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BERKELEY, California — Antigovernment extremists stood shoulder-to-shoulder with "alt-right" extremists and anti-feminists. Nearby, a ragtag mix of Trump supporters were draped in American flags and decked in helmets stickered with images of Pepe the Frog, the popular cartoon frog meme employed by the white nationalist “alt-right.”
They carried clubs and medical kits, radios and reinforcement in the event of violent skirmishes that have shaken the University of California, Berkeley campus. But by Thursday’s end, the next chapter in what Richard Spencer has called “The Battle of Berkeley” was a bust.

Summary: BERKELEY, California — Antigovernment extremists stood shoulder-to-shoulder with "alt-right" extremists and anti-feminists. Nearby, a ragtag mix of Trump supporters were draped in American flags and decked in helmets stickered with images of Pepe the Frog, the popular cartoon frog meme employed by the white nationalist “alt-right.” They carried clubs and medical kits, radios and reinforcement in the event of violent skirmishes that have shaken the University of California, Berkeley campus. But…


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


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Hate crimes against Muslims surged by 67% during 2015, according to new statistics released by the FBI on Sunday. The rise, far higher than in any other major category of hate crimes, came during a year marked by news of atrocities by the Islamic State and Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.


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This is the fourth update in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s effort to collect reports of bias-related harassment and intimidation around the country following the election. This update spans the period from November 9 to December 12.


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


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Friends of Border Patrol suspends operations, fires director
November 29, 2005
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Why Are Peter King’s Hearings So Loathsome? Let Us Count the Ways

Some people seem to have great difficulty in understanding why U.S. Rep. Peter King’s hearings on radicalization of American Muslims, set to open this Thursday, are seen as so loathsome by so many. Let me try to explain.
Imagine, for starters, if another congressman — say, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Democrat and the first Muslim elected to Congress — decided to hold hearings on the Christian fundamentalist community and the radicalization of some of its members. After all, it is undeniably fundamentalists who have formed the bulk of the extremists who have burned or bombed hundreds of abortion clinics and murdered eight providers or their assistants. The vast majority of these people have been motivated, as most have said themselves, by their interpretations of Christianity.
Well, I think you can see where this is going. You wouldn’t have time to snap your fingers before outraged Americans, metaphorically speaking, surrounded the Capitol carrying pitchforks and torches, demanding the heads of their representatives. Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, to mention just a couple of the far-right talking heads, would erupt before their Fox News audiences. After all, just think back to the self-righteous hullabaloo that broke out when a leaked 2009 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report on the radical right suggested that hate groups were interested in recruiting returning veterans with military skills. Conservatives around the country went into outrage mode, shouting to the skies that the perfectly accurate report was calling all veterans potential Timothy McVeighs. The political right is the first to scream “demonization” when it feels it is being targeted.
There’s another very good reason why the hearings organized by King, a Republican from New York who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, amount to what an editorial in today’s New York Times called “Mr. King’s show trial.” Peter King does not come to the question of radical Islam with clean hands.
This is a man who has said that 80% to 85% of American mosques are run by extremists — jihadists — and who told a reporter that “unfortunately, we have too many mosques in this country.” He says that Al Qaeda is aggressively recruiting Muslims in this country. Last month, he was the first guest on a cable television show hosted by Brigitte Gabriel , the founder of the aggressively anti-Muslim ACT! for America group and one of the more obnoxious Muslim-bashers around (the Times reported Monday that she claims radical Muslims have “infiltrated” the CIA, FBI, Pentagon and more). He claims that the vast majority of American Muslims and their leaders have refused to cooperate with law enforcement investigations of jihadists — but then says he can’t reveal his law enforcement sources.
In fact, like virtually all King’s claims, that last is baloney. As a study last month from the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security revealed, 48 of the 120 Muslims suspected of plotting terror attacks in the United States since 9/11 were turned in by fellow Muslims. What’s more, leaders of virtually all responsible law enforcement groups report that most Muslims are highly cooperative.
King is holding his version of the McCarthy hearings at a time when extremist groups in the United States — hate groups, antigovernment “Patriot” zealots and extremist vigilante organizations — are expanding dramatically. Just last month, a new Southern Poverty Law Center report showed that the number of three strands of the radical right went from 1,753 groups in 2009 to 2,145 last year. In January, authorities arrested a neo-Nazi apparently planning a bomb attack on the Arizona border; found a powerful bomb set to explode by a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade; and seized a man apparently about to bomb a Michigan mosque. And  just last week, a large group of Muslim-haters screamed a litany of insults against Muslims at a California fundraisers, terrifying their cowering children, as can be seen in video of the event (which was taken down from the Web after this blog was first posted).
But King has no interest in these threats. To him, Islam is the enemy.
The reality is that King’s hearing are about demonizing Muslims, and they are, unfortunately, very likely to accomplish that goal. After all, they come in the midst of a renewed bout of Islamophobia — a round of hatred and fear that began last summer when other opportunistic politicians ginned up alarm about the Islamic center planned for lower Manhattan. They follow by just a few months the adoption of an absurd Oklahoma law designed to prevent the introduction of Islamic religious law in the state’s courts — a law that is now being emulated elsewhere.
Ultimately, this kind of demonization leads to violence against the targeted minorities. President George W. Bush understood that , and that is why, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, he gave a number of speeches saying that Muslims and Arabs were not our enemies — Al Qaeda was. As a result, anti-Muslim hate crimes, which had spiked up an astounding 1,700% after the attack, dropped by two thirds the following year. Bush may have made many mistakes as a president, but he clearly understood that demonizing minorities ultimately leads to violence.
Words have consequences — unfortunately, even Peter King’s.

Summary: Some people seem to have great difficulty in understanding why U.S. Rep. Peter King’s hearings on radicalization of American Muslims, set to open this Thursday, are seen as so loathsome by so many. Let me try to explain. Imagine, for starters, if another congressman — say, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Democrat and the first Muslim elected to Congress — decided to hold hearings on the Christian fundamentalist community and the radicalization of some of its members. After all, it is undeniably…


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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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Anne Frank Memorial in Idaho Vandalized
May 10, 2017
Bill Morlin
Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti were scrawled on two outdoor marble tablets at the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise, Idaho — the only memorial of its kind in the United States.


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In an executive order signed in private, President Trump named Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach , who moonlights as an attorney for the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), to serve as vice-chair of a commission to review claims of voter fraud, which will be chaired by Vice President Mike Pence.


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


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


Anti-Immigrant Oklahoma State Rep Accused of Threatening Speaker

Oklahoma State Rep. Randy Terrill is in the press again, this time for reportedly cursing and threatening Oklahoma House Speaker Kris Steele, a fellow Republican. Terrill, who is rabidly anti-immigrant and a prominent member of State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), the main organization behind efforts to undermine the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship, is also under investigation for bribery.
Tulsa Today reports that an affidavit signed last week by an unidentified eyewitness says that on March 10, Terrill entered the office of Majority Floor Leader Dan Sullivan and "stated, in approximately the following words, that he ‘knew he needed Senate authors on two of his bills, but that it didn't matter because the f------ retard Speaker wasn't going to hear them anyway – or so that's what the Floor Leader is telling everybody.'" The affidavit also says Terrill said, "in approximately the following words that ‘He thinks he's got one bad leg now, wait until I break his other Goddamned leg.'" Steele was crippled in a childhood accident.
Terrill was reprimanded on Tuesday for his behavior by his fellow legislators. During the debate, Terrill proclaimed his innocence and, according to Tulsa Today , "attacked other members of the House, alleging sexual and other misbehavior, and claiming he was being unfairly targeted by Republican leaders." The vote on Terrill's reprimand was 34-30, with 29 of the House's 31 Democrats and several Republicans voting to abstain. Republicans outnumber Democrats 70-31 in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
Terrill is one of the most anti-immigrant legislators in the country. He filed his first immigration bill in 2006, but it was considered too harsh and was rejected. His fortunes changed the following year when he put forward Oklahoma's H.B. 1804, one of the harshest state level anti-immigrant bills to become law. The law subjects employers to penalties for discrimination if they fire a legal resident but retain an undocumented worker in a similar position. An appeals court in early 2010 ruled that Oklahoma cannot enforce certain parts of the law.
Later, Terrill co-sponsored a successful bill to place on the 2010 ballot a state constitutional amendment outlawing the use of shariah , or Islamic religious law, in Oklahoma courts. The amendment passed that November with 70% voter approval, even though it has no practical legal impact: Judges have never had the power to rely on shariah or any other legal code to override U.S. law. Four weeks later, a federal judge stayed the amendment after opponents argued that it was an unconstitutional imposition on religious freedom.

