Three days before the pro-President Donald Trump riot at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents. The police turned them down both times, according to a defense official and two people familiar with the matter.

James O’Keefe is the face and chief executive officer of the activist organization known as Project Veritas. He specializes in undercover audio recordings or videos that seek to reveal supposed dishonesty or corruption, usually by Democrats or organizations perceived to be liberal. His critics say his methods are deceitful and that his group peddles disinformation.

Here’s what you need to know about them and the movements they represent.

A 34-year-old Saskatoon man has been charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder in relation to the city's first homicide of 2021. [What appears to be Hollman's YouTube channel has posted a series of videos with titles like "Drain the Swamp" and "Adrenochrome Hops," a reference to the QAnon conspiracy theory. On camera, he declares "I am a Trump supporter and an anti-masker."]

The State Department fired a midlevel employee for daring to say that Trump was unfit to remain in office. There is no deus ex machina principled flotilla of Trump cabinet members coming to save the day. They signed on with an insurrectionist president and they’re ready to ride out the string. Anyone with a shred of principle (or at least the capability to try to save face), like Chao, is resigning, removing themselves from the 25th amendment decision. Schumer said that he and Nancy Pelosi tried to get Pence on the phone this afternoon; they waited on hold for 25 minutes and were finally told he wouldn't talk. The Trump cabinet mommy and daddy will not be walking through the door to save the day.

Participants in Goldman Sachs’s entrepreneur-training program received T-shirts with the words “Storm the Hill.” The bank is asking that they not wear them.

Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock have surpassed the number of votes needed to avoid a recount in Georgia’s hard-fought Senate runoff elections, but the Republicans they’re replacing have yet to concede the election as absentee ballots continue to come in.

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Insurrectionists made no effort to hide their intentions, but law enforcement protecting Congress was caught flat-footed.

Matt Gaetz had cited the story in Congress as supposed evidence that Antifa was involved in the Capitol assault. But the company says it’s “outright false.”

Police say an incendiary device was thrown from a moving vehicle on Sunday night, damaging a parked car. A short time later, a second explosion was reported a couple of miles away.

Washington Post White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker shares the latest reporting on what's going on inside the Trump White House after the president encouraged a violent insurrection on Capitol Hill.

The mob that forced Congress to flee organized on both obscure and mainstream sites.

It seems that Ariel Pink and John Maus attended yesterday's (6 January) protests that saw a mob of Trump supporters storm Capitol Hill in Washington D.C..

This is inchoate fascism, fascism in its experimental, speculative phase, in which is forming a coalition of minoritarian popular forces with elements in the executive and the repressive wing of the state. It would be devastatingly stupid, complacent beyond belief, to expect US democracy to remain sufficiently stable in the coming years to deny this incipient fascism more opportunities to congeal, and grow. Don't tell me that the US bourgeoisie will never support fascism because liberal democracy is working well enough. Don't tell me that fascism won't gain a foothold in a society where the Left has been weak for decades, and much of the labour movement barely has a pulse. These points are beside the point. Fascism never grows in the first instance because the capitalist class rallies behind it. It grows because it draws around its nucleus those whom Clara Zetkin described as "the politically homeless, the socially uprooted, the destitute and disillusioned". And incipient fascism has shown, from India to the Philippines, that it does not need a strong communism to react against: Ernst Nolte's hypothesis was incorrect. There is an urgent need for an anti-fascist movement in the United States.

Researchers at UCLA have created a model to distinguish conspiracy theories from actual conspiracies which will possibly allow robots to differentiate between things like Pizzagate and Bridgegate in the future.

“What do I do? Resign?” one nervous White House staffer asked a friend on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after news broke that a woman had been shot and killed inside the Capitol. The West Wing staffer told the friend that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone was urging White House officials not to speak to Trump or enable his coup attempt in any way, so they could reduce the chance they could be prosecuted for treason under the Sedition Act. “They’re being told to stay away from Trump,” the friend said. The White House declined to comment.

Online neo-Nazis are ecstatic with the violence taking place on Capitol Hill, many believing this to be the moment to kick off a "race war."

A YouGov Direct poll of 1,397 registered voters who had heard about the event finds that most (62%) voters perceive today's actions as a threat to democracy. In fact, many Republicans (45%) actively support the actions of those at the Capitol, although as many expressed their opposition (43%). Overall, one in five voters (21%) say they support the goings-on at the Capitol. Those who believe that voter fraud took place and affected the election outcome are especially likely to feel that today’s events were justified, at 56%.

There will not be a peaceful transition of power between the 45th and 46th American presidents. The country’s leaders and its leading institutions—the traditional ones, not the Trump ones—spent four years promising that transition, despite everything Donald Trump might say to the contrary. It was the safe, secure alternative to other, more confrontational courses of action, the fallback plan when congressional subpoenas, judicial oversight, and even impeachment turned out to be toothless: Let the voters decide, trust the Constitution, and this will pass. No matter how this administration eventually gives way to the next one, the promise of a peaceful transition has already failed. It failed on live video, over the course of hours. The president told his supporters he would never accept the results of the election he lost, he urged them to go to the Capitol to support him, and they complied. Trump’s loyalists stormed in on the official counting of the electoral votes, forcing the legislators to break it off, hide under their desks, and then flee the building. The invaders looted souvenirs; police shot a woman dead.