sovereign citizen movement

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

by Beth Macy  · 6 Oct 2025  · 373pp  · 97,653 words

by author, Sept. 27, 2023. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1 “SovereignCitizens Movement,” Southern Poverty Law Center, 2023, www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/sovereign-citizens-movement. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2 RachelGoldwasser, “Sovereign Citizenship Takes Hold Among Younger, Affluent, Female Communities,” Southern Poverty Law Center, June 4, 2024. BACK TO NOTE

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

, Beeks told the court that he had “divine authority” that made him ungovernable. “That’s all gobbledygook,” the judge said. Beeks denied membership in the Sovereign Citizen movement—another right-wing belief system charging that the government’s authority was illegitimate—but he repeatedly used its rhetoric and symbolism. After telling a judge

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Musk on here and Vivek Ramaswamy here Soros Foundation here South Africa here Southern District of New York’s District Attorney’s Office here, here Sovereign Citizen movement here SpaceX here, here, here, here SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies) here Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) here spies, and Twitter here, here, here Sramek

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

by Kelly Weill  · 22 Feb 2022

fully regard himself as subject to US laws. In various court filings before his death, he frequently used language and tactics ripped straight from the sovereign citizen movement, a bogus crusade that claims that people can skirt the legal system by declaring themselves “sovereign citizens,” immune from most laws. He told me, on

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein  · 11 Sep 2023

was really serious”: Nikou Asgari, “‘A Form of Brainwashing’: Why Trump Voters Are Refusing to Have a Vaccine,” Financial Times, July 20 2021. “sovereign citizens”: “Sovereign Citizens Movement,” Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed November 8, 2022. popularized by leftists in Turkey: Ryan Gingeras, “How the Deep State Came to America,” War on the

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

by Victor Davis Hanson  · 15 Nov 2021  · 458pp  · 132,912 words

stuff of make-believe. Recalcitrant Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in 2014 invoked the doctrine of federal nullification in accordance with the supposed protocols of the “sovereign citizen movement.” He certainly enjoyed some rural public support in the West as a die-hard rebel for his refusal to pay his federal grazing fees on