Summary: Oklahoma State Rep. Randy Terrill is in the press again, this time for reportedly cursing and threatening Oklahoma House Speaker Kris Steele, a fellow Republican. Terrill, who is rabidly anti-immigrant and a prominent member of State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), the main organization behind efforts to undermine the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship, is also under investigation for bribery. Tulsa Today reports that an affidavit signed last week by an unidentified…


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


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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.


Racist Leader, Refusing to Surrender Tomorrow, Faces Arrest for Fraud

Longtime racist and Christian Identity leader August Byron Kreis III , who now leads a splinter faction of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations , faces three felonies for allegedly cheating the U.S. government he despises so much.
Arresting Kreis and getting him to U.S. District Court is the next challenge facing federal authorities. Kreis says he won’t surrender voluntarily.
Kreis, a virulent 56-year-old who applauded the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is named in a three-count federal indictment just returned in Columbia, S.C. A current resident of South Fulton, Tenn., he is charged with two counts of filing fraudulent statements to obtain veterans benefits, once in August 2006 and again in February 2008, federal court documents show. The third count accuses him of embezzling, stealing and converting to his own use more than $1,000 belonging to the United States.
On his Aryan Nations website, Kreis said he was told in a letter to voluntarily surrender and appear tomorrow in Columbia before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph McCrorey. Kreis wrote that a U.S. probation officer told him that if he didn’t appear, a warrant will be issued for his arrest. Kreis said that he won’t voluntarily travel to South Carolina and surrender.
“I advised him that I am handicapped, one leg and half a foot, and I now reside 800 miles away from Columbia, S.C.,” Kreis wrote. When the probation officer suggested postponing the arraignment date, “I told him that I was both physically and financially unable to appear this far away, no matter the date.
“I further advised him that if I were under arrest, then it would be ZOG’s obligation to see that I appeared before all that demanded my appearance and that I’d much rather have it that way,” Kreis wrote. ZOG is an acronym for Zionist Occupied Government, a phrase used by American neo-Nazis who believe the federal government is completely controlled by Jews.
Aryan Nations was once one of the three most important hate groups in America, putting on annual Aryan World Congresses that drew many factions of the radical right to the group’s headquarters in northern Idaho. But the Southern Poverty Law Center sued the group  and its leader Richard Butler in 2000, ultimately leading to a multimillion-dollar judgment against it and the forced sale of its headquarters compound. Kreis has been one of several people vying to bring the group back to its glory days under Butler, but has not been successful.
Like Butler, Kreis is an adherent of the Christian Identity theology, a racist reading of the Bible that claims Jews are the biological descendants of a mating of Eve and Satan, and also sees people of color as soulless “beasts of the field.”
Beth Drake, a press spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Columbia, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Dean Eichelberger, who is handling the current case against Kreis, both declined comment.
“The indictment alleges that Kreis provided false information about whether he had any income in reports that he submitted to the Department of Veterans Affairs,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a brief news release. (In white power circles, Kreis was frequently mocked during the 1990s because he seemed to live largely off welfare payments made to his then-teenage wife.)
The maximum penalty Kreis could receive on the theft of government funds count is 10 years imprisonment. On each of the two false statement counts, he could receive up to 5 years imprisonment. Each count also carries a possible fine of $250,000.
The case was investigated by agents of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the FBI.
Kreis has been involved in racist groups and activities for four decades – from the Posse Comitatus to the Ku Klux Klan to the Aryan Nations.
Known for his fiery temper and outspoken racist views, he has advocated the mass murder of Jews, non-whites and so-called race traitors.  He also promotes “lone wolf” domestic terrorism.
After the attacks of 9/11, Kreis applauded the terrorists, believing they shared his anti-Jewish views. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Kreis said on his website.
His criminal history goes back to 1991 when he was arrested for disorderly conduct at an Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan march in Lancaster, Pa.
In 1997, a judge in Pennsylvania issued a protective order prohibiting Kreis from any contact with his ex-wife or his oldest daughter after they alleged that Kreis physically and sexually abused their children for the past several years.
In 1998, Kreis was charged with harassment and disorderly conduct after he allegedly threatened two elderly neighbors he suspected of supporting an anti-racist group of ministers in Potter County, Pa., where he lived at the time. The charges later were dropped.

Summary: Longtime racist and Christian Identity leader August Byron Kreis III , who now leads a splinter faction of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations , faces three felonies for allegedly cheating the U.S. government he despises so much. Arresting Kreis and getting him to U.S. District Court is the next challenge facing federal authorities. Kreis says he won’t surrender voluntarily. Kreis, a virulent 56-year-old who applauded the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is named in a three-count federal indictment…


Neo-Nazi Allegedly Wanted to Supply Bombs to Nativist Border Vigilantes

A neo-Nazi accused of making illegal explosive devices apparently was interested in supplying those munitions to anti-immigration groups patrolling the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona, court documents reveal.
Jeffery Harbin, a member of the white supremacist National Socialist Movement (NSM), was building homemade grenades and pipe bombs after trips to the supermarket and hobby stores, the documents allege.
“Harbin had manufactured approximately six gallons of homemade (explosive) aluminum powder using aluminum foil,” according to a recently unsealed U.S. District Court affidavit. It was signed by an FBI agent assigned to a Joint Terrorism Task Force in Phoenix. The suspect also “had spent about $200 on model rocket engines to use in conjunction with the aluminum powder” in manufacturing the improvised explosive devices, the documents say.
Jeffery Harbin is the son of Jerry Harbin, who has past ties with the neo-Nazi National Alliance and the racist Council of Conservative Citizens . Jerry Harbin is not charged in the current case.
Jeffery Harbin was arrested on Jan. 14, about two months after the FBI began investigating his activities through the use of a confidential informant, the court documents say.
During one conversation, the informant expressed an interest “in making ‘trip’ or ‘smoke’ flares for operations along the border and asked Harbin to assist,” according to the documents.
Harbin expressed a willingness to assist, the documents say, and also said he would bring along PVC pipe and black powder, presumably for homemade grenades or pipe bombs.
When he showed up at the informant’s home, Harbin was monitored by FBI surveillance teams as he unloaded two plastic tubs and a black bag, the documents say.
Moments later, on a secret recording made by the FBI, Harbin displayed a homemade grenade he called his “little baby” while boasting that he had made others. He also showed the informant a pipe bomb equipped with a “model rocket engine igniter fusing system,” the documents say.
After driving away, Harbin’s vehicle was stopped by the Arizona Department of Public Safety officers. Three improvised explosive devices, along with explosive powders and bomb-making materials, were found during a search of Harbin’s vehicle.
He was indicted by a federal grand jury in Phoenix on Jan. 25 on two counts of possessing a destructive device and a third count of transporting destructive devices.
“Jeffery Harbin built these [improvised explosive devices] in such a way as to maximize human carnage,” Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney for Arizona, told the Arizona Republic after the indictment was returned.
Harry Hughes, a local member of the NSM, told the newspaper that Harbin was no longer considered a member of the group because he had not attended recent meetings. Hughes said he last saw Harbin at an NSM rally in Phoenix in November, the newspaper reported.
Harbin’s defense attorney, Philip Seplow of Phoenix, declined comment. However, in his latest court filing, the defense attorney said he had just received FBI lab reports and would need 60 days to hire an expert to analyze those. For that reason, U.S. District Court Judge Neil V. Wake agreed to postpone Harbin’s trial to Aug. 2.

Summary: A neo-Nazi accused of making illegal explosive devices apparently was interested in supplying those munitions to anti-immigration groups patrolling the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona, court documents reveal. Jeffery Harbin, a member of the white supremacist National Socialist Movement (NSM), was building homemade grenades and pipe bombs after trips to the supermarket and hobby stores, the documents allege. “Harbin had manufactured approximately six gallons of homemade (explosive) aluminum…


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Four Things to Know About Next Week's 'Patriotism Over Socialism' Rally in Arizona
April 12, 2019
Nick R. Martin
A U.S. congressman and the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party are both listed as speakers at an event that will also be attended by multiple hate groups.


