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Since 2004, the provinces have been the site of a Muslim separatist insurgency that killed thousands.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
The new commander, Drapatyi, fought across the war’s toughest front lines, and video was even recycled on his appointment on Tuesday of him driving an armored personnel carrier through a pro-Russian separatist barricade in 2014.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 22 July 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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More than four decades later, Kinnock’s actions remain among the most memorable examples of a political leader confronting extremists on his own side.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
Lamb also swapped racist jokes with a border extremist in an online message exchange, The Republic found, and spent months launching a multimillion-dollar ranch business in Tennessee while running for Congress in Arizona.

— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2026

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But among the radicals of Eugene, such success invited mistrust, born of a faith that any American victory was, ultimately, being purchased in blood.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
In the early days of the republic, there were many radicals and reformers who shared my suspicion that patriotism was an evasion, substituting songs and speeches about liberty for the reality.

— Dominic Erdozain, Time, 3 July 2026

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