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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Robert Downen

Stewart Rhodes, the Texas-based leader of the Oath Keepers militia, given 18 years in prison for sedition

Oath Keepers founder, Stewart Rhodes, speaks during the Patriots Day Free Speech Rally in Berkeley, California, on April 15, 2017.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes speaks during a rally in Berkeley, California, on April 15, 2017. (Credit: REUTERS/Jim Urquhart)

Oath Keepers militia founder and former Granbury resident Stewart Rhodes was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy after playing a leading role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to keep Donald Trump in office.

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