Democrats and Kinzinger are asking to investigate Republican State Representative who was on the truck on the truck on the truck.

SPRINGFIELD – The sticker contains a simple Roman numeral three surrounded by stars, but it is linked to a far-right military group – and a Republican state lawmaker is asked to explain what it did in the window of his pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 uprising.

State Representative Chris Miller denies any involvement in the extremist organization called Three Percenters after his truck was taken down in Washington DC that day with the sticker in its back window.

‘I’ve never been a member of the three percent. “My son received the sticker on my truck from a family friend who said it represented patriotism and love for the country,” Miller said in a statement. “I removed the sticker in the meantime.”

Miller, 67, a cattle farmer from Oakland in southern Illinois, is married to U.S. Representative Mary Miller, a first Republican quoted last month, who said “Hitler was right about one thing” during a pro -Donald Trump meeting.

The symbol on the truck represents the Three Percenters, an “extremist, extremist group against the government that is part of the militia movement” which, according to the Anti-Defamation League, opposes the authority of the federal government.

The group’s name and symbol have their origins in their misconception that only 3% of Americans fought in the Revolutionary War against the British and that their struggle against the federal government is similar to these original patriots.

Because the group was a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump, the group’s activities over the past few years have focused on ‘other enemies, including leftists / antifa, Muslims and immigrants’, rather than on the Federal Government, according to the ADL.

Several people with connections to Three Percenter and other similar militia groups were arrested for their participation in the uprising.

The Millers were in Washington that day.

American rep. Mary Miller was recorded telling a crowd of supporters at a pro-Donald Trump rally that “Hitler was right about one thing – that whoever has the youth has the future.” She later apologized for the comment.

During a live broadcast of Facebook during the same rally, State Representative Chris Miller said that supporters of Trump ‘were engaged in a major cultural war to see which worldview would survive. Whether we will remain a free people under free market capitalism or whether they will place us under the tyranny of socialism and communism and dangerous democratic terrorists. ‘

The truck with the Three Percenter symbol and plates of an elected official in Illinois was first seen by an online group, the Sedition Hunters, who were trying to identify those who took part in the uprising.

A photo of the truck with the poster appeared on Twitter.

The rear window of the pickup was not the only place where the Three Percenters logo appeared behind the state representative.

At a rally in Illinois in Reopen outside the Illinois Capitol in May last year, State Representative Chris Miller called Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker a “domestic enemy.”

Behind the state legislature was a sign declaring the need for ‘dangerous freedom’ and not ‘peaceful tyranny’. On it were the same Roman numerals as the three percent without the surrounding stars.

The Millers’ legislative and congressional districts in Central and Southern Illinois were a hotbed of extremist violence – with 54 incidents of hatred, extremism, anti-Semitism and terrorism inside and outside [Rep. Mary Miller’s district] of 2019-20 ”, according to the ADL.

In 2018, several members of the White Rabbit Three Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters Militia were arrested in a conspiracy to bomb a women’s clinic that performed abortions in downtown Champaign, an area just outside the Mary District.

In his statement, Chris Miller defends the organization Three Percenters while distancing himself from the group.

‘The original group, which was disbanded, was not a violent anti-government group. They were not involved in the January 6 riots. They issued a statement to distance themselves from the extremists who copied their name. ”

But State Representative Bob Morgan, D-Deerfield, a board member of the Anti-Defamation League, pushed back, saying Miller needed to “know better.”

“This is absolutely unacceptable to an average person,” Morgan wrote in a tweet. “This is rubbish and disqualifies a member of the IL General Assembly, Chris Miller.”

Following the unveiling of the poster, the president of the Illinois Democratic County Chairs’ Association, Kristina Zahorik, submitted a request to the Legislative Inspector General to investigate whether Rep. Chris Miller was involved in the January 6 coup attempt.

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“Miller’s attendance at the protest, which turned into a mob and uprising of the capital of our country, is disturbing. To date, there are still many unanswered questions about his subsequent actions and where he was that day, “reads the letter. “The Legislative Inspector General must at least investigate the extent to which Miller played a role in the events of January 6, 2021.”

Zahorik said Miller’s actions in any case “are the kind of behavior that a legislature is indecent on.”

One of the ten Republicans in the House who voted to accuse Trump joined U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Channahon, with calls from Democrats to investigate.

‘Rep. “Miller put a militia sticker on his car and was presumably involved in the uprising,” Kinzinger wrote. “Our party needs to address this and I support further investigation.”

Rep. Chris Miller’s statement offered no apology, but said his “intention was not to hurt or offend anyone, but merely to express what I thought was a statement of patriotism.”