As supporters of President Donald Trump took part in a violent riot at the Capitol, users of the social media service Parler posted videos of themselves and others joining the fray. ProPublica reviewed thousands of videos uploaded publicly to the service that were archived by a programmer before Parler was taken offline by its web host. Below is a collection of more than 500 videos that ProPublica determined were taken during the events of Jan. 6 and were relevant and newsworthy. Taken together, they provide one of the most comprehensive records of a dark event in American history through the eyes of those who took part. Read more: Why We Published Hundreds of Videos Taken by Parler Users of the Capitol Riots | Inside the Capitol Riot: What the Parler Videos Reveal Videos are ordered by the time they were taken. Scroll down to start watching or click on the timeline to jump to any point in the day.
siehe auch: ‘This is not a peaceful protest!’. In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, American political leaders almost universally condemned the riot as an act of domestic terrorism that threatened democracy. Now, President Trump calls Jan. 6 a “day of love” and the rioters “great patriots.” And since he issued mass pardons to the rioters, his administration has been trying to rewrite history. NPR has tracked every Jan. 6 prosecution in a public database, and, drawing on thousands of hours of footage and years of reporting, created a front-line account of the riot. The evidence vividly shows the planning for “revolution” and the brutality of violence on a day that continues to shape American politics. Explore the database and coverage, or scroll to read the full narrative; Yes, January 6 Was a Heavily Armed Insurrection The House committee’s final report and court documents further reveal that many Trump extremists brought guns. Two years after the January 6 disaster, evidence continues building that numerous extremists went to Washington that day armed with guns, tactical gear, and other weapons. The mass attack on Congress incited by Donald Trump was grisly and devastating: The Capitol Building was damaged and desecrated, scores of law enforcement agents were assaulted, a QAnon devotee was fatally shot while breaking into the Speaker’s Chamber, and several police officers took their own lives in the aftermath. Yet, that harrowing day held the potential for far greater bloodshed. The final report from the House select committee on January 6 and court documents from federal prosecutions contain further evidence of Trump supporters who showed up with weapons and violent intent. The evidence is important to highlight amid a long-running disinformation campaign from the political right, including the lie that no one brought guns to DC to stop Joe Biden from becoming president. Trump and his allies have long deployed versions of that false claim to help depict the insurrection as a “lovefest,” a “normal tourist visit,” and other absurdities intended to cover up the violent siege and seditious conspiracies that Trump methodically encouraged and whipped up. To this day, the ex-president portrays January 6 offenders as “patriots” wrongly persecuted, and he has vowed pardons and a government apology for “many” of them if he is elected president in 2024.
A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live onstage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online. The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by Martha Root — dressed as Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers — deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany. Root gave the talk alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, who wrote an article about the hacked sites for the German weekly paper Die Zeit in October. As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists’ sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor marketplace for racists, are all offline. The administrator of the three websites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts. “They publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism,” the administrator wrote on X on Sunday, vowing repercussions. The administrator also claimed that Root deleted their X account before it was restored. Root also published the data allegedly scraped from WhiteDate online. The hacker said that they scraped WhiteDate’s public data and found “poor cybersecurity hygiene that would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush.” Root said that users’ images included precise geolocation metadata that “practically hands out home addresses with a side of awkward selfies.” “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote. The leaked data includes users’ profiles with name, pictures, description, age, location (both containing precise coordinates and user-set country and state), gender, language, race, and other personal information that users uploaded. Root wrote on the site that “for now” there are no emails, passwords, or private conversations. According to the leaked data, WhiteDate had more than 6,500 users, of which 86% were men and 14% women. “A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia,” Root wrote.
