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

By Tom Dreisbach,

Ayesha Rascoe

Published January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM CST

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.

Corrected: January 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM CST

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

Tom Dreisbach

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

Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and the Saturday episodes of Up First. As host of the morning news magazine, she interviews news makers, entertainers, politicians and more about the stories that everyone is talking about or that everyone should be talking about.