Tea Party activists waved the “Don’t Tread on Me” banner during anti-Obama protests. 5. Jaiden Rodriguez, 12, was kicked out of his classroom for wearing a patch of the flag on his backpack.

In December 1860, the Macon Daily Telegraph reported that a rattlesnake flag with “Don’t Tread on Me” had been raised by the Rev. J.R. Willis at a pro-secession rally in Indian Springs, Ga.

I have a “Don’t Tread On Me” specialty license plate and it’s not because I’m “anti-government, anti-democracy, an insurrectionist, racist” or a member of a “gun toting militia.” ...

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.… ...

"Don't tread on me" is also used in the First Navy Jack of United States Navy. Shame on the people who take something good and twist it to make it fit their ideology.

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The “Dont Tread On Me” slogan, which is also known as the Gadsden flag, was first flown on a warship in 1775 as a battle cry for American independence from British taxation and rule, according ...

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. On August 25, ...

Don't Tread on Me, 38,738 total plates, benefiting Friends of Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park in Elizabethton, Tenn., receiving $657,700 from license plate sales proceeds; ...

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. Sponsor Message.

This is the third year in a row that lawmakers have proposed legislation to allow the "Don't Tread on Me" license plate. In 2024, a bill was passed by the Iowa House, but it was never taken up by ...