An extremist group known for violent tactics has reportedly infiltrated Miami’s Republican Party seeking to steer the political committee far right.

According to The New York Times, at least six current and former Proud Boys have garnered seats on the Miami-Dade Republican Executive Committee, including those who have been criminally charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol Attack.

The party was once a polished pack of Republicans when Jeb Bush was governor, however, a rise in fringe politics has paved the way for a slant in rhetoric.

“I know a lot of people on the committee way before me were supporting people like Jeb,” said former Proud Boy Gabriel Garcia, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges from the attack. “But when Trump won, pretty much everyone started falling in line.”

The far-right nationalist group has been trying to boost power through politics in recent years. The Anti-Defamation League describes the Proud Boys as “a right-wing extremist group with a violent agenda.”

Although its leadership has vehemently denied being racist, the ADL says some of its members have espoused white supremacist ideologies or engaged with white supremacist groups.

There are 119 active Proud Boys chapters across 46 states recognized by the national Proud Boys organization, according to the ADL. Foundation members of the group describe its members as “Western chauvinists” who oppose “politically correct culture.”

They have been known for violent protests against the removal of Confederate statues and the supposed spread of Shariah law. However, the organization reportedly lowered it profile after the Capitol riot.

The New York Times reported that the group got rid of its national leadership and encouraged chapters to get involved in local issues to rally support ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

“The plan of attack if you want to make change is to get involved at the local level,” Jeremy Bertino, a prominent member of the North Carolina Proud Boys, told The New York Times last year amid the shift.

Members reportedly showed up at school board meetings to protest mask mandates and critical race theory.

Several members were elected for the 125-seat Miami-Dade committee in 2020, and others took unfruitful stabs at legislative and municipal races. Garcia, 37, lost a statehouse election bid in 2020.

Chris Barcenas, a committee member and Proud Boy, told reporters he started thinking about running for the seat about a year ago.

Barcenas, 34, protested at the Capitol on Jan. 6 but did not go into the building and has not been charged, according to reports.

“Instead of sitting on the sidelines complaining about RINOs [“Republicans in name only] or whatever,” he said. “I realized that in order to make changes, I had to be involved and be part of the process.”

Miami-Dade County has selected a Democratic president since 1992. However, Hispanics, who account for about 70 percent of the population, pushed the voting demographic more to the right. Cuban-Americans tend to vote Republican because of the anti-Communist politics of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Longtime members of the county’s GOP have not been that receptive to the political slant. There is reported “infighting and drama” among members of the committee. Young Republicans have sought to push out veteran members of the party.

“The meetings are a bunch of fights, people screaming,” said state committee member Liliana Ros, 79. “The nice people — the decent people, the people that are real Republicans — are leaving.”

Still, ex-committee member Christopher Monzon, 26, admitted to being a former member of the white supremacist League of the South. He has served probation for allegedly using a Confederate flag to attack people protesting Confederate street names in South Florida. Monzon now says he is on a “path to de-radicalization.”

However, when Monzon ran for the Hialeah City Council last year, he maintained some online ties to some of his League of the South friends. He told reporters that the Proud Boys in the party often tend to gravitate to him for support.

“I’ve always been known as the radical one, so they were like, ‘Yeah, man, we’re going to get more of our people in here,’” he said