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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 militia movement claims that militia groups are sanctioned by law but uncontrolled by government; in fact, they are designed to oppose a tyrannical government. The movement's ideology has led some adherents to commit criminal acts, including stockpiling illegal weapons and explosives and plotting to destroy buildings or assassinate public ...
Pages in category "Right-wing militia organizations in the United States" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It started as a political protest in the nation’s capital over a disputed election, but it quickly turned into an all-out assault. Armed right-wing militia and a mob of enraged demonstrators ...
Joey Garrison, USA TODAY. January 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM. WASHINGTON ― Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers whose prison sentence for his role in the Jan. 6, ...
Following the 2015 Chattanooga shootings at a strip mall military recruitment center and a naval operational support center in Tennessee, Oath Keepers and other militia groups began organizing armed gatherings outside of recruiting centers in several states, with the stated objective of providing protection to service members, who were barred ...
A new report details the explosive growth of neo-Nazi groups using fitness to build ‘shadow’ armies How white supremacist fight clubs are building covert far-right militias Skip to main content
In the United States, the patriot movement is a term which is used to describe a conglomeration of non-unified right-wing populist and nationalist political movements, most notably right-wing armed militias, sovereign citizens, and tax protesters.