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Sovereign citizens are a diverse group of individuals whose activities and motives vary, but whose core tenets are the typically the same. They view United States citizenship, established government, authority and institutions as illegitimate and consider themselves immune from and therefore above the law.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/16/2016
November 16, 2016
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What Bannon in the White House means; We really know little about hate crimes; Church keeps its ‘Heil Trump’ graffiti; and more.


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A judge has ruled that a civil rights-era law forbidding the removal of “war memorials” applies to Confederate statues that became flashpoints during a deadly Virginia gathering of white nationalists and neo-Nazis.


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In pursuit of a more accurate and more just hate map, the Intelligence Project (IP) has committed to collapsing the Black Separatist listing. We will still monitor these groups, but we will be transferring them to hate ideologies, including antisemitism, that better describe the harm their rhetoric inflicts.


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In unusual alliance, Infowars, Joey Gibson teaming up for ‘street army’ teams
August 31, 2018
Brett Barrouquere
Infowars and Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, with Gibson once calling the creator of the show, Alex Jones, “crazy.”


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Possible Black Separatist Kori Ali Muhammad Kills Three in Fresno
April 19, 2017
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Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, who also goes by Kori MacSun McWallace, was taken into custody after allegedly shooting four people in Fresno, California killing three of them


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“Breitbart is a company staffed almost entirely by Jews,” said Milo Yiannopolous last November when asked about accusations of anti-Semitism made against his former boss, Stephen Bannon. “I am a gay Jew, and he made me into a star.”


African-American Coalition Provides Cover to Nativist Lobby

The anti-immigrant lobby has long enjoyed influence in Washington but in recent years has been forced to defend itself against charges that it represents the narrow interests of white nationalists who fear the “browning” of America.
So it may have surprised some when a new coalition of African-American activists, called the Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA), announced its opposition to legislation that could provide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented Latino immigrants.
In a June 3 letter to members of Congress, BALA claimed the proposed bill “will harm black American workers more than any other group” because “[m]ass immigration and amnesty puts African Americans from all walks of life out of work and suppresses wages, causing them to compete with aliens willing to work in poorer working conditions for cheaper pay.”
What BALA did not say in that letter — or during a press conference in April when it called itself the African American Leadership Council — was anything about its provenance. There’s a good reason for that. It turns out that BALA is simply the latest front group for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the flagship of a network of anti-immigrant organizations formed by the white nationalist John Tanton .
When it first emerged in April, BALA was openly sponsored by another FAIR front called Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR), purportedly an organization concerned about the environmental impact of immigration. As late as June, the media spokesperson and phone number listed on BALA’s press releases were associated with PFIR.
BALA is not the first African-American front group formed by FAIR. In 2006, an organization called Choose Black America (CBA), appeared on the scene. Its black “members” were selected, flown to a press conference in Washington and lodged there by FAIR. The group’s spokesman was a white FAIR official.
Though CBA fell apart soon after its debut, the Tanton network’s dream of appearing to represent a rainbow coalition did not die with it. In 2011, FAIR briefly sponsored Blacks for Equal Rights Coalition, a Los Angeles-based anti-immigration organization that has been celebrated by the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens .
BALA’s members include a familiar cast of Tanton allies, notable among them Leah Durant, an African-American lawyer who is also PFIR’s executive director. Durant, who once worked for FAIR’s legal arm, also spoke at a press conference held to announce the creation of CBA.
Durant is not the only former CBA member on BALA’s roster. Others are Jesse Lee Peterson, an African-America pastor who once thanked God for slavery, and Frank Morris , who is sometimes described as BALA’s leader. Morris, a veteran anti-immigration activist with a doctorate in political science from M.I.T., is also a board member at both FAIR and the Tanton-affiliated Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). T. Willard Fair, also a BALA member, sits with Morris on the CIS board.
Fair, who has a respectable history of advocating for African Americans, has worked with Tanton-linked front groups before. In 2007, he lent his face to an anti-immigration ad campaign by the Coalition for the Future American Worker, a purportedly pro-labor organization whose constituent members included not a single union but did include an alphabet soup of nativist groups founded and/or funded by Tanton’s network.
BALA’s other members include Vernon Robinson, a North Carolina politician who once accused President Obama of subscribing to “loony, vile, anti-America, anti-Whitey, anti-Semitic, pro-reparations, black liberation theology”; pundit Leo Alexander, who claims black people were better off under Jim Crow; Charles Butler, a conservative Chicago radio host and gun rights activist; and Kevin Jackson, executive director of The Black Sphere, a black conservative group that claims to desire an end to “identity politics.”

Summary: The anti-immigrant lobby has long enjoyed influence in Washington but in recent years has been forced to defend itself against charges that it represents the narrow interests of white nationalists who fear the “browning” of America. So it may have surprised some when a new coalition of African-American activists, called the Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA), announced its opposition to legislation that could provide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented Latino immigrants.…


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Despite Bans, U.S. Anti-LGBT Pastor Continues Pushing Into Africa
January 05, 2017
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Despite being kicked out of Africa for his rhetoric, anti-LGBT pastor Steven Anderson is returning to the continent. And this time, he has help.


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Neo-Nazis, white nationalists and antigovernment extremists are publishing volumes of propaganda advocating terrorism and mass shootings on Telegram, a Hatewatch review of hundreds of channels on that app reveals.


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White Nationalist Spencer’s Ties to Southern Cotton Fields
March 20, 2017
Bill Morlin
Richard B. Spencer — the white nationalist firebrand behind the racist-leaning “alt-right” movement — has a financial portfolio tied to a legacy of slavery: the cotton fields of the South.


