Texas is home to more people appearing on the membership rolls of the anti-government extremist group the Oath Keepers—whose leaders stand accused of helping orchestrate the Jan. 6 insurrection—than any other state, according to a new report released Tuesday.  

Researchers from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) analyzed an Oath Keepers' membership list of 38,000 names from across the U.S. that was leaked to the journalism and transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets, which published the data in September of last year.   

The ADL researchers identified more than 3,300 Texans on the member list. Texas also had the most names on the list working as law enforcement officers, military officers, public officials and first responders of any state. Among the Texans, at least 33 were active law enforcement officers, 10 were military members, eight were elected officials and seven were first responders.  

The report notes that a person appearing on the list "is not proof that they were or are still an Oath Keeper, that they hold or held all or some of Oath Keeper ideology or viewpoints, or that they ever actively participated in Oath Keeper activities."

Joe Wright, a constable in Collin County near the Dallas-Fort Worth area, was among those on the list identified by the ADL. Wright signed up for the Oath Keepers before taking office in 2020, according to ADL researchers. Wright did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

The ADL also identified Eric Williams, police chief in Idalou, Texas, a town in Lubbock County. Williams told the Dallas Morning News and the Associated Press in an email that he hadn't interacted with or been a member of the Oath Keepers for more than 10 years and called the Capitol attacks "terrible in every way." Williams did not immediately respond to Chron's request for comment. 

Some people on the list contacted by the Associated Press said they were briefly members but are no longer affiliated with the Oath Keepers; others said they never were dues-paying members.    

News of Texas' deep ties to the anti-government extremist group comes less than a week after Oath Keepers attorney Kellye SoRelle was arrested in Junction, Texas for her alleged role in helping to plan the Jan. 6 attack and to impede the Justice Department's investigation into the insurrection. Stewart Rhodes, now ex-president of the Oath Keepers, was arrested in January in Granbury, Texas and charged with seditious conspiracy for allegedly orchestrating the Jan. 6 attack.