Civil Rights Leaders Denounce Mayor After Slaying

The president of the National Council of La Raza joined other civil rights leaders in criticizing Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy along with other politicians and the news media for cultivating anti-immigration sentiments preceding the murder of a Latino immigrant. Read full article


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Anti-LGBTQ Group's Compound Ordered Sold for $2.8 million
October 29, 2019
Brett Barrouquere
A judge has ordered the remote compound of the anti-LGBTQ group Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps sold for $2.8 million.


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ACT for America Tries To Distance Themselves From One of Their 'Most Influential Activists'
March 08, 2019
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An ACT for America chapter leader made national headlines last week for a display at the West Virginia Capitol that appeared to equate Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.


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A network of anti-LGBT churches used its “Make America Straight Again” conference to move beyond its stock fallacies and hate-filled rhetoric and call for the government to begin rounding up and executing homosexuals.


Human Rights Complaint Filed Against U.S. Government

Manhattan-based LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Costa Rica alleging the U.S. government is failing to protect Latinos within its borders. Read full article


Latino Professionals Organize In City Hostile To Immigrants

Two years after Farmers Branch, Tex. gained a reputation for targeting immigrants with a harsh local housing ordinance, Latino professionals are politically organizing to gain fair representation in a city whose population is nearly half Latino. Read full article


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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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Hatewatch Headlines 11/28/2016
November 28, 2016
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Derek Black reflects on white nationalism; Trump making Nazis ‘go away,’ pundit says; Five myths about the alt-right; and more.


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Florida Man Arrested for Racist Threats Once Attacked an African American Police Officer
June 28, 2019
Rachel Janik
A long string of felony charges and a tip-off from the Department of Homeland Security led to the arrest of a Florida man for racist and antisemitic threats posted to Gab and Bitchute.


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Mar-a-Lago Pulls Plug on Anti-Muslim Hate Group’s Gala
October 07, 2019
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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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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.


English-Only Measure Soundly Defeated

A ballot measure that would have forced all Metro Nashville government business to be conducted in English alone was defeated by more than 10,000 votes in a special election marked by strong emotions and a massive turnout. Read full article


Immigration Opens New Racial Rifts

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Immigration Opens New Racial Rifts
January 27, 2009
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Resentment of immigrants has produced an odd alliance between blacks and whites in a rural Mississippi county where even the Ku Klux Klan has turned its hatred against Hispanics.
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Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions , one of President-elect Donald Trump’s closest advisers during his campaign and his selection for U.S. attorney general, has longstanding and extensive ties to both anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim extremist groups.


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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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Proud Boys Destroy Churches' Black Lives Matter Signs During Protest in Washington, D.C.
December 16, 2020
Cassie Miller
Proud Boys attended a pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday that ended with members of the group tearing down and destroying Black Lives Matter banners from two historic Black churches.


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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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The acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) became the latest Trump administration official to speak at an event organized by the anti-immigrant hate group Center for Immigration Studies.


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Kentucky’s governor has appointed an attorney who worked closely with an anti-LGBT hate group to the Board of Trustees for the University of Kentucky, a school that previously received a top national ranking for being LGBTQ-friendly.


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A 121-year-old Confederate monument in front of the University of Louisville campus was removed over last weekend, culminating years of debate whether the landmark was historically significant or a reminder of slavery and racial division.


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The following is a list of activities and events linked to American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, anti-LGBT, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups in Europe. Organizations listed as hate groups are designated with an asterisk.


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An Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot Tuesday by a suspect who authorities say has a lengthy criminal record and ties to the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist gang operating in and out of the state’s prison system.


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Trump Official Who Once Led Hate Group Resigns Ombudsman Role
October 31, 2019
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Julie Kirchner, a nativist hard-liner with ties to an anti-immigrant hate group, has resigned as ombudsman at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).


Slain Neo-Nazi, Angry Over Obama Victory, Reportedly Prepared ‘Dirty Bomb’ Components

James G. Cummings, a neo-Nazi who was shot to death by his wife last December, possessed a cache of radioactive materials suitable for building a “dirty bomb,” according to a leaked FBI intelligence report . A dirty bomb uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive and other harmful materials over a large area.
During a search of the Belfast, Maine, house where Cummings lived with his wife, Amber, investigators reportedly discovered instructions for making a dirty bomb, along with four 1-gallon containers filled with a mix of uranium and thorium, both of which are radioactive, along with highly toxic beryllium powder. The containers also held a hydrogen peroxide-based solution needed for making peroxide-based explosives, along with lithium metal, thermite, magnesium ribbon, black iron oxide and other substances that are used to amplify the effects of homemade explosives.
According to the FBI report, which was originally posted online by WikiLeaks, an organization that posts leaked documents, police also found a National Socialist Movement membership application filled out by Cummings. The NSM currently is the largest neo-Nazi organization in the country, with 69 chapters in 30 states.
Amber Cummings reportedly told police that her husband was “very upset” over Barack Obama being elected president, had been in contact with white supremacist groups, and that he’d been mixing chemicals in their kitchen sink while talking about dirty bombs. Authorities say she claimed that she killed her husband after years of mental, physical, and sexual abuse. Police are terming his death a “domestic violence homicide” but, at this point, no charges have been filed.
The Bangor Daily News reports that a tradesman who painted inside the house for about a month last summer said that Cummings verbally abused his wife, talked incessantly about guns and Adolf Hitler, and claimed to own pieces of Hitler’s personal silverware and place settings. The painter said that Cummings showed off a collection of Nazi memorabilia, including a swastika flag.
“Cummings grew up in California and lived in Texas before moving to Maine in August 2007,” the Bangor News reports. “Although [the painter] said Cummings told him he made his money in Texas real estate, it appears that the actual source of his wealth was a trust fund established by his father, a prominent landowner in the Northern California city of Fort Bragg.” Records on the Internet show the James B. Cummings Trust has an annual income of $10 million.
Cummings was not the only person to apparently have been enraged or even made assassination threats because of the ascent and eventual election of Obama  (see here and here and here , for instance).

Summary: James G. Cummings, a neo-Nazi who was shot to death by his wife last December, possessed a cache of radioactive materials suitable for building a “dirty bomb,” according to a leaked FBI intelligence report . A dirty bomb uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive and other harmful materials over a large area. During a search of the Belfast, Maine, house where Cummings lived with his wife, Amber, investigators reportedly discovered instructions for making a dirty bomb, along with four…


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Hatewatch Headlines 3/21/2017
March 21, 2017
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Far-right sites are part of Russia-influence investigation; Weekly list of immigrant crimes makes it debut; Militia movement takes center stage at trial; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 3/17/2017
March 17, 2017
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National anxiety over race relations reaches all-time high; Anti-LGBT hate group to represent U.S. at women’s event; Jewish-center threats probed as hate crimes; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 2/27/2017
February 27, 2017
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Vandals strike Philly Jewish cemetery; Trump ignores the recent spike in hate crimes; Holocaust scholar nearly deported; and more.


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Roy Moore, the Republican nominee and extremist who lost the December 12 special senate election in Alabama, has filed a “voter fraud" complaint in the state of Alabama and named an antisemite and conspiracy theorist as two of his voting "experts."


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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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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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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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Attorney With Ties to Anti-LGBT Groups Hired for Key Government Agency
September 20, 2019
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Right-wing attorney, writer and legal analyst Ken Klukowski has landed a position in the Trump administration in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).


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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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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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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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Militias Capitalizing on GOP Rhetoric Heading Into Election Season
July 31, 2019
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A militia network’s enthusiasm to lend paramilitary support to Oregon’s Republican senators last month could be a bellwether for the 2020 campaign season.


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Kentucky’s governor has appointed an attorney who worked closely with an anti-LGBT hate group to the Board of Trustees for the University of Kentucky, a school that previously received a top national ranking for being LGBTQ-friendly.


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The acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) became the latest Trump administration official to speak at an event organized by the anti-immigrant hate group Center for Immigration Studies.


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A 121-year-old Confederate monument in front of the University of Louisville campus was removed over last weekend, culminating years of debate whether the landmark was historically significant or a reminder of slavery and racial division.


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The overwhelming support experienced by Donald Trump in rural red strongholds across the southeast during the 2016 election has forced League of the South (LOS) president Michael Hill to face the realization that Trump’s campaign rhetoric has eroded support for his historic platform beneath him. Meanwhile, the League has been bleeding young, educated members to “Alt-Right” white nationalism.


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Hatewatch Headlines 2/13/2017
February 13, 2017
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How Putin became the global hero of nationalism; Gorka sports a dubious medal; Miller once hassled Hispanic students; and more.


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One of the country’s leading white nationalist organizations – the National Policy Institute – has lost its non-profit status, apparently because its founder Richard B. Spencer forgot to fill out those little white boxes on government tax forms.


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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 Wrong Stuff: Peinovich Co-Host Fired From EMT Job After Racist Comments Fall Under Scrutiny
March 11, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
Alex McNabb, co-host of the hate podcast “The Daily Shoah,” was fired from his job as an emergency medical technician (EMT) on Sunday, according to WSLS, a
Roanoke, Virginia-based NBC affiliate
.


