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Devin Burghart, executive director of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, was quoted in the Guardian;

“They’ve repeatedly shown an ability to mobilize large number of armed far-right activists to threaten, harass, and intimidate public officials,”

“Ammon Bundy, with People’s Rights Network, was the first to grasp on to Covid-19 denial as a mobilizing vehicle. The first to galvanize militants to oppose Covid-19 restrictions and to meld together anti-vaxxers, paramilitaries, Proud Boys and others into a larger movement to protest and protect these kinds of efforts,”

“Ammon Bundy is important because in many ways his efforts are a bellwether for where the paramilitary side of the movement is moving,”

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Laura Gibbons

Laura Gibbons is an IREHR research associate.

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