“We are going to peacefully and patriotically walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to make our voices heard,” President Trump told his supporters on January 6, 2021, deliberately avoiding a more forceful call to action.
In turn, from 2021 to 2024, the tyrannical, illegitimate Joe Biden regime, complete with its allies in government and media, relentlessly pushed a defamatory narrative that President Trump “incited an insurrection,” based merely on his peaceful words and actions protesting a presidential election hijacked by millions of unverifiable ballots.
Today, five years later, Real America’s Voice and War Room Films have chronicled the true history of the events leading to, and stemming from, January 6, with their brand-new documentary film: The Sleeping Giant, available to stream for free, here.
The Sleeping Giant, a grippingly fast-paced yet definitive history of the 2020s, was written, directed, and co-produced by Dan Fleuette, a longtime lead producer for Steve Bannon’s numerous political films, and inaugural producer of Bannon’s hit WarRoom program.
The Sleeping Giant showcases abundant evidence that conservatives were unjustly targeted by the federal government and mass media, in most cases, simply for being peaceful patriots: the nightmare of an authoritarian globalist opposition.
After The Sleeping Giant premiered on January 5, 2026, Dan Fleuette spoke with The Gateway Pundit, elaborating on his view that a culture of deep national distrust greatly fueled tensions surrounding the stolen 2020 election.
“Leading up to 2020, the distrust in authority was at an all-time high,” Dan Fleuette told The Gateway Pundit.
“It was a really dark time in our history because you could no longer rely on the things that you saw, felt, and experienced. The gaslighting by authorities was off the charts. Nothing made sense and it was very destabilizing.”
“I think that angst carried through into the 2020 election. People saw a lot of corruption, and their questions about the improprieties they witnessed surrounding the election were never really answered. I think people were protesting all the gaslighting against themselves as much as anything else. And January 6 was kind of the culmination of their frustration,” Dan Fleuette said.
The Sleeping Giant begins by tracing this precise culmination. The film splices video of President Trump’s speech on January 6 with footage of protesters storming the Capitol, and footage of the tyrannical false narratives being pushed by Democrat lawmakers and television newsrooms.
The Gateway Pundit selected the most powerful narrative remarks from The Sleeping Giant after being granted access to the film during its limited pre-release screening.
According to The Sleeping Giant:
They told us it was the darkest day in American history: darker than Pearl Harbor, darker than September 11. For years, those words echoed across American television screens.
But outside the studios, outside the fear machine, millions of Americans were asking a different question. What really happened?
Before January 6 arrived, the nation had already been transformed by fear.
At first, Americans were told, “15 days to slow the spread.” Those 15 days became months; months became years. Businesses closed. Churches shuttered. Families were separated. The nation was told where they could go, how close they could stand, what it must wear.
Fear became the language of authority. Then the election approached. Americans were warned that voting in person was dangerous, that touching a ballot could carry death. And with that warning came a transformation no one had voted for: mail-in ballots; unmanned drop boxes.
Then came election night. Americans went to bed thinking one thing: Donald Trump was winning. Then the counting stopped. Counting rooms closed to the public. Joe Biden’s numbers began rising in a line so sharp, it defied every historical voting pattern on record.
Yet this distrust did not begin on January 6. It had been building for years: from the Russia investigation that collapsed under scrutiny; to two impeachments that ended without removal; to riots that burned cities while officials called them “mostly peaceful”; and to lockdown rules that applied to citizens, but not politicians.
Video showed Capitol Police ushering [J6] protesters inside, calmly guiding them through hallways, even acting as tour guides. The overwhelming majority of protesters weren’t rioters; they were peaceful visitors, while officers stood by, made no arrests, and never even told them to leave.
It would later be acknowledged publicly that federal agents were present in the crowd that day — embedded; unidentified — which raised a question the nation still has not answered: what role did they play?
Requests for National Guard support were declined. And while the nation watched confusion on screen, the real reckoning had yet to begin.
What followed January 6 was not an investigation. It was a purge. Before evidence was reviewed, before timelines were established, before responsibility was determined, the guilty verdict had already been delivered by the media.
Within days, federal agents launched the largest manhunt in American history. The machinery of government shifted into punishment mode. Men were taken away from their homes in front of their families — phones seized, computers confiscated, bank accounts frozen. Some had never entered the Capitol. Some had committed no violence. Some had followed police instructions throughout the day.
None of that mattered. People were jailed before trials were held, before evidence was reviewed, before intent was proven.
The presumption of innocence was replaced with the presumption of guilt. Families were left behind to face the fallout. Court dates were delayed. Evidence was withheld. Discovery stalled. Defendants sat for months — then years — and then they were told that their defenses would not be allowed.
Only the narrative mattered.
Then came the weaponization of a single statute: a federal obstruction charge carrying a potential 21-year sentence. Defendants were told if they did not plead guilty, they could spend decades behind bars.
In June of 2024, that statute was overturned by the Supreme Court. But by then, the damage was done. Pleadings had already been forced. Sentences had already been handed down. Lives had already been shattered.
Across the system, conditions worsened. Men were placed into solitary confinement for up to 18 months — 23 hours a day, alone. Visits with family were canceled. Phone calls were limited. Letters were delayed or lost.
Some waited more than a year before seeing a courtroom. And when sentences were finally handed down, another quiet mechanism engaged. Even those convicted of misdemeanors were sent to medium security federal prisons — facilities reserved for hardened criminals. Among them were veterans. Some remain without their military benefits to this day.
And still, the media pressed forward. The story never shifted. No matter what evidence emerged, no matter what inconsistencies surfaced, the verdict was never revisited.