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This is the second update from the Southern Poverty Law Center's effort to collect reports of hateful incidents of harassment around the country. This report covers the full week (Wednesday Nov. 9 to Wednesday Nov. 16) since the presidential election.


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Anti-LGBT Activities Roundup 4/27/2017
April 27, 2017
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The following is a list of activities and events of anti-LGBT organizations and individuals. Organizations listed as anti-LGBT hate groups are designated with an asterisk.


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Hatewatch Headlines 4/25/2017
April 25, 2017
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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
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The renaissance of intellectual racism; DREAM student deportation shocks immigrants; How Trump administration puts Islam on trial; and more.


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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.


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Attorney With Ties to Anti-LGBT Groups Hired for Key Government Agency
September 20, 2019
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Right-wing attorney, writer and legal analyst Ken Klukowski has landed a position in the Trump administration in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).


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Evergreen State Protest By 'Patriot' Group Dwarfed By Angry Response
June 16, 2017
David Neiwert
Small gathering of 'free speech' protesters exploiting racial turmoil on campus encounters massive crowd in opposition; organizer hit with pepper spray when he walks into crowd of antifascists.


Houston Police Chief Voices Concerns Over 287(g)

Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt was in Washington, D.C. to voice his support for a study by the nonpartisan Police Foundation that found many problems with a controversial immigration law enforcement program being pushed by anti-immigration forces. Read full article


Yakama Nation Activist Spearheads Anti-Immigration Campaign

Wendell Hannigan argues that Latinos are bringing gang violence and "overtaking" the members of the Yakama Nation, a Native American tribe whose reservation is located 160 miles southeast of Seattle. Read full article


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Gab Waited Days to Remove a User Arrested for Inciting Violence
June 19, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
A man who authorities say wanted to start a race war stayed on the social network Gab for days after he was arrested for allegedly inciting violence on it, according to a Hatewatch review.


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Analyzing a terrorist's social media manifesto: the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter's posts on Gab
October 28, 2018
Alex Amend
Late Saturday night, federal prosecutors
filed
29 counts of crimes of violence and firearms offenses against Robert D. Bowers, 46, for killing 11 and wounding six — including several police officers.


Sotomayor Nomination Unleashes Furious Attacks

The nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court of Sonia Sotomayor, who would become the court’s first Hispanic if confirmed, has been met by a cacophony of right-wing attack dogs sounding a single furious note: “Racist!”
Reacting to Sotomayor’s membership in the Latino rights organization National Council of La Raza and comments she has made on her judging, radio fulminator Rush Limbaugh compared her to KKK leader David Duke, suggesting she is a “reverse racist.” William Gheen, president of the nativist extremist group Americans for Legal Immigration, called her a “brown or Hispanic supremacist.” Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, the Colorado Republican and one-time presidential candidate who long headed the far-right Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, attacked Sotomayor for her membership in La Raza, which he said was a “Latino KKK.” Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich described the high court nominee on Twitter as a “Latina woman racist” and said she should withdraw.
Now comes the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a white supremacist hate group which has called black people a “retrograde species of humanity,” with its own special addition : a computer-generated “photo” of “whitey-hating” Sotomayor in Klan robes that fits in well with the tenor of the more “mainstream” attacks from politicians, pundits and nativist leaders.
That’s par for the course for the gutturally racist CCC, which is descended from the White Citizens Councils of the 1950s and 1960s that battled school desegregation. Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court Justice, once referred to that group as “the uptown Klan.”
Despite the furious comments from people like Tancredo, La Raza is hardly a racist group — indeed, it is a thoroughly mainstream human rights organization.
As to her comments, Sotomayor is being attacked for saying in a 2001 university lecture that she “would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white man who hasn’t lived that life.” President Obama said earlier this week that Sotomayor wishes she had phrased that differently, but that the comments simply suggested that a diversity of experience helped judges make good decisions. Sotomayor made similar remarks, saying earlier this week: “My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept that there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.”

Summary: The nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court of Sonia Sotomayor, who would become the court’s first Hispanic if confirmed, has been met by a cacophony of right-wing attack dogs sounding a single furious note: “Racist!” Reacting to Sotomayor’s membership in the Latino rights organization National Council of La Raza and comments she has made on her judging, radio fulminator Rush Limbaugh compared her to KKK leader David Duke, suggesting she is a “reverse racist.” William Gheen, president of the…


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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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Hatewatch Headlines 7/21/2017
July 21, 2017
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Far-right movements converging globally; Why did Texas governor use militiamen for security? Alt-right trolls get feelings hurt by ADL; and more.


Anti-Immigrant Hate Site Announces Pat Buchanan Think Tank To Host Leading White Nationalist

MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan added to his decades-long history of racist activism by inviting a prominent white nationalist to speak at the upcoming national conference of Buchanan’s immigrant-bashing organization The American Cause (TAC), the white nationalist hate website Vdare.com announced earlier this week.
According to a bulletin on its homepage, Vdare.com owner Peter Brimelow is now scheduled to speak at The American’s Cause’s  “Building A New Majority Conference” in McLean, Va., on June 20.
The conference plans to ponder the question, “Has the culture, economy, and demographics of our country passed a tipping point where Conservatives can no longer rule with a mandate?”
Although Brimelow’s name does not appear on The American Cause’s website, the keynote speaker for the conference is not identified, and Brimelow was a panelist at a symposium hosted by TAC last January.
Other speakers scheduled to appear at the upcoming conference, according to TAC’s website, include Hazleton, Pa., Mayor Lou Barletta, who has worked closely with the legal arm of the hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform to enact anti-immigrant policies in a region suffering from escalating racial tensions and where a Latino immigrant was beaten to death last summer; and former Congressman Tom Tancredo, a longtime nativist firebrand who earlier this year argued in a speech at American University that Latinos and Muslims represent “problem cultures,” and that immigrants who fail to “become American” by adopting “white Anglo-Saxon culture” are a destructive force in America.
Conspicuously absent from the speaker list for the June conference is TAC Executive Director Marcus Epstein, a frequent speaker at the group’s events. Epstein may be keeping a lower profile this time around because he’s scheduled to be sentenced on July 8 for drunkenly calling an African-American passerby a “nigger” at a major intersection in Washington, D.C., before attempting to strike her with a karate chop.
Despite the hate crime assault conviction, it seems unlikely Buchanan will distance himself from Epstein. On June 7, Buchanan’s sister, Angela “Bay” Buchanan, defended Epstein on Vdare.com from what she termed an “Internet lynching” (Bay Buchanan, who has been a CNN commentator, helps her brother run TAC and another anti-immigrant outfit, Team America PAC, which also employs Epstein).
“I am telling his story because Marcus Epstein deserves to have his good name returned to him,” Bay Buchanan wrote.
According to her post, Epstein committed the assault after a night of heavy drinking in the midst of serious bouts of depression in 2007. She wrote that after he was released from jail, Epstein attempted to commit suicide by alcohol poisoning and was hospitalized for a week. Buchanan said he was allowed to keep his job at TAC because he sought professional help and is now sober.
“Marcus Epstein is one of the bravest young people I have ever known,” she wrote.
Epstein is himself a frequent Vdare.com contributor who has attended and hosted events featuring prominent white nationalists. “Diversity can be good in moderation — if what is being brought in is desirable,” Epstein wrote in one VDARE.com essay. “Most Americans don’t mind a little ethnic food, some Asian math whizzes, or a few Mariachi dancers — as long as these trends do not overwhelm the dominant culture.”
That sort of rhetoric marches in lockstep with Pat Buchanan’s oft-expressed white nationalist ideology.
Buchanan’s history of bigoted statements, dating back to his days in the Nixon administration, was detailed in a comprehensive June 8 Media Matters for America post . In the 1970s, Buchanan warned Nixon not to "fritter away his present high support in the nation for an ill-advised governmental effort to forcibly integrate races." In 1989, he defended Bob Jones University’s ban on interracial dating. And in 1990 he lamented the end of apartheid in South Africa.
And he’s still at it. Media Matters notes that Pat Buchanan appeared on the June 29, 2008, and September 14, 2006, editions of “ The Political Cesspool ,” a white nationalist radio show whose "Statement of Principles" asserts that it "represent[s] a philosophy that is pro-White." Buchanan’s appearance on the show last June was streamed live on Stormfront.org, a major white nationalist online forum popular with neo-Nazis, skinheads and other hard-core racists. Buchanan’s recent books have been filled with citations of white nationalists’ works and advance racist arguments about Latino immigrants, such as that they enter the U.S. to invade it (more on Buchanan’s recent racism can be found here and here ).
Buchanan’s latest rants have focused on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who he claims believes “discrimination against white males is O.K.”
Buchanan's long and extensive racist track record caused Media Matters Senior Fellow Jamison Foser to pose the question , “What would Pat Buchanan have to say to get himself fired from MSNBC?” “Oddly, the more time goes by, and the further removed America is from the time when sentiments like those regularly expressed by Buchanan were widely accepted, the media increasingly give him a pass,” was Foser’s conclusion.

