militia movement

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  1/11/2021
  

  How the Pro-Trump Mob Fits in the History of U.S. Lynching

  Kathleen Belew joins Nikole Hannah-Jones on Joy Ann Reid's show to discuss the rise of the far right movement that drove the Capitol rioting on January 6. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  1/8/2021
  

  ‘The Turner Diaries’ Didn’t Just Inspire The Capitol Attack. It Warns Us What Might Be Next

  Historian Kathleen Belew discusses the centrality of the 1978 novel to the far right and its possible use as a blueprint for future attacks.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  4/20/2020
  

  Who are the Self-Styled Liberators? Looking More Deeply at those Protesting Coronavirus Shutdowns

  by Betsy Gaines Quammen

  The American militia movement — a network of armed people, some religiously motivated, some white supremacists, some neither, loosely organized to defend the Constitution, or at least their own version of it — have joined in protests of COVID closures.

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• 2-2-16
  

  Why Americans Didn’t Rally Around Ammon Bundy

  by Matthew C. Hulbert

  The takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge triggered unpleasant memories of guerrilla warfare from our past.

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• 1-29-16
  

  Ammon Bundy’s Wrongheaded History of Militias Is Getting People Killed

  by Thomas A. Reinstein

  Historically, militias were a tool of the state, not a force formed in opposition to the state.

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• 1-14-16
  

  This Isn’t The First Time Armed Ranchers Have Seized Government Land in Oregon

  by Steven C. Beda

  Back in 1941 they proclaimed themselves the State of Jefferson. Then Pearl Harbor happened.