Rewriting History: A Black Neo-Confederate Speaks

Last week, African-American neo-Confederate activist H.K. Edgerton stopped by Montgomery, Ala., to commemorate the five-year anniversary of his 1,385-mile “March Through Dixie,” a fundraising trek from his home in Asheville, N.C., to Austin, Texas. He was dressed in a gray Confederate soldier’s uniform and hoisted a large Confederate flag, mounted on a pole, over his right shoulder. While visiting Montgomery, Edgerton — an extremely rare black face in the overwhelmingly white neo-Confederate movement — granted Hatewatch an interview in which he detailed his unique perspectives on the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, and race relations in the antebellum and postwar South. Here are just a few of his more interesting assertions:
•     Before the slaves were freed, “Black folks and white folks were family,” he said. “We did all kinds of things together here. White people and slaves saw each other on the streets and they tipped their hats to each other … and asked each other about their families.” •     “The War Between the States is not over. This thing is real!” •     “I don’t see [the Ku Klux Klan] as terrorists. I see them as — I hate to use the word ‘vigilante,’ but vigilante sometimes ain’t as bad as you think. When your government fails you and fails to protect you, you have to turn somewhere.” •    The KKK was “just protecting the people — all of the people, black and white. Blacks wanted to be a part of that.” •    “Why would a man tell my babies [that] walking into a classroom with a Confederate flag on [their clothing] that [that is] demonic, evil and offensive? Black folks in the South been living with that flag all our lives.” •    “It wasn’t so much about [then-Alabama Gov.] George Wallace going to the schoolhouse doors, saying, ‘No, you can’t integrate.’ The thought in his mind was, ‘No, you can’t tell me to integrate. Let us deal with this, and we’re gonna deal with it.'” •    Slaves “were given a new pair of pants and a new pair of shoes every day, and he thinks this white man was cruel! [Black slaves] had the same medical facilities that the white man had. … You look at most of the slave pictures … they are not raggedy and torn. They lived better than most! … Most of them looked better than most of the white folks around and lived better than most of the free world!”
Edgerton also defended what he said was the constitutional right of white supremacists to display hangman’s nooses and addressed what he called “rumors” of dissension between himself and his neo-Confederate allies — the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC), and SLRC head Kirk Lyons.  ( Lyons had been one of Edgerton’s odder bedfellows of recent years — Lyons spent most of his career as a lawyer defending white supremacists, and was married on the grounds of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations by its late leader in a ceremony in which infamous Klan leader Louis Beam was the best man. Despite that, until recently, Lyons regularly depicted Edgerton, who is the former head of the Asheville NAACP,  as his good friend.)
Earlier this year, Lyons seemed to be disassociating himself from Edgerton when he wrote, “The SLRC is not and has not been involved in any of H.K.’s travel or appearances for some time.” But Edgerton claimed he is still chairman emeritus of the SLRC’s board of advisers and insisted that there “never” was any dissension.
In fact, Lyons is just “a misunderstood man” Edgerton said. “If every bigot in America was Kirk Lyons, we’d never have another bigotry problem, ever.”
When the interview concluded, Edgerton walked to a 2005 champagne-colored Cadillac DeVille and popped the trunk, revealing a wealth of Confederate flags, stickers and pamphlets.
Last March, Sons of Confederate Veterans activist Elijah Coleman accused Edgerton of the unauthorized sale and use of SCV-issued Confederate battle flags as well as demanding large amounts of money to buy a new car.
Edgerton said the Cadillac belonged to his sister.

Summary: Last week, African-American neo-Confederate activist H.K. Edgerton stopped by Montgomery, Ala., to commemorate the five-year anniversary of his 1,385-mile “March Through Dixie,” a fundraising trek from his home in Asheville, N.C., to Austin, Texas. He was dressed in a gray Confederate soldier’s uniform and hoisted a large Confederate flag, mounted on a pole, over his right shoulder. While visiting Montgomery, Edgerton — an extremely rare black face in the overwhelmingly white neo-Confederate…


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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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'Border Watch' Volunteers Target Day Laborers

It's become a Saturday morning ritual on a street corner in Spring. Two dozen U.S. Border Watch volunteers, some wearing combat boots and military-style garb, face off with Hispanic day laborers and a half-dozen of their supporters.
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Plan B: How to Tone Up the White Race

The white nationalist world is filled with any manner of oddball schemes, but a recent advertisement in the race science publication American Renaissance for “saving” the white race through the use of “Positive Subliminal Audio Programming” has got to take the cake for kookiest.
Alexander Thiele of the Legion of Joan of Arc blog proposes that for white nationalists to “safeguard [their] ethnic genetic interests,” they must counter destructive PC propaganda, which he calls negative subliminal audio programming, that whites are subjected to every day. That programming supposedly interferes with whites’ ability to understand that their true interests are in saving the white race — not hanging out with people of color.
Thiele came to this understanding of how whites went wrong after reading a 2006 article by anti-Semitic theorist Kevin MacDonald, a psychology professor at California State Long Beach, in the white supremacist journal, The Occidental Quarterly . The article argued that although “ethnic tendencies are automatic,” the mass media and our multicultural society’s “cultural programming” is somehow interfering with these natural processes — and thus stopping white nationalism from taking off. (For more on Kevin MacDonald’s anti-Semitic body of work, see here .)
So what does Alexander propose that whites should do? Lucky for white nationalists, Thiele says he has already created a way to bring “self programmed positive subliminal audio into our people’s daily routines.” He created a “subliminal, hypnotic guided meditation called Destiny and another piece, a pure subliminal called Winning.” The audiotapes are composed of tones that supposedly stimulate the frontal cortex and “synchronize both hemispheres of the brain which unifies and protects the mind from the enemies [sic] negative subliminal assault.”
Worried that Thiele's Aryan tones might not work? Just listen to this American Renaissance conference-goer’s testimonial: “My wife and I had not been doing very well. We were edgy, finding fault with each other and talking about a divorce. … So I did what you suggested; put the CD on the home stereo and let it repeat on track one for a month. After two weeks things smoothed out a little. … After a year we made a good deal on a better house. I have some very interesting new job offers which I have not acted on yet because I want to do it right. My level of political activity has increased considerably. My wife and I have not spoken about divorce since before listening to the CD.”

Summary: The white nationalist world is filled with any manner of oddball schemes, but a recent advertisement in the race science publication American Renaissance for “saving” the white race through the use of “Positive Subliminal Audio Programming” has got to take the cake for kookiest. Alexander Thiele of the Legion of Joan of Arc blog proposes that for white nationalists to “safeguard [their] ethnic genetic interests,” they must counter destructive PC propaganda, which he calls negative subliminal…


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Editorial: Minutemen Patrols 'A Tragedy Waiting To Happen'
December 04, 2007
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Imagine your neighborhood crime-watch group packing firearms, electronic listening devices and thermal-vision cameras.
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Minnesota State Senator Joins Minutemen On The Border

Dick Day took an unusual campaign trip this month as a Republican candidate in Minnesota's First Congressional District, which spans the whole of southern Minnesota from Wisconsin to South Dakota.
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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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Hatewatch Headlines 6/1/2017
June 01, 2017
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A weekend of violence in Trump’s America; Alt-right troll files civil rights complaint; Bundy Ranch figure gets 87-month sentence; and more.


Furniture Store Becomes Immigration Flashpoint

Want to see America unraveling? Come here, to Thomas Road and 35th Street, to M. D. Pruitt's furniture store. Come on Saturday morning and stand near the eight delivery trucks barricading the parking lot, like the wall of an urban Alamo.
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A cluster of far-right extremists including neo-fascists, white nationalists and militia members are expected to descend on Washington D.C. Saturday, amidst President Trump’s refusal to accept his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election.


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Lawsuit Accuses Sheriff's Office Of Racial Profiling
December 18, 2007
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A Mexican citizen who is legally in the United States has sued the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, claiming its aggressive immigration enforcement has led to racial profiling.
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On the eve of “Texas Muslim Capitol Day,” an event to encourage Muslim participation in Texas government, a state lawmaker hosted a forum focused on homeland security and featuring some of America’s most outspoken anti-Muslim activists.


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One-man Minuteman army patrols Albertsons
August 29, 2006
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Clint Hamilton says he'd rather be playing softball with his 10-year-old daughter.
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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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One-man Minuteman army patrols Albertsons
August 28, 2006
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Clint Hamilton says he'd rather be playing softball with his 10-year-old daughter.
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Anti-immigration activists terrorize day laborers

Nearly every Saturday this month, anti-immigration protesters have driven from Portland, Sherwood and Salem to intimidate homeowners and contractors attempting to hire day laborers in this Washington County town.
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Dissenters not welcome at Minuteman meeting

Opponents of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps showed up at a chapter organizational meeting in Hot Springs Tuesday night to dispute the need for a local branch of the group, and its aims. [...]
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Counterdemonstrators greatly outnumbered the Ku Klux Klan at a weekend rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the focus was on the city’s planned removal of a large statute of Civil War Gen. Robert E. Lee.


