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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.
Members of the Oath Keepers (14 P) P. Proud Boys (1 C, 12 P) W. White League (7 P) Pages in category "Right-wing militia organizations in the United States"
The militia movement is a right-wing movement that arose following controversial standoffs in the 1990s. 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 ...
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 federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven other members of the right-wing extremist group from entering Washington, D.C., without the court’s permission ...
Armed right-wing militia and a mob of enraged demonstrators stormed the building where lawmakers had gathered to vote on a new government. ... 1934 — an infamous day when thousands of fascists ...
An information leak from a right-wing website in 2021 has led to the identification of many members from the organization. [3] Scot Seddon founded the organization during Barack Obama's first presidential term. [1] Seddon used TikTok to recruit new members in July 2024 following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. [4]
Donald Trump’s mass pardon of 1,500 January 6 participants, including the leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, has reinvigorated a weakened U.S. militia movement and empowered white ...