• For historians contextualizing the Capitol insurrection, see Megan Kate Nelson’s collection of articles.
• See the Capitol Siege Tracker for prosecutions.  
• For connections between police, veterans, and Right-wing militias, see here.
• For general resources on right-wing extremism, see here.
• For Far-Right developments in 2022, see here.
• To follow experts on extremism, see this Twitter list.

January 6 Select Committee Hearings

Select January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection.

See this summary from the LA Times for each of the hearings.

Part 1: June 9

Part 2: June 13

Part 3: June 16

Part 4: June 21

Part 5: June 23

Part 6: June 28

Part 7: July 12

Part 8: July 21

Two Years After the Insurrection: Selected Articles

Hannah Allam: Jan. 6 papers detail infighting, ‘chaos’ among extremist organizers: Newly released documents zoom in on the role of far-right militants and conspiracy theorists.

BJC: Report on Christian nationalism and the January 6 insurrection.

Will Bunch: On 2nd anniversary of Jan. 6, Trump’s disciples succeed in shutting down the Capitol.

Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu: Enablers, line-straddlers and quiet resisters: How GOP lawmakers contributed to Jan. 6.

Robert Downen: How Texans helped plot, foment and carry out the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Alan Feuer: Two Years Later, Prosecutions of Jan. 6 Rioters Continue to Grow: The Justice Department’s investigation of the Capitol attack, already the largest it has ever conducted, has resulted in 900 arrests, with the potential for scores or hundreds more to come.

Nicole Hemmer: The January 6 report is a ‘mirror test’ for the American people.

Spencer S. Hsu & Tom Jackman: Review of Jan. 6 cases finds judges give harsh lectures, lighter sentences: Judges have gone below prosecutors’ recommendations three-quarters of time, and below federal sentencing guidelines a little less than 40 percent.

Mack Lamoureux: Capitol Rioters Were Armed to the Teeth and Ready for War: “I don’t [fucking] care that they have weapons,” Trump said. “They’re not here to hurt me.”

Tess Owen:

• Five Proud Boys are facing up to 20 years in prison on seditious conspiracy charges for their roles in planning the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
• Recently revealed testimony from the January 6 riot investigation showed leadership from the two extremist groups attempting to downplay their connections.

Ryan J. Reilly: The feds say they’re in for the long haul in the Jan. 6 investigation. There is a time limit. The Justice Department’s probe into the Capitol attack is entering its third year, with hundreds more arrests in the pipeline.

SPLC: Jan. 6 Anniversary: Two years later, we must hold Capitol insurrectionists accountable.

The Washington Post:

• The Attack: The Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol was neither a spontaneous act nor an isolated event.
• The most intriguing revelations, new evidence from Jan. 6 transcripts: The committee that investigated the Capitol riot spent the past two weeks publishing thousands of transcripts, emails, text exchanges, videos and other documents.
• The Roger Stone Tapes.

One Year After the Insurrection: Selected Articles

ABC News: Beyond the riot, Jan. 6 was a dangerously close call. How Trump’s plot nearly succeeded.

Michael Biesecker: Ashli Babbitt a martyr? Her past tells a more complex story.

Luke Broadwater & Susan Dominus: The Capitol Police and the Scars of Jan. 6: For many officers, their bodies, minds and lives will never be the same after the attack.

Ryan Goodman & Justin Hendrix: The Oath Keeper Podcast Interviews – New Insights Into Jan. 6 and Continued Threats.

Jack Jenkins: How the Capitol attacks helped spread Christian nationalism in the extreme right: Extremism experts say, post-insurrection, they have tracked the emergence of a ‘revolutionary Christian framework’ among ‘communities that have lost faith in the government’.

Ben Kellerman: The photo that helped define the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol: A visual backstory.

Fortesa Latifi: January 6 Insurrection: One Year Later, Families Are Still Divided. This is what it’s like to be the child of a January 6 insurrectionist.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss:

• America’s Most Urgent Threat Now Comes From Within.
• Women among the Jan. 6 attackers are the new normal of right-wing extremism: Women are increasingly ditching their backstage role in right-wing extremist movements.

Cas Mudde: A year after the Capitol attack, what has the US actually learned? The government is finally taking the threat of far-right militia groups seriously. But the larger threat are the Republican legislators who continue to recklessly undermine democracy.

The New York Times: Trump’s Missing Call Logs Present a Challenge for Jan. 6 Investigators. Sparse call records and missing documents hinder the House panel as it tries to piece together what President Trump was doing during the attack on Congress.

Osita Nwanevu: Trump Isn’t the Only One to Blame for the Capitol Riot.

Tess Owen: White Nationalists Who Marched in Charlottesville Hit With Jan. 6 Subpoenas.

PBS: Oath Keepers leader, 10 others charged with seditious conspiracy for Capitol insurrection.

Ryan J. Reilly: Proud Boy’s Modeling Photos Help Sleuths Bust Him For Assaulting Cops On Jan. 6: The man, dubbed “RayBanTerrorist” by online sleuths, was no. 222 on the FBI’s list of Capitol attack suspects.

