Courtesy of Pam Martens
Women for America First; Ad for January 6, 2021 March
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Coalition Partners for January 6, 2021 March for Trump (Source: Internet Archives’ Wayback Machine)
It is perhaps the height of irony that the groups behind the event that led to the worst battle in the U.S. Capitol building since the British attempted to burn the place down in 1814 (during the War of 1812) call themselves Peaceably Gather, Moms for America, and the Rule of Law Defense Fund. Those names stand right alongside a group that acknowledges what it expects to go down: WildProtest.com.
Many of the web pages for the nine groups listed as Coalition Partners for the January 5th and 6th event have quietly disappeared from the Internet. Fortunately, the Internet Archives’ Wayback Machine has allowed us to reconstruct what these groups were doing and saying in the leadup to an event that has, thus far, resulted in dozens of serious injuries and the deaths of five people, including a Capitol Police officer who was beaten by the mob.
Amy Kremer, Chair of Women for America First Nonprofit that Organized the January 6, 2021 Event
The group that was officially in charge of the event, Women for America First, is Chaired by Amy Kremer who has a storied history with the Tea Party movement, following a career as a Delta Airlines flight attendant. After being a founding member of Tea Party Patriots, Kremer left to join Tea Party Express in 2009. Tea Party Express was a tentacle of the campaign PAC, Our Country Deserves Better. Kremer also made a failed attempt as a candidate for House Rep in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. NBC News reported that Kremer offered donors a chance to win an AR-15 assault rifle.
Kremer’s current group, Women for America First, appears to be scooping up donations coming in to her own website as well as that of others. For example, WildProtest.com says it is “Brought to you by Stop The Steal and its Coalition Leaders.” #StoptheSteal links to a donation page for Kremer’s group, Women for America First.
ABC News reports that while the January 6 demonstration “was publicly promoted as being organized by groups not directly tied to the president’s team, including ‘Women for America First’ and ‘Stop the Steal,’ behind the scenes White House staff and close allies of the president, including former Trump campaign staff, worked with the organizers to plan and promote the events on Wednesday that would ultimately erupt into the deadly storming of the Capitol, sources said.”
