archive
generate_before_content_function
Oath Keepers is a far-right militia group established in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, a graduate of Yale Law School. The group was heavily involved in the insurrection, helping to spearhead the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and found guilty of seditious conspiracy in 2022.
generate_before_content_function
About On Jan. 6, 2021, pro-Trump demonstrators protested at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. The protest descended into violence when right-wing protesters fought with BLM members and other progressive groups. Ohio Highway Patrol troopers and Columbus Police officers were called in to break up the skirmishes. The right-wing activists held their rally under the banner … Read more
generate_before_content_function
Proud Boys is a hate group that promotes white nationalism, along with misogynist and anti-Muslim views. Members played a key role in the insurrection after being called on to wage “all-out revolution” to keep Trump in the White House.
generate_before_content_function
Roger Stone is a political consultant who served as a campaign adviser to Donald Trump in 2015 and ultimately remained an ally despite being fired from the campaign due to a reported falling out between the two men.