In the last year and a half, militias and the larger antigovernment "Patriot" movement have exploded, accompanied by the rapid expansion of other sectors of the radical right
A little-noticed meeting last year in Georgia helped re-launch the antigovernment ‘Patriot’ movement
The Intelligence Project identified 512 "Patriot" groups that were active in 2009.
What follows is a state-by-state list of the 173 groups that constitute the nativist extremist movement, as fissured as it may be. In the case of three major groups — the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the Minuteman Project, and the Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Coalition — acronyms have been added to help identify affiliated chapters that use other names. Groups marked by an asterisk (*) are also listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups.
What follows is a list of groups that the Intelligence Project has determined to be "nativist extremist" organizations, meaning that they target individual immigrants rather than immigration policies. The groups are listed with their locations when known; locations of groups that are statewide units with no known headquarters are designated by state name alone. Groups that are also listed by the Intelligence Project as hate groups are designated by an asterisk (*).
Famous standoffs between authorities and extremists have lasted up to 81 days. But in Texas, one man is going for a new record