Ali Alexander, the far-right activist who organized “Stop the Steal” rallies in every state after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, was in extensive contact with a person working for the then-president before the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a transcript released Tuesday by the House committee investigating the violence.

In a text message to a right-wing media commentator on Jan. 5, Alexander said that “Trump is supposed to order us to the Capitol at the end of his speech.”

Alexander said he could not recall who told him this information when asked by an investigator, but he did acknowledge that he had been in direct contact with Caroline Wren, a Republican fund-raiser who helped raise large sums of money to produce the “Save America” White House rally at which Trump and others used violent rhetoric to speak to a crowd of his supporters to convince them to “fight like hell” to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s electoral victory.

The message sent by Alexander confirmed details in a Jan. 4 text message sent by Kylie Jane Kremer, one of the primary organizers of the “Save America” event, in which she told a donor that “POTUS is going to have us march there/the Capitol,” and that Trump organizers planned to set up an unpermitted second stage on which he would deliver another speech to supporters.

“It can also not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it, quote, ‘unexpectedly,’” she wrote.

Alexander also testified that he communicated regularly before and during the Jan. 6 protests with Thomas Van Flein, the chief of staff of Rep. Paul Gosar, an extremist Arizona Republican who was censured in November of 2021 for posting a stylized video to Twitter which featured him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

“POTUS wants force,” Alexander wrote in a text message to Van Flein in which he said that he needed Gosar’s assistance to get other far-right Republicans to attend Trump’s Jan. 6 rally. Under questioning, he said that he only meant that Trump wanted members of congress to show their support for him.

Alexander said that Gosar was the only legislator that was certain to speak at a “Stop the Steal” rally that he was organizing to take place in front of the Capitol that was to follow Trump’s speech at the White House Ellipse. He said that he had more distant communications with Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Mo Brooks (R-AL). Biggs was one of four House members who were referred to the chamber’s Ethics Committee for their refusal to comply with subpoenas issued by the Jan. 6 Select Committee.

Also during his testimony, Alexander, a close associate of conspiracy radio host Alex Jones, revealed that fans of Jones’s Infowars media fiefdom comprised “about a third” of the participants who attended Stop the Steal rallies, underscoring the prominent role that Jones played in organizing far-right opposition to Biden’s certification.

According to Alexander, he and his supporters coordinated their movements with Jones on Jan. 6, including an impromptu rally at Freedom Plaza, a small park in-between the White House and the U.S. Capitol building.

Further in his testimony, the former right-wing blogger said that his and Jones’s teams began sprinting toward the Capitol after learning that violence had begun outside the building but had to stop their running after “Mr. Jones could not keep up.” Besides spreading misinformation on the radio and internet, Jones is also known for selling nutritional supplements which he tells fans will increase their health.

As Trump supporters stepped up their attacks on Capitol Police and other law enforcement officials, Alexander testified that he received a message from his Trump contact, Caroline Wren, advising him to leave the area.

“I think you should leave,” she wrote in a text message referenced by the committee. “This will come down on you hard.”

(This article has been updated to correct that former Rep. Mo Brooks was a House member from the state of Alabama.)

TYT National Correspondent Matthew Sheffield reports about politics, media, and technology. You can follow him on Twitter or on Mastodon.