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Topic: U.s. Capitol

Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

Secret Service eyed neo-Nazis pre-Jan.6

Kelly McClure
A member of the New York National Guard stands at a gate outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Man with Molotovs nabbed near Capitol

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Mike Pence, Donald Trump, and the Trump supporters mobbing the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Pence is "still angry" at Trump

Sky Palma - Raw Story
Bill Maher during a monologue on his weekly HBO show, "Real Time." (HBO)

Bill Maher's "dark prediction" for 2024

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
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Donald Trump; Steve Bannon (Getty/Salon)

Brad Reed
Pro-Trump protestors clash with police during the tally of electoral votes that that would certify Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S. presidential election outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Cop outed lawmakers' location on Jan. 6

Jon Skolnik
Kevin McCarthy (Getty/Jim Watson)

Jan. 6 commission seeks McCarthy records

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. (Getty Images/Win McNamee)

Boebert's Capitol tour was at midnight

Zachary Petrizzo
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(Screengrab via Yahoo)

"Putin's favorite congressman" returns

Jon Skolnik
Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

The Capitol's authoritarian architecture

Megan Goldman-Petri - The Conversation
Thousands of flags creating a "field of flags" are seen on the National Mall ahead of Joe Biden's swearing-in inauguration ceremony as the 46th US president in Washington,DC on January 18, 2021. (ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. exceptionalism is dead

Brian K. Muzás - The Globalist
Trump supporters near the U.S Capitol, on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. The protesters stormed the historic building, breaking windows and clashing with police. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Capitol riot shatter public land myth

Eve Andrews - Grist
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U.S. Capitol Police officers salute as a hearse carrying the body of Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who was killed by rioters Wednesday, passes members of the Capitol and Metropolitan police during a procession on Third Street on Sunday, January 10, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Black cops warned about Capitol Police

Joshua Kaplan, Joaquin Sapien - ProPublica
Gadsden Flag (Getty Images)

Yellow Gadsden flag: a long history

Paul Bruski - The Conversation
Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest child trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2020. - A 2019 bulletin from the FBI warned that conspiracy theory-driven extremists are a domestic terrorism threat. (KYLE GRILLOT/AFP via Getty Images)

Domestic terrorism: an urgent threat

Sebastian Rotella - ProPublica
U.S. Capitol Police officers salute as a hearse carrying the body of Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who was killed by rioters Wednesday, passes members of the Capitol and Metropolitan police during a procession on Third Street on Sunday, January 10, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Capitol officer who died for democracy

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
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Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Trump signals his coup isn’t over

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Members of the National Guard and the Washington D.C. police stand guard to keep demonstrators away from the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol earlier, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Was it a coup?

Clayton Besaw, Matthew Frank - The Conversation
A man waves a QAnon conspiracy flag at a protest of coronavirus skeptics, right-wing extremists and others angry over coronavirus-related restrictions and government policy on August 29, 2020 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

QAnon and the riot at the U.S. Capitol

Marc-André Argentino - The Conversation
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office while arriving back at the White House on December 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Calls mount for Trump to be arrested

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., and other members take cover as protesters attempt to disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOP lawmakers caught helping the coup

Jon Skolnik, Sophia Tesfaye
A person holds a banner referring to the Qanon conspiracy theory during a alt-right rally on August 17, 2019 in Portland, Oregon (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Far-right extremists promise more violence

Alex Henderson - Alternet
(Getty/Olivier Douliery)

Melania was modeling as the mob raged

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story
Members of the National Guard and the Washington D.C. police keep a small group of demonstrators away from the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol earlier, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Capitol rioters planned in plain sight

Logan Jaffe, Lydia DePillis, Isaac Arnsdorf, J. David McSwane - ProPublica
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