<p>Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. </p><p>He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4gF50W0" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4gF50W0</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/militia/" rel="tag">#Militia</a> <a href="/tags/jan6/" rel="tag">#Jan6</a> <a href="/tags/insurrection/" rel="tag">#Insurrection</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>
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<p>After Jan. 6, 2021, ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.</p><p>Revisit the collection: <a href="https://propub.li/4a4RqZA" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4a4RqZA</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#Video</a> <a href="/tags/jan6/" rel="tag">#Jan6</a> <a href="/tags/insurrection/" rel="tag">#Insurrection</a> <a href="/tags/capitolattack/" rel="tag">#CapitolAttack</a></p>
<p>Our most-read story of 2025:</p><p>Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address.</p><p>Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ap3</span><span class="invisible">-oath-keepers-militia-mole?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/jan6/" rel="tag">#Jan6</a> <a href="/tags/extremism/" rel="tag">#Extremism</a> <a href="/tags/insurrection/" rel="tag">#Insurrection</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>
<p>After the events of Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users during the riot at the Capitol.</p><p>Then we created an interactive database that lets you sort through the footage.</p><p>See the full collection here: <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/parler</span><span class="invisible">-capitol-videos/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/jan6/" rel="tag">#Jan6</a> <a href="/tags/insurrection/" rel="tag">#Insurrection</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#Video</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/archive/" rel="tag">#Archive</a></p>