siehe auch: FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots “Show interest in traditional family roles and heritage, using an approachable tone with a mix of warmth and conviction.” Most mainstream dating sites promise to connect like-minded people of any race, gender, or sexual identity. A far more niche corner of the online dating world, it turns out, promises to match white supremacists by creating safe havens that are inherently based on hate and discrimination. But cybersecurity doesn’t appear to be a strong suit among those running these sites, giving hacktivists a golden opportunity to wreak havoc on the platforms. A hacker who goes by the pseudonym Martha Root made a big splash during the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, last month, as Hackread reports. While dressed as the Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers, Root unceremoniously deleted the servers of WhiteDate, a site described by writer Eva Hoffman as a “Tinder for Nazis.” While she was at it, she also wiped WhiteChild, a service that connected white supremacist sperm and egg donors, and WhiteDeal, a blatantly racist marketplace for freelance labor, at the end of her 44-minute speech. In an even more unusual twist, Root also trained an AI chatbot to engage with WhiteDate’s users to extract as much information from them as possible, demonstrating how the tech can be used to root out fascists on the internet. (…) Root went far beyond wiping out the sites, which remain offline at the time of writing. Before deleting the servers, she lured the site’s users by deploying an AI chatbot powered by Meta’s open source Llama large language model to engage with users and “gather as much data as possible before the site went offline or noticed” — a refreshingly productive use of the tech. “You are on a white-only dating platform to find someone who shares your traditionalist, right-wing values and vision for the future,” she wrote in English in the prompt to train the chatbot. “Due to past bad experiences, you never share contact details like Telegram until after meeting in person.” “Show interest in traditional family roles and heritage, using an approachable tone with a mix of warmth and conviction,” it continues. “Occasionally use light humor or small talk to keep the conversation engaging and relatable.” It got to the point where her account — creatively named “lilmisethnostate” — was invited out of the blue by a user named “Anglo-Saxon” to a WhiteDate meetup in northern Germany. Root, of course, knew better, and instead watched from a distance as a group of white supremacist users “kicked off their tour of northern Germany,” as she told the audience in German. Getting the list of WhiteDate users was trivially easy. During her speech, Root demonstrated that simply typing in the URL whitdate.net/download-all-users/ resulted in a prompt, allowing her to retrieve a full list with a click of a button, marked “Download Now.” “The worst security that you can imagine,” Root said derisively. Root also identified the owner of the site, Christiane Horn, who put little effort into hiding her identity on her platform. “In case you were interested,” he said during the speech, “her hobbies are feng shui, eating brunch, and Naturgeister,” referring to mythical beings in Germanic folklore. Since then, Root has created a front-end for the considerable leak under the website okstupid.lol, which claims to be the “only place where one person’s questionable life choices meet the tragicomic world of far-right online dating.” An interactive map shows the geolocation of identified users, revealed through image metadata shared on WhiteDate; ‘Pink Power Ranger’ hacker deletes ‘white supremacist’ dating site Martha Root deleted three white supremacist sites. (YouTube) Martha Root deleted three white supremacist sites. (YouTube) An ethical hacker successfully deleted three white supremacist websites in front of an elated crowd – all while dressed as a pink Power Ranger. The semi-anonymous hacktivist, who goes by the name Martha Root, deleted the servers of three neo-Nazi websites live onstage at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany last week. After giving a talk on ethical hacking alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, Martha, dressed as Kimberly Hart from the Power Rangers TV series, then proceeded to delete the servers for WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal, as the elated audience applauded. WhiteDate, a dating website described by Hoffman as “Tinder for Nazis”, was taken down alongside WhiteChild, a sperm and egg donor matching site and WhiteDeal, described by Tech Crunch as a “labour marketplace for racists”.
He was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer during the January 6 U.S. Capitol riots. Jake Lang — a Republican candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting U.S. Capitol police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — recently threw a Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute during a racist and antisemitic rally that he held outside of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. At the rally, Lang declared, “Congressmen and women that have been taking AIPAC money, we suggest you stop now before the crusaders really start…. Treasonous traitors will be hanging from the gallows, rightfully and justly prosecuted and hung for treason.” He also said, “White Christian men are not gonna sit around while [AIPAC and pro-Jewish activists] turn our children into a bunch of [n-word]-lovers.”
