“Two weeks before Jackson Reffitt’s father traveled to Washington and took part in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, the 18-year-old sat in his bedroom in his parents’ Wylie, Texas, home and searched his phone for information about the FBI’s tip line,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“His father, Guy Reffitt, had sent what appeared to be increasingly menacing messages about lawmakers to a family group chat.”
Said the father in the text messages: “Too many lines have been crossed. Too many years this happened. We are about to rise up.”


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