Last June, six months after paying a visit to the occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Washington State Representative Matt Shea organized a chapter of the anti-Muslim hate group ACT For America in Spokane, Washington.
A nation roiled by a vicious and protracted presidential campaign and shocked and saddened by graphic evidence of the deaths of multiple unarmed black men at the hands of police officers, woke on July 8 to the nightmarish news that a sniper had assassinated five Dallas police officers who were providing security at an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest.
The radical right was more successful in entering the political mainstream last year than in half a century. How did it happen?
The Intelligence Project identified 623 extreme antigovernment groups that were active in 2016.
‘Patriot’ groups have long seen the government as their primary enemy. But now, the movement is adopting Anti-Muslim Hate
Joseph Rice, founder of the Oath Keepers chapter in Josephine County, Oregon, announced on Facebook last week that he intends to run for chairman of the Oregon Republican Party.
The Oath Keepers were in attendance at the swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump this morning. But while most onlookers were there to cheer on – or protest – the incoming president, the Oath Keepers were combing the crowd for suspicious behavior from political opponents on the left, and, of course, looking for anyone who appeared to be a member of ISIS.
Conspiracists, militiamen and bikers are up in arms over nefarious ‘Marxist’ plot to wreak mass chaos, cause a coup and assassinate the president-elect.
The acquittal of Ammon and Ryan Bundy, along with five other members of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, has resonated through the antigovernment extremist movement in unsettling ways. And the Bundy family is warning the fight might not be over.
With Donald Trump doubling down on claims of a “rigged” election, the Oath Keepers is calling all members to rush to the polls and monitor for voter fraud.