Minutemen gather donations for aerial reconnaissance

Organization leaders and guest speakers at the barbecue fundraiser about 15 miles west of Denton told those gathered in the small hangar that they were the United States' front line against one of its gravest threats ever: illegal immigration.
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Minutemen rally in Tulsa

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Minutemen rally in Tulsa
September 11, 2006
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The Tulsa Minuteman Project rallied to protest what it claims is the loss of American jobs to illegal immigrants. [...]
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Ex-Minuteman forms Texas Border Volunteers

The former leader of the Texas branch of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps said Wednesday that he and other members split from the national watchdog group last month to form their own private patrol organization opposing illegal immigration: the Texas Border Volunteers.
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Diplomat blames extremists for tone of immigration debate

Mexican immigrants have been wrongly excluded from the immigration-reform debate, and building more fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border could exacerbate migration problems, Ruben Beltran, Mexico's consul general for Los Angeles, said Wednesday.
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Minutemen denied meeting space

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Minutemen denied meeting space
October 24, 2006
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Citing security concerns, administrators rejected an application from a Minuteman faction to hold weekly meetings at the Selah Civic Center in eastern Washington.
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Extremists accused of voter intimidation
November 07, 2006
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Volunteer election monitors say three men armed with a video camera and a gun were intimidating voters at various polling stations throughout Tucson during voting on Tuesday.
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Minutemen bar Latinos from organizational meeting

Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leaders initially refused to allow a group of Latinos "concerned with illegal immigration from Europe" to attend the first meeting of the group’s new Washington chapter.
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Texas town considers crackdown

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Texas town considers crackdown
November 07, 2006
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This Dallas suburb could soon become the first Texas city to adopt a sweeping ordinance intended to keep out illegal immigrants.
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Barnett trial begins

Arturo Morales began to sob as he told jurors how he tried to console his young granddaughter and her friend as a furious Roger Barnett, handgun holstered at his side, told them to get off his property or he would start shooting.
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Ethnic tensions rise after raid

The tension between Caucasian residents of Marshalltown and their Hispanic neighbors has been aggravated after a raid Tuesday showed what many people already suspected: Scores of people who entered the United States illegally were working here.
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Minutemen protest superhighway

Four members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a border-watch group opposed to illegal immigration, picketed a state transportation conference in Des Moines Thursday, claiming it promoted a superhighway linking the U.S. with Mexico and Canada.
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The SPLC has collected 1,372 reported bias incidents between the day after the election and February 7. These incidents were either reported directly to the SPLC via our #ReportHate intake page or collected from news reports.


Imprisoned ex-agents 'intended to shoot Mexicans'

The Department of Homeland Security is wrongly keeping from Congress an investigative report that details the conduct of two ex-Border Patrol agents imprisoned this week for shooting a Mexican drug trafficker, two Houston-area congressmen charged Thursday.
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Pahrump Minutemen hold first meeting

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Pahrump Minutemen hold first meeting
February 06, 2007
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Pahrump's Minutemen held their first meeting Saturday, Jan. 27 and are eager for supporters.
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CNN commentator: Anti-immigrant mob creates false heroes

The world is upside down. A posse of Republican lawmakers who, when opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants, like to talk about how rules must be followed and how we shouldn't reward lawbreakers. They're now demanding that a pair of convicted felons be rewarded with a presidential pardon.
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Save Our State member files prostitution complaint

A member of an anti-illegal immigration group filed a complaint with the San Diego County grand jury Thursday in response to what he described as a failure by the San Diego Police Department to adequately respond to an incident of prostitution and human trafficking in migrant camps near McGonigle Canyon, an area where hundreds of migrant workers were evicted last year.
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Interim rulings immobilize Minuteman Project

A judge rejected Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist's request to be immediately reinstated as president of the group and ruled that the board members who fired Gilchrist cannot spend donations pending a civil trial.
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Legal observer sues Minutemen leader for defamation

San Diego Legal Observer Coalition activist Joanne Yoon filed a $1 million lawsuit against San Diego Minutemen founder Jeff Schwilk for repeatedly describing Yoon in racist and vulgar terms in online postings.
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Police search San Diego Minutemen leader’s home
March 27, 2007
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Police searched the home of Jeff Schwilk for evidence linking Schwilk to vandalism attacks at migrant worker camps.
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Minuteman Project tries to shake racist image
April 10, 2007
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Minuteman Project leaders are attempting to distance themselves from white supremacy organizations.
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Protesters shout down Minuteman founder

A simmering illegal-immigration debate at the University of Texas at San Antonio— where 45 percent of students are Hispanic — erupted into a heated protest Wednesday during an outdoor speech by Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a group of volunteers who patrol the Mexican border to stop immigrants from entering the country illegally. […]
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Minuteman Leader Scheduled to Speak at University of Cincinnati

A controversial figure in the illegal immigration debate whose recent visits to college campuses have sparked protests and arrests will speak at the University of Cincinnati this week.
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Immigration Rally Shoving Match Leads to Weapons Raid
May 15, 2007
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Police said they arrested Tyler J. Froatz Jr., 24, after he got into a shoving match with supporters at an immigration rally.
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Minuteman Leaders Purged

The top leaders of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have been terminated by the group's president, Chris Simcox, for requesting a meeting to discuss a lack of financial accountability by the organization's leadership.
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Major Donor Sues Minuteman Group For Fraud

A man who mortgaged his home in order to help the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps build border fencing on private land in Cochise County is suing the group and its president, Chris Simcox, for fraud and breach of contract.
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Dobbs continues to defend false report on leprosy
June 20, 2007
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CNN's Lou Dobbs continues to defend and affirm a false statistic about immigrants and leprosy.
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Minuteman Maces Catholic Church Supporter
July 24, 2007
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An anti-illegal immigration protest at St. Peter's Catholic Church that began peacefully early Saturday morning ended with a violent confrontation between two men.
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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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Anti-Semitic Prof’s Teaching Curtailed

Kevin MacDonald , the California State University, Long Beach, psychology professor who wrote an anti-Semitic trilogy explaining why he thinks Jews are bad for white societies, has been removed from instructing certain classes. Gerry Riposa, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, told Hatewatch that MacDonald would no longer be teaching lower-level courses, including a required course for psych majors specializing in child development. MacDonald, at right, received an award and $10,000 for his work on the Jews from The Occidental Quarterly , a white supremacist journal. He was accompanied at the 2004 ceremony by Virginia Abernethy, a self-described “white separatist” and official of the racist Council of Conservative Citizens.
University sources say complaints about MacDonald’s anti-Semitism and racism following the April publication of the Intelligence Report’s exposé, “ Promoting Hate ,” spurred the change.
But Riposa says that’s not so. He insists that MacDonald’s lower-level classes have had “really low enrollments,” which is unacceptable given the rapid growth in Long Beach’s student body. Riposa said he has ordered MacDonald to come up with “some other courses” than the three or four he has taught for years because he “needs to do something else.”
Whatever works.

Summary: Kevin MacDonald , the California State University, Long Beach, psychology professor who wrote an anti-Semitic trilogy explaining why he thinks Jews are bad for white societies, has been removed from instructing certain classes. Gerry Riposa, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, told Hatewatch that MacDonald would no longer be teaching lower-level courses, including a required course for psych majors specializing in child development. MacDonald, at right, received an award and $10,000 for his…


Beck Backs Birch: Conspiracy Theory ‘Makes Sense’

Growing up, CNN host Glenn Beck thought the extreme-right John Birch Society was “a bunch of nuts.” But on his July 25 Headline News show, Beck told his JBS guest, “You are starting to make more and more sense to me.”
The visitor to the “Glenn Beck” show was Sam Antonio, the 31-year-old Southern California coordinator of the John Birch Society. Antonio said JBS believes a 2005 agreement with Canada and Mexico “has allowed the Mexican government to get a hold on our enforcement of laws here in America.”
Antonio was referring to the SPP, the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement. The pact, aimed at easing regulatory barriers between the United States, Canada and Mexico, has been seized upon by nativists and far-right groups as a secret conspiracy to eliminate borders and replace the dollar bill with the “Amero,” accepted everywhere from Toronto to Mexico City. No one has done more to promote this bogus conspiracy theory than JBS, which in the bad old days saw communists hiding under every bed — including President Eisenhower, hardly a commie candidate in most minds.
“We are just exposing the truth that’s been out there for many, many years,” said Antonio. SPP, he added, will be “an opening of our borders for Canada and Mexico and eventually all throughout the Americas.”
That “truth” has been bedeviling many a politician recently. The New York Times reported today that Rudolph Guliani and Mitt Romney, both Republican presidential candidates, were stumped when asked about the alleged plot.
This wasn’t the first time a JBS official made a recent appearance on CNN. For a few seconds last fall, another CNN host, Lou Dobbs, showed a clip of JBS President John McManus lambasting the SPP. “What’s going on is a super elite is taking control,” he said.

