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ASHLI: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6
The real question is not why thousands of women went to Washington on January 6. The real question is why the rest of us did not.
Unlike the women who descended on Washington in 2017 to protest the inauguration of President Trump, the women of January 6 did not come as women. They came as Americans, as patriots, as defenders of the republic. They did not wear pink hats. They wore MAGA hats. Their issues were indistinguishable from those of the men in their lives—the rule of law, free and fair elections, and the preservation of constitutional rights. They brought no laundry list of special needs like, say, “reproductive rights,” because they understood that no one was challenging their right to reproduce. In fact, many had reproduced abundantly.
There was not a single celebrity in their midst—no Ashley Judds, no Gloria Steinems, no Madonnas threatening to “blow up the White House.” These were Hillary’s “deplorables” in the flesh, a whole heaping basket of them, “irredeemable” to the last woman. On January 6, the very presence of these intrepid women at the Capitol so offended the natural order of things that many would be gassed and beaten. Two would never return home.
If resistance to government oppression has a face, it is that of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, a determined patriot and an enduring martyr. This is her story, and that of the other gallant women of January 6.
Unlike the women who descended on Washington in 2017 to protest the inauguration of President Trump, the women of January 6 did not come as women. They came as Americans, as patriots, as defenders of the republic. They did not wear pink hats. They wore MAGA hats. Their issues were indistinguishable from those of the men in their lives—the rule of law, free and fair elections, and the preservation of constitutional rights. They brought no laundry list of special needs like, say, “reproductive rights,” because they understood that no one was challenging their right to reproduce. In fact, many had reproduced abundantly.
There was not a single celebrity in their midst—no Ashley Judds, no Gloria Steinems, no Madonnas threatening to “blow up the White House.” These were Hillary’s “deplorables” in the flesh, a whole heaping basket of them, “irredeemable” to the last woman. On January 6, the very presence of these intrepid women at the Capitol so offended the natural order of things that many would be gassed and beaten. Two would never return home.
If resistance to government oppression has a face, it is that of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, a determined patriot and an enduring martyr. This is her story, and that of the other gallant women of January 6.
245 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 27, 2024
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June 20, 2024
Ever timely (still no justice for Ashli Babbitt or the other nine women profiled here, let alone the thousand plus other J6ers who've been treated badly in the gulags of the DC Capitol elite), Cashill has produced a really well written (smart, witty, playful, passionate, respectful and extremely well researched) book.
Over and over I gained a deeper understanding and appreciation for these individual women that I never got from the MSM reporting (which on the whole tried to dismiss them all as QAnon inspired, crazy white supremacist dupes). What you learn in these pages is that they were/are anything but that; each an independent American patriot, well informed and passionate about their own family, country and freedom. The only thing I'd suggest for a 2nd edition of this excellent account is inclusion of some pictures of these ten women.
Mark Twain once said, "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." These women knew exactly what he was talking about, and it would be great if one day we have a government worth supporting.
As good and recommendable as this book is be forewarned it's also incredibly frustrating, infuriating and disgusting to be reminded of the violent, sadistic and dishonest treatment these J6ers have been put though (first by the Capitol and Metro police, then the DOJ/FBI, the media, the courts, and all too often their Congressional representatives, employers, neighbors, friends and family).
Over and over I gained a deeper understanding and appreciation for these individual women that I never got from the MSM reporting (which on the whole tried to dismiss them all as QAnon inspired, crazy white supremacist dupes). What you learn in these pages is that they were/are anything but that; each an independent American patriot, well informed and passionate about their own family, country and freedom. The only thing I'd suggest for a 2nd edition of this excellent account is inclusion of some pictures of these ten women.
Mark Twain once said, "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." These women knew exactly what he was talking about, and it would be great if one day we have a government worth supporting.
As good and recommendable as this book is be forewarned it's also incredibly frustrating, infuriating and disgusting to be reminded of the violent, sadistic and dishonest treatment these J6ers have been put though (first by the Capitol and Metro police, then the DOJ/FBI, the media, the courts, and all too often their Congressional representatives, employers, neighbors, friends and family).
August 15, 2024
Filled with research, references, and compassion. This is a necessary book, honest in its portrayal of several of the women who went to the capitol on January 6th. Cashill has a crisp voice and dry wit. He leverages it magnificently against the fallacious mantras we've all heard lustily chanted since that day.
I had a friend visiting from abroad the other day and together we ran through some of the main points of this book. The factual points, the matters of record alone - eschewing the equally compelling vignettes for the sake of discussion - and he was astonished at the spin the American and international media collaborated to put on this event. Equally at home in both worlds, his country and mine, he was aghast at the course of the America he'd known several years ago.
I am too.
I implore anyone curious about what happened on January 6th to read this book. It's a quick read and you may be surprised. I am grateful as ever to Cashill and authors like him for producing the research required to ensure objectivity escapes an undignified end beneath a heap of outrageous ones and zeroes, and for proving there is still room for courage in American discourse. I honor it.
