January 6 — where this Foundation started, and the families we are still standing beside.
The pardons came on January 20, 2025. They ended a 1,475-day ordeal and they did not end the work. Five years on, these families are still rebuilding — and we are still here.
In the months after January 6, 2021, hundreds of defendants faced pre-dawn raids on their homes, with their families bearing witness to the arrests that followed.
They were uprooted and relocated across the country, enduring relentless transfers between facilities, prolonged solitary confinement, and the denial of protections they had every right to expect. Jobs disappeared. Marriages buckled. Children grew up with a parent in a facility hundreds of miles away.
On the evening of January 20, 2025, pardons and commutations were extended to every January 6 defendant, bringing the ordeal to a close and restoring their freedom.
Legal forgiveness, though, is only the beginning. A pardon does not restore mental health, family ties, or livelihoods. It does not remove a docket from the internet, return the money a court took, or give a family back the years. That is the work that continues here.
Two programs remain open to every January 6 family, with no cost to the family and no requirement that you have ever worked with us before.
Counsel and filing costs for the matters that did not end with the pardon. We pay the lawyers; you are never billed for representation.
Direct, fast financial help when the ground gives out. No lengthy process and no waiting on a committee while an eviction clock runs.
The children of January 6 families lost years of stability while their parents were prosecuted and imprisoned. Many put college on hold, or off the table entirely. Beginning in spring 2027, the Foundation will fund scholarships so that the next chapter of these families is not decided by what happened to the last one.
JOIN THE LIST TO BE NOTIFIEDThe legal work for January 6 families is carried by our Stand for Justice™ initiative, through three projects — each aimed at something the pardons left behind.
Sealing the court records of clients whose cases never reached a final judgment.
Recovering the fines, assessments, and restitution paid to the government before the pardons.
Federal administrative claims for families left holding paperwork for a fund that no longer exists.
We keep their names, their families, and the truth of what happened to them at the center of everything we do.
A 14-year Air Force veteran, shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer while unarmed. Her mother, Micki Witthoeft, has advocated for answers every day since.
Crushed in the tunnel outside the Capitol after being pushed into a packed crowd. The circumstances of her death remain disputed to this day.
Died of a heart attack in the crowd outside, after flashbangs and chemical agents were deployed. He never entered the Capitol building.
A Pennsylvania man who organized a bus so his neighbors could attend. He died of a stroke near the Capitol grounds.
Their stories remind us of the cost of freedom and the need for truth in times of crisis.
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