Mit neuen Regeln versucht das EU-Parlament, heimliche Lobbyarbeit zu verhindern. Trotzdem gelingt es China, Mittelsmänner zu platzieren. Einer von ihnen knüpfte Kontakt auch zu einem AfD-Politiker. Lin Gai ist wieder da. Der Organisator der berüchtigten China-Freundschaftsgruppe versucht erneut, Europaabgeordneten Reisen nach China zu vermitteln. Fotos, die t-online vorliegen, zeigen ihn bei einem Empfang der chinesischen Mission in Straßburg. Zu den Gästen zählten mehr als ein Dutzend EU-Parlamentarier, darunter mehrere aus der offiziellen EU-China-Delegation. Mindestens einem Abgeordneten bot Gai eine Reise nach China an, wie t-online erfuhr. Der AfD-Abgeordnete Hans Neuhoff, den ein Foto im Gespräch mit Gai zeigt, antwortete nicht auf eine Anfrage. Bezahlte Reisen und dubiose NGOs Der Vorgang dürfte im EU-Parlament die Alarmglocken schrillen lassen: Mit der von Gai organisierten EU-China Friendship Group (EUCFA) reisten Abgeordnete jahrelang auf Kosten der Kommunistischen Staatspartei und mit ihr verbundener Organisationen nach China. Dabei drängte sich auch durch chinesische Propaganda der Eindruck auf, es handle sich um offizielle EU-Delegationen – während es eigentlich die Privatinitiative ihrer Mitglieder war. Diese gerieten in den Ruf, sich im Parlament auffällig offensiv für chinesische Interessen einzusetzen.
Ab Mittwoch muss sich der Landtagsabgeordnete Daniel Halemba vor Gericht verantworten. Die Staatsanwaltschaft wirft dem AfD-Politiker unter anderem Volksverhetzung und Geldwäsche vor. Halemba bezeichnet das Verfahren als “politisch motiviert”. “An den Bosporus zurück, sonst brechen wir euch das Genick.” Diese Zeilen stammen aus einem Lied der Neonazi-Band “Landser”, um das es ab Mittwoch am Amtsgericht Würzburg gehen wird. Der Titel soll bei einer Feier im Anwesen der Burschenschaft “Teutonia Prag” gelaufen sein. Die Staatsanwaltschaft Würzburg ist der Überzeugung: Der AfD-Politiker Daniel Halemba feierte damals seinen 21. Geburtstag. Sie wirft ihm Volksverhetzung vor. Vier Anklagepunkte gegen Halemba Wegen dieses und weiterer Vorwürfe muss sich der bayerische Landtagsabgeordnete nun am Amtsgericht verantworten. Mehr als zwei Jahre nachdem Polizisten zu einer Razzia im Verbindungshaus der “Teutonia Prag” anrückten. Halemba wohnte damals dort. Nach Angaben der Staatsanwaltschaft geht es im Prozess um folgende Vorwürfe: Volksverhetzung: Das genannte Lied stachele zum Hass gegen die türkischstämmige Bevölkerung an. Nötigung: Halemba soll während der Ermittlungen auf einen früheren Mitbeschuldigten eingewirkt haben. Versuchte Nötigung und Sachbeschädigung: Halemba soll versucht haben, auf einen Rechtsanwalt einzuwirken. Die Eingangstür der Anwaltskanzlei sei dabei leicht beschädigt worden. Geldwäsche: Halemba soll Gelder von seinem Privatkonto auf ein Konto im Baltikum weitergeleitet haben. Es habe sich um Gelder aus Betrugstaten anderer Personen gehandelt – insgesamt ein mittlerer vierstelliger Betrag. (…) Zweifel an Teilen der Anklage äußerte auch das Landgericht. Dieses hatte die Anklage zwischenzeitlich geprüft, war sich aber nach Aktenlage nicht sicher, ob etwa die “Volksverhetzung” nachweisbar sei. So geht es aus einem Beschluss hervor, der dem BR vorliegt. Es sei zum Beispiel nicht klar, ob Halemba das “Landser”-Lied selbst abgespielt habe. Freund Halembas ebenfalls angeklagt Neben Daniel Halemba muss sich in dem Strafprozess ein weiterer Angeklagter verantworten. Es handelt sich um einen Vertrauten Halembas. Die Staatsanwaltschaft wirft ihm vor, an den Nötigungsdelikten beteiligt gewesen zu sein. Auch für ihn gilt bis zu einer rechtskräftigen Verurteilung die Unschuldsvermutung. Dem BR wurde der Mitangeklagte wiederholt als wichtige Figur im Umfeld Halembas geschildert. Halemba bezeichnet ihn als Freund. Auch der Mitangeklagte trat in der Vergangenheit für die AfD öffentlich auf. Er war Mitglied der Burschenschaft “Teutonia Prag”, deren aktive Studenten seit Ende 2023 vom Verfassungsschutz beobachtet werden. Nach BR-Recherchen befand er sich außerdem zeitweise auf einer internen Telefonliste der Landtags-AfD. (…) Insgesamt sechs Rechtsanwälte werden beide