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Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
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Brent Johnson
Brent Johnson is a longtime figure in the anti-government movement, including the sovereign citizen movement. He has been host of the "American Sovereign" radio show and, with Lee Parker, director of Freedom Bound International, a "common law... Read more
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Bundy Ranch
The Bundy Ranch was the site of a large armed standoff between the federal government and extremist supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in 2014. The dispute began over Bundy's longstanding refusal to pay grazing fees for... Read more
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Waheba Issa Dais
Waheba Issa Dais was a Wisconsin-based Islamist extremist who hacked into Facebook accounts in 2018 to encourage people to join ISIS and build bombs and biological weapons, including detailed instructions for creating the poison ricin. In August... Read more
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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
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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
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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
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Oath Keepers
The Oath Keepers are a loosely organized group of right-wing anti-government extremists within the larger militia movement. While they allow anyone to join, the Oath Keepers explicitly focus on recruiting current and former military, law enforcement, and... Read more