The leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were both freed from long sentences by President Donald Trump. Who are they? And what are their groups?
The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.
More than 1,600 people charged or sent to prison for their roles in the insurrection at the Capitol four years ago are now walking free thanks to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
Two prominent far-right extremists with central roles in the Capitol attack, Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers militia, have been set free.
The white supremacist group’s march in Washington was its first in the city since the Capitol attack four years ago.
Stewart Rhodes, the former head of the Oath Keepers militia, was among Jan. 6 inmates freed under President Trump's pardons and commutations.
Confusion over President Donald Trump's Jan. 6 clemency order left Jan. 6 defendants at the D.C. Jail expecting immediate releases that didn't come.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has visited Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence.
Watch as Donald Trump supporters and January 6 supporters speak outside a Washington D.C. jail on Jan. 20, 2025.
President Donald Trump granted clemency on Monday to around 1,500 people convicted of crimes related to their participation in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.