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Confederate Battle Flag with him and unfurled it inside the building. According to some historians, while the Confederate Flag has appeared in the building before, it was the first time that an insurrectionist ever carried the banner inside the U.S. Capitol. According to court filings, Hunter Seefried helped punch out the Senate wing window and then clear the broken glass before he, his father and others entered the Capitol. Kevin Seefried was found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding, which is a felony offense, as well as four misdemeanors. The Department of Justice has alleged that at 2:16 p.m., just 3 minutes after the Senate wing was first breached, five individuals associated with the Nick Fuentes’s white nationalist “America First” movement entered the U.S. Capitol. The five, all of whom are in their 20s, have been identified as: Joseph Brody, Thomas Carey, Gabriel Chase, Jon Lizak, and Paul Lovley. Four of the five “initially met at an America First event and attended subsequent events together.” Nick Fuentes and other America First leaders espouse “a belief that they are defending against the demographic and cultural changes in America.” Online researchers say that Brody is the masked man seen in a photo wearing a MAGA hat and holding a rifle in front of a Nazi flag. (The photo was not taken on January 6th.) As discussed in Chapter 6, members of the America First movement, commonly known as