Summary: Growing up, CNN host Glenn Beck thought the extreme-right John Birch Society was “a bunch of nuts.” But on his July 25 Headline News show, Beck told his JBS guest, “You are starting to make more and more sense to me.” The visitor to the “Glenn Beck” show was Sam Antonio, the 31-year-old Southern California coordinator of the John Birch Society. Antonio said JBS believes a 2005 agreement with Canada and Mexico “has allowed the Mexican government to get a hold on our enforcement of laws here in…


Maryland Minutemen Clash With Demonstrators

A protest outside a day-laborer center in Montgomery County yesterday morning drew dozens of demonstrators who clashed over whether county officials should use taxpayer funds to provide services to illegal aliens.
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Minuteman Leader Claims 13,522 Apprehensions
July 31, 2007
Hatewatch Staff
The head of the Minutemen movement Wednesday said the U.S. group caught more than 30 illegal aliens this weekend.
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Minutemen Group Launches Marin County Chapter
July 31, 2007
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As a line of protesters chanted "Minutemen, go away," the anti-illegal-immigration group held its first organizational meeting in Marin on Saturday.
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Save Our State Joins Minutemen Protest

With shouts of "God Bless America" and "USA! USA!" about 40 anti-illegal immigration activists lined Laguna Canyon Road Saturday evening to protest against Laguna Beach and Caltrans.
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Duke Supporter Elected to Louisiana GOP Governing Committee

David Duke — a former KKK imperial wizard, notorious neo-Nazi, and convicted scam artist — doesn’t spend much time in Louisiana anymore. He’s busy spewing anti-Semitic and white supremacist vitriol from his new base of operations in the Ukraine. But Duke’s former cronies are still active in Louisiana state politics. (Duke was elected to the Louisiana State House as a Republican in 1989; he lost a close race for governor in 1991).
In early June, longtime Louisiana right-wing radio talk show host and unabashed Duke supporter Keith Rush, 75, was elected to the Republican State Central Committee, the governing body of the Louisiana state Republican party.
When Duke ran for governor in 1991, he backed Rush’s candidacy for Jefferson Parish Council, telling supporters in an endorsement letter, “He thinks like we do. He believes in the things we believe in.” One of Rush’s campaign fliers was titled, “Who is this racist?” In it Rush wrote, “This racist believes that ‘real’ racism thrives on affirmative action programs.” Rush was also a featured guest speaker at “Duke Fest,” held July 4, 1991, in New Orleans’ City Park.
Rush’s election has so far gone unnoticed by national media, although Right Hand Thief and the Flaming Liberal have been dogging the story since mid-June.

Summary: David Duke — a former KKK imperial wizard, notorious neo-Nazi, and convicted scam artist — doesn’t spend much time in Louisiana anymore. He’s busy spewing anti-Semitic and white supremacist vitriol from his new base of operations in the Ukraine. But Duke’s former cronies are still active in Louisiana state politics. (Duke was elected to the Louisiana State House as a Republican in 1989; he lost a close race for governor in 1991). In early June, longtime Louisiana right-wing radio talk show…


Five Arrested in Bloody Confrontations Following Rally

A bloody confrontation between a couple who attended Saturday's anti-illegal immigration rally in Morristown and a group that opposed the couple's views led to three additional arrests, police said yesterday.
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Neo-Nazi, Klan Leader Thomas Metzger Dies in California
November 19, 2020
Brett Barrouquere
Thomas Linton Metzger, a neo-Nazi former Ku Klux Klansman who later formed the White Aryan Resistance, died early this month, according to his website.


San Diego Minutemen Linked to White Supremacists

San Diego’s KPBS-FM, a National Public Radio affiliate, aired a story Aug. 2 detailing the links between the white supremacist activities of two high-profile supporters of the San Diego Minutemen, a nativist extremist group whose bellicose tactics and internal feuding are detailed in the current issue of the  Intelligence Report.
The KPBS story revealed that San Diego Minutemen activist Ray Carney worked for 11 years as a computer expert for White Aryan Resistance, a neo-Nazi hate group lead by Tom Metzger . The story also quotes Intelligence Project Director Mark Potok describing the white supremacist tattoos and symbols featured on a MySpace page belonging to Steven Shine, another frequent participant in San Diego Minutemen protests.
Our favorite moment in the KPBS story has Shine being interviewed by the station’s reporter “while restraining a pit-bull at a north county canyon where local Minutemen rallied to evict migrants from outdoor camps.”
Shine took down his MySpace page shortly after the Intelligence Report story came out. But we captured it for our archives before it vanished.

Summary: San Diego’s KPBS-FM, a National Public Radio affiliate, aired a story Aug. 2 detailing the links between the white supremacist activities of two high-profile supporters of the San Diego Minutemen, a nativist extremist group whose bellicose tactics and internal feuding are detailed in the current issue of the  Intelligence Report. The KPBS story revealed that San Diego Minutemen activist Ray Carney worked for 11 years as a computer expert for White Aryan Resistance, a neo-Nazi hate group lead…


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San Diego Minutemen Linked to White Supremacists
August 07, 2007
Hatewatch Staff
In one of his frequent on-line posts to the San Diego Minutemen, Ray Carney revealed he worked as a computer expert for the White Aryan Resistance for eleven years. […]
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Hatewatch Headlines 8/23/2017
August 23, 2017
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Fringe views create a national showdown; Conspiracy theories big part of Trump support; Geller has a fit over PayPal shutdown; and more.


The Gaede Bunch: ‘A is for Aryan’

The same week that Lynx and Lamb Gaede took their neo-Nazi pop singing act Prussian Blue to Sweden and Germany this July, a revealing new documentary on the girls and their white supremacist stage mom April debuted on British TV.
“Nazi Pop Twins” contains several profoundly creepy scenes. Chief among them is a speakerphone conversation set up by April Gaede between her daughters and white supremacist terrorist David Lane, who was in prison serving a 190-year sentence for his part in the 1984 machine-gun murder of a Jewish radio talk show host in Denver. (Lane died shortly after filming was completed.)
“When the girls were little they were like daughters or something,” says Lane, 69, who later calls twins Lynx and Lamb — who were 14 at the time — his “fantasy sweethearts.” “Now that they are grown women, and being a natural male, it’s… well, you know what I’m trying to say.”
Other lowlights include April Gaede teaching her 3-year-old daughter Dresden the white power ABCs (“A is for Aryan, B is for blood…”) and April’s father Bill Gaede, a California rancher who brands his cattle and horses with swastikas, negotiating the purchase of an M-16. Bill Gaede tells the filmmakers that Mexicans rape horses and boasts that he’s personally shot six Mexicans in the past four years.
In another scene, April, who broadcasts a white-power radio show from her basement in Kalispell, Mont., implores Lynx to autograph merchandise for Prussian Blue’s fans. When Lynx complains, April scolds her and orders her to put on a happy face for the cameras. “Then you can act like as much of a cunt as you like for the rest of the night!” she snaps at her daughter.
"Nazi Pop Twins" can be viewed here .

Summary: The same week that Lynx and Lamb Gaede took their neo-Nazi pop singing act Prussian Blue to Sweden and Germany this July, a revealing new documentary on the girls and their white supremacist stage mom April debuted on British TV. “Nazi Pop Twins” contains several profoundly creepy scenes. Chief among them is a speakerphone conversation set up by April Gaede between her daughters and white supremacist terrorist David Lane, who was in prison serving a 190-year sentence for his part in the 1984…


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/17/2017
November 17, 2017
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Trump’s rhetoric felt in communities hit by hate crimes; DHS appointee suddenly steps aside; Inside the fake ‘Pizzagate’ scandal; and more.


Choose Black America Chairman Claims Immigrants "Specifically Attacking African-Americans"

Homeless advocate and immigration opponent Ted Hayes was assaulted this past Tuesday for spreading his message that illegal immigrants are damaging this country and specifically attacking African-Americans.
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Hatewatch Headlines 11/17/2016
November 17, 2016
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Twitter suspends alt-right accounts; Will Trump roll back the hate?; Bannon’s white-nationalist worldview explained; and more.


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


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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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Eye of the Stormer
2017
Spring Issue
February 09, 2017
Keegan Hankes
Propelled by the Trump campaign and a new focus on the 'alt-right,' the Daily Stormer is now the top hate site in America.


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For The Record
2016
Summer Issue
August 03, 2016
Incidents of apparent hate crimes and hate group activities listed here are drawn primarily from media sources.


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A Mother's Sorrow
A mother is trying to understand how the sensitive child she raised has become a hateful neo-Nazi.


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Most of those who follow extremism and extremist candidates in the political mainstream are focused tightly on the presidential bid of Donald Trump. But there are a number of other races featuring unusual candidates around the country.


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Daryush “Roosh V” Valizadeh had billed Feb. 6 as the day that his “neo-masculinist” — read woman-hating and rape-advocating — followers would emerge “from the shadows and not have to hide behind a computer screen” any longer.


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Furling the Flag
2015
Winter Issue
October 27, 2015
Heidi Beirich
After a massacre in South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag came under attack — and thousands of its supporters fought back


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Vigilante Incident List
2003
Spring Issue
Bob Moser
Suspicious incidents keep cropping up along the Arizona-Mexico border.


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The Brawler
2018
Summer Issue
August 05, 2018
Alexander Zaitchik // Illustration by Alan Kitching
The hard-charging neo-Nazi from East Texas known as Azzmador was supposed to take the alt-right’s ground game to the next level.


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Blue-Eyed English
2018
Spring Issue
February 20, 2018
Ryan Lenz
Speechroom, birdlore and wordstock: white nationalists push for a new language to drive out the impure old.


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An anti-LGBTQ pastor’s admission to “sins” that included prostitutes, marijuana and gambling set off a series of events that roiled his congregation and caused a split in a satellite church in another state.


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Skinhead Dreams
Eric Ward
From Skinhead literature to Skinhead 'zines, the struggle to define what it means to be a Skinhead is being fought out in black and white.


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Picturing Extremism
2017
Spring Issue
February 15, 2017
David Neiwert
A director and a screenwriter discuss their new movie about white supremacists and what they hoped to accomplish.


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Incluso cuando se debate un dudoso acuerdo legislativo sobre reforma inmigratoria en los salones del Congreso, la propaganda venenosa y falsa continúa filtrándose en el diálogo nacional sobre la migración indocumentada hacia los Estados Unidos.


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Vinlanders Profiles
Profiles of some of the Vinlanders' most notorious associates.


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Thirteen years ago, an evangelical minister in Idaho who was about to headline a “history” conference at the University of Idaho at Moscow ran head-on into a massive political firestorm. The cause was a book pastor Douglas Wilson had co-authored that offered up an unusual take on antebellum American slavery.


