Under Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers Militia Built a Sprawling Network of Political Allies
Before he landed in a North Texas jail last month on seditious conspiracy charges for allegedly trying to overthrow the U.S. government, then Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes pushed a dark and apocalyptic vision of what lay in store for the U.S.
According to Rhodes, it’s only a matter of time before the federal government imposes martial law, herds dissenters into concentration camps, and then joins up with a coalition of other global elites to form a sinister "New World Order," an old conspiracy theory with anti-Semitic undertones.
The way Rhodes sees it, it’s the righteous duty of groups like his to defend America against this looming tyrannical threat. For years before he allegedly helped orchestrate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Rhodes prophesized “an ongoing war on the West to flood us with Third World people and then overwhelm us," as he described it in December 2019.
Rhodes’ now-estranged ex-wife says Rhodes took extraordinary measures to plan for the impending government crackdown, including building a tunnel from their family home in Montana to a nearby forest if authorities launched a surprise attack, and leaving an unregistered car at the other end to flee the feds.
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