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The Oath Keepers has been identified as one of the "largest and most prominent organizations of the militia/patriot movement." [33] [34] Oath Keepers was founded in March 2009 by Elmer Stewart Rhodes, [35] [36] [37] a Yale Law School graduate, former U.S. Army paratrooper, and former staffer for Republican Congressman Ron Paul. [38]
Jacob Ware, co-author of the book "God, Guns and Sedition," notes that organizations like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were effectively "broken up" by the Jan. 6 backlash and the prosecutions.
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III (born 1966) is an American former attorney and convicted seditionist. He founded the Oath Keepers, an American far-right anti-government militia. [2] [3] 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 ...
Arroyo was the vice president of the Arizona chapter of the far-right militia the Oath Keepers in 2021 [2] [3] and 2022. [4] He is the founder of the Yavapai County Preparedness Team. [5] In 2022 he designed and led an effort to surveil ballot boxes in Arizona, in a program he named Operation: Drop Box. [1]
Stewart Rhodes, who founded the far-right anti-government military group the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of seditious conspiracy for ...
“The United States proved at trial that the Oath Keepers plotted for months to violently disrupt the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next,” he said in a statement on ...
In Canada, each juror has the choice to take either an oath or affirmation. The oath/affirmation states something to the effect of: Do you swear to well and truly try and true deliverance make between our sovereign lady the Queen, and the accused at the bar, who you shall have in charge, and a true verdict give, according to the evidence, so help you God?
A former Oath Keeper who gave “extensive” assistance to federal prosecutors investigating members of the anti-government militia group in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was ...