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		<title>Former Minuteman Leader Pleads Innocent to Child Molestation</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/22/former-minuteman-leader-pleads-innocent-to-child-molestation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/22/former-minuteman-leader-pleads-innocent-to-child-molestation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Simcox, co-founder of the Minuteman movement of armed civilians who patrolled the Arizona border looking for undocumented immigrants, has pleaded innocent to charges that he molested three young girls under the age of 10. In court papers, police identified one of the alleged victims as his own daughter. Simcox, 52, faces two felony counts [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Do We Know FAIR is a Hate Group? Let Us Count the Ways</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/10/how-do-we-know-fair-is-a-hate-group-let-us-count-the-ways/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/10/how-do-we-know-fair-is-a-hate-group-let-us-count-the-ways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Latino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the immigrant-bashing Los Angeles radio personalities who were suspended earlier this year when they referred to Whitney Houston as a “crack ho” and marveled that the late pop singer “took this long” to die, are back on the air and up to their old tricks. In the August 3 edition [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR Misleads Sheriffs, Says ‘Border School’ OK’d by Feds</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/12/fair-misleads-sheriffs-says-border-school-okd-by-feds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/12/fair-misleads-sheriffs-says-border-school-okd-by-feds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the anti-immigrant hate group behind draconian immigration enforcement laws in Arizona, Alabama and elsewhere, appears to have misled law enforcement officers about a training program it’s sponsoring in Texas, Hatewatch has learned. In an invitation E-mailed to an unknown number of sheriffs earlier this month, FAIR wrote that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>One-Time Rising Nativist Star Arrested for Stabbing in Georgia</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/02/22/one-time-rising-nativist-star-arrested-for-assault-in-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/02/22/one-time-rising-nativist-star-arrested-for-assault-in-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A judge in Georgia has denied bail for William Dustin Gold, a one-time rising star in anti-immigrant circles, following his arrest last week on charges he stabbed a 38-year-old reality TV producer with whom he was working. Producer Marcus Fox had been shooting a commercial with Gold for several days at a Gainesville, Ga., car [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Utah Republican AG Derides ‘Help’ From Nativist Organization</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/27/utah-republican-ag-derides-help-from-nativist-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/27/utah-republican-ag-derides-help-from-nativist-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s long been something of a mystery how conservative Republicans can expect to keep winning elections when so many of them spend their time dissing Latinos, a critical and rapidly growing portion of the electorate. Indeed, many Latino rights organizations argue persuasively that it was Latino voters who took Barack Obama over the top in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nativist Leader Recasts Immigration Fight as Religious Crusade</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/27/nativist-leader-recasts-immigration-fight-as-religious-crusade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/27/nativist-leader-recasts-immigration-fight-as-religious-crusade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After nearly shutting down at the end of 2011 due to financial difficulties, William Gheen’s Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) re-launched earlier this month, announcing plans to “deploy” exciting new strategies against “illegal alien supporters” and their evil co-conspirators in government. In keeping with the grandiose tone of his fancy new website (which many [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/27/nativist-leader-recasts-immigration-fight-as-religious-crusade/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Major Nativist Extremist Group May Be at End of its Rope</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/12/02/major-nativist-extremist-group-may-be-at-end-of-its-rope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/12/02/major-nativist-extremist-group-may-be-at-end-of-its-rope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[William Gheen, head of the nativist extremist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), is blaming the “authoritarian and dictatorial actions of Obama” for a budget shortfall that may force his group to shut down in January. Gheen cited four “major causes” for the financial squeeze, including: (1) “The horrific political and economic environment we find [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/12/02/major-nativist-extremist-group-may-be-at-end-of-its-rope/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Strange Bedfellows: Nativists Sponsor, Tout New Black Anti-Immigrant Group</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/18/strange-bedfellows-nativists-sponsor-tout-new-black-anti-immigrant-group/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/18/strange-bedfellows-nativists-sponsor-tout-new-black-anti-immigrant-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A mysterious anti-immigration group called Blacks for Equal Rights Coalition (BFERC) recently made its debut in Los Angeles with a July 6 “Community Outreach Summit” on “The Impact of Immigration on Black Communities.” The summit, whose entirely unnamed lineup included “advisors, educators, politicians and activists from the community,” generously offered a free lunch to the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/18/strange-bedfellows-nativists-sponsor-tout-new-black-anti-immigrant-group/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leak Reveals New Border Vigilante Group on Arizona Border</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/29/leak-reveals-new-border-vigilante-group-on-arizona-border/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/29/leak-reveals-new-border-vigilante-group-on-arizona-border/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A 2010 U.S. Department of Homeland Security memo warned that a new Minuteman-style border vigilante group had popped up in Arizona that posed “a possibility of violence between armed civilians and