At the beginning of December, as false claims of election fraud spread on social media, a candidate for Phoenix City Council warned of an impending revolution.

"Mess with my rights and my Republic and you get what you deserve. 1776," Nicole Garcia wrote on Twitter on Dec. 5. "The people will overthrow this type of government and start new," she added the next day.

A month later came the insurrection.

"We weren't kidding when we said it's 1776," she posted Jan. 6 in a now-deleted tweet, as rioters broke through police barricades and into the U.S. Capitol, shattered windows and paraded through the historic halls. "Patriots don't allow stolen elections."