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On Jan. 6, 2021, Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, leader and founder of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia group, was prepared to give an order he had no experience in giving.
Caleb Berry, 23, of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced to three years of probation for his part in the Oath Keeper's conspiracy on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Oath Keepers, an anti-government militia, spread to nearly every corner of Colorado over the past decade, claiming members in various law enforcement agencies, political offices and seats of ...
Jury deliberations began Tuesday in the trial of five members of the Oath Keepers militia group, who are accused of plotting to block Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 election ...
Five of the Oath Keepers who had sentences commuted by the president -- including Rhodes, who was facing 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy -- were military veterans.
WASHINGTON — A former Texas prosecutor will serve a year in prison for ordering members of the Oath Keepers militia to destroy evidence about their involvement in the Capitol riot after Jan. 6 ...
The Oath Keepers have claimed as many as 30,000 members, though the actual count is likely much lower, according to the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League. Pitcavage said the group probably has ...
If the Proud Boys are the U.S. far-right’s street brawlers, the Oath Keepers are the movement’s military vanguard, with Yale graduate, military veteran and eye-patch-wearing Elmer Stewart ...
Caldwell sat alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and several of his lieutenants during a 10-week trial in 2022 as prosecutors argued he’d been a key player in the militia’s planning ...
A Texas woman who served as the former general counsel for the Oath Keepers pleaded guilty Wednesday to telling militia members to destroy potentially incriminating messages after the Capitol ...
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was convicted on Tuesday along with one of his subordinates of seditious conspiracy as a jury found them guilty of seeking to keep ...
The Oath Keepers recruit military veterans and law enforcement, appealing to a patriotic sense of duty. However the paramilitary group has long been steeped in conspiracy.