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| Formation | 2008 |
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| Founder | Michael "Mike" Brian Vanderboegh |
| Dissolved | February 21, 2021 (as national organization, local groups continue) |
| Legal status | Inactive |
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Region | North America |
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| Terrorism and political violence |
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The Three Percenters[a] are a loose anti-government network comprising militia groups and individual activists in the United States.[2] Once a unified organization known as The Three Percenters Original, the movement has evolved into a number of ideologically diverse groups with no centralized leadership at the national level.[3]
The movement adherents advocates gun ownership rights and resistance to the U.S. federal government.[4][5] The group's name derives from the erroneous[6][7] claim that "the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists" during the American Revolution.[8] Though the Three Percent movement is broadly united by support for gun rights and has been described by Malcolm Nance as right-libertarian,[9] it also encompasses nativist and Christian fundamentalist elements involved in planning bomb attacks.[10]
The group is based in the U.S. and has a presence in Canada. It has been described as the "most dangerous" extremist group in Canada.[4]
On February 21, 2021, their leadership dissolved the American national group in response to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, condemning the violence.[11] Multiple factions of the group and others adhering to the Three Percenter movement participated in the attack.[12] In June 2021, six men associated with the group were indicted in the U.S. for conspiracy, and Canada declared the group a terrorist entity.[13]
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- ^ Tures, John A. (July 3, 2017). "More Americans Fought in the American Revolution Than We Thought". Observer. Archived from the original on July 11, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ^ "The Three Percenters: Who We Are". The Three Percenters. Archived from the original on August 14, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
- ^ Nance 2022, pp. 319–320.
- ^ Aaronson, Trevor (March 30, 2019). "Donald Trump Helped Turn a Christian Extremist Into an Alleged Domestic Terrorist". The Intercept. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
- ^ "TTPO's Final Statement - The Three Percenters - Original". thethreepercenters.org. March 10, 2021. Archived from the original on March 10, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
- ^ "Summoning a mob to Washington, and knowing they were angry and armed, instructing them to march to the Capitol". j6.report. Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Retrieved December 29, 2023.
- ^ Ljunggren, David (June 25, 2021). Nomiyama, Chizu (ed.). "Canada puts U.S. Three Percenters militia on terror list, cites risk of violent extremism". Reuters. Archived from the original on August 11, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
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