The Gadsden flag has reemerged as a provocative antigovernmental symbol, including at the Capitol riot and on license plates. Confederates once loved it, too.

My research and understanding of the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag, or Gadsden flag, was designed during the Revolutionary War for the Continental Navy.

Tea Party activists waved the “Don’t Tread on Me” banner during anti-Obama protests. Jaiden Rodriguez, 12, was kicked out of his classroom for wearing a patch of the flag on his backpack.

The new plate features the slogan “Don’t Tread On Me” accompanied by a black coiled rattlesnake over a yellow background.

Re: “Tennessee license plates like "Don't Tread on Me" tag pit citizens against each other,” by Jim Bellar. Unfortunately here we are again taking the views of a simple misguided individual. I ...

For the third year in a row, the "Don't Tread on Me" plate with the coiled snake from the historic Gadsden Flag — created as a cry for independence during American Revolutionary War days — is ...

Times-Union readers want to know: Has President Barack Obama banned the "Don't Tread on Me" flag because it has been deemed racist? There's some truth to parts of this - but also some inaccuracy.… ...

Florida would join about a dozen other states with don’t tread on me plates. But this plate is not official just yet—3,000 people must order them before they go into production.

Kansas approved the "Don't Tread on Me" plates only weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, when television images of rioters waving the flag were still fresh.

Jaiden replaced the "DONT TELL ON ME" patch with a regular Gadsden flag patch reading "DONT TREAD ON ME" and kept the FPC patch on his backpack.

Through “Don’t Tread on Me,” the artist formerly known as Mos Def highlights his alignment with the fight against Stop and Frisk.

Drivers in the state of Florida can now order "Don't Tread on Me" license plates complete with the yellow and black image of the Gadsden Flag, which dates back to the Revolutionary War.