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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.
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The Ohio Defense Force, originally named the Southeastern Ohio Defense Force, was founded in 1989 as a non-profit corporation. In 2004, the organization decided to expand statewide and was renamed the Ohio Defense Force. [2] [3] The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Ohio Defense Force as an anti-governmental organization. [4]
While groups such as the Posse Comitatus existed as early as the 1980s, [3] the movement gained momentum after standoffs with government agents in the early 1990s. By the mid-1990s, such groups were active in all 50 US states, with membership estimated at between 20,000 and 60,000. [4] The movement is most closely associated with the American ...
The past month in Ohio felt more like October than July as groups fanned out across the state, either to curry favor for Issue 1 or work against it. ... The anti-abortion group Protect Women Ohio ...
A far-right group launched by anti-government activist Ammon Bundy is rapidly expanding nationwide and making inroads into Canada, according to a new report from the Institute for Research and ...
Oath Keepers is an American far-right [1] anti-government militia [1] [5] whose leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the government of the United States, including the transfer of presidential power as prescribed by the United States constitution. It was incorporated in 2009 by founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes, a lawyer and former ...
The group was incorporated in Ohio on Sept. 21, 2018, which matches state records and reporting by The Columbus Dispatch as a for-profit company called Hardworking Ohioans Inc.