This Memorial Day Let’s Remember the Traitors
It’s another way to honor our heroes…
Rather than lifting up the accomplishments and sacrifices of al those who have served, suffered, and died to protect our freedoms and liberties, I propose that we remember the people who have worked – are working so hard to take those freedoms away.
Let’s remember the traitors. Let’s remember the election deniers. Let’s remember the thieves and grifters stealing billions from the government. Let’s remember the voting rights and human rights deniers and hate mongers spewing venom towards women, gays, trans people and people of color.
I’m talking about Republicans and MAGA maniacs. Let’s start with the violent insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Remember that awful day when the United States Congress was meeting to certify the results of the 2020 election?
According to American Oversight:
On the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was meeting to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, a violent and heavily armed mob of supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. While lawmakers and staff were shepherded to secure locations or barricaded behind doors, the rioters pushed past severely outnumbered Capitol Police officers, breaking windows and vandalizing offices, many with disturbingly violent intentions toward members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence for their having refused to succumb to Trump’s attempts to overturn the election in his favor. Five people were killed, including one Capitol Police officer who was beaten by rioters. The attempted coup was not a spontaneous act. “The invasion of the U.S. Capitol … was stoked in plain sight,” ProPublica reported, with Trump supporters having for weeks discussed openly their plans for a violent overthrow. Their goal of stopping the election certification, based on unfounded conspiracy theories of widespread voter fraud, was encouraged by elected officials like Rep. Mo Brooks, Rep. Paul Gosar, Sen. Josh Hawley, and Sen. Ted Cruz. The biggest instigator, of course, was the former president himself, who for months had fanned the flames of conspiracy and earlier that day urged the crowd to march to the Capitol and “fight.”
We all followed the investigations and endless testimony of the participants and defenders – we followed the trials of the insurrectionists and traitors. We heard the horrifying testimony of the Capitol Hill Police who were attacked and injured.
According to Wikipedia, As of January 20, 2025, 1,575 people had been charged in connection with the January 6 attack, of whom 1,021 had pleaded guilty and 249 had been convicted at trial.
Upon coming into office in 2025 President Trump pardoned all but 14 of those rioters and traitors. In April 2026, Department of Justice prosecutors filed a request to vacate the felony convictions for four Proud Boys who had received commutations rather than pardons, and indicated an intention to make similar requests for other January 6 defendants who had received commutations. So, our Department of Justice has been transformed into the Department of Insurrection and Nazi Enabling.
Let’s begin our Memorial Day remembering of traitors and crooks by taking a look at what happened to these people. Here’s one headline from the Los Angeles Times, “Freed by Trump, the Jan. 6 criminals are preying on children and others.” The report states:
There is Andrew Paul Johnson, who once described himself as an “American terrorist.” Johnson was recently sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children — and reportedly attempted to use anticipated Jan. 6 compensation money to bribe one of the victims into silence. Or take David Daniel, another pardoned participant, who admitted assaulting police during the Capitol riot and later reached a plea agreement involving allegations that he enticed a child under 12 into sexually explicit conduct for the purposes of making a video. Daniel Tocci was recently sentenced after investigators found more than 100,000 child sexual abuse images and videos, along with other material so grotesque it’s best not to describe it here. And who could forget that just this past February, Christopher P. Moynihan pleaded guilty to threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. During the Capitol riot, Moynihan had been filmed rummaging through senators’ desks muttering about finding something “against these f— scumbags.”
All freed by President Trump.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a Washington based civics organization that describes itself like this:
With over 20 years of expertise, CREW is leading the fight to hold government accountable to the American people and to preserve the democratic institutions Americans count on. Using bold legal actions, we target corrupt officials who sacrifice the common good for personal gain and who undercut our system of checks and balances. Through in-depth investigations and public advocacy work, we demand accountability for undue political influence. And with innovative policy work and strategic communications, we advocate for ethics and democracy reforms to prevent future abuses of power.
CREW issued a report in December of 2025 headlined “At least 33 pardoned insurrectionists faces other criminal charges – but many are now going free.”
The report states:
At least 33 January 6th insurrectionists pardoned by President Trump have been rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes since January 6, 2021, according to new analysis by CREW. Four pardoned insurrectionists have allegedly reoffended since receiving their pardons. Several have argued that the pardon should cover unrelated criminal convictions, and in one case last month, Trump explicitly re-pardoned one insurrectionist for his unrelated weapons charges.Six of the pardoned January 6th insurrectionists are charged with committing child sex crimes, ranging from sexual assault to possession of child pornography. At least five were charged with illegal possession of weapons, including at least two who had a previous domestic violence conviction. Five were arrested or charged with driving while impaired or under the influence. In two of these cases, the defendant’s reckless driving resulted in a fatality. Two were charged with rape.
Here are the 33 – You can get details and background information here.
John Daniel Andries - Assault of multiple people, including a police officer in 2022
Brent John Holdridge - Burglary, grand theft and possession of stolen property
Zachary Jordan Alam
Christopher Moynihan
Joshua Dillon Haynes -Malicious bodily injury, strangling, assault on a family member
Alan Michael St. Onge
Andrew Taake - Solicited a minor
David Daniel - Possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of a minor
Theodore Middendorf - Sexual assault of a child
Kyle Travis Colton - Receipt of child pornography
Kene Brian Lazo - Aggravated sexual battery of a child under 13
Emily Hernandez - DWI causing death of another
Shane Jason Woods
Miles Adkins
Dominic Box
Bryan Betancur Battisti
Jarod Lee Hawks - Battery and resisting an officer
Daryl Johnson
Jia Liu
Dillon Colby Herrington - First-degree rape
Joseph Martin Pastucci - Rape and sexual assault
Joshua Atwood - Armed robbery and malicious assault
Edward Kelley - Conspiracy to murder law enforcement officers
Taylor Taranto
Daniel Ball - Illegal gun possession given felony record of domestic violence and strangulation
Timothy Desjardins - Discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence
James Tate Grant
Benjamin Martin - Illegal possession of firearms and ammunition given previous domestic violence conviction
Nathan Donald Pelham
John Banuelos - Aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault
Andrew Paul Johnson - Child molestation and lewd or lascivious behavior to a child under 16
Dan Wilson
Are you horrified and outraged? Is this how the President and his MAGA fascists honor the men and women of the Armed Forces, our first responders, and law enforcement officials wherever they serve?
I call on America’s nonprofit social justice and research sectors to track and call out traitors and election deniers wherever they are and whenever they attempt to re-emerge into public life. Do not hire them. Do not put them on boards and commissions. Certainly do not elect them. If the President pardons felons and rapists and traitors, we must remember them. We must make our own lists – we know we are certainly on theirs. The call to action in 2026 and beyond is #FireAllRepublicans.