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* '''2021-12-21''' [https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/politics/michael-flynn-lawsuit-january-6-committee/index.html Michael Flynn sues January 6 committee to block phone records subpoena]
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** ''NY Mag'': [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/january-6-insurrection-us-capitol-riots.html Gina. Rosanne. Guy. What do you do the day after you storm the Capitol?] A lot of the rioters apparently had no idea that people might not be fans of their coup attempt.
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** CNN: [https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/politics/michael-flynn-lawsuit-january-6-committee/index.html Michael Flynn sues January 6 committee to block phone records subpoena]
 
* '''2021-12-17''' [https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/rick-perry-jan-6-text-mark-meadows-nov-4/index.html CNN Exclusive: Jan 6 investigators believe Nov. 4 text pushing 'strategy' to undermine election came from Rick Perry] The Committee believes that former TX governor [[Rick Perry]] was the source of a text message suggesting that NC, GA, PA, and other Republican-controlled states could override the will of their voters by sending pro-Trump electors "where conflicts and election not called that night". {{fmt/quote|Boston College professor and historian Heather Cox Richardson found the text striking in that its author "wanted Republican-dominated state legislatures not even to wait to see who had won the election—none of those states had been called by November 4—but simply to ignore the will of the voters, choose their own electors, and hope that the Supreme Court would hand the election to Trump as he had been saying for weeks it would."}}
 
* '''2021-12-17''' [https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/rick-perry-jan-6-text-mark-meadows-nov-4/index.html CNN Exclusive: Jan 6 investigators believe Nov. 4 text pushing 'strategy' to undermine election came from Rick Perry] The Committee believes that former TX governor [[Rick Perry]] was the source of a text message suggesting that NC, GA, PA, and other Republican-controlled states could override the will of their voters by sending pro-Trump electors "where conflicts and election not called that night". {{fmt/quote|Boston College professor and historian Heather Cox Richardson found the text striking in that its author "wanted Republican-dominated state legislatures not even to wait to see who had won the election—none of those states had been called by November 4—but simply to ignore the will of the voters, choose their own electors, and hope that the Supreme Court would hand the election to Trump as he had been saying for weeks it would."}}
 
* '''2021-12-15''' [https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/politics/jim-jordan-mark-meadows-text/index.html Jim Jordan sent one of the texts revealed by January 6 committee] Ohio Republican Representative [[Jim Jordan]] {{fmt/quote|confirmed to CNN that he forwarded a text to Meadows on January 5 that was sent to him by [[Joseph Schmitz]], a former Department of Defense inspector general. Schmitz's text included a draft presentation arguing that Pence had the constitutional authority to object to the certification of election results from certain states.}}
 
* '''2021-12-15''' [https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/politics/jim-jordan-mark-meadows-text/index.html Jim Jordan sent one of the texts revealed by January 6 committee] Ohio Republican Representative [[Jim Jordan]] {{fmt/quote|confirmed to CNN that he forwarded a text to Meadows on January 5 that was sent to him by [[Joseph Schmitz]], a former Department of Defense inspector general. Schmitz's text included a draft presentation arguing that Pence had the constitutional authority to object to the certification of election results from certain states.}}

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The January 6 insurrection was an attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election, which would have been a violation of the democratic process in general. An organized and armed mob broke into the US Capitol building on 2021/01/06, shouting threats to kill at least two politicians (calls of "hang Mike Pence!" were most notable; there were also threats against Nancy Pelosi).

This event was merely the most visible manifestation so far of the Trump self-coup attempt now in progress and is widely viewed as a practice run for the 2024 election, when Trump plans to run for president again despite having lost in 2020. Ongoing Congressional investigation into this insurrection has revealed a lot of information about the nature of the coup in general.

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