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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Micah revisits his conversation with Tasha Adams, ex-wife of the Oath Keepers founder, now released from prison.

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0:00.0

This is On the Media's midweek podcast. I'm Michael Onger. Back in 2023, I traveled out to Montana

0:06.8

with Anna Sale, the host of Death, Sex, and Money, to interview Tasha Adams.

0:12.9

She's the ex-wife of Stuart Rhodes, the founder of the Oathkeepers, the far-right militia group.

0:18.9

Stewart was convicted of seditious conspiracy

0:21.6

for his role in the January 6th insurrection.

0:25.2

Prosecutors argued that members of the oathkeepers

0:27.6

used force to block the results of the election.

0:31.2

He was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

0:34.4

Anna and I called Tasha back

0:36.0

just a few days before Trump's inauguration. On the episode

0:39.9

that death, sex and money called the chest-clenching fear of my ex-husband's January 6th commutation,

0:46.8

Tasha told us how after Trump won, she felt totally shut down. I just couldn't even look at it.

0:57.2

Got up in the morning, took one glance at the results before I got up and left for work, saw what happened, and didn't even think about it again.

1:01.6

And I just, I must have had hundreds of messages and media reaching out. And, you know,

1:08.1

and I did a couple interviews, but I just didn't have the heart for it. I don't know

1:13.5

how else to describe it. You know, I felt so on fire to do as many interviews as I could possibly do

1:19.3

leading up to Stewart's arrest and conviction, you know, just to get that message out, you know,

1:24.9

desperately. Like, I needed to keep the spotlight on Stewart,

1:27.9

and I needed people to understand how serious it was for him to be convicted. But then,

1:35.0

but after this election, you know, I just, I just felt like I just couldn't move. I mean,

1:41.6

it was just really hard to even function. You know, I never really

1:45.7

seriously believed Stewart would get out. You know, I was afraid of it, and it loomed, but I didn't

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