What exactly does the “alt-right” stand for? Is it a white nationalist identity movement? Or is it simply about “hating Hillary” and supporting President Donald Trump? Two far-right figures fought over the question on Tuesday — the latest in off-and-on battle waged for the direction of the amorphous movement. A Daily Beast article gave a…
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….
What does the “alt-right” really want? Last month the white nationalist Counter-Currents editor John Morgan laid out the movement’s principles at a talk in Stolkholm. A slick infographic of nine core demands of the “alt-right” was later posted online. At first glance, the demands and language appear surprisingly tame. So Mark Pitcavage, a researcher for…
White nationalist and supremacist groups are ramping up efforts on American college campuses — in what the Anti-Defamation League is calling “unprecedented outreach efforts.” As of March 6, there have been 107 “white supremacist fliering incidents” on American college campuses since the school year began in September, according to a blog post from the ADL….
After vandals knocked over or damaged dozens of tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in Missouri, neo-Nazis say the incident is a “non-story” used as a bludgeon to attack President Trump, fitting what they view as a pattern of nefarious Jewish control of media and politics. “It’s obvious that this isn’t about some 100 year old…
In the meme war over Pepe the Frog, the white nationalists won. Despite a a campaign to “save Pepe” from the “alt-right” who wielded images of the green frog to serve their ideology, Pepe remains solidly an online icon of white supremacy, posted on the Anti-Defamation League’s list of hate symbols. Now, the meme war…
The number of radical groups in the United States rose for the second year in a row, fueled by the rise of President Trump, according to an annual report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Notably, white nationalism is on the rise. “2016 was an unprecedented year for hate,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow at…
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