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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Lavoy Finicum

Robert "LaVoy" Finicum participated in the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters, which began in eastern Oregon on January 2, 2016, and lasted for 40 days. Finicum was ultimately shot and killed by state... 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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William Potter Gale

William Potter Gale (1916-1988), a retired U.S. Army colonel, was a disciple of Christian Identity pioneer Wesley Smith and a prominent extremist active in California for decades, forming or participating in many different groups. In the 1970s... Read more
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Winston Shrout

Winston Shrout is a prominent sovereign citizen guru whose videos and seminars attracted thousands to the anti-government extremist movement in the 2000s. He also played a role in exporting ideas of the sovereign citizen movement to several... Read more
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Roger Elvick

Roger Elvick was a prominent sovereign citizen guru from the 1980s through the 2000s. In 1999, he popularized "redemption theory," a set of sovereign citizen theories that are still popular today. Elvick had a long criminal history... Read more
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Steven Carrillo

Steven Carrillo allegedly carried out two attacks against security personnel and law enforcement officers in California in May and June 2020, killing two people and injuring three others. According to the FBI, investigators found a ballistic vest... Read more
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Terry Nichols

Terry Nichols is an an anti-government extremist who played a key role in helping Timothy McVeigh conduct his terrorist bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995. Nichols was convicted on multiple charges... Read more
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Thomas Stockheimer

Thomas Stockheimer was an anti-government extremist and prominent Posse Comitatus leader in Wisconsin in the 1970s and 80s. He was also involved in an assault on an IRS agent in the 1970s as part of the tax... Read more
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Brent Johnson

Brent Johnson is a longtime figure in the anti-government movement, including the sovereign citizen movement. He has been host of the "American Sovereign" radio show and, with Lee Parker, director of Freedom Bound International, a "common law... Read more
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