True Believers

The True Believers were a right wing milita group and the main antagonistic faction during the first season of the ABC/Netflix television series Designated Survivor.

The group was formed by former private military contractor Browning Reed CEO Patrick Lloyd after Lloyd had seemingly dissolved his company. True Believers were maintained a base of operations near Driggs, North Dakota, where they made use of an abandoned missile silo.

Working with insiders within the United States government, the group managed to plant a number of anti-tank devices in the United States capitol, which were detonated at the State of the Union. The detonations caused the deaths of the President, the Vice President, nearly the entire cabinet, all but two members of Congress - including conspirator Peter MacLeish, and all of the Supreme Court. Only HUD Secretary Tom Kirkman survived as he had been named the Designated Survivor and kept away from Congress during that time.

While the evidence initially pointed to Muslim extremists, the FBI and Secret Service were able to track the attack back to the True Believers. The FBI conducted a series of raids throughout the United States, arresting a large number of the True Believers and seizing the various weapons and equipment they had gathered to carry out further terrorist strikes. Lloyd was able to escape, however, and spent the next several months on the run before being tracked to a fortified bunker he had built in Maryland, where he was killed after refusing to surrender.