The middle-of-the-night tweet from a president who earlier that fall had called on extremist groups to “stand back and stand by” resonated loudly in the darker corners of Trump’s America. Members of far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the 1st Amendment Praetorian, and the Three Percenters saw the message as a call to arms and began mobilizing to flood Washington on January 6. “He called us all to the Capitol and wants us to make it wild!!!” Kelly Meggs, an Oath Keepers leader from Florida, wrote on Facebook. Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the group, declared that
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