breaking news just a few moments ago. the democratic senate leader chuck schumer just announced the senate is going to postpone the recess they were going to take next week. instead they will return on tuesday and go into session on tuesday to vote for voting rights. he said, make no mistake, the session will vote on voting legislation beginning on tuesday. and if the republicans overturn the sacred right to vote, the session will seek to change the voting rules. that is not how anybody was expecting this to go. i don t know. more ahead. stay with us. ahead
prosecutions leading up to that moment. so i think the best historical cognate is the ft. smipgt sedition trial in 1937-38. where 14 white activists were charged on seditious conspiracy. we see a high level of paramilitary organization, intergroup and interpersonal communication over a sustained period about the plan, and a high level of armament. and in that trial it ended up escalating beyond what we see in this charging document to have things like those activists had gnat online sort of the typical semiautomatic richls which are very all around in the movement from the beginning to now but that movement in 87-88 had things like anti-tank weapons, rockets, home made land mines and a bunch of training, tactics include urban warfare.
administration. for the oath keepers january 6th was not the end point. it was apparently the beginning of a new phase of their fight against the government. as of today 11 of them are facing seditious conspiracy charges. which is a serious felony count. brought by u.s. federal prosecutors in washington, d.c. joining us now is university of chicago historian kathleen balou she is the offer of bring the war home, the white power movement on paramilitary america on the anniversary of the january 6th attack you may recall her op-ed saying we still lack adequate understanding of one of the imminent dangers, the threat of militias to american democracy. she has spent a long time studying both the white power movement and militia movement in this country. professor belou thank you for being here. thank you for having me. so we ve had more than 700 people charged for doing various
tuesday and go into session on tuesday to vote on voting rights. he just said on the senate floor, quote, make no mistake, the session will vote on voting legislation beginning on tuesday, and if the senate republicans choose obstruction over protecting the sacred right to vote as we expect them to, the senate will consider and vote on changing the senate rules. that will happen on tuesday. that s just news. nator schumer said it on the senate floor. that is not how anybody was expecting it to go. i don t know. more ahead. stay with us. more ahead stay with us