#SeditionHunters have worked for months to understand the order & organization under the seeming chaos of the Capitol attack. New analysis suggests: U.S. democracy hung by a thread for critical minutes. And we owe an immense debt to the men and women who fought to preserve it. 1/
New public resources include detailed timelines of the Jan 6 attack, backed up by hours of synchronized video; and a heartbreaking study of the fight for the “tunnel” door, & one of its heroes, by Emmy-award winning director Consuelo Gonzalez. Watch it. 2/
To understand why the tunnel was so important, pull back & consider patterns on Jan 6. Beneath the chaos are ordered motions, directed by people with bullhorns. The seeming plan: to hit multiple entries at once, flood the building, & block police reinforcements. But it failed. 3/
The plan faltered on the W. Plaza when police resistance bought crucial time - but a series of coordinated attacks broke successive police lines on both E & W sides. By 2:41 PM, invaders were pouring into the Capitol from 4 breaches and walking into the basement-level tunnel. 4/
Imagine had this succeeded: the Capitol mobbed, lawmakers hiding, police unable to reach them from inside (access tunnels blocked) or outside (surrounded by 1000s of ‘protestors’). It took swift coordinated action to position crowds just right - watch. 5/
But MPD commanders had chosen the tunnel to retreat into, and around 2:41 PM the call went out: “They’re not getting into this building”. Exhausted officers had fought on the Plaza for 1.5 hours, but they turned around, and they held the door. 6/
Watch for yourself in two new sync’d videos. The first, from @StevieG54099097, starts minutes after the initial breach of the East doors - then it was go time on the West. A rush broke through on the W Plaza and people surged up to the tunnel entrance. 7/
The second, from Consuelo Gonzalez (Mohair Media) starts 10 minutes after the mob hit the entrance - watch them regroup & organize surges and brutal attacks. By 3:19 PM, police had pushed back, but Officer Fanone was dragged out into the mob. 8/
What you don’t see here is what happened inside the building. While police fought in the tunnel, new reinforcements materialized inside: MPD, SWAT teams, who came up from below unimpeded. By 3:21, Fanone is unconscious, but police are gaining upstairs. 9/
The re-establishment of control is clear in new video released by the DOJ: quietly, and unseen from the outside, law enforcement had moved in and re-taken the Rotunda by 3:27 PM. While battles outside raged for another 1.5 hours, the momentum had turned. (h/t @JordanOnRecord) /10
How did this all play out, and why did people keep fighting afterwards? You can read the full timeline yourself at links below, and watch video - every individual event has a link to supporting video evidence. Here is the timeline in table form... 11/ docs.google.com/document/d/1jx…
And here is the timeline as a detailed source list. The new HBO documentary (released Oct. 20) is called “Days of Rage”. But the timeline implies that not everyone was raging. Someone had been building that rage, and was planning to use it. 12/ docs.google.com/document/d/1yM…
The timeline here is made possible by 9 months of work by volunteers in the #SeditionHunters community, mapping, timing, and synchronizing video. We organized it to help people understand, with links to primary-source evidence, so everyone can watch and judge for themselves. 13/
The @January6thCmte's work and FBI arrests will continue to focus attention on those responsible for the Capitol attack. We will keep working as well. To follow along, here’s a list of resources - you can see what has been done, what is left to do. 14/ docs.google.com/document/d/1zB…
Correction - the HBO documentary is "Four Hours at the Capitol". It's the NYT visual piece that is "Day of Rage". HBO includes extensive interviews with J6 figures; brace for a "Who Shot Ashli Babbitt" T-shirt. 15/ nytimes.com/video/us/polit…
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To honor Charlie Kirk, a thread on his words about Jan 6. Let us cherish and remember them - which is easy since 41 of his sentences are "I'm invoking my Fifth Amendment right not to testify". That is, Kirk thought his words could be used in a criminal prosecution. 1/
Charlie Kirk's deposition, with all his evasions, is a public document for anyone to read; this thread will hit some of the highlights. 2/ govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GP…
