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Chuck Baldwin
Chuck Baldwin is a prominent figure in the anti-government extremist "Patriot" movement. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Baldwin has peddled conspiracy theories that government measures to combat the virus are a "pretext for civil tyranny," "phase two" (after... Read more
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David Wynn-Miller
David Wynn-Miller was an influential Wisconsin-based sovereign citizen activist who created (and used) a completely alternative grammar and syntax for the English language, which he claimed would allow people to master the judicial system and always prevail... Read more

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Duncan Lemp
Duncan Lemp was a 21-year-old supporter of the boogaloo movement who was shot and killed in 2020 by SWAT officers with the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland. The officers were serving a no-knock search warrant for... Read more
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FEMA Camps
"FEMA Camps" are a common conspiracy theory among anti-government extremists, especially the militia movement, that maintains that the U.S. government plans on declaring martial law and imprisoning American dissidents in concentration camps run by FEMA. The theory... Read more
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Gordon Kahl
Gordon Kahl (1920-1983) was a member of the far-right Posse Comitatus movement. Kahl was involved in two fatal shootouts with law enforcement in 1983, one in North Dakota and one months later in Arkansas after law enforcement... Read more

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John Trochmann
John Trochmann was one of the pioneers of the anti-government extremist militia movement. Trochmann and members of his family started the first militia group, the Militia of Montana, in late 1993 or early 1994. He also traveled... Read more

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Mark Koernke
Mark Koernke is an early militia movement pioneer from Michigan who was most active in the 1990s. Also known as "Mark from Michigan," Koernke helped spread anti-government conspiracies, including those regarding the New World Order and black... Read more