About 10% of the Oath Keepers are active-duty military, and around two-thirds are retired military or law enforcement.
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In the late 19th century, a satiric weekly stoked fears about how Jewish immigrants would change New York City’s character.
A recent federal court ruling appeared to expand Second Amendment rights to private citizen militias, which a historian of early America explains is not what the founders intended.
Some 5,000 National Guardsmen will stay in Washington to protect the Capitol into March, according to the Pentagon. The Guard is seen as a reliable peacekeeping force – but it wasn’t always that way.
The Proud Boys have been designated a terrorist organization in Canada. But without addressing the means of organizing, this designation won’t put a stop to right-wing extremism.
Far-right extremists in the US have the potential to mount a coordinated, low-intensity campaign of political violence. It wouldn’t be the country’s first experience with domestic terror.
A leaked database shows at least 10% of the far-right Oath Keepers militia is active police or military – people professionally trained in using weapons and conducting sophisticated operations.
Looming threats of more possible violence signal broader opposition to the Biden administration in what could become a loose campaign of domestic terrorism.
Many people are concerned about far-right extremism. But they may not understand the real threat.
A scholar of militia movements describes the ‘peculiar’ – and erroneous – principles that right-wing militias subscribe to, including believing themselves to be defenders of the Bill of Rights.
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Director of Research, Academic Development and Innovation at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury College
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Lecturer in Security Studies, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Baylor University
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Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis
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Postdoctoral associate in Classical and Civic Education, University of Florida
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Research Associate, SOAS, University of London
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Adjunct Professor, Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham
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Associate Professor of History, College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
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Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
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PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Oslo
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Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Associate Professor in Political Science, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas