Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, is the first person convicted of seditious conspiracy since the 1990s. Will his imprisonment derail the movement he spent more than a decade helping to guide?
, to his conviction for seditious conspiracy last week. In October, as his trial began in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., I visited Eureka, a remote Montana town near the Canadian border, not far from where he’d lived rough with Tasha Adams, his estranged wife, and their family, amid the pines and logging roads.
When he testified, Rhodes leaned into the parallel world he’d created as the leader of the Oath Keepers, pitching the group to jurors as something completely different from what prosecutors claimed. It was charitable in nature, he said, dedicated to disaster relief, and to educating members of the police and the military about the protections in the Constitution. His early mantra was “reach, teach, and inspire.
This fall, I met an organizer in the Patriot movement—the broad banner under which the Oath Keepers and other like-minded armed groups coalesce—who had been deeply involved in arranging well-attended meetings and training in his state. That all had significantly dissipated after January 6th, he told me, and gone quiet after what he called “an F.B.I. witch hunt” throughout his region and across the country.
During Rhodes’s trial, I visited a church complex outside Prescott, Arizona, for the bimonthly meeting of a local Oath Keepers chapter. About a hundred and fifty people sat in chairs in a banquet hall on the Saturday after the midterm elections. Jim Arroyo, sixty-two, a gunsmith and former Army Ranger who leads the chapter, stood before them, wearing a black-and-gold Oath Keepers sweatshirt, a matching hat, and a white beard.
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