“Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes exchanged a 97-second call with someone helping to lead a helmeted formation of Oath Keepers members and associates nine minutes before the group pushed past police and broken doors to force its way into the Capitol on Jan. 6, U.S. prosecutors alleged for the first time. In an overnight court filing, prosecutors said the call and other direct communications by Rhodes that day indicate ‘substantial evidence’ of a conspiracy to stop Congress’s confirmation of the 2020 presidential election by Oath Keepers members and others.”

“A timeline submitted by the government in a court filing just before midnight Thursday opposing the release of Ohio Oath Keepers member Jessica Watkins disputes her assertions that the actions of a charged 10-member group at the Capitol were nonviolent. The filing also appears to dispute some of Rhodes’s previous explanations of his communications. Rhodes, referred to not by name but as ‘Person One’ in court documents, has not been charged and is not accused of wrongdoing. U.S. prosecutors have charged at least 14 members or associates of the Oath Keepers, a loosely organized network of right-wing groups including self-styled militias that recruits military, law enforcement and first-responder personnel with a disinformation-fueled ideology that predicts the collapse of an increasingly tyrannical federal government” – Washington Post.