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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Charles Weisman

From the late 1980s, Charles Weisman ran Weisman Publications, a Minnesota-based publisher whose publications focused on Christian Identity theology and sovereign citizen doctrine. He died in 2016.

People White supremacist

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

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

People Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Crusaders

Crusaders is a term used by Islamists to refer to any Western presence in the Middle East, though it is most often used to refer to the U.S. In addition, anti-Muslim extremists in the United States often... Read more

Slogans / Code words Islamist

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

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

People Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

De facto vs. de jure…

Sovereign citizens often use the term "de facto government" to refer to the U.S. government. They believe a conspiracy began in the 1860s to infiltrate the original "de jure" government, subvert its laws and replace them with... Read more

Slogans / Code words Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

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

People Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Flesh and blood man/…

Sovereign citizens frequently call themselves "flesh and blood" people, or similar terms, to distinguish themselves from artificial duplicates of people that sovereigns claim the illegitimate government has created for nefarious reasons.

Slogans / Code words Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Free man/woman

Free man/woman or free man/woman upon the land are terms used by sovereign citizens to refer to themselves as ones not bound by the laws, regulations or rulings of the illegitimate government. In Canada, sovereign citizens are... Read more

Slogans / Code words Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

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

People Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Alfred Adask

Alfred Adask was a prominent and influential Texas-based sovereign citizen guru, especially active in the 1990s in promoting bogus liens and other sovereign citizen theories. His writings can be found in fringe online spaces.

People Anti-government