 January 6 marks the one-year anniversary of the far-right insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Donald Trump and his allies falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and called on his base to take action on the day Congress was going to certify the election. A violent mob stormed the Capitol building, breaching three levels of security. The attack would not have been possible without collusion from high-level military, police, and security officials. Yet none of them have been brought to justice. In December last year, Matt Brainard, a former campaign aide of Donald Trump, called for candlelit vigils in 20 cities across the U.S. on January 6 to honor those who stormed the Capitol. He wrote on GAB, quote, Join us in marking this lie with hashtag J6 vigils from coast to coast. The post is a reflection of the ongoing sentiment among right-wingers in the U.S. who see the Capitol insurrectionists as heroes who tried to, quote, stop the steal. The stop the steal movement alleged that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump. Trump and his followers have propagated numerous false claims about the steal, stating that there was electoral fraud, rigging of voting machines, and an international communist conspiracy. As a consequence, hundreds of elected Republicans refuse to acknowledge Biden's victory. Up until now, these claims have no proof, nor has there been evidence of electoral fraud. In terms of allegations of collusion between the security forces at the Capitol and protesters, security forces were somehow completely unprepared for the events on January 6, despite how the rioters openly discussed plans to storm the building online. The Washington Post reported that the police in charge of the building and the surrounding grounds did not make early requests for assistance from the city's main police force or the National Guard. Even though more than 2,500 people took part in the action, only 725 have been arrested so far, of which 165 have pleaded guilty. Several judges presiding over the January 6 cases have expressed their dissatisfaction with the prosecutors handling the cases, and have questioned if the rioters are being handled with too much leniency. It's clear that Donald Trump was the architect of this whole operation. Instead of prosecuting Trump, which would have really made a big difference, or his entourage, the only negative thing that happened to Donald Trump was he lost his Twitter account. Meanwhile, the government then prosecuted hundreds of low-level rank-and-file people who were just basically following the direction of their leader. And instead of prosecuting Trump, they decided to impeach Trump, which was nothing other than political theater, performative theater, because Trump was on his way out in two weeks at the time that the impeachment trial was. So that allowed Trump, who did not face serious criminal prosecution to make the argument to his political base, look, they're impeaching me even as I'm leaving, which makes no sense since I'm leaving. And it's clear that the impeachment is just one more indication that all of this is a political hit job against me. And so he was able to reframe what January 6 was and what happened afterwards as more political persecution of him. In other words, he was able to assume the position of being the victim of a political adversary rather than what he really was, which was the architect of a seditious conspiracy to overturn a constitutionally mandated process. The January 6 insurrection was a historic attack on one of the most fundamental tenets of U.S. democracy, the peaceful transition of power between the two ruling class parties. Though Trump distanced himself from the events that day, developments over the year have done nothing to stomp out the movement that carried out the attack.