Two of the most visible antagonists at the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol melee had previously made headlines — literally — for their over-the-top performances in protests of a much different kind.

Jake Angeli was wearing his same “shaman” outfit at a Phoenix climate protest in September 2019. While he was pictured carrying a sign “Q Sent Me” on Jan. 6, at the Maricopa County Courthouse he carried a sign stating “The poles are shifting! The ice caps are melting! This is Ragnarok! It’s time to wake up!” Ragnarok is the final battle of Norse mythology. This was published in the Arizona Republic in an article that described the crowd as “in the hundreds.”

But it seems that by February 2020, Angeli’s views had shifted toward supporting Donald Trump — or at least picking up the cause of the Q movement, according to an article in USA Today in which they cited the Arizona Republic (under common ownership with USA Today, by Gannett), as the source.