Greg Sargent: How the new focus on Ivanka Trump and Jan. 6 will expose dark MAGA truths.

Odette Yousef:

• One year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, signs of a nation deeper in peril.
• Millions sympathize with the rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, survey finds.

Articles Published in the Immediate Aftermath of the Insurrection

Lolita C. Baldor: FBI vetting Guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack.

Devlin Barrett & Spencer S. Hsu: FBI probes possible connections between extremist groups at heart of Capitol violence.

Devlin Barrett, Spencer S. Hsu, & Marissa J. Lang: Dozens of people on FBI terrorist watch list came to D.C. the day of Capitol riot.

Kathleen Belew: Leaving Trump in office now will just encourage white nationalists: Hardcore right-wing extremists were among the mob. Congress has to impeach Trump to rebuke them.

Sam Biddle & Ryan Devereaux: On Telegram, the Paramilitary Far Right Looks to Radicalize New Recruits Ahead of Inauguration Day.

Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, & Jennifer Steinhauer: Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks: The nation’s military has a history of downplaying white nationalism and right-wing activism, but the siege of the Capitol has created a new urgency for dealing with them.

Seth Cotlar: Twitter thread on the importance of accountability, through a historical lens.

Joseph Cox: Parler GPS Data Shows Users Posting from Military Bases. The analysis comes as Congress wants to know how much white supremacy has penetrated the military.

Seyward Darby: The Far Right Told Us What It Had Planned. We Didn’t Listen.

John Ganz: Costumes at the Capitol can’t disguise the ugly truth of far-right violence.

Bernard E. Harcourt: The Fight Ahead: The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.

Michael Edison Hayden: Angry Far-Right Extremists Seek to Overshadow Biden Inauguration, Amid Growing Scrutiny.

Emmanuel Felton: Black Police Officers Describe The Racist Attacks They Faced As They Protected The Capitol: Two Black officers told BuzzFeed News that their chief and other upper management left them totally unprepared and were nowhere to be found on the day.

Hilary George-Parkin: Insurrection merch shows just how mainstream extremism has become: As rioters stormed the Capitol, their shirts spoke loud and clear.

Rosalind S. Helderman, Beth Reinhard, & Neena Satija: With big budget but little accountability, long-troubled Capitol Police face questions after siege.

Nicole Hemmer: The final mess: The election didn’t repudiate Trump. After it was over, he brought that on himself.

Molly Hensley-Clancy & Jane Lytvynenko: The Rioters Who Took Over The Capitol Have Been Planning Online In The Open For Weeks.

Dustin Jones: Joint Chiefs Remind U.S. Forces That They Defend The Constitution.

Sarah Jones: A Domestic Terrorism Law Can’t Solve Right-Wing Violence.

David D. Kirkpatrick, Mike McIntire and Christiaan Triebert: Before the Capitol Riot, Calls for Cash and Talk of Revolution: A network of far-right agitators across the country spent weeks organizing and raising money for a mass action to overturn President Trump’s election loss.

Michael Kunzelman & Amanda Seitz: Experts: Capitol riot product of years of hateful rhetoric.

Mack Lamoureux & Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazi Accelerationists Celebrating Attack on Congress As Start of Civil War.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Capitol attack was an epiphany for the far right. It better be one for the rest of us, too. Jan. 6 is being used to recruit, radicalize, and mobilize extremists to further action.

Luke Mogelson: Among the Insurrectionists.

David Neiwert (interview): Where Does The American Far Right Go From Here?

New York Times Visual Investigations: Tracking the Oath Keepers Who Attacked the Capitol.

Anna North: White women’s role in white supremacy, explained: Women at the Capitol riot are just the latest reminder of a long history.

Tess Owen:

• A Proud Boy in Disguise Helped Lead the Insurrection at the Capitol.
• The Proud Boy Who Smashed a US Capitol Window Is a Former Marine.
• The Far-Right-GOP ‘Feedback Loop’ Is Exactly What Experts Warned Us About: GOP elected officials are giving an air of legitimacy to a conspiracy movement that started on the fringes—and it’s leading to real-world violence.

Lauren Pearlman: The historical roots of the security failure at the Capitol: Law enforcement has a blind spot when it comes to right wing and White threats.

Jessica Pishko: Sheriffs Helped Lead This Insurrection: Sheriffs play a key role in right-wing white supremacist movements.

ProPublica: What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol.

Melissa Ryan: They Attempted a Coup. We Must Hold Them Accountable.

Greg Sargent: The far-right Trump insurgency just scored a huge propaganda coup.

Carter Sherman: This Convicted Planned Parenthood Bomber Was at the Capitol ‘Fighting’ for Trump.

Jason Stanley: Trump’s Neo-Fascism Takes America’s Racism to the Next Level.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Bitter Fruits of Trump’s White-Power Presidency.

Mark Townsend: How Trump supporters are radicalised by the far right: A move by extremists to the encrypted Telegram app from Parler makes it harder to track where the next attack could come from.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells: The Long Prologue to the Capitol Hill Riot.

Washington Post: 41 minutes of fear: A video timeline from inside the Capitol siege.