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Kurtis Monschke and Other Racists Commit Violent Killing
2004
Summer Issue
July 20, 2004
Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok
The resurgent neo-Nazi Skinhead group Volksfront claims it has renounced violence — but the actions of its members and its past violent rhetoric and crimes tell the real story.


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On June 14, President Trump called for unity. His remarks came after a vicious shooting during a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. The shooter was a man reportedly enraged at the president and GOP policies; Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and four others were severely injured.


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Wounded Minds
2015
Spring Issue
Ryan Lenz
An FBI agent who helped found the agency’s elite behavioral science unit
discusses the psychology of lone wolf terrorism.


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Redemption Song
2015
Spring Issue
Don Terry
Christian Picciolini was one of the first on America’s racist skinhead scene. But now he’s singing a different tune.


Intelligence Report

On Dec. 4, a 28-year-old North Carolina man bearing a handgun and a military-style rifle stormed a Washington, D.C., pizza joint called Comet Ping-Pong, determined to “self-investigate” rumors that the restaurant was the center of a child sex-slave ring with connections to the Clinton campaign. Edgar M. Welch, of Salisbury, N.C., who fired his weapon inside the restaurant but injured no one, later admitted “the intel on this wasn’t 100%.”


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National Alliance Founder William Pierce’s Writing Inspires Slaughter
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
Jerry Mitchell
National Alliance leader William Pierce's writings inspire violence, including a racially-motivated shooting spree in Mississippi.


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Acts, Not Words, Are the Key
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
Acts, not words, are the reason why the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and its leader, Horace King, were found liable for the arson of the Macedonia Baptist church.


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Exploring the Kehoe Family’s Christian Identity Background
1998
Fall Issue
December 15, 1998
The Kehoe family was steeped in racist, anti-Semitic Christian Identity ideology, which may have contributed to the Kehoes' crime spree.


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More Clinic Bombs Found
1998
Fall Issue
December 15, 1998
Dynamite bombs found outside two North Carolina abortion clinics that had earlier been the targets of arson attacks were defused in October.


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Hate Goes to Washington
2019
Spring Issue
February 20, 2019
Meet the members of Congress who traffic in hate and extremism.


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All in the Family
1998
Spring Issue
June 15, 1998
Websites are popping up that are geared towards white supremacist women and families.


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'WITAN Memo' I
Read this addition to the
Intelligence Report,
found exclusively online, that lays out Tanton's plans to further insert FAIR into U.S. politics.


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Active Patriot Groups in 2005
2006
Spring Issue
Listing here does not imply the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities.


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The Brawler
2018
Summer Issue
August 05, 2018
Alexander Zaitchik // Illustration by Alan Kitching
The hard-charging neo-Nazi from East Texas known as Azzmador was supposed to take the alt-right’s ground game to the next level.


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Most of those who follow extremism and extremist candidates in the political mainstream are focused tightly on the presidential bid of Donald Trump. But there are a number of other races featuring unusual candidates around the country.


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Center Sues Aryan Nations
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
The Southern Poverty Law Center has sued the Aryan Nations on behalf of a woman and her son who were terrorized by the group's security guards.


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David Duke Running for Office — Again
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
Former Klansman David Duke jumped into a Congressional race in Louisiana after losing other political races.


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Academia at Forefront of Racist Ideals, White Supremacy
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
Barry Mehler
Some academic professionals use the 'genetic inferiority' argument to legitimize the white supremacist movement.


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Looking Forward
1998
Spring Issue
June 15, 1998
Mark Potok
Looking forward to the year 2000, the signs are troubling. Terror from the radical right is up, and every indication is that this trend will continue.


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Murder By the Book
1998
Spring Issue
June 15, 1998
A federal appeals court held that a publisher who markets a training manual for hit men may be liable for damages for 'aiding and abetting' murder.


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Florida Antigovernment Bomb Plot Targeted Tourist Center
1998
Spring Issue
June 15, 1998
Three people linked to a bomb-building neo-Nazi have been charged with conspiring to set off 14 bombs around Orlando, Fla., including several along the main access to Walt Disney World.


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The Immigrants: Myths and Reality
2001
Spring Issue
March 21, 2001
Anti-immigration groups claim that immigrants over-utilize government services, increase unemployment, bring diseases and degrade the environment. But studies from an array of groups show otherwise.


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El titiritero
2002
Summer Issue
October 26, 2006
El 'movimiento' organizado anti-inmigración, cada vez más profundamente relacionado con los grupos de odio racial, está dominado por un solo hombre, John Tanton.


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Fear And Loathing In Montana
2016
Spring Issue
February 17, 2016
By Ryan Lenz | Illustration By Sunny Paulk
On a decaying former Air Force base, antigovernment ‘sovereign citizens’ are battling the few remaining locals for control


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After a race hate scandal engulfed the right-wing Council of Conservative Citizens in 1998, politicians ran for cover, but didn't stay away long. Read how many elected officials retain ties with this white supremacist group.


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Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Leader Chris Simcox has Troubled Past
2005
Winter Issue
January 31, 2006
Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse
Chris Simcox, co-founder of the vigilante Minutemen, describes himself in heroic terms. But some of those once close to him tell a different, and frightening, story.


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Sangre y tierra
2006
Fall Issue
October 30, 2006
por Mark Potok, editor
Pat Buchanan se present recientemente como invitado en el espectculo de televisin "Today" de la cadena NBC para promover su nuevo libro y le fue de maravilla.


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British authorities are reportedly in talks with the Department of Justice in an effort to shut down a U.S.-based website that compiles photos and personal information about anti-racist activists, trade unionists and members of Parliament.


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The son of former Klan leader Jeff Berry and a friend have been charged in a brutal beating that left Berry in critical condition, effectively ending recent efforts to resuscitate the group in Indiana.


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Former Klansmen Tom Metzger and Bill Riccio Encourage Skinheads to Cooperate
2006
Fall Issue
October 19, 2006
Once, racist skinheads were regarded as too explosively violent to politicized. Two former Klansmen changed all that for good.


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Media Hawks Patrick Buchanan's White Nationalist-Themed Book, State of Emergency
2006
Winter Issue
January 16, 2007
Alexander Zaitchik
Pat Buchanan's latest book is a white nationalist screed. But that hasn't stopped it from climbing the best-seller charts.


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Ernst Zundel Lauded by Other Holocaust Deniers
2008
Fall Issue
August 29, 2008
Casey Sanchez
Twin anti-immigrant hardliners say they had nothing to do with a series of anti-Semitic comments. The facts suggest otherwise


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Reversing a longstanding refusal to criticize his Southern secessionist allies, Thomas Naylor, leader of the "progressive" separatists of the Second Vermont Republic (SVR), called on the League of the South this July to denounce racism.


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‘General Yahanna’ Discusses Black Supremacist Hebrew Israelites
2008
Fall Issue
August 29, 2008
'General Yahanna,' a key black separatist leader, discusses God, gays, black 'Hebrews,' and what's wrong with white people


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On Dec. 4, a 28-year-old North Carolina man bearing a handgun and a military-style rifle stormed a Washington, D.C., pizza joint called Comet Ping-Pong, determined to “self-investigate” rumors that the restaurant was the center of a child sex-slave ring with connections to the Clinton campaign. Edgar M. Welch, of Salisbury, N.C., who fired his weapon inside the restaurant but injured no one, later admitted “the intel on this wasn’t 100%.”


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Fear of FEMA
2010
Spring Issue
March 02, 2010
Larry Keller
Around the country, a conspiracy theory about the government constructing secret concentration camps is taking on new life


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Egged on by cheers and interrupted by standing ovations, one-time GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville this February that President Obama's spending was "immoral" and amounted to "theft."


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Active 'Patriot' Groups in the United States in 2009
2010
Spring Issue
March 01, 2010
The Intelligence Project identified 512 "Patriot" groups that were active in 2009.


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Despite 1995 Bombing, Some in Oklahoma Call for Anti-Federal Militia
2010
Summer Issue
May 30, 2010
Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, Tea Party activists were talking to Oklahoma legislators about starting an armed militia


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Armados en Alabama
2007
Fall Issue
October 01, 2007
Por David Holthouse y Casey Sanchez
Miembros de la Milicia Libre de Alabama, arrestados con un arsenal de granadas de fabricación casera, enfrentan importantes sentencias en prisión federal


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California Racists Claim They’re Anarchists
2009
Summer Issue
May 29, 2009
Casey Sanchez / Illustration Peter Horvath
A California group claims it espouses a new, more vital form of anarchism. But it's really just another white nationalist project


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Canadian Polygamist Leaders Arrested
2009
Summer Issue
May 29, 2009
Canadian authorities in Bountiful, British Columbia, arrested two leaders of a racist, polygamist cult that also has a major U.S. presence this January.


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Russian Neo-Nazis Publish 'Death List'
2009
Summer Issue
May 29, 2009
Neo-Nazis publish 'death list,' vow to assassinate enemies


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670 Days
2016
Summer Issue
August 03, 2016
Ryan Lenz
The Bundys of Nevada orchestrated two armed standoffs with the government. After almost two years, they finally face justice.


Intelligence Report

Way back in 2010, the FBI labeled “sovereign citizens” — conspiracy-minded people who believe that most laws and tax requirements don’t apply to them — as a “domestic terrorist” movement. This June, there was another reminder of why.


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Editorial: A Year of Living Dangerously
2016
Spring Issue
February 17, 2016
Mark Potok
Anyone who read the newspapers last year knows that 2015 saw some horrific political violence.


