Eleven members of the Oath Keepers have been charged with seditious conspiracy for their actions on Jan.
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Part of the challenge is untangling allegedly criminal behavior from constitutionally protected rights of assembly and free speech. Read More: With All Eyes on Washington, the Real Far-Right Threat Has Moved On “The threat is not greater or lesser, but different and evolving, and arguably more complex,” says Elizabeth Neumann, who led the Department of Homeland Security office that oversees responses to violent extremism from 2018 to 2020. With political violence on the rise, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a recent terror alert that domestic extremists seek to seize on the upcoming midterm elections. Just how far extremists will go as political tensions mount has law enforcement worried. “This all ends when we refuse to obey tyrants,” the Seattle Proud Boys chapter posted on Telegram last December, one of more than a dozen local groups that have grown in membership since Jan. government, which they see as having been “coopted by a cabal of elites actively trying to strip American citizens of their rights,” in the words of the indictment against one of the Oath Keepers involved on Jan. To hear some of their members tell it, the groups’ goal is not just to confront local opponents but also to undermine the U.S. That amounts to a 160% spike over the previous year. Anti-government militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys have appeared at 27 abortion-related events as of July 1, according to new data shared with TIME by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit that tracks political violence. 6 committee held its first public hearing, a Proud Boys group stormed a “Drag Queen Story Hour” event at a local library in California, shouting slurs and “You’re not safe here.” Over the July 4 weekend, a group of men wearing Proud Boys emblems gathered at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, while about 100 people associated with the white supremacist Patriot Front group marched through Boston, carrying shields and flags with their insignia.
Recently, these groups have been more visible in public.
They’ve disrupted school board and town council meetings to protest mask mandates. Over the last year and a half, the groups have surfaced at protests against COVID-19 vaccines and other government public health measures at state capitals. But evidence in hundreds of federal cases, hours of Congressional testimony and online posts among their members show that their efforts to overturn the 2020 election were just a small part of their larger ambitions. 6 attack is expected to focus on the allegedly criminal activity by their members that day, including seditious conspiracy and obstruction, as they attempted to keep then-President Donald Trump in power. The July 12 hearing by the House committee investigating the Jan. Eighteen months later, the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys and other extremist groups involved in the violence on Jan.
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