Ashli Babbitt was 35 years old, a U.S. Air Force veteran from San Diego, and a believer in QAnon conspiracy theories when she was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. She was attempting to climb through a shattered window into the Speaker’s Lobby as a mob pushed deeper into the

Jeffrey Sharlet, a veteran journalist and professor at Dartmouth College who was an early chronicler of the rise of Trumpism and its ties to religiosity, said these rallies were shaped by the prosperity gospel, a branch of Protestantism rooted in the supposition that, effectively, God wants you to be rich.

Aaron Babbitt pays tribute to late wife, who was shot dead during the Capitol riot, on fifth anniversary of attempted insurrection

Even before Babbit’s identity was known, far-right Texas Republican Larry Brock Jr. were already calling her the “first Patriot Martyr in the Second American Revolution” on Facebook. In the days following her death, her image became co-opted for a new MAGA movement.

The Trump administration will pay $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was shot and killed by a U.S. Capitol police officer while participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, per ABC. The payment will settle a civil suit initiated ...

House Democrats will also be holding a hearing on the five-year mark of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The Trump administration has agreed to pay just under $5 million to Ashli Babbitt’s family. They filed a wrongful death lawsuit over her shooting by an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot. She was shot as she tried to climb through the broken window ...