I had a friend visiting from abroad the other day and together we ran through some of the main points of this book. The factual points, the matters of record alone - eschewing the equally compelling vignettes for the sake of discussion - and he was astonished at the spin the American and international media collaborated to put on this event. Equally at home in both worlds, his country and mine, he was aghast at the course of the America he'd known several years ago.
I am too.
I implore anyone curious about what happened on January 6th to read this book. It's a quick read and you may be surprised. I am grateful as ever to Cashill and authors like him for producing the research required to ensure objectivity escapes an undignified end beneath a heap of outrageous ones and zeroes, and for proving there is still room for courage in American discourse. I honor it.
July 11, 2024
Hair on fire!!! So well researched and well written. If only our main stream media would bother to tell the truth about this event, and report it!, how different might our political landscape be.
February 22, 2025
The author really captured why we went to DC on January 6th. It truly was an awakening trip for me.
As the days and weeks went by, I started following the stories of J6ers that started to emerge through independent journalists that did not have a mainstream media presence. I was appalled to what I was hearing, tactical armed teams of FBI agents arresting people at all hours of the day or night, wanting to make the arrest a spectacle in their community, and scaring their children. Many, if not all, were sent to maximum federal prison for misdemeanors. No one was arrested for an insurrection. I learned the DC jail was the worse for the J6ers, solitary confinement, very little blankets or bedding, cold conditions, little nourishment, and many beatings. Yes, beatings. I believe Ryan Samsel is now permanently blind in one eye. The Freedom Corner was live on rumble channels every night with an update on who was arrested every day. Ashli’s mom was usually there as well.
You compare this to the BLM and antifa riots of 2020 where police officers were severely injured, a police station was burned to the ground, businesses lost. The riot in DC did cause around 200 some arrests but all those cases were dropped! It’s a travesty.
Everyone who still believes the narrative that January 6th was an insurrection needs to read this book if you want to know the truth. It is also very well sourced. So glad I bought the book. I doubt our local library has it anyway.
In the words of Naomi Wolf, a one time liberal icon as quoted in the book, “the gatekeepers who lie to the public about the most consequential events of our time, and who thus damage our nation, distort our history, and deprive half of our citizenry of their right to speak, champion and choose, without being tarred as would-be violent traitors - deserve our disgust.”
My review is in memory of Matthew Lawrence Perna June 27, 1984-February 25, 2022 who died of a broken heart. A Christian who read his Bible every day, were not as strong as these women, and couldn’t take the abuse; he was the first J6er patriot suicide.
As the days and weeks went by, I started following the stories of J6ers that started to emerge through independent journalists that did not have a mainstream media presence. I was appalled to what I was hearing, tactical armed teams of FBI agents arresting people at all hours of the day or night, wanting to make the arrest a spectacle in their community, and scaring their children. Many, if not all, were sent to maximum federal prison for misdemeanors. No one was arrested for an insurrection. I learned the DC jail was the worse for the J6ers, solitary confinement, very little blankets or bedding, cold conditions, little nourishment, and many beatings. Yes, beatings. I believe Ryan Samsel is now permanently blind in one eye. The Freedom Corner was live on rumble channels every night with an update on who was arrested every day. Ashli’s mom was usually there as well.
You compare this to the BLM and antifa riots of 2020 where police officers were severely injured, a police station was burned to the ground, businesses lost. The riot in DC did cause around 200 some arrests but all those cases were dropped! It’s a travesty.
Everyone who still believes the narrative that January 6th was an insurrection needs to read this book if you want to know the truth. It is also very well sourced. So glad I bought the book. I doubt our local library has it anyway.
In the words of Naomi Wolf, a one time liberal icon as quoted in the book, “the gatekeepers who lie to the public about the most consequential events of our time, and who thus damage our nation, distort our history, and deprive half of our citizenry of their right to speak, champion and choose, without being tarred as would-be violent traitors - deserve our disgust.”
My review is in memory of Matthew Lawrence Perna June 27, 1984-February 25, 2022 who died of a broken heart. A Christian who read his Bible every day, were not as strong as these women, and couldn’t take the abuse; he was the first J6er patriot suicide.
September 9, 2024
Terrifying book of what happened January 6. 2021. What happened to the people who went to Washington DC for redress of their complaints against a government which had let them down is absolutely horrible. I am afraid that I ordered the book. I am afraid that now I'm on a watch list and come the revolution the government will come after me for posting this review. I post this review despite my fear.
November 16, 2024
If resistance to government oppression has a face, it is that of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, a determined patriot and an enduring martyr. This is her story, and that of the other gallant women of January 6. ~ Jack Cashill
Why would I want to read about Ashli Babbitt and these other women of January 6?
Ashli Babbitt (CA) - Fourteen years in the Air Force
Rebecca Lavrenz (CO) - a great-grandmother and prayer warrior
Yvonne St Cyr (ID) - former USMC; traveled to DC with her husband
Rachel Powell (PA) - mother of eight; there to protest the election
Victoria White (MN) - first time in Washington; assaulted by USCP
Christine Priola (OH) - occupational therapist; her sign read: "The Children Cry Out for Justice"
Dr. Simone Gold (CA) - organized America's Frontline Doctors; critic of COVID regime
Lisa Eisenhart (TN) - nurse; traveled with her son
Sara Carpenter (NY) - retired NYPD cop; accused of brandishing a tambourine as a weapon
Rosanne Boyland (GA) - did not return home
👏Jack Cashill is a trusted conservative source. He is a local author, former talk show host, and a patriot.
