"Stewart Rhodes, 55, is an Army veteran and former lawyer.
He founded the Oath Keepers, a right-wing, anti-government extremist group."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14068044/who-is-oath-keepers-founder-stewart-rhodes/
"Twitter has banned the accounts of far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers and its founder, Stewart Rhodes."
https://www.engadget.com/twitter-the-oath-keepers-211426663.html
"Founded in Las Vegas in 2009, the Oath Keepers is “one of the largest radical anti-government groups in the U.S. today,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/who-are-the-oath-keepers/ar-BB1cVTz3
"The Oath Keepers are a large but loosely organized collection of right-wing anti-government extremists who are part of the militia movement, which believes that the federal government has been coopted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip American citizens of their rights."
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/oath-keepers
"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 U.S. today."
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/oath-keepers
"The Oath Keepers describes itself as "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 against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'”"
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/air-force-oath-keepers/
"At two Washington, DC events on January 5, and at the rally the day after, Stone, who was convicted in 2019 of lying to Congress and witnesses tampering before being pardoned by Trump in December, was escorted by a detail of men in gear identifying them as members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/oath-keepers-who-guarded-roger-stone-stormed-the-capitol/
"Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the first significant conspiracy charge in the US Capitol attack, alleging that three members of the so-called Oath Keepers, an extremist militant group, planned and coordinated ahead of the January 6 assault."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/oath-keepers-capitol-riot-charges/index.html
"The Oath Keepers, who believe themselves to be “the last line of defense against tyranny,” are more aptly described as a conspiracy group, or extremist militia, who have set aside their anti-government stance to support President Donald Trump — convinced that a violent civil war is inevitable."
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/12/10217966/who-are-oath-keepers-pro-trump-militia-movement
"Prosecutors say Thomas Caldwell researched weapons, kept a “death list” of his enemies, and talked about mutilating the corpses of his political opponents."
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_6025a319c5b6591becd7859e
"Oath Keepers had tweeted that there would be “open warfare against the Marxist insurrectionists by election night, no matter what you do” and that “Civil War is here, right now.”"
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/09/oath-keepers-far-right-group-infiltrate-local-government-texas-443773
"Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar is continuing to neither confirm nor deny claims that he met with members of the far-right group Oath Keepers and told them the country is in a civil war but people "haven't started shooting" yet."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arizona-rep-paul-gosar-remains-silent-over-oath-keepers-civil-war-video/ar-BB1dUxH8
"But in the weeks after the 2020 election, presidential overreach seemed far from his mind. In an open letter on the website of the Oath Keepers, the far-right militia group he founded in 2009, Rhodes urged President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, send special forces to seize state elections systems, redo the election and deploy both the National Guard and a self-armed militia to suppress any rebellion from "domestic enemies" in the way."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/founder-far-right-militia-once-warned-federal-tyranny-then-came-n1256546
"Last year, when former President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that removing him from office would “cause a Civil War like fracture,” the Oath Keepers responded: “This is the truth. This is where we are. We ARE on the verge of a HOT civil war. Like in 1859.”"
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article248562800.html
'Militaristic' Oath Keepers patrol Ferguson streets to 'protect' InfoWars journalist working for Alex Jones
https://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/militaristic-oath-keepers-patrol-ferguson-streets-to-protect-infowars-journalist-working-for-alex-jones/
Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes calls on militia members to prepare for violence against “illegitimate” Biden administration
https://www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers/oath-keepers-leader-stewart-rhodes-calls-militia-members-prepare-violence-against