And yet, beneath the weight of the machinery, beneath years of isolation, beneath the quiet devastation of canceled lives — something else was happening inside the walls where no cameras were allowed.
For the men branded as January 6 defendants, freedom vanished in an instant. They had not yet been found guilty. Medical care was delayed or denied outright. Mental health deteriorated. Depression took root. Hope wavered. Some went without holding their families for two years.
Outside the walls, life collapsed just as quickly. Homes were sold. Marriages were strained beyond recognition. Inside the prisons, the men were told they were domestic terrorists and enemies of the state.
And yet, in the darkest places, men began to pray. Some had never prayed before. Men consumed by anger started to seek peace. Walls that were meant to isolate became unlikely places of transformation. Where the system hoped to break them, faith began to rebuild them.
And then something remarkable happened. In one facility, someone began to sing the National Anthem. Harmony formed where despair was supposed to live. Men who had been silenced by isolation found strength in unison. Men who had lost their voices in court recovered them in song.
Notably, while on a phone call with her imprisoned son, the mother of one January 6 defendant recorded the initial demo track that would miraculously become a Billboard #1 song.
As The Sleeping Giant continues:
The song was called “Justice For All.” It was not just a performance. It was a declaration. Their voices carried through static, through steel, through confinement. And woven between their voices was the voice of the 45th and 47th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
President Trump recorded the Pledge of Allegiance. The National Anthem, and Trump’s pledge, were fused into one piece of music — two Americas speaking at once — one from confinement, one from freedom.
The song was released as a charity record, with every dollar redirected toward legal aid for the men still sitting in prison.
And then something happened that no one could have predicted. The song skyrocketed. “Justice For All” surged to #1 on the Billboard digital song sales chart.
With the support of Real America’s Voice and the WarRoom audience, the song spread across the country. Millions shared it. Millions were reminded that the men they were told to forget still had voices. For the first time since their arrests, many of the men felt human again.
Parker Sigg, Vice President of Real America’s Voice, shared with The Gateway Pundit that his network’s involvement in The Sleeping Giant was never simply about one single song or one single film, but about a much broader moral commitment.
“Real America’s Voice was built for moments exactly like this — to stand in the gap when powerful institutions try to erase people, rewrite history, and silence dissent. Our work with the January 6 defendants has never been about politics; it has been about principle, truth, and basic human dignity. We will always fight to give a platform to the voiceless, to shine light where there has been darkness, and to make sure that Americans who were cast aside are never forgotten,” Parker Sigg said.
In the words of one January 6 defendant from The Sleeping Giant:
“We had Jesus Christ and the American people backing us, but that song was our rally song, our rally cry, and it was our defiance — screaming into the abyss and saying you’re not gonna destroy us. We will never surrender.”
Still, even after President Trump completed the greatest political comeback in modern history and pardoned nearly every January 6 prisoner, real hardship continued for most January 6 prisoners once freed.
According to The Sleeping Giant:
Though some walked free, the identity of the January 6 defendant followed them everywhere. Public reputations were scarred beyond repair.
Now, as their voices move once again beyond prison walls, as their song echoes across a divided nation, as their testimony finds ears willing to listen, the story they carry is no longer only about January 6 — it is about what happens when fear replaces law; when accusation replaces due process; when narrative replaces truth.
And yet, something remarkable happened again. The men who once recorded through prison phones returned to studios as free men. And they released a new song: “Anthem of the Free” — a declaration that captivity did not break them, that injustice did not own them.
The song shot to #1 on iTunes, with the help of the Real America’s Voice audience, proving once again that together, we can do great things. They returned with a full-length album, a body of work forged through fire, and finished in freedom. Standing behind the project, once again, is Real America’s Voice, the same movement that refuses to let the men’s voices be erased.
Today, for the first time in years, Americans can speak freely, without fear of persecution, under First Amendment rights afforded to them by the U.S. Constitution.
The Sleeping Giant urges Americans never to lose oversight of their government again, clearly stating this bottom line for American citizens to remember:
The sleeping giant is the American people. It is the citizen who assumes the system will always protect them; the family who believes this could never happen to them; the worker who trusts that the law will always be fair. That is how giants fall asleep: not through tyranny, but through comfort.
And giants do not awaken through speeches. They awaken through suffering. They awaken when regular men become warnings; when singing behind bars becomes a National Anthem. Giants awaken when people realize that freedom is not inherited; it is defended.
These voices carry a message no government can silence: Freedom is never guaranteed, and it is always one generation away from extinction.
The sleeping giant is awake now. The only question left is what it will do with its awakening.
In speaking with The Gateway Pundit, Dan Fleuette called upon conservatives to fill today’s cultural vacuum with high-quality media and art.
“If you want to affect real change in this world, you have to affect culture. I hope this film is certainly part of a change in that culture, where people create more and more content like what we’ve featured,” Dan Fleuette said.
“But keep in mind that we’re able to empower people even with such a small subsection of the entire culture. People are tired of Hollywood, or tired of studios, or tired of the Netflix interpretations of history. They’re dead.”
“The fact is that there’s a huge vacuum. It needs to be filled with something. And there has never been a better time to affect culture with content that speaks more broadly to our historical underpinnings.”
“Our culture has been taken over, for the last 50 years plus, by the leftists. And it’s now time to take it back,” Dan Fleuette said.
The Sleeping Giant definitively serves as a new and significant American historical artifact.
As Dan Fleuette urges, the time is finally ripe for patriots to dominate American culture with the truth.
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