Public record · preserved · verifiable
Evidence the DOJ Tried to Erase
The Biden Justice Department published a master list of every American it prosecuted for January 6 — every name, every charge, every sentence, every court filing. Then, after President Trump pardoned us on January 20, 2025, they took it down. The page that documented what they did now returns “Page not found.”
We pulled the last complete snapshot before it vanished. Every name. Every case number. Every document. It is all here, it is all verifiable against the Internet Archive, and it is not coming down.
They tried to erase it. Tap how that hits you — no signup.
What came down
A government deleted its own ledger of the people it prosecuted.
For years, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia kept a single public page — justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases — listing every January 6 defendant it charged. Name, case number, charges, the running status of each case, and links to the actual court documents. It was the federal government's own master record.
Sometime after the January 20, 2025 pardons, it disappeared. The URL now serves a “Page not found.” Whatever the reason, the effect is the same: the canonical record of what was done to 1,092 Americans no longer lives where it always lived.
So we saved it. Every defendant row from the last complete capture, parsed and preserved — 2,881 document links intact, every case status the government published, cross-checked against an independent third-party archive. The integrity of the public record does not depend on whether the prosecuting government chooses to keep it online.
Walk the evidence four ways.
The same preserved record, explorable from every angle. Search a name, walk the network, scrub the timeline, or read the map.
The archive
Search the salvaged record
All 1,092 preserved defendants — search by name, case number, or state. Every entry links to the original document on the Wayback Machine.
The graph
The Case Nexus
A force-directed map of every co-defendant cluster the DOJ filed. Drag, zoom, and walk the network of who was charged with whom.
The wave
The prosecution timeline
Every arrest and sentencing on the time axis, month by month. Watch the wave the previous DOJ ran across four years.
The map
The geography
Every defendant by home state — the choropleth of a nationwide prosecution. Click any state to see its names.
Why this is evidence, not a claim
Every byte traces back to the government's own page.
This isn't a screenshot you have to trust. The source is the U.S. Attorney's Office, D.C., Capitol Breach Cases page, captured by the non-profit Internet Archive on December 1, 2023 — the federal government's own master listing as it stood that day. Anyone can verify any entry against the same independent snapshot:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231201000000/https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-casesOriginal DOJ URL (now offline): https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases
Keep it from being erased again.
The reason a record disappears is that not enough people were holding a copy. Here's how to be one of them.
Posted from realryannichols.com — my own domain, my own server. A federal government scrubbed the record. A pardoned veteran preserved it. That asymmetry is the whole point.