Diggs accepted payments from anti-immigrant extremists and spoke at a pro-gun rally attended by militia groups.

A March 2022 internal investigation by the Department of Homeland Security found problems in its process for identifying and dealing with members of extremist groups within its ranks.

Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling is part of the right-wing Constitutional Sheriffs movement, which urges local police to ignore federal and state authorities.

Five members of the Oath Keepers right-wing extremist group face several felony charges in addition to seditious conspiracy.

Experts in extremism say fanatical far-right groups and ideas have solidified their grip on the Republican Party since Jan. 6.

Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem would be the latest election conspiracy theorist to win a Republican primary for secretary of state.

‘I don’t know how in the world another audit is going to satisfy conspiracy believers,’ said one Michigan county clerk.

Domestic terror experts say the threat posed by far-right extremists has never been greater.

‘Our intent is to hold these violent mobsters and violent hate groups accountable and to get every penny of damage we can,’ Washington’s attorney general said.

Experts hope to learn more about the groups more broadly through the House committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection.

A member of the Oath Keepers extremist group also pleaded guilty in a conspiracy case and has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Allen West, notorious for bigoted comments and conspiracy theories, announced his resignation from the top party position.

Some experts see parallels between the fallout from the Capitol riot and the schisms that divided far-right groups after the ‘Unite the Right’ white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.

Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem received $6,000 from Donald Trump’s campaign as he worked to invalidate Joe Biden’s win.

Michael Bolton, the Capitol Police inspector general, said on Thursday that an intelligence report was not shared or acted upon.

Thirty-seven percent of those with military experience arrested for rioting at the U.S. Capitol had ties to violent extremists like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is under investigation by the FBI for his words and actions before, on, and after Jan. 6.

‘This was not simply a march. This was an incredible attack on our institutions of government.’

The FBI has linked at least 40 people charged in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to extremist groups or movements.

The right-wing anti-government Oath Keepers have taken part in protests demanding governors reopen their state economies in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.