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Proud Boy Dan Tooze, center, chases anti-fascist counterprotesters during a clash in Northeast Portland's Parkrose neighborhood on Aug. 22, 2021, in Portland, Ore. Tooze went on to run for political office and become the vice chair of the Clackamas County Republican Party.

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Despite setbacks, far-right extremists are winning positions in mainstream Northwest politics

Jonathan Levinson

Militia groups, Christian nationalists, anti-vaccine activists and other conspiracy theorists in the Pacific Northwest have all started working together and are forging new connections with the formal political class.

Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs, left, and Ethan Nordean, right with megaphone, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Leaders of Proud Boys, including Auburn man, ordered jailed on Capitol riot charges

A federal judge on Monday ordered two leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group to be arrested and jailed while awaiting trial on charges they…

In this Jan. 6 photo, Ethan Nordean, with backward baseball hat and bullhorn, leads members of the Proud Boys in marching before the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Nordean, 30, of Auburn has said he is the sergeant-at-arms of the Seattle Proud Boys chapter.

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Judge orders release of Seattle-area Proud Boy charged in Capitol riot

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a Seattle-area man and prominent member of the Proud Boys far-right group, pending trial on charges…

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Judge halts WA Proud Boy's release in Capitol breach case

Gene Johnson

The self-described “sergeant-at-arms” of the Seattle chapter of the far-right group Proud Boys will remain in custody for now pending charges filed in…