smugglers.” The confidential memo — dated April 28, 2010, and leaked last Thursday by LulzSec, a group that hacked the Arizona Department of Public [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/29/leak-reveals-new-border-vigilante-group-on-arizona-border/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nativist Extremist Pushing Arizona to Activate New ‘State Guard’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/05/04/nativist-extremist-pushing-arizona-to-activate-new-arizona-state-guard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/05/04/nativist-extremist-pushing-arizona-to-activate-new-arizona-state-guard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=6383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last Thursday signed into law a bill authorizing herself and future Arizona governors to deploy an “Arizona State Guard” at any time and for any reason she sees fit. This state guard – in essence, a kind of all-volunteer militia that is immune from being federalized – would be a force [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/05/04/nativist-extremist-pushing-arizona-to-activate-new-arizona-state-guard/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>SPLC Hate Group Count Tops 1,000 as Radical Right Expansion Continues</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/23/new-report-splc-hate-group-count-tops-1000-as-radical-right-expansion-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/23/new-report-splc-hate-group-count-tops-1000-as-radical-right-expansion-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['Patriot' Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: The Southern Poverty Law Center is today releasing its annual count of groups on the American radical right and analysis. What follows is the main essay from the new issue of the Intelligence Report, the SPLC’s investigative magazine. In the story, you’ll find links to our new hate group map and additional lists [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/23/new-report-splc-hate-group-count-tops-1000-as-radical-right-expansion-continues/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>76</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Ongoing Trial (and Tragicomic Tribulations) of Fallen Minuteman Leader Chris Simcox</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/12/the-ongoing-trial-and-tragicomic-tribulations-of-fallen-minuteman-leader-chris-simcox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/12/the-ongoing-trial-and-tragicomic-tribulations-of-fallen-minuteman-leader-chris-simcox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Zaitchik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an Arizona Senate campaign in which immigration and border security have been center stage issues, it’s no surprise that Chris Simcox managed to insert himself back into local headlines. Since reinventing himself in 2002 as the charismatic founder of the vigilante border-watch group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. (MCDC), Simcox has always found a way [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/12/the-ongoing-trial-and-tragicomic-tribulations-of-fallen-minuteman-leader-chris-simcox/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stung by Racism Charges, Nativist Leader Pulls Out of Rallies</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/05/20/stung-by-racism-charges-nativist-leader-quits-rallies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/05/20/stung-by-racism-charges-nativist-leader-quits-rallies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 13:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Keller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[William Gheen, the obstreperous head of the nativist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC, has pulled his group out of all June Arizona rallies backing that state’s controversial new illegal immigration law. Gheen said he is doing so because former Colorado Republican congressman Tom Tancredo, one of the country’s most hard-line opponents of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/05/20/stung-by-racism-charges-nativist-leader-quits-rallies/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arizona Debate Unleashes New ‘Reconquista’ Accusations</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/05/05/arizona-debate-unleashes-new-reconquista-accusations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/05/05/arizona-debate-unleashes-new-reconquista-accusations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 19:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Scherr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the debate intensifies over Arizona’s harsh new law aimed at undocumented immigrants, nativist groups are claiming that opponents of the measure support nothing less than the reconquest of the Southwest by Mexicans. Though the myth of “la reconquista” — a purported secret Mexican conspiracy to take back part of the United States — has [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/05/05/arizona-debate-unleashes-new-reconquista-accusations/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>65</slash:comments>
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		<title>After Call to Arms, Nativist Extremist Leader Calls it Quits</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/26/after-call-to-arms-nativist-extremist-group-calls-it-quits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/26/after-call-to-arms-nativist-extremist-group-calls-it-quits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Scherr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A major nativist group known for its armed border patrols is disbanding. In a Monday E-mail to supporters, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps President Carmen Mercer said the MCDC will no longer exist as an organization, though she encouraged supporters to continue its work independently. “I predict Americans, on their own, will lock, load and do [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/26/after-call-to-arms-nativist-extremist-group-calls-it-quits/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nativists Work to Counter Sunday’s Pro-Immigrant March</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/19/nativists-work-to-counter-sundays-pro-immigrant-march/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/19/nativists-work-to-counter-sundays-pro-immigrant-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Scherr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=3834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As thousands of people prepare to rally in Washington, D.C., this Sunday for immigration reform, nativist extremist groups are unleashing their own campaigns to counter the event. NumbersUSA today launched “S.T.O.P. Amnesty in Four Days,” a drive to derail any immigration reform package that includes a citizenship provision for undocumented immigrants. During the four-day campaign, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/19/nativists-work-to-counter-sundays-pro-immigrant-march/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>70</slash:comments>
