Tag: III%

The III% movement is a far-right national brand of militias based on the ahistorical notion that only 3% of the US colonists fought against the British in the American Revolution. Like the Oath Keepers, the III% movement was founded in 2009 in reaction to Barack Obama’s 2008 electoral victory. The group is insurrectionary in nature but engaged in paramilitary activity during the Trump years when the action was against their claimed political adversaries–BLM, ‘antifa’, communists, etc. The movement is highly prone to splintering, coverage of which is a fixture of MW writing.

Below, you will find all MilitiaWatch articles mentioning the brand of militias.

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Reflections on November 9: The ‘Declaration of Restoration’, the path to it, and its near futures

This post is a follow-up on some of the loose ends of a previous piece on splinters within the III% movement, particularly with regards to the III% Security Force and its affiliated activists and figureheads.

Revisiting GSFIII: ‘Civil disobedience’, anti-abortion activism, and splinters new and old

Much has happened since this earlier piece, but this update seeks to focus on the November 9th gathering anticipated in the previous article alongside the politics, uprisings, and fallout surrounding the event. I strongly recommend reading this previous bit of writing before diving into this one.

From a “redress of grievances” on February 23, 2019 (termed “223”) to its March 23 follow-up to a planned November 9 rally in DC, Chris Hill of the III% Security Force (III%SF) and Georgia Security Force III% (GSFIII) seemed to be organizing a new era of national militia gatherings.

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Revisiting GSFIII: ‘Civil disobedience’, anti-abortion activism, and splinters new and old

This post is a long read on the III% movement, filling in some of the gaps from my original GSFIII piece and in the time since. This will likely be followed by other minor updates, which will be linked at the end of this piece as they are completed.

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