In response to the J6C's subpoena, Charlie Kirk handed over thousands of pages of Turning Point messages about the $1M+ they spent on the Jan 6 rallies and buses to bring the mob to DC ...but Kirk withheld all his personal text messages. He took the 5th when asked about them. 3/
If Trump is once again declaring Antifa a terrorist organization, that's not a good sign. The last time he did that was on Jan 5, 2021. The next day the Proud Boys "dressed as Antifa" when they set off the attack on the US Capitol. 1/
Trump started talking about "Antifa terrorists" in May 2020, during the George Floyd protests (when he also mused about shooting protestors). After he lost the election, he swapped his Secretary of Defense, then on Jan 5 issued a declaration on Antifa. 2/ aila.org/library/presid…
Hard to tell whether Trump is rehashing old memories or planning something new, but it's not a good sign. Before Jan 6 they worked hard to build up 'Antifa' as a shadowy threat. And Charlie Kirk helped with Jan 6: with money, buses, and Antifa stories. 3/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
As weird as it is to see Trump, his VP, SecDef, and SecState out in DC with hardly any security, it is weirder that it was Codepink that was protesting. Codepink is an astroturfed "women for peace" group whose "peace" means giving Putin whatever he wants. Slavishly pro-Russia. 1/
Codepink has left such a long trail of dubious actions and shadowy funding that @P_Kallioniemi, who posts about Russian influencers, needed 23 Tweets to outline it all. If they are involved, tonight's events were not a normal protest. 2/
Medea Benjamin, Codepink co-founder, is so committed to Putin's talking points that she wrote an entire book about the Russia-Ukraine war rehashing them: Ukraine provoked the invasion! 2014 in Ukraine was not the people's liberation but a US coup! Nothing about this is normal. 3/
Welcome comrades to the new free-speech university UATX, created by the co-founder of Palantir! Today after early-morning calisthenics we will discuss the writings of the Palantir CEO and also co-founder. Be ready to discuss his belief that companies must take over the state. 1/
Tomorrow's topic: how Joe Lonsdale and Alex Karp exemplify Merit and not Woke DEI! Both
* were student friends of Peter Thiel. Lonsdale edited Thiel's Stanford Review.
* spent their entire careers in companies created or funded by Thiel
Next week: "Freedom is Slavery"
-- UATX
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Comrades - building an empire of proteges is not Woke DEI but Righteous Merit! Because your friends obviously have more Merit than those, well, other people. Competitive job applications bad, hiring your friends good! - UATX. Where Speech is Free! stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/pet…
Eric Schmitt's blood-and-soil nationalism at Peter Thiel's NatCon this week is making news - but this isn't new. Schmitt's staffer Nate Hochman, posting here, was fired in 2013 from Ron DeSantis' campaign for pushing a video where the Florida flag turns into a Nazi Sonnenrad. 1/
MO Senator Eric Schmitt hired Hochman AFTER he got internationaly famous for using a Nazi symbol. That tells you a lot. Schmitt didn't mind the Sonnnerad, or Hochman's later work pushing conspiracy theories about immigrants. 2/ theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
When you listen to Eric Schmitt deny that America was founded on an idea about liberty - he says it was just meant as a homeland for white people - remember this guy is fine with Nazi Sonnenrads. And he's now in the US Senate. It can happen here. 3/
The guy who is going viral complaining that "we" have judges who aren't what "the founders intended" is... based in Italy, named his substack after a cultish Russian philosophy, and uses a profile picture of a man who grew up in Nazi Germany and became a mercenary in Africa. 1/
Note that this account isn't "captivedreamer7", the now-famous racist who is actually Canadian. This guy seems truly European from his posts and his pretentious Substack, which is very focussed on the German officer Ernst Junger (anti-Nazi at the end). 2/ web.archive.org/web/2025080301…
His profile picture is another German soldier: Rolf Steiner was too young to join the Nazis (though his father did). Like Junger he went to the French Foreign Legion, then tried to overthrown the government of France and fought in a French mercenary unit in the Biafran war. 3/