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Friday marks two years since a deadly riot engulfed¹ the U.S. Capitol

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The Jan. 6 House Select Committee spent 18 months looking at the events –- and actors -– that helped fuel the violence that day. That includes a number of extremist groups.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

Today marks two years since a deadly riot engulfed the Capitol. The January 6 House Select Committee spent 18 months looking at the events and actors that helped fuel the violence that day, and that includes a number of extremist groups. NPR national security correspondent Sergio Olmos has been poring over the committee's report. Sergio, the January 6 report focuses on the efforts of former President Trump³ to overturn the 2020 election. Ultimately, that led to the insurrection at the Capitol. Can you remind us what role extremists played in that?

SERGIO OLMOS, BYLINE⁴: They were the tip of the spear. The report acknowledges that many of the people who entered the Capitol that day didn't plan to do so, but it also makes clear that extremist groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers led the mob. They were an enzyme⁵ taking what could have been perhaps an unorganized riot or a political scandal behind closed doors and turning it into a violent attempt to overturn democracy. The report says, quote, "but it is also true that extremists, conspiracy⁶ theorists and others were prepared to fight. That is an insurrection." As the report notes, Trump tried to bend institutions to his will for weeks since election night - the Department of Justice, state election officials - all of whom told him no. The institutions of the republic didn't bend to his will, and so Trump went outside of them, calling on people outside the government who would carry out his will.

At the hearing, lawmakers played a montage of clips of far-right media figures like Alex Jones, Matt Bracken and Tim Pool echoing Trump's call to come to D.C. on January 6.

(SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE)

ALEX JONES: President Trump, in the early morning hours today, tweeted that he wants the American people to march on Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021.

MATT BRACKEN: If necessary, storming right into the Capitol. We know the rules of engagement. If you have enough people, you can push down any kind of a fence or a wall.

TIM POOL: This could be Trump's last stand. And it's a time when he has specifically called on his supporters to arrive in D.C.

OLMOS: The report states that, in the days leading up to January 6, numerous aides tried to get Trump to call off the rally, afraid of the kinds of people that were planning on showing up. On the day, Hope Hicks, a former White House adviser⁷, sent a text saying, quote, "we look like domestic extremists." And that is exactly the kind of people who played a key role in January 6.

MART?NEZ: And how did that work exactly?

OLMOS: By January 6, leaders of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Stop the Steal founder⁸ Ali Alexander were all communicating in an encrypted Signal chat run by Roger Stone, a Trump associate. Each group had different plans for how they would lay siege to the Capitol. The Oath Keepers, for example, had a cache of weapons in hotel rooms in Virginia, with men waiting by the radio to act as a quick reaction force. They would bring guns in once the Capitol had been taken. And on that day, the Oath Keepers moved on the Capitol steps in stack formations like trained soldiers. But it's important to understand that they didn't just appear on January 6, these far-right groups. They have been building for years by the point of January 6. Groups like the Proud Boys had been getting to street fights in cities like Portland, Ore., something I witnessed firsthand. And I want to tell you the story of what happened there to understand the forces at play.

(SOUNDBITE OF PROTEST)

OLMOS: In 2020, protests for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd's murder spread across the country. As the January 6 report lays out, quote, "the Proud Boys deputized themselves as agents of law and order, and "they played the role of instigators." In this video recorded back in August 2020, a Proud Boy leads a crowd of hundreds into a street brawl⁹ against racial justice demonstrators in full view of the police on the steps of the justice center in downtown Portland, Ore.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Expletive).

OLMOS: The January 6 report describes how the Oath Keepers, a far-right group that moved in that stack formation on the Capitol steps, used the racial justice protests in the summer of 2020 as a means to organize. They were self-appointed security at counterrallies, building muscle memory by coordinating¹⁰ these events and using them to recruit new members. The report says that in the year leading up to January 6, there were at least nine protests in which far-right actors entered state capitols. On December 21, a couple of weeks before January 6, I was there when far-right extremists broke into the Oregon State Capitol.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: We are nonviolent.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: Yeah, we are.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Stop this.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: We are nonviolent.