Famous Seattle Ceramicist Exposed as Holocaust Denier

For decades, iconoclastic Seattle artist Charles Krafft has made references to Nazis in his highly acclaimed, sometimes shocking pieces of art that most critics and art lovers brand as simple, ironic satire pushing the boundaries.
He crafted a ceramic Hitler-bust teapot now in a San Francisco art museum, and put swastikas on other pieces of art, even on a ceramic wedding cake. He made a ceramic Uzi assault rifle, hand grenades and an “assassin’s kit” – a gun and dagger.
Now, the 65-year-old hippie-turned-artist is at the center of a growing controversy following a published report detailing evidence — including his own words — that suggests he is a white nationalist who believes the Holocaust is a myth.
Hundreds of comments about Krafft are being posted on Facebook and Twitter and elsewhere, and the art and culture world — particularly in ceramic art circles — are abuzz over the revelations published in The Stranger , a Seattle alternative paper. The headline on that piece was hard to misunderstand:  “Charles Krafft Is a White Nationalist Who Believes the Holocaust Is a Deliberately Exaggerated Myth.”
Beyond E-mail correspondence with Krafft, writer Jen Graves reported that she had found Krafft’s comments on a white nationalist website where he makes repeated anti-Semitic remarks. “I believe the Holocaust is a myth,” Krafft says on a podcast published last July.  The article goes on to say that Krafft believes the Holocaust is “being used to promote multiculturalism and globalism.”
Krafft, sounding as if he, too, is surprised by the backlash, didn’t back away from any of that when contacted by Hatewatch.
“Since I've admitted to being a Holocaust skeptic and identifying as a WASP on a White Nationalist website, I really can't claim I was smeared,” Krafft said. “However,” he continued, “I would like to point out that I never tried to dupe liberal art collectors and curators with satire and irony in my art while laughing at them. I came by my controversial opinions on race and WWII history relatively recently.”
In one white nationalist podcast, Krafft says Christianity is being replaced “by this new secular religion of the sacrifice of 6 million Jews. And the museums, memorials, monuments, study centers, Holocaust chairs at the universities — it's all part of the promotion of a new kind of, like I said, civil religion maybe. ... We're the heretics in a new religion that's being promoted and built up and being embraced by governments throughout the United States and Europe.”
The Stranger ’s piece on Krafft — reposted repeatedly on the Web — has hit particularly hard in the art world.
“When this broke loose, it all did come as a big surprise,” nationally known ceramic art dealer, historian and author Garth Clark, of Santa Fe, N.M., told Hatewatch. Clark has sold Krafft’s art works and spoken with the artist numerous times, but never represented him.
“This was an artist who, in the ceramic world at least, was very well liked and respected,” Clark said. While Krafft’s work always has “had a very dark side to it,” Clark said that the art world had “assumed the dark side was ironic. In fact, everybody made that assumption.” After all, he said, people in the art world are “prepared to deal with pretty raw ideas.”
Michael Upchurch, the art critic for the Seattle Times , said the revelation about Krafft came as a surprise to him and others in the city’s art community. “He’s definitely big time here in the art community, that’s for sure,” the writer said. “I’ve always thought his work was humorous,” the product of a clever artist who tackles horrific subject matters with a fine porcelain medium, he said.
Krafft always has been at the leading edge of provocative art. Clark recalled a series of ceramic art works the Seattle artist did a decade ago, claiming to use human cremains for pieces he called “Spone,” a satirical poke at the 18 th -century English ceramics artist Josiah Spode, who used crushed animal bones to produce “bone china.” “Most of us thought that was kind of radical, and deeply, darkly amusing,” Clark recalled.
Using Hitler’s bust to make a ceramic teapot or referring to the Holocaust in art is one thing, Clark said, but actually embracing and promoting white supremacist and Holocaust-denying views is “ridiculous.” Now, some suggest that Krafft’s teapot was a clever way to keep the Nazi leader’s image alive and on public view.
With these new revelations and Krafft’s own words and postings on his Facebook page, Clark said there “doesn’t seem to be much doubt that he is, indeed, a white supremacist and a Holocaust denier. “Being provocative in a way that’s intellectually valid is one thing, but it’s another if the artist is actually being bigoted.”
As the criticism grew this week, Krafft posted a new Facebook photo of a piece of metal sculpture he calls “Fowlschwitz,” a concentration camp for birds – a birdhouse surrounded by barbed wire.
He didn’t talk about that, but he did tell Hatewatch that he believes the Seattle newspaper article wrongly suggested that he was concealing the intent of his art for years and urged collectors and museums to re-examine his work “for subversive content” and then censor or cut off access to the pieces.
“Very, very little of the art I've made has had any Nazi symbolism in it,” Krafft claimed. “I'd like to point out to those I speak with about articles accusing me of being a Nazi in sheep's clothing how dishonest I think this is.
“I would also point out there are differences between Holocaust denial, Holocaust skepticism and Holocaust revisionism, White supremacy and White Nationalism that have been overlooked, or blurred for shock value, and [that blurring has been used] to paint me in the worst light possible,” he told Hatewatch without elaborating on what he sees as the differences.
“My deep research, here and abroad, into 27-year harassment of Archbishop Viorel Trifa , the founder of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate in America, was instrumental in contributing to the formulation of my reactionary opinions,” he said.
Despite his attempts at explanation, criticism of Krafft is still boiling, with pointed anger directed at him showing up in some Facebook posts.
“I was devastated about the revelation that Krafft was a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite,” New York author and blogger Phil Campbell, formerly of Seattle, responded when reached for comment by Hatewatch.
Most of Krafft’s art, Campbell said, “relies on the idea that Krafft as an artist is treating the themes he manipulates — violence, Nazis, the Holocaust among them — with a deft, ironic sense of humor. If he's sincere (in his personal beliefs), the work itself is corrupted, which is an irony in itself (albeit a twisted one).”
“Conceptual art can be a dicey issue, with so much left open for the audience in terms of the inference of meaning, but this is one of those very specific cases, I think, where the artist's intent is absolutely crucial to the understanding of the objects made; the artistic intent changes the meaning of the art,” Campbell said. “If Krafft is indeed a Holocaust denier, as he appears to be, then it corrupts the art itself. I simply cannot look at any of his art in the same way again. Only Aryan Brotherhood members are going to want to buy his porcelain hand grenades now.
“I also think this also could be the case of a man well past his prime who is indulging some delusional tendencies that have been there for a very long time, but perhaps weren't that strong in the beginning,” Campbell continued. “Krafft has always been an iconoclast, but now his iconoclasm is hardening, becoming a deadening ideology. The older he gets, the more his opinions seem to be calcifying, degrading.”
“Since the Stranger piece came out I know of several people who claim that Krafft has intimated all along that he harbors certain sympathies for these anti-Semitic opinions,” the art critic said. “Perhaps. But now Krafft is making his beliefs public, so now there should be no doubt.”
David Barclay Moore, a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker and photographer, also was among dozens who took to Twitter to comment on the Krafft controversy.  Contacted by Hatewatch, Moore said the revelation may devalue pieces of the artist’s work and make them less powerful.
Krafft’s’ work was ingrained with a sense of creative spirit -- “elements of bitter histories into comic ironies,” Moore said.   “Now that at least some of his art appears to have originated from a much more literal place, their once perceived brilliance must rinse off in the wash, leaving behind an embarrassingly dull residue of thoughtless intolerance.”
In Washington, D.C., travel and art writer Melanie Renzulli, who once worked in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, also posted comments about the controversy.
“If Jen Graves' theory is true, that Krafft may have used art as a means of smuggling in a nationalist-white power message, then I think that curators in those museums that own artworks by Krafft should consider shelving or archiving his work rather than taking advantage of the controversy,” Renzulli told Hatewatch.
Now, his pieces of work are “insensitive to survivors and their families,” she said, especially in light of a recent story in The New York Times detailing new research that shows there were 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe – far more than ever believed.
“Krafft's art seems to exist to desensitize, to diffuse the power of some of the world's controversial symbols,” Renzulli told Hatewatch. “In doing this, it seems that deniers and/or Nazi sympathizers can rally around a swastika in plain sight. Even if this is one big joke by Krafft, it's not a very funny one.”

Summary: For decades, iconoclastic Seattle artist Charles Krafft has made references to Nazis in his highly acclaimed, sometimes shocking pieces of art that most critics and art lovers brand as simple, ironic satire pushing the boundaries. He crafted a ceramic Hitler-bust teapot now in a San Francisco art museum, and put swastikas on other pieces of art, even on a ceramic wedding cake. He made a ceramic Uzi assault rifle, hand grenades and an “assassin’s kit” – a gun and dagger. Now, the 65-year-old…


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Hatewatch Headlines 1/6/2017
January 06, 2017
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White nationalism filling a political vacuum; Hate crimes ease, but remain high; ‘Wall’ is now a fence, paid for by USA; and more.


