NEWS: Judge Amit Mehta rules Trump is NOT immune for key Jan. 6 conduct—including his Ellipse rally speech, outreach to officials, and related actions—finding they can be treated as campaign activity, not presidential duties.
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Trump nominating a woman who tweets about voter fraud conspiracy theories and openly sympathizes with January 6 rioters makes me think that we are, at most, six months away from him making a judge out of someone who was personally at the Capitol on January 6
SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
I read this criminal complaint and get something different about it:
1) It was written almost exactly a month before statutes of limitation expire--literally last minute.
2) It doesn't REMOTELY meet the standard of proof of the other Jan6 arrest affidavits; even location data spoken of differently.
For reference: Trump's lowest approval rating in his first term was right after January 6th, at 34/62. He is as or nearly as unpopular now as he was when January 6th was fresh in people's minds.
We were likewise relying on the @seditionhunters.bsky.social list, which we also recognize has not been updated for quite some time. Sorry we don't have any updates. Here is a gift link article with some more context (but no list):
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u... [GIFT LINK]
In case you missed it: My sit-down with the former chief of DOJ’s Capitol Siege Section about the largest investigation in FBI history:
youtu.be/q86mdq0kLZI?...
The RECAP archive gets even better with the implementation of keyword alerts. Check it out!
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2016-2024 Voter Turnout by January 6 Participation, Arrest, Prison Status in Nov. 2024 in 23 States with Available Data (Rugh and Felin-Chavez 2025)
Jan. 6 Voter Turnout, 2016-2024
Notes: Data exclude 19 deceased voters.
Arrested/Not in Prison includes defendants never in prison and those who completed prison term prior to Nov. 2024.
Imprisoned voters either were released early or voted early, or are from DC, ME, VT (no felony restrictions).
An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.
By now it should be clear that the Trump administration intends to use the power of the state to crush every institution that stands in its way.
There is no refuge in compliance. There will only be more demands, threats, and targets.
We can sit and watch it happen. Or we can unite against it.
2016-2024 Voter Turnout by January 6 Participation, Arrest, Prison Status in Nov. 2024 in 23 States with Available Data (Rugh and Felin-Chavez 2025)
2016-2024 trend is key: Compared to the baseline of 2016, Trump's most devoted, arrested J6 supporters willing to commit crimes and convicted of committing serious felonies:
+6 pts HIGHER turnout 2024 vs. 2016 vs. J6ers not arrested
+13 pts HIGHER turnout 2024 vs. 2016 vs. US eligible voters
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NEW: Ed Martin is OUT as Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for DC.
“We have somebody else that we’ll be announcing over the next two days who’s gonna be great.”
2016-2024 Voter Turnout by January 6 Participation, Arrest, Prison Status in Nov. 2024 in 23 States with Available Data (Rugh and Felin-Chavez 2025)
582 arrested J6 defendants eligible to vote in 2024 turned out at higher rate than US voters: 69% v. 64% = +5
These 582 arrested J6 eligible voters were no less likely to vote than 446 rioters never arrested: diff = -0.1, or arrest effect = 0
Turnout diff. for 203 J6ers in prison: -58 pts
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VICTORY! for democracy & for us @democracydefendersaction.org
The election deniers have just conceded that they lost the NC SCOTUS race after 7 months of attempted sabotage
We were proud to support this outcome with multiple bipartisan briefs in state & fed court as part of a huge coalition
2016-2024 Voter Turnout by January 6 Participation, Arrest, Prison Status in Nov. 2024 in 23 States with Available Data (Rugh and Felin-Chavez 2025)
Jan. 6 Voter Turnout, 2016-2024
Notes: Data exclude 19 deceased voters.
Arrested/Not in Prison includes defendants never in prison and those who completed prison term prior to Nov. 2024.
Imprisoned voters either were released early or voted early, or are from DC, ME, VT (no felony restrictions).
2016-2024 Voter Turnout by January 6 Participation, Arrest, Prison Status in Nov. 2024 in 23 States with Available Data (Rugh and Felin-Chavez 2025)
Sources: @jan6thdata.bsky.social (Rugh & Felin-Chavez 2025 using FBI data, official state voter files), UF Election Lab ( @electproject.bsky.social McDonald 2025).
2016-2024 panel of voter history states: AK, AZ, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, KS, LA, MA, MD, ME, NC, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TX, VT, WA, WV.
2016-2024 Voter Turnout by January 6 Participation, Arrest, Prison Status in Nov. 2024 in 23 States with Available Data (Rugh and Felin-Chavez 2025)
2016-2024 trend is key: Compared to the baseline of 2016, Trump's most devoted, arrested J6 supporters willing to commit crimes and convicted of committing serious felonies:
+6 pts HIGHER turnout 2024 vs. 2016 vs. J6ers not arrested
+13 pts HIGHER turnout 2024 vs. 2016 vs. US eligible voters
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2016-2024 Voter Turnout by January 6 Participation, Arrest, Prison Status in Nov. 2024 in 23 States with Available Data (Rugh and Felin-Chavez 2025)
Using a difference-in-difference approach, comparing 2024 turnout with differences in 2020, we find that the net effect of J6 arrest was modest, -2.5 pts for 2020-2024 vs. J6ers not arrested.
For 2016-2024, J6er arrest turnout up +17 vs. +11 for J6er not arrested, net diff-in-diff = UP +6 pts
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2016-2024 Voter Turnout by January 6 Participation, Arrest, Prison Status in Nov. 2024 in 23 States with Available Data (Rugh and Felin-Chavez 2025)
582 arrested J6 defendants eligible to vote in 2024 turned out at higher rate than US voters: 69% v. 64% = +5
These 582 arrested J6 eligible voters were no less likely to vote than 446 rioters never arrested: diff = -0.1, or arrest effect = 0
Turnout diff. for 203 J6ers in prison: -58 pts
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"Tillis said Tuesday his reason for opposing Martin was ultimately because he was nominated to be the U.S. attorney in the district where the Jan. 6 insurrection happened ― and where Martin dropped cases against people who participated in it." @brandibuchman.bsky.social #January6th
Sociology Professor Stacy Torres writes about how Chile’s failed coup in June 1973 "eerily resembles" the January 6 assault on the US Capitol.
The parallels between Pinochet's brutal dictatorship and today's Trump regime are compelling and worth understanding.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
But not ALL Jan. 6 defendants are entitled to it, DOJ says. Only those who were actively appealing their convictions at the time Trump issued his pardon, they say.
Those who were pardoned but had no active appeals are out of luck.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
They are doing reparations for insurrectionists.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's Constitutional Court has removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office.
