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Jake Angeli at a protest in Phoenix following the November 2020 election. There didn’t seem to be much of a plan. The presidential election was over, and Joe Biden won. Ordinarily, that would be the end of it, but there was nothing ordinary about 2020. President Donald Trump said the election had been stolen from him. His supporters backed him at rallies, like one in Arizona, where people carried signs that said “stop the steal.” Some carried flags or guns. There were signs that referred to QAnon, an online conspiracy theory. But the rally was peaceful and had a carnival-like atmospher...

Within one week after the U.S. Capitol insurrection, more than 3,900 Maricopa and Pima County Republican voters switched parties.  From Jan. 6 to Jan. 12, Maricopa County saw more than 3,300 voters switch out of the Republican designation on their voter registrations. Pima County had 642 do the same thing. Collectively, most joined “Party Not Designated,” but 477 became Democrat, 439 became Independent and 229 became Libertarian.  Separately, Pinal County saw 557 Republicans leave the party designation from Jan. 6 to Jan. 21; it’s unclear where those voters switched to. Lorna Romero ...