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The Oath Keepers has been identified as one of the "largest and most prominent organizations of the militia/patriot movement." [35] [36] Oath Keepers was founded in March 2009 by Elmer Stewart Rhodes, [37] [38] [39] a Yale Law School graduate, former U.S. Army paratrooper, and former staffer for Republican Congressman Ron Paul. [40]
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III (born 1966) is an American former attorney and founder of the Oath Keepers, an American far-right anti-government militia. [1] [2] In November 2022, he was convicted of seditious conspiracy and evidence tampering related to his participation in the January 6 United States Capitol attack culminating at the main campus of the United States Capitol complex.
Group’s leader Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditioous conspiracy
A trial starting this week in Washington, D.C., is the biggest test yet in the Justice Department’s efforts to hold accountable those responsible for the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a ...
The founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group and four associates planned for an "armed rebellion" to stop the transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors told jurors Monday at ...
Though the Conservative disputes the account of Dyer's involvement as showing a problem with the Oath Keepers as an organization, it notes that "Dyer was clearly associated with Rhodes's group [the Oath Keepers]" and "if Dyer is guilty of the weapons charge, that might seem to support the position that the Oath Keeper worldview encourages ...
Four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted Monday of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack in the second major trial of far-right extremists accused of plotting to forcibly ...
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes took the witness stand Friday in his seditious conspiracy trial, telling jurors he is a patriotic American as he tries to counter allegations that his far-right ...