Summary: MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan added to his decades-long history of racist activism by inviting a prominent white nationalist to speak at the upcoming national conference of Buchanan’s immigrant-bashing organization The American Cause (TAC), the white nationalist hate website Vdare.com announced earlier this week. According to a bulletin on its homepage, Vdare.com owner Peter Brimelow is now scheduled to speak at The American’s Cause’s  “Building A New Majority Conference” in McLean, Va., on…


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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.


Major Christian Right Leader to Speak At Conference Hosted by Anti-Gay, Pro-Old South Preacher

Douglas Wilson runs an extreme-right religious empire based out of St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. Popular in neo-Confederate circles as well, Wilson has co-authored a partly plagiarized booklet defending Old South slavery as a "life of plenty" with Steve Wilkins , a founding member of the neo-secessionist and racist League of the South .  A serious hardliner, Wilson recently told reporters at Christianity Today that he's in favor of the "exile [of] some homosexuals, depending on the circumstances and the age of the victim. There are circumstances where I’d be in favor of execution for adultery."
Wilson’s now found a new friend in Chuck Colson , recipient of the 2008 Presidential Citizens Medal and a revered Christian Right leader for decades, dating back to 1975 when he founded the Prison Fellowship ministry after serving time for obstruction of justice after being caught up in the Watergate scandal. Later this month in Atlanta, Colson will be the featured speaker at Wilson's annual conference of classical Christian educators and homeschoolers, known as the Association of Classical and Christian Schools. It's a leap off the deep end for Colson, or as the Americans United for Separation of Church and State put it ,  "So let’s get this straight: Colson is happily speaking at a conference whose founder and guiding light celebrates theocracy, defends slavery as biblical and expresses regret that the Confederacy lost the Civil War."
Over the past three years however, Colson has given speeches that suggest a move from conservative evangelical Christianity into the far ends of Christian dominionism, a belief that America, along with the rest of the world, should be governed by conservative Christians using a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law. In a 2007 column for Christianity Today , Colson ripped into Christian parents who are unable to "defend Christian truth ... because we worship at the altar of the bitch goddess of tolerance."
Still, Colson’s flirtation with dominionism is one thing. The antebellum slavery-defending "paleo-confederacy" advocated by Wilson, his conference host, is quite another.  Wilson's booklet Southern Slavery, As It Was , is an outrageous apologia for the enslavement of black Americans in the Old South. "Slavery as it existed in the South ... was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence," wrote Wilson and his co-author Wilkins. "There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world."  Wilson is also a promoter of some of the more draconian tenets of Christian Reconstructionism, a theocratic movement that seeks to demolish American democracy and replace it with the legal code of the Old Testament, which calls for stoning to death adulterers, homosexuals and in some cases, wayward children. In an April 2009 interview with Christianity Today , Wilson distanced himself only ever so slightly from the most hardline reconstructionists.  “You can’t apply Scripture woodenly," said Wilson. "I’m not proposing legislation. All I’m doing is refusing to apologize for certain parts of the Bible.”
Despite these extremist views, Wilson hopes to fashion himself as a mainstream Christian evangelical. Last year, he sparred with outspoken atheist writer Christopher Hitchens in a filmed six-part debate entitled "Is Christianity Good for the World?" The text of the debate arguments were widely reprinted in the evangelical Christian press. When Hitchens was asked about his debate opponent Wilson, he replied "He has a ministry on the Washington-Idaho border, I believe," Hitchens said . "I don't know of what Christian denomination he precisely describes himself … I try not to do too much homework on people." It's unlikely that Colson, who is now featured in the same publications as Wilson, has the same excuse.

Summary: Douglas Wilson runs an extreme-right religious empire based out of St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. Popular in neo-Confederate circles as well, Wilson has co-authored a partly plagiarized booklet defending Old South slavery as a "life of plenty" with Steve Wilkins , a founding member of the neo-secessionist and racist League of the South .  A serious hardliner, Wilson recently told reporters at Christianity Today that he's in favor of the "exile [of] some homosexuals, depending on the…


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In the conspiracy swamps of Infowars, the white nationalist who allegedly shot and killed worshippers at two New Zealand mosques last week was wrong for killing people, but his anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim manifesto showed he was operating on the right set of ideas.


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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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Glenn Spencer , head of vehemently anti-immigrant hate group American Border Patrol announced plans on May 24 for his annual “Flags Along the Border BBQ” at his ranch just yards from the US/Mexico border in Heritage, Arizona. Not among Spencer and assumedly other anti-immigrant activists at the shindig will be U.S. Border Patrol, said Spencer in an interview with Hatewatch this week.


Right-Wing Swine Flu Hysteria Continues to Build

Regrettably, the paranoid and racist yammering from the right-wing fringe on the topic of Mexico being ground zero for a global outbreak of swine flu is showing no signs of letting up. (Note to readers: though several of Hatewatch’s blogosphere friends have adopted the more politically correct, not to mention scientifically accurate, H1N1 virus designation, there’s just something about linking right-wing extremists to swine that we can’t bring ourselves to give up.) Consider:
• Chelene Nightingale , managing director of the anti-immigrant hate group Save Our State (whose founder , incidentally, was just hired to do PR work for a Republican government official), E-mailed a message to SOS members declaring “Dr. Madelyn [sic] Cosman (resting in peace) was right!!!!!” The late Madeleine Cosman , of course, was the immigrant-bashing propagandist who, speaking at major nativist conferences, referred to Mexican immigrants as pathogen-ridden “deadly time bombs” and theorized that a Muslim terrorist could “create his own weapon of mass destruction” by smuggling an infected Mexican across the border. She also was the source of a fairy tale about leprosy and immigrants that wound up being presented as fact several times in 2007 on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”
• As Media Matters for America reports , nationally syndicated radio blather master Neal Boortz echoed Nightingale’s bio-terror hypothesis: “[W]hat better way to sneak a virus into this country than give it to Mexicans? Right? I mean, one out of every 10 people born in Mexico is already living up here, and the rest are trying to get here. So you give — you give — you let this virus just spread in Mexico, where they don’t have a CDC [Centers for Disease Control].” Boortz went on to say: “So if you want to get that epidemic into this country, get it going real good and hot south of the border. And, you know, then just spread a rumor that there’s construction jobs available somewhere, and here it comes. Because we’re not gonna do anything to stop them from coming across the border.”
Boortz also helpfully referred to the swine flu as the “fajita flu.”
• Yesterday, Boston right-wing talk radio host Jay Severin was suspended indefinitely from his afternoon drive-time show on WTKK-FM radio for, as The Boston Globe reported, “calling Mexican immigrants ‘criminaliens,’ ‘primitives,’ ‘leeches, and exporters of ‘women with mustaches and VD,’ among other incendiary comments.”
Here are those comments, in full context:
“So now, in addition to venereal disease and the other leading exports of Mexico — women with mustaches and VD — now we have swine flu.”
“We are the magnet for primitives around the world — and it’s not the primitives’ fault by the way, I’m not blaming them for being primitives — I’m merely observing they’re primitive.”
“It’s millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.”
“We should be, if anything, surprised that Mexico has not visited upon us poxes of more various and serious types already, considering the number of criminaliens already here.”
The Boston Globe article further noted that Severin has been criticized over the years for falsely claiming that he had won a Pulitzer Prize. Unless the Pulitzer committee starts offering a category in hate mongering, that’s unlikely to change.

Summary: Regrettably, the paranoid and racist yammering from the right-wing fringe on the topic of Mexico being ground zero for a global outbreak of swine flu is showing no signs of letting up. (Note to readers: though several of Hatewatch’s blogosphere friends have adopted the more politically correct, not to mention scientifically accurate, H1N1 virus designation, there’s just something about linking right-wing extremists to swine that we can’t bring ourselves to give up.) Consider: • Chelene…


