white nationalists
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Meet the White Nationalist Most Likely to Take Over for Paul Ryan Now That Ryan Is Retiring
On Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced that he would not be seeking re-election and would retire at the end of his term in 2019. This has huge national implications, of course: The GOP will have lost a major fundraiser and party leader, Republicans and Democrats see Ryan’s announcement as another sign that Democrats…
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‘Unapologetic’ White Nationalist Podcast Host and Middle School Teacher Resigns
Nearly a month after HuffPost first outed Florida middle school teacher Dayanna Volitich as the host of a white supremacist podcast, Unapologetic, Volitich has submitted her resignation. The Citrus County School District removed Volitich from her classroom on March 2, reports the Citrus County Chronicle, as the district investigated claims that Volitich had moonlighted as…
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Why Don’t Some Lawmakers in Tennessee Want to Denounce White Nationalism and Neo-Nazis?
If you live in Tennessee, you should be paying attention to what some of the lawmakers in your state are doing. Even if you don’t live in Tennessee, this is an important story to pay attention to. On Wednesday, legislators declined to pass a resolution that would denounce white nationalism and neo-Nazis in that state.…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Nazi Side Piece Trailer Park Brawl That Broke Up a Hate Group
One of America’s most powerful and prominent white supremacist organizations appears to have disbanded after an incident that included a Walmart police surrender, a Nazi being choked to sleep in a trailer park and a white supremacist love triangle reminiscent of a special two-part episode of Cheaters. Perhaps you’ve heard of the Traditionalist Workers Party,…
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Stacey Dash Refuses to Judge the One Group of People You Should Definitely Be Judging
Just hours after Stacey Dash formally announced that she would run for Congress, the actress, former Fox News pundit and current Miss Sunken Place pageant queen made it clear that she’s “not here to judge” neo-Nazis. In an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday, the New York Daily News reports, host Ari Melber asked Dash if…
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White Nationalists Want to Rain on Women’s March in Tennessee
Women’s groups around the country are gathering again this weekend to recognize the anniversary of the Women’s March, a nationwide mass protest that became the largest demonstration in U.S. history. Now white nationalist snowflakes say they plan to protest a women’s march in Knoxville, Tenn., causing organizers to change the march’s original route and beef…
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Nazi Sympathizer Loses His Job and Home After Being Profiled by the New York Times
Today in “Ahahaha, that’s what the fuck you get” news, the Nazi sympathizer who was profiled by the New York Times in an attempt to humanize him and his racist ideology says he has lost his job in the ensuing backlash from the article and could soon lose his home. Tony Hovater, 29, told the…
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The New York Times Whitesplains Its Awful Neo-Nazi Profile
The New York Times responded to its readers Sunday after a “puff piece” about a neo-Nazi that ran over the weekend garnered a swift and ferocious backlash. The piece, titled “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland” and written by the Times’ Richard Fausset, strives to paint Nazi sympathizer Tony Hovater and his wife, Maria,…
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Twitter: Oops! Did We Accidentally Verify a White Nationalist? Our System Is Broken. We’ll Fix It—‘Soon’
Updated Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, 3:13 p.m. EST: Both Twitter Support and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have responded to the controversy surrounding Jason Kessler’s account being verified by Twitter. On Thursday, the official Twitter Support account responded with the following: “Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement…
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‘Kill Them’: White Nationalists Arrested for Shooting at Protesters After Richard Spencer’s Speech in Fla.
Three white nationalists from Texas who went to Gainesville, Fla., to hear their leader—Richard Spencer—speak at the University of Florida were arrested Thursday after one of them allegedly shot at protesters “with the intent to kill,” authorities say. The Los Angeles Times reports that the shooting was the first serious instance of violence reported in…