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A person attends a rally promoted by right-wing activists on the fifth anniversary of the January 6 riots in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2026. Washington on Tuesday marks five years since a mob overran the US Capitol, with rioters pardoned by Donald Trump retracing their steps even as Democrats revive hearings to hold the president accountable. The anniversary highlights a nation divided between irreconcilable accounts of an attack that reshaped American politics -- one supported by official findings of a violent bid to overturn an election, the other portraying it as a protest unjustly criminalized. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)