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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

14th Amendment

The 14th Amendment is something that many sovereign citizens argue created an entirely new class of citizens. Those who joined this new class were subject to the authority of the federal government. Prior to this amendment, Sovereign... Read more
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Agenda 21

Agenda 21 was a non-binding UN resolution passed in 1992 intended to help governments promote sustainable development. Since it passed, the resolution has been used by anti-government extremists and conspiracy theorists as evidence of a plot to... Read more
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Big Igloo

Big Igloo is a common nickname for the boogaloo movement. The nickname became popular as a sound-alike alternative to the word "boogaloo." As a result, many boogaloo flags feature an igloo, and the image frequently appears in... Read more
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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Big Luau

Big Luau is a common nickname for the boogaloo movement that became popular as a sound-alike alternative to the word "boogaloo." The term is the inspiration for much of the movement's Hawaiian aesthetic, including its Hawaiian shirts... Read more
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Hate Group

An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more

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Moorish Movement

An Afro-centric offshoot of the sovereign citizen movement that emerged in the mid-1990s primarily as a result of people merging sovereign beliefs with beliefs from a longstanding religious sect, the Moorish Science Temple. Moorish sovereign citizens often... Read more

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Skousenism

Skousenism is a term used to describe the political philosophy of ultraconservative political theorist W. Cleon Skousen (1913-2006). Skousen advocated a philosophy centered on advocacy for extremely limited federal government, anti-Communism, conspiracy theories and Mormon theology. Skousenites... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Anti-government
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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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Oklahoma City bombing

On April 19, 1995, anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to retaliate against the federal government for its handling of the Branch Davidian standoff... Read more
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Paper Terrorism

"Paper terrorism" is a term given to a range of tactics developed by the sovereign citizen movement to use against their perceived enemies. These tactics typically involve the filing of bogus legal documents or the misuse of... Read more
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