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To Williams, it felt more like a Verizon sales meeting than an insurrectionist cell.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025

The opening words of Section 3 list the specific offices from which an insurrectionist would be barred, she noted.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

His lawyers claimed he was "not an insurrectionist" and requested that he serve no jail time.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024

No one, he argues, feared an insurrectionist presidential candidate after 1865.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2023

To-day men are ready to lay down their working tools and listen to any insurrectionist, so aware has mankind become of an impending spiritual bankruptcy.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Graham, Stephen