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The number of “nativist extremist” groups — organizations that go beyond mere advocacy to personally confront suspected undocumented immigrants or those who hire or help them — dropped again last year, falling from 19 to just 17.


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After a months-long campaign by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and others, Reddit, a huge online bulletin board, finally decided in August that some of its most racist, hate-filled Web forums violated its standards and were making Reddit “worse for everyone else.”


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‘Religious Freedom’ Cited to Defend Public Discrimination
2015
Winter Issue
October 27, 2015
In the name of “religious freedom,” Jim Crow-style signs of bigotry and intolerance have been popping up across the country in recent months.


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Hate Goes to Washington
Meet the members of Congress who traffic in hate and extremism.
February 20, 2019


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The X-Ray Files
2015
Winter Issue
October 27, 2015
Ryan Lenz
Two men, one a Klan member, tried to build a weapon to irradiate Muslims and others. They came closer than you might think.


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Geller, Ritzheimer Lead Provocative Islam-Bashing Events
2015
Winter Issue
October 27, 2015
When it comes to spreading prejudice and Islamophobia across the land, Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, is the heavyweight champion.


Intelligence Report

When Cliven Bundy took to a stage this April near where armed militiamen a year before backed down agents from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), it seemed that his “Battle of Bunkerville” had truly been won. A year had passed and Bundy was still free, his cattle were still grazing on government lands, and his radical defenders remained unscathed.


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Fed-Up Judges Scold ‘Sovereign’ Defendants in Three States
2015
Summer Issue
June 10, 2015
Judges overseeing cases involving so-called “sovereign citizens” put up with a lot of guff.


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Police and Trans People: A Fraught Relationship
2015
Summer Issue
June 09, 2015
Don Terry
A transgender woman calls 911. She’s terrified. Her boyfriend has just beaten her up and he’s still menacing her in their apartment.


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Right-Wingers Depict Ebola Virus as Obama Conspiracy
2015
Spring Issue
March 10, 2015
Americans were badly shaken this fall when missteps by the Texas hospital that handled one of the first cases of Ebola virus on American soil led to a minor outbreak in the U.S.


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'Nativist Extremist' Groups Continue to Fall
2015
Spring Issue
February 13, 2015
Heidi Beirich
The number of “nativist extremist” groups dropped from 33 to 19 in 2014, continuing a long fall from a peak of 319 such groups in 2010.


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A Southern Poverty Law Center study of “lone wolf” and “leaderless resistance” political violence finds that 90% of domestic attacks or planned attacks in the last six years were carried out by just one or two people. These incidents occurred, on average, once every 34 days — a stark reminder of the domestic terrorist threat.


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A Mother's Sorrow
A mother is trying to understand how the sensitive child she raised has become a hateful neo-Nazi.


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Line In The Sand
2016
Summer Issue
June 13, 2016
Mark Potok and Ryan Lenz
A radical and growing organization of ‘constitutional sheriffs’ is promoting defiance of federal laws it doesn’t like.


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Blue-Eyed English
2018
Spring Issue
February 20, 2018
Ryan Lenz
Speechroom, birdlore and wordstock: white nationalists push for a new language to drive out the impure old.


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Resolute: The Battle Against Hate Demands Vigilance
2019
Summer Issue
September 10, 2019
Heidi Beirich
Hate persists. It's relentless.


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Furling the Flag
2015
Winter Issue
October 27, 2015
Heidi Beirich
After a massacre in South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag came under attack — and thousands of its supporters fought back


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Stranger Politics
2017
Fall Issue
August 08, 2017
Ryan Lenz
In Trump’s America, there’s an upside down of the way it was.


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The contentiousness of the 2016 presidential campaign culminated in a hasty about-face for some, as Democratic and Republican politicians, pundits, and activists seem to have traded places on a number of long-held principles in reaction to the widely unpredicted Trump win.


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The Kidnapping of Isabella
2017
Spring Issue
February 15, 2017
Ryan Lenz
In 2009, a former lesbian in a custody battle fled with her 7-year-old girl. The case still haunts the anti-LGBT movement today.


Intelligence Report

Last December, an armed, 28-year-old North Carolina man stormed into a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor called Comet Ping-Pong, bent on investigating the stories he’d heard about it being part of a child sex-slavery ring closely tied to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Before it was over, Edgar Welch had fired a shot that harmed no one, but terrified restaurant customers and staff alike.


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Kirk Lyons Gets a Licking
2002
Summer Issue
June 18, 2002
As "chief trial counsel" for the Southern Legal Resource Center, flamboyant Kirk Lyons has made a name for himself as the legal champion of the neo-Confederate movement.


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An anti-LGBTQ pastor’s admission to “sins” that included prostitutes, marijuana and gambling set off a series of events that roiled his congregation and caused a split in a satellite church in another state.


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September 11th Attacks Cause Anti-Muslim Backlash
2001
Winter Issue
November 29, 2001
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 trigger a violent outbreak of American xenophobia against Arab Americans and others perceived to be Arab or Muslim.


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Generals and Crooks
2019
Spring Issue
February 20, 2019
Nick R . Martin
How Caravan Paranoia Tore the Border Militia Movement Apart


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IQ and Race: The Web Sites
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
Read a list of key websites dedicated to arguing for genetic differences in intelligence between racial and ethnic groups.


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Intelligence Report
Kehoe Trial Postponed
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
The federal racketeering trial of white supremacist and antigovernment icon Chevie Kehoe was postponed due to objections by the defense.


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Intelligence Report
The Signers
1998
Summer Issue
September 15, 1998
View the signers of the 'defensive action statement,' a proclamation that violence is justifiable in the extremists' fight to end abortion.


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Fear And Loathing In Montana
2016
Spring Issue
February 17, 2016
By Ryan Lenz | Illustration By Sunny Paulk
On a decaying former Air Force base, antigovernment ‘sovereign citizens’ are battling the few remaining locals for control


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Intelligence Report
All in the Family
1998
Spring Issue
June 15, 1998
Websites are popping up that are geared towards white supremacist women and families.


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Waco Documentary Rewrites the Record
1998
Spring Issue
June 15, 1998
A new film on the standoff and subsequent fire in Waco appears to tell the story of an overreaching, violent government intrusion, but only because it twists the facts.


Intelligence Report

Suspected murderer Robert Silveria has recanted his confession of murdering dozens of fellow drifters creates confusion in the case and sheds light on other violence possibly perpetrated by a train-riding gang.


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Former Skinhead T.J. Leyden Tells His Story
1998
Winter Issue
March 15, 1998
Read the story of former Skinhead T.J. Leyden, who now works with the Simon Wiesenthal Center.


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Dos Tratados
por  Heidi Beirich
Un par de libros recientes que atacan al Vaticano y a las polticas actuales constituyen el ncleo de la doctrina tradicionalista radical.


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After being expelled from Argentina in February, Holocaust-denying Society of St. Pius X Bishop Richard Williamson returned to his native England, promising to further "study" the history of the Holocaust.


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The 'Patriot' Movement Timeline
From President Bush's 1990 mention of a "New World Order" to the arrest of a would-be cop-killer this spring, the history of a movement is briefly recounted.


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Active Patriot Groups in 2005
2006
Spring Issue
Listing here does not imply the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities.


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Redemption Song
2015
Spring Issue
Don Terry
Christian Picciolini was one of the first on America’s racist skinhead scene. But now he’s singing a different tune.


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The Blotter
2008
Winter Issue
November 30, 2008
Updates on Extremism and the Law


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An event billed as a motorcycle rally and music festival turned out to be a drunken, Nazi-themed bash in memory of Ian Stuart Donaldson, the British skinhead who started the worldwide white power music movement.


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John Tanton’s Private Papers Expose More Than 20 Years of Hate
2008
Winter Issue
November 30, 2008
Heidi Beirich
Correspondence reveals how racism and eugenics motivate the founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform


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Activists Confront Hate In Selma, Ala.
2008
Winter Issue
November 29, 2008
David Holthouse
When members of a Colorado church moved to Selma, Ala., to fight for racial justice, they were met with ghosts of the past


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Homeless Paper in Canada Peddles Hate
2008
Winter Issue
November 30, 2008
Victor Fletcher, who edits and publishes the anti-Semitic, conspiracy-mongering Toronto
Street News
, sells to the homeless for a small fee, who then sell the paper for $2 at street corners.


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Teen Accused of Anti-Gay Murder Had Racist Literature
2008
Winter Issue
November 30, 2008
Ventura County, Calif. teen accused of anti-gay murder had skinhead literature.


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Ben Covington Offers Insight Into His Brother Harold’s Neo-Nazi Activity
2008
Winter Issue
November 30, 2008
Sonia Scherr and Laurie Wood
Harold Covington, a swaggering neo-Nazi, has long claimed a history of heroic exploits. His brother has a different view


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Center Sues Aryan Nations
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
The Southern Poverty Law Center has sued the Aryan Nations on behalf of a woman and her son who were terrorized by the group's security guards.


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David Duke Running for Office — Again
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
Former Klansman David Duke jumped into a Congressional race in Louisiana after losing other political races.


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Academia at Forefront of Racist Ideals, White Supremacy
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
Barry Mehler
Some academic professionals use the 'genetic inferiority' argument to legitimize the white supremacist movement.


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As the chief of domestic terrorism and counterterrorism planning, Robert Blitzer oversees FBI units dealing with analysis of the terrorist threat, investigations, weapons of mass destruction, domestic preparedness and other matters.


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Profiles of Christian Identity Movement Leaders
1998
Winter Issue
March 15, 1998
Read profiles of the most prominent Christian Identity leaders.


