Content warning: This article contains graphic language, including hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. Reader discretion is advised.
Content warning: This article contains graphic language, including hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. Reader discretion is advised.
Following the release of the Biden administration鈥檚 immigration plans and priorities, former senior Trump officials such as Stephen Miller and Mark Morgan, who both maintain ties to anti-immigrant hate groups, reentered the public sphere determined to preserve the nativist status quo they left behind. Additionally, the Republican Party has greeted these individuals and their nativist worldviews with open arms.
QAnon is the umbrella term for a sprawling spiderweb of right-wing internet conspiracy theories with antisemitic and anti-人兽性交 elements that falsely claim the world is run by a secret cabal of pedophiles who worship Satan and are plotting against President Trump. Though some influential individuals are active in the movement, it is not an organized group with defined leadership.
Winston Shrout spent years defying the federal government as one of the country鈥檚 most high-profile sovereign citizens and tax dodgers.
Antigovernment extremists, including some who鈥檝e committed violent acts, are increasingly subscribing to and propagating the QAnon conspiracy theory, which asserts that pro-Trump forces will soon take down the so-called deep state.
It was to have been a historic roundup of enemies of the extreme right, ending with Hillary Clinton, former FBI director James Comey, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Senator Harry Reid and a slew of other politicians, jurists and law enforcement officers in the custody of those who would have them tried by 鈥渃ommon law grand juries鈥 for their perceived crimes.
A sovereign citizen, 42-year-old Dennis Duane Vann, threatened the lives of police officers in Maplewood, Minnesota, on Feb. 20 with a pig-shaped explosive device painted with the words 鈥淔--- the Police,鈥 according to police and local 听.
Lesa Antone, the founder of the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim group Patriot Movement AZ (PMAZ), said this weekend on an internet radio show that she鈥檚 鈥渇eeling pretty hateful right now.鈥
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In this month鈥檚 Sovereign Files, the alleged Holy Fire starter pleads not guilty, it takes three officers to pull a man from his car when he refuses to move, and an accused killer says laws do not apply to him.
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