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As President Trump is pressured to substantively respond to the rise in anti-Semitic incidents since his election, a new analysis reveals that Breitbart News under Trump's chief strategist Stephen Bannon fostered a comment section — a sample of Breitbart’s readership — that increasingly reflected language specific to the white nationalist “alt-right” movement, including anti-Semitic sentiment.


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Bay Area Community Mourns Murder of Young Musician Now Being Investigated as a Hate Crime`
November 28, 2016
David Neiwert
Three white men assaulted and shot him outside a pool hall because he was black. One man is in custody, and police search for two other fugitives.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/17/2016
November 17, 2016
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Twitter suspends alt-right accounts; Will Trump roll back the hate?; Bannon’s white-nationalist worldview explained; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 1/24/2017
January 24, 2017
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Women’s march organizer under hate attack; Hate crimes tied to income inequality; 'Alt-Right' dominating Trump’s Facebook page; and more.


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A Holiday Message from Hatewatch
December 21, 2016
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Hatewatch is taking a break for the holidays.


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“Alexander Slavros,” a pseudonymous Eastern European essayist and founder of the neo-fascist forum Iron March , no longer appears online under that alias – but his ideology, rooted in thoughts of violence, racial conquest and fascist purity, is spreading.


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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined Tony Perkins, president of anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council (FRC), on the Sept. 9 episode of Perkins’ radio show “Washington Watch” to discuss his office’s investigation into allegations of double voting.


White Supremacist Brings Racist Filmmaker to Texas A&M

In recent years, globetrotting white supremacist financier and organizer Preston Wiginton has appeared at racist skinhead gatherings (he won a “strongest skinhead” contest at Hammerfest in 2005); co-sponsored lectures with hate groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens and the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom ; rallied racist skinheads in Russia (where he lives part of the year in an apartment rented from ex-Klan boss David Duke); and been denied entry to the UK to address a festival put on by the neo-fascist British National Party.
He’s a busy guy on the white supremacist circuit, so it’s no surprise that he’s organized yet another event. This time, Wiginton has called in racist filmmaker Craig Bodeker to show his film, A Conversation about Race , on the Texas A&M campus on March 20.
Bodeker is no slouch in white nationalist circles, either. His film, released as a DVD in 2008, is a 58-minute attempt to prove the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented to oppress whites. To do that, he interviewed people he found through a Craigslist ad (ambiguously titled “Ending Racism Now”) and on a street corner in Denver, where he lives. When the people he interviews claim they see racism every day but don’t cite strong examples, Bodeker thus feels he can claim that racism doesn’t exist. He also asserts in the film that Latinos are deliberately taking away whites’ majority status, and he attempts to get his subjects to admit that black people commit more crime than white.
In spite of that, Bodeker continues to claim he’s not the one who’s racist, even though he has attended white nationalist events and given interviews to white nationalist media outlets, including The Political Cesspool , whose guests have included David Duke, neo-Nazi April Gaede, white nationalist Jared Taylor and anti-Semitic professor Kevin MacDonald.
Bodeker’s latest project is a group called the National Citizens League (NCL), apparently launched in 2012. The flyer for his upcoming Texas A&M appearance calls him the group’s founder. The NCL’s mission statement claims that its purpose is to increase public awareness about the efforts of “established media” and “bad government” to act against “our national interests” and how citizens can use visual media to “fight back.” The site serves as a platform for Bodeker’s film (you can watch it there), but nothing new has been posted since June of last year, according to the site archive.
The site also includes a video of Bodeker introducing the group in his affable way and some postings of videos of Bodeker’s “Race Report.” A visit to the NCL’s Facebook page reveals a lot more. There, you’ll see recent posts defending members of the Towson White Student Union (listed as a hate group by SPLC) who openly advocated segregation and defended slavery at the CPAC conference , a premier gathering of conservatives each year, with this description: “Governmedia in Panic – Someone Let A White American Address OUR INTERESTS AT CPAC!”
Other Facebook posts by the currently unknown NCL administrator include some that call non-white immigrants “invaders.” Another wants “Governmedia” to “Tell The Truth About ‘Diversity’” (it’s bad). Another asks “Why are Republicans so afraid of ‘appreciating’ AMERICA’S MAJORITY, that’s, well you, know, WHITE…?” Still another seems to suggest that there’s some kind of “ethnic cleansing” of whites from America and another asks anyone to name one benefit that Muslims bring to white countries. In another anti-Muslim post, the NCL administrator says that “Swedes Are Now Realizing They Were Wrong To Allow Muslim Immigration – When Will the Rest of the West...?” Preston Wiginton posted a response to that one, asking why Swedish men weren’t standing up for their women.
That’s par for Bodeker’s course: He has also posted offensive and inflammatory slurs on videos that other users have uploaded to YouTube. As user “Craigbe,” he has referred to black people as “monkeys,” used the anti-gay slur “f--,” and suggested that resigned black White House adviser Van Jones should be lynched.
For a man who claims not to be racist, he spends a lot of time proving otherwise. This week at Texas A&M will no doubt be more of the same.

Summary: In recent years, globetrotting white supremacist financier and organizer Preston Wiginton has appeared at racist skinhead gatherings (he won a “strongest skinhead” contest at Hammerfest in 2005); co-sponsored lectures with hate groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens and the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom ; rallied racist skinheads in Russia (where he lives part of the year in an apartment rented from ex-Klan boss David Duke); and been denied entry to…


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Ann Coulter , an infamous far-right attack dog who has spent years attacking the left, was at the Christmas party of a racist anti-immigration group earlier this month — the second such event she has attended since September.


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After monument to early Klan leader comes down, neo-Confederate group plans rally in Memphis
January 04, 2018
Brett Barrouquere
The statue has come down and the Memphis park where Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is buried has been sold to a private organization.


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Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center, Shanksville, and the Pentagon in 2001, U.S. counterterrorism policies have overwhelmingly focused on international threats emanating from terrorists, such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (IS) and their affiliates.


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Hatewatch Headlines 2/12/2018
February 12, 2018
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A list of white-supremacist candidates; Google autocomplete suggestions still vile; Cliven Bundy sets his sights on ‘constitutionalist’ agenda; and more.


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Minuteman Project not a religious experience, officials rule
November 29, 2005
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Hatewatch Headlines 8/10/2018
August 10, 2018
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Jones brings Facebook’s global demons home; Gab threatened with hosting loss; Ingraham’s nationalist rant targets even legal immigrants; and more.


