III%N was created by Dustin Sherman, who hosts a patriot chat video call live stream and is now involved with the III% United Patriots, too. Sherman is the “commanding officer” for III% United Patriots’ Alaska chapter now.

The III% United Patriots (III%UP) is one of the larger III% movements around today (outside of the III%SF label). Most of the activity is centered around their Colorado chapter in the way that the III%SF is centered around the Georgia chapter. III%UP claims to have operatives in every state.

One III%UP member posted an image with a logo featuring a Valknut in the center of the circle of values. The Valknut is a Norse symbol marking slain warriors and often indicating the afterlife. Like many ancient and benign symbols, the Valknut has been instrumentalized by contemporary fascist groups, even appearing at Charlottesville during the #UniteTheRight rally. It’s unclear which interpretation this militia member is taking with using this symbol, but it has appeared alongside some III%UP public posts/propaganda.

One of the members of the III%UP Colorado (III%UPC) militia, Mark Correll Sr, said to the press that he has a city councilman and a police officer “on [his] team”. In the same press tour, another III%UPC member, “Yota”, metaphorically referred to the group as “the Christian motorcycle group” among other Patriot movement groups.

III%UP has among some of the slickest media of any III% group, boasting drone footage, multi-angle camera work, and impressive editing in all of their videos, whether they are documenting an FTX or a “patrol” on the border. They also, like many other Patriot groups and III%ers alike, benefit from substantial media platforming, with local reporters often providing an uncritical and sometimes glowing review of these groups and their work. Some reporters even say that these groups, III%UP included, are “misrepresented” by the media.

There is substantial overlap between III%UPC and another III% militia splinter, called the American Patriots the III%. Members of both act amicably to one another in most comments sections.

The American Patriots the III% (APIII) was founded by Scott Seddon. Seddon has at least three different Facebook accounts, showing both his affiliation to APIII and him making III% hand signs. On one of his accounts, his profile picture is him posing with Republican Texas Senator Dan Crenshaw.

APIII, among other things, has a tab on their website for “Conservative Businesses” for their members to support. They claim to have chapters all throughout the US, but many of the Facebook links that APIII provides for state chapters lead to deleted pages.

APIII affiliated individual showing off his raffle winnings while throwing up a III% hand signal

APIII, like many other militia groups, raises some money by raffling off items such as ammunition or survival kits. One recent current raffle (May 13-June 6, 2019) is 1000 5.56 NATO rounds by PMC. Like other militia groups, it also features an online store where people can buy branded patches, t-shirts, and even “challenge coins” with militia symbols pressed onto them. APIII symbols often feature Spartan shields or helmets, things that are commonplace in most militia iconography, not just III% ones.

III% Republic (III%R) is yet another III% umbrella organization. They have as their stated goals to “network, prepare, petition and rally together on a local, state and national level” and to “make positive advances in the restoration of our Constitutional Republic”. Most of their online engagement is sharing the usual right-wing news that seems to rattle around a lot of these spaces, often with added commentary about “liberals”. They have set up state chapter Facebook groups for all states, but many have low numbers of members. For example, the South Carolina group has 25 members, and neither of the page’s admins is from SC. Michael, one of the page’s moderator, interestingly enough, changed his profile picture to the 2/23 flag image shared by GSFIII for their national rally.

Michael has also shared GSFIII’s November 9 protest plan to his public profile. This probably speaks more to the inactivity of III%R more than potential cross-over for the organizations, as Michael is in Georgia (he posted a photo of his Georgia “I Voted” sticker in a photo saying he voted for Georgia Governor Brian Kemp). In all likelihood, Michael is probably now just involved with GSFIII and never took the time to leave the Facebook group for III%R.

The III% Originals (III%O) is a final competing III% brand to be discussed here. They claim to be a platform for local networking around a core of ideas and say they are not themselves a militia. On their site, they say they “do not seek to incite a revolution”. This is despite the sort of ahistorical myth at the foundations of the III% movement (that 3% of American colonists took up arms to protect themselves from the King) appearing prominently on their site and “1776” often occurring in III%O-produced III% logos.

Their primary focus is in linking up like-minded militia members through Facebook and their website, then directing these visitors towards groups and forums marked for individual states. This doesn’t, however, mean that there are chapters in these states. For example, the South Carolina group has nearly 1000 members at the time of writing, but no admin for the SC group is from South Carolina. Instead, they are from Missouri, North Carolina, and Mississippi.

One moderator of this SC group, Amanda, lives in Fountain Inn, SC, but her profile is largely void of III% propaganda. Another moderator, Kurt, lives in Greenville, SC, and claims his job as “SCIII Z3L”, but also doesn’t post III% propaganda on his page publicly. Another moderator, Mike, lives in Johnsonville, SC, and also doesn’t post III% images publicly. The final moderator, Mason, lives in Orangeburg, SC, and has a III% cover photo and an old profile photo of himself from 2017 with an AR-15 stock visible in the shot. None of these individuals are posting as frequently on their timelines about III%, which is pretty unusual for III%ers in any sort of a leadership role.