After Proud Boys members were hit with felonies for the mob attack on the Capitol, the group gained six new chapters.
Conversely, the Oath Keepers have practically collapsed. They changed their previous anti-federal government stance to jump on the Trump bandwagon, successfully positioning themselves as the far right’s armed wing during clashes with anti-fascists. In 2020, they still had 79 chapters; one year after January 6, that plummeted to 15, and in 2022 only 5 remained. Whether the organization will continue to exist with its leader in prison remains to be seen, but the odds are against it.
The Oath Keepers and militias aside, there has been an uptick in the unarmed, but not always less aggressive, part of what the SPLC dubs “antigovernment groups.” Although remaining somewhat under the radar, two more have experienced growth.
There is a more general reason for these more traditional groups’ reduction in numbers. Hannah Gais, SPLC Senior Research Analyst, toldhave increasingly eschewed traditional organizing structures — what we would traditionally refer to as ‘groups.
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