The Michigan Militia was one of the earliest and largest militia groups, formed in 1994 by gun store owner Norman Olson. Olson was ousted the following year after making outlandish conspiratorial claims about the Oklahoma City bombing... Read more

The Minuteman Project was an anti-immigrant border vigilante group founded in August 2004 by Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox. Its members took it upon themselves to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border for illegal immigrants, including conducting armed "patrols."... Read more

The "Missing 13th Amendment" is not a reference to the 13th Amendment actually in the Constitution but rather is a false concept within the sovereign citizen movement that claims that there is a missing amendment (the ratification... Read more

The Montana Freemen were a group of anti-government extremist sovereign citizens based in eastern Montana led by LeRoy Schweitzer. Its main activity was to create and distribute fictitious financial instruments bearing names such as "comptroller's warrants." In... Read more

Moorish sovereign citizens are a collection of groups, networks and individuals that emerged in the early 1990s as a largely Black offshoot of the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement. Moorish sovereign citizens combine long-standing sovereign citizen beliefs... Read more

An antisemitic phrase, especially popular online, that accuses Jews of routinely bring up the Holocaust to gain attention or to deflect negative attention.