The Blaze’s Steve Baker Confirms What StopHate Exposed Two Years Ago

In a stunning development that vindicates years of grassroots investigation, journalist Steve Baker of The Blaze has published evidence suggesting that the January 6 pipe bomber—whose identity the FBI claimed remained a mystery—may in fact have been a former Capitol Police officer. Sources reportedly provided a forensic match, raising explosive questions about the government’s role not only in the “pipe bomb” narrative but in the broader orchestration and cover-up of the Capitol chaos.

Baker’s revelation comes nearly two years after David Sumrall’s StopHate.com and his film 1,000 Days of Terror first exposed the uncomfortable truth: the violence that day was instigated not by protesters, but by law enforcement themselves.

The Original Warning: 1,000 Days of Terror

Released in 2023, 1,000 Days of Terror meticulously dissected hours of body-cam footage, radio transmissions, and eyewitness videos. Its opening frames recount how the mainstream media crafted a single narrative of “insurrection,” while omitting a timeline that told a “different story.”

The documentary exposed chilling moments—some of which are preserved in the transcript:

“Notice the smoke from the sniper’s barrel…This is where Joshua Black is shot in the face. He never saw it coming. First blood, but it wouldn’t be the last.”

Sumrall’s team argued that police aggression ignited the chaos.

Sumrall’s footage captured the precise escalation point: unprovoked police aggression on peaceful demonstrators, followed by flash-bangs, chemical munitions, and even what appeared to be live fire. The film showed agitators like Landon Copeland—later admitting Antifa affiliation—shoving protesters toward the police line as officers responded with disproportionate force.

The voiceover summarizes what was later echoed by hundreds of defendants and witnesses:

“The police reacted with violence, further infuriating what was a peaceful crowd…The anger spreads among the crowd from the unprovoked attack by federal agents. None of this had to happen.”

Sumrall’s team argued that this aggression ignited the chaos—literally calling it “the attack by police that ignited the past 1,000 days of terror.”

At the time, corporate media, both left and right, dismissed such claims as conspiracy theory. Yet the forensic findings now reported by Baker lend new weight to StopHate’s contention that elements within law enforcement appear to have been complicit in provoking violence or manipulating the narrative.

Connecting the Dots: From Police Agitation to Deep Cover

Baker’s investigation builds on that foundation by exposing the possibility that the pipe-bomb plot—used for years to justify sweeping domestic surveillance and prosecutions—may have originated from within the very institutions claiming to protect the public. According to The Blaze, forensic experts have matched images of the pipe bomber with a specific former Capitol Police officer, while the FBI continues to withhold the full video evidence from the public.

This revelation reframes January 6 not as a spontaneous riot, but as an engineered event

If verified, this revelation reframes January 6 not as a spontaneous riot, but as an engineered event—where federal or law-enforcement actors both incited and later exploited the violence for political ends.

For StopHate.com and the growing community of independent investigators, Baker’s reporting is not a surprise—it is vindication. Two years before these mainstream confirmations, Sumrall and his collaborators were already documenting the very conduct now coming under scrutiny: officers firing on unarmed citizens, agitators embedded in the crowd, and a coordinated suppression of evidence that could exonerate defendants.

The message of 1,000 Days of Terror resonates now more than ever:

“They told us there was fighting—but where? Were there any warnings to evacuate, much less safe exit routes? Dig deeper.”

People like David Sumrall were chroniclers of a suppressed reality.

Steve Baker, to his credit, is digging deeper. And in doing so, he has drawn the circle closed—linking the underground revelations of citizen journalists to the corridors of official inquiry.

A Pattern of Government Deceit

From the concealed identities of undercover agents to the hidden footage of Ashli Babbitt’s shooting, each new disclosure tightens the noose around the official January 6 narrative. The implications are profound: if the same security apparatus that failed to prevent violence was also staging or disguising its role within it, then the so-called “insurrection” was not merely a protest gone awry—it was the greatest act of political deception in modern American history.

The true story of January 6 is still unfolding, but one fact is clear: the people who sought truth early—those like David Sumrall, StopHate.com, and the countless citizen journalists risking everything to document the evidence—were not “conspiracy theorists.” They were chroniclers of a suppressed reality.

Now, with Steve Baker’s revelations surfacing from within the institutional press, that suppressed reality is becoming undeniable. What StopHate called “1,000 days of terror” may soon be remembered as the beginning of 1,000 days of reckoning.

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