Father, builder, J6 survivor. Healing in public.
My own front porch — a domain I own, a feed I write, a place I can't be throttled off. Faith, family, building, and the long work of healing in public.
This isn't an investigation or a case file. It's a personal note. I'm going to be straight with you, because that's the only way I know how to do this.
In all the time I've been doing this work, I have never asked you for money for myself. I've asked you to share a story. I've asked you to send a tip. I've asked you to pray for a famil…
Lynn and Rhonda Tress say they are not looking for drama. They are looking for answers — about their granddaughter, their great-grandchild, a March 3 welfare check, and a criminal trespass warning they say they never received in writing.
An East Texas family says they tried to use the proper channel. They asked for a welfare check. No…
I am documenting this because it keeps happening.
Not once. Not one bad reply. Not one random stranger on a bad night. Every day.
I post about what happened to me in the D.C. Jail. I post about being suicidal in solitary confinement. I post about a lieutenant allegedly looking at me and saying, "Hope you don't die."
Then people show up under that post and prove the point.
I am not claiming every reply below is a prosecutable criminal threat. I am not pretending a screensh…
By Ryan Nichols — Marine veteran, J6 defendant, pardoned. Reporting on what I saw, what I lived through, and the officers whose names are now part of the public record.
I was alone in the SHU — solitary confinement, what we called the hole — at the D.C. Jail. I had been there more than t…
The comment is still up as of this writing.
On May 13, 2026, on a public Facebook thread, a verified account replied to me — by name — with this:
"Ryan Nichols you're a fucking pussy and you should've been put to death for treason."
The account posts under the name Jake Duffney and carries Facebook's blue ve…
A comment is making the rounds, so let me put this lie down before it hardens into "fact."
Under one of my posts, a man named Leland Combs wrote, in public:
"…at least she didnt go storm the capital and then try ruining people because your life was ruined. At least she didnt pull a gun out on someone at church either."
There …
Walking out of Harrison County Jail with both hands up. Not because I'm a crook. Because I know exactly what this looks like. A little Richard Nixon. A little Roger Stone. And a whole lot of *you picked the wrong man to try and silence.* They put me in a cell over what I inte…
 > *This is an account from an active matter. I am the named subject of accusations arising from an incident at my church on Mother…
Starting tomorrow, I start unleashing lawfare against those who tried wronging me locally.. Stay tuned.. I'm putting people on notice THROUGH the court system starting tomorrow. If you thought I was a menace in civil court - wait until you see me in criminal court defending myself. I plan on winning this, and the facts will prove that the allegations against me are false. Can't wait. Making criminals look silly in court who try to play me for a fool is what I live for.
Yesterday I recorded part of my daily routine — working out at home, moving my body, doing push-ups, upside-down push-ups, and talking to God. The clip is up above. Watch it first. The rest of this is the part I couldn't say while I was upside down on the floor. ## The cell I b…
This Memorial Day, I want to tell you about a man most of the country never heard of — and the few who did only got the worst version of him: **Michael Lopatic.** I knew him. We were locked up together in Washington, D.C. after January 6. So before you take the government's word…
My buddy Pete has voted at the same Katy library for five years. This week he went to confirm his spot for the **May 26 primary runoff** — and it wasn't his anymore. Pete and his girlfriend are registered Republicans in Katy. Same Harris County library branch on Franz Road, ever…
Crazy is everywhere. Evidence is everything. I'm watching a public situation play out right now — a father out in town with his family, acting completely unhinged: charging at people who are recording, cussing, trying to intimidate, making the whole thing look worse with every s…
When trials come, choose joy. That is easy to put on a picture. It is harder to live when the trial is your life. James 1:2-4 says: “Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And…
**Before I ask you for anything, let me tell you who's asking.** I'm Ryan Nichols. I served in the United States Marine Corps. I built a business with my own two hands. And when Hurricane Harvey drowned Houston, I didn't watch it on TV — I took a boat into the floodwater and pul…
DEVELOPING — posted the evening of May 23, 2026. I'll update this as the record firms up, and I'll correct anything I get wrong.
