Democrats have spent five years trying to rewrite the history of January 6.
Now they are targeting the next generation.
And Virginia Democrats just made it illegal for a teacher to tell students the truth about January 6.
Virginia Democrats Pass January 6 School Curriculum Bill. Jack Smith Couldn't Even Prove That.
Virginia's Democrat-controlled legislature passed HB 333, mandating that public school teachers describe January 6 as an "unprecedented, violent attack" on American democracy.
The bill doesn't stop there.
It bans teachers from describing the events as a peaceful protest.
It prohibits any classroom suggestion that election fraud may have impacted the 2020 results.
Violations carry no criminal penalties – for now.
The bill passed the state Senate 21-19 and the House 53-47, entirely on party lines.
Every single Republican voted no.
Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger, who promised Virginians she would govern as a moderate, is expected to sign it.
Here's what the bill won't allow teachers to say.
As of early 2026, not one person has been charged with or convicted of the specific federal crime of insurrection – 18 U.S.C. § 2383 – in connection with January 6.
Not one.
Even Jack Smith couldn't get there.
In his final report, Smith's own office admitted it could not prove January 6 met the legal definition of insurrection – noting the statute had not been successfully prosecuted in over 100 years and that applying it to January 6 "would have been a first."
Smith declined to charge it.
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University has documented this for years: the FBI investigated thousands and charged hundreds after January 6, but the Supreme Court later reduced many charges to simple trespass, rejecting broader obstruction claims.
Virginia Democrats are now requiring children to be taught the opposite as settled fact – while banning the legal reality from the classroom entirely.
New York Democrats Already Drafting Their Own January 6 Classroom Indoctrination Bill
The day Virginia passed HB 333, New York Democrats moved to copy it.
Long Island Democratic Assemblyman Chuck Lavine introduced legislation requiring all New York public school students – K through 12 – to receive mandatory instruction on January 6 as an insurrection.
Lavine told CBS News the goal is to make sure students aren't taught a "whitewashed" version of history.
He has until December to get his bill passed.
Virginia's bill is the first of its kind in the country.
It won't be the last.
Blue state legislatures are watching Virginia right now the same way they watched California during the Obama years – looking for what they can adopt and accelerate.
The Virginia Assembly of Independent Baptists saw this coming.
Executive Director Michael Huffman testified against HB 333, warning that "true education equips children for life, not political agendas."
Democrats voted him down anyway.
What Democrats Are Really Building
Delegate Dan Helmer said the quiet part out loud: "We won't allow a new mythology to grow up around Donald Trump."
That sentence is the whole plan.
Democrats lost the White House, the Senate, and the argument.
They still control government school systems in blue states, and they are using that control to guarantee the next generation of voters absorbs one Democrat-approved verdict on January 6 – with any competing account banned by law.
Turley put it plainly: the same Democrats who denounced any outside pressure on universities as an attack on academic freedom see nothing wrong with ordering teachers to present a legally contested claim as established fact.
Virginia built the mold.
Helmer already told you what comes next: they won't stop until the mythology is complete.
Sources:
- Charles Creitz, "Virginia Dems Mandate Jan. 6 Taught as Violent Insurrection, Ban Election Fraud Claims in Schools," Fox News, March 5, 2026.
- Jonathan Turley, "Virginia Democrats Move to Require Teaching Jan. 6th as an 'Insurrection,'" jonathanturley.org, March 6, 2026.
- "Virginia Passes Legislation Prohibiting Schools from Teaching Falsehoods About Jan. 6 Riot," CBS News, March 6, 2026.
- "Bill to Require Factual Teaching About U.S. Capitol Attack Clears Va. General Assembly," Virginia Mercury, March 4, 2026.
- Jonathan Turley, "The Disqualification of Donald Trump and Other Legal Urban Legends," The Hill, August 20, 2023.
- Breccan F. Thies, "Jack Smith's Report Proves The Media Was Always Lying About J6 'Insurrection,'" The Federalist, January 15, 2025.
