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One year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, signs of a nation deeper in peril

A year after the attack on the Capitol, there's a growing realization that traditional tools to counter extremism in the U.S. may not apply.
Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with then-President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.

Even the vigils speak to our differences.

As the nation reflects on the year since a violent mob attempted to stop the certification of election results, there will be gatherings for those who believe the attack was an attempted coup and who are alarmed by the passage of restrictive voting rules in several states.

There will also be events for those who falsely maintain that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election and who consider those arrested in connection to the riot "political prisoners."

Whatever hopes Americans may have, the birth of a sympathetic to insurrection and growing support for political violence.

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