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Patriot movement, the Glossary

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 far-right armed militias, sovereign citizens, and tax protesters.^[1]

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Paleolibertarianism
Right-wing populism in the United States
Sovereign citizen movement

American militia movement

American militia movement is a term used by law enforcement and security analysts to refer to a number of private organizations that include paramilitary or similar elements. Patriot movement and American militia movement are Paleoconservatism and right-wing militia organizations in the United States.

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American nationalism

American nationalism is a form of civic, ethnic, cultural or economic influences.

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Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, is a New York–based international non-governmental organization that was founded to combat antisemitism, bigotry and discrimination.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Assassination of George Tiller

On May 31, 2009, George Tiller, an American physician from Wichita, Kansas, who was one of the few doctors in the United States to perform late terminations of pregnancy, was murdered by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion extremist.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Bundy standoff

The 2014 Bundy standoff was an armed confrontation between supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and law enforcement following a 21-year legal dispute in which the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) obtained court orders directing Bundy to pay over $1 million in withheld grazing fees for Bundy's use of federally owned land adjacent to Bundy's ranch in southeastern Nevada.

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Christian Patriot movement

The Christian Patriot movement is a subset of the broader American Patriot movement that promotes Christian nationalism and emphasizes it as its core goal and philosophy. Patriot movement and Christian Patriot movement are Paleoconservatism, right-wing militia organizations in the United States and sovereign citizen movement.

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Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Eschatology

Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself.

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Extremism

Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views".

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.

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Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.

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The Idaho Light Foot Militia (ILFM) is a privately organized militia in the state of Idaho. Patriot movement and Idaho Light Foot Militia are right-wing militia organizations in the United States.

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Immigration to the United States

Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of its history.

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Income tax

An income tax is a tax imposed on individuals or entities (taxpayers) in respect of the income or profits earned by them (commonly called taxable income).

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges.

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Islamophobia

Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general.

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John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, has spawned numerous conspiracy theories.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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Liberty Lobby

Liberty Lobby was a far-right think tank and lobby group founded in 1958 by Willis Carto.

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Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).

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Michigan Militia

The Michigan Militia is a paramilitary Michigan-based organization founded in 1994 by Norman Olson, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Patriot movement and Michigan Militia are right-wing militia organizations in the United States.

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Militia of Montana

The Militia of Montana (MOM) is a paramilitary organization founded by David and John Trochmann of Noxon, Montana, United States. Patriot movement and Militia of Montana are right-wing militia organizations in the United States.

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Nativism (politics)

Nativism is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native-born or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of anti-immigration and immigration-restriction measures.

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New World Order conspiracy theory

The New World Order (NWO) is a term used in several conspiracy theories which hypothesize a secretly emerging totalitarian world government.

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Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

On January 2, 2016, an armed group of Right-wing militants seized and occupied the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, and continued to occupy it until law enforcement made a final arrest on February 11, 2016. Patriot movement and Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are right-wing militia organizations in the United States.

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Oklahoma City bombing

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege.

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Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theories

Alternative theories have been proposed regarding the Oklahoma City bombing.

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Opposition to immigration

Opposition to immigration, also known as anti-immigration, is a political ideology that seeks to restrict immigration.

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Paleoconservatism

Paleoconservatism is a political philosophy and strain of conservatism in the United States stressing American nationalism, Christian ethics, regionalism, traditionalist conservatism, and non-interventionism.

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Paleolibertarianism

Paleolibertarianism (also known as the "Paleo strategy") is a libertarian political activism strategy aimed at uniting libertarians and paleoconservatives. Patriot movement and Paleolibertarianism are Libertarianism in the United States and right-wing populism in the United States.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith

Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, subtitled Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, is the academic publication of the American Scientific Affiliation.

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Political movement

A political movement is a collective attempt by a group of people to change government policy or social values.

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Posse Comitatus (organization)

The Posse Comitatus (Latin, "force of the county") is a loosely organized American far-right extremist social movement which began in the late 1960s. Patriot movement and Posse Comitatus (organization) are right-wing militia organizations in the United States and sovereign citizen movement.

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Presidency of Barack Obama

Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017.

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Presidency of Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton's tenure as the 42nd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1993, and ended on January 20, 2001.

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QAnon

QAnon is a far-right American political conspiracy theory and political movement that originated in 2017. Patriot movement and QAnon are right-wing populism in the United States.

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Racism

Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Radical right (United States)

In the politics of the United States, the radical right is a political preference that leans towards ultraconservatism, white nationalism, white supremacy, or other far-right ideologies in a hierarchical structure which is paired with conspiratorial rhetoric alongside traditionalist and reactionary aspirations. Patriot movement and radical right (United States) are Paleoconservatism and right-wing populism in the United States.

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Reconquista (Mexico)

The Reconquista ("reconquest") is a term to describe an irredentist vision by different individuals, groups, and/or nations that the Southwestern United States should be politically or culturally returned to Mexico.

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Ruby Ridge standoff

Ruby Ridge was the site of a siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992.

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Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms.

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Sharia

Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.

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Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.

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Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

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Sovereign citizen movement

The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States.

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Tax protester

A tax protester is someone who refuses to pay a tax claiming that the tax laws are unconstitutional or otherwise invalid.

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Tea Party movement

The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009. Patriot movement and Tea Party movement are Libertarianism in the United States, Paleoconservatism and right-wing populism in the United States.

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Terry Nichols

Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted for conspiring with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing plot.

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The Arizona Republic

The Arizona Republic is an American daily newspaper published in Phoenix.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Turner Diaries

The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, a neo-Nazi and the founder and chairman of National Alliance, a white nationalist group, published under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

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Timothy McVeigh

Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United States Department of Homeland Security

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.

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Violence

Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction.

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Waco siege

The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult known as the Branch Davidians between February 28 and April 19, 1993.

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White supremacy

White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them.

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William Luther Pierce

William Luther Pierce III (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was an American neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and far-right political activist.

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Xenophobia

Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.

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2010 Austin suicide attack

The 2010 Austin suicide attack occurred on February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his single-engine Piper Dakota light aircraft into Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, United States, killing himself and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) manager Vernon Hunter.

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9/11 conspiracy theories

There are various conspiracy theories that attribute the preparation and execution of the September 11 attacks against the United States to parties other than, or in addition to, al-Qaeda.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_movement

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Patriot movement, the Glossary

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See also

Paleolibertarianism

Right-wing populism in the United States

Sovereign citizen movement

References