THE WAGES OF SIN: PROUD BOYS, OATH KEEPERS SENTENCED FOR JANUARY 6 CONVICTIONS ON CONSPIRACY, SEDITION, INSURRECTION, ELECTION INTERFERENCE CHARGES

PROUD BOY LEADER ENRIQUE TARRIO: 22 YEARS

OATH KEEPER LEADER STEWART RHODES: 18 YEARS

PROUD BOY ETHAN NORDEAN: 18 YEARS

PROUD BOY JOSEPH BIGGS: 18 YEARS

PROUD BOY ZACHARY REHL: 15 YEARS

PROUD BOY DOMINIC PEZZOLA: 10 YEARS

THEIR GREAT LEADER DONALD TRUMP: ??

(Within days of the Capitol attack, the far-right group Proud Boys became a priority for the F.B.I.’s inquiry into Jan. 6 as investigators quickly determined that dozens of its members had played decisive roles in breaching barricades and assaulting police.

In a series of separate prosecutions – of which  Enrique Tarrio’s sedition trial was by far the most important – the Justice Department all but decapitated the group’s national leadership and mostly put an end to its involvement in large-scale and often violent pro-Trump rallies in cities across the country.

But the Proud Boys as a whole survived, persisting in their role as “foot soldiers for the right,” in the words of one member who testified for the government at Tarrio’s trial. In recent years, the group has repeatedly inserted itself at the local level into conflicts over issues like coronavirus restrictions and the teaching of antiracism in schools, and has taken part in attacks against L.G.B.T.Q. pride events.)