Driven by anger toward "political, demographic, and economic changes," a surge of anti-government extremist groups occurred this year, according to a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Extremist "patriot" groups jumped by 244 percent last year, with nearly a quarter of them being militias.
It added that the patriot movement made "significant inroads into the conservative political scene," where groups that "cannot fairly be considered extremist" are still "shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism."
This report, released last Tuesday, comes at a time when several radical, anti-government individuals have carried out attacks in the US.
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