Ahead of 5th Anniversary of January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, Judiciary Democrats Release New Reports Focused on the Careers of the Coup Plotters, the Rioters and the Democracy Defenders Since Jan. 6 and the Trump Pardons

Washington, D.C. (January 5, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released two new reports ahead of the fifth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The first report entitled, “Where Are They Now: The Perpetrators of January 6th and the Defenders of Democracy Who Stopped Them,” examines coup plotters and violent rioters who heeded President Donald Trump’s call to “stop the steal,” as well as patriotic Americans who blocked this attempted coup. Five years after the attacks on January 6, 2021, their diverging trajectories makes clear Trump’s effort to rewrite and whitewash the history of his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 presidential election. 

“Where are we now as a society five years after January 6th? One significant clue is to look at where the various participants—both the perpetrators of violence against the Constitution and also its ardent defenders—are now in their lives and careers,” wrote Ranking Member Raskin in the foreword of the “Where Are They Now” report.  “This Report profiles illustrative career trajectories of some of the key actors from January 6^th and its run-up who were pardoned en masse by Donald Trump. It also profiles the difficult paths of several Americans who bravely answered the call of duty and stood up to insurrectionary violence and President Trump’s brazen plan to steal the election. Readers will judge for themselves the meaning of these different stories and their implications for the American future,” continued Ranking Member Raskin.

A second report, “One Year Later: Assessing the Public Safety Implications of President Trump’s Mass Pardons of 1,600 January 6 Rioters and Insurrectionists,” details the public safety consequences of President Trump’s sweeping pardons of January 6 rioters, including the hundreds who attacked and beat police officers with baseball bats, Confederate and American flagpoles, metal pipes, and bear spray. At least 33 pardoned insurrectionists have now been convicted of, charged with, or arrested for additional crimes since the violent attack on the Capitol. The crimes committed by rioters before and after the insurrection include: child sexual assault, production of child pornography, possession of child pornography, rape, conspiracy to commit murder of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, kidnapping, sexual assault, aggravated robbery, reckless homicide, driving under the influence causing death, illegal possession of firearms, domestic violence by strangulation, burglary, vandalism, grand theft, stalking, violation of protective orders, threatening public officials, and drug trafficking.

As the reports highlight, in addition to allowing these criminals to roam free in communities around America, President Trump has gone so far as to install insurrectionists and his co-conspirators at the highest ranks of his Administration, including the Department of Justice.

Judiciary Committee Democrats also released a “Myths vs. Facts: January 6” fact sheet — a quick guide to counter false claims that whitewash the January 6 attack and the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. 

Click here to read “Where Are They Now: The Perpetrators of January 6th and the Defenders of Democracy Who Stopped Them.”

Click here to read “One Year Later: Assessing the Public Safety Implications of President Trump’s Mass Pardons of 1,600 January 6 Rioters and Insurrectionists.”

Click here to read the fact sheet, “Myths vs. Facts: January 6.”