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Statement Regarding Article Related to Mark Krikorian Attendance at White House Meeting
February 02, 2019
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Two Governors Turn Down Invitation to Hate Group-Funded Prayer Day

In the wake of revelations that Texas Gov. Rick Perry's planned Aug. 6 prayer gathering in Houston is being funded by the anti-gay hate group American Family Association (AFA), at least two governors have declined an invitation to attend.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal both announced they would not go to Perry's "The Response: a call to prayer for a nation in crisis." Their announcement came one day after Hatewatch reported the Tupelo, Miss.-based AFA, which is paying for the August event, is one of the nation's most strident voices spreading malicious anti-LGBT propaganda.
So far, one governor, Sam Brownback of Kansas, has consented to attend – and, according to the Lawrence Journal-World , will pay his own way. A spokesman for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Kyle Plotkin, confirmed to Hatewatch today that it was Jindal's intention to "try and come."
The AFA's director of policy analysis, Bryan Fischer , claimed last year, "Homosexuality gave us Adolph [sic] Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews." (The theory that Hitler, most of the Nazi leadership under him and his most-elite troops were homosexuals has been thoroughly debunked by many credible historians.) More recently, the AFA has attacked Home Depot for participating in "numerous gay pride parades and festivals." Last week , an official with AFA reportedly came to a Home Depot board meeting with a petition signed by a half million people who opposed the store's "homosexual activism."
The AFA's Fischer has additionally expressed the opinion that Native Americans deserved to be subjugated by the early Americans because they were not Christians, and that Muslims shouldn't be allowed to serve in the U.S. military. Fischer also has implied that sexually immoral people should be executed in the fashion of the biblical figure Phineas, who slew a man and woman of different tribes in cold blood as they made love.
As Hatewatch reported , Perry has a long history of ties to the anti-gay movement. In 2005, while signing a bill to amend the state constitution to specifically prohibit gays and lesbians from marrying, Perry was joined by Rob Parsley, a celebrity Pentecostal faith healer, who lauded the governor for "protecting the children of Texas from the gay agenda." (The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately struck down the law.)
Promotional materials for the Houston event state that the nation's problems are "beyond our power to solve." "There is hope for America," a statement on the website read. "It lies in heaven, and we will find it on our knees."

Summary: In the wake of revelations that Texas Gov. Rick Perry's planned Aug. 6 prayer gathering in Houston is being funded by the anti-gay hate group American Family Association (AFA), at least two governors have declined an invitation to attend. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal both announced they would not go to Perry's "The Response: a call to prayer for a nation in crisis." Their announcement came one day after Hatewatch reported the Tupelo, Miss.-based AFA, which is paying…


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A Kansas man is in jail on murder and attempted murder charges after allegedly shouting “get out of my country” and racial slurs before firing a handgun Wednesday evening in a crowded sports bar in suburb of Kansas City.


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Hatewatch Headlines 5/17/2017
May 17, 2017
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Buchanan calls Trump critics ‘unAmerican’; Louisiana legislators defend Confederacy sites; Judy Shepard rips ADF for ‘exploiting children’; and more.


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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.


Black Extremists Blast Obama’s Decision to Weaken Qaddafi, With One Predicting Spaceships

President Obama’s decision to intervene militarily in Libya to cripple dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s ability to combat rebels trying to topple his regime didn’t sit well with two American black nationalist leaders who consider the long-time strongman a friend and ally.
“Now you may laugh, but in a few days, something is going to wipe the smile and the laugh from your face,” Louis Farrakhan , leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), warned Thursday during a rambling press conference at the group’s headquarters in Chicago. The uprisings in the Arab world coupled with the tsunami in Japan signify that divine spaceships waiting to avenge black suffering will soon arrive, Farrakhan said. “Brother Barack’s” decision to back the Libyan opposition against Qaddafi – who in 1972 lent NOI’s leadership $3 million to buy the headquarters from which Farrakhan broadcast his speech – is only going to hasten the UFOs’ arrival.
NOI theology has it that just before the biblical end of times, believers will be whisked away in small spaceships called “Baby Wheels” to a giant “Mother Wheel,” where they will live while other divine ships eradicate those who remain on earth with enormous bombs, explains Mattias Gardell in In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam .
Farrakhan prophesied that the time is near. “All of the governments are releasing their files on UFOs. America’s holding back, [but] other nations are informing their people of the reality of what is above their heads,” he said. “Who do you think then that you’re dealing with, if you’re the best in the world but you’re thousands of years behind the technology on those wheels? I’m here to tell you, you are dealing with God. You have no weapon that can handle what is already prepared to take you out.”
For over a month, Farrakhan, who described himself as a recognized “head of state” equal to other world leaders, has been warning Obama not to intervene against Libya’s government. Even so, in Thursday’s speech he stressed that responsibility for America’s involvement with the opposition does not rest entirely with the nation’s first black president (whom, he said, he loves like a brother).
“Now this man Barack, he had a good heart. We all fell in love with him during the campaign. Not the same man today. … The people that surrounded him, engulfed him,” Farrakhan told his audience. “The stupid mistake that we make is to think that the president is the supreme power. Never was. Money is the power in America. … All of you know what I’m talking about, Zionist control of the government of the United States of America,”
In a much less forgiving mood was Malik Zulu Shabazz , leader of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), who often aligns himself with Farrakhan. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists both NOI and NBPP as hate groups.
Ripping into the president with shocking venom on March 23, Shabazz said in a presentation posted online, “Whatever Barack Obama is doing, he represents the white man. He represents the ideology of the white man, he represents the policies of the white man, he represents the CIA set up, sabotage, lie on a African leader and bomb that man like he George Bush. He represents the white man. And his wife should leave the nigger tonight. She should walk out and his beautiful daughters should walk out on this bamboozling, buck-dancing Tom,” Shabazz raged.
“Only thing you see in Libya is just a big case of police brutality. We see the way they [police] team up on us and run us down all the time,” he spat. “Sometimes it’s a nigger police chief that’s in the lead. This time it’s a nigger police chief in the lead named Barack Obama. But it makes no difference, the black man is on the run, named Qaddafi. We pray for his safety and that he survives.”

Summary: President Obama’s decision to intervene militarily in Libya to cripple dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s ability to combat rebels trying to topple his regime didn’t sit well with two American black nationalist leaders who consider the long-time strongman a friend and ally. “Now you may laugh, but in a few days, something is going to wipe the smile and the laugh from your face,” Louis Farrakhan , leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), warned Thursday during a rambling press conference at the group’s…


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Hatewatch Headlines 1/26/2017
January 26, 2017
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Kobach says he advised Trump on voter fraud probe and immigration orders; Tracking hate crimes, and doing it better; Origins of the alt-right; and more.


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A white nationalist streamer who attended the Jan. 6 pro-Trump march as a VIP, arguably encouraged threats on lawmakers’ lives in the run-up to the protest-turned-insurrection – and earned thousands of dollars in the process.


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Extremists' collectibles used to fund today's hate movement
December 21, 2018
Bill Morlin
Attempts to sell neo-Nazi memorabilia online are nothing new, but a recent marketing ploy attempts to use the sale of racist antiquities to fund modern-day racist activities.


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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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Hate crimes against Muslims surged by 67% during 2015, according to new statistics released by the FBI on Sunday. The rise, far higher than in any other major category of hate crimes, came during a year marked by news of atrocities by the Islamic State and Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.


State Department Advertises Interpreting Services of White Nationalist

Among the white nationalist intellectual vanguard, few figures are as widely known as Jared Taylor , founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of its racist journal American Renaissance . Despite his infamy, the State Department advertises the polyglot’s language skills on the website of the U.S. embassy in Japan.
Taylor’s name, E-mail address and home address in Virginia appear on the Tokyo embassy’s Language Services webpage , intended for U.S. citizens who need such services while in Japan. He’s one of the few individual interpreters for hire who are listed along with more than a dozen companies that provide translation services. A State Department spokesman said Monday he was not aware of Taylor’s associations and had no immediate comment.
Born to missionary parents in Japan, Taylor lived in that country until he was 16, then studied at Yale and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. He is fluent in both Japanese and French.
Taylor has written extensively on the nature of race relations. In 1994, he founded the New Century Foundation, a pseudo-intellectual think tank that promotes “research” on racial differences in intelligence and other matters. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a hate group the foundation and American Renaissance , which bills itself as “America’s premiere publication of racial-realist thought” and has fulminated extensively on the “psychopathology” of black people.
Despite his ivory tower veneer, Taylor has a long history of racially disparaging comments – perhaps most notably in 2005, when he wrote in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization – any kind of civilization – disappears.”
He added: “Our rulers and media executives will try to turn the story of Hurricane Katrina into yet another morality tale of downtrodden blacks and heartless whites… . [But m]any whites will realize – some for the first time – that we have Africa in our midst, that utterly alien Africa of road-side corpses, cruelty and anarchy that they thought could never wash up on our shores.”
In 1992, he wrote Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America , a book expounding on the idea that blacks are “crime-prone,” “dissipated,” “pathological” and “defiant.” A year later, Taylor spoke at a conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens , a white supremacist group that has described black people as “a retrograde species of humanity.”
The State Department does not suggest that its listing of Taylor’s translation services is a stamp of approval. In fact, the webpage includes this disclaimer: “The Embassy in no way endorses any of these organizations.” Still, officials may want to take note of Taylor’s racist history, especially those tarnished roots at the base of his less-than-sterling pedigree.
UPDATE 04/13/11: Hatewatch, on Tuesday, contacted the State Department and requested comment regarding Jared Taylor’s work as a translator through the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. As of April 13, 2011, Taylor was no longer listed on the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo’s "Language Services" webpage.

