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After attending community college,<ref name=":4" /> Rhodes switched to studying political science at the [[University of Nevada, Las Vegas]], while parking cars to make money.<ref name=":3" /> After graduating in 1998,<ref name=":0" /> he worked as a staffer for [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[United States House of Representatives|Congressman]] [[Ron Paul]].<ref name="LVRJ22" /> Rhodes volunteered for Paul's [[Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign|2008 presidential campaign]] and later complained that political opponents of Paul linked Paul to hate groups and racists.<ref name=SPLCProfile/>
 
In 2001, aged 35 years,<ref name=":4">{{Cite magazine |last=Giglio |first=Mike |date=2022-12-07 |title=What the Conviction of Stewart Rhodes Means for Right-Wing Militancy |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-the-conviction-of-stewart-rhodes-means-for-right-wing-militancy |access-date=2022-12-08 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] }}</ref> Rhodes enrolled in [[Yale Law School]],.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-09 |title=The founder of a far-right militia once warned of federal tyranny. Then came Trump. |first=Josh |last=Lederman |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/founder-far-right-militia-once-warned-federal-tyranny-then-came-n1256546 |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=[[NBC News]] }}</ref> He became dissatisfied with what he perceived as eroding rights in the aftermath of the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name=":0" /> Rhodes taught a self-defense class,<ref name=":0" /> and his research paper about [[enemy combatant]]s' classification during the [[presidency of George W. Bush]] won an award in his final year at Yale.<ref name=":0" /> He graduated in 2004.<ref name=SPLCProfile/>
 
After graduating from Yale, Rhodes clerked for [[Michael D. Ryan]], an associate justice at the [[Arizona Supreme Court]].<ref name=":0" /> As a lawyer, he worked in various [[western United States|western]] U.S. states.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=2022-11-29 |title=Oath Keepers: 'How I escaped my father's militia' |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63709446 |access-date=2022-11-30}}</ref>
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