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Republic of Texas logo used on some group documents and Web sites. The Republic of Texas (and also known as Provisional Government of the Republic of Texas) is a general term for several organizations, some of which have been called militia groups, [1] [2] [3] that claim the annexation of Texas by the United States was illegal and that Texas remains an independent nation to this day but is ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. It identified 276 in 2015, up from 202 in 2014. [1] In 2016, the SPLC identified a total of 165 armed militia groups within the United States. [2] [3]
It inherited paramilitary traditions of earlier groups, especially the conspiratorial, anti-government Posse Comitatus. The militia movement claims that militia groups are sanctioned by law but uncontrolled by government; in fact, they are designed to oppose a tyrannical government.
Also Tuesday, civil rights groups and Texas' largest border county filed a lawsuit, calling the measure that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott had signed into law less than 24 hours earlier an ...
While members of some such groups believe such militias are approved or endorsed by law, particularly by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, they are in no way public authorities or organized military or National Guard units of the country or their state. They are private citizens, in voluntary association, and self-funded.
The report highlights a particular thread of posts from June 13, in which a member of the Texas Border Patriots group called for a “MASSIVE SHOW OF FORCE ON OUR BORDERS” to stop “the ILLEGAL ...
Article 44.2. of Bulgaria constitution prohibits any organization with paramilitary structures. [3]Article 44.2. The organization/s activity shall not be contrary to the country's sovereignty and national integrity, or the unity of the nation, nor shall it incite racial, national, ethnic or religious enmity or an encroachment on the rights and freedoms of citizens; no organization shall ...
Facebook regularly creates pages for a wide variety of groups that the platform itself has deemed dangerous, raising concerns about its ability to effectively enforce its own policies against ...