Summary: Among the white nationalist intellectual vanguard, few figures are as widely known as Jared Taylor , founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of its racist journal American Renaissance . Despite his infamy, the State Department advertises the polyglot’s language skills on the website of the U.S. embassy in Japan. Taylor’s name, E-mail address and home address in Virginia appear on the Tokyo embassy’s Language Services webpage , intended for U.S. citizens who need such services while in…


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


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


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Hatewatch Headlines 8/30/18
August 30, 2018
Hatewatch Staff
A U.S. Senate candidate will speak alongside extremists; another Trump administration official has ties to white nationalists; climate change and systemic racism, and more.


Far-Right Student Group Building Ties to Right-Wing European Extremists

Taylor Rose, with the Liberty University chapter of the far-right campus student organization Youth for Western Civilization , is slated to appear at an international anti-Islamic demonstration called the "March for Freedom" in Cologne, Germany, on May 7, where he has pledged to give a speech.
The Cologne march is a yearly event sponsored by Cities Against Islamization , a coalition of various far-right groups, some of whose members have been officially declared extremist by European governments. Its members regard Islam as a quasi-fascist ideology and claim that Europe is in danger of being overrun by Muslims. They argue that European civilization is in danger of extinction through mass immigration, multiculturalism, and Islamization. The march in Cologne has led to violent clashes in the past between marchers and protestors. The group has also held protests in European cities against the Park51 mosque project in Lower Manhattan.
In early April, Rose (above, far right) also met in Antwerp with members of the far-right Belgian political party Vlaams Belang at one of the party's congresses. He was photographed there with members of PRO NRW (NRW means North Rhineland-Westphalia, a German state) and PRO Köln (City of Cologne), both of which are classified as "right-wing extremist" by German authorities. Members of the far-right anti-immigration and anti-Islamic German Pro-Bewegung (Pro-Motion) movement were also in attendance.
The Vlaams Belang advocates for the independence of Flanders from Belgium, strict limits on immigration, and also opposes multiculturalism. In 2004, the party, then known as Vlaams Blok, was found to be in violation of laws against racism and xenophobia. It disbanded and re-formed as Vlaams Belang, changing its platform to comply with the law. Members of Vlaams Belang have traveled in the past to meet with American hate groups, including the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
The March for Freedom blog referred to Rose as a "representative of the Tea Party" (he has appeared at one known Tea Party protest, in 2010) and "chapter chairman of Youth for Western Civilization." Issues discussed at the Antwerp meeting included immigration policy, Islamization, and what the European attendees considered their threatened freedom of expression because of anti-racism laws in Europe.
Youth for Western Civilization, a student group that opposes multiculturalism and "political correctness" on campus and claims immigration will destroy America, says its mission is to "preserve the values of Western civilization." Founded in 2006, it has since grown to include chapters at several U.S. universities, including Liberty, American, University of North Carolina, Washington State, Vanderbilt, and the University of Connecticut-Storrs. The Providence College chapter was denied official recognition from the campus, but it is active. The Boise State chapter is in the process of getting official recognition.
In October 2010, the Vanderbilt chapter hosted Richard Spencer, the director of the white nationalist National Policy Institute , to discuss how affirmative action hurts whites. Spencer is also the editor of the white nationalist webzine Alternative Right. Also in October 2010, national YWC president and founder Kevin DeAnna spoke at a workshop sponsored by the white nationalist Social Contract Press . In 2009, he gave a speech at the H.L. Mencken Club gathering, co-sponsored by Fitzgerald-Griffin Foundation, which the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a white nationalist hate group.
Rose is fluent in German and is currently pursuing a B.A. at the Jerry Falwell-founded Liberty University in international relations with a minor in strategic intelligence. He blogs about the dangers of Islam at the YWC site, and he protested the Park51 mosque in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2010.

Summary: Taylor Rose, with the Liberty University chapter of the far-right campus student organization Youth for Western Civilization , is slated to appear at an international anti-Islamic demonstration called the "March for Freedom" in Cologne, Germany, on May 7, where he has pledged to give a speech. The Cologne march is a yearly event sponsored by Cities Against Islamization , a coalition of various far-right groups, some of whose members have been officially declared extremist by European…


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Tony Perkins , the president of the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council , has made a career out of demonizing the LGBT community including repeatedly linking homosexuality and pedophilia, despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary.


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Latest FBI numbers show anti-Muslim hate crimes continue to rise, suggest growing shift toward violence against people
November 14, 2017
Alejandro J. Beutel
Yesterday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual tally of reported hate crimes from around the country.


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


Assault on Maryland Transgendered Woman May Be a Hate Crime

A furor has arisen over the brutal beating of a transgendered woman in a McDonald’s Restaurant near Baltimore, with many supporters saying that Chrissy Lee Polis was attacked because of her gender identity in a classic hate crime and calling for the levying of hate crime charges. However, Polis seems to have given differing accounts of the attack, and prosecutors say they are still investigating and have not spoken to the victim yet.
The attack on Polis, 22, occurred on April 18, but has only in the last few days drawn national attention on LGBT websites and elsewhere. On Monday, some 300 people rallied against violence directed at the transgendered, singing “We Shall Overcome” outside the Rosedale, Md., McDonald’s. In a weird aside, the white supremacist website Occidental Dissent — a site thick with links to racist blogs with names like “Why Blacks Suck” — attacked the Southern Poverty Law Center on Monday, saying it was ignoring the attack because Polis was white and her two attackers were black. That shows the SPLC is a “hate racket,” the site said.
A restaurant employee recorded the attack on his cell phone and posted it on YouTube, where it was quickly removed, but not before it had been reposted across the Internet. The attackers pushed Polis to the floor, kicked her several times, and ripped her earrings from her earlobes before Polis went into an apparent epileptic seizure. The video shows that although one employee and a store patron tried to intervene, other McDonald's employees did nothing, and in fact seemed to be goading on the attackers. (The employee who taped the attack was later fired.) Two young women have been arrested and charged with assault, according to press reports. Teonna Monae Brown, 18, had been arrested previously for a fight at the same restaurant in 2010. The second suspect was a 14-year-old juvenile and her name was not released.
The Baltimore Sun reported Sunday that Scott Shellenberger, the Maryland state attorney for Baltimore County, said his office had not yet received the case file and had not yet interviewed Polis. He said his office would likely interview her in the “next week and a half” and gather additional evidence in order to determine if the attack was a hate crime. “When the case was first presented, none of those facts had been revealed to the police – which is why the charges were the way they were,” Shellenberger told the newspaper. “We can certainly revisit the motive for the attack and determine if we need to make additional charges.”
Confusing details about the attack have emerged in different media reports. Polis told the Sun in a video interview posted online a few days after the attack that the assailants confronted her because one of them thought Polis was trying to “talk to her man.” In the video, Polis said, “They just seemed like they wanted to pick a fight that night. They really did.” Polis also expressed discomfort with Internet speculation about the attack, but she didn’t address any specific online assumptions.
However, in a subsequent article this Sunday , Polis told the Sun that the attack “was definitely a hate crime,” and that when she emerged from the ladies’ restroom, the attackers said, “That's a dude, that's a dude, and she's in the female bathroom.” Polis also told the Sun that she thought race might have played a role. For its part, the police report quotes one of the suspects as saying that the fight was “over using a bathroom,” according to the Sun . Then, in a Tuesday article at MyFoxDC , Polis was quoted saying that the two girls jumped her when she tried to use the bathroom after one of their boyfriends tried to “hit on her.” The article went on to say that “the vicious attack escalated when they realized she was a transsexual.”
Equality Maryland, an LGBT rights group, has called on state attorney general Douglas Gansler to investigate the attack as a hate crime.
Polis told the Sun in the Sunday article that it's not the first time she's been assaulted because of her identity. Since the attack she said she's afraid to go outside, and worried that all the publicity will keep her from getting a job.
Polis is hardly alone. As a major Intelligence Report article last fall reported, members of the LGBT community are vastly more likely to be attacked in a violent hate crime than any other minority, as shown by an analysis of FBI hate crime data. Although official statistics on attacks on transgendered people do not exist, it seems clear that they are almost certainly the most victimized members of that LGBT community, and therefore the most victimized group in American society. In 2003, the Report carried a major article on an epidemic of murders of transgendered people in the Washington, D.C., area.

