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#SeditionHunters - Thursday’s arrest of Alan Hostetter highlighted extremism in Orange County, CA, but even he is junior-league. We knew OC would send their finest, and here he is, the highest-profile #SeditionVIP yet: former U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA 42). 1/ Image
In 2016, House majority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA 23) famously said “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” On Jan 6, Rohrabacher roamed the Capitol all day with a guy in a giant ushanka hat. Is this epic trolling by Russia? 2/
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Rohrabacher’s been a fervent defender of Putin and Russia, lost his seat in the 2018 election. On Jan 6 he joined the attack on his former colleagues with his pal #RohraBoris, arriving early at the E. Plaza, then moving West by 2:50 PM, in time for the fighting at the tunnel 3/ ImageImage
Could he be disloyal? @anneapplebaum: he's “the living, breathing embodiment of the moral corruption that has seeped into a part of the Republican Party foreign policy establishment..[that] stopped caring about U.S. leadership of the democratic world" 4/
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Rohrabacher is tied to ther OC seditionists. Here he is with Alan Hostetter in Dec. 2020 calling for revolution against “Communists…Marxist-Leninists who are trying to destroy the integrity of our voting system”. No, Dana, voters just didn’t like you. 5/
LA Times warned of OC extremism in March: "A year of right-wing protests in OC...spiraled into increasingly violent language against ever larger foes”. In DC on Jan 5, “a band of radicals invoked 'biblical war' [and] 'shedding of blood' ". 6/
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Will Rohrabacher be the limit for our Senators, that gets us an investigation? In OR, lawmakers found their line last week: after video surfaced of a state rep. letting attackers into the statehouse in Dec. 2020, all 59 colleagues voted to expel him. 7/
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Updates / sources
H/t @jakobravner & Bluehatz crew for great find

#IamDanaRohrabacher is entering local Maine politics
#IamAlanHostetter is out on bail
#RohraBoris: not ID, tips to tips.fbi.gov
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Video sightings of #IamDanaRohrabacher and #RohraBoris at the Capitol on Jan 6th

* E. Plaza early:
* W. lawn, ~2:50 PM
* W. lawn, ~3:20 PM d2hxwnssq7ss7g.cloudfront.net/X3bX08cgxZ14_c…
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Note: @FrankFigliuzzi1 called SeditionHunting the “Wild West”; but there is process & organization. #SeditionVIP’s are announced only if 3 people sign off on ID, location, & importance; threads are vetted; & perps are tipped to FBI in advance. Care makes research credible. 10/ Image
Update on Rohrabacher's district, h/t @BarbaraHamrick. CA districts shifted, so Rohrabacher was successively in CA-42, 45, 46, 48.

Rohrabacher has so much shocking stuff the thread could go forever; just a few more goodies. First, poster for 12/2020 Huntington Beach rally 11/ Image
Note that speakers 2 and 3 from the HB rally are arrested.

Second, more fine company for Rohrabacher: Oliver North + disgraced IA ex-Rep. Steve King, stripped of his committee assignments for open affiliation with white supremacy, lost in 2020. Might look for him on 1/6 too. 12/ Image
Third, a nice summary by ABC news of Rohrabacher's Russian contacts including convicted Russian agent / honeypot Maria Butina, famous for infiltrating the NRA. Yes it all sounds like a Tom Clancy novel; sadly it is real. 13/
abcnews.go.com/Politics/russi…
And a quick note to any journos who want to report this - the way to refer to the people responsible for these findings is as "OSINT researchers" or "OSINT investigators". Not "citizen sleuths". 14/
On Jan 6, former U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) watched the fighting from the W. Capitol lawn, far past the breached police barricades, for well over an hour. Adding here highlighted clips + higher-res links for 3 videos that confirm his presence 15/ Image
1:58 PM (Parler). At this point the mob has just broken through the police lines under the NW Scaffold. jan6attack.com/videos/q/Qef9F… sighting 0:25
Clip by @StevieG54099097. 16/
Betw. 3:00-3:03 PM (timing estimated from flags on terrace). At this point attackers are already inside the Capitol but the violent tunnel fight has only just started.
sighting 15:42
Clip by @CoryCullington. 17/
3:20 PM (Parler). At this time Officer Fanone has been dragged into the crowd and is being tased.
jan6attack.com/videos/x/X3bX0… sighting 0:26
Clip by @StevieG54099097. 18/
Video is key to understanding the Jan 6 attack, & there is a lot of it. #SeditionHunters have identified & saved 13,300 non-Parler & 6000 Parler videos (2460 & 100 hours). Our 2 amazing film editors have helped sync it & made incredible reels & clips. 19/
youtube.com/channel/UCboWX…
..but two editors is not enough. When the U.S. came under attack in WWII, the biggest directors in Hollywood - Capra, Ford, Stevens, Huston, Wyler, with 20 Oscars in total - stepped up to help. Now the U.S. needs film editors. @MPEG700 has 8000 members. Contact us! DMs open. 20/ ImageImageImage
Note: most Capitol sync'd video and perp reels is on Rumble now since our YT channel was shut down:
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