👏Ashli Babbitt and the other women in the book could be my neighbors, friends, or fellow church members. They put their hands and feet behind their convictions about free speech and elections. They were not a Trump or QAnon fanatics.
👏Do you know the name of the officer who shot Ashli? He was not even in uniform and his name was withheld from the public for months afterward. His disgraceful actions need to be brought to light.
👏You may have heard that five officers lost their lives that day. Untrue. What about Kamala's account? The pipe bomb at the DNC? What really happened? I wanted to know.
👏With our country on the cusp of a new presidential administration, that day will certainly be given more scrutiny. This book is an important part of the healing that our nation needs.
Our nation's capitol is for the people. The January 6 protest was far from an armed insurrection.
The real question is not why these women went to Washington on January 6. The real question is why the rest of us did not. ~ Jack Cashill
Why would I want to read about Ashli Babbitt and these other women of January 6?
Ashli Babbitt (CA) - Fourteen years in the Air Force
Rebecca Lavrenz (CO) - a great-grandmother and prayer warrior
Yvonne St Cyr (ID) - former USMC; traveled to DC with her husband
Rachel Powell (PA) - mother of eight; there to protest the election
Victoria White (MN) - first time in Washington; assaulted by USCP
Christine Priola (OH) - occupational therapist; her sign read: "The Children Cry Out for Justice"
Dr. Simone Gold (CA) - organized America's Frontline Doctors; critic of COVID regime
Lisa Eisenhart (TN) - nurse; traveled with her son
Sara Carpenter (NY) - retired NYPD cop; accused of brandishing a tambourine as a weapon
Rosanne Boyland (GA) - did not return home
👏Jack Cashill is a trusted conservative source. He is a local author, former talk show host, and a patriot.
👏Ashli Babbitt and the other women in the book could be my neighbors, friends, or fellow church members. They put their hands and feet behind their convictions about free speech and elections. They were not a Trump or QAnon fanatics.
👏Do you know the name of the officer who shot Ashli? He was not even in uniform and his name was withheld from the public for months afterward. His disgraceful actions need to be brought to light.
👏You may have heard that five officers lost their lives that day. Untrue. What about Kamala's account? The pipe bomb at the DNC? What really happened? I wanted to know.
👏With our country on the cusp of a new presidential administration, that day will certainly be given more scrutiny. This book is an important part of the healing that our nation needs.
Our nation's capitol is for the people. The January 6 protest was far from an armed insurrection.
The real question is not why these women went to Washington on January 6. The real question is why the rest of us did not. ~ Jack Cashill
July 25, 2024
This was a very depressing book, and difficult to read. Not just because of the casual cruelty of the Capitol Police, or the Soviet-esque J6 show trials that suppressed evidence and violated Constitutional protections to convict the protestors. The book was a painful reminder that the United States is already far down the path to totalitarianism.
Consider these events that happened in the United States before J6:
- The Department of Homeland Security, which is no longer much interested in protecting American citizens from foreign threats. Instead has morphed into an agency that is obsessed with tracking down and punishing "racists" (read: Americans whose politics happens to disagree with the Federal government).
- The FBI, which has been hopelessly corrupt since J. Edgar Hoover, yet continues to operate with practically no oversight, let alone accountability.
- The ubiquitous NSA spying on the communications of American citizens even if they are not accused of anything.
- The near 100% conviction rate in cases brought by Federal prosecutors, a level of efficiency only seen in totalitarian dictatorships.
- A Federal government whose leaders openly declare that its own citizens are dangerous potential terrorists.
- A useless poodle press with a level of subservience to government officials not seen since the days of Pravda.
The United States still has a long way to go before it catches up with the Soviet Union, but that is clearly the trend.
Consider these events that happened in the United States before J6:
- The Department of Homeland Security, which is no longer much interested in protecting American citizens from foreign threats. Instead has morphed into an agency that is obsessed with tracking down and punishing "racists" (read: Americans whose politics happens to disagree with the Federal government).
- The FBI, which has been hopelessly corrupt since J. Edgar Hoover, yet continues to operate with practically no oversight, let alone accountability.
- The ubiquitous NSA spying on the communications of American citizens even if they are not accused of anything.
- The near 100% conviction rate in cases brought by Federal prosecutors, a level of efficiency only seen in totalitarian dictatorships.
- A Federal government whose leaders openly declare that its own citizens are dangerous potential terrorists.
- A useless poodle press with a level of subservience to government officials not seen since the days of Pravda.
The United States still has a long way to go before it catches up with the Soviet Union, but that is clearly the trend.
February 8, 2026
Of course it is slanted as Cashill is ultra conservative, but he backs up everything he says in the book. I would recommend for all to read with an open mind.
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