Summary: A furor has arisen over the brutal beating of a transgendered woman in a McDonald’s Restaurant near Baltimore, with many supporters saying that Chrissy Lee Polis was attacked because of her gender identity in a classic hate crime and calling for the levying of hate crime charges. However, Polis seems to have given differing accounts of the attack, and prosecutors say they are still investigating and have not spoken to the victim yet. The attack on Polis, 22, occurred on April 18, but has only…


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Hatewatch Headlines 1/13/2017
January 13, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
Montana march called off; Alt-right smears Trump protesters; Day laborers targeted by anti-Latino vigilantes; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 10/17/2016
October 17, 2016
Hatewatch Staff
How Trump has taken hate mainstream; Clarke calls for ‘torches and pitchforks’; Derek Black’s white nationalism exodus; and more.


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Anti-LGBT Roundup of Events and Activities 6.26.17
June 26, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
The following is a list of activities and events of anti-LGBT organizations and individuals. Organizations listed as anti-LGBT hate groups are designated with an asterisk.


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


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In this month’s Sovereign Files, a man who conned people into filing cases in a fake court is convicted on multiple charges; an Illinois man is charged with contempt of court for the second time in four years; a man who calls himself Church reveals plans to run for president upon his arrest; and more.


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Two American Muslims Charged in NYC Bomb Plot

Two American Muslims, one of whom complained that Muslims were treated like "dogs," have been charged with plotting to kill Jews by blowing up synagogues in Manhattan.
Ahmed Ferhani, 26, an aspiring fashion model who once sold cosmetics at Saks Fifth Avenue, and his accomplice, Mohamed Mamdouh, 20, a taxi service dispatcher, were arrested Wednesday after purchasing three semiautomatic pistols, 150 rounds of ammunition and a hand grenade from an undercover police officer.
They are charged under state law with second-degree conspiracy as a crime of terrorism, second-degree conspiracy as a hate crime and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon as a crime of terrorism.
New York law enforcement described the two men as "lone wolves" with no apparent connection to Al Qaeda or any other terrorist group. Their arrest is the result of a seven-month undercover investigation during which Ferhani became increasingly angry and violent, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. As Ferhani’s rage grew, so did the scope of his plans. He even talked about blowing up the Empire State Building.
Shortly before the arrest, Ferhani said he was "fed up with the way Muslims were being treated around the world. They are treating us like dogs."
Ferhani is an Algerian-born legal permanent resident who came to the United States with his parents in 1995. Mamdouh, from Casablanca, Morocco, is a naturalized U.S. citizen who has lived in the States since 1999.
Ferhani’s father told The New York Times that his son was not a particularly devout Muslim. He described him as a "naïve person" with a "very good heart" whose weakness was credulity. "If somebody tries to tell him something, he always believes it," Ferhani’s father said.

Summary: Two American Muslims, one of whom complained that Muslims were treated like "dogs," have been charged with plotting to kill Jews by blowing up synagogues in Manhattan. Ahmed Ferhani, 26, an aspiring fashion model who once sold cosmetics at Saks Fifth Avenue, and his accomplice, Mohamed Mamdouh, 20, a taxi service dispatcher, were arrested Wednesday after purchasing three semiautomatic pistols, 150 rounds of ammunition and a hand grenade from an undercover police officer. They are charged under…


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


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


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


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


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A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant accused of being a domestic terrorist wrote a letter to prominent white supremacist Harold Covington discussing the idea of a “white homeland” and using “focused violence” to achieve that goal.


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


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A Kansas man is in jail on murder and attempted murder charges after allegedly shouting “get out of my country” and racial slurs before firing a handgun Wednesday evening in a crowded sports bar in suburb of Kansas City.


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White Nationalist State Department Official Surfaces in Photographs
August 09, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
Hatewatch has obtained images of Matthew Q. Gebert, a State Department official who is involved in the white nationalist movement.


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White Supremacist Confesses to Killing Black Man in Indiana
October 17, 2016
Bill Morlin
A self-described white supremacist has confessed to the stabbing death of a black man in in Fort Wayne, Ind., according to media reports.


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


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As the so-called 'Deep State' turns into a real point of political discussion, the white nationalist 'Alt-Right' sees in its shadow an effort to undermine an administration whose ear they feel they have.


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


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Suspect in Canadian Mosque Shooting Expressed Right-Wing Views Online
January 31, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
A suspect in custody for a
deadly mosque shooting over the weekend
in Quebec City, Canada, left a trail of right-wing extremist rants online and in social networks.


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Hatewatch Headlines 1/26/2017
January 26, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
Kobach says he advised Trump on voter fraud probe and immigration orders; Tracking hate crimes, and doing it better; Origins of the alt-right; and more.


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After an 11 th -hour injunction required Auburn University to uphold a contract allowing Richard Spencer to speak at the school’s Foy Hall on April 18, protesters and supporters descended on the small, college town, resulting in several small scuffles and altercations. When the dust settled, three had been arrested for misdemeanor violence , one of whom the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) is claiming as a member.


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Neo-Nazi Boasted of Murder Plan in “Manifesto Video”
May 08, 2017
Bill Morlin
A neo-Nazi who boasted he was “doing my race a favor” by killing an openly gay college instructor has been convicted of first-degree murder by a North Carolina jury.


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Hatewatch Headlines 4/21/2017
April 21, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
Why militia groups are still surging in number; Trump invites Ted Nugent to the White House; Sullivan keeps plugging debunked race theories; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 1/13/2017
January 13, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
Montana march called off; Alt-right smears Trump protesters; Day laborers targeted by anti-Latino vigilantes; and more.


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


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California chapter of anti-LGBT hate group MassResistance gets a white nationalist member
August 16, 2018
Hatewatch Staff
The California chapter of
anti-LGBT hate group MassResistance
was formed in May 2016 by longtime anti-immigrant and nativist activist Arthur Schaper. Now it’s added a white nationalist to its ranks.


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


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


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


Internet Evangelist: Glenn Beck is a 'Wolf of Satan'

