- Demonstrators who were arrested and charged for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, claimed a spot at the Conservative Political Action Conference and railed against federal prosecutors, Republican lawmakers and CPAC itself for mistreating them.
- They said they have been shut out of the banking system, de-platformed from social media, blacklisted from flying on commercial airlines — wrecked financially and socially — and, worst of all, forgotten by most conservative leaders in Washington.
- At a panel discussion titled “True Stories of January 6: The Prosecuted Speak,” they said they were ignored or ghosted by Republican lawmakers who once claimed to champion their cause.
