In 2018, the FBI labeled the Proud Boys an extremist group with white nationalism ties. Who are they and should they have been released from prison?

We need to find and put them behind bars for what they did. They need to pay for what they did,’ Enrique Tarrio exclaimed on Tuesday night, referencing those who investigated the January 6 Capitol attack.

At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters

Trump's actions were the latest step in his drive to overhaul Washington and erase the work of President Joe Biden's administration.

The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.

Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.

Tarrio, 42, a Miami native, was serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted in May 2023 of seditious conspiracy.

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, America’s far-right celebrated. Some called for the death of judges who oversaw the trials.

President Donald Trump is spending his first full day back in the White House meeting with congressional leaders, announcing an investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure and demonstrating one of his favored expressions of power: firing people.

What’s next for the Proud Boys? Enrique Tarrio says he’s looking forward to spending time with his boys and his family – but an expert on extremism says the sweeping pardons could serve to encourage groups like them.

Miamian Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys chair, was pardoned by President Trump after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in orchestrating the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.