Alabama Pol Removes Confederate Flags, and a Firestorm Ensues

They just keep coming, says Bishop Arthur Dowdell. The racial epithets. The vile aspersions. The death threats. They arrive via E-mail, the U.S. post and phone calls in the middle of the night. They’re shouted at him by passersby.
They just keep coming, says Bishop Arthur Dowdell. The racial epithets. The vile aspersions. The death threats. They arrive via E-mail, the U.S. post and phone calls in the middle of the night. They’re shouted at him by passersby.
“A lot of them call me the N-word. Some of them call my mother a bitch. One said they was going to urinate on my wife and children,” Dowdell told Hatewatch. “Another said I better not show up to the next City Council meeting, or I’d be a dead man.”
The trouble started on the afternoon of Thursday, April 23, when Bishop Dowdell, an elected member of the Auburn, Ala., City Council and its only black member, was picking up his daughter from Auburn Junior High School, which is located next to Pine Hill Cemetery.
According to Dowdell, he’d recently received several complaints from African-American constituents regarding Confederate battle flags being placed in the cemetery. Dowdell said he decided to see for himself and, sure enough, there were about 50 small Confederate battle flags waving in the breeze.
Dowdell wasn’t having that. “It’s offensive to me,” he later told The Opelika-Auburn News . “To me, it [the Confederate battle flag] represents the Ku Klux Klan and racism.”
He snatched up four of the flags and tossed them into his trunk.
Happening to witness his actions were two members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), who’d placed the flags earlier in the week, as they’ve done since the 1950s, in preparation for a celebration of Confederate Memorial Day, which is observed as a state holiday in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. This year it fell on April 27.
According to UDC member Mary Norman, who contacted the local media afterward, Dowdell snapped one of the flags in half. Dowdell denies doing that on purpose. “It might have snapped itself,” he told the Opelika-Auburn News. “If it did, so what? If I had my way, I would have broke them all up and stomped on them and burned them. That flag represents another country, another nation.”
Stomping on the Confederate battle flag? Them’s fighting words, Councilman.
The newspaper articles about the incident started to circulate on neo-Confederate and white supremacist online forums, along with Dowdell’s photo, E-mail address, home and office addresses and phone number.
Then the Southern Legal Resource Center , a neo-Confederate law center co-founded by white supremacist attorney Kirk Lyons , issued a public call for the city of Auburn to force Dowell to resign. SLRC Executive Director Roger McCredie wrote to Auburn Mayor Bill Ham, Jr., that “justice and ordinary decency would be served” by the City’s demanding Dowdell’s resignation.
Not to be outdone, the Southern heritage group Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) launched a letter-writing campaign to Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and various state and local prosecutors, demanding Dowdell’s arrest on hate crime charges.
“Councilman Dowdell violates every tenet of decent human behavior. He showed a dangerous propensity for taking the law into his own hands,” read the form letter drafted by SCV Alabama Division Commander Robert Reames. “We believe this crime was motivated by hate, and want to see justice done.”
Last week, New Jersey-based neo-Nazi radio host and notorious blowhard Hal Turner faxed a letter to the Auburn Police Department announcing that he’s “considering” bringing the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and skinheads to Auburn to protest Dowdell at the next scheduled meeting of the Auburn City Council, which is coming up fast: Tuesday, May 5.
“I don’t care who they send, I’ll be there,” Dowdell told Hatewatch. “The FBI is involved, so I hope and pray my safety will be ensured. I’ll tell you what, though. I’ve never seen anything of this magnitude. I’ve been called every name under the sun except one — a child of God.”

Summary: They just keep coming, says Bishop Arthur Dowdell. The racial epithets. The vile aspersions. The death threats. They arrive via E-mail, the U.S. post and phone calls in the middle of the night. They’re shouted at him by passersby. They just keep coming, says Bishop Arthur Dowdell. The racial epithets. The vile aspersions. The death threats. They arrive via E-mail, the U.S. post and phone calls in the middle of the night. They’re shouted at him by passersby. “A lot of them call me the N-word.…


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KrisAnne Hall, a self-described “constitutional attorney” who thinks states have the right to secede, recently addressed a neo-Confederate hate group whose goal is to create what the Civil War did not: a separate Southern nation.


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Seattle Synagogue Hit With Hate Graffiti, But Leaves It Up To Spark Discussion
March 14, 2017
David Neiwert
The largest synagogue in Washington state is among the victims of the recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks, but its rabbis refuse to 'let the growing climate of hate to define who we are.'


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Anti-Immigration Rhetoric Based On Swine Flu Continues To Spread
May 12, 2009
Hatewatch Staff
Conservative radio talk-show hosts and anti-immigration activists are still branding undocumented workers as carriers of the H1N1 virus.
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Minutemen Protest Outside Rally Marking Death Of Day Laborer

Minuteman Project members demonstrated outside a day laborer rally held on the two-year anniversary of the death of Jose Fernando Pedraza, who died after being hit by a car while participating in an anti-Minuteman protest. Read full article


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Oklahoma Defends Law Targeting Immigrants
May 12, 2009
Hatewatch Staff
Attorneys for Oklahoma argued before a federal appeals court in favor of a law that requires companies doing business with the state to use the controversial "E-verify" system.
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Ku Klux Klan Holds Anti-Immigration Rally

Outfitted in black military-style garb, 17 Klan members from Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana and Wisconsin rallied against non-white immigrants and racial equality during a demonstration outside a county courthouse . Read full article


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Far Right Exploits Racial Justice Protests to Further an Agenda of Hate
June 18, 2020
Hannah Gais
Far-right extremists have threatened protesters with violence, spread racist propaganda and screamed racist slurs at recent racial justice protests throughout the country.


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Emails Confirm Miller’s Twin Obsessions: Immigrants and Crime
November 25, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
Stephen Miller
linked immigration to violence in emails to Breitbart News – writing of crimes committed by nonwhites that “each one [is] more disturbing than the next.”


Acquittal in Pennsylvania Killing Sparks Nativist Rally

Three weeks after an all-white jury in Shenandoah, Pa., acquitted two local high school football stars of beating to death a Mexican immigrant — a verdict that many observers called a blatant act of jury nullification — pro-immigrant and anti-immigrant forces alike are using the murder of Luis Ramirez as a rallying cry.
Last week, pro-immigrant forces cheered news that the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into Ramirez’s death and the way local authorities handled the case. Earlier this month, a Schuylkill County, Pa., jury found high school football stars Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak not guilty of homicide, ethnic intimidation and aggravated assault. Both were convicted of simple assault.
A few days later, a coalition of immigrant-bashing groups announced plans to hold a rally against illegal immigration in Shenandoah on Saturday, May 30. The groups include United Patriots of America, a nativist extremist group based in Linden, N.J., that’s known for conducting surveillance of day labor centers, and You Don’t Speak For Me!, a group created and funded by the Federation for American Immigration Reform that purports to represent Hispanic-Americans. “My main concern is getting these illegals off the streets, out of this town, and bringing forth the legal Mexican-American community,” rally organizer Joe Miller told The Republican & Herald , a regional newspaper.
Saturday’s rally will mark the second major nativist rally in Shenandoah since Ramirez, a 25-year-old father of two, was kicked to death in July 2008 by white teens shouting racial epithets. Six weeks after Ramirez was killed, the nativist extremist group Voice of the People held a “pro-immigration enforcement” rally near the site of the murder. The attending crowd of roughly 50 included several members of the Keystone State Skinheads, a Harrisburg, Pa.-based racist skinhead gang.
The New York Times reported last week that racial tensions in Shenandoah intensified after the verdict, with racist threats, vandalism and fights on the rise.

Summary: Three weeks after an all-white jury in Shenandoah, Pa., acquitted two local high school football stars of beating to death a Mexican immigrant — a verdict that many observers called a blatant act of jury nullification — pro-immigrant and anti-immigrant forces alike are using the murder of Luis Ramirez as a rallying cry. Last week, pro-immigrant forces cheered news that the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into Ramirez’s death and the way local authorities handled the case.…


Coalition of Anti-Immigration Groups Announces Plans For Shenandoah Rally

At least five anti-immigration groups, including United Patriots of America and You Don't Speak For Me, are planning to participate in a May 30 rally in Shenandoah, Pa., where an all-white jury recently acquitted white teens of beating to death a Mexican immigrant. Read full article


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Kentucky’s governor has appointed an attorney who worked closely with an anti-LGBT hate group to the Board of Trustees for the University of Kentucky, a school that previously received a top national ranking for being LGBTQ-friendly.


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The acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) became the latest Trump administration official to speak at an event organized by the anti-immigrant hate group Center for Immigration Studies.


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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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Attorney With Ties to Anti-LGBT Groups Hired for Key Government Agency
September 20, 2019
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Right-wing attorney, writer and legal analyst Ken Klukowski has landed a position in the Trump administration in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).


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President Donald Trump’s new acting national security adviser once served on the board of directors for the Center for Security Policy , a group that started as a hawkish think tank and morphed into a leading anti-Muslim organization.


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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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Hatewatch Headlines 9/1/2017
September 01, 2017
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Why Islamophobia has never been stronger; Clarke expected to take Trump admin post; Stormer tries, and fails, to get back online in Albania; and more.


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Mar-a-Lago Pulls Plug on Anti-Muslim Hate Group’s Gala
October 07, 2019
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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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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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Identity Dixie Leaders Helped Plan Deadly Rally
July 26, 2019
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Behind the shield of anonymity, members of a neo-Confederate hate group appeared to have emerged without consequences for their participation in a deadly Virginia rally. But that shield has vanished.


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Anti-immigrant roundup: 5/14/18
May 14, 2018
Hatewatch Staff
The following is a list of activities and events of anti-immigrant organizations and individuals. Organizations listed as anti-immigrant hate groups are designated with an asterisk.


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The domestic terror incident this past weekend in El Paso has energized the growing “accelerationist” bloc of the white power movement, which argues violence is the only way to achieve its goal of creating a white, non-Jewish ethnostate.


