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A member of the Proud Boys in Washington D.C. on Dec. 12, 2020. (Geoff Livingston, https://flic.kr/p/2kgn6ho; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)
A week before the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the Proud Boys, issued an unusual message to his crew. Originally launched in 2016, the Proud Boys are a violent, far-right group whose members describe themselves as “Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”
In a Dec. 29, 2020, post on Parler, Tarrio called onThe Conspirators: The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on Jan. 6