With one year in the rearview mirror, what have we learned about the events and players that led to the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol?

For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff speaks with journalist Arun Gupta about the origins of the Capitol attack and where the far-right movement is headed.

Arun Gupta is a founding editor of the Indypendent and was a founding editor of the Occupy Wall Street Journal. He recently wrote a series about the origins of January 6 and the evolution of the far-right movement for Raw Story, which can be found here.

Cover photo: Crowd of Trump supporters marching on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 by TapTheForwardAssist, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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