Straight and Lawrence crisscrossed the country in 2022, speaking to groups in the hundreds at $100 a ticket.Īnother sovereign citizen subgroup, the Moorish sovereigns were quieter in 2022 then 2021. Senate in 2018 on an America First MAGA platform. The American States Nationals Study Guide & University is also run by David Straight along with Bobby Lawrence, who campaigned to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. The American Meeting Group is run by sovereign citizens David Straight and co-founder Robert William. Two new organizations utilized the seminar and product sales model that has been a hallmark of the sovereign citizen movement and perfected by sovereign citizen Winston Shrout.
Reign of the Heavens Society charged a Satanic Temple leader with war crimes, stating that the punishment could be up to and including death. The Oregon Statewide Jural Assembly brought the Oregon Department of Education up on charges in its fictitious court. These fake courts based on the old British legal system usually involve individual grievances or grievances against the government brought forth by ”plaintiffs,” and most often the court’s grand jury “assigns” guilt and punishment. Two groups held common law court hearings that were accessible to the public The Oregon Statewide Jural Assembly held theirs in a city park while the Reign of the Heavens Society conducted theirs online. The two largest rival sovereign citizen organizations in the U.S., the American States Assembly and National Assembly, were able to maintain or increase their membership numbers in 2022. The proliferation of conspiracies and grievances about public health measures during the Covid-19 pandemic brought new followers into the sovereign citizen movement.
In the Life Force Network document titled, New Declaration of Independence the organization claims to have successfully fought “The Order” for global control of the world’s finances and over “every military, intelligence agency and law enforcement structure in the world that currently exists or will exist in the future.” The group is run by New Yorker Steffen Rowe is active in 17 states. A new group, which calls itself Life Force Network, is a fusion of Q-centric conspiracy theories, science fiction and fake alternative governments and courts called sovereign citizen “assemblies.” The organization’s main villain is “The Order,” which they describe as an international group that has “dominion over the governments” and is made up of regular antigovernment bogeymen such as the Rockefellers, the Rothchilds and seemingly fictional characters such as the Annuanake, and Dragon Families. The QAnon conspiracy theory that initially brought new people into the movement has remained a gateway into sovereign citizenship.
The sovereign citizen movement continued to see membership growth in 2022.
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