Feds Indict White Supremacists in Arizona Bombing

One of two brothers indicted this week in connection with the bombing of a Scottsdale, Ariz., diversity office was a former Klansman and leading skinhead recruiter with a predilection for explosives.
As part of a sweeping undercover investigation that led to the indictment, federal agents also raided the Indiana home of longtime white separatist Tom Metzger on Thursday, removing computers and other items, but not arresting him.
In another related move, a man described as a white supremacist with expertise in weapons and the making of napalm was arrested on his rural property in Missouri and charged with being a felon in possession of firearms.
Dennis Mahon, 58, and his twin brother, Daniel, were arrested Thursday following the search of a home in Davis Junction, Ill. A federal grand jury indictment in Arizona charges them with conspiring to damage and destroy buildings and property. “The object of the conspiracy was to promote racial discord on behalf of the ‘White Aryan Resistance,’” the indictment states. WAR is a white supremacist organization founded by Metzger more than a quarter century ago.
The Mahons each face up to 40 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if they're convicted of conspiring to damage buildings and property by means of an explosive. Dennis Mahon also has been charged with two additional violations: malicious damage of a building by means of an explosive, which carries up to 40 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and distribution of information related to explosives, which carries up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The charges against the Mahon brothers stem from an incident in February 2004 when a bomb was mailed to Scottsdale’s diversity office. Diversity Director Don Logan needed extensive surgery to repair injuries to his hands and arms. His secretary suffered injuries to her face and eyes. A third employee was treated on the site for her injuries.
The indictment maintains that in September 2003, Dennis Mahon called Logan’s office and left a message saying that “the White Aryan Resistance is growing in Scottsdale. There’s a few white people who are standing up.”
Dennis Mahon helped make the bomb, the indictment says. In 2005, both Mahons traveled to Catoosa, Okla., in an attempt to buy literature and components on bomb-making, and they discussed how to avoid detection by authorities, such as by splitting up and wearing disguises, the indictment alleges.
In October 2007, Dennis Mahon directed someone to go to Missouri to learn how to make improvised explosive devices – homemade bombs often placed on roadsides – and learn techniques for avoiding detection by police, the indictment says. The following year, he directed someone to “conduct violent action on behalf of the movement” and show him proof of the results with copies of newspaper articles, authorities say.
Dennis Mahon, who in 1988 was fired from TWA for his Klan involvement, is a veteran white supremacist organizer. He was active in Oklahoma’s White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan throughout the 1980s, even serving as imperial dragon until he stepped down in January 1991. That fall, he recruited neo-Nazis and skinheads in the former East Germany, reportedly helping to organize Klan groups. He also met and enlisted Ian Stuart Donaldson, the late leader of the British racist rock group Skrewdriver and the father of the skinhead movement in Europe. (He wasn’t always successful at recruiting skinheads in the United States, however. Several of them later stabbed and beat him at a Georgia gathering.)
During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, Mahon organized a small rally in Tulsa in support of Saddam Hussein. He later claimed to have received a couple of hundred dollars in an unmarked envelope from the Iraqi government.
In 1992, Mahon parted ways with the Klan, disgusted by the way informants had infiltrated the groups and by the nonviolent image that some Klan leaders were trying to project. He joined Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance, which by the late 1980s “appeared to be the primary racialist organization in the United States,” according to Jeffrey Kaplan’s Encyclopedia of White Power . Mahon expressed his frustration with the popular perception of Klansmen as “an uneducated hick half drunk, in bib overalls, with tobacco juice dripping down his chin, burning a cross on some poor Blacks [sic] lawn.”
He wrote: “…After 12 years of proudly wearing the robe of the Invisible Order, I feel that Tom Metzger’s leadership and personal strategies fit my personality and mind set better at this time of my life. Also, I just got tired of seeing so many mistakes in tactics and ideology of the leaders of the other 25 or so Klan groups in Zoglandia [referring to ZOG, the Zionist-Occupied Government]. So many of these mini-fuhrers of these other Klans have embarrassed me with these displays of weakness and idiotic statements of ‘Niggers are the cause of all our problems — we got to kill the niggers — nigger this, nigger that.’ It’s like a broken record.”
By August 1994, Mahon was calling himself the heartland director of WAR. That month, former debutante Carol Howe , an ardent racist who acquired a swastika tattoo on one arm, filed for a restraining order against Mahon after he allegedly raped her and threatened her. She agreed to become a paid informant for the ATF. Howe reported that Mahon wanted to bomb power lines in Oklahoma City to trigger a race war and that his group seemed to be amassing weapons, according to the Rocky Mountain News . Mahon boasted about his bomb-making prowess and said he once detonated an ammonium nitrate bomb beneath a truck. She also said that Mahon and Andreas Strassmeir, a German citizen who helped provide security at the white supremacist compound Elohim City in eastern Oklahoma, had mentioned a “Tim Tuttle” — the name Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh sometimes used as an alias.
Howe told the FBI two days after the Oklahoma City bombing that Mahon and Strassmeir had taken three trips to Oklahoma City in the months preceding the bombing, but that she doubted Mahon had been directly involved in the attack. Howe wasn’t allowed to testify during McVeigh’s trial. Mahon insisted he did not take part in the Oklahoma bombing.
But in 2001, Mahon announced his intention to move to Kingman, Ariz., where McVeigh lived while he plotted the Oklahoma City bombing. According to The Arizona Republic , Mahon liked Kingman because of the prevalence of anti-government types and wanted to develop links with white supremacist organizations in Phoenix. WAR would mainly go after undocumented immigrants from Mexico, he said.
At Aryanfest 2004, a gathering of skinheads near Scottsdale, he bragged about his connections to McVeigh. “Let’s just say he and I did some serious business together. And after Oklahoma City, the feds came after me big-time, boy, but they never proved a thing,” Mahon was quoted as saying in the Phoenix New Times .
Dennis Mahon also talked about destroying the nation’s capital. “You nuke D.C., you’re going to wipe out most of the politicians, plus a couple million crack head niggers,” he said.
“Terrorism works,” he added. “We did a lot of terrorism in Tulsa in the 1980s. We put heads in the road, and people paid attention. You have to give it to the Iraqis, they’re putting us to shame right now. I mean, I hate those cock-sucking towel heads, but they’re showing us how it’s done.”
Daniel Mahon, who was employed by American Airlines, was also involved in the movement, though not as prominently as his brother. He was also a member of WAR and in the early 90s served as grand kleagle (recruiter) of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The same day the Mahons were being arrested, ATF agents served a search warrant on Metzger’s home in Warsaw, Ind. On his 24-hour hotline, Metzger said that three computers and an address book were among the items taken. Noting that he has been called before grand juries and jailed in the past, Metzger – sounding nonchalant, almost jovial -- called the raid “a little speed bump in the road.” He acknowledged knowing the Mahons since the early 1980s. “They’re friends of mine,” he said. “I’m sure the Mahon brothers are smarter than to do something like that.”
Something of an elder statesman in the white separatist movement, Metzger, 71, is a former John Birch Society member and former Klansman who made inroads into the skinhead movement. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued Metzger and his son, John, in connection with the beating death of an Ethiopian college student by skinheads in Portland, Ore., in 1988. The SPLC argued that the Metzgers should be found liable for intentionally inciting the skinheads to engage in violent confrontations with minorities. In October 1990, a jury returned a $12.5 million verdict against the Metzgers and WAR, with Metzger personally responsible for $5.5 million. He now advocates a “lone wolf” philosophy, maintaining that individuals acting alone or in small cells are the best hope for achieving a white revolution.
On Stormfront, the leading white supremacist web forum, some posters blasted the Metzger raid as yet another example of stepped-up government prosecution of white nationalists. “When the Obama feds begin taking down our leaders like this and attacking all our individual rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, then how much longer do any of us have?” wrote one. “Will they come in the middle of the night and haul us all off to the camps as it was in Red Dawn? Were [sic] and when do we make our stand?”
Robert Joos , 56, the man arrested in Missouri, came to investigators’ attention when Dennis Mahon’s telephone records showed that the first call Mahon made the morning the package bomb was left in Scottsdale was to a cell phone in Joos’ name.
Joos has been identified as a pastor of the Sacerdotal Order of David Company. He has prior convictions of resisting arrest, carrying a concealed weapon and driving without a license. In 1984, some of his followers shot at a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper. Joos was later charged with serving a false restraining order on the trooper, ordering him not to arrest one of the men involved in the shooting. Joos was ordered to serve one year in jail but was a fugitive until his arrest in 1994. He was then sentenced to two years.
Undercover ATF agents and a “cooperating individual” met with both Mahons in Catoosa, Okla., in February 2005, and the brothers told them about Joos’ “retreat” on more than 200 acres in Missouri, where members of the “movement” would train. One of the Mahons described Joos “as a longtime white supremacist associate and expert on weapons, explosives, bomb making and general survival skills,” according to a sworn affidavit by ATF Special Agent Kevin Farnsworth.
The undercover team met with Joos several times in 2008 and in January and February of this year, the affidavit says. He allegedly taught the informant how to make napalm and agreed to train others in the informant’s group.
Joos also told the undercover agents and the informant that he hid from law enforcement in the late 1980s and early 1990s in 18 caves on his property, which he said he still stockpiled with food, water and weapons “to avoid capture or attack by the government or other adversaries.”
The undercover operatives said they saw several weapons on Joos’ property, and that he told them he had a friend with a connection with a firearms dealer and that they were working to buy a dozen Russian-made sniper rifles.
Sonia Scherr contributed to this report.

