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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.
The SPLC's 2021 report states: "Groups we list as antigovernment see the federal government as an enemy of the people and promote baseless conspiracy theories generally involving a secret cabal of elites seeking to institute a global, totalitarian government – a 'New World Order."
The SPLC tracks hate and anti-government groups across the country. Ohio is home to at least 50 such organizations, which the SPLC defines as a group that has beliefs or practices that attack or ...
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 ...
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Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the SPLC and SPLC Action Fund, said the report found startling increases in the number of anti-government hate groups, up 133 to 835 in total, and hate ...
Many members are former or current members of the military, police and other law-enforcement agencies, as well as anti-government groups such as the Oath Keepers. [ 1 ] The movement was co-founded by Michael "Mike" Brian Vanderboegh [ 15 ] from Alabama, a member of the Oath Keepers, a group with whom the Three Percenters remain loosely allied ...
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 ...