right-wing extremists
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Researchers Say Radical Trump Supporters Are Using Encrypted Platforms Now That They've Been Booted From Twitter
Since the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6., Twitter and other platforms have been purging right-wing extremists—including y’all’s soon-to-be-ex president—like social media was the Republican party and QAnon followers were Black people’s votes. So now, all of those white nationalist nutjobs have had to find new online spaces, according to a counter-terrorism group…
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White Supremacists Accused of Intimidating Michigan Family Arrested Following FBI Investigation
So apparently, extremist groups in Michigan are a real problem. Weeks after the FBI announced that they thwarted a plot by militia members to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, two members of a white supremacist group accused of intimidating a Michigan family were arrested Thursday following an investigation by the FBI and the state police…
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White Nationalist, Far-Right Groups Actively Promoting Lies to Paint Ahmaud Arbery as a Criminal
White people seem to follow the same playbook whenever there’s a new high-profile case involving an unarmed black person being killed by neighborhood vigilantes or police. When they’re not shouting “What about black-on-black crime?” from every mountaintop they can find, character assassination appears to be the name of their game. Analysts who monitor the online…
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The Radicalization of White America: How Donald Trump Weaponized Whiteness
On September 30, 2011, an unmanned American drone fired 40 missiles into the home of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen living in Yemen. The prominent Muslim cleric was placed on the U.S. government’s kill list because he reportedly inspired numerous terrorists, including Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army officer who was convicted of killing 13 and…
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Who Broke a Record for Extremist Killings in 2018? (Spoiler Alert: It Was White People)
In 2018, as President Donald “Both Sides” Trump continued to equivocate about white supremacist terrorists, and while former Justice Department Chief and heir to the Keebler Elf empire Jeff Sessions hunted down Black Identity Extremists (who proved to be as elusive as the mythical Bigfoot), radicalized white racists enjoyed a banner year for killing Americans.…
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New Evidence Shows the Vegas Shooter Was Probably a Far-Right Extremist, but No One Will Say It
Despite the seemingly overwhelming evidence that the 2017 mass murder on the Las Vegas Strip may have been motivated by extreme-right-wing ideology, law enforcement officials still say they have no idea what caused Stephen Paddock to commit one of the deadliest mass shootings of all time. After losing a court battle to keep them private,…
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Meet ‘Y’all Qaeda,’ the Right-Wing Militias a Republican Wants to Hire for Security
A Portland, Ore., leader responded to a white supremacist terrorist attack in his city by offering an interesting solution to the recent rise of violence by right-wing extremists: He wants to hire more right-wing extremists. After authorities say 35-year-old Jeremy Christian stabbed to death Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Rick Best on a Portland train Friday,…