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This file catalogs the major reference documents, datasets, official reports, court records, and journalism that comprise the evidentiary record for understanding January 6, 2021 and the broader 2020-2024 plot to overturn the election. It functions as the citation backbone for the Accountability KB rosters and deep profiles.

Status: Living document. Last updated 2026-05-06.

This file is keyword-dense by design so the AI advisor can answer “where do I find X” or “what does Y report say” questions.

Primary Federal Records

January 6th Select Committee (House) — Final Report

  • Title: Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
  • Published: December 22, 2022
  • Length: 845 pages (main report) + 117 supporting transcripts and exhibits
  • Authors: Bipartisan committee chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY)
  • Key findings: Trump engaged in a multi-part conspiracy to overturn the election; criminal referrals against Trump for obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement, and incitement / assistance / aid and comfort to an insurrection
  • Status: Public record; archived by GovInfo, Internet Archive, and most law-school libraries
  • Patriot University reference: Used throughout jan6-coup-plotters.md, mark-meadows-profile.md, john-eastman-profile.md, etc.

Department of Justice — Capitol Breach Cases Database

  • URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases (now redirected/archived post-pardons)
  • Maintained by: US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia
  • Coverage: Every federal criminal case arising from January 6, 2021
  • Status: Active through January 19, 2025; archived after mass pardons
  • Mirror: George Washington University Program on Extremism’s J6 Defendants Database

Special Counsel Jack Smith — Investigations

  • DC case: United States v. Donald Trump (election-obstruction); indictment August 2023; dismissed November 2024 after election under DOJ policy on indicting sitting presidents
  • Mar-a-Lago documents case: United States v. Donald Trump (classified-documents case); dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon July 2024 (under appeal)
  • Final Special Counsel report: Released January 2025 (volumes 1 and 2)

Office of Special Counsel — Hatch Act Investigation

  • Title: Investigation of Political Activities by Senior Trump Administration Officials During the 2020 Presidential Election
  • Published: November 2021
  • Findings: At least 13 senior Trump administration officials violated the Hatch Act during 2020 election cycle
  • In One6Project: docs/Investigation of Political Activities by Senior Trump Administration Officials During the 2020 Presidential Election.pdf

State-Level Court Records

Georgia (Fulton County)

  • Case: State v. Trump et al. (Fulton County 2023SC188947)
  • Charges: Georgia RICO + 40 counts against Trump and 18 co-defendants
  • Status: Status frozen following Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s August 2025 disqualification
  • Public docket: PACER + Fulton County Superior Court online

Arizona (Maricopa County)

  • Case: State v. Boris Epshteyn et al. (Maricopa County CR 2024-104915)
  • Charges: 11 fake electors plus Eastman, Chesebro, Giuliani, Boris Epshteyn, Jenna Ellis, Christina Bobb, Mike Roman, Mark Meadows
  • Status: Pretrial; multiple plea deals (Ellis, Bobb)
  • Filed: April 2024

Michigan

  • Case: 16 fake electors charged July 2023
  • Status: Pending

Nevada (Clark County)

  • Case: 6 fake electors charged December 2023; dismissed June 2024 on venue grounds; refiled

Wisconsin (Dane County)

  • Case: State v. Chesebro, Roman, Troupis charged June 2024
  • Status: Pending

Civil Litigation

  • Smith v. Cawthorn (insurrectionist disqualification, NC)
  • Griswold v. Trump (CO ballot disqualification; reversed by SCOTUS in Trump v. Anderson March 2024)
  • Capitol Police Officers v. Trump (multiple civil suits)
  • Freeman v. Giuliani (defamation; $148M judgment)
  • Salas v. Trump (federal civil suit on Jan 6)

Conservative-Authored Reports

“Lost Not Stolen” (2022)

  • Full Title: Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case That Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Election
  • Authors: Eight prominent conservative election lawyers including former federal judge Thomas Griffith, former US Senator John Danforth, Benjamin Ginsberg, Theodore Olson, Bob Bauer (counterpoint), David Hoppe
  • Publisher: Self-published; Brookings hosted
  • Findings: After examining every claim of fraud in 2020, found no factual basis for any of them
  • In One6Project: docs/Lost Not Stolen--The.pdf
  • Significance: Published by Republican election-law experts; serves as the most authoritative refutation of fraud claims from a conservative legal perspective

Just Security J6 Criminal Evidence Tracker

  • Title: The January 6th Hearings: A Criminal Evidence Tracker (now in 7th edition)
  • Maintained by: Just Security (NYU Center on Law and Security)
  • Coverage: Comprehensive index of all evidence presented during J6 hearings keyed to potential criminal charges
  • In One6Project: docs/The-January-6th-Hearings-A-Criminal-Evidence-Tracker-7th-ed.pdf

