Earlier this year, a client of Christopher “Kit” Arthur told him that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms had come to his home and taken an inventory of his weapons.

A retired Army scout and former sheriff’s deputy from Mount Olive, NC, Arthur’s business, Tackleberry Solutions, taught “wartime tactics to civilians for civil defense purposes,” as he described it in a promotional video. Arthur sold manuals that he said were developed from his direct experience in two combat tours in Iraq, and later from working in a covert drug enforcement and anti-terrorism unit in the Army National Guard.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) said that Republicans need to reconsider their alliance with former President Donald Trump and his supporters, known as MAGA Republicans.

Speaking to reporters at the Capitol on Friday, Maloney explained that the "MAGA Republican brand is going to come back to haunt them. So, yeah, all of these things add up. I don't know how they rank in one voter's mind but taken together they are the substance behind what MAGA has come to mean, which is radical, dangerous and terrible for working and middle-class families. And that's the choice this fall."

WASHINGTON, D. C. — Rep.. John Yarmuth (D-KY) is furious with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who has consistently refused to support any bill that has to do with green energy or climate change. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is leading a state that is slowly being destroyed by climate change. So, Yarmuth suggested she be the chair of the Senate Energy Committee instead of Manchin.

The coal industry in Manchin's state has been drastically cut and they are no longer the largest employer, but Manchin still operates like his state is an energy state when it no longer is. As of 2020, just 11,418 people worked in the coal industry, West Virginia public radio reports. Alaska offers twice that, the U.S. Energy and Employment Report listed.

A who’s who of political conservatives – former federal judges, U.S. senators and GOP election lawyers – have issued a report that is the most extensive rebuttal yet of Donald Trump’s stolen election claims in six of 2020’s battleground states.

The report, “Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election,” refutes the 187 claims made in Trump’s 64 post-election lawsuits, as well as erroneous conclusions in several post-election reviews that pro-Trump state legislators outsourced to pro-Trump contractors. (Trump lost every lawsuit except one that involved a non-election issue.)

Over the past month, beginning a couple of days ahead of the first public Jan. 6 hearing, I interviewed all 50 GOP members of the U.S. Senate. Only eight Republican senators report actively tuning in to some or all of the proceedings. Another 10 GOP senators told me they’re reading press clippings or plan to read the special committee’s report once they conclude their investigation. The other 32 Republican senators have actively tuned out the committee.

While some say they already heard House members present evidence in a formal impeachment trial after the attack on the Capitol, most dismiss the committee – including all the new evidence and witness testimony being released weekly by the committee – out of hand.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A reporter pressured President Joe Biden this week, claiming that a poll of Democrats showed they didn't support him for 2024. Biden corrected the reporter saying that 92 percent of Democrats say that they still support him, however.

Democratic members, even of conservative states, got the same message. Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) explained to Raw Story that the generic ballot for Democrats running in 2022 is far better than Biden's so it isn't as if he's turning out to be a drag on the ticket. At the same time, "I saw one poll the other day that has him matched up against [Donald] Trump and he beats Trump."

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Select Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) spoke to the press on Capitol Hill Wednesday saying that the Justice Department never asked for the actual transcripts from their interviews.

"They wanted access to our transcripts," he explained to Raw Story, noting that it was only with regard to the case involving the fake electors, nothing to do with the overall attempt to overthrow Congress and the 2020 election.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), a member of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, revealed that since former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson appeared in a public hearing, more evidence has been gathered by witnesses willing to come forward.

Speaking to Raw Story, Aguilar explained that not only have they had more people willing to come forward, but "people who we had previously heard from have shared more."

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX) told Raw Story after the House Select Committee's seventh day of hearings on the Jan. 6 attack that the House Judiciary Committee needs to act on their findings.

"This is sedition at best, treasonous in terms of, not my analysis, but an independent body must make that analysis as to what happened to ultimately bring the government down," she said.

The seventh hearing of the January 6^th Committee on Tuesday highlighted the role of political consultant Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of Donald Trump, as a link between the former president and the two leading extremist groups that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) noted that President Trump pardoned Stone, along with retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, in the weeks between the Nov. 3, 2020 election and Jan. 6. During the same period, Raskin said, “Stone communicated with both the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers regularly.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) was among those in the audience of the seventh public hearing of the House Select Committee on Tuesday and she hopes that the American people are seeing the shocking revelations.

"Those around him exhausted every attempt to overturn the election," she explained to Raw Story. "He went to the public. To his supporters. He encouraged them to go to the Capitol. He told them what to do. It's no surprise."

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) told Raw Story that he believes the House Select Committee has outlined enough to prove that former President Donald Trump could be charged with seditious conspiracy.

"Trump was the facilitator of the Jan. 6 insurrection," he explained. "He knows that people responded to his tweets and what he says, and he knows how the far-right feel about him and feel about his leadership. I mean, everything from the Tiki Torch March after he first got into another white nationalist event when they essentially identified him as their president."

This story first ran on April 15, 2022. Raw Story is presenting it again today in light of today's expected testimony at the Jan. 6. committee hearing.

While high-level allies were lobbying President Trump in mid-December 2020 to use the National Guard to seize voting machines and appoint conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell special counsel to investigate election fraud, discussions were already taking place about mobilizing supporters to make an intimidating show of force at the US Capitol as lawmakers were certifying the election.