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Ruby Ridge is where white separatist Randy Weaver barricaded himself, his family, and a friend in a remote Idaho cabin after refusing to appear in court on federal weapons charges.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
In 2005, for example, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari brought Indonesian officials together with exiled Acehnese separatist leaders to end a decades-long insurgency in Aceh, a province on Sumatra.

— Matt Waldman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026

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This week on The Sunday Story, reporter Connor Towne O'Neill takes us inside the movement to split Illinois, and the challenges facing a modern secessionist movement in the land of Lincoln.

— NPR, NPR, 5 July 2026
However, various secessionist movements waxed and waned during the period between independence and the Civil War.

— Scott Spires Britannica Editors June 3, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 June 2026

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Nearly 3,000 people died as a result of the attacks, including the 19 hijackers from the Islamist extremist group al-Qaida.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Studying extremists These two cases force researchers to grapple with how knowledge about violent movements is actually produced.

— Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

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Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ‘50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and second-wave feminist, has died.

— Hillel Italie, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Once Lamb starts publishing daily dispatches about her abduction at the hands of Indo‑Trinidadian radicals demanding a ransom, the writing is on the walls that this woman is going to die.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026

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