At 1:50, just before breaching the Capitol, Defendant Jessica Watkins texted over a previously arranged secure transmission system known as Zello: "We have a good group. We have about 30-40 of us. We are sticking together and sticking to the plan."
'On the January 4, 2021, Steve Bannon, while discussing the planning for the upcoming events and speech by Trump on January 6 at The Ellipse, described it as a "bloodless coup".'
"We aren’t getting through this without a civil war. Too late for that. Prepare your mind, body, spirit," Stewart Rhodes, in a Nov. 5, 2020 text to a group of Oath Keepers.