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El titiritero
2002
Summer Issue
October 26, 2006
El 'movimiento' organizado anti-inmigración, cada vez más profundamente relacionado con los grupos de odio racial, está dominado por un solo hombre, John Tanton.


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SCV Celebrates Confederate Inauguration in Montgomery
2011
Summer Issue
June 17, 2011
Hundreds join a march and rally for the Confederate sesquicentennial celebration in Montgomery, Alabama


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Tensions Mounting Between Blacks and Latinos Nationwide
2005
Summer Issue
July 27, 2005
Susy Buchanan
Around the country, evidence of a growing divide between blacks and Hispanics is mounting. It's a split few want to discuss.


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Juego rudo
2005
Fall Issue
October 26, 2006
por Susy Buchanan y David Holthouse
El Proyecto anti-inmigración Minuteman desató una avalancha de imitadores. Algunos realmente dan miedo.


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League of the South Offers ‘Heritage’ for Sale at Southern Patriot Shop
2005
Fall Issue
October 14, 2005
David Holthouse
The 'Confederate' shirt was made in Haiti. One clerk is a long-time neo-Nazi. Welcome to the League of the South's Southern Patriot Shop.


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Extremism and the Military
2006
Summer Issue
August 11, 2006
Mark Potok
Due to recruiting shortages, the military is relaxing bans on extremists joining the armed forces.


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The Blotter, Summer 2006
2006
Summer Issue
August 11, 2006
Jan. 12
- A federal grand jury in
Dallas
indicted the mother of
Confederate Hammerskin
member Gary Dale Stanley Jr. for allegedly threatening two women with death if they testified against her son


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The Intelligence Report is the nation's preeminent periodical monitoring the radical right in the U.S.
The Intelligence Report is the Southern Poverty Law Center's award-winning magazine. The quarterly publication provides comprehensive updates to law enforcement agencies, the media and the general public.


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An anti-LGBTQ pastor’s admission to “sins” that included prostitutes, marijuana and gambling set off a series of events that roiled his congregation and caused a split in a satellite church in another state.


Southern Poverty Law Center

Racist skinheads are among the most danger- ous radical-right threats facing law enforcement today. The products of a frequently violent and criminal subculture, these men and women, typ- ically imbued with neo-Nazi beliefs about Jews, blacks, homosexuals and others, are also noto- riously difficult to track. Organized into small, mobile “crews” or acting individually, skinheads tend to move around frequently and often with- out warning, even as they network and organize across regions. For law enforcement, this poses a particular problem in responding to crimes and conspiracies crossing multiple jurisdictions. As these extremists extend their reach across the country, it is vital that law enforcement officers who deal with them become familiar with the activities of skinheads nationwide.
What follows is an examination of the history and nature of the skinhead movement, prepared with the needs of law enforcement officers in mind, a glossary of common skinhead terms, a timeline, and a gallery of insignias and tattoos commonly used by racist skinheads.
Download the PDF for more information.

Summary: Racist skinheads are among the most danger- ous radical-right threats facing law enforcement today. The products of a frequently violent and criminal subculture, these men and women, typ- ically imbued with neo-Nazi beliefs about Jews, blacks, homosexuals and others, are also noto- riously difficult to track. Organized into small, mobile “crews” or acting individually, skinheads tend to move around frequently and often with- out warning, even as they network and organize across regions. For…


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Transgender Hate Murders Hit New  All-Time High
2017
Spring Issue
February 15, 2017
The horrific list just keeps growing.


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Mel Gibson and His Father’s Extremist Views Are Questioned
2003
Summer Issue

Nia Hightower

Long a favorite actor of the far right, Mel Gibson comes under attack over a new film — and his father's views of Jews


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McVeigh on 'Barbarians'
1998
Summer Issue
September 15, 1998
In an article for the extremist publication
Media Bypass,
Timothy McVeigh accuses the U.S. government of being 'barbarians.'


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Training For Terror
1998
Spring Issue
June 15, 1998
Although the threat of terrorism is growing, only a fraction of cities earmarked to prepare for a possible terrorist attacks have actually begun training.


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Wave of Skinhead Violence Hits Denver
1998
Winter Issue
March 15, 1998
Since November 1997, several violent incidents have been perpetrated by racist Skinheads in Denver, including the murder of a police officer and the alleged murder of an African refugee.


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Racist Label Resistance Records Isn’t Slowing Down
1998
Winter Issue
March 15, 1998
Resistance Records, even after a multinational crackdown, remains the nation's largest and most profitable purveyor of racist rock.


Intelligence Report

Incluso cuando se debate un dudoso acuerdo legislativo sobre reforma inmigratoria en los salones del Congreso, la propaganda venenosa y falsa continúa filtrándose en el diálogo nacional sobre la migración indocumentada hacia los Estados Unidos.


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Blue-Eyed English
2018
Spring Issue
February 20, 2018
Ryan Lenz
Speechroom, birdlore and wordstock: white nationalists push for a new language to drive out the impure old.


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Inmigrantes imaginarios
Un nativista de línea dura escribe una visión paranoica de un complot de invasión mexicano. Afortunadamente, los baños de espuma y las armas de gran tamaño hacen que la acción se mantenga interesante


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Sovereign Ex: Participant Tells His Story
2009
Spring Issue
Interview conducted Casey Sanchez<br>Photography Mark Wallheiser
David Kanz, imprisoned for 'paper terrorism,' describes how he got into — and out of — the 'sovereign citizens' movement.


Intelligence Report

A Southern Poverty Law Center study of “lone wolf” and “leaderless resistance” political violence finds that 90% of domestic attacks or planned attacks in the last six years were carried out by just one or two people. These incidents occurred, on average, once every 34 days — a stark reminder of the domestic terrorist threat.


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The contentiousness of the 2016 presidential campaign culminated in a hasty about-face for some, as Democratic and Republican politicians, pundits, and activists seem to have traded places on a number of long-held principles in reaction to the widely unpredicted Trump win.


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The Kidnapping of Isabella
2017
Spring Issue
February 15, 2017
Ryan Lenz
In 2009, a former lesbian in a custody battle fled with her 7-year-old girl. The case still haunts the anti-LGBT movement today.


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The Poison Spreads
Until their arrests in the summer of 1996, the Montana Freemen managed to spread their doctrines from one end of the nation to the other.


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Fear And Loathing In Montana
2016
Spring Issue
February 17, 2016
By Ryan Lenz | Illustration By Sunny Paulk
On a decaying former Air Force base, antigovernment ‘sovereign citizens’ are battling the few remaining locals for control


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An anti-LGBTQ pastor’s admission to “sins” that included prostitutes, marijuana and gambling set off a series of events that roiled his congregation and caused a split in a satellite church in another state.


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Most of those who follow extremism and extremist candidates in the political mainstream are focused tightly on the presidential bid of Donald Trump. But there are a number of other races featuring unusual candidates around the country.


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Thirteen years ago, an evangelical minister in Idaho who was about to headline a “history” conference at the University of Idaho at Moscow ran head-on into a massive political firestorm. The cause was a book pastor Douglas Wilson had co-authored that offered up an unusual take on antebellum American slavery.


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Hate Goes to Washington
2019
Spring Issue
February 20, 2019
Meet the members of Congress who traffic in hate and extremism.


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When Cliven Bundy took to a stage this April near  where armed militiamen a year before backed down agents from the Bureau  of Land Management (BLM), it seemed that his “Battle of Bunkerville” had  truly been won. A year had passed and Bundy was still free, his cattle  were still grazing on government lands, and his radical defenders  remained unscathed.


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Overheard, Spring 2007
2007
Spring Issue
April 20, 2007
Quotes from Joe Turner, Lou Sheldon, Tom Tancredo...


Intelligence Report

About 100 racist skinheads from California and Nevada gathered at the Federal Building in Los Angeles’ Westwood neighborhood for a “Free the Order” rally to support imprisoned members of the The Order.


Intelligence Report

Several members of the extended Phelps family, which makes up most of the notorious anti-gay hate group Westboro Baptist Church, are ensconced within the Kansas State Department of Corrections (DOC), a prison advocacy group reported in December.


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Prejudice Against Jews and Muslims Up in Britain
2006
Winter Issue
January 16, 2007
Anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic sentiment in the United Kingdom is on the rise, say two studies released in September.


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Officer Klansman?
2006
Winter Issue
January 16, 2007
A Nebraska arbitrator rules that a Ku Klux Klan member has a right to be a state trooper. But the arbitrator could well be wrong.


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The National Socialist Movement Implodes
2006
Fall Issue
October 19, 2006
Alexander Zaitchik
The "Hollywood Nazis" of the National Socialist Movement have imploded in a debacle featuring hate-radio jocks, anti-racist provocateurs, superhuman egos, allegations of underage sex, and Satan.


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Top SCV Attorney Indicted in International Tax Scheme
2006
Summer Issue
August 11, 2006
Sam Currin, the legal chief for the Southern heritage group Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and a former U.S. attorney from North Carolina, was indicted in April in a major tax scheme.


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Carnage in Charleston
2015
Winter Issue
October 27, 2015
Mark Potok
The accused South Carolina terror killer represents a new kind of violent racist, a ‘lone wolf’ radicalized entirely on the Internet.


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C-4 and the Confederacy
2004
Fall Issue
October 14, 2004
Mark Potok
Many 'pro-South' leaders have well-established records of racism. But they've generally avoided armed revolutionaries like Michael Tubbs.


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Gay Marriage Debate Causes Rage on the Right
2003
Winter Issue
December 31, 2003
Mark Potok
As a wave of violence descends on the D.C. transgender community, editor Mark Potok explores our culture's rage against gays, lesbians, the transgendered and other sexual minorities.


