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Wolverine Watchmen

The Wolverine Watchment militia is an anti-government extremist group. Many members were arrested in October 2020 on either federal or state charges for their roles in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Groups / Movements Anti-government

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Threat, Duress, Coer…

"TDC" is an acronym used by the anti-government sovereign citizen movement to refer to "threat/duress/coercion." Some soveriegn citizens put this acronym next to a signature (or, in some cases, a zip code on an address) to indicate... Read more

Slogans / Code words Anti-government

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Traveling not driving

"Traveling, not driving" is a false argument promoted by the anti-government sovereign citizen movement. They argue that only commercial drivers, not people involved in private activity, have to have drivers licenses, license plates, registration or insurance. Sovereigns... Read more

Slogans / Code words Anti-government

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UCC 1-308 and UCC 1-…

UCC1-308 is a provision of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), a body of state law that every state has passed to make financial transactions between citizens and businesses of different states seamless and uniform. UCC1-207 is a... Read more

Numbers / Symbols Anti-government

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Washitaw Empire/Nati…

The Washitaw Empire/Nation was a Black sovereign citizen group in the mid-1990s that eventually split into several groups and became a wing of the Moorish sovereign citizen movement, an offshoot of the traditional sovereign citizen movement. The... Read more

Groups / Movements Anti-government

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William Potter Gale

William Potter Gale (1916-1988), a retired U.S. Army colonel, was a disciple of Christian Identity pioneer Wesley Smith and a prominent extremist active in California for decades, forming or participating in many different groups. In the 1970s... Read more

People Anti-government

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Winston Shrout

Winston Shrout is a prominent sovereign citizen guru whose videos and seminars attracted thousands to the anti-government extremist movement in the 2000s. He also played a role in exporting ideas of the sovereign citizen movement to several... Read more

People Anti-government

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Pureblood/Pure Blood

“Pureblood” (or “pure blood”) is a term some anti-vaxxers, QAnon adherents and conspiracy theorists use to refer to themselves and others who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19. The term draws upon unfounded beliefs that COVID-19 vaccines... Read more

Conspiracy Theories Non-extremist

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Plandemic

“Plandemic” is a popular conspiratorial term used by some conspiracy theorists, extremists and anti-vaccine activists to describe their belief that the COVID-19 pandemic was deliberately “planned” and “orchestrated” by global elites and the government as a ruse... Read more

Conspiracy Theories Non-extremist

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Syringe Swastika

The syringe swastika (sometimes referred to as a “vaccine swastika”) is a symbol used by some anti-vaccine activists to express opposition to vaccine mandates, likening such policies to the oppressive and genocidal policies of Nazi Germany. The... Read more

Numbers / Symbols Non-extremist