Even stopped clocks are right two times a day, so why can’t hate group leaders be half as accurate?
Internet evangelist Bill Keller, head of the anti-Muslim, anti-gay, anti-Mormon hate group Bill Keller Ministries, spoke the truth exactly once in a press release issued yesterday. Exhorting Christians not to follow Glenn Beck, he observed that the former Fox News entertainer “views himself as a modern day Paul Revere or Moses,” and makes money – “mostly from gullible Christians” – by scaring them into “buying gold, safes, and food insurance.”
Truer words were never spoken – unfortunately, they were spoken by a lunatic.
Beck, Keller explained in a press release yesterday, is Satan “masquerading as an angel of light.” His Mormon faith is a “satanically inspired cult” that plans to “suspend the US Constitution and enact a Mormon theocracy.” And evangelicals like David Barton and John Hagee – both major Beck champions – “have sold out the faith like Judas to give this cult member credibility within the Christian community,” thus “leaving a huge void for wolves of Satan like Beck to easily fill.”
Keller has been flogging this theme for years. In 2007, he made national news by declaring that a vote for Republican Mitt Romney, a Mormon, was equivalent to “voting for Satan.” He doubled down on that claim in November 2011, writing in a “daily devotional” sent to subscribers to his website, LivePrayer, that the 2012 presidential election would most likely “pit satan vs. satan.”
In September 2010, he proclaimed that, as subscribers to false religions, Beck and Ghandi (even though he was a “nice person”) are condemned to hell.
Unsurprisingly, Keller’s bile extends to Muslims as well. In July 2010, he announced plans to build a “9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero” as a counter to Park51, the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” (or “temple to satan,” in Keller’s words) being constructed nearby.
“Islam is a 1400-year-old lie from hell, dreamed up by Mohammed after being visited by angels of satan in his sleep,” Keller declared last year in an email begging followers to donate money to the cause. “NOW IS THE TIME, THIS IS THE MOMENT, IT IS OUR TURN TO STAND FOR CHRIST! THE SOUL OF THIS NATION HANGS IN THE BALANCE!!!” he wrote. “We will combat the lies of this world and Islam with the TRUTH. We will combat the hatred of this world and Islam with LOVE. We will combat the violence of this world and Islam with PEACE. Finally, we will combat eternal death this world and Islam brings with LIFE EVERLASTING!!!”
Keller, whose late-night TV show (which aired in Florida, where his Internet ministry is based) was cancelled in 2007 after he called the Prophet Muhammad a “murdering pedophile” and the Koran “a book of lies,” also hates President Obama. In 2009, he produced a 28-minute infomercial offering a “special look at where Barack Hussein Obama was really born.” Its featured guest was lawyer Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, an ardent birther and subscriber to antigovernment “Patriot” ideology who earlier this year filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of antigovernment icon Bernard von Nothaus, creator of an alternative currency called the “ Liberty Dollar ” and head of his own marijuana-smoking church , who was convicted in March on charges of conspiracy and counterfeiting.
Keller has a sticky past of his own. According to his LivePrayer biography, “God got Bill’s attention in 1989 when he became involved in insider trading of the stock market, was convicted, lost everything, and spent the next 2 ½ years in federal prison.” While incarcerated, Keller “rededicated his life to the Lord” and earned a degree from Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, an affiliate of the anti-gay, anti-Muslim Liberty Counsel. He launched LivePrayer in 1999.

Summary: Even stopped clocks are right two times a day, so why can’t hate group leaders be half as accurate? Internet evangelist Bill Keller, head of the anti-Muslim, anti-gay, anti-Mormon hate group Bill Keller Ministries, spoke the truth exactly once in a press release issued yesterday. Exhorting Christians not to follow Glenn Beck, he observed that the former Fox News entertainer “views himself as a modern day Paul Revere or Moses,” and makes money – “mostly from gullible Christians” – by scaring…


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Between Wednesday, November 9, the day after the presidential election, and the morning of Monday, November 14, the Southern Poverty Law Center collected 437 reports of hateful intimidation and harassment.


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A law firm associated with activists on the far-right fringe registered the Limited Liability Company (LLC) Stop the Steal in Montgomery, Alabama, in November, state records show . “Stop the Steal” is the name of a nationwide protest movement focused on overturning President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election based upon unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.


The Illinois Family Institute Again Cites Discredited Research, Briefly

Today is the 13th annual “Day of Silence,” an event organized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network to call attention to the bullying of sexual minorities in schools. And the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is mad.
So mad, in fact, that it put up a ham-handed propaganda video on its website Wednesday, complete with a wicked teacher (who it suggests is a member of the National Education Association union) tossing a Bible in the trash, miserable kids with taped-over mouths forced to participate in the “Day of Silence,” and references to how school calendars have replaced Patriot’s Day and Easter vacation with “Earth Day and spring break” (“a day honoring the bravery of our forefathers and a time marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ supplanted by political correctness and radical environmentalism”). It goes on to describe how homosexuals have worked to be seen as “victims” even as they insidiously promote “tolerance“ and suggests that all is not what it seems.
“Hiding beneath this glossy veneer is the truth that in nearly every study, it is the homosexual who is more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs, to accept abusive relationships, to acquire and spread sexually transmitted disease, to suffer in depression and doubt, even to view suicide as a solution. The median age of death of the homosexual man is 42. Only 9% live past age 65,” the narrator says.
Make that said.
Within hours of putting up the attack video, the IFI had snatched it down. First off, it had suggested the video was produced by a Baptist church in Arizona, but that church notified IFI that it was not the author and publicly denied being in any way involved.  IFI fixed that up pretty quickly, attributing the video to another church, this one in Illinois, when it put back up the revamped video a few hours later. But there was one other little-noticed change, too.
When the video reappeared on the IFI website, two lines of narration had been mysteriously edited out: “The median age of death of the homosexual man is 42. Only 9% live past age 65.” What’s up with that?
Well, the IFI has for some weeks now been in a hot dispute with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which publishes this blog and also began listing IFI as a “hate group” earlier this year. The group has accused SPLC, ironically enough, of “bullying” IFI by listing it as a hate group (apparently, that’s okay for homophobic kids and teachers, but not for critics of IFI). IFI official Laurie Higgins has angrily disputed the hate-group label, which was mainly based on the posting on IFI’s website of a laudatory story about the discredited work of anti-gay “researcher” Paul Cameron , a man who has been thrown out of two professional associations because, as one said, he “consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism.” IFI’s story on Cameron — “New Study Shows that Homosexuals Live 20 Fewer Years” — was preceded by what amounted to a full-throated endorsement of Cameron from then-IFI Executive Director Peter LaBarbera. (“Paul Cameron’s work has been targeted for ridicule by homosexual activists, and he’s been demonized by the left,” LaBarbera wrote, “but this should not discount his findings.”) Higgins wrote angrily that SPLC’s listing was based on a single article, posted in 2005, and that she would not remove it because it showed how “flimsy” SPLC’s characterization of IFI was.
As the SPLC noted years ago, the Cameron “study” cited by IFI was based on obituaries in gay newspapers and has been completely discredited. It was published in what IFI characterized as “the scientific journal, Psychological Reports ” — actually a vanity publication that charges “researchers” a mere $27.50 a page to publish their work. Interestingly, it was another version of the Cameron study on gay longevity — the subject of the piece published by IFI — that was referenced in the video IFI put up this week. But now Higgins has apparently decided that IFI should avoid repeating the Cameron defamations, and thus the scrubbing of the video it published. The film also apparently managed to get something else wrong — if you believe IFI’s story on Cameron, that is. That article says that the Centers for Disease Control found that “9% of heterosexuals who died of AIDS were at least 65 years of age.” In the video — until it was scrubbed by IFI — the claim was that only 9% of homosexual men live past the age of 65. Needless to say, those are entirely different statements.
But who’s surprised by that? When an organization like IFI relies on the work of discredited crackpots like Cameron, what’s a fact wrong here and there? Higgins said weeks ago that she would look into SPLC claims about Cameron. But so far not much has happened — other than IFI’s obvious attempt to avoid the embarrassment of, once again, quoting the infamous Paul Cameron to support its homophobia.

Summary: Today is the 13th annual “Day of Silence,” an event organized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network to call attention to the bullying of sexual minorities in schools. And the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is mad. So mad, in fact, that it put up a ham-handed propaganda video on its website Wednesday, complete with a wicked teacher (who it suggests is a member of the National Education Association union) tossing a Bible in the trash, miserable kids with taped-over mouths forced to…


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A Kansas man is in jail on murder and attempted murder charges after allegedly shouting “get out of my country” and racial slurs before firing a handgun Wednesday evening in a crowded sports bar in suburb of Kansas City.


County Officials Plot Day Laborer Crackdown

Assemblyman Greg Ball, known for his tough anti-immigration attitudes, is joining forces with county supervisor Kenneth Schmitt to launch an enforcement program targeting Latino day laborers in downtown Mahopac, N.Y. Read full article


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


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The website for the Daily Stormer, the white supremacist, neo-Nazi and antisemitic racist group, has lost access to a critical piece of web infrastructure that allows the general public to access its hate propaganda easily.