OLMOS: By New Year's Day of 2021, multiple state capitols had been stormed, and far-right groups weren't just attacking racial justice protesters but taking on law enforcement.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #5: No more [expletive] the blue.

UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER: ...Impact munitions¹¹. We're going to tear gas.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #5: No more backing the blue.

OLMOS: The week before January 6, I remember being at the Oregon State Capitol watching a crowd of Proud Boys and others turn against the police. There was one man wearing a don't-tread-on-me flag as a cape¹². He was chanting on a bullhorn, no more backing the blue. As the January 6 report makes clear, the insurrection at the Capitol didn't come out of nowhere. In the Trump era, extremist groups went unchecked, getting more violent at protests. This went on for years. And when, finally, the president summoned them to Washington on January 6, they came.

MART?NEZ: That's NPR's Sergio Olmos, back with us. All right. Two years later, to the day, where are these extremist groups now?

OLMOS: So centrally organized far-right groups like the Oath Keepers have been mostly dismantled¹³. They're basically gone. Their leadership has been convicted of seditious conspiracy charges, like Stewart Rhodes. Decentralized groups like the Proud Boys and scores of others that are less well-known are a day-to-day reality, even as Proud Boy leaders like Enrique Tarrio are on trial for seditious conspiracy. Tarrio and his lieutenants¹⁴ have pled not guilty. Nearly a thousand people have been charged in the wake of January 6. Extremist groups use violent force to determine political decisions. On the biggest stage in the world, that failed on January 6. But on smaller, more local stages, that's not necessarily the case.

MART?NEZ: So at the end of the day, what do we take away from this?

OLMOS: I do feel like there's a clear line between the bloody¹⁵ scenes I saw on the streets for years with far-right extremist groups and what we saw on January 6. But today, far-right extremist groups aren't seeing a bipartisan crackdown. Instead, they're seeing their ideas gaining greater acceptance on the mainstream¹⁶ right.

MART?NEZ: That's NPR national security correspondent Sergio Olmos. Thanks a lot.

1 engulfed   

v.吞没，包住( engulf的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
• The little boat was engulfed by the waves. 小船被波浪吞没了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 enzyme   

n.酵素，酶

参考例句：

• Above a certain temperature,the enzyme molecule will become unfolded.超过一定温度，酶分子将会展开。
• An enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots.能溶解血凝块中的纤维的酶。

6 conspiracy   

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

参考例句：

• The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
• He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

7 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

8 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

9 brawl   

n.大声争吵，喧嚷；v.吵架，对骂

参考例句：

• They had nothing better to do than brawl in the street.他们除了在街上斗殴做不出什么好事。
• I don't want to see our two neighbours engaged in a brawl.我不希望我们两家吵架吵得不可开交。

10 coordinating   

v.使协调，使调和( coordinate的现在分词 )；协调；协同；成为同等

参考例句：

• He abolished the Operations Coordinating Board and the Planning Board. 他废除了行动协调委员会和计划委员会。 来自辞典例句
• He's coordinating the wedding, and then we're not going to invite him? 他是来协调婚礼的，难道我们不去请他？ 来自电影对白

11 munitions   

n.军火，弹药；v.供应…军需品

参考例句：

• The army used precision-guided munitions to blow up enemy targets.军队用精确瞄准的枪炮炸掉敌方目标。
• He rose [made a career for himself] by dealing in munitions.他是靠贩卖军火发迹的。

12 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

13 dismantled   

拆开( dismantle的过去式和过去分词 )； 拆卸； 废除； 取消

参考例句：

• The plant was dismantled of all its equipment and furniture. 这家工厂的设备和家具全被拆除了。
• The Japanese empire was quickly dismantled. 日本帝国很快被打垮了。

14 lieutenants   

n.陆军中尉( lieutenant的名词复数 )；副职官员；空军；仅低于…官阶的官员

参考例句：

• In the army, lieutenants are subordinate to captains. 在陆军中，中尉是上尉的下级。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Lieutenants now cap at 1.5 from 1. Recon at 1. 中尉现在由1人口增加的1.5人口。侦查小组成员为1人口。 来自互联网

15 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

16 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。