Antigovernment groups are part of the antidemocratic hard-right movement. They believe the federal government is tyrannical, and they traffic in conspiracy theories about an illegitimate government of leftist elites seeking a “New World Order.”

In 2023, the SPLC documented 1,430 hate and antigovernment extremist groups that comprise the organizational infrastructure upholding white supremacy in the U.S. The years since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection have been a time for the hard right to prepare.

2024年6月4日 · These groups are listed on the SPLC’s hate and antigovernment extremist map because they propagate antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ and male supremacist views. Read more here. The hate and antigovernment group designation is based on activity, belief and ideology, not the race of the individuals group members. Back to top

2023年6月6日 · On the ground, hate groups like Goyim Defense League targeted communities across the country with antisemitic flyers, more than tripling their propaganda efforts from 2021, according to Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.

More than 1,500 hard-right extremist groups operate across the country, pushing white supremacy, white Christian nationalism, antigovernment sentiment, antisemitism and other dangerous ideologies.

2017年2月3日 · The Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and the Wise Use movement of the 1980s, both of them aimed at forcing the federal government to turn public lands over to local communities and allowing their commercial exploitation, gave a new boost to antigovernment feeling, with many believing the government cared more for spotted owls than humans.

2022年3月9日 · Access the full The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021 report and map, highlighting the 2021 hate and anti-government extremist group counts with accompanying analysis, essays and policy recommendations here.

2024年6月4日 · Mississippi had the fewest number of hate and antigovernment groups in the region. Groups like Moms for Liberty focused their strategy on the political process, including joining anti-LGBTQ activist Matt Walsh for an anti-transgender bill signing.

In 2022, SPLC documented 1,225 hate and antigovernment extremist groups across the United States. Extremist ideas that mobilize these groups now operate more openly in the political mainstream. But the ascent of the hard right is not inevitable.

2023年6月9日 · Over the last five decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has researched, documented and tracked far-right extremist groups that espouse white supremacy, antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ+ hate and other often-intersecting ideologies.