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Ahead of the Jan. 6 committee’s first hearing, the panel’s Republican critics predicted the hearing would be a warmed-over rehash of partisan talking points about an attack on the Capitol that took place more than 17 months ago. They were wrong. The two-plus-hour hearing was filled with a torrent of …

Jim Watkins, the 8chan/8kun operator and an influential figure among adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, met with the Jan. 6 committee on Monday. Watkins posted about the meeting on his Telegram account. “The committee decided to do it by zoom. So I didn’t go to DC,” he wrote in …

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday defended the Republican National Committee’s resolution describing the events of Jan. 6, 2021 as “legitimate political discourse,” despite the attack resulting in five deaths, dozens of injured police officers, and some rioters calling for Pence himself to be hanged or otherwise executed. The …

If there’s one thing we know about Alex Jones, it’s that he loves the Bill of Rights. The majority of Jones’s career is predicated on the First Amendment, which has allowed him to spew conspiracies, hate, and general nonsense to a lucrative audience for over a decade, with only occasional …