Three Percenters
New Focus on How a Trump Tweet Incited Far-Right Groups Ahead of Jan. 6
The next day, prosecutors say, Mr. Reffitt began to make arrangements to travel to Washington and arrive in time for “Armageddon all day” on Jan. 6, he wrote in the Three Percenters group chat. He told his compatriots that he planned to drive because flying was impossible with “all the battle rattle” he planned to […]
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Texas Man Convicted in First Jan. 6 Trial
After packing his wife’s car with body armor, plastic hand ties, a .40-caliber pistol and an AR-style assault rifle, prosecutors said, he drove 2,000 miles to Washington with another member of the Three Percenters, a loosely organized militia movement that takes its name from the supposed 3 percent of the colonial population that fought against […]
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Pistols, Assault Rifles, Zip Ties: Witness Describes Preparation for Jan. 6
Mr. Reffitt struck Mr. Hardie as a can-do sort of guy, and one day they got together in a local park to discuss politics and their mutual loathing of Congress. Both agreed that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “evil incarnate” and that most Washington politicians were “corrupt and destroying the country,” Mr. Hardie said. Their concern […]
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Prosecutors Open Arguments Against Defendant in First Jan. 6 Trial
WASHINGTON — On the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, a man believed by the authorities to be a member of a Texas militia walked from the Ellipse in Washington, where President Donald J. Trump had been speaking about election fraud, to the Capitol. He was wearing what he described as his “full battle rattle”: body […]
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First Jan. 6 Trial to Open, Allowing Prosecutors to Set Out Broad Case
When the first trial stemming from the attack on the Capitol opens on Monday, it will set the stage for prosecutors to do more than merely lay out the details of how the defendant, Guy Wesley Reffitt, sought to storm the building with a pistol at his hip. For the first time in a courtroom, […]
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Right-Wing Calls to Celebrate Jan. 6 Anniversary Draw a Muted Response
Last month, a onetime campaign aide to former President Donald J. Trump posted on Facebook, Twitter, Gab and other social media sites. For the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, he wrote, candlelight vigils would be held in 20 cities on Thursday to honor those who stormed the building. “January […]
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