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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

Citizens’ grand jury…

Citizens' grand juries (also known as common law grand juries and people's grand juries) are sham juries created primarily by adherents of the sovereign citizen movement, who have a fondness for creating fictitious judicial and governmental entities... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Common law courts

"Common law courts" are bogus courts established by adherents of the sovereign citizen movement, who reject the legitimacy of actual courts. They are often used to render unenforceable judgments regarding genuine legal disputes and to issue phony... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Anti-government

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

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

Fictitious Financial…

Fictitious financial instruments are fraudulent, typically check-like documents that purport to transfer a sum of money like a check or money order. They are frequently created by adherents of the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement and used... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions 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

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

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

People Anti-government