The Good Roll: Oath Keepers Membership

Simply stated the mission of the Oath Keepers is to protect the constitutional and natural rights of the American people from government overreach and abuse of. Members of all three far-right groups face charges in relation to the riot.

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Oath keepers membership. But what makes Oath Keepers unique is that its core membership consists of men and women in uniform including soldiers police and veterans. In a membership list obtained by The Atlantic there were nearly 25000 names. That mysterious woman is Jessica Watkins a 38-year-old Army veteran.

In Louisville members connected with the Kentucky Mountain Rangers another armed group in the mold of the Oath Keepers. The Oath Keepers militia was founded by former US Army Paratrooper and disbarred lawyer Stewart Rhodes in 2009 to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Rhodes has said that the Oath Keepers with a membership that the group claims has at times exceeded 35000 are simply patriot s a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military police and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to defend the Constitution.

Shes the leader of a self-described Ohio militia group and member of the Oath Keepers. Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason. Ohio residents Watkins 38 and Crowl 50 are believed to be members of the Ohio State Regular Militia a local militia group authorities called a dues-paying subset of the Oath Keepers.

Membership data is closely guarded. Federal prosecutors have arrested and charged nine members of the Oath Keepers in connection with the insurrection so far. An Oath Keepers member said he organized an alliance with the Proud Boys and Three Percenters.

ADL estimates there are between 1000 and 3000 Oath Keepers though the groups influence extends well beyond that number. It seems clear that they do not have anywhere near that number of members but they do have at least a couple thousand which makes them one of the largest anti-government extremist groups in the US larger than any militia group. The Oath Keepers which claims tens of thousands of present and former law enforcement officials and military veterans as members is one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the US.

Rhodes claimed in 2014 that about 35000 members paid dues to. It now has tens of thousands of members possibly making it the largest militia in the US. The Oath Keepers along with the Proud Boys and Three Percenters are one of the largest organized groups the Department of Justice has identified as participating in the riot.

The Oath Keepers are a large but loosely organized collection of antigovernment extremists. Oath Keepers works with a variety of groups. His fellow members Jessica Watkins 38 of Champaign County Ohio and Donovan Ray Crowl also of Ohio were also charged and the three are accused of conspiring to forcibly storm the US.

Jessica Watkins 38 says she has disbanded her militia group and is canceling her Oath Keepers membership in wake of arrest in Jan. Though the Oath Keepers official membership data are closely guarded by the organization the SPLC reports that in 2016 the group claimed that it counted tens of thousands of present and former. The Oath Keepers claim to have tens of thousands of members.

The messages obtained by prosecutors were sent ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot.

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