I Am Building the World's Biggest J6 Database — and It Belongs to All of Us

The Evidence Nexus, live right now: 40 cases · 156 defendants · 8 shared public-record hubs — and growing.

They scattered the record on purpose. Thousands of January 6 cases spread across dockets, hard drives, evidence rooms, dead links, and memory holes — because a record in ten thousand pieces can't testify. One case by itself looks isolated. One defendant by himself looks like whatever the press release says he is.

So I'm putting the record back together. All of it. In one place. Where nobody can bury it.

The Evidence Nexus

I am building the biggest, first truly all-comprehensive, all-inclusive January 6 database in the world — and I'm building it in public, on The Map Room, where you can watch it grow in real time.

It's already alive: 40 case clusters, 156 defendants, 8 shared public-record hubs — DOJ/USAO-DC Capitol Breach cases, the salvaged Capitol Breach record, the U.S. District Court for D.C., filing years, docket types — every case orbiting the sources that connect it to the others. Pick a case, a name, a document, and see what it touches.

Because that's the part nobody else built: the connections. A document, a witness statement, a court filing, a video, a photo, a date, an officer, a prosecutor, an agency, a repeated detail — one thread that ties one case to another. Other lists give you names in alphabetical order. The Nexus shows you the pattern. And if a pattern exists, the record should show the links.

Why a J6 defendant is the one building it

Because I lived it. I'm not an academic cataloging us from a distance — I'm one of the 156, building the archive from the inside with the same standard I use on everything I publish: documents first. Court records, filings, exhibits, timestamps, source chains. If it can't be sourced, it doesn't go in. That's why this database will be the one that historians, attorneys, journalists, and our own families can actually stand on.

The pardons ended the sentences. They did not preserve the record. Files get sealed, links rot, footage "can't be found" — I know exactly how that works, in federal cases and in county parking lots alike. The record only survives if we preserve it. Nobody is coming to do it for us.

J6ers — this is your archive too. Add to it.

If you're a J6 defendant, a family member, an attorney, a researcher, or anyone holding a piece of this record — I want it in the Nexus:

• Court documents — indictments, motions, transcripts, sentencing papers, appeals
• Video and photos — CCTV, bodycam, personal footage, screenshots before they vanish
• Witness statements and affidavits
• Dates, names, case numbers, agency letters, FOIA returns
• The missing clue — the one detail that connects your case to another one

Go to The Map Room and hit ADD A CLUE — or use TELL STORY if what you have is what happened to you. Every submission is reviewed by hand against the record before it goes in. Anonymous is fine. Sourced is forever.

The promise

This database doesn't stop growing. Every clue makes the graph stronger. Every connection makes the next cover-up harder. What they did to us scattered 1,500 stories into the dark — and the answer is one map, in the light, that gets bigger every single week and belongs to all of us.

"For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest." — Luke 8:17

They counted on us being too broken, too broke, and too scattered to ever assemble the record. They counted wrong.

Open The Map Room →

— Ryan Nichols