USA!

And we fight.

We fight like hell.

It has been five years since the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021,

when a pro-Trump mob stormed the building, trying to stop the certification of the presidential election.

And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.

In the years since, journalists, investigators, and historians have tried to piece together and understand what happened that day. And at NPR, investigative reporter Tom Dreisbach wanted to do

even more. He led an ambitious team effort to preserve a comprehensive record of those

events for future generations. The January 6th archive is a timeline of the moments before,

during, and after that attack. Built from video evidence gathered over many years.

It also includes a database tracking every criminal case tied to January 6th.

We kind of thought of it as like a January 6th museum in a way, where it covered different aspects of that day, the violence, the weapons people used, the motivations of people, and tried to preserve in a way this history of what happened that

day at a time when the government has been actively trying to erase or whitewash or otherwise

distort the events of January 6th.

Consider this as the narrative around the January 6th attack continues to change, NPR reporters built

an archive to document what happened.

From NPR, I'm Emily Kwong.

It's consider this from NPR.

Five years ago, after the attack on the Capitol during the certification of the 2020 election,

NPR set out to gather thousands of videos, court exhibits, and records from that day into one place,

to create a comprehensive archive of what happened

and to preserve it at a time when the public narrative around January 6th continues to change.

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