Three Years Later, House Republicans Continue to Propagate January 6 Falsehoods, Undermine Democracy

House Republicans remain a threat to our democracy, clinging to their dangerous rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and lies three years after the Capitol riot that claimed the lives of five police officers and injured hundreds more.

Extreme Republicans across the battleground continue to rationalize the violence of January 6 and attack our democratic institutions.

• Joe Kent (WA-03): Kent has repeatedly espoused conspiracy theories about January 6th, saying that “there is a lot there that does look like an intelligence operation.”

• Former Rep. Yvette Herrell (NM-02): Herrell accepted a max campaign donation from a New Mexico fake elector who attempted to overturn the will of the voters in 2020.

• J.R. Majewski (OH-09): MAGA Majewski raised $25,000 to bring dozens of people to the January 6th insurrection, attended the insurrection with a QAnon backer, and admitted to breaching police barricades at the Capitol.

• Scott Baugh (CA-47): Baugh has refused to condemn the rioters on January 6th and wouldn’t say if he would have voted to certify the election – “I’m not going to speculate on what I would have done.”

• Ron Hanks (CO-03): “I fully expected Donald Trump to win in 2020 – and he did.” Hanks believed this so much, he attended the insurrection on January 6th.

• Randy Niemeyer (IN-01): Niemeyer claimed there was fraud in the 2020 election and downplayed the insurrection, saying “It’s hard for me to know what is real and not real on the news.”

• Former Rep. Mayra Flores (TX-34): Flores claimed that DC police planned the attack on January 6th, tweeting “DC police let them through the gates! This was a set up! Antifa is definitely among this crowd!!!”

GOP House leadership and vulnerable House Republicans are still enabling efforts to promote false conspiracy theories related to the riot.

• Speaker Mike Johnson was the “key architect” of the legal plot to overturn the election, and every single vulnerable Republican voted to install him as speaker.

• When releasing video footage to appease MAGA Extremists, Johnson  said that the public shouldn’t have to “rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials” regarding Jan. 6th – boosting the debunked theory that the riot was a false flag operation.

• Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) joined insurrectionists and entered a restricted area on Capitol Grounds, potentially using campaign cash to fund the trip.

• Scott Perry (PA-10) was instrumental in the efforts to overthrow the election in Congress and used taxpayer dollars to pay a man who assaulted cops on January 6th.

• Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) publicly fought for leniency for a federally convicted man who appeared at the riot at the Capitol with the extremist Oath Keepers group.

Wannabe dictator Donald Trump continues to defend the rioters and pour fuel on the flames of his anti-democratic movement – and House GOP leaders are lined up behind his crusade.  

• House Republican leadership – Johnson, Scalise, and Emmer – all endorsed Donald Trump this week, a salient reminder that the entire Republican conference is 100% in with Trump’s extremism.

  • The disgraced former president and Republican frontrunner recently said that he wants to be a dictator on day one of his presidency.

  • In the past few months, Trump has increasingly espoused dangerous rhetoric, saying that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country” – rhetoric consistent with Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

• Trump continues to refer to the Capitol riot as a “beautiful day.”

The American people are tired of rampant extremism and the constant Republican assault on our democracy. 

DCCC Spokesperson Viet Shelton:
“House Republicans are wholly committed to Donald Trump’s crusade to undermine fair and free elections and empower his dictatorial ambitions, even if it means defending the violence of January 6th. Across the country these extreme Republicans will say and do anything to “bend the knee” to Trump, and it’s this fanatical fealty to him that will cost them the House majority.”

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