Members of New Skinhead Gang Accused in Two States

Die Auserwählten, a little-known racist skinhead gang in Nebraska and several other states, is less than a year old. But in the last few days, the crew has been making a name for itself – in mayhem and murder separated by more than a thousand miles.
In a small college city in south-central Nebraska, the gang’s 28-year-old founder, Jonathan Schmidt , faces up to 50 years in prison if convicted of a brutal assault Saturday night.
But that’s nothing compared to what another suspected member of the gang, Jeremy Lee Moody, 30, and his wife, Christine, 36, are accused of doing Sunday afternoon about 1,200 miles away in Union County, S.C. According to local news reports , the Moodys were each charged yesterday with two counts of murder in the slaying of Charles Marvin Parker, 59, and Gretchen Dawn Parker, 51.
Charles Parker was a registered sex offender and that is why he was shot to death in his home, Union County Sheriff David H. Taylor told Hatewatch today. “Moody told us he targeted this individual because he was a child molester,” Taylor said. “I was there when he made that statement.”
As for Parker’s wife, Taylor said Moody told him, “She was a casualty of war.”
Moody has the word “skinhead” tattooed across his throat and “white power” atop his shaved head. In addition, Sheriff Taylor said, Moody has “88” – the numerical symbol for Heil Hitler – tattooed on one hand and on the other a tattoo of the number 14 for the white nationalist creed of known as “The 14 Words.”
Taylor said Moody admitted to being “a white supremacist but didn’t say which group he was affiliated with.”
But shortly after Moody’s arrest, Schmidt, the founder of Die Auserwählten, which is also known as Crew 41, posted this note on his Facebook page: “Though I can’t blame them for their actions this in no way was ordered.”
On Facebook, Moody calls himself Jeremy Mengele after the notorious Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who performed barbaric experiments on twins and other children at Auschwitz. Featured prominently on Moody’s page is a picture of a warrior’s mask with horns, lightning bolts like those used by the SS, and the number 41. Forty-one is the numerical symbol for Die Auserwählten.
Little is known about the origins of the crew or its size. Its German name translates, more or less, as "the chosen" or “the favored few.” On its Facebook page, it claims to have seven chapters, including ones in Nebraska, Utah and South Carolina. The founder, Jonathan Schmidt, whose face is a mask of tattoos displaying his hate and his sorrow, lives in Pleasanton, a small town in south-central Nebraska.
On Saturday night, he and a friend were in nearby Kearney, where a campus of the University of Nebraska is located. Saturday was Kearney’s annual Cruise Nite, an all day parade, party and celebration of old cars. “People come from all over,” said Kearney Police Capt. Mike Kirkwood. It goes from morning to five in the afternoon, when the parade turns into a blocks-long party near the college campus with plenty of drinking. “It’s a real pain in the rear for us,” Kirkwood said. “But it looks like a blast for them.”
Schmidt and his friend are accused of yanking a 27-year-old man out of a car and stomping and kicking him in the head, leaving him a mangled mass in the street. The local paper, the Kearney Hub , said the man’s skull was fractured but he will survive.
The paper said the victim was transported to a local hospital where he identified Schmidt in a photo lineup.
Schmidt has an exceedingly distinctive facial appearance. His face is covered in tattoos, including “5150,” police code for someone involuntarily committed to a mental institution, “FYL” for “f--- your life,” “RIP Donny Boi,” a tribute to a skinhead tattoo artist killed by California police during a shootout earlier in July, and runes, or medieval Germanic letters, on his left eyebrow that spell out “Hate.”
Schmidt was released on bond Tuesday. On his Facebook page, Schmidt said he is innocent of the charges and that “the mother f----- who was supposed to turn himself in and clear my name has backed out because of his old lady running her fat ass mouth…Not too sure what plan b is but they better fix this shit before it gets any more outta hand.”
Capt. Kirkwood of the Kearney police said Crew 41 is “completely new to us.”
“Years ago, in the early ’80s, we had some Posse Comitatus and sovereign citizen activity, but nothing too serious,” he said. “I think these guys are just trying to get people riled up.”
Sheriff Taylor, in South Carolina, said his deputies have been monitoring Moody for years. “We thought he was in the drug business,” Taylor said. “But we never had much trouble out of him until now.”
They tried to follow Moody’s social media trail, but Moody kept changing his page or was getting deleted by Facebook, which Moody complained about recently on his page when he wrote, “Getting banned every 2 weeks gets old.”
Taylor said the Moodys were caught on the Parker’s security camera parking in front of their home Sunday afternoon. Moody lifted up the hood of his car, pretending he needed service. Parker, Taylor said, “was a shade-tree mechanic,” meaning he did auto repair under the trees near his home.
Taylor said the Moodys then go into the home and come out a short time later.
There was a sign in the Parkers’ yard. It said, “Smile you’re on camera.”

Summary: Die Auserwählten, a little-known racist skinhead gang in Nebraska and several other states, is less than a year old. But in the last few days, the crew has been making a name for itself – in mayhem and murder separated by more than a thousand miles. In a small college city in south-central Nebraska, the gang’s 28-year-old founder, Jonathan Schmidt , faces up to 50 years in prison if convicted of a brutal assault Saturday night. But that’s nothing compared to what another suspected member of…


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FBI Investigates White Supremacist for Deadly Poison
February 09, 2017
Bill Morlin
The FBI is investigating a Georgia man with ties to the white supremacist Creativity Movement after he sought medical attention for exposure to the deadly poison ricin.


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Neo-Nazis, white nationalists and antigovernment extremists are publishing volumes of propaganda advocating terrorism and mass shootings on Telegram, a Hatewatch review of hundreds of channels on that app reveals.