Academic / Think-Tank Reports

Protect Democracy — The Authoritarian Playbook

  • Authors: Jennifer Dresden, Justin Florence, Erica Newland, Carine Hajjar, Christopher Bidwell
  • Published: 2022 (revised 2024)
  • Framework: Identifies seven authoritarian tactics — Politicizing Independent Institutions; Spreading Disinformation; Aggrandizing Executive Power at the Expense of Checks and Balances; Quashing Dissent; Targeting Vulnerable or Marginalized Communities; Corrupting Elections; Stoking Violence
  • In One6Project: docs/The Authoritarian Playbook.pdf
  • Patriot University: Foundational framework for the authoritarianism marker taxonomy

CPOST (University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats)

  • Lead: Robert A. Pape
  • Studies: “Insurrectionists” research on J6 defendant demographics; American Political Violence Survey (semi-annual since 2021)
  • Key findings: Demographic-displacement anxiety as predictor; mainstream not marginal; growing willingness to support political violence

GWU Program on Extremism — Jan 6 Defendants Database

  • Maintained by: Seamus Hughes, Lorenzo Vidino, Bennett Clifford
  • Coverage: Every January 6 defendant with charges, plea, sentence, organizational ties
  • URL: https://extremism.gwu.edu/Capitol-Hill-Cases (verify current URL)

START (University of Maryland) — CHAOS dataset

  • Lead: Michael Jensen
  • Coverage: All US-based political extremism incidents
  • Useful for: Comparative context for J6 within the broader political-violence trajectory

Russian Disinformation Reference

State Department GEC — Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem

  • Published: August 2020
  • Author: US State Department Global Engagement Center
  • Content: Mapped 5 pillars of Russian state-aligned information operations; predates the 2020 election but provides framework for understanding the disinformation ecosystem in which J6 operated
  • In One6Project: docs/Pillars-of-Russia's-Disinformation-and-Propaganda-Ecosystem_08-04-20.pdf

Journalism Compilations

The New York Times

  • “How Trump’s 2020 Election Lies Have Gripped State Legislatures” (March 2022)
  • “Trump’s 187 Minutes of Inaction” (J6 Committee summary)
  • Daily archive of post-election period coverage

The Washington Post

  • “The January 6 Insurrection Project” (multimedia archive)
  • “187 Minutes of Mayhem” (interactive feature)
  • Robert Costa / Bob Woodward / Phil Rucker books

AP

  • “The Big Lie” documentary series
  • State-by-state election-fraud-claim debunking series

ProPublica

  • “Documenting Hate” project (broader than J6, includes coverage)
  • “Insurrection at the Capitol” project

Reuters

  • Special Report: “Trump’s Campaign of Fear” (2020-2024 series tracking threats against election officials)

Mother Jones

  • David Corn / Dan Friedman investigative coverage

The Atlantic

  • Barton Gellman: “Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun” (December 2021)
  • Anne Applebaum: “The Bad Guys Are Winning” (2021)
  • **McKay Coppins: Romney: A Reckoning (2023)** — Mitt Romney’s diaries on the period

Key Books

On Trump’s Conduct

  • Bob Woodward, Peril (2021)
  • Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man (2022)
  • Carol Leonnig & Phil Rucker, I Alone Can Fix It (2021)
  • Cassidy Hutchinson, Enough (2023)
  • Liz Cheney, Oath and Honor (2023)
  • Mark Esper, A Sacred Oath (2022)
  • Bill Barr, One Damn Thing After Another (2022)
  • John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened (2020)

On the J6 Investigation

  • Aaron Davis & Tom Hamburger, The Insurrectionists (forthcoming)
  • David Rohde, Where Tyranny Begins (2024)
  • Andrew Weissmann, The Trump Indictments (2024)
  • Just Security J6 Tracker (digital reference)

On Authoritarianism / Project 2025

  • Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (2018) and Tyranny of the Minority (2023)
  • Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy (2020)
  • Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017) and On Freedom (2024)
  • Heritage Foundation, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (Project 2025)
  • Center for American Progress, Democracy on the Ballot (analyses of P2025)

Key Government Datasets

Federal Register

  • Use: Tracks executive orders, proclamations, and presidential memoranda
  • API: https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1
  • Patriot KB: Workstream 4 (Trump speech corpus) ingests EOs and memoranda for promise-tracking

OGE (Office of Government Ethics)

  • Use: Public Financial Disclosure (Form 278) and conflict-of-interest documents for senior officials
  • In Patriot KB: Cited in conflicts-of-interest-matrix.md and individual deep profiles

FEC

  • Use: Campaign finance records (donors, PACs, expenditures)
  • In Patriot KB: Cited in trump-mega-donors.md and trump-aligned-pacs.md

CourtListener / RECAP / PACER

  • Use: Federal court dockets and filings
  • In Patriot KB: Cited in deep profiles for indictment / litigation status

Cross-References

  • jan6-coup-plotters.md
  • jan6-participants-data.md
  • j6-pardons-tracker.md
  • one6project-source-directory.md
  • conflicts-of-interest-matrix.md
  • democratic-collapse-scenarios.md (existing KB)
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