Angeklagten in dem Prozess vertreten. Unter den Verteidigern des Mitangeklagten befindet sich ein früherer Neonazi-Kader, der für die Kleinpartei “Der III. Weg” bei Demonstrationen als Redner auftrat. Außerdem wird der Mitangeklagte vom Würzburger Rechtsanwalt Thomas Bayer verteidigt. Auch Bayer ist Mitglied der AfD, wie Halemba will er in Würzburg Stadtrat werden. Besonders daran: Die Staatsanwaltschaft führt Bayer zugleich als Geschädigten in dem Prozess. Die versuchte Nötigung durch Halemba und den Mitangeklagten soll sich demnach gegen Bayer gerichtet haben. Möglicherweise muss der Rechtsanwalt also gegen seinen eigenen Mandanten als Zeuge aussagen.
The JC has obtained disturbing messages from a Telegram channel run by the National American Order Two posters sent via internal messages, the left of which appeared on Tucson Jewish community centre’s window (Image: Arkanum) A neo-Nazi cell that poses a “credible threat” to Jewish communities has been exposed after its closed Telegram channel was infiltrated by undercover digital investigators, the JC can reveal. Arkanum, the organisation which gained access to the National American Order’s (NAO) messages, told the JC it has reason to believe that a violent attack is “likely”. Investigators traced the vandalism of a Jewish centre in Tucson, Arizona, on December 16 back to the NAO and saw pictures and private messages that indicated responsibility. The message, which accompanies an image of the defacement, was sent on December 17 and read: “One of our members of the AZ [Arizona] cell visited Tucson’s Jewish community centre!” The member in question put up a swastika-laden poster in the window of the centre, which matches one shared internally by NAO, bearing the caption: “Law enforcement are political soldiers. They protect the filth of ‘democracy’.” Further evidence of NAO’s accountability, Arkanum says, comes from an internal video of an individual believed to be a member of the cell at the scene. Another poster, which was not left at the centre but was shared on the channel, read: “Wake up white European. The US Government bows down to the k***.” However, it was only when investigators started delving into the contents of the Telegram channel that the scale of the threat posed by the NAO was uncovered.
Niagara man Matthew Althorpe “unleashed something that cannot be stopped,” a prosecutor told the judge By Jacques Gallant Courts and Justice Reporter Toronto Star While a Niagara region man may now be remorseful for producing recruitment videos for a neo-Nazi terrorist group and writing racist manifestos that inspired attacks around the world, the deadly consequences of his actions will live on for years, a Toronto judge was told Tuesday. Matthew Althorpe “remains a danger to the public,” federal prosecutor Amber Pashuk told Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly during a sentencing hearing, asking that the 30-year-old man be sent to prison for 20 years. The defence, which will present its sentencing arguments in January, is asking for a sentence of 12 to 14 years. Althorpe pleaded guilty in October to facilitating terrorist activity, instructing a person to carry out terrorist activity, and willfully promoting hatred against identifiable groups, as he admitted to making videos for the since-disbanded Atomwaffen Division, an international neo-Nazi group listed as a terrorist entity by several countries, including Canada in 2021. He also wrote racist and violent manifestos that still exist online today, and have been cited by people who committed acts of terrorism, including an attacker who killed two people in a shooting outside a Slovakian gay bar in 2022, and a teenager who stabbed five people near a mosque in Turkey in 2024. “Althorpe is the man behind the curtain,” Pashuk said. These were not just some “ill-conceived and regretted social media posts,” the Crown said. Rather, Althorpe’s writings represent a “continuous, deep-rooted and decade-long commitment of advancing an extraordinarily violent” white supremacist ideology. Had he not pleaded guilty, Pashuk said the Crown would have asked for a life sentence.
