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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE
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Tax Protest Movement
The tax protest movement is the oldest wing of the anti-government extremist "Patriot" movement, dating back to the mid-1960s. In contrast to people who merely dislike taxes, adherents of the tax protest movement use pseudo-legal arguments to... Read more
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Boogaloo movement
The Boogaloo movement formed in 2019 based around the term "boogaloo", a slang reference to a future civil war that boogalooers anticipate (some eagerly). While there are ideological differences among members, the movement is primarily anti-government, anti-gun... Read more
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United Nations of Tu…
United Nations of Turtle Island (UNOTI) is a fictitious tribe created by sovereign citizen adherents trying to escape government jurisdiction. UNOTI is based primarily in east Tennessee, western North Carolina and northern Georgia, though it has "members"... Read more
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Border Vigilante Mov…
Part of the anti-immigrant extremist movement, border vigilantes conduct armed, sometimes paramilitary patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border, attempting to chase and detain migrants under the delusion that they are fighting drug cartels. Border vigilantes have attracted some... Read more
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Three Percenters
"Three Percenters" are a concept created by a former Alabama militia leader, Mike Vanderboegh, to popularize the militia movement and its anti-government ideology. The term itself refers to the erroneous belief that only three percent of colonists... Read more
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UCC 1-308 and UCC 1-…
UCC1-308 is a provision of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), a body of state law that every state has passed to make financial transactions between citizens and businesses of different states seamless and uniform. UCC1-207 is a... Read more
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Sovereign Citizen
The "sovereign citizen" movement is a loosely organized collection of groups, networks and individuals who have adopted a right-wing anti-government ideology originating in the theories of the 1970s group Posse Comitatus. Adherents believe that virtually all existing... Read more
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The Embassy of Heaven
The Embassy of Heaven was an anti-government extremist group based in Oregon and led by Paul Revere (aka Craig Fleshman). Primarily active in the 1990s and 2000s, the Embassy marketed bogus license plates and other automobile documents... Read more