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Tag Archives: Jan. 6

Stop the Steal: Projection, retaliation, and the theft of our republic

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There’s an old saying that when you point a finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you.

Posted byJohn WhiteheadJanuary 9, 2026Posted inPolitics, U.S. & WorldTags: Donald Trump, Jan. 6

Five years later, Donald Trump still trying to sell Jan. 6 as ‘peaceful’

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Today is the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. You remember Jan. 6, 2021, well: as the day Democrats tried to steal the 2020 presidential election.

Posted byChris GrahamJanuary 6, 2026Posted inPolitics, U.S. & WorldTags: Donald Trump, Jan. 6

Shocker: Jan. 5 pipe bomber believed 2020 presidential election was stolen

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Trump administration officials hyped the arrest of a Northern Virginia man in the Jan. 5, 2021, DC pipe bombs case on Thursday, while also shading Team Biden for supposedly sitting on the evidence that led to the breakthrough.

Posted byChris GrahamDecember 7, 2025December 7, 2025Posted inPolitics, U.S. & WorldTags: FBI, Jan. 6, Justice Department

Senate Republican blocks effort to repeal $500K windfall related to Jan. 6 investigation

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Lindsey Graham blocked an effort to repeal a provision allowing a group of MAGA lawmakers to sue U.S. taxpayers for $500,000 over searches of phone records.

Posted byChris GrahamNovember 21, 2025November 21, 2025Posted inPoliticsTags: Congress, Jan. 6, Tim Kaine

France, Brazil, Philippines show us how to handle criminal former presidents

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How you should treat a criminal president is what we saw in action this week in France, where a court found former French president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy.

Posted byChris GrahamSeptember 25, 2025Posted inPoliticsTags: Donald Trump, Jan. 6

Trumpers sack former acting FBI director who refused to name names

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Brian Driscoll, the former acting director of the FBI, has been terminated, for obvious reasons.

Posted byChris GrahamAugust 7, 2025December 7, 2025Posted inPolitics, U.S. & WorldTags: FBI, Jan. 6

MAGA Ben Cline fully on board with Trump/National Guard move in LA

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Ben Cline, you may remember, voted to decertify the 2020 election just hours after violent mobs overran the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, attacking police and threatening members of Congress and their staffs.

Posted byChris GrahamJune 10, 2025June 18, 2025Posted inLocal News, Politics, VirginiaTags: Ben Cline, Donald Trump, Jan. 6, Local Politics

Pardoned J6er shot, killed after resisting arrest during Indiana traffic stop

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We already saw one of the J6ers pardoned by Donald Trump put back in the pokey on a fresh set of federal gun charges. Now we have a guy in Indiana freed last week by Trump who was shot dead after resisting arrest during a traffic stop on Sunday.

Posted byChris GrahamJanuary 27, 2025May 29, 2025Posted inPoliticsTags: Donald Trump, Jan. 6

Locals among the 1,500 J6ers pardoned by Trump: ‘Hostages’ who were done a ‘grave injustice’

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Jay Matthew Kenyon, 47, of Harrisonburg, was sentenced earlier this month to 15 months in prison for brandishing a knife at police during the Jan. 6, 2021, putsch that Kenyon and thousands of fellow self-styled citizen-patriots led on behalf of Donald Trump.

Posted byChris GrahamJanuary 21, 2025May 29, 2025Posted inPoliticsTags: Donald Trump, Jan. 6

Day of love? Virginia man part of mob that caused significant injuries to officer on Jan. 6

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A Virginia man was sentenced to more than five years in prison and ordered to pay $98,000 in restitution for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021.

Posted byCrystal GrahamJanuary 18, 2025May 29, 2025Posted inPoliticsTags: Donald Trump, Jan. 6, Louisa County

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