30 Comments

OMG. I am weeping with gratitude for your bravery and skill, Seth. This is it.

Expand full comment

My God. The way you show it so plainly. Makes me wonder about the intelligence of main stream media reporters. You and Rachel Maddow have a unique way of connecting dots and explaining it to the masses understandably. Thank you. Best 5 bucks I've ever spent!

Expand full comment

You do excellent work.

Expand full comment

Seth, thank you for pulling all these threads together to flesh out what happened/is happening. Can't wait to read Part 3, you are a national treasure. My first introduction to the PB's was that awful day in Charlottesville, a forewarning of the insurrection. Too bad they weren't taken down at that time, very dangerous as you have documented. If we don't hold them accountable, they WILL try again.

Expand full comment

Thank you, Seth--your always-meticulous standard is very much in evidence in this series. I'm horrified by the events surrounding January 6, & of course the day itself. Viewed overall, there is a bizarre span from the awful to the absurd--which you bring into focus masterfully. One small detail that distresses me is the nom de guerre, "Rufio Panman." That's lifted straight from the film HOOK, starring Robin Williams--& when I see a reference to it, it hurts, b/c I can't help thinking that Williams himself would be sickened by it, as I am. Those insurrectionists deserve long prison sentences, every one of them--as do those who schemed to bring those events about. May it be so.

Expand full comment

if flynn and former ahole were going to declare marshall law etc to execute the coup, surely someone in the WH had to type up all the docs, executive orders etc etc. would there be a record of these in the WH somehow preserved? my bet would be stephen miller was the writer of these docs. if they existed somewhere and could be found, maybe even a copy of former ahole speech to the nation calling off the certification, restoring order with the military, declaring national emergency, etc etc that would be 1000% proof of former ahole direction planning and organization of the coup.

not germaine to this latest part of the saga. just wanted to get that out there.

Expand full comment
founding

Frontline, PBS/ProPublicia was good also last night. NYT reporting on 1/6 police (IG report) response, plus The New Yorker & WSJ video/reportng. Etc. I am hoping multiple media reporting will continue for further, broad understanding. Because there is a talking TV dinner working nightly to counter truth & understanding.

Expand full comment

Great work!! I sure hope that the investigation doesn't stop with the Proud Boys.

Expand full comment

My hat is off to you, Seth. Just reading this genuinely turns my stomach. I can't imagine what it must be like to research all this but I, for one, am grateful you are putting everything together so we understand the details of what happened during this resurrection fiasco.

Expand full comment

Excellent article.

Expand full comment

Every one of these should be getting debriefed at a Black Site, someplace

Expand full comment

The Proud Boys and others claimed a lot of ANTIFA and BLM were in DC leading up to the 6th as a recruitment tool to attract random MAGAS to be armed with mace and other weapons and to stick by them because they would protect when they attacked, they even told some false flag stories of people getting attacked. I also wonder if they were chanting "Fuck Antifa" on the 6th as a battle cry to get their new recruits worked up, then when it came time to face the Cops they were ready for battle. We all know they incited every breach of every perimeter.

Expand full comment

Great Reporting Sir.

Expand full comment

Your research and presentation of this material makes me wonder how MSM operates in regard to how they do journalistic research...seems so straight forward, in the way you have "painstakingly" laid it all out. How could they ALL be so incredibly obtuse!

Expand full comment

Eddy Block may have had his recording equipment seized but it didn't stop him, or even slow him down. Just last week at the Huntington Beach KKK rally, Block was present and going around trying to dox the counter-protesters that showed up (and there were many, many more counter protesters than there were Orange County nazis, I'm relieved to say). He wheel around following them, and when they took their mask down to eat or drink he'd get a clear shot of their face so his buddies could dox them as "antifa". Why isn't he sitting in a jail cell?

Expand full comment