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


Arpaio Supporters Confront Children's March

Members of United for a Sovereign America, at least two of them carrying holstered handguns, staged a counter-demonstration alongside a march by Latino children protesting the impact on families of immigration round-ups orchestrated by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Read full article


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


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


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


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


Justice Department Takes a Second Look at New Black Panthers Voter-Intimidation Case

The Department of Justice has begun an internal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the dismissal in May of voter intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party, a black separatist group.
Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, disclosed the inquiry this week. Smith has been a strident critic of the Justice Department’s decision to dismiss charges against members of the group who stood outside a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day last November in military-style fatigues and berets. The department previously won an injunction against one of the members, who had carried a night stick.
The original incident was captured on videotape and posted on YouTube, where it attracted national attention. The New Black Panther Party — which despite its name has no connection with the original Black Panther Party — is a black supremacist organization listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, based on the anti-white and anti-Semitic views its leaders and members have repeatedly expressed.
The Justice Department had cited insufficient evidence as the primary reason for dismissing the case, but some Republicans have found that unacceptable. Conservative bloggers and commentators, including Rush Limbaugh, have condemned the decision to drop most of the case. And Rep. Smith has called on Senate Republicans to block the nomination of President Obama’s choice to the head the Civil Rights Division, Tom Perez, over the matter.
Smith was notified of the Justice Department action in a letter from Mary Patrice Brown, chief counsel of the Office of Professional Responsibility, the department’s internal ethics watchdog. The letter, dated Aug. 28, said Brown’s office is conducting an “inquiry,” a preliminary step that indicates the office found more grounds to explore the complaint, while stopping short of opening a more formal investigation.
Acting Civil Rights Division chief Loretta King recommended dismissing most of the complaint in April. The complaint had been filed in January in the waning days of the Bush administration. Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Ron Weich wrote to Rep. Smith in July, saying the Justice Department concluded the evidence did not support the allegation that the New Black Panther Party had directed its members to block polling places across the country. “[F]actual contentions in the complaint did not have sufficient evidentiary support,” Weich said.
“I am pleased that someone at the Justice Department is finally taking the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party case seriously,” Smith said in his news release this week. “The Justice Department’s decision to drop a case against political allies who allegedly intimidated voters on Election Day 2008 reeks of political interference. The Justice Department’s refusal to provide Congress with an explanation for the dismissal only further raises concerns that political favoritism played a role in this case. ... I look forward to seeing the results of the Department’s investigation.”
Rep. Smith’s characterization of the New Black Panthers as “political allies” of the Obama administration may strike some as a bit of a stretch, however. The principal activity of the New Black Panther Party appears to be spouting hateful talk; there is no evidence of any of the health clinics or breakfast programs the original Panthers provided in the 1960s. The new group rose to prominence in the late 1990s under the leadership of Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who previously was the leading spokesman for the black separatist Nation of Islam, but whose incendiary rhetoric turned out too extreme even for that organization. In a September 2000 speech , he railed against “the hooked-nose, bagel-eatin', lox-eatin', perpetrating-a-fraud, just-crawled-out-of-the-caves-and-hills-of-Europe, so-called, wannabe, imposter Jew,” and also said, “There's only two kinds of white folks, there's only two kinds, bad white folks and worse white folks.”
Khalid Muhammad died in 2001 and leadership passed to Malik Zulu Shabazz, who once praised his predecessor for being a man “who gives the white man nightmares … who makes the Jews pee in their pants at night.” Zulu Shabazz was one of three party members named in the original Justice Department complaint in December.
The Justice Department did obtain an injunction against the man shown in the video wielding the night stick, King Samir Shabazz. It prohibits him from brandishing a weapon outside a polling place through Nov. 15, 2012.

Summary: The Department of Justice has begun an internal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the dismissal in May of voter intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party, a black separatist group. Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, disclosed the inquiry this week. Smith has been a strident critic of the Justice Department’s decision to dismiss charges against members of the group who stood outside a Philadelphia polling…


Nativist Group Founder Admits Contact with Forde Hours After Slayings in Arizona

Laine Lawless, the Mexican-flag-burning founder of the Arizona-based hate group Border Guardians, admitted last week that she met with fellow nativist vigilante leader Shawna Forde less than 24 hours after Forde allegedly took part in the home invasion slayings of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter in Arivaca, Ariz., near the Mexican border.
The admission from Lawless came in response to a Sept. 9 Everett (Wash.) Herald article in which Minuteman activist Chuck Stonex revealed that Lawless had accompanied him the night of May 30 when Stonex met with Forde and Jason Bush, the alleged triggerman in the slayings, which had occurred in the early morning hours that same day.
Two weeks later, Forde and Bush were arrested and charged with the murders along with a third accomplice. Soon after their arrests, Stonex went to police and said he’d treated Bush for a gunshot wound at Forde’s request the night after the killings. He said that Forde claimed a ricochet had struck Bush in the leg while he was on vigilante border patrol.
According to law enforcement authorities, Bush suffered the injury when the wife and mother of the victims shot him during the home invasion robbery that was orchestrated by Forde, the founder of Minuteman American Defense.
Everett, a suburb of Seattle, is Forde’s hometown, and the Herald has been following the tangled local-girl-gone-bad story with extensive coverage of the Arivaca killings and their fallout since mid-June.
Stonex told the Herald he decided to disclose to police that Lawless was present at the meeting where he patched up Bush after Lawless created a website proclaiming Forde’s innocence and rallying border vigilantes to Forde’s cause.
"She was there, too. She saw everything that I saw," Stonex told the Herald . “"She's making too many troubles and I think it is time for the rest of the story.”
According to Stonex, Forde contacted him around 8 a.m. May 30, about five hours after the slayings, and told him one of her “scouts” had been shot. Then Bush got on the phone and requested that Stonex pick up medical supplies and meet them in Arivaca. Neither made any mention of the killings, Stonex claimed.
Stonex said that agreed to help, but not until after he attended a gathering in another town of American Border Patrol, a separate anti-immigrant hate group run by Glenn Spencer.
At that gathering, Stonex said, he met Lawless for the first time. When Forde called him again and asked to meet around 9 p.m. in Arivaca, Stonex said, he told Lawless what was up and where he was going. She asked to come along, and he agreed.
According to Stonex, he and Lawless drove to a strip mall that Forde had selected for their meeting place. Forde arrived in a teal minivan, which matches the description in police reports of the vehicle used in the killings.
Stonex said that Forde led them to a small house in Arivaca where he provided first aid to Bush while Forde and Lawless spoke together.
Stonex's revelation about Lawless touched off yet another round of infighting within the Minutemen movement in the aftermath of the murders, with some Minutemen arguing in online forums that he did the right thing while others called him a rat.
In a message posted on her website two days after the Herald article was published, Lawless castigated Stonex for “outing” her but did not dispute the basic facts of his account.
“The simple fact of the matter is that on the night of May 30, Chuck and I went to see Shawna and Jason Bush in Arivaca. This was not RIGHT AFTER the murders in Arivaca; it was 20 hours later,” Lawless wrote. “Neither of us had any prior knowledge of any crime being committed. I had corresponded with Shawna and had talked to her a few times on the phone, and I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to meet her in person. I had no mercenary goal that night, just the normal human curiosity to meet a new person. We arrived, we stayed for maybe 30 minutes, we left, and we went our separate ways.”
Lawless has been a lightning rod for controversy within the border vigilante movement since April 2006, when the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report revealed that she had contacted a high-ranking member of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, to urge the NSM to launch a campaign of violence and harassment against Latino immigrants.
Since then, she has continued to flirt with extremist causes beyond the scope of anti-immigration vigilantism. Most recently, on July 13 she attended a lecture in Phoenix by Holocause denier David Irving where she rubbed shoulders with neo-Nazis and racist skinheads.

Summary: Laine Lawless, the Mexican-flag-burning founder of the Arizona-based hate group Border Guardians, admitted last week that she met with fellow nativist vigilante leader Shawna Forde less than 24 hours after Forde allegedly took part in the home invasion slayings of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter in Arivaca, Ariz., near the Mexican border. The admission from Lawless came in response to a Sept. 9 Everett (Wash.) Herald article in which Minuteman activist Chuck Stonex revealed that…


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Identity Dixie Leaders Helped Plan Deadly Rally
July 26, 2019
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Behind the shield of anonymity, members of a neo-Confederate hate group appeared to have emerged without consequences for their participation in a deadly Virginia rally. But that shield has vanished.