Killing Sex Offenders: The Apparent Hypocrisy of Crew 41

Jeremy Moody, a member of a small but violent racist skinhead gang called Crew 41 , shocked South Carolina authorities last week when he told them that he and his wife shot and stabbed to death a middle-aged couple July 21 because the man was a registered sex offender.
But if ridding the world of sex offenders was Moody’s goal, he didn’t have to go outside of his crew to find one.
The head of the gang’s Colorado chapter, Archie Glen Ware Jr., is a registered sex offender, convicted of “accosting for immoral purposes.”
Indeed, the criminal resumés of the members of Crew 41 are long and violent and include charges of attempted murder; witness intimidation, armed robbery, aggravated assault and most recently double homicide.
The same day of the double homicide in South Carolina, 1,200 miles away near Kearney, Neb., Jonathan Schmidt, the founder of Crew 41, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault in a brutal attack July 20 that left a man with a fractured skull.
A few days after the assault, Schmidt, known as “Monster,” lamented his and his crew’s fate. He wrote on VK, a European version of Facebook, “I am out on bail facing 50 years in prison. And our South Carolina chapter has been picked up on murder charges. Having a hard first year but hopefully things turn around for us.”
After the crew's sergeant-at-arms, Ryan Hesse, was arrested in 2001 on a warrant for investigation of attempted murder, Salt Lake County (Utah) sheriff's deputies discovered two explosive devices in his briefcase. The Salt Lake County Sheriff's complex had to be evacuated.
Another member of the crew, Tyler Palson, 24, was charged last year, according to local news accounts, with making terroristic threats, harassment and stalking after threating to burn down a house and murder the family living there in central Pennsylvania.
Moody, 30, and his wife, Christine, 36, appear to make up the entire South Carolina chapter of Crew 41. On her Facebook page, Christine Moody thanked the gang for accepting their membership: “Special thanks to Crew 41 for welcoming Jeremy & I with such open arms. May the 14 words live on forever 841!!!” [The “14 Words” are a famous white supremacist catchphrase, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.” The 41 in neo-Nazi code stands for the fourth and first letters of the alphabet, D and A, which stands for the other name for Crew 41, Die Auserwählten, German meaning “the chosen few.” The 8 before the 41 stands for H, which presumably means “Heil,” as in Heil Die Auserwählten.”]
Christine Moody, who calls herself “a veteran skinbyrd,” was also apparently trying to recruit more members in South Carolina. “Looks like I may have a good potential prospect,” she wrote on Facebook. “Things are looking up. 841!!!
Union County Sheriff David H. Taylor said that Christine Moody was tight-lipped when first arrested but in recent days has been talking a lot “because she’s pissed off she’s not getting as much attention” as her husband.
"She wants to get the glory,” Taylor said.
So far, she is getting equal billing when it comes to criminal charges. Additional charges were filed against the couple today, including two counts each of burglary and two counts each of kidnapping. The skinhead and his skinbyrd were each charged with two counts of murder last week.
“He shot both of them and she stabbed both of them,” Taylor said. “She cut the woman’s throat.
“I’m going to tell you,” the sheriff added, “she’s cold as hell.”
Taylor said the Moodys told investigators they planned to travel to Nebraska in late August for Crew 41’s now-cancelled first meet and greet. “Anybody with any association with this bunch,” the sheriff said, “is trying to dump them like a bad cold.”
The Moodys have been charged with killing Charles Parker, 59, a registered sex offender and his wife, Gretchen Parker, 51, on Sunday, July 21, in their home in Union County South, Carolina. Moody told investigators that he picked Charles Parker out from a sex offender registry. The head of the gang’s Colorado chapter is on a similar registry.
As for why Parker’s wife was killed, Taylor said that Moody explained, “She was a casualty of war.”
Beyond its violent membership, what is unusual about Crew 41 is the way and speed in which it came into existence and started spilling blood.
Crew 41 was essentially created online. Few, if any of the gang members, have actually met face-to-face. The crew was scheduled to hold a meet and greet in a small town in Nebraska where Schmidt, the founder, lives. But the gathering was recently cancelled.
Schmidt began the gang on Jan. 28, three days after resigning his post as “National Director” of the Aryan Terror Brigade (ATB).
Six months later, the two South Carolina victims were brutally murdered.
Schmidt resigned from ATB under a cloud of suspicion. Schmidt was accused online of being a police informant.
“So apparently people are saying I am a confidential informant,” Schmidt wrote on his VK page on Feb. 8. “It makes me laugh and at the same time it makes me sick. Better have something in your hand before my name ever leaves your mouth. I live in Pleasanton, Nebraska and I am not real hard to find if you have something to say to me.”
Schmidt is heavily tattooed from his arms to his torso to most of his 28-year-old face. There’s a large swastika in the middle of his chest and “Ladies Loves” above that and runes, or medieval Germanic letters, on his left eyebrow that spell out “Hate.”
“People who are Rocking patches or call themselves white nationalists…but not doing ANYTHING to actually further their race are really just waisting [sic] time and really making the movement look terrible,” Schmidt wrote on VK on May 30. “So lets just say this…either start living the 14/88/9 [88 stands for “Heil Hitler”] or just get the fuck out and go join the punk scene or something…iam [sic] not against old school skinhead tradition or any of it but there is a difference…a lot of guys say they are white nationalist but have never done anything to help move our race forward.”
No one can say that Crew 41 hasn’t been busy.

Summary: Jeremy Moody, a member of a small but violent racist skinhead gang called Crew 41 , shocked South Carolina authorities last week when he told them that he and his wife shot and stabbed to death a middle-aged couple July 21 because the man was a registered sex offender. But if ridding the world of sex offenders was Moody’s goal, he didn’t have to go outside of his crew to find one. The head of the gang’s Colorado chapter, Archie Glen Ware Jr., is a registered sex offender, convicted of…


White Supremacists React With Glee to Texas Prosecutor Murders

The assassination-style killings of two prosecutors in Texas are precipitating the postings of vile, anti-Semitic, almost-gleeful public comments by assorted racists and white supremacists.
Investigators aren’t publicly commenting on who they think was responsible for last weekend’s murder of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, who were both shot repeatedly in their home, or the Jan. 31 shooting of McLelland’s assistant, prosecutor Mark Hasse, as he walked to work.  More than one gunman was believed involved in both killings, authorities say.
The two county prosecutors were involved in bringing criminal cases against members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) and assisting federal prosecutors who brought a massive indictment last November against 34 key members of the white supremacist prison gang. The indictment accuses the ABT of carrying out murders, attempted murders, conspiracies, arsons, assaults, robberies and drug trafficking as part of an enterprise that goes back to at least 1993.
Before he was murdered, McLelland speculated in an interview with The Associated Press that white supremacists could have been responsible for Hasse’s killing. “We put some real dents in the Aryan Brotherhood around here in the past year,” McLelland told the AP, CNN reported today.
While no white supremacist gang or organization has claimed credit for the killings, there is a lot of laughing and backslapping going on in racist circles over what most people consider shocking and chilling crimes.
On Stormfront , the nation’s largest racist, neo-Nazi internet forum, a poster named “Magog” found comfort in the idea that white supremacists might be responsible.  “If so, I really like their style,” he wrote. “Covert in the shadows make sure no one sees a thing…”
Elsewhere on Stormfront and another racist site, Vanguard News Network (VNN), racists’ comments suggested Hasse “looked like a Jew.” After his killing, a poster identified only as “John from Canada” wrote: “I don't even care so much about the dead man's ethnicity. I would like to think that WN (white nationalists) were responsible and we’ll see more of this.”
“I believe that White traitors are a bigger enemy than the Jew,” the poster wrote.   “The Jew is just a parasite doing what nature designed him to do. The traitor is an opportunist of the lowest order, betraying his own blood for personal gain.”
After McLelland and his wife were gunned down Saturday evening in their Kaufmann County home, another VNN poster wrote: “Ten little prosecutors sitting down to dine, one opened the front door, and then there were nine!”
Other comments included antigovernment sentiments or used slurs to blame Mexican drug cartels.
“He was a prosecutor for the government,” a VNN poster said of Hasse. “In the 300-400 cases per year that he handled, I am more than confident he earned being shot down like a dog in a parking lot.”
In an earlier VNN forum discussion, a poster using the name “Brutus” suggested Hasse deserved to be killed because police and prosecutors are controlled by Jews.
“There are certain ‘gate keeper’ government jobs where the jew appoints only the loyalest (sic) of minions,” the poster wrote. “Prosecutors and police chiefs are two of these important ‘herd control’ positions. They have tacitly understood orders from the jew to seek out and destroy any White resistance.”
Other posters noted that a white supremacist, Evan Spencer Ebel , a 28-year-old Denver parolee, has been linked to the killing of Colorado prison chief Tom Clement, shot when he answered the door at his Monument, Colo., home on March 19.
Two days after the shooting in Colorado, Ebel died in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies following a high-speed chase in north Texas. That occurred about 100 miles from Kaufman County, and authorities still haven’t said why Ebel was in Texas or if he had accomplices.
A Stormfront poster, “StatesRightsLover,” noted Ebel’s connection to the white supremacy movement and said: “I’m shedding no tears. No such thing as a good government official.”
Other posters directed their Internet venom at Mexicans and Jews.
A poster identified as  “14words_of_truth,” wrote on Stormfront on Tuesday: “Mexican criminal alien invaders are in the Federal Union because of Federal Judges; it would be a real shame if those same Mexican criminals began assassinating those same Federal Judges.”
In the same Stormfront thread, poster “hang_them_high” wrote: “If your [sic] so bad ass go take out the jews in your state. Get it done no reason to wait. I would think of buying land in any state that was jew free. Tar and feather and hang jew bankers for Jesus. Freedom!”

