The Minneapolis mayor-elect condemned a small shrine to a slain woman which was created by white nationalists, CBS reported. Identity Evropa, a prominent white nationalist group with roots in Europe, left candles, a picture of Justine Damond and a sign — “UNITED WE STAND” — outside a police station in Minneapolis on Friday. Damond, who…
Twitter accounts associated with the far-right Jewish Defense League were swept up in a larger purging of white nationalists accounts as the social media site implemented new rules targeted “violent extremist” groups. The Twitter accounts @JDLCanada, @jdldotorg, @JewishDefenceNY were all booted offline sometime on Monday, December 19. Twitter announced in mid-November that beginning Dec. 18,…
Paul Nehlen, who is aiming to unseat Speaker of the House Paul Ryan in a Republican primary, is capitalizing on the online culture wars — drawing from “alt-right” imagery and ideas, even flirting with more hardcore white nationalists. While the Huffington Post wrote that Nehlen has “white nationalist street cred,” his flirtation with the white…
William Atchinson, a 21-year-old gas station attendant, entered Aztec High School in northern New Mexico on December 7 disguised as a student. He embarked on a shooting spree which killed two students and injured several others, before killing himself. Atchinson did not give a reason for his actions, but it was later revealed that had…
Ta-Nehisi Coates deleted his Twitter account Monday evening, and it may have been prompted by white nationalists. Even Richard Spencer — the face of American white nationalism — eventually piled on the debate over an essay criticizing Coates’ new book. Coates, a renowned public intellectual and a national correspondent for The Atlantic, was caught in…
Organizers behind last summer’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia are being denied permits to hold a second rally on its anniversary next year. The original rally, which drew a large crowd of white supremacists and neo-Nazis, devolved into violence and resulted in the killing of one counter-protestor. The city of Charlottesville said…
A group of “alt-right” white nationalist activists are banding together to form a new organization called Operation Homeland — making a bid to both further professionalize their movement and align themselves with the international “Identitarian” movement, a style of white nationalism with roots in the European far-right. Richard Spencer, one of the country’s foremost white…
The organizer behind this summer’s explosive Unite The Right rally of white supremacists is planning an anniversary event next summer — seeking to cast himself as a “political dissident” standing up for civil rights. Jason Kessler, who spearheaded August’s explosive event, announced this week that he’s drafting plans for the one-year anniversary of the original…
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