Eric Trump’s new haircut — short on the sides, slicked in a perfect arc on top — may seem fashionable. But it may also remind some of white nationalists. The coif looks eerily similar to that of Richard Spencer, the nationalist leader who has rocketed to prominence since the election of Donald Trump. Spencer electrified…
Richard Spencer, who popularized the term “alt-right” as a label for contemporary white nationalists and is starting a Virginia think tank to promote his ideas, draws part of his income from cotton plantations in Louisiana, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting. The Center, based in Emeryville, California, found that the Spencer family is absentee…
Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute has lost its non-profit status, but it’s not the only non-profit white nationalist group accepting tax-deductible donations. Three other prominent white nationalist organizations also shared the designation, according to an Associated Press review in December, and have so for over a decade. The groups share ideology and also have institutional…
The nonprofit run by white nationalist Richard Spencer has lost its tax-exempt status for failing to file tax returns with the federal government, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. “I don’t know what to say. I don’t want to make a comment because I don’t understand this stuff,” Spencer told the Los Angeles Times….
Before Donald Trump’s rise, they were relegated to shadowy blogs or the far corners of Reddit and Twitter, where they would lament the decline of Western civilization, bemoan the Jewish control of the media and dream of building a pure “white ethno state.” Now, the white nationalist movement known as the “alt-right” holds conferences in…
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,…
White nationalists threw Nazi salutes at a Washington, D.C. conference over the weekend, as energy surges on the so-called “alt-right” following Donald Trump’s victory. At the national conference of the white nationalist National Policy Institute, the group’s president, Richard Spencer, inveighed against Jews, according to a New York Times report, claiming that the media had…
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