Summary: One of two brothers indicted this week in connection with the bombing of a Scottsdale, Ariz., diversity office was a former Klansman and leading skinhead recruiter with a predilection for explosives. As part of a sweeping undercover investigation that led to the indictment, federal agents also raided the Indiana home of longtime white separatist Tom Metzger on Thursday, removing computers and other items, but not arresting him. In another related move, a man described as a white supremacist…


Utah Minutemen Dispute Immigrant Crime Data

Utah Minutemen president Eli Cawley sought to discredit a study finding that undocumented immigrants in Utah do not commit more crimes than other Utah residents by labeling the think tank that produced it a "liberal-biased organization." Read full article


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Minutemen Demonstrate In Support Of Immigration Raids
July 07, 2009
Hatewatch Staff
Minuteman Project counterprotesters shouted "Take your march to Mexico!" at community activists decrying a recent acceleration in Border Patrol round-ups of day laborers.
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'Tea Party' Protesters Denounce Undocumented Immigrants

Hundreds of protesters holding signs with messages like, "We can't deport them all, but we can start with you," gathered on the lawn of the Texas Capitol for one of many July 4 "tea party" protests held nationwide. Read full article


Racial Extremists Discover Twitter

Racial extremists aren’t known for their brevity, but hate in 140 characters or less is starting to flourish thanks to Twitter, the social messaging service that allows users to provide constant updates for friends, family and just about everyone else.
Hatewatch has counted more than a dozen Twitter accounts associated with hate groups ranging from the League of the South to the Jewish Defense League to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. For those unfamiliar with the Twitter fad, it allows users to send very brief messages (known as “tweets”) that others can opt to receive by cell phone, instant message or the Twitter website. According to its rules, Twitter does not censor users’ posts except in limited cases, such as when they include threats of violence or confidential information.
Here’s a sampling of tweets and partial tweets that Hatewatch found during a recent tour of Twitter:
•    From Stormfront: “Breaking News: Whites are really getting screwed these days.” (The tweet, which refers to affirmative action, also includes a link to a post on Stormfront, the world's leading white supremacist Web forum.)
•    From the anti-immigrant group American Patrol: “William Gheen (ALIPAC) is an idiot.” (Glenn Spencer, the leader of American Patrol, is feuding with Gheen, head of another nativist group called Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, over accused double murderer Shawna Forde’s alleged links to Spencer’s group, which Spencer denies.)
•    From the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim Jewish Defense League: “We’ve decided not to take any vacations to Islam-loving Hawaii. There are 49 other states to visit. And we love to travel in Israel too!”
•    From the Traditional Values Coalition, a  virulently anti-gay group federation of churches based in Washington, D.C.: “Gay Agenda on Fast-Track in Congress.”
•     From “Life_of_a_Nazi,” also known as Kris Johnson, Wisconsin state leader for the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement: “Dinner time…Family time…important time for a National Socialist.”
Although white supremacists and other racial extremists haven’t yet rushed wholesale to use Twitter, they have been among the first to adopt all kinds of new technologies in recent years. They began using early computer bulletin boards long before the general population, and also were among the first to set up Web pages and interactive fora including dating pages. They also were early builders of video games, typically with a racist slant, that users can play via their computers.

Summary: Racial extremists aren’t known for their brevity, but hate in 140 characters or less is starting to flourish thanks to Twitter, the social messaging service that allows users to provide constant updates for friends, family and just about everyone else. Hatewatch has counted more than a dozen Twitter accounts associated with hate groups ranging from the League of the South to the Jewish Defense League to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. For those unfamiliar with the Twitter fad,…


Confession Reported in Nativist Murder Case, Along With Another Round of Infighting

A leader of Shawna Forde’s nativist extremist group acknowledged that he killed an Arizona man and his daughter, according to two Arizona newspapers.
Jason Eugene “Gunny” Bush confessed to the May 30 shootings shortly after his arrest two weeks later, according to reports this week in the Arizona Daily Star and the Green Valley News . He also reportedly named additional suspects besides Forde and Albert Gaxiola, who have also been charged in connection with the homicides. Despite his confession, Bush — along with Forde and Gaxiola — pleaded not guilty on June 30.
Forde is accused of masterminding the murders of Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia. Police say she wanted to steal money from the Flores family to help finance her border patrol group, Minutemen American Defense (MAD).
Her arrest sparked major infighting within nativist circles that has escalated in the past two weeks. In an effort to distance themselves from Forde, anti-immigrant leaders are lobbing numerous accusations and counter-accusations at each other that often devolve into harsh personal attacks.
In a July 2 advisory to his supporters, William Gheen , leader of the North Carolina-based Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, said he’d added Glenn Spencer ’s American Patrol (which is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group) to a list of organizations that activists should avoid. The list already included Jim Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project, which had defended Forde after she claimed to have been the victim of shootings and assaults in and near her home in Everett, Wash. “Both Gilchrist and Spencer have been highly negligent in who they have associated themselves and their organizations with by supporting and assisting Shawna Forde long after it was clear to many others that she should be cast out of our movement,” Gheen wrote.
Partly in response to this advisory, Spencer’s office manager, Melissa Jaramillo, wrote an open letter to Gheen that was also sent to the Long Island Wins blog. “There must be something wrong with you, as your vicious and continued attacks against others fighting for the same cause is nothing but destructive for the movement and they make you look obsessed,” she wrote. “That’s it, you’re obsessed with the destruction of anyone who does not bend to your will. God, I hope you don’t have a wife or children — especially teenagers because they have a mind of their own.” Jaramillo also suggested that Gheen had indirectly contributed to Forde’s troubles. “You created a movement for everyone to show hatred towards her. What did you expect would happen after you were done ‘ruining her’ and made sure that not just the opposition hated her but those within the movement hated her as well. You really gave her nothing to live for.”
In response to an earlier post from Gheen, Spencer denied that ALIPAC had warned him about Forde and said he didn’t need any such warning. Because of her odd behavior, Spencer said, he’d barred her from the American Border Patrol ranch after she made three visits there in 2008. (Forde was arrested near Spencer’s home in connection with the murders. Spencer said he let her inside after she showed up uninvited and asked to work on her laptop.)  In a June 29 posting on his website, Spencer wrote: “The idea that I would put the reputation of American Border Patrol at risk by assisting someone that I knew to be unstable is outrageous and slanderous. Gheen says I ‘continued to assist her.’ What nonsense! By making these totally false accusations with no evidence whatsoever to back them up, Mr. Gheen has proven himself to be unprofessional and exploitative of the problem of unfortunate people like Shawna Forde. He is doing this to make money by tearing his ‘competitors’ down, pure and simple.
“There is really only one way to deal with people like Mr. Gheen and it is not to mince words. To wit: Wm. Gheen is an idiot.”
Gilchrist, the other major target of Gheen’s diatribes, said several nativist groups including Gheen’s share blame for Forde’s actions. “While not directly responsible for the criminal behavior of Shawna Forde and her partners in crime, ALIPAC, Chelene Nightingale [former head of Save Our State, which SPLC also lists as a hate group], and Jeff Schwilk [leader of the hard-line San Diego Minutemen] are responsible for adding fuel to her apparent already unstable mental condition, in my opinion. Relentless attacks by you three via the Internet upon her character may very well have fueled her anger to the point of no return.”
And on his website discussion forum, Gheen posted an insult-laden July 2 E-mail exchange between Chuck Stonex, who resigned from MAD after Forde’s arrest, and Schwilk. “From now on, the radical psychopaths like you and your demi-God Gilchrist and your lust object Shawna will be dealt with much more harshly,” wrote Schwilk, who is particularly given to hurling unkind words. “Just go away before you do any more damage to our country and our cause.”
Stonex responded: “‘IF’ this cowardly act had been planned by me and Gilchrist, the attack would of [sic] been at your house or in North Carolina for the good of America. NOT on an innocent family in Arivaca, Arizona.”
But it’s not all mudslinging in the nativist movement. Gilchrist announced last week that he’d awarded the first Fourth of July Minuteman-of-the-Year award to Spencer for “[leading] the debate on illegal immigration.”
We’re glad someone’s feeling the love.

Summary: A leader of Shawna Forde’s nativist extremist group acknowledged that he killed an Arizona man and his daughter, according to two Arizona newspapers. Jason Eugene “Gunny” Bush confessed to the May 30 shootings shortly after his arrest two weeks later, according to reports this week in the Arizona Daily Star and the Green Valley News . He also reportedly named additional suspects besides Forde and Albert Gaxiola, who have also been charged in connection with the homicides. Despite his…


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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.


G-20 Welcome Board Donor Supported Nativist Hate Groups

A welcome committee for the upcoming G-20 summit in Pittsburgh accepted money from a foundation that in the past has donated millions of dollars to anti-immigration organizations including hate groups.
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Arsonist Claims He Wanted  to Run Muslims Out of America
March 15, 2017
Bill Morlin
A Florida man is in custody on arson charges, accused of setting a fire at a convenience store he believed was owned by Muslims who he “wanted to run out of America.”


