Seeking insight into how the violence that erupted at the U.S. Capitol this January was plotted, the committee tasked with probing the insurrection subpoenaed various extremist right-wing organizations and their figureheads on Tuesday. It is the second time this week that the committee has added to an already thick stack of subpoenas sent to individuals entrenched in former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. Twenty-four hours ago, Trump stalwarts and conspiracy theorists Roger Stone and Alex Jones were among the recipients of a committee subpoena. On Tuesday, the latest batch from the select commission zeroed in on extremists involved in the attack like Proud Boys International LLC, that group’s former chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the Oath Keepers organization and its president Elmer Stewart Rhodes, and the First Amendment Praetorian, a far-right quasi-paramilitary group that has run security for pro-Trump events in the past. That group’s chairman, Robert Patrick Lewis, was also subpoenaed. Read more