FREEDOM CORNER This patch of sidewalk in Southeast Washington, D.C., between the razorwire edifice of the D.C. jail and the rows of headstones in Congressional Cemetery, is a symbol of the Republican Partys possible future.

Every night inside the jail, Donald Trump supporters locked up for attacking the U.S. Capitol sing the national anthem. And every night at Freedom Corner, a small group of activists holding a vigil sings with them.

On several recent evenings, an inmate named Jeffrey Sabol, who pleaded guilty on Friday to attacking police during the riot, led the singing. Calling from inside the jail, Sabols disembodied voice was audible through a smartphone speaker held up to a mic, drowning everyone else out. Except for the line our flag was STILL THERE, which everybody yells because the inmates are still there, and so are their supporters, out on the sidewalk every night.

Theyve been doing this vigil for a year, livestreaming every moment, united by false beliefs about the 2020 election and what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. And even though theyve got regular antagonists and face complaints from neighbors, it looks like theyre never going away, and the martyrdom of insurrectionists seems to be taking root as prescribed history for elected Republicans.

Well be here as long as we can, the groups leader, Micki Witthoeft, told HuffPost during Tuesday nights vigil. We made a commitment.

Witthoeft is the mother of Ashli Babbitt , the 35-year-old Air Force veteran shot by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb through a barricaded door during the siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Witthoeft and her Freedom Corner regulars wear T-shirts with Babbitts image that proclaim she was murdered.

Trump has championed Witthoefts cause, collaborating with the prisoners on a song, helping the gang raise money from online donors and even calling in to the vigil itself .

We love Ashli, and it was so horrible what happened to her, Trump said through Witthoefts phone during a vigil in September. We cannot allow this to happen to our country.