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.
Rhodes and other members of the rightwing Oath Keepers played a crucial part in the violence that broke out at the Capitol and stashed weapons around the Washington, D.C., area in the expectation that Trump would declare martial law.
Leaders of the group, which includes military veterans and active-duty law enforcement as members, hoped they’d be deputized by the former president and discussed plans for a “civil war” if Democrat Joe Biden’s win was certified that day by Congress.
