Editing Oath Keepers (section)

{{Evil Organization
|Box title    = Evil Organization
|Image        = Oathkeepers logo.png
|size   = 
|fullname = Oath Keepers
|alias = Guardians of the Republic 
|origin = United States of America 
|foundation = 2009
|dissolution = 
|headquarters = 
|commanders = [[Stewart Rhodes]]<br>[[Kellye SoRelle]]
|agents = [[Joseph Hackett]]<br>[[Donovan Crowl]]<br>[[Eric Munchel]]<br>[[Joshua James]]<br>[[William Isaacs]]<br>[[Edward Vallejo]]<br>[[Jon Schaffer]]<br>[[Charles Alan Dyer]]<br>[[Wendy Rogers]]<br>[[Connie Meggs]]<br>[[Kelly Meggs]]
|skills = 
|goals = "Defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic" (ongoing)<br />More realistically, use violence when they can't justify their irrational reasoning, or are sad that their favorite politician lost the election (it will never succeed, but the terrorism on January 6th came close)
|crimes = [[Terrorism]]<br>[[Hate Speech]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>[[Negrophobia]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Arms trafficking]]<br>[[Homophobia]]
|type of villain = Delusional Jingoists 
}}{{Quote|You needed to be raising local militias in your towns and counties, and like the Founders did, you need to then nullify, refuse to comply, and when they come for you, you defend yourselves. But you’ve got to do it together. Don’t be isolated and alone. Do it together as a united community.|[[Stewart Rhodes]]}}
'''Oath Keepers''' is an American far-right anti-government militia organization composed of current and former military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath that all military and police take in order to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic". 

It encourages its members to not obey orders which they believe would violate the United States Constitution. The organization claims a membership of 35,000 as of 2016, though the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has estimated its membership at several thousand.

Several organizations that monitor domestic [[terrorism]] and [[Hate Groups|hate groups]] describe it as extremist or radical. The FBI describes the Oath Keepers as a “paramilitary organization” and a “large but loosely organized collection of militia who believe that the federal government has been coopted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip American citizens of their rights.”

Mark Pitcavage of the ADL describes the group as "heavily armed extremists with a conspiratorial and anti-government mindset looking for potential showdowns with the government." The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists the group's founder as a known extremist and describes his announced plans to create localized militia units as "frightening".

According to the SPLC, the group espouses a number of conspiracy and legal theories associated with the [[Sovereign Citizen Movement]] and the [[White Supremacy|white supremacist]] [[Posse Comitatus]] movement. SPLC senior fellow Mark Potok describes the group as a whole as "really just an anti-government group who believe in a wild set of conspiracy theories".

Oath Keepers were present wearing military fatigues in Ferguson, Missouri, during the 2014 and 2015 unrest in the city, when members armed with semi-automatic rifles patrolled streets and rooftops. Members of the group were indicted on conspiracy charges for allegedly staging a planned mission during the [[2021 United States Capitol storming|2021 storming of the United States Capitol]].