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Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio speaks at a rally in Delta Park on Sept. 26, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, for a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to stop the transfer of presidential power after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, File)

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years in prison, longest sentence yet in Capitol riot

By Michael Kunzelman, Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Proud Boy member Ethan Nordean walks toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Proud Boy convicted of helping spearhead Capitol attack ties Jan. 6 sentence record with 18 years

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Proud Boys members including Zachary Rehl, left, Ethan Nordean, center, and Joseph Biggs, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, fFle)

Ex-Proud Boys organizer gets 17 years in prison, second-longest sentence in Jan. 6 Capitol riot case

By Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Justice Department to challenge length of prison sentences for Rhodes and other Oath Keepers

By MICHAEL KUnzelman and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Oath Keepers leader convicted of seditious conspiracy warns Trump: ‘You’re going to be found guilty’

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Roberto Minuta of Prosper, Texas, leaves federal court in Washington, Jan. 23, 2023. Minuta, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group who was part of a security detail for former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone before storming the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced on Thursday to more than four years in prison. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Oath Keeper who guarded Roger Stone before Jan. 6 attack gets more than 4 years in prison

By Michael Kunzelman and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes faces sentencing for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack

By Michael Kunzelman, Alanna Durkin Richer and Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack

By Michael Kunzelman, Alanna Durkin Richer and Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

This artist sketch depicts the trial of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, left, as he testifies before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on charges of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Nov. 7, 2022. Rhodes and members of his antigovernment group will be the first Jan. 6 defendants sentenced for seditious conspiracy in a series of hearings beginning this week that will set the standard for more punishments of far-right extremists to follow. (Dana Verkouteren via AP, File)

1st seditious conspiracy sentences in Jan. 6 attack to be handed down for Rhodes, other Oath Keepers

By Michael Kunzelman and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jan. 6 prosecutors seek 25 years for Oath Keepers’ Stewart Rhodes

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jailhouse interview: Stewart Rhodes warns Trump is next for politically motivated prosecution

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Oath Keepers boss guilty of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 case

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Oath Keepers leader: No plan to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6

By Alanna Durkin Richer and Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Members of the Oath Keepers on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. A Florida man who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers testified On Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, that he believed they were participating in a historic “Bastille-type event” reminiscent of the French Revolution. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Oath Keepers member: Capitol riot was historic, spontaneous

By Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. The seditious conspiracy trial against Rhodes and four associates is raising fresh questions about intelligence failures in the run-up to Jan. 6, 2021, that appear to have allowed Rhodes’ antigovernment group and other extremists to mobilize in plain sight. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jan. 6 trial delayed after Oath Keepers’ leader gets COVID

By Ashraf Khalil and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Thomas Caldwell of Berryville, Va., a defendant charged with seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, arrives at the Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. The founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group, Stewart Rhodes, and four associates planned an &quot;armed rebellion&quot; to keep President Donald Trump in power, a federal prosecutor contended Monday, as the most serious case yet went to trial in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Ex-Oath Keeper: Group leader claimed Secret Service contact

By Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, June 25, 2017. In his trial in the violent Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, attorneys for the leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group will mount an unusual defense with former President Donald Trump at its center. Defense attorneys are poised to argue that Rhodes can’t be found guilty of seditious conspiracy because everything he did was in preparation for orders he anticipated coming down from the Republican president. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Ex-Oath Keeper: Group leader Stewart Rhodes claimed Secret Service contact

By Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Members of the Oath Keepers on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. An upcoming hearing of the U.S. House Committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection is expected to examine ties between people in former President Donald Trump's orbit and extremist groups who played a role in the Capitol riot. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump associates’ ties to extremists probed by Jan. 6 panel

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Michelle R. Smith and Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. The seditious conspiracy case filed this week against members and associates of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group marked the boldest attempt so far by the government to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes listening to Jan. 6 committee hearings from jail

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, June 25, 2017 file photo, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington. Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department announced the charges against Rhodes on Thursday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Oath Keepers founder, 10 others charged with ‘seditious conspiracy’ linked to Jan. 6

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times