Chad, imho your article is factually inaccurate and unwittingly mirrors the U.S. government's lies about Hawai'i's true history.

You said "Some Hawaiians insist the Hawaiian Kingdom... still exists."

The Kingdom of Hawai'i, often referred to as the Hawaiian Monarchy, was never "overthrown". What actually occurred was that Queen Lili'uokalani was deposed and imprisoned (held hostage) as head of state under the threat of harm to her people by the white supremacist racist group known as the Committee of Safety backed by US military forces.

Certain ministers and directors were forced to resign when they refused to declare their loyalty to the rebel leaders that assumed the highest positions in the "new" government and the rest of the governmental infrastructure was assimilated, under duress, into the provisional government.

The Kingdom of Hawai'i government (KoH) never ceded its sole authority to lawfully govern Hawai'i and so it remains today a still existent government-out-of-power.