Fanone, Dunn are fighting back politically after being attacked as police officers on Jan. 6

Policing was what Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone knew. Politics is what they’ve come to learn.

The former law enforcement officers brutalized at the hands of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol have for three years had front-row seats to how Washington responds, shifts and spins with historic events.

Both have chosen to amend their personal missions, turning their Jan. 6 trauma into political action.

“It’s important that every institution in this country, every American, take the responsibility of upholding democracy seriously,” Fanone said in an interview. “And everyone needs to be doing everything that they can to ensure that a) Donald Trump does not succeed and b) the MAGA movement is extinguished.”

Fanone is the face of a six-figure ad campaign to be launched Saturday by an advocacy group opposing what Democrats warn is a voter suppression bill.

Dunn announced Friday he will enter the crowded Democratic primary for Congress in Maryland.

On the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, the two are making forays into the political arena. They’re treading different paths, but both could serve as potent forces in the bid to stop former President Donald Trump from reclaiming the White House in this critical election year.

Fanone and Dunn say they feel compelled to move from protecting the country through policing to now protecting its integrity through politics.

“I like to live by the phrase, ‘Until there’s nothing that can be done, there’s always something that can be done,’” Dunn said in an interview. “As a Capitol Police officer, I did all that I can do in that role to protect, defend and preserve democracy. But that is exhausted now.”

Their names and stories have morphed into brands.

Their visibility was heightened