A caravan of truckers demanding an end to coronavirus public health measures has left California on a cross-country drive to Washington, D.C. The convoy of about two dozen trucks set out from the Mojave Desert Wednesday after several hundred people attended a rally that resembled a Trump campaign event. Organizers of the convoy have ties to the violent January 6 Capitol insurrection. They’re modeling the U.S. convoy on protests in Canada that closed border crossings and disrupted activity in the capital Ottawa for weeks. On Wednesday, the Pentagon authorized the deployment of about 700 unarmed National Guard members to Washington, D.C., during upcoming protests.