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		<title>Armed MCDC to ‘Forcefully Engage’ Border ‘Criminals’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/19/armed-mcdc-to-forcefully-engage-border-criminals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/19/armed-mcdc-to-forcefully-engage-border-criminals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Scherr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=3827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The leader of the nativist extremist group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) publicly repudiates the use of illegal tactics to secure the border against undocumented immigrants. “If one single individual steps over the line for their personal gratification, we are all stained with that irresponsible behavior, and labeled forever as a fringe element that embarrasses [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Extremist Groups Surge in 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/02/extremist-groups-surge-in-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/02/extremist-groups-surge-in-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['Patriot' Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Militias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=3759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released its annual “Year in Hate and Extremism” report. Broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation. The SPLC documented a 244 percent increase in the number of active “Patriot” groups in 2009. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>103</slash:comments>
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		<title>ALIPAC Dumps Dobbs</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/12/04/alipac-dumps-dobbs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/12/04/alipac-dumps-dobbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Keller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lou Dobbs and Americans for Legal Immigration – ALIPAC – are divorcing, and the parting isn’t amicable. ALIPAC President William Gheen has notified supporters that his organization has withdrawn its support of Dobbs and suspended two websites promoting the former CNN showman for president. In a lengthy E-mail, the heartsick nativist said it was “painful” [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minutemen Leader Threatens Judge Over Lethal Force Decision</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/03/13/minutemen-leader-threatens-judge-over-lethal-force-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/03/13/minutemen-leader-threatens-judge-over-lethal-force-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Scherr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=3009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk has long taken pleasure in harassing immigrants. So perhaps it’s no surprise that he wrote a vicious E-mail to supporters threatening a federal judge who ruled in favor of an undocumented immigrant killed by a Border Patrol agent. “This judge should be immediately dragged out, arrested and sent to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Questions About Nativist Leader’s Story Continue</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/03/08/questions-about-nativist-leader%e2%80%99s-story-continue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/03/08/questions-about-nativist-leader%e2%80%99s-story-continue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Scherr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=3000</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent story in The [Everett, Wash.] Daily Herald detailing the troubled past of border vigilante Shawna Forde has provoked yet another round of crossfire among leaders of rival Minuteman factions and other prominent nativists. It all began when Forde, who heads Minutemen American Defense (MAD), reported several brutal attacks this winter and implied that [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/03/08/questions-about-nativist-leader%e2%80%99s-story-continue/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minuteman PAC Spends Mostly for Fundraising, Administration</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/10/16/minuteman-pac-spends-mostly-for-fundraising-administration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/10/16/minuteman-pac-spends-mostly-for-fundraising-administration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Scherr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Simcox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minuteman Civil Defense Corps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=2759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Minuteman Political Action Committee proclaims on its website that it’s furiously advancing “2008 Project PushBack,” a supposedly full-scale effort to help reelect members of Congress who’ve pledged to crack down on immigrants who are in the country illegally. “Minuteman PAC has quickly become THE ONE Political Action Committee that the open-borders, pro-amnesty lobby fears [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/10/16/minuteman-pac-spends-mostly-for-fundraising-administration/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nativist Extremist Appointed To Virginia County Task Force</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/10/11/nativist-extremist-appointed-to-virginia-county-task-force/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/10/11/nativist-extremist-appointed-to-virginia-county-task-force/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Scherr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=2751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert L. Duecaster helps lead a nativist extremist group and regularly makes defamatory comments about Catholics, Muslims and undocumented immigrants, calling the latter in an October 2007 blog post “an invasion of parasites set on reducing this country to the levels of their own.” But all that didn’t stop the Prince William (Va.) Board of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/10/11/nativist-extremist-appointed-to-virginia-county-task-force/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>News Update: Fire, Feces and Freeways</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/31/news-update-fire-feces-and-freeways/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/31/news-update-fire-feces-and-freeways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Sanchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Latino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Supremacist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/31/news-update-fire-feces-and-freeways/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FIRE