Summary: The assassination-style killings of two prosecutors in Texas are precipitating the postings of vile, anti-Semitic, almost-gleeful public comments by assorted racists and white supremacists. Investigators aren’t publicly commenting on who they think was responsible for last weekend’s murder of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, who were both shot repeatedly in their home, or the Jan. 31 shooting of McLelland’s assistant, prosecutor Mark Hasse, as he walked to…


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/23/2016
November 23, 2016
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Trump disavows the ‘alt-right,’ sort of; Are media normalizing racist beliefs?; Identity pastor wants crackdown on Jews; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/16/2016
November 16, 2016
Hatewatch Staff
What Bannon in the White House means; We really know little about hate crimes; Church keeps its ‘Heil Trump’ graffiti; and more.


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In pursuit of a more accurate and more just hate map, the Intelligence Project (IP) has committed to collapsing the Black Separatist listing. We will still monitor these groups, but we will be transferring them to hate ideologies, including antisemitism, that better describe the harm their rhetoric inflicts.


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“Alexander Slavros,” a pseudonymous Eastern European essayist and founder of the neo-fascist forum Iron March , no longer appears online under that alias – but his ideology, rooted in thoughts of violence, racial conquest and fascist purity, is spreading.


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Two antigovernment activists accused of digging trenches and bulldozing a road during a takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge want to prevent a jury from hearing how much it cost to repair the damage at the archaeological site.


Howard Phillips, Architect of the Religious Right, is Dead

Howard Phillips, one of the main architects of the Moral Majority and, more generally, the American religious right, died Saturday at the age of 72. According to the Christian News Network , he had been suffering from dementia.
Phillips had a long history in conservative and right-wing movements , including three runs as a third-party presidential candidate. He sat on the board of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and worked on Barry Goldwater’s unsuccessful 1964 presidential campaign. He then went on to get involved in the administration of Richard Nixon, who appointed him head of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO).
According to left-leaning sociologist Sara Diamond, Phillips was convinced that the OEO was a vehicle for radical leftist recipients, so he encouraged Nixon to appoint other conservative activists from YAF and the American Conservative Union with the aim of eliminating many OEO programs. He launched a public relations campaign, eliminated the OEO’s regional offices, and de-funded anti-poverty programs — until a federal court ruled his actions illegal because his appointment had not been confirmed by the Senate, sparking Phillips’ resignation. Phillips went on to found or help found several key right-wing organizations and networks, including Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority.
During the Reagan Administration, Phillips founded and headed the influential Conservative Caucus. He was a founding member of the secretive and influential conservative Council for National Policy, and served as a senior editor at the Conservative Digest . By the 1990s, Phillips had grown dissatisfied with the Republican Party (it wasn’t right-wing enough) and founded the U.S. Taxpayers Party in 1992. USTP later morphed into the still-extant Constitution Party , whose goal is to implement Biblical law in America and to “limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries” and on whose presidential ticket Phillips ran. The party platform includes pushing states to “proscribe sexually offensive behaviors” including homosexuality; calling on U.S. troops to protect states against invasion by immigrants; opposing abortion in any circumstance; banning pornography; abolishing the IRS and the Department of Education; preventing the federal government from restricting the acknowledgement of God as the sovereign source of liberty, law, and government; and returning all lands “held by the federal government without authorization of the Constitution” to the people.
In the 1970s, Phillips converted from Judaism and become a believer in Christian Reconstructionism and a follower of the late R. J. Rushdoony (considered the father of Christian Reconstructionism, a theological doctrine calling for the imposition of Old Testament law on the United States). Rushdoony established the Chalcedon Foundation and was a slavery apologist (Phillips opposed the Voting Rights Act) who also supported the death penalty for gay people. The Chalcedon Foundation posted a brief blog about Phillips’ death, calling him a “longtime Chalcedon colleague and supporter, and close personal friend to R. J. Rushdoony.”
Phillips also attracted a following from the antigovernment “Patriot” movement. Texas Republican congressman Steve Stockman claimed on the virulently right-wing Free Republic website that Phillips’ work will live on through the “Constitutional government movement he helped build.” Chuck Baldwin , longtime Patriot pastor, has been tapped to speak at Phillips’ funeral in Virginia.

Summary: Howard Phillips, one of the main architects of the Moral Majority and, more generally, the American religious right, died Saturday at the age of 72. According to the Christian News Network , he had been suffering from dementia. Phillips had a long history in conservative and right-wing movements , including three runs as a third-party presidential candidate. He sat on the board of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and worked on Barry Goldwater’s unsuccessful 1964 presidential campaign. He then…


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On April 20, the anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) began to dive into its vault and upload to YouTube episodes of its 51-episode series “Borderline.” The show ran on NET, a satellite TV station put together by archconservative and anti-gay bigot Paul Weyrich. So far FAIR has decided to upload just two episodes of the series


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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined Tony Perkins, president of anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council (FRC), on the Sept. 9 episode of Perkins’ radio show “Washington Watch” to discuss his office’s investigation into allegations of double voting.


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Mexico has turned over to the United States a man suspected of involvement in two hate crime murders more than 17 years ago in California. The case is the first of its kind where civil rights criminal charges were filed against members of a street gang, authorities say.


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White Nationalist Threats Against Transgender People Are Escalating
June 26, 2019
Cassie Miller
Transphobic rhetoric, some of it violent, appears to be increasing among white nationalists and neo-Nazis as the fight for transgender rights gains visibility and public support.


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White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller went against many Republicans when siding with white nationalists and other extremists on the issue of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, more commonly known as DACA, emails show.


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Larry Klayman made his name as an ultra-litigious, political gadfly who filed numerous cases against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and then pursued debunked conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama’s birthplace.


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The incessant power struggles that plague militia groups prompted defections in the Three Percent Security Force, robbed its leader of control and delivered the well-known antigovernment militia to the man who defied his commander.


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Two Members of Rise Above Movement Plead Guilty in Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' Rioting Case
May 03, 2019
Brett Barrouquere
The leader of the antisemitic and racist Rise Above Movement and a fellow member of the group pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of conspiracy to riot.


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Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County North Carolina (ACTBAC NC), a neo-Confederate hate group, will host an 8 p.m. “Twilight Service” Thursday night at McCorkle Place, the site of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s monument to Confederate dead. Known as “Silent Sam,” the statue was torn down by a group of protesters last week, sparking ire from white nationalists, “Confederate heritage” groups and North Carolina Republicans.


