Free American Army is just one of around 200 similar Facebook groups and profiles, most of which are still live, that anti-government and far-right extremists are using to coordinate local militia ...

Militia groups were hiding in plain sight on Jan. 6. They’re still dangerous. White supremacist and militant right-wing organizations were a critical part of the mob that stormed the Capitol ...

“America’s racism is on full display at this point,” he said. “We are law-abiding citizens, legally assembled. We don’t have an anti-police theology like the groups from the ’60s.

Patriots for America is perhaps the most well known and organized of the civilian militia groups operating on the southern border. According to the Los Angeles Times, it was founded in 2015 to ...

The plot, which was purportedly hatched following a rally at the Michigan state capital in June, involved individuals associated with a Michigan militia group that goes by the name Wolverine Watchmen.

Such a frame is seductive but misses the true danger of militia groups. They do not exist outside and in opposition to American democracy; they are its intimate products.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Cynthia Miller-Idriss, who runs the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab at American University, about the growth of right-wing militia groups in 2020.

If you let militia groups and their officially unaffiliated supporters tell it, they are defenders of the Constitution, of American liberty and the American way. But the sense that these things ...

After a massive resurgence of American militia groups following President Barack Obama's 2008 election, the Southern Poverty Law Center -- which tracks data on the anti-government movement ...

In Pennsylvania, the report says that groups to watch include Proud Boys, Boogaloo Bois, American Contingency, Civilian Defense Force, Light Foot Militia and Mountain Top Watch, an unaffiliated ...