Tagged: Oath Keepers
PHOENIX THREE PERCENTER WINS HIS SCHOOL BOARD RACE, GETS NAME DROPPED IN Epps’ J6 DEPOSITION
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | January 13, 2023
A recently-elected AZ school board member was mentioned in Ray Epps J6 deposition.
WHITE NATIONALIST AZ GOP POLITICIANS SPREAD DANGEROUS LIES IN WAKE OF MASSACRES
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | May 27, 2022
Another week, another senseless, violent tragedy in the so-called Greatest Country in the World. Dozens dead. A white supremacist terror attack targeting a Black community in Buffalo, New York. And a classroom of Fourth Graders violently ripped away from their families in Uvalde, Texas. Countless lives affected. It hurts to even process. Yet, somehow, the […]
ARIZONA PASSES TWO TRANSPHOBIC LAWS ON EVE OF TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | April 1, 2022
International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st is a celebration of trans people and the accomplishments of trans and gender-nonconforming individuals worldwide. The annual day of awareness is also a time to highlight continued discrimination and what still needs to be done to achieve trans liberation and justice. The day before this year’s TDOV, […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT IIIA: THE MAN IN THE ROOM FULL OF GUNS
MICHAEL BOORMAN | January 21, 2022
A new detention memo for one of the Oath Keepers defendants charged with seditious conspiracy sheds more light on the group’s plans for J6. While Rhodes stood outside the Capitol directing his troops into battle (albeit not very effectively) another member of the team, Edward Vallejo, was standing by across the Potomac with a cache […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT III: FALL OF THE HOUSE OF RHODES
MICHAEL BOORMAN | January 17, 2022
2022 is off to a rough start for the right wing. In the last week, several prominent right wing figures have found themselves behind bars. First up, Proud Boy Tiny Toese, arrested in his home state of Washington and held without bail on – count ’em – 15 charges. Three of the charges related to […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT II: FLORIDA MAN DEMANDS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER or I WAS A TEENAGE OATHKEEPER
MICHAEL BOORMAN | November 2, 2021
In our first installment on the Oath Keepers data dump, we met Ed Durfee Jr and Brett Wynkoop, respectively the membership director and system administrator for the Oath Keepers. When the organization was abruptly deplatformed in the wake of the Capitol riots on January 6, they worked night and day to get the website back […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT I: HYPE, LIES AND COMMS FAILURES
MICHAEL BOORMAN | October 19, 2021
In early October, journalistic nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets released a trove of data collected from the Oath Keepers website. LCRW has been studying the material since the release. It reveals an organization mired in dysfunction and distrust – its membership directionless and often paranoid, its administration slipshod and laughably insecure, and its leadership seemingly […]