Around 6 PM Eastern this evening, what sounded like roughly 20 gunshots — some reporters on the scene counted closer to 30 — were heard near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just outside the White House complex, over toward the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Secret Service agents pulled the press corps off the North Lawn, move…
**Same case. Same arrest day. Same indictment. Same sentencing judge. Same day in court.** One walked out on time served. The other went to federal prison for 80 months. The difference wasn't what either man did at the Capitol — that was never tested at trial, and the pardons wip…
**This is every threat, slur, and "you deserve life in prison" comment X allowed to stay up against me in the last 24 hours — receipts, names, timestamps, and dissection.** My account is locked. Theirs are not. The asymmetry is the whole story. 
**🔥 This is the second time in 24 hours.** Yesterday X locked my account for a Liam Nissan parody reply. Today they locked it again — this time for the words "Space Force" and "discombobulater" in a sarcastic reply under a video about the Biden DOJ taking my kids. The official …
**Tonight, May 22, 2026.** An Obama-appointed federal judge in the Middle District of Tennessee — **U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr.** — **DISMISSED** the federal human-trafficking case against **Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia** (Case No. 3:25-cr-00115). The judge calle…
**May 22, 2026. The pattern of events, exactly as it happened. Every screenshot is below in order.** --- **Step 1 — The unprovoked attack.** A verified X account called **Liam Nissan™** (@theliamnissan, **460,200 followers**) opens at me, completely unprovoked: > "You broke th…
A senior federal judge looked at how I was being held before any trial, called it "terrible," and said — out loud, on the record — that my due process rights had been violated. Then I went back to my cell and stayed there. That is not my characterization of the hearing. It is th…
This is me, inside the DC Jail. Pretrial detention. No conviction. No sentence. Just held. Pardoned January 20, 2025. Charges dismissed with prejudice by U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. — the case cannot be brought again. I'm posting this so nobody forgets what happened. Not …
More updates coming out today for the J6 Case Timeline, including a full Tip Submission tool that allows you to submit tips about officers that day who were out of control, inciting the crowd, and causing chaos. I want to hear them all!!
I have made my decision. I am going to help build the January 6 case catalog on RealRyanNichols.com for January 6 defendants who want their story, their documents, their case files, and their evidence organized and made public. And I am doing it free. Not because it is easy. …
Pages of the McBride & Gross - authored, "Motion to Dismiss Count Two (18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2))" arguing the obstruction statute is a misapplied Sarbanes-Oxley document-tampering provision. Filed 8/12/2022 in case 1:21-cr-00117-TFH. Notable: this is the same legal challenge the …
If you're like me, you've probably been taken for every dime and ounce of energy from J6 attorneys, the Federal Government, your local government and everyone in between.
I am submitting my claim today.
If you want help, I will do yours for FREE, as a fellow J6er who understands.
Reach out and message me.
Happy Birthday Ryan Taylor Nichols Jr Just because I am not "Legally" allowed to speak to you, doesn't mean your father doesn't think about or love you. In fact, all I do is think about you and your brother. I miss you. Have a great birthday, son.
I am legally coming after every corrupt government official in Harrison County who violated my First Amendment rights this week. That excludes Judge Morin, who did the RIGHT thing and did not improperly gag me or violate my right to speak or work. That does include the Justice of The Peace who violated my First Amendment rights to speak online even after I gave him notice of it violating my rights and objected on the record.
I've spent a lot of years posting on platforms I don't own — getting boosted, getting throttled, getting suspended, getting reinstated, watching it all reset every few months.
I'm done renting space on someone else's land.
This is my home base now. If you want to hear from me directly, this is where you'll find me. Short updates, long reflections, photos, the occasional video. No algorithm deciding whether you see it. No mob deciding whether I get to speak.
I'm not here to…
I've been through a lot in the last few years. January 6th. Prison. Pardon. Business damage. Family damage. A lot of pressure, a lot of anger, a lot of distrust.
I'm taking this season to heal. To get my head right. To rebuild the things that actually matter — faith, family, mental health, the way I treat the people who love me, the way I show up in the world.
I'm still going to tell the truth about what I see. I'm still going to fight for the things I believe in. But I'm d…
A few ground rules so this stays a place real people can actually talk:
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Rent · food · mental health care after pretrial detention.
