Extremists

Pittsburgh’s CBS News affiliate reports: A Mercer County woman wanted for her involvement in the riots at the U.S. Capitol last month has been taken into custody. According to law enforcement, Rachel Powell was taken into custody on Thursday night in New Castle. She is facing charges of obstruction, depredation of government property, entering restricted space without authority and violent …

The Washington Post reports: At a news conference Friday morning outside the Capitol, Greene defended her treatment of David Hogg, one of the survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead. Asked Friday about her behavior toward Hogg, Greene declined to apologize. She noted that the activist “was an adult …

Dallas’s CBS News affiliate reports: Two people from North Texas have turned themselves in for charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Jason Lee Hyland and Katherine Schwab of Colleyville were allegedly on the same private flight as Jennifer “Jenna” Ryan, the FBI said in a criminal complaint. Hyland and Schwab were living together at the …

Media Matters has the transcript: A message to the Republicans like Liz Cheney. This is your opportunity to show everyone that you’ll fight harder against the Democrats than you do against Donald Trump. Refuse to allow a single U.S. taxpayer dollar to fund this ideological and un-American purge of the U.S. military. Or expect a lot of us to push …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) didn’t miss the opportunity to cash in on her ignominious moment in the spotlight, sending out a conspiracy-laden, grammatically-awkward fundraising email as her House colleagues were voting to expel her from Committees for promoting bonkers conspiracy theories. The email began by naming its blameshifting targets in the subject line, “AOC and Ilhan Omar,” …

Politico reports: The Arizona man known as the “QAnon shaman,” who is facing criminal charges for his involvement in the Capitol riot last month, was moved to a jail in Virginia on Thursday to accommodate his request for an organic diet. Jacob Chansley, 33, also known as Jake Angeli, was transferred from the Washington, D.C., jail to the Alexandria Detention …

CNN reports: The House will vote Thursday on a measure to remove Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, a decisive step that comes in the wake of recently unearthed incendiary and violent past statements from the congresswoman that have triggered widespread backlash from Democrats and divided congressional Republicans. House Democrats, who control the chamber, set up the …

Pittsburgh’s CBS News reports: The FBI raided the home of Rachel Powell, a Mercer County mother of eight suspected of playing a role in the assault on the U.S. Capitol. NewsChopper 2 flew over Powell’s Sandy Lakes home Thursday afternoon. The FBI says it was conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity there. They’re looking for Powell, who is nowhere to be …

The Charleston Post & Courier reports: Federal authorities have charged a South Carolina man with threatening a former assistant U.S. attorney who years ago prosecuted the leader of the Proud Boys white nationalist group. James Giannakos Jr. of Gilbert left a series of voicemails last month threatening that the former prosecutor, her family and her co-workers would be in “danger” …

NPR reports: In an interview with NPR, Matze claimed that there was a dispute with Mercer over just how far Parler would take its openness to free speech. He said that if the company wanted to succeed, Parler would have crack down on domestic terrorists and any groups that incite violence, including the Trump-supporting conspiracy theory QAnon. “I got silence …

Axios reports: Conspiracist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is far more popular than Rep. Liz Cheney among Americans who align with the Republican Party, according to a new Axios-SurveyMonkey poll. McCarthy enjoys the highest favorable versus unfavorable ratings (net favorability) of the four among Republicans, at 38%-16% (+22); followed by Greene, at 28%-18% (+10); McConnell, at 31%-46% (-15); and Cheney, at …

The New York Daily News reports: A key House panel voted late Wednesday to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of all her committee assignments in a blistering rebuke of her calls for violence against fellow members of Congress and embrace of a cacophony of far-right conspiracy theories. The vote in the House Rules Committee advanced a resolution to remove the …

Law & Crime reports: Federal authorities have announced another arrest connected to January’s siege on the U.S. Capitol Complex. Authorities are using the case against Ethan Nordean, a.k.a. Rufio Panman, who is said to be a member of the far-right organization the Proud Boys, to allege that members of his group planned to storm the Capitol Building ahead of time. …

NBC News reports: Wisconsin prosecutors filed a motion on Wednesday requesting an arrest warrant and bond increase against Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who was charged with killing two people during protests in Kenosha last summer. Rittenhouse, 18, allegedly violated the conditions of his bond by failing to notify the court of his changed address, which inhibits the ability to monitor …

Via press release from Kevin McCarthy: Past comments from and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene on school shootings, political violence, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference. I condemn those comments unequivocally. I condemned them in the past. I continue to condemn them today. This House condemned QAnon last Congress and …

Right Wing Watch reports: The Proud Boys—a far-right, neo-fascist hate group that played a key role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection—appears to be splintering into separate entities. A handful of Proud Boys chapters have declared autonomy from the group’s leadership following recent reports that Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was a “prolific” informant for the FBI and local law …

CBS News reports: The House Rules Committee is convening Wednesday to weigh a measure stripping Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia of her committee assignments due to her embrace of conspiracy theories and suggested support for violence against Democrats before she was a member of Congress. The resolution under consideration by the panel was put forth by Democratic Congresswoman …

CNN reports: The FBI recently raided the homes of two men who sponsored an invective-laced rally near the US Capitol a day before the deadly insurrection, the first known search warrants involving people who organized and spoke at rallies preceding the attack. CNN learned of the raids through an eyewitness account, public records, a lawyer representing one of the rally …

“I was one of those Americans that was supposed to never get elected to Congress; the elites don’t want me here. “I’ve never done drugs. I’ve never been arrested. The only thing bad I’ve done is probably gotten a speeding ticket. “But you know what, just like every single other person, yeah, I have said things I shouldn’t say at …

The Daily Beast reports: On Monday, former Proud Boys lawyer Jason Lee Van Dyke, who holds the “Proud Boys” trademark, released a letter revoking Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio’s right to use the name. Van Dyke’s reasons for revoking the trademark rights included what he sees as the Proud Boys’ association with Nazi groups, as well as Proud Boys burning …