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When you look back at everything that has happened in the last couple of months, it's clear that something was building.

The president making more baseless claims about the election being stolen from him.

Today, thousands marched in the streets of Washington.

November 14th, a week after the election was called for Joe Biden.

President Trump refused to concede, and of course was saying the election was stolen.

So his supporters had this massive rally in Washington, D.C., called Stop the Steel.

Today's event attracted men wearing the colors of the far right extremist group, Proud Boys.

It was right after the election, but there were still legal challenges, so people were celebrating and hopeful and declaring victory.

This is Hannah Alam, who reports on extremism for NPR. She covered that rally.

And another one liked it, a month later, in December.

By that point, dozens of legal challenges to the election results had come and gone in the courts.

They believed the election was stolen, believed their protests could stop it, and Donald Trump can stay in the White House.

Biden had won, but that really hadn't sunk in in for the Maga crowd.

They still were clinging to these ideas of legal relief and interventions.

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