you going to be looking at those people in and around the former president,” @FrankFigliuzzi1 says regarding FBI Director Wray’s testimony on the Capitol riot. https://t.co/wW5V0hmdIH

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 10, 2021

These fake cowboys like Mo Brooks love to talk tough when they’re on Fox News or Twitter or at a friendly right-wing rally, but then they run and hide when it’s time to be held accountable for their tough talk.

Why is Mo Brooks so afraid of Eric Swalwell? https://t.co/iB227gLMSz

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 7, 2021

I wish @JillDLawrence was wrong. But she's not.

We have serious trouble ahead with the filibuster and imbalance of power it creates.

Her new column is right on point … unfortunately:https://t.co/hbGpKHXu25

— Michael J. Stern (@MichaelJStern1) May 29, 2021

.@JohnAvlon explores what Democrats can do as Republicans plan to filibuster over a Jan. 6 commission.

“A failure to reason together across partisan lines after an attack on our Capitol will only embolden future insurrection attempts. And that’s unacceptable.” #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/SBP2oiRmEC

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) May 26, 2021

Thank you Brian Williams for sharing our ad that Fox “News” doesn’t want their viewers to see pic.twitter.com/VIgDC0rdod

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) June 8, 2021

Opinion | @NoahCRothman: Everyone benefits from the death of a Jan. 6 commission. Everyone, that is, except us. – @MSNBCDaily https://t.co/iKP3VX5lKj

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 2, 2021

.@chuckschumer: “Out of fear of fealty to Donald Trump the Republican minority just prevented the American people from getting the full truth about January 6th.” https://t.co/HVHYfnvOh3 pic.twitter.com/Yr8buYGdWV

— The Hill (@thehill) May 28, 2021

Senate Republicans used their first Biden-era filibuster to block a proposed Jan. 6 commission, handing liberals a new argument for nuking the 60-vote threshold https://t.co/uWF3Sf6hYt

— POLITICO (@politico) May 28, 2021

BREAKING: Senate Republicans have blocked the creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The Senate fell sort of the 60 votes needed to consider a House-passed bill that would have formed a 10-member commission. https://t.co/YtpnjyysBz

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 28, 2021

“If they had a child that was killed on a day like that, they would think very differently. Or if they were hurt … but apparently they just think ‘well, we’re safe because of the men in blue.’”

— Gladys Sicknick on Republicans blocking January 6th commission. pic.twitter.com/4a1LWouYF7

— The Recount (@therecount) May 28, 2021

CNN Exclusive: Capitol Police officers speak out for the first time on the mental and physical toll of the January 6 rampage on the U.S. Capitol @WhitneyWReports reports https://t.co/9uZYeRQOwq

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 3, 2021

"I went overseas to protect our homeland from foreign threats, but yet here I am battling them in our own Capitol."

A Capitol Police officer who served in Iraq gave his firsthand account of the Capitol riot to @CNN and revealed he was called a "traitor." https://t.co/1Efg1NP1qb

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 4, 2021

"I'm 39 years old, never before called a N_____ to my face, & was called 'traitor,' various epithets…as bad as it looks on film, believe me it was worse, much worse in person than anything you see on film." Capitol Police Officer James Blassingame on Jan 6 @LisaDNews @NewsHour

— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) June 9, 2021

Republicans stand with the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol. #GOPBetrayedAmerica pic.twitter.com/4tckWJ8m3M

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 28, 2021

GOP senators are lining up in opposition to the bipartisan #January6thCommission.

Here’s why👇 pic.twitter.com/dpTGjeacZ0

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 27, 2021

"Republicans have embraced an official policy of knowing nothing,” @JohnAvlon says as GOP opposition to Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe grows.

If "ignoring facts and resisting majority rule is a path to power, then we need to take steps … before it's too late." #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/9hnHR0i2T2

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) May 21, 2021

JUST NOW: "That is simply not true."

GOP @RepJohnKatko — who wrote the bill- dismantles Republican arguments against the 1/6 commission.pic.twitter.com/EAPoms6awH

— John Berman (@JohnBerman) May 20, 2021

"In opposing a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection on Jan. 6, Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is once again choosing Trump over the truth, while carving out his own profile in cowardice," @JohnAvlon says in today's #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/Pg2Lg3vDmz

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) May 19, 2021

Mother of fallen US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick is meeting with Republican Senators ahead of their likely filibuster of independent January 6 commission pic.twitter.com/ctbBFFeIPI

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 27, 2021

American Democracy Isn’t Dead Yet, But It’s Getting There

My new Letter from Washington is up ⁦@NewYorker⁩: https://t.co/hj2lm4e9eR

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) May 27, 2021

We are witnessing absolute banana republic crap in the United States Capitol right now. @realdonaldtrump, you need to call this off. pic.twitter.com/0QGx2PlXFY

— Rep. Gallagher Press Office (@RepGallagher) January 6, 2021

More than 20,000 Americans exercised 1st Amendment rights to march peacefully Jan. 6. USCP says 800 entered the Capitol illegally. I condemned the violence. @SenSchumer won’t admit it, but that’s not an armed insurrection and it was, by-and-large, peaceful. https://t.co/fTNdPMM081

— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) May 20, 2021

Ron Johnson claims it wasn’t an insurrection and goes on to say by and large it was a peaceful protest pic.twitter.com/E9TVzhNPTS

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 20, 2021

An accused Jan 6 rioter recorded video and boasted that "my footage is worth millions of dollars."

