his second term. i headed west to spend a weekend with the southern arizona militia, a right-leaning group whose members are focused on securing our southern border. they re led by a man who calls himself silverback. would you consider yourself an extremist? in a good way, yes. in what way would you consider yourself an extremist? the strict belief in the constitution. fire! we watched silverback and his men train. there you go. we shot some guns. you hit it. and we talked about the future. do you think the government s concern about groups like yours is justifiable, is a valid concern? the only reason they should have that concern is if they plan on doing something bad to the people. there s no other reason to be concerned about it because at this point, to my knowledge, there s not a bunch of militia groups banding together and taking over the white house.
away. while pandemonium broke out in the lobby, a group inside the state senate gallery toting semiautomatic weapons was watching, which under michigan law is legal. people need to wake the hell up. this isn t about a [ bleep ] virus. quit being sheep and get the [ bleep ] off your ass. this is william null, a member of the wolverine watchmen, a militia group that emerged during the covid lockdowns. five months later, the country would see him again. the fbi says they have stopped a domestic terrorist group, a militia plot to kidnap the governor of michigan and overthrow the government. if we re doing a reconor something and we come up on some of them, duds, you either tell them to go right now or else they re going to die, period. this chilling footage of one member was released by federal prosecutors and shows just how far they were willing to go. at various points, the plot included shooting the governor at her vacation house and demolishing a bridge to slow any police r
boy, part of a group that emerged two years ago in online forums. it began as a bunch of memes. a play on the name of a breakdancing movie. electric boogaloo which morphed into world war ii, and then simply boogaloo as a term for an impending war in america. a shared internet culture then jumped into a real-life paramilitary movement, complete with its own wardrobe of hawaiian shirts, big igloo symbols, and, yes, semiautomatic weapons. so how would you character the boogaloo movement? broad anti-government in all forms and fashions more than anything else. the boogaloo boys are pro-gun, but unlike many right-leaning militias, they don t sympathize with trump or the republican party. they re libertarian and anti-police with no leaders or central organization. i want to understand what drew magnus to the movement and why he feels we ve reached a point of no return.
this group saying, you re trying to destroy that america because you re changing it. and the other group s saying, no, we just want it for us too. to understand the kind of drastic upheaval that s taken place in michigan over the past hundred years, we just need to look to detroit. in the first half of the 20th century, this city was an industrial boom town with high-paying blue collar jobs in manufacturing. but after world war ii, many of those good jobs began to disappear. racial tension and widespread reports of police brutality fueled riots in 1967 and fault lines were drawn. detroit became the blackest city in america and a democratic stronghold while many whites headed for the suburbs and rural michigan with grievances of a lost way of life. given this political climate, this period of instability that we re feeling, do you think that this is going to continue?
cult. when the waco story broke, mark poe talk had just started a new job reporting for usa today. i got a frantic call from my editor in washington saying go to waco immediately. what was happening there? there was a group of religious cultist, and their leader, david koresh, kept telling the followers that the government is coming for us any day now, and we will have to fight when that happens. mr. koresh, your group has been described and i don t know if it s accurate as heavily armed. yeah, we re heavily armed all right. after the initial gunfight and a weeks-long standoff, the fbi launched a raid that would end in the death of 75 branch davidians, including 25 children. now we have a very large-scale fire breaking out on what must be the south side. the claim from some of the davidians and from conspiracy theorists all over is that the fbi proceeded to murder the people inside. a justice department investigation would later conclude that davidians