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NPR investigation shows how the government tried to erase information about January 6

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By Tom Dreisbach,

Ayesha Rascoe

Published January 4, 2026 at 7:56 AM EST

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. An NPR investigation details how the Trump administration is trying to erase government information on the attack.

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Corrected: January 5, 2026 at 10:40 AM EST

This story provides an incorrect web address for NPR’s visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021. The correct address is npr.org/j6archive.

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Tom Dreisbach

Tom Dreisbach is a correspondent on NPR's Investigations team focusing on breaking news stories.

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Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.

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