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Recent legal moves by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol offer some clues on how it's following the money.

In November, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr (left) became the chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association, while Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (right) became RAGA's policy chair and chair of the group's Rule of Law Defense Fund, which was among the sponsors of the Trump rally preceding the U.S. Capitol Riot and sent out robocalls urging people to march to the Capitol to "stop the steal." (Official portraits.) After its nonprofit subsidiary promoted lies about election fraud and made a robocall ahead of the Capitol riot urging Trump supporters to march there to "stop t...

On Monday, CNBC reported that the Black Conservatives Fund, a super PAC that Robert Mercer gave $150,000 to in 2014, promoted the march on Capitol Hill. Alexander, one of the siege organizers, was a former “senior adviser” to the Black Conservatives Fund. In 2017, the Mercers gave $200,000 to the Gatestone Institute, which has advanced theories about a stolen election. The following year, they gave $8.1 million to DonorsTrust, which recently donated $1.5 million to white nationalist hate group VDARE, which has also advanced evidence-free theories surrounding the 2020 election results....

Copy to Clipboard Ali Alexander was born Ali Abdul Razaq Akbar and is an African-American man of Arab descent (YouTube) Far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Ali Alexander has gone into hiding following the suspension of his Twitter and Facebook accounts in the aftermath of the January 6 riots at Capitol Hill. Pro-Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol in an attack against the United States Congress as they convened to certify the results of the 2020 elections. Alexander had described himself as one of the "official organizers" of the January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally that has...

Information about the riot, which was incited in part by Trump, is coming to light, as well. Pro-Trump dark money groups were among those behind the Jan. 6 protest that triggered the attack on the Capitol. The Biden transition continues apace. On Monday, the president-elect announced that he would nominate career diplomat William Burns to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. Twitter has suspended 70,000 QAnon accounts since U.S. Capitol riot "These accounts were engaged in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation of this conspiracy the...