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.

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.

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.” ...

In more recent years, the "Don't Tread on Me" flag has been seen by some as racist, tinged with its own ties to the Confederacy and slavery.Extremists carried the flag at Charlottesville in 2017 ...

'Don't Tread on Me' license plate letters rile readers who respond with their own views. ... History is not here for us to like or dislike, approve or disapprove, but to learn from.

The "Don't Tread on Me" motto from American colonial times to defy the British Crown has been embraced by anti-big government groups and, these days, conservative and libertarian groups opposed to ...

The Tennessee "Don't Tread on Me" license plate, which supports the Friends of Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park in Elizabethton, Tenn., site of an American Revolutionary War battle, was the ...

I interviewed 12-year-old Jaiden who was kicked out of school for wearing a Gadsden flag patch. If only our leaders in DC had an ounce of Jaiden's courage our country would in a much better place.

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 ...