IN THE HOLE: The double-wide mobile home of imprisoned Klan leader Charles Barefoot, who was recently declared incompetent to stand trial for allegedly arranging the murder of a fellow Klansman, burned to the ground on Tuesday in Dunn, N.C. “When I got home, ammunition was exploding everywhere and flames were shooting through the roof [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/31/news-update-fire-feces-and-freeways/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minutemen Crow as State OKs Cleanup at Border Checkpoint</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/25/minutemen-crow-as-state-oks-cleanup-at-border-checkpoint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/25/minutemen-crow-as-state-oks-cleanup-at-border-checkpoint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Latino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/25/minutemen-crow-as-state-oks-cleanup-at-border-checkpoint/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California’s Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has approved an application by the in-your-face San Diego Minutemen (SDMM) group, which the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a “nativist extremist” group, to &#8220;adopt&#8221; a stretch of highway for cleanup on I-5. That might not be so extraordinary — if it weren’t for the fact that the section [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/25/minutemen-crow-as-state-oks-cleanup-at-border-checkpoint/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Highway to Hell? Or Is That Heaven?</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/12/06/highway-to-hell-or-is-that-heaven/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/12/06/highway-to-hell-or-is-that-heaven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Sanchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Latino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/12/06/highway-to-hell-or-is-that-heaven/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s in a highway? It depends, it turns out, on who you’re listening to. For years, nativist fearmongers and assorted conspiracy theorists have asserted that Interstate 35 — the highway that traverses the U.S. in a 1,568-mile path from Laredo, Texas, to Duluth, Minn. — is a part of a secret government plan that spells [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/12/06/highway-to-hell-or-is-that-heaven/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Neo-Confederate Movie Director Takes on New Cause</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/11/neo-confederate-movie-director-takes-on-new-cause/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/11/neo-confederate-movie-director-takes-on-new-cause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brentin Mock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/11/neo-confederate-movie-director-takes-on-new-cause/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Movie director Ronald Maxwell (below, right) — the writer, director and producer of the god-awful 2003 movie “Gods and Generals,” a wildly pro-Confederate and ahistorical take on the Civil War — has adopted a new cause: the threat allegedly posed to right-thinking Americans by undocumented Mexican immigrants. In a Sept. 17 interview with Jeff Mellott [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/11/neo-confederate-movie-director-takes-on-new-cause/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Photographer Banned from National Press Club Press Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/05/photographer-banned-from-national-press-club-press-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/05/photographer-banned-from-national-press-club-press-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radical traditionalist Catholic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/05/photographer-banned-from-national-press-club-press-conference/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Suchman, an accomplished photographer hired by the Intelligence Report to photograph a press conference put on Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., by the hate group The Social Contract Press, was thrown out of the event by its organizers. The Press Club is considered the “sanctum sanctorum of American journalists” and [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/05/photographer-banned-from-national-press-club-press-conference/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Today at the National Press Club: Hate Group Co-Hosts Immigration News Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/03/today-at-the-national-press-club-hate-group-co-hosts-immigration-news-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/03/today-at-the-national-press-club-hate-group-co-hosts-immigration-news-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/03/today-at-the-national-press-club-hate-group-co-hosts-immigration-news-conference/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Social Contract Press, which has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center since 2001 for publishing articles by white supremacists and promoting the idea that America should be populated by white people, is co-hosting a news conference at the National Press Club today. The topic is “How Many Illegal [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/03/today-at-the-national-press-club-hate-group-co-hosts-immigration-news-conference/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>As Criticism Mounts, Washington Times Losing Key Staffers</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/09/27/as-criticism-mounts-washington-times-losing-key-staffers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/09/27/as-criticism-mounts-washington-times-losing-key-staffers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brentin Mock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Extremist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/09/27/as-criticism-mounts-washington-times-losing-key-staffers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Times, which has a long history of shoddy journalism and extremism, has recently endured a spate of staff departures, including that of Washington insider Tony Blankley. Blankley, the newspaper’s editorial page editor and former press secretary for then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), joined the PR firm Edelman on Sept. 18 as its executive [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/09/27/as-criticism-mounts-washington-times-losing-key-staffers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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