Old South Slavery Defender to Speak at Conference Hosted by Major Christian Right Leader

The senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church , a major Minneapolis-based congregation with more than 6,000 worshipers, has invited extremist preacher Doug Wilson to speak at an upcoming national conference commemorating the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. John Piper , who preaches at Bethlehem and runs Desiring God, an outfit that promotes his religious beliefs, is regarded as a mainstream evangelical, and Bethlehem is a member of the Baptist General Conference.
Wilson, based in Idaho, is anything but mainstream. He has written that Old South slavery was “a life of plenty” and has said he believes adultery should, in certain circumstances, be punished by execution.
This is the second time this year that Wilson has found favor in mainstream Christian circles. In June, on the bill of a conference Wilson hosted was Charles Colson, recipient of the 2008 Presidential Citizens Medal and a revered Christian Right leader for decades, dating back to 1975 when he founded the Prison Fellowship ministry after serving time for obstruction of justice in connection with the Watergate scandal.
Wilson runs an extreme right religious empire in Moscow, Idaho, that includes a church, Canon Press, and New Saint Andrews College. Popular in neo-Confederate circles as well, he co-wrote a partly plagiarized booklet, Southern Slavery, As It Was, defending Old South slavery; his co-author was Steve Wilkins , a founding member of the neo-secessionist and racist League of the South .
Southern Slavery, As It Was is a repulsive apologia for the enslavement of black Americans. Among other things, the booklet contends that, “Slavery as it existed in the South … was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence. … There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.”
When a University of Idaho professor revealed in 2004 that Wilson’s booklet contained 22 passages plagiarized from a discredited 1974 academic treatise, Wilson scoffed, deriding the “local Banshees” who criticized him over what he portrayed as a mere citation problem. Canon Press then issued a “corrected” version of the booklet — correct in its citations, but unchanged in its portrayal of happy and well-fed slaves whose relationship with their masters was one of mutual affection.
Wilson’s views on other issues are just as extreme. Woman “was created to be dependent and responsive to a man,” he has written. If a woman is raped, the rapist should pay the father a bride price and then, if the father approves, marry his victim. Homosexuals, Wilson says, are “sodomites” and “people with foul sexual habits.” Wilson recently told Christianity Today that he’s in favor of the “exile [of] some homosexuals, depending on the circumstances and the age of the victim.” He added, “There are circumstances where I’d be in favor of execution for adultery.” Cursing one’s parents is likewise “deserving of punishment by death.” Though he admits the scripture does not forbid interracial marriage, Wilson warns that, “wise parents” will carefully weigh any union involving “extremely diverse cultural backgrounds.”
Wilson’s standards don’t always apply to those close to him. In 2006, the Moscow-Pullman Daily News published a story about complaints that Wilson had tried to “cover up” serial sexual molestations by a college student — molestations of very young boys and girls carried out over several years. Although the newspaper quoted none of them, many people were angry that Wilson had failed to notify families in his Christ Church for eight months after Steven Sitler confessed to him in March 2005. One church family with young children had boarded Sitler, and others welcomed him as a visitor in their homes (Sitler molested one 2-year-old girl in a similar visiting situation in Colville, Wash.).
In his 1999 book Fidelity , Wilson wrote, “When we are dealing with young children who are abused by adults (pederasty, child porn, etc.), the penalty for those guilty of the crime should be death.” But rather than condemn Sitler, Wilson wrote to the sentencing judge in Sitler’s case, describing him as “most responsive” and “completely honest” and asking that criminal penalties be “measured and limited.”
Piper refused repeated requests for comment about inviting Wilson to speak at his conference. In a video on the Desiring God website, Piper says that “Doug gets the gospel right” and that he is "unusually compelling."

Summary: The senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church , a major Minneapolis-based congregation with more than 6,000 worshipers, has invited extremist preacher Doug Wilson to speak at an upcoming national conference commemorating the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. John Piper , who preaches at Bethlehem and runs Desiring God, an outfit that promotes his religious beliefs, is regarded as a mainstream evangelical, and Bethlehem is a member of the Baptist General Conference. Wilson, based in…


Cult Evangelist Tony Alamo Convicted on Sex Charges

Anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy evangelist Tony Alamo will likely be preaching from behind prison walls for the rest of his life, and perhaps nobody is happier than his stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie.
“I started crying and screaming,” Coie told Hatewatch , upon hearing that Alamo was convicted today by a federal court jury in Texarkana, Ark., on all 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. Alamo, 74, faces up to 175 years in prison, plus fines that could total $2.5 million.
Coie says she was raped by Alamo when she was younger. “I’ve been in this fight, trying to stop him, for nearly 40 years.”
Alamo was charged last year with transporting girls to other states over a period of 14 years for sexual purposes. His lawyers argued that Alamo took the girls places on church business, not for sex. Alamo did not testify at his trial but did fall asleep a few times during closing arguments. “I’m just one of the prophets that went to jail for the Gospel,” he shouted to reporters as he was led out of the courthouse. He will be sentenced in six to eight weeks.
“I believe he will spend the rest of his natural life in prison,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyra Jenner, who prosecuted Alamo, told Hatewatch .
Alamo’s birth name is Bernie LaZar Hoffman. He met Coie’s mother, Susan, when Coie was in her teens. The couple began Tony Alamo Christian Ministries in 1969 in California. Followers say they were disciplined with beatings and food deprivation, and threatened with losing their spouses and children. His dogma included blaming the Catholic church for everything from communism and Nazism to the Jonestown massacre. He compared the Vatican to a prostitute. He also ranted about gays and the government.
The Alamos moved the cult’s headquarters to Arkansas in 1975, where they lived in a mansion with a heart-shaped pool. Susan Alamo died of cancer in 1982. Her husband oversaw a thriving designer jacket business in the 1980s that was popular with celebrities. But Tony Alamo served four years in prison in the 1990s for income tax evasion.
Alamo maintains that girls should marry when they begin menstruating. It’s that apparent predilection for young girls that prompted federal agents to raid his 15-acre compound last September in the town of Foulke, near the Texas state line. One girl told the FBI that Alamo repeatedly fondled her when she was 8, then “married” her in May 2000 when she was 9. She was still 9 when he took lewd photos of her and had intercourse with her, she said. He watched adult porn films with her in his bedroom, she added. A second girl said she was 12 when Alamo had intercourse with her. When she was 14, Alamo took her to California, where he had sex with her in motel rooms and at his California compound, she said. An informant told the FBI that she saw Alamo sometimes take more than one girl at a time to his bedroom, where he kept candy bars and a Barbie doll collection.
“The only woman he has ever respected is my mother. He feared and worshiped her,” said Coie, who lives in California. “I knew what he was doing. I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I am that somebody finally listened … and stopped him.”

Summary: Anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy evangelist Tony Alamo will likely be preaching from behind prison walls for the rest of his life, and perhaps nobody is happier than his stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie. “I started crying and screaming,” Coie told Hatewatch , upon hearing that Alamo was convicted today by a federal court jury in Texarkana, Ark., on all 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. Alamo, 74, faces up to 175 years in prison, plus fines that could total $2.5…


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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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Hatewatch Headlines 2/10/2017
February 10, 2017
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Deportations open with Arizona mother; White nationalists love Sessions win; Klan organizes openly in Ohio; and more.


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League of the South Announces Formation of ‘Southern Defense Force’
February 06, 2017
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Edging closer to militancy, the neo-Confederate League of the South says it's forming a force to combat the 'leftist menace to our historic Christian civilization.'


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Minuteman organizer: volunteers want to 'shoot the taco meat'
September 20, 2005
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White Nationalists To Gather This March for VDARE’s First National Conference
January 23, 2017
Sarah Viets
For the first time, Peter Brimelow's white nationalist hate website VDARE is making a move into the real world with a conference planned this spring in California.


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KrisAnne Hall, a self-described “constitutional attorney” who thinks states have the right to secede, recently addressed a neo-Confederate hate group whose goal is to create what the Civil War did not: a separate Southern nation.


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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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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.


