"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

"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

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

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

Roger Elvick was a prominent sovereign citizen guru from the 1980s through the 2000s. In 1999, he popularized "redemption theory," a set of sovereign citizen theories that are still popular today. Elvick had a long criminal history... Read more

Bogus liens are one of the oldest and most common sovereign citizen "paper terrorism" tactics. They are designed to harass and retaliate against their perceived enemies. Whereas most legitimate liens are placed against property for nonpayment of... Read more

The tax protest movement is the oldest wing of the anti-government extremist "Patriot" movement, dating back to the mid-1960s. In contrast to people who merely dislike taxes, adherents of the tax protest movement use pseudo-legal arguments to... Read more