The oath keeper's orgids traced back to yale while the founder was a student there. The idea of the oath keepers was kind of picking up where the 19 nineties militia movement left off, but wanting to focus specifically on recruiting former law enforcement and military people. "We weue gong av found this organization regardless, because we understood the time had come to remind all our brothers at arms of their obligations"
Extremists in the right-wing militant organization known as the Oath Keepers are present in law enforcement and in the military. Now, thanks to reporting from ProPublica’s Isaac Arnsdorf, we know they’re in the government, too.
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