Detrumpify.org

the little website that could

Once upon a time, on January 6^th 2021 to be precise, an angry and deluded mob conspired to prevent a democratically-elected president from displacing an aspiring dictator. Lots of right-thinking Americans decided that they didn't like what the mob and their organizers did, and they tried to hold them all to account. Twitter was abuzz with the manhunt, and web sites began popping up, sharing information about the perpetrators. Some of these sites were very good indeed. But one web site attempted to keep up with them all, and that was detrumpify.org. We did a fair job of it, and we went further, indexing the malefactors who had been identified much earlier by countless anti-fascist researchers, many of whom later were discovered to have been present at the attack on the Capitol. Our own research resulted in the exposure of several previously-unreported Proud Boys and J6ers.

Due to the efforts of federal agents, prosecutors and private citizens, lots of people went to jail for offenses great and small. Others avoided prosecution, including, most notably, Donald Trump. Biden's Justice Department lacked the will to do what had to be done, and Trump returned to the White House. The January 6th convicts were pardoned, the press releases and charging documents about their prosecution were memory-holed, the ongoing cases were dismissed, and the insurrectionists were placed in charge of the FBI and Justice Department.

Many January 6th-related websites have now disappeared or taken their content offline, detrumpify.org included. But much of our research is now found on Jan6Attack.com, a site which is now co-managed with this one. It has been an honor fighting the good fight with you, and we're not done. It's easier to see now that the real problem is bigger than Trump, his voting base, and his support network. It includes the so-called "opposition party" that has all but rolled over and played dead, and is more solidly aligned with power brokers than the people. It includes a media environment that continues to bestow the appearance of legitimacy on a regime in which the idea of law is invoked in protecting the guilty and punishing the innocent.

We have reduced our internet presence as a cost-cutting measure, but we still have the data for what we called the most comprehensive database on right-wing extremists, sex offenders, grifters and attention whores in the United States. If you have questions about accessing our offline data set or multimedia archive, we can be reached on BlueSky.

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