The right-wing militia “Oath Keepers” was ready to go into civil war for Donald Trump – and is said to have helped storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Now their leaders face years in prison.
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Fabian Fellman, Washington
Stewart Rhodes described his new project in pastels to his wife. He’s starting a free speech club, he told Tasha Adams in 2008 when he founded the “Oath Keepers” in response to the election of Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States. The keepers of the oath should become a civil rights movement like the well-known American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Rhodes said at the time, just not so left-wing. “We called it a libertarian take on the ACLU,” Adams says today.