He “sold that footage to several news outlets for a total of $90,000.

“The news outlets were redacted from the warrant.” https://t.co/BzxBQscQx1

— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) May 22, 2021

Hey kids, you might have heard some crazy things about January 6th. But what really happened? pic.twitter.com/p1jo0oU8FE

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 19, 2021

“It was a call and response,” says @andersoncooper of President Trump whipping the Republican vote in Congress through a statement against legislation that would form a commission to probe the Jan 6 attack. #KeepingThemHonest https://t.co/xl1Cnqzxt6 pic.twitter.com/OpHjZHPCy3

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) May 20, 2021

Report from Architect of US Capitol details more physical damage than we knew

Jan 6 mob destroyed and *stole* Capitol photography equipment, tore part of Inaugural platform, and tracked blue paint onto priceless stone balustrades.

"Decorative cleaners" were needed to restore pic.twitter.com/ue5mJnWwMc

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 20, 2021

Republicans who voted agains a bill that would create a Jan. 6 commission “have decided it’s not worth their political career to be on the wrong side of Donald Trump,” says Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice.

"They literally stand for nothing but their own political futures." pic.twitter.com/yjRdURTNsV

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) May 20, 2021

Republicans need to bury the truth about Jan 6. But they also need to obscure *why* they want to bury that truth.

It's because a real accounting would expose *their own* culpability in numerous ways. Here's how:https://t.co/HiIy4KUVxM pic.twitter.com/g59JCRPfiy

— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) May 20, 2021

ALERT: Family of fallen US Capitol Police officer Howie Liebengood issues statement supporting *approval* of January 6 Commission pic.twitter.com/coC2cVs8d5

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 19, 2021

NEWS: MEMBERS of the U.S. Capitol Police have issued a statement to members of Congress expressing "profound disappointment" with McConnell and McCarthy's positions on the Jan. 6 commission, citing the "trauma" that officers endured that day. pic.twitter.com/CRweVhIAnD

— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) May 19, 2021

Republicans say the quiet part out loud: We’re against the commission because it could interfere with “our midterm message.” No one really denies a commission could help get at the truth about January 6th. But it could hurt politically. So no commission.
https://t.co/DPxdqOlaGH

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 19, 2021

Rep. Tim Ryan: “If we’re gonna take on China, if we’re gonna rebuild the country, if we’re gonna reverse climate change we need two political parties in this country that are both living in reality and you ain’t one of them.” https://t.co/J0IzNMiQdl pic.twitter.com/muB3Vj9Kab

— The Hill (@thehill) May 19, 2021

BREAKING: @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy says he does NOT support a 9/11-style commission on January 6th – as he faces questions about his own role before and after the insurrection. pic.twitter.com/4cSlwHW6AM

— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) May 18, 2021

"SO HOW MANY REPUBLICANS WILL VOTE FOR THIS BILL? Probably not many. .. Katko tried to make his case in a House GOP Conference this morning, but let’s be realistic here: Republicans — most of them — don’t want to talk about Jan. 6 anymore." – @politico https://t.co/7uIjy20Bvv

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) May 18, 2021

.@GOPLeader McCarthy officially comes out against the Jan. 6 commission bill, which was negotiated and signed off on by one of his members: pic.twitter.com/qzn89zPqlZ

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) May 18, 2021

GOP sources say Kevin McCarthy is scared he will be called as a witness to a January 6th commission.https://t.co/Z1qK0bkLEa

— Jamie Gangel (@jamiegangel) May 19, 2021

DC court has scheduled a May 27 hearing for Lonnie Coffman of Alabama, who's accused of carrying 11 MOLOTOV COCKTAILS and set of firearms in his red pickup truck near US Capitol on Jan 6.

Coffman has been seeking release from jail before trial pic.twitter.com/ycvnlqntxv

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 19, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene Attacks BLM, Defends Insurrectionists in Wild Floor Speech: 'The People Who Breached the Capitol' are 'Being Abused' https://t.co/sU3Ua70RRe

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 18, 2021

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks against bipartisan commission to study the January 6 Capitol insurrection:

“What about all the riots that happened during the summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd?” pic.twitter.com/fK7nyEgfMC

— The Recount (@therecount) May 18, 2021