House January 6 committee subpoenas more Stop the Steal organizers

The January 6 House select committee's latest round of subpoenas reveals its desire to know more about a private company calling itself Stop the Steal sent, which was created after the 2020 election and helped plan a rally outside the Capitol that day.

"Over the course of that day, demonstrations escalated to violence and protesters became rioters," Congressman Bennie Thompson, the committee's chair, wrote in letters accompanying the subpoenas."The Select Committee needs to understand all the details about the events that came before the attack, including who was involved in planning and funding them."

The panel sent a subpoena to Ali Abdul Akbar, also known as Ali Alexander, a Stop the Steal organizer who had found prominence online as a conspiracy theorist arguing the election had been stolen from former President Trump. On January 5, Alexander led crowds at Freedom Plaza in chants of "victory or death."