As the votes were counted on election night, an inmate at the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Tutwiler, Mississippi, lay on the floor of his prison cell. He pressed his ear against the crack under the heavy metal door, straining to hear the sound emanating from a television in the nearby guard station. There were few people in the world who had more personally riding on the results of the election than this inmate. His name: Enrique Tarrio . A leader of the Proud Boys militia group, Tarrio was less than two years into the twenty‑two‑year prison sentence he received after being convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

There were hundreds of January 6 defendants , but prosecutors considered Tarri

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