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Three members of the Shieldwall Network (SWN), an Arkansas-based white nationalist group founded by longtime movement leader Billy Roper, were arrested last week in connection with second-degree battery.


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ACT for America Deletes Its Map of "1,000" Chapters: Here's What It Really Looks Like
March 12, 2017
Stephen Piggott
ACT for America the largest grassroots anti-Muslim organization in the country claiming 1,000 active chapters and over half a million members quietly deleted its chapter locator map this week.


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Each year, anti-LGBT hate group World Congress of Families holds a major annual summit, in addition to smaller regional gatherings. The summit often attracts around three thousand people, and it’s held in major cities around the world.


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Hatewatch Headlines 6/28/2017
June 28, 2017
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Charity database staffers threatened over listing; Gettysburg may be site of battling protests; Spencer’s think tank broke Virginia nonprofit law; and more.


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The Internet Research Agency: behind the shadowy network that meddled in the 2016 Elections
February 21, 2018
Alexander Reid Ross
Special counsel Robert Mueller, Jr.,
indicted
13 agents from the Saint Petersburg based Internet Research Agency last Friday, but the shadowy figures behind the organization remain obscure.


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Last June, six months after paying a visit to the occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Washington State Representative Matt Shea organized a chapter of the anti-Muslim hate group ACT For America in Spokane, Washington.


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Hatewatch Headlines 2/1/2017
February 01, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
KKK elated with Trump’s first 10 days; White nationalist harasses journalist; FBI probes supremacists in law enforcement; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 1/18/2017
January 18, 2017
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New project aims to document hate crimes; Right-wing media lashes out at Manning;  RT host exposed as neo-Nazi; and more.


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Alt-Right Event in Seattle Devolves Into Chaos and Violence Outside, Truth-Twisting Inside
January 23, 2017
David Neiwert
Antifascist protester shot by Trump supporter amid mass counterprotest on UW campus, but Yiannopoulos spins a tale of martyrdom to his audience at end of speaking tour.


Engineer at Elite Army Weapons Lab Tied to Racist Groups

A young research engineer at the U.S. Army’s elite chemical and biological research laboratory in Maryland has close ties to two racist groups espousing white nationalist views, one of which has called for a homeland for white people.
John Stortstrom , a mechanical engineer who works for the Army at its Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), was among 150 white nationalists, many of them young, who attended the American Renaissance conference held in early April in Tennessee. American Renaissance is a journal dedicated to race and intelligence, with a heavy focus on the “psychopathology” of black people. Its editor has written that black people are incapable of sustaining any kind of civilization.
Stortstrom also has been a member of Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), according to his Facebook page. The far-right student group was started about five years ago, but now appears to be defunct. It was close enough to American Renaissance that the editor of that journal wrote a fundraising letter for it in 2011, describing YWC’s leader as “an eloquent and distinguished young man.”
Remarkably, Stortstrom is simultaneously vice president of the Route 40 Republican Party Club , based in Edgewood, Md., where the Army research center also is located. Earlier this month, the club sponsored an appearance at the Harford County Sheriff’s Office by Matthew Heimbach , president of the racist White Student Union at Towson University. Heimbach had earlier led a Towson chapter of YWC, but shut it down after members last year chalked “White Pride” around campus, causing an uproar among students and administrators. The WSU is its replacement.
“Good speech, Matthew,” Stortstrom wrote after the Harford County presentation, complimenting Heimbach on Route 40’s Facebook page . The page also shows a photo of Route 40 President Fred Mullis posing with Heimbach, accompanied by the Yiddish phrase, “Mazel tov!,” which means “good luck.”
Neither Stortstrom nor Mullis could be reached for comment.
There’s no question that Stortstrom is very much a part of the racist white nationalist scene, as well as an up-and-coming young GOP operative. But it is Stortstrom’s top-security clearance job at the U.S. Army research facility on the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland that is really raising eyebrows.
On its website, the anti-racist organization “One People’s Project” (OPP), which was the first to point out Stortstrom’s activities, put it like this: “See, not only is he vice-president of a Republican Party club that curiously was comfortable enough with Heimbach that he was invited to speak at one of their meetings, but his job — his actual bread winning profession — is making things that explode!”
Stortstrom’s work for the military, OPP added, puts him in contact with chemical weapons and explosives. The group’s site carries a photo of Stortstrom with the caption, “Engineer. Republican. Racist. Military bomb maker.”
Don Kennedy, the public affairs officer for the Army at the ECBC Communications Office, did not return a Hatewatch telephone call seeking comment yesterday.
Strotstrom earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland in 2008, according to his LinkedIn page. Describing his job with the U.S. Army on a YouTube video , he explained, “Our job is to provide engineering and chemical expertise to customers in support of obscuration, non-lethal, riot control and incendiary munitions.” Obscuration munitions, he said, include such things as “smoke grenades and white phosphorous artillery rounds used by the war-fighter for concealment on the battlefield.”
“The newest grenade that we support is the M-106,” Stortstrom wrote, describing the M-106 as a “bursting grenade” that fills the air with a “titanium dioxide cloud” after being thrown. “This would be used, say, in a sniper-defense scenario when the operator needs immediate concealment. And that’s one of the most-important jobs at ECBS — making sure the war-fighter has what he needs!”

Summary: A young research engineer at the U.S. Army’s elite chemical and biological research laboratory in Maryland has close ties to two racist groups espousing white nationalist views, one of which has called for a homeland for white people. John Stortstrom , a mechanical engineer who works for the Army at its Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), was among 150 white nationalists, many of them young, who attended the American Renaissance conference held in early April in Tennessee. American…


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Dylann Roof -- baptized into the world of hate through the Internet --  was sentenced on Tuesday to be executed for his murderous gun rampage that killed nine people in 2015 at a historic African-American church in Charleston.


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“Alexander Slavros,” a pseudonymous Eastern European essayist and founder of the neo-fascist forum Iron March , no longer appears online under that alias – but his ideology, rooted in thoughts of violence, racial conquest and fascist purity, is spreading.


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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined Tony Perkins, president of anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council (FRC), on the Sept. 9 episode of Perkins’ radio show “Washington Watch” to discuss his office’s investigation into allegations of double voting.


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Hatewatch Headlines 12/7/2016
December 07, 2016
Hatewatch Staff
Bannon as bad a choice as he looks; New York leaders condemn rising hate crimes; Kansas bomb plotter had child-porn trove; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 8/10/2018
August 10, 2018
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Jones brings Facebook’s global demons home; Gab threatened with hosting loss; Ingraham’s nationalist rant targets even legal immigrants; and more.


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Last week, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of two protesters and the maiming of a third on the night of Aug. 25 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Responses by local law enforcement and militia groups illustrate the disastrous assumptions that made this incident all but inevitable.


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Thirsty for battle with their leftist foes, the closest the heavily-armed Islam-hatin’ crowd came to conflict this past Saturday during an anti-Sharia rally in Phoenix’s Paradise Valley Park was when an unidentified man in a blue golf shirt walked toward the large patch of grass they occupied.


