The national structure of the Proud Boys has largely disintegrated, experts told Grid. As Congress prepares to look backward at who the Proud Boys were, the movement is still marching forward. Lawmakers on the panel are expected to show footage of their involvement and speak with witnesses who will explain their role. The Proud Boys’ role in the insurrection is expected to feature prominently in Thursday evening’s prime-time congressional hearing. Many have pleaded not guilty as their cases work their way through the courts. To date, more than 50 Proud Boys have been indicted or convicted in connection to the Capitol attack. Their role as “key instigators” in the Capitol attack was well documented in real time and over the last year-and-a-half. He filed paperwork to voluntarily surrender the group’s trademark because, he said, the group “continued to make its own brand more and more toxic.” The group’s lawyer and “sergeant-at-arms,” Jason Lee Van Dyke, resigned as its agent and as a member. After the attack in 2021, Canada declared the Proud Boys a “neo-fascist” terrorist organization. The Proud Boys believe that the country requires violent upheaval. A Grid analysis of ACLED data found that 17 percent of these events turned violent. Members have been participants in close to 200 public events since, ranging from purported charitable activities to acts of violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit crisis-mapping center. There are more Proud Boys chapters across the country than there were on the eve of the Capitol insurrection.
6, 2021, the national group disbanded and the Justice Department indicted most of its leaders. Soon after members of the Proud Boys, a violent, far-right, all-male movement, charged the U.S.
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