Candidates backed by Trump and Joe Manchin face off in West Virginia – follow live

Barton Shively, a 6 January rioter who is facing multiple charges in connection with the insurrection, has had his pretrial release revoked after probation officers found weapons in his house, violating the conditions of his release.

According to a court finding, the materials found included “hundreds of rounds of ammunition in various calibers, a sword, knives, and camouflage body armour”, as well as “a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with six rounds of shotgun ammunition”.

Read the filing below:

Far-right “shock jock” Alex Jones, whose long history of supporting false conspiracy theories has landed him in severe legal trouble, claimed on his show last night that he tried to stop the 6 January riot when it became clear what was happening.

“It’s a bizarre feeling to know that you did nothing wrong,” he told viewers. “To know that you had no motive, and to know that you tried to stop what happened”.

Mr Jones was called to speak to the 6 January select committee, but chose to plead the Fifth Amendment. Afterwards, he told his viewers much of what he refused to share with the panel.

Gino Spocchia has the story.

A round of redistricting in West Virginia has forced two incumbent Republicans to duke it out in a primary for a newly redrawn district – and the two of them have the backing of two very different heavyweight endorsers.

On the one hand is Alex Mooney, who enjoys the support of Donald Trump; he has positioned himself as a hardcore conservative who scorns any attempt at bipartisanship. He is facing David McKinley, a more moderate figure who has been endorsed by the state’s most senior Democrat, Joe Manchin.

Here’s a write-up from the Associated Press.

Mark Esper’s book about the extreme turn of the late Trump presidency has disgusted many on the right, and the hardcore element in particular. Among them is far-right agitator and sometime Trump advisor Steve Bannon, who used his podcast to threaten Mr Esper with “accountability” when the Trump faction take power back:

Brett Baier, One of Fox News’s more level-headed hosts, yesterday interviewed Mark Esper about his incendiary new book on Donald Trump’s more egregious behaviour as president – and gave the author a chance to state plainly that the ex-commander-in-chief was a threat to the future of the US’s democratic system.

Alexander Vindman, who served as a key figure during Donald Trump’s first impeachment over his efforts to extort Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating the Biden family, said last night on MSNBC that the events of January 6 “massively emboldened Vladimir Putin” – and that the possibility of an anti-democratic coup in the US was “probably one of the last tick marks on his checklist” of whether the attack on Ukraine “was going to be a low-cost exercise or not”.

Watch his remarks below.

One America News, the hardline Trump-friendly news network that has long propagated false stories of widespread organised fraud in the 2020 election, has issued an uncharacteristic on-air retraction of claims it made about two election workers in Georgia who were accused of manipulating the result.

Georgia is one of the states central to Mr Trump’s conspiracy theory about his defeat, but despite multiple investigations following up on his and others’ allegations, no evidence to support his various claims has been found. In addition, a grand jury has been convened to hear evidence about Mr Trump’s alleged attempt to pressure state officials into “finding” enough votes to flip the state his way.

Ken Paxton, the right-wing Texas attorney general who appeared at Donald Trump’s “stop the steal” rally before the 6 January Capitol attack, is facing potential disciplinary action from his state bar over his actions after the 2020 election. Specifically, the Texas bar is poised to include him in a lawsuit alleging he made dishonest claims in a petition to have the US Supreme Court overturn Joe Biden’s victory in four swing states.

Mr Paxton is a dogged Trump supporter who has been under indictment on criminal fraud charges for several years.

Jade Bremner has more.

Speaking at an event yesterday, Nancy Pelosi reiterated a point she has made several times before: that the Republican Party has moved so far away from its days representing the centre-right that it now resembles a “cult” – and that this is to the detriment not just of the party itself, but to the country, which would benefit from having a GOP that operated within the bounds of normality.

Take a look at her remarks below.

The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman last night shared some choice Trump quotes from a National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser, where it seems the former president was in an upbeat mood: