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Chicago Police and other Illinois law enforcement officers have ties to several white supremacist groups, most notably the Oath Keepers, who planned and staged the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The Oath Keepers roster shows that 306 dues-paying Oath Keepers members listed themselves as affiliated with DHS, including 21 who said they were working for the agency at the time their names were added.

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The picture that emerged from yesterday's hearing is not dramatically different from what we've learned before — an unhinged man willing to do anything to maintain power, even at the cost of lives, law, and our democracy.

Unsealed court documents provide the most detailed account to date of the alleged level of planning by far-right militia

Don’t imagine that anything truly began at the Capitol on January 6th. Admittedly, a coup attempt was indeed launched for the first time in this country. Donald Trump ran for president already focused on turning the American system upside down.

A military is, of course, innately hierarchical, authoritarian, and adversarial, and war, by definition, is terror. There is an inheritance of violence in our increasingly militarized land that ought to concern us all, too.