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Racist Activist Joins, Then Quits, Controversial English-Only Group
2003
Fall Issue
November 12, 2003
James Lubinskas, recently hired as director of communications for the controversial English-only group U.S. English, left the group after ties to hate groups were exposed.


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Tax Dodges, Fact and Fiction
2001
Winter Issue
November 29, 2001
Tax protesters' many legalistic arguments against federal income taxes have little basis in legal reality.


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League of the South Remembers the ‘Good Old Days’
2000
Summer Issue
September 15, 2000
As neo-Confederates mythologize the 'nobility' of the Jim Crow South, a series of recently reopened murder cases recall the bloody nature of American apartheid.


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The 'Patriot' Movement Timeline
From President Bush's 1990 mention of a "New World Order" to the arrest of a would-be cop-killer this spring, the history of a movement is briefly recounted.


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Buju Banton’s smash hit is only one of many Jamaican tracks that target gays for extreme verbal violence. Here are the complete lyrics of Banton’s "Boom Bye Bye," both in the original Jamaican patois and in English.


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Rev. Gregory Daniels
Brentin Mock
The Rev. Gregory Daniels says if he 'chose' not to  be gay, so can others. And they should, he adds,  because homosexuality is destroying black America.


Intelligence Report

So-called "sovereign citizens" are notorious for engaging in a variety of schemes involving money, false identification documents and the courts — scams that land them in criminal trouble with remarkable regularity.


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Rising Anti-Immigrant Sentiments Draw Extremist Elements to Issue
2006
Summer Issue
August 11, 2006

Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse

Across the country, the overheated immigration debate fuels racist extremism and violent, anti-Hispanic hate crimes.


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Three members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) group traveled to a NASCAR race in to protest the racing association's recent moves to discourage the flying of the Confederate battle flag at races.


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Several High Profile Racist Extremists Serve in the U.S. Military
2006
Summer Issue
August 11, 2006
David Holthouse
Ten years after a scandal over neo-Nazis in the armed forces, extremists are once again worming their way into a recruit-starved military.


Intelligence Report

Hundreds of people seeking answers to that question and a myriad of related mysteries gathered here this June under the auspices of the three-day ConspiracyCon 2011, the 11th annual event of its kind.


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One More Enemy
2011
Fall Issue
August 24, 2011
Robert Steinback
Anti-gay and anti-immigrant groups are joining in attacks on what may now be America’s most vulnerable minority


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A mysterious company called Silver Bullet Gun Oil has begun selling a line of products for automatic weapons that allegedly contains 13% liquefied pig fat for the express purpose of denying Muslims killed by the weapons “a place in paradise.” The oil is being pitched to soldiers and Marines deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.


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Updates on Extremism and The Law
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011
The Blotter


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About 100 racist skinheads from California and Nevada gathered at the Federal Building in Los Angeles’ Westwood neighborhood for a “Free the Order” rally to support imprisoned members of the The Order.


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Sons of Confederate Veterans Members Also in Hate Groups
2002
Spring Issue
January 28, 2010
Read a list documenting hate group members in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, including national leadership.


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'Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration
2003
Winter Issue
December 31, 2003
Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok
At a meeting of 'paleoconservatives,' former
Forbes
editor Peter Brimelow and others sound the alarm on non-white immigration.


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Popular Investment Adviser Chris Temple Has Neo-Nazi Ties
2003
Winter Issue
December 31, 2003

Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok

In the last two years, Chris Temple became a star of the financial press, despite his neo-Nazi ties; he has now been indicted on federal charges of mail fraud and money laundering.


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This spring, a group of about 100 students and others gathered at Indiana University at Bloomington to participate in their local Slutwalk, an annual protest held in cities around the world to denounce rape culture and victim-shaming. Facing them were a handful of counter-protesters who, misunderstanding the idea of Slutwalk, heckled the crowd, wielding crude signs decrying “slut culture.”


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Ted Nugent called his nationwide summer tour “Shutup & Jam!” but the ’70s rocker did everything but shut up as he was hit with cancelled concerts and blistering criticism for his racist and anti-Indian statements.


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The ‘Philosophy’ of Rape
2015
Spring Issue
March 20, 2015
Mark Potok
More from Reddit.


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Stranger Politics
2017
Fall Issue
August 08, 2017
Ryan Lenz
In Trump’s America, there’s an upside down of the way it was.


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On June 14, President Trump called for unity. His remarks came after a vicious shooting during a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. The shooter was a man reportedly enraged at the president and GOP policies; Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and four others were severely injured.


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Generals and Crooks
2019
Spring Issue
February 20, 2019
Nick R . Martin
How Caravan Paranoia Tore the Border Militia Movement Apart


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Every November, just before Thanksgiving, friends, family and strangers gather across the country to read off the names of transgender men and women murdered over the course of the year. The mournful roll call is the Transgender Day of Remembrance.


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In the recent aftermath of some senseless murders, details are emerging that one part of the puzzle was the influence of white supremacy. Another influence may have been the Internet and the extreme music subculture.


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Kehoe Trial Postponed
1999
Winter Issue
March 15, 1999
The federal racketeering trial of white supremacist and antigovernment icon Chevie Kehoe was postponed due to objections by the defense.


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The Signers
1998
Summer Issue
September 15, 1998
View the signers of the 'defensive action statement,' a proclamation that violence is justifiable in the extremists' fight to end abortion.


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Skinhead Dreams
Eric Ward
From Skinhead literature to Skinhead 'zines, the struggle to define what it means to be a Skinhead is being fought out in black and white.


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The Poison Spreads
Until their arrests in the summer of 1996, the Montana Freemen managed to spread their doctrines from one end of the nation to the other.


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The Blotter: Spring 2003
2003
Spring Issue
Bob Moser
Read a chronological list of arrests and other legal actions against the radical right from 2002 and the first two months of 2003.


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John Tanton's Network
John Tanton's network of anti-immigrant groups includes these 13 organizations.


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For The Record
2014
Winter Issue
November 21, 2014
A sampling of hate crimes and hate group activities is summarized in state-by-state listings.


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Active Patriot Groups in 2005
2006
Spring Issue
Listing here does not imply the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities.


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The story of 2016 was one of right-wing extremists ascendant. But even as young racist radicals gained attention and influence, important members of the generation that preceded them passed away. Among them:


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The Brawler
2018
Summer Issue
August 05, 2018
Alexander Zaitchik // Illustration by Alan Kitching
The hard-charging neo-Nazi from East Texas known as Azzmador was supposed to take the alt-right’s ground game to the next level.


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Ted Nugent called his nationwide summer tour “Shutup & Jam!” but the ’70s rocker did everything but shut up as he was hit with cancelled concerts and blistering criticism for his racist and anti-Indian statements.


Intelligence Report

Since 1989, a woman who calls herself J.Z. Knight has drawn tens of thousands of followers, including Hollywood celebrities, to her Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Yelm, Wash., where she says she channels a 35,000-year-old “Lemurian warrior.” The New Age cult leader also savages Catholics, Mexicans, Jews and Jehovah.


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Animal Rights Extremist Camille Marino Calls for Violence
2012
Spring Issue
March 01, 2012
Leah Nelson
A new breed of animal rights activist isn’t content with vandalism or arson, but is encouraging deadly acts of terrorism instead.


Intelligence Report

Most of those who follow extremism and extremist candidates in the political mainstream are focused tightly on the presidential bid of Donald Trump. But there are a number of other races featuring unusual candidates around the country.


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Authorities Smash Alleged Obama Assassination Plots
2008
Winter Issue
November 30, 2008
Two suspected plots to assassinate Barack Obama were broken up in recent months. Authorities say that the arrests of five men probably averted major criminal violence.


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Evidence Shows Racist Skinheads Enlisting in Military
2008
Winter Issue
November 30, 2008
David Holthouse
New evidence suggests that right-wing extremists are infiltrating the military. Some of them take great pleasure in the killing


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Racist Violence Up in Ukraine, Russia
2008
Fall Issue
August 29, 2008
Hate crimes in Ukraine have risen dramatically in the past 18 months, according to human rights groups and an Associated Press report.


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Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Canada
2008
Summer Issue
May 20, 2008
Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Canada


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Son of 'Race Traitor' Killed After Shooting Officer
2008
Summer Issue
May 20, 2008
After being ordered to put down his weapon, Jesse Miller shot a police officer, who then shot Miller dead.


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The Blotter: July 2007
2007
Summer Issue
July 01, 2007
Jan. 12 -
Hollis Wayne Fincher, the lieutenant commander of the
Militia of Washington County
, was convicted of owning illegal machine guns and a sawed-off shotgun


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A Ku Klux Klan Murder Reveals Details of Modern Klan Life
2007
Summer Issue
July 01, 2007
David Holthouse and Casey Sanchez Photography Jenny Warburg
The dead man in Glen Gautier's dreams always asked the same question: "Why didn't you bury me with my glasses?" The nightmares began torturing Gautier in early 2002.


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An anti-LGBTQ pastor’s admission to “sins” that included prostitutes, marijuana and gambling set off a series of events that roiled his congregation and caused a split in a satellite church in another state.


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Exposing the activities of the American radical right. Managed by the staff of the Intelligence Project.


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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.