Yes, Neo-Nazi Turner Was an FBI Informant, His Lawyer Confirms

Neo-Nazi talk-radio host Hal Turner served as a paid FBI informant, his lawyer confirmed this week.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has previously reported that Turner was on the FBI payroll. In 2008, unidentified hackers posted E-mail correspondence between Turner and an FBI agent who appeared to be his handler. The FBI refused to comment at the time on Turner’s relationship with the agency.
Now, Turner’s defense attorney, Michael Orozco, has told Hatewatch that Turner served as an FBI informant for roughly five years beginning in 2002. “I think when it comes out in the future as to what kind of role he had, people will be greatly surprised,” Orozco said.
He said Turner revealed information about a possible assassination plot against Obama. Orozco said the same thing at a bond hearing for Turner in Chicago on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press . Turner is charged with threatening to murder three federal judges.
Orozco declined to elaborate on the potential threat to Obama or Turner’s work for the FBI, saying that he planned to subpoena Turner’s FBI contacts for the Aug. 10 continuation of the bond hearing. “I am hopeful that the matter will proceed on the 10th, but the U.S. Attorney’s Office may seek to object to certain individuals being subpoenaed,” he said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan told U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin Ashman on Tuesday that he hadn’t heard about the potential assassination and that Turner’s relationship with the FBI had ended “some time ago,” according to The Associated Press . A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago had no additional comment.
The agency Turner once worked for arrested him on June 24 at his home in North Bergen, N.J. The charges stem from Internet postings in which Turner blasted a June 2 decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago that essentially upheld local handgun laws. Three weeks before that arrest, Turner was taken into custody in New Jersey on charges that he incited violence against two Connecticut legislators .
Turner has a long history of posting racist rants and apparent threats against public figures. “I’m trying to show and prove that there was never any intent on his part to harm any of these judges,” Orozco told Hatewatch . “He’s a shock jock. That’s it.”
The magistrate ordered that Turner remain in custody until the Aug. 10 hearing.

Summary: Neo-Nazi talk-radio host Hal Turner served as a paid FBI informant, his lawyer confirmed this week. The Southern Poverty Law Center has previously reported that Turner was on the FBI payroll. In 2008, unidentified hackers posted E-mail correspondence between Turner and an FBI agent who appeared to be his handler. The FBI refused to comment at the time on Turner’s relationship with the agency. Now, Turner’s defense attorney, Michael Orozco, has told Hatewatch that Turner served as an FBI…


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Was a shooting that killed 3 at Walmart motivated by hate?
November 09, 2017
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A Muslim terrorist kills eight people in a
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Hate crimes against Muslims surged by 67% during 2015, according to new statistics released by the FBI on Sunday. The rise, far higher than in any other major category of hate crimes, came during a year marked by news of atrocities by the Islamic State and Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.


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Spectre Unmasked: Racist 'Alt-Right' Podcaster Used To Be Local Reporter
January 18, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
A notorious white nationalist podcaster with a history of instigating harassment campaigns and threats of violence against reporters is in fact a journalist himself, Hatewatch has learned.


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QAnon is the umbrella term for a sprawling spiderweb of right-wing internet conspiracy theories with antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ elements that falsely claim the world is run by a secret cabal of pedophiles who worship Satan and are plotting against President Trump. Though some influential individuals are active in the movement, it is not an organized group with defined leadership.


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Antigovernment Fugitive  Arrested on Wisconsin Farm
April 14, 2017
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Antigovernment fugitive
Joseph Jakubowski
was arrested early today without incident when a team of 125- state and federal law enforcement officers surrounded him sleeping in a makeshift tent on a rural Wisconsin farm.


Behind the Hate: Long-Time Activist Runs New Anti-Gay Site

A leading anti-abortion webmaster who is widely known for his extremist tactics is behind a new Internet site taking aim at gay and abortion rights supporters with ties to Kenya.
Neal Horsley — best known for his “Nuremberg Files” website targeting physicians who provide abortions — now controls ProjectSEE.com. ("SEE" stands for Stop Exporting Evil!) Horsley’s latest website features “Not Wanted” posters with the photographs and, in some cases, contact information of purported gay rights activists and abortion providers working in Kenya. It lists the names of others, along with an appeal to “send us INFO!” The website encourages readers to print out the posters and distribute them in the United States and Kenya. (Abortion laws are highly restrictive in Kenya and homosexual activity is illegal. In recent weeks, Kenyan activists have reported a rash of anti-gay violence, including the Feb. 12 beating of a man outside a health center that provides HIV/AIDS services, according to Human Rights Watch.)
“Project SEE Coalition roving photojournalists on the ground in Africa and the USA are currently gathering evidence which we hope will lead to the arrest and conviction of members [of] the international conspiracy to violate anti-abortion and anti-sodomy laws worldwide,” the website states. Elsewhere, it adds: “We advocate that abortionists and women determined to murder babies be driven back into filthy back alleys like other murderers, and advocate ‘homosexuals’ be likewise driven back into the closet, arrested and prosecuted for sodomy according to God’s law.”
One of those targeted by the website is Kenneth Hieber, who owns a New York-based travel company, Gay2Afrika, Inc., that caters to gays and lesbians. “I was repulsed. Absolutely repulsed,” Hieber, whose photograph appears on “Not Wanted” posters published on ProjectSEE.com, told Hatewatch. The posters refer to Hieber as a “shoga” — a derogatory Swahili term for homosexual — and one of them includes a biblical verse in Swahili (Leviticus 20:13) calling for the death penalty for homosexuals. (“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them,” according to the King James version.) The website also identifies Hieber as the CEO of Gay2Afrika and provides Hieber’s work address and phone number. Emblazoned on a snapshot of the Gay2Afrika website are the words, “Is Homo-Sex-Tourism Coming to your Town?”
Hieber said this characterization of Gay2Afrika is false. “We are a company that serves with the utmost dignity and respect the gay and lesbian traveler to Africa. To even begin to contemplate that we are potentially selling sex tourism is absurd.” He also said ProjectSEE.com has made him sufficiently concerned that he is increasing security for himself and his staff. “I feel very threatened personally,” said Hieber, a naturalized U.S. citizen from South Africa.
Hieber E-mailed Go Daddy, the website host for ProjectSEE.com, which urged him to ask his local law enforcement agency to investigate and then to contact Go Daddy if the website needed to be taken down, according to an E-mail Hieber forwarded from Go Daddy’s Abuse Department. (Hieber said he contacted the New York Police Department shortly after discovering the website on March 8. Officers said they did not believe the website constituted a direct threat, though they would consult with their legal department. Hieber hasn’t yet heard back from the NYPD, which did not respond to a request for comment from Hatewatch.) Christine Jones, general counsel for Go Daddy, said the company has checked the Web links it received in the complaint about ProjectSEE.com. “Because there’s nothing that’s per se illegal, even though there seem to be things that could offend some people, our current position is we’re going to leave it up,” she said. As it did with Hieber, the company typically asks people to speak to their local police about whether there’s a legitimate threat. “We’re not in a position to be the decider of fact in these cases,” Jones said.
Horsley, 65, of Carollton, Ga., is listed as the registrant and administrator for ProjectSEE.com, which in some ways resembles a toned-down version of his “Nuremberg Files.”  In the late 1990s, the self-described former marijuana trafficker created the online listing of abortion providers and other supporters of abortion rights, with the names of those who’d been murdered crossed out and the names of those who’d been wounded in gray. This website became a central issue in a civil lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood and several abortion doctors against some of the nations most hard-line anti-abortion activists and groups. (Horsley was not a party to the lawsuit.) Though there were no explicit calls for violence on the website, a federal jury decided in 1999 that it constituted a “true threat” and thus was not protected by the First Amendment. The plaintiffs were awarded $107 million. The trial judge also ordered Horsley to take down his website.
Even after a federal appeals court largely affirmed the verdict, Horsley was undeterred. By 2001, he’d launched his www.abortioncams.com website, which featured videos and photos of patients entering and leaving abortion facilities. In 2008, he was found guilty of obscenity for a campaign sign showing the head of an aborted fetus. Earlier this month, Atlanta police arrested Horsley and charged him with making terroristic threats, disseminating threats through the Internet and criminal defamation, according to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the charges stemmed from threats he allegedly made against the singer Elton John, who told Parade magazine that he believes Jesus was gay. Horsley was released yesterday from Fulton County Jail after posting a $40,000 bond. Horsley did not respond to several phone and E-mail messages this week.
Also promoting ProjectSEE.com is Michael Bray of Wilmington, Ohio, who was convicted in connection with a series of 1984 bombings in Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C. The bombings targeted clinics, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Abortion Federation, a trade association of abortion providers. According to Bray, the 1993 killing of abortion doctor David Gunn was a “rational way of following the Operation Rescue dictum: ‘If you believe abortion is murder, then act like it.’” Shortly before the trial of Michael Griffin for Dr. Gunn’s murder, Bray was among 34 signers of a “defensive action statement” that asserted Griffin was justified if he killed Gunn because he did it to save the lives of unborn children. Bray, 57, is listed as a contact on ProjectSEE.com and endorses the site in an online statement. In a brief phone interview, he said he’d given support to the site, but was not directly involved in it.
Meanwhile, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Campaign, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and other human rights and faith-based groups are discussing how to challenge the website without further endangering the leaders in Africa who are being targeted by it.
Jonathan O’Toole, the ProjectSEE.com editor, did not return a phone message seeking comment.

Summary: A leading anti-abortion webmaster who is widely known for his extremist tactics is behind a new Internet site taking aim at gay and abortion rights supporters with ties to Kenya. Neal Horsley — best known for his “Nuremberg Files” website targeting physicians who provide abortions — now controls ProjectSEE.com. ("SEE" stands for Stop Exporting Evil!) Horsley’s latest website features “Not Wanted” posters with the photographs and, in some cases, contact information of purported gay rights…