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Anti-Muslim Activists, White Nationalists and Anti-Government Figures Join Pam Geller in NYC to Protest Linda Sarsour
May 26, 2017
Stephen Pigott
It’s been over half a decade since
Pamela Geller
, one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes, organized a protest in her hometown of New York.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/23/2016
November 23, 2016
Hatewatch Staff
Trump disavows the ‘alt-right,’ sort of; Are media normalizing racist beliefs?; Identity pastor wants crackdown on Jews; and more.


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After a string of high profile departures, the future of Stormfront is more uncertain than ever. In just three months, the Internet’s most notorious and deadly white supremacist community has lost two charismatic leaders and the ability to process credit card donations.


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A national survey of 1,500 adults fielded by the Intelligence Project and Tulchin Research revealed that Americans understand white supremacy and other forms of racism as a threat to our society, but still struggle to connect those issues to systemic and structural racism.


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Neo-Nazis, white nationalists and antigovernment extremists are publishing volumes of propaganda advocating terrorism and mass shootings on Telegram, a Hatewatch review of hundreds of channels on that app reveals.


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Minuteman organizer: volunteers want to 'shoot the taco meat'
September 20, 2005
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Hatewatch Headlines 7/10/2017
July 10, 2017
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Donald Trump as a teaching tool for white privilege; KKK drowned out by counterprotesters in Virginia; Facebook overlooks white extremists; and more.


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In unusual alliance, Infowars, Joey Gibson teaming up for ‘street army’ teams
August 31, 2018
Brett Barrouquere
Infowars and Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, with Gibson once calling the creator of the show, Alex Jones, “crazy.”


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A shooting in a California synagogue in which police say a 19-year-old man killed one and injured three others underscores a link between online radicalization of white supremacists and terroristic violence.


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Three members of the Shieldwall Network (SWN), an Arkansas-based white nationalist group founded by longtime movement leader Billy Roper, were arrested last week in connection with second-degree battery.


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Hatewatch Headlines 7/7/2017
July 07, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
Trump skips visit to Warsaw Ghetto; Alt-Right factionalism; Alex Jones' newest conspiracy theory; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 2/22/2017
February 22, 2017
Trump spent President’s Day with man who wants to “
kill 100 million
” Muslims
; militia groups meet the law-- in court; when hate attacks, many stand up and fight back; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/15/2016
November 14, 2016
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Trump ‘surprised’ by attacks on minorities; White nationalists happy about Bannon; Confederate flags at California parade; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/10/2016
November 10, 2016
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Election 2016 and the culture wars; Klansmen raise their hoods in South; Oregon sheriff wins re-election; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/2/2016
November 02, 2016
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Bundy family warns of another standoff; Accused bomb plotter rails in court; Samantha Bee highlights Trump’s Alt-Right sync-up; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 4/25/2017
April 25, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
New Orleans removes Confederacy monument; Trump angers alt-right with Holocaust remarks; Ethno-nationalism unpopular despite gains; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 4/20/2017
April 20, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
The renaissance of intellectual racism; DREAM student deportation shocks immigrants; How Trump administration puts Islam on trial; and more.


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Hours before members of the Loyal White Knights (LWK) were set to parade through the streets of Pelham, N.C., to celebrate president-elect Donald Trump’s victory last Saturday, the leaders who helped organize the parade turned on one another.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/30/2016
November 30, 2016
Hatewatch Staff
Why the Alt-Right is celebrating; Flynn is a big fan of Milo; A longer look at the data around hate crimes; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/22/2016
November 22, 2016
Hatewatch Staff
Americans are standing up to hate; Media sanitizing Kobach’s extremism; White nationalists march in D.C.; and more.


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Jon Feere, a longtime staffer with the nativist think tank Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), is set to join the Department of Homeland Security in an “immigration-related position,” according to The Washington Post.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/17/2016
November 17, 2016
Hatewatch Staff
Twitter suspends alt-right accounts; Will Trump roll back the hate?; Bannon’s white-nationalist worldview explained; and more.


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Mar-a-Lago Pulls Plug on Anti-Muslim Hate Group’s Gala
October 07, 2019
Hatewatch Staff
The Trump Organization says the anti-Muslim hate group
ACT for America
’s Nov. 7 gala is no longer welcome at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort.


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John Tanton, the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement, has left behind a legacy that spawned more than a dozen nativist organizations, driven an anti-immigrant agenda for four decades, and found friends in the White House.


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White Nationalist Threats Against Transgender People Are Escalating
June 26, 2019
Cassie Miller
Transphobic rhetoric, some of it violent, appears to be increasing among white nationalists and neo-Nazis as the fight for transgender rights gains visibility and public support.


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In early April, Congress held its first hearing on white nationalism since the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. What was supposed to be an opportunity to address the rising threat of far-right extremism was, at certain points, upended by conservatives who insisted the real threat came from the left.


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Trump's ICE Bulletin Aims To Shame 'Sanctuary Cities,' But Its Numbers Are Skewed
March 23, 2017
David Neiwert
Created by executive order, a new weekly report ostensibly shows criminal immigrants being released, but its figures are murky at best and ultimately misleading.


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This post is part of a continuing Hatewatch series examining the Newslinks & Articles section of Stormfront.org . Until last summer, Stormfront was the most trafficked white supremacist website online.


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The SPLC has collected 1,372 reported bias incidents between the day after the election and February 7. These incidents were either reported directly to the SPLC via our #ReportHate intake page or collected from news reports.


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Hatewatch Headlines 2/7/2017
February 07, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
The dawn of white nationalist rule; Trump gives green light to violence; Alex Jones and those ‘alternate facts’; and more.


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In the wake of the doxing of Mike Peinovich, the founder of the white nationalist “Alt-Right” podcast The Right Stuff (TRS), waves of criticism have followed and speculation has grown that the show is beginning to unravel.


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Unrepentant and Radicalized Online: A Look at the Trial of Dylann Roof
December 19, 2016
Bill Morlin
Dylann Roof’s plan was simple. The 21-year-old wanted to start a race war, following the same demented path as infamous white supremacists before him.


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Hatewatch Headlines 12/13/2016
December 13, 2016
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Trump’s team of conspiracy theorists; Spencer and cohort return to Twitter; Putin a ‘beacon’ for American alt-right; and more.


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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, whose pursuit of voter restriction and anti-immigrant laws made him a leading light of the nativist movement , announced today that he will run for governor in 2018.


Border violence on the rise

February 21, 2006 Hatewatch Staff First came an armed standoff between Texas lawmen and drug smugglers disguised as Mexican soldiers. Next, federal officials seized a stockpile of heavy-duty weaponry -- assault rifles, hand grenades, and improvised explosive devices -- along the Rio Grande. Then a Mexican police reporter was critically wounded after intruders fired more than 60 rounds into the newspaper's offices. Read full article


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Hatewatch Marjorie Taylor Greene: How an Outspoken MAGA Fan Built a Following in a World of Extremists August 16, 2019 Hatewatch Staff Originally a MAGA supporter but now an emerging MAGA star, Marjorie Taylor Greene has deftly leveraged social media and confrontations in public to increase her visibility. Now she’s entering politics as a GOP candidate for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District.