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Minutemen Gather Signatures For Washington Ballot Initiative

Members of the Yakima chapter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps are working with a group called Respect Washington to gather signatures for a ballot initiative that would restrict the state from offering services to illegal immigrants. Read full article


Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement Linked To Hate Group

Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement, or RIILE, was founded in 2006 under the guidance of a field organizer from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which is financed by an openly white supremacist organization. Read full article


Notorious Alabama Politician Keynotes White Supremacist Conference

Alabama State Sen. Charles Bishop (R-Jasper; photo at right) was the keynote speaker at the 2008 Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) Leadership Conference held on June 21 in Sheffield, Ala. The CCC was founded in 1985 using the mailing lists of the pro-segregationist White Citizens Councils that fought integration during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The CCC’s website and publications are filled with crude, racist attacks on immigrants, blacks and gays. The CCC is so extreme that in 1998 the then-head of the GOP, Jim Nicholson, took the unusual step of asking party members to resign from the group because of its “racist views.”
Bishop rose to national infamy last summer when he punched (above) Sen. Lowell Barron (D-Fyffe) on the Alabama Senate floor on June 7, 2007, the last day of the legislative session. Bishop told the CCC that his mother was the “sweetest, most wonderful woman” he ever knew and, when Barron called him a “son of a bitch,” he just lost it. Bishop told the CCC that he regretted punching out Barron on the floor of the legislature. Instead, he said, “I should have taken him outside and kicked the hell out of him.” Barron denied calling Bishop a son of a bitch.
Bishop was invited to the white supremacist conference by longtime racist activist and Alabama CCC chieftain Leonard “Flagpole” Wilson , who earned his nickname in 1956 when he was a key figure in violent demonstrations against the admission of Autherine Lucy as the first black student at the University of Alabama. Leading chants of “Keep ’Bama white!” from atop a flagpole and shouting racist jokes, Wilson led riotous students through two terrifying nights of racial unrest. Wilson’s activism didn’t stop there. He was prominent in the White Citizens Councils and, in 1985, became a founder of the CCC.
Bishop’s speech appealed to the assembled CCC crowd, particularly when he denounced the idea that Southern states should apologize for having sanctioned slavery. Bishop asked the audience why he should apologize for something that happened years ago. He said that “atonement equals reparations” — meaning that apologies would surely be greeted with demands for financial payback by black Americans. Bishop added that he’s going to vote for John McCain, and not Barack “Hussein” Obama, as he described the presumptive Democratic nominee. Bishop received a standing ovation from the audience and he and his wife posed for pictures with members afterwards.
Bishop is not the only politician to have pandered to the CCC. In 2005, the Intelligence Report revealed that George Wallace, Jr., an Alabama Public Service commissioner and son of the late segregationist Alabama governor, had spoken at the group’s summer conference. And in 2004, the Report reported that 26 public officials, nearly all republicans and Mississippians,  had spoken to the group since it was denounced by Nicholson.

Summary: Alabama State Sen. Charles Bishop (R-Jasper; photo at right) was the keynote speaker at the 2008 Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) Leadership Conference held on June 21 in Sheffield, Ala. The CCC was founded in 1985 using the mailing lists of the pro-segregationist White Citizens Councils that fought integration during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The CCC’s website and publications are filled with crude, racist attacks on immigrants, blacks and gays. The CCC is so…


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


White Supremacist Represents School for Poor Minority Kids

This spring, a high-society New York magazine called Quest ran a short feature about Emilia Fanjul, the wife of sugar baron Jose “Pepe” Fanjul, and her remarkable efforts to help black and migrant worker children out of poverty. The story described how Fanjul, a major philanthropist , was helping to finance and build a sparkling new campus for Glades Academy, a charter school in the town of Pahokee, Fla., which suffers with a 32% poverty rate. “I call them the forgotten children,” Fanjul said. “My greatest wish is that they gain dignity and hope.”
At the end of the article, Quest added a practical note: “For more information about Glades Academy, call Chloe Black.” A telephone number followed.
What the magazine didn’t say — and, doubtless, didn’t know — was that Chloe Hardin Black (above, with David Duke, in a 1976 photo from Tyler Bridges' The Rise of David Duke ) is a long-time white supremacist and the wife of a notorious former Klan leader. Black’s husband is Don Black , a former Alabama Klan chieftain who is famous among white supremacists for his creation of Stormfront , the largest white supremacist Web forum in the world. Prior to Black, Chloe Hardin was married to Black’s former boss, neo-Nazi David Duke , who was the national leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.
There is no evidence that Emilia Fanjul, who married decades ago into what the Palm Beach Post has described as the country’s best-known and wealthiest Cuban-American family, or other family members had any inkling as to Chloe Black’s background.
Black, who lives in West Palm Beach just a few miles from the Fanjuls’ Palm Beach mansion, also works as an “executive assistant” in the executive suite of Florida Crystals , where the Fanjul family’s sugar conglomerate is headquartered. The Intelligence Report contacted Gaston Cantens, vice president of corporate relations at Florida Crystals, for comment, but a day later none was forthcoming. Similarly, many calls to Chloe Black’s work, home and cell phones went unanswered.
The irony of Chloe Black doing public relations work for a school explicitly aimed at lifting black and Latino children out of poverty is hard to miss. While less visible in the white supremacist world than either of her husbands, Black has a strong movement history of her own. She met Duke at a college meeting of the White Youth Alliance in the 1970s, and, after marrying him, became vice president of his Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. She long held the copyright to African Atto , a weird 1973 booklet that instructs blacks on how to kill whites — and which was written, as was revealed by enterprising reporters, by Duke, who then claimed he was using it to compile a list of “radical blacks.” Although Chloe divorced Duke in 1984, four years later she married Don Black — a man who had only recently emerged from prison after serving time for plotting to invade a black-run Caribbean island.
Don Black has grown into a central figure on the white supremacist scene since putting up the first major hate site on the Internet in March 1995, just a month before the Oklahoma City bombing. In recent years, Black has built Stormfront into a huge forum for so-called “white nationalists” that now claims more than 133,000 members (although only about 20,000 are believed to be active). It offers scores of busy discussion threads on topics ranging from white dating to ideology to race “science.” The site even has 15 forums dedicated to the movement in other countries, many of them in foreign languages. Overall, Stormfront has become the premier site for white supremacists in the world, and as such is very expensive to run.
But Don Black — who lives and operates Stormfront out of a house owned entirely by Chloe and valued at about half a million dollars — is apparently unemployed, although he claims to do some Internet consulting work. He solicits contributions to the Stormfront site, but says he draws no salary from the operation and has, according to an official Stormfront posting, “financed much of Stormfront’s growth out of pocket, personally.” The website is believed to be at least partly supported by the salary that Florida Crystals pays Chloe Black.
Chloe Black’s “pro-white” activism did not end in the 1970s. In recent years, she has attended biannual conferences of American Renaissance magazine , a racist organization known for publishing pseudo-scientific tracts purporting to show that black people are less intelligent and suffer from more “psychopathologies” than others. She and her husband continue to socialize with Duke, who fathered her two daughters, and even years after her divorce from Duke, she was still lauding him as “the Jesse Jackson of white rights in America.” In 2007, both Blacks were in the news after it came to light that Don had donated money to the Ron Paul presidential campaign. And just this June, Chloe and Don Black attended a major “leadership conference” of the Council of Conservative Citizens , a white supremacist group that has described black people as “a retrograde species of humanity.”
The Fanjul family long dominated Cuba’s sugar industry, but left after the 1959 Cuban revolution and rebuilt their business in Palm Beach County. Today, four brothers — Jose, Alfonso, Andres and Alexander — run the family firm, Flo-Sun, from the same building where Chloe Black works. The raw sugar producer has more than 400,000 acres of cane in Florida and the Dominican Republic and some 25,000 employees in subsidiaries including Florida Crystals, C&H, and Domino, according to the Palm Beach Post .
Emilia and Jose Fanjul are famous in high-society circles, in part because of Emilia’s tireless charity work — including starting the Glades Academy seven years ago and continuing to serve as its chair — and major philanthropic gifts from both  her and others in the extended Fanjul family. The couple regularly moves between their Palm Beach mansion, New York City, and a 7,000-acre resort home in the Dominican Republic.
For his part, Don Black seems to know the Dominican Republic well. In a 2006 posting to Stormfront, the former Klan leader described the Caribbean island nation as “a Third World cesspool, but [one that] still contains well-protected resorts which are playgrounds for the European and American rich and famous.”

Summary: This spring, a high-society New York magazine called Quest ran a short feature about Emilia Fanjul, the wife of sugar baron Jose “Pepe” Fanjul, and her remarkable efforts to help black and migrant worker children out of poverty. The story described how Fanjul, a major philanthropist , was helping to finance and build a sparkling new campus for Glades Academy, a charter school in the town of Pahokee, Fla., which suffers with a 32% poverty rate. “I call them the forgotten children,” Fanjul said.…


Hatewatch

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


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Friends of Border Patrol suspends operations, fires director
November 29, 2005
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When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 on Liberty Island, he had no doubt about the perniciousness of the law that it was replacing. The 1924 Immigration Act, which imposed a racist quota system favoring Northern European whites, was a "cruel and enduring wrong," a "harsh injustice" and "un-American in the highest sense," he said at the signing ceremony .


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Minuteman Founder Calls For U.S. To Send Troops To Mexico
July 15, 2008
Hatewatch Staff
Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist called for the U.S. to send "heavyweight U.S. Army Airborne brigades" to Mexico to battle drug cartels.
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Nebraska Town Council Proposes Banning Illegal Immigrants

The Fremont, Neb. town council heard public testimony on a proposed ordinance to drive out illegal immigrants at a hearing that was marred by "racial and anti-immigrant remarks," according to the Nebraska Mexican-American Commission. Read full article