militia 
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SOURCE: MSNBC
6/15/2022
Belew to Maddow: Fascist Groups are "Nationwide Paramilitary Army"
Kathleen Belew, an expert on white nationalist paramilitary groups, talks with Rachel Maddow about why individual incidents with racist extremist groups should be seen as part of a single, larger groundswell.
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4/11/2021
Prosecuting Sedition in a Divided Nation is a Challenge as Old as America
by William H. Pruden III
America's cultural value on free expression makes conviction of far-right radicals on sedition charges unlikely. The Ft. Smith, Arkansas trial in 1988 was a PR victory for the far right when 14 defendants accused of plotting against the government were acquitted.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/2/2020
Why ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Should Set Off Alarm Bells
by Kathleen Belew
"What binds these disparate groups is that they espouse the violent defense of white supremacy."
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9/20/2020
The Second Amendment has Never Covered Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
by Noah Shusterman
If his lawyer wants to argue that Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in the spirit of those eighteenth-century militias which went outside the law and defied their state government, and especially those who did so in the interest of promoting white supremacy – his case would be historically solid. It would not, however, be an exoneration.
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SOURCE: Haaretz
5/5/2020
U.S. Extremist Blames 'Compliant' Jews for Holocaust in Idaho Protest
Ammon Bundy tells crowd during anti-lockdown demonstration that Jewish people thought 'putting their head down and trying to not be noticed was the better way' in WWII.
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SOURCE: Truth-out
1-15-13
Thom Hartmann: The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
"The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says "State" instead of "Country" (the Framers knew the difference - see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states."
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