1) Jared Miller, Virginia, Veteran, ‘For the following year after January 6th, this man tried to join the Chesapeake, VA School Board!’ ‘Ironically, Miller was one of the most fervent “anti-maskers” during the COVID-19 pandemic so when one looks at pictures of him in a gas mask at the capitol on January 6th, it makes one think.’ https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/28/2190092/-Recent-Chesapeake-Virginia-School-Board-Candidate-Arrested-for-J6-Activities
(CCTV) captured Miller joining breaches, pulling away barricades, pushed and struck officers and then he shoved an officer as the officer attempted to rejoin the police line. Charged with felony offenses of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. multiple misdemeanor offenses, including knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; obstruct, or impede passage through or within, the grounds or any of the Capitol buildings; and violent entry and disorderly conduct. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/virginia-man-arrested-assaulting-law-enforcement-during-jan-6-capitol-breach
Here he is punching a police officer
2) A witness told investigators Miller was part of a group called the Constitutional Defense League [CDL] and took part in past protests at the Virginia Capitol in Richmond.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/25/jared-miller-arrested-jan-6/
3) GiveSendGo, Miller says he wants a ban on “all political activism and symbolism inside the schools.” (He means safe rooms, pride flags and who knows what else) He says he was in the army and also took special forces training. He does not say WHERE he served or what position he had, given that "special" training. (He was a sergeant according to his own words…) https://www.givesendgo.com/JMiller4Chesapeake
4) No activism in schools? His daughter doesn’t like wearing a mask. Miller gave an interview explaining THAT is why he is running. WTAF… “In 2022, Miller told the news station 10 WAVY that he was running for school board because he was against mask mandates at his daughters’ schools.” He described himself as a disabled U.S. Army veteran who received Special Forces training. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/chesapeake/chesapeake-parent-angry-with-mask-mandate-will-run-for-school-board/
5) This is what Americans need to fear. Money and religious bigots are eventually going to buy Article V in the Constitution… “It became clear to Meckler that something more fundamental than Congress would need to shift for Tea Party dreams to become reality. Four years later, he found a possible Archimedes’ lever in Article V. With the help of co-founder Michael Farris and a $500,000 grant from the Mercer family, he incorporated Convention of States Action, or COSA, and got to work. The objective: get 34 states to petition Congress for an amendment convention…
In 2016, COSA gathered 137 delegates from every state in the nation—Rick Green among them—for a simulated Convention of States in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. They proposed and debated amendments, then cast votes: one vote per state.” https://newrepublic.com/article/169563/patriot-academy-right-wing-constitutional-defense-training-camp Practising… The Dominionist and Christian nationalists must have been heartened after seeing so many in the tRUMP administration …
5) A glimpse into the Constitutional Defense League in Texas. “ Patriot Academy’s Leadership Congress camp for young people continues not just in Texas but in state Capitol buildings across the country. A separate series of leadership congresses for veterans kicked off in 2017. Slickly produced video courses, with names like Constitution Alive! and Biblical Citizenship, allow students of any age to learn Barton’s worldview in living rooms and churches throughout America. Through it all, an undercurrent of concern carries students toward a worrying conclusion: America currently teeters on the brink of godless authoritarian communism, and only something as radical as the well-funded and rapidly growing conservative effort to rewrite the Constitution can save it. ” https://newrepublic.com/article/169563/patriot-academy-right-wing-constitutional-defense-training-camp