By granting blanket clemency to the January 6 insurrectionists, the president has unleashed violent, and loyal, paramilitaries.

But the turning point in this story is 2020. We have first the COVID lockdowns, which are kind of every conspiracy theory the militias have been afraid of forever coming true. The government’s ...

Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, collectively part of the Hashd al Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), face increasing calls to ...

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During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died at the hands of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, armed militia members were seen ...

Thirteen people, including seven men associated with the Wolverine Watchmen militia group ... FBI became aware through social media in early 2020 that a group of people were discussing the ...

Prosecutors have charged another member of the militia, Air Force Sgt. Steven Carrillo, with shooting and killing officer David Underwood and wounding his partner during a racial justice protest in ...

During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died at the hands of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, armed militia members were ...

By Ja'han Jones When Donald Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 rioters who stormed the Capitol to overturn the 2020 election ... the Oath Keepers and other militias are out and no longer under the ...