Three Percenters militia

Following the clash in Charlottesville, many media outlets and even liberal groups have been referring to groups such as the Three Percenters (3%ers), Oath Keepers, and Three Percent United Patriots (3UP) as being racist militia hate groups, despite the fact that the organizations all made public ...

Maybe they were the exception and other Patriots groups fell into the “alt right.” I decided to speak to another Patriot group and see what they do and what they think. I approached the leaders of The Three Percenters' Kaleb Hill and Dominic Chappell to see if they would be willing to talk to me about who ...

In 1955, Emmett Till, a black 15-year-old, was abducted and beaten to death, his body mutilated, after he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Until the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Loving v. Virginia case in 1967, it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry in Virginia and several other states.

Militia groups along the U.S.-Mexico Border consider themselves to be “the wall,” taking matters into their own hands and fighting to keep undocumented ..... Shane Bauer, a reporter for Mother Jones who previously went undercover as a private prison guard, joined the Three Percent United Patriots' (3UP) ...

Bauer makes a new Facebook profile, likes militia pages, sends friend requests to militia members and soon signs up for Three Percent United Patriots' private “Operation Spring Break.” The various “Three Percenter” militia groups — you'll often see this as III%ers — take their name from the idea that three ...

In 2013, Mike Morris, a Marine veteran and IT manager from Colorado, co-founded a militia group called Three Percent United Patriots (3UP). ... After months of training undercover with militias in California, earlier this year I traveled to southern Arizona to join 3UP's Operation Spring Break. At least twice a ...

I can tell them about my background in the militia movement: Before joining the Three Percent United Patriots (3UP) for this border operation, I trained with the ... It's the standard of the three percenters, symbolizing their foundational belief that just 3 percent of American colonists were responsible for overthrowing the British ...

In addition to joining a California militia, Bauer participated in a “border op” partly organized by the Arizona and Colorado chapters of the Three Percent United Patriots (3UP), which operates under a military-style command structure. Among the operation's participants were members of the Borderkeepers of ...

As New Times reported last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual count revealed 276 militia groups in America. ... The Florida Constitutional Guard, he said, "has joined with the 3 up movement" — also known as the "Three Percenters," whose stated mission is "to give our members the ...

United States -(AmmoLand.com)- During the Revolutionary War it has been said that only three percent of the population took up arms to secure our ... Is 3UP a Militia? MIKE MORRIS: 3UP itself is not necessarily a militia. We are a patriot organization with a tactical training and operating side that can ...

The third episode of the season, airing Friday night, includes interviews with the Three Percent United Patriots, a well-armed, reportedly well-trained group with ... Morris' United Patriots is about 30,000 strong, he said, and part of a greater network of Three Percenters and Oath Keepers that number in the ...