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When Trump Says ‘Globalists,’ Some Fans Hear ‘The Jews’
Throughout Donald Trump’s campaign he fashioned himself as a brash outsider, up against what he said was an economic and political system rigged against the American people. The system worked for the benefit of itself and shadowy, unnamed forces in the banks, the media and the government. Trump and his supporters call those forces globalists….
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Sanders Chides Democrats for Emphasizing Race, Gender Over Economy
Bernie Sanders has a message to the Democratic Party — if it wants to win elections in the future, stop fixating on the gender and race of candidates and instead focus on their economic platform. “It goes without saying that as we fight to end all forms of discrimination, as we fight to bring more…
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Ann Coulter Calls Neo-Nazi Trump Backers Harmless in Tweet Storm
Ann Coulter mocked the media for hyping an ‘alt-right’ gathering of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, which she branded as “irrelevant” during a stream of angry Tweets. The far right media personality downplayed the importance of the racists who spewed anti-Semitic hate at a weekend celebration of Donald Trump’s White House win, saying they had no…
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‘Heil Trump’ and 3 Other Anti-Semitic Outrages at White Supremacist Victory Party
Richard Spencer is proud to claim the mantle as the face of the real “alt-right,” the loose grouping of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. His so-called think tank held a victory party to celebrate Donald Trump’s presidential victory, which the alt-right claims significant credit for. Even though Spencer and other radicals criticize Trump and his White…
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Ivanka Trump Volunteers With Children at Jewish Pre-Thanksgiving Homeless Event
While her father spent last weekend interviewing Cabinet hopefuls at his golf club in New Jersey, Ivanka Trump headed downtown with her kids to volunteer for a Jewish charity. In posts on Instagram and Twitter, the first daughter thanked the UJA-Federation of New York and Project ORE for allowing her to volunteer at a pre-Thanksgiving…
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New Internet Plug-In Turns Phrase ‘Alt-Right’ Into ‘White Supremacy’
The ‘alt-right’ has used the Internet as one of its primary weapons to harass, troll and chat over the course of the election season. Now, there’s an Internet tool to fight back against the motley crew of white nationalists — a plug-in to the Web browser Google Chrome that turns the word “alt-right” into “white…
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After Hate Crime Wave, Governor Andrew Cuomo Announces New Police Unit
After a spike in bias incidents since the election of Donald Trump, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sunday that he would be ordering the state police to create a special unit to investigate hate crimes, according to a report in DNAInfo. “Today I’m directing [state agencies] to put together a special team of…
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WATCH: ‘Alt-Right’ Leader Richard Spencer’s Ode to White Identity
Richard Spencer is the chairman of the vaguely-named National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank, and the founder of Radix Journal, one of the movement’s primary publications. He’s one of the “alt-right’s” most visible leaders, and relative to others, has tried to give it a more moderate, intellectually refined image. He has, for example,…
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What Did Ari Emanuel Say to President-Elect Donald Trump?
Was this meeting at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, so different from all the others? In a day filled with meetings at his Golf Club, President-elect Donald Trump met with the Ari Emanuel, the co-CEO of a Hollywood talent agency named WME-IMG. Trump dubbed Emanuel as the “King of Hollywood” according…
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Did Family Money Buy Jared Kushner His Spot at Harvard?
Jared Kushner has often been characterized as the head of President-elect Donald Trump’s braintrust. But if old allegations are true, the newspaper owner and real estate magnate didn’t get into Harvard on his smarts. “There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,”…
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Go Ahead and Call Steve Bannon Satan or Darth Vader — but Not a ‘White Nationalist’
In the two recent interviews Steve Bannon has given since becoming Donald Trump’s chief strategist, the former editor of Breitbart News railed against the “global elite” and insisted that he was not a “white nationalist,” despite media reports depicting him as such. “I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist,” Bannon…
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