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Five years after Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol amidst a blizzard of lies, with the president and his associates falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen, January 6th may be a story Americans no longer care to hear.

Homegrown, a documentary that tracks three members of the neo-fascist street gang the Proud Boys from the turbulent summer of 2020 to Jan. 6 2021 and the attack on Congress, has won accolades and enthralled streaming viewers in Europe and South America. But the film’s producers have yet to find a U.S. distributor.

“I really think it’s telling around the narrative, around January 6th that it’s been downplayed and diminished within our national conversation,” director Michael Premo told Raw Story. ...

CHICAGO — Donald Trump’s recent presidential campaign staff shakeup includes hiring a political consultant deeply involved in the “Stop the Steal” campaign that sought to overturn the 2020 election — and culminated with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Alex Bruesewitz, the CEO of the political consulting firm X Strategies, was named an adviser to the Trump campaign — part of a hiring spree last week as Trump struggled to maintain momentum with new Democratic opponent in Vice President Kamala Harris entering the race.

Bruesewitz’s new role in Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign underscores how Trump is embracing people instrumental in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election....

WASHINGTON — As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress inside the U.S. Capitol, demonstrators both inside the chamber — including Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) who held up a sign reading “war criminal” — and outside the chamber protested his high-profile visit.

Inside the Capitol, Raw Story witnessed Capitol Police arrest five protestors for defiantly wearing yellow pro-Palestine tees during Netanyahu’s address.

Nearby, outside the Capitol's perimeter, protestors marched around the building decrying the prime minister as a war criminal and President Joe Biden as his enabler. The marchers were mostly peaceful, but police at times clashed with some protesters, with law enforcement overheard saying they used pepper spray.
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Donald Trump returns to Washington on Thursday to rally support from Republican lawmakers and the business community following his historic criminal conviction in his New York hush money trial.

The former president, who is running to unseat Joe Biden in November, will have separate closed-door sessions with House members at a private club near the US Capitol and with senators at their campaign headquarters nearby, and address dozens of CEOs.

“The speaker and the House GOP Leadership look forward to hosting President Trump on Thursday morning to discuss growing the House Republican majority and the 2025 legislative agenda,” a spokesman for House Speaker Mike Johnson told AFP....

The former assistant director of intelligence for the U.S. Capitol Police, who issued a stark warning about the threat of extremist violence days before the Jan. 6 attack, expects to be called to testify before a House subcommittee led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) that is focused on shifting blame away from former President Donald Trump.

Julie Farnam told Raw Story she expects “to get a subpoena any day now,” and anticipates that she will be called to testify behind closed doors before Republican members of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee on June 21.

Farnam said she received an email from subcommittee staff today telling her to expect a subpoena following discussions with her lawyer about scheduling her deposition....

WASHINGTON — Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) exclusively told Raw Story he’s no longer under a subpoena in Arizona’s state-level probe of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“They withdrew my subpoena,” Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) told Raw Story while walking back to his office at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

While Gosar reports being in the clear in the investigation into the state’s 2020 fake elector scheme, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) says he can’t discuss his own subpoena. ...