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Boys Charged with Beating Immigrant
September 15, 2009
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Six boys, ages 11 to 14, allegedly beat a sleeping Guatemalan immigrant with bottles, bricks and rocks, causing severe head injuries and brain damage.
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Hate Group Leads Anti-Immigration Lobbying Drive

The Federation for American Immigration Reform - designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of its founder’s ties to white nationalists, eugenicists, and Holocaust deniers, is sponsoring a “town hall of the airwaves” on Capitol Hill. Read full article


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Man Wearing KKK Shirt Charged with Attacking Immigrant
September 15, 2009
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Michael Conklin, 18, allegedly shot a Latino teenager three times with a BB gun while wearing a shirt with racist insignias.
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Nativist Groups Host Fundraiser for Slain Border Patrol Agent

The Campo Minuteman and Tea Party activists are co-hosting a fundraiser in San Juan Capistrano for the family of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was shot to death in Campo this summer. Read full article


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


Olson, Michigan Militia Leader in '90s, Back in Action in Alaska

A key figure of the 1990s antigovernment “Patriot” movement who largely dropped from public view in 2002 has resurfaced in Alaska, where he’s recruiting for his newly formed Alaska Militia.
Norm Olson , who founded the Michigan Militia in 1994, held an organizational meeting last Thursday at a community center in Nikiski, a small town in the Kenai Peninsula region about 170 road miles from Anchorage.
Olson’s message : “Something very evil this way comes.”
“We’re looking at catastrophe just a couple months away — economic collapse, food shortages around the world, prices in stores are gonna go skyrocketing with this inflation,” Olson told the roughly 20 attendees, according to The Redoubt Reporter , a Kenai Peninsula newspaper.
“I’m convinced that times are coming when we are going to have to repel federal aggression, tyrannical oppressive federal aggression. They’re going to want to quell any kind of uprising, because it’s bad for politics,” Olson was quoted as saying.
Presiding over the meeting alongside Olson was Michigan Militia co-founder Ray Southwell. In the 1990s Olson and Southwell together made the Michigan Militia one of the first major antigovernment Patriot groups in the country and helped transform their former home state into a hotbed of Patriot activity.
Olson drew widespread attention to his group when he revealed that Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols had attended a Michigan Militia meeting not long before the terrorist attack.
At the Nikiski meeting, Olson and Southwell were photographed dressed in full camouflage uniforms with “Don’t Tread on Me” coiled-snake patches and Alaska Militia insignia.
Olson told a reporter that he and Southwell moved to the Kenai Peninsula about five years ago, and that he purchased a 20-acre parcel of land that now serves as the base of operations for the Alaska Militia.
A Baptist preacher who previously owned a gun store in Alanson, Mich., Olson was booted from his Michigan Militia leadership post after he alienated his comrades by floating an incredible theory about the Oklahoma City bombing: The Japanese government had bombed the federal building in revenge for the Tokyo sarin gas subway attack that, Olson said, had been carried out by the U.S. government, not a Japanese doomsday cult as the governments of both nations had reported.
Olson’s attempt to fire up the militia movement on the Kenai Peninsula is one of many signs of a resurgence of the Patriot movement , as The Southern Poverty Law Center reported last month.
“It is doubtful that the militia will ever be socially acceptable,” Olson told The Redoubt Reporter. “The central government and the controlled media will paint you as criminals, terrorists, extremists, radicals, anti-government, wing nuts. Are you willing to pay the price?”

Summary: A key figure of the 1990s antigovernment “Patriot” movement who largely dropped from public view in 2002 has resurfaced in Alaska, where he’s recruiting for his newly formed Alaska Militia. Norm Olson , who founded the Michigan Militia in 1994, held an organizational meeting last Thursday at a community center in Nikiski, a small town in the Kenai Peninsula region about 170 road miles from Anchorage. Olson’s message : “Something very evil this way comes.” “We’re looking at catastrophe just a…


Huge Bust in Los Angeles Targets Anti-Black Street Gang

Police mounted a large-scale raid this week aimed at weakening a violent Los Angeles street gang that regularly targets blacks.
Some 1,300 local, state and federal law enforcement officials were involved in the pre-dawn sweep on Tuesday that followed a year-long investigation and led to the arrest of more than 45 people connected to the Avenues gang. A far-reaching federal indictment named 88 members or associates of the Avenues who were wanted on charges that included murder, attempted murder, drug dealing, witness intimidation and money laundering.
The Avenues is a largely Hispanic gang controlled by the Mexican Mafia from within the California state prison system. The 222-page indictment unsealed Tuesday describes how the group tries to terrorize blacks who venture into its territory in Northeast Los Angeles. “Neighborhoods controlled by the Avenues gang are frequently ‘tagged’ with racist threats directed against African-Americans that are intended to intimidate African-Americans and prevent African-Americans from living in the neighborhood,” it said. “Avenues gang members also confront African-Americans with threats of violence and murder in order to intimidate and prevent African-Americans from residing in or entering the neighborhoods controlled by the Avenues gang.”
The indictment also noted several specific incidents of violence and intimidation directed at blacks. In a Sept. 5, 2000, incident, gang members including Sam Vega (also known as “Fox”) pulled a gun on a black man and said, “This is Avenues gang, what’s up n ----- ?”
On March 8, 2005, gang members including Freddy Bailon (also known as “Thief”) attacked one victim and stabbed another in their home, “while shouting racial epithets and ordering them to move out of the neighborhood controlled by the Avenues gang,” according to the indictment. And on Feb. 21, 2009, while using a hidden telephone from his prison cell, gang member Richie Aguirre (also known as “Lil Pee Wee”) ordered his daughter not to associate with blacks.
An article published in 2006 in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report documented how the Avenues and other Hispanic street gangs in Los Angeles were waging campaigns of terror against blacks. After the racially-motivated murders of two black men, for instance, four Avenues gang members were convicted in 2005 of violating federal hate crime laws and sentenced to life in prison. This spring, 147 members and associates of another racist street gang in the Los Angeles suburbs, Varrio Hawaiian Gardens , were indicted on racketeering charges, including murder, attempted murder and kidnapping. The indictment alleged that gang members “have expressed a desire to rid the city of Hawaiian Gardens of all African-Americans and have engaged in a systematic effort to achieve that result by perpetrating crimes against African-Americans.”

Summary: Police mounted a large-scale raid this week aimed at weakening a violent Los Angeles street gang that regularly targets blacks. Some 1,300 local, state and federal law enforcement officials were involved in the pre-dawn sweep on Tuesday that followed a year-long investigation and led to the arrest of more than 45 people connected to the Avenues gang. A far-reaching federal indictment named 88 members or associates of the Avenues who were wanted on charges that included murder, attempted…


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


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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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White Nationalist State Department Official Surfaces in Photographs
August 09, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
Hatewatch has obtained images of Matthew Q. Gebert, a State Department official who is involved in the white nationalist movement.


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It was to have been a historic roundup of enemies of the extreme right, ending with Hillary Clinton, former FBI director James Comey, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Senator Harry Reid and a slew of other politicians, jurists and law enforcement officers in the custody of those who would have them tried by “common law grand juries” for their perceived crimes.


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The man dressed as the Grim Reaper and holding a sign reading “THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH” had been to Drag Storytime (formerly Drag Queen Storytime) before. On a Saturday earlier this month, he was vocally disparaging LGBT people outside the Z.J. Loussac Public Library in Anchorage, Alaska.


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Ex-League of the South Member Arrested at Black Lives Matter Rally in Tennessee
July 15, 2020
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A former
League of the South
member who attended multiple rallies with the neo-Confederate hate group faces disorderly conduct charges in east Tennessee.


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Anti-LGBT hate group Stedfast Baptist Church (SBC) has split after pastor Donnie Romero resigned from the main SBC church in Fort Worth, Texas, in early January amidst revelations that he hired prostitutes and was involved in gambling and marijuana.


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Are white nationalists turning on Trump?
November 27, 2018
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“The Trump moment is over, and it’s time for us to move on,”
white nationalist
Richard Spencer
announced
to his followers late on the evening of Nov. 19, 2018.


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Why is Barnes & Noble helping antisemitic male supremacist Roosh make money?
November 15, 2018
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In recent months, PayPal and Amazon took actions to boot virulent misogynist
Daryush Valizadeh
(also known as “Roosh V”) from their platforms for breaching their hate guidelines.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/8/2018
November 08, 2018
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Voters punished Republicans for their racism; Trump rips black reporter’s ‘racist’ query; Governors can stop militias from massing on border; and more.


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An antigovernment extremist who has called Islam a mental disorder and urged his followers to shoot black women and children has issued another call to violence, posting a video on his Facebook page urging members of the Patriot movement to engage in “lone wolf” action against antifa.


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


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


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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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Update February 14, 2018 — According to the Treasure Valley ACT for America chapter, Redman plans to present his anti-Sharia bill at a public hearing on Thursday, February 15. ACT circulated an email to its supporters on February 13, stating, “Time has come!! Rep. Eric Redman will be presenting HB 419 — Idaho Laws for Idaho Courts — At a public hearing this Thursday morning at 8 a.m. This will take place in room EW40, the House state affairs meeting room"


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


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


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


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


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/28/2017
November 28, 2017
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Trump drops slur on Navajo veterans; Ex-skinhead says Trump’s popularizing bigotry; Bible studies leader quickly expands administration role; and more.