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Protesters in Chicago march against ICE and the National Guard on Oct. 25, 2025. ( KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump claims unchecked power over troops

Sabrina Haake
An Oath Keeper from Idaho in Bozeman, Montana, shows off his membership. (William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images)

How Oath Keepers became part of GOP

Isaac Arnsdorf - ProPublica
NYPD officers arrest a protestor during a "Black Lives Matter" demonstration on May 28, 2020 in New York City, in outrage over the death of a black man in Minnesota who died after a white policeman kneeled on his neck for several minutes. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

Data leak connects Oath Keepers to NYPD

Jon Skolnik
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

6 years for Whitmer plotter who flipped

Igor Derysh
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Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia, was spotted by a Salon reporter at CPAC in Dallas Friday, sporting an official CPAC pass (left). (Zachary Petrizzo)

Oath Keepers founder spotted at CPAC

Zachary Petrizzo
Wayne LaPierre | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

NRA laid groundwork for Capitol riot

Igor Derysh
American political consultant Roger Stone is seen on stage as he gives a speech to Trump supporters before the Congress count the Electoral College votes in Washington D.C., United States on January 05, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Was Roger Stone behind the Capitol riot?

Roger Sollenberger
Several people hung Gov. Andy Beshear in effigy. (Twitter/@ladd_sarah)

Beshear condemns GOP hypocrisy on effigy

Roger Sollenberger
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Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney walks the hallways of the Capitol after a news conference on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Timothy J. Gonzalez) (AP)

Oregon Dems cave after GOP senators flee

Igor Derysh
James Badge Dale as Gannon in "The Standoff at Sparrow Creek" (Photo courtesy of Cinestate and XYZ Films)

Militia men: "Standoff at Sparrow Creek"

Gary M. Kramer

Brendan Gauthier
(AP/Rick Bowmer)

One's a "patriot." One is dead

Chauncey DeVega
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Right-wingers descend

Sophia Tesfaye
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I got the 2nd Amendment wrong

Philip Gulley
(AP/Jeffrey Phelps)

GOP's vote-suppressing militia

Heather Digby Parton
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