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Ethnic group: African Americans; Proposed state or autonomous region: Republic of New Afrika [100] [101] Advocacy group: Pan-Africanists [102] Black Radical Congress, Moorish sovereign citizens, Nuwaubian Nation, Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Black Lives Matter (Factions)
Example illustration of a sovereign citizen homemade license plate. The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists found mainly in English-speaking common law countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
It is also considered part of the sovereign citizen movement, a category of people, primarily in the United States, who believe that various forms of government authority are illegitimate. Zaqistan: 2005 This micronation claims a small area in Utah. [55]
As opposed to an organized group or organization such as the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys, Sovereign Citizens are very much a “movement” said Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the ...
[1] [2] [4] [5] The SPLC listed 1,020 hate groups and hate-group chapters on its 2018 list—an all-time high fueled primarily by an increase in radical right groups. [2] The number of SPLC-designated active hate groups and hate-group chapters subsequently declined to 838 in 2020, and 733 in 2021.
Jun. 14—Police stopped to help stranded motorists and came face-to-face with a family of Moorish Sovereign Citizens, some of whom fought with officers, according to a probable cause affidavit.
[2] [3] As a result, they may sometimes be referred to as sovereign sheriffs. [4] The movement is related to previous nullification and interposition notions, [1] and promotes such efforts. [5] It has been described as far-right by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [6] The CSPOA has claimed a membership of 400. [3]
Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf, a licensed lawyer and former state prosecutor, became a member of the sovereign citizen movement. [69] [70] With several associates, she created a group called the One People’s Public Trust (OPPT) that claimed around 2012 to have "foreclosed" governments, corporations, and banks through US Uniform Commercial Code ...