Divided in Chains: How Ego and Division Are Weakening the January 6th Movement
When unity breaks down, truth becomes the only anchor.
The January 6th movement was supposed to be built on solidarity. On loyalty. On the simple truth that we walked through the fire together, and so we should stand together now.
But in reality, the movement has become divided — splintered not by the enemy outside, but by the egos and ambitions within.
Too often, the spotlight is treated as the prize. Instead of amplifying the cries of those still suffering, some so-called advocates have turned the struggle into their own stage. Bad actors rise to prominence while true voices are drowned out. And those who seek genuine healing and truth are forced to walk carefully, never knowing who can truly be trusted.
The Broken Unity
I’ve seen it firsthand. Advocates who make it about themselves instead of the J6ers. People who talk louder than they listen, who promote confusion instead of clarity. And in the shadows of their noise, wolves slip into the fold.
Some mean harm intentionally. Others are simply lost, trying to help but causing damage. But either way, the result is the same: distrust, division, and disunity.
That’s why I no longer attend open-ended J6 events. I have to know who’s in the room, who’s on the stage, and what voices are being lifted up. The days of blind trust are long gone.
Principles Before Personalities
One of the gravest faults within the January 6th advocacy movement is the tendency to elevate personalities above principles.
When individuals become larger than the cause itself, truth suffers. Ego begins to eclipse integrity, and the movement fractures into rival camps orbiting around names instead of uniting around values.
The test of any movement is not how loudly its figureheads speak, but how faithfully its principles endure. History shows us again and again: when charisma replaces conviction, the mission decays.
Personalities rise and fall, but principles — justice, truth, loyalty, sacrifice — are what give a cause its permanence.
Our struggle suffers every time we allow the spotlight to matter more than substance. When the mission takes a back seat to the microphone, advocacy turns into audition. And every time that happens, those still imprisoned, those still suffering, are forgotten in the noise.
If the January 6th movement is to have lasting meaning, it must return to the basics: principles before personalities. Truth before ego. Mission before platform. Otherwise, it risks being remembered not for its fight for justice, but for its collapse into vanity.
A Spiritual Reckoning
I don’t spend every waking moment trying to call out bad actors — that’s not my mission. But when God places it on me to speak, I will. I know the difference between silence and complicity.
And here’s what I believe: one day, God Himself will sort it all out. He will reveal who was just confused, broken under the weight of trauma and fear — and who deliberately sowed chaos for their own gain.
The wheat and the chaff will be separated. The masks will fall. Truth will stand.
Walking Forward
Until that day, I walk with caution. I fight for those still behind bars. I pray for clarity in a movement where trust has been shattered.
And I rest in the knowledge that the same God who sees the sparrow fall also sees every false advocate, every deceiver, every selfish voice trying to hijack what was never theirs to begin with.
One day, the movement will be purified. Not by our hands. But by His.
“Promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
— Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
Scripture:
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.”
— Luke 8:17
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, in the midst of confusion and division, grant us wisdom to see clearly and courage to walk faithfully. Expose falsehood, strengthen the brokenhearted, and purify this movement so that truth may shine. Amen.
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