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Hatewatch Headlines 4/14/2017

Trump signs bill that would strip Planned Parenthood funds; Arpaio wants Sessions to testify at trial; ‘New Right’ looks a lot like the alt-right; and more.

Right Wing Watch: Trump signs anti-Planned Parenthood bill as anti-choice activists look on.

AlterNet: America has a bigger white-nationalist threat than Steve Bannon in Jeff Sessions.

Arizona Republic: Ex-Sheriff Arpaio wants Sessions to testify as witness at his criminal contempt trial.

Media Matters: Meet the ‘New Right,’ brought to you by the onetime allies of the alt-right.

Salon: It didn’t end at the ballot box for Trump supporters pushing a divisive agenda.

KUOW-FM (Seattle): Oregon lawmakers table bill creating crime of ‘militia terrorism.’

Onward State (State College, PA): White ‘identitarian’ group Identity Evropa seeks official Penn State student-org status.

Journal-Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI): Attack on Milwaukee Muslim woman for wearing a hijab is a hate crime, groups say.

Talking Points Memo: Donald Trump Jr. mocks LGBT students for opposing a Chick-Fil-A.

Crooks and Liars: CNN’s Jeffrey Lord asserts that Trump is ‘the Martin Luther King of health care.’

Boise Weekly: Panel of policy makers and legal experts denounce the ‘sovereign citizen’ movement.

3TV/CBS 5 (Phoenix, AZ): Onetime ‘Minuteman’ arrested for impersonating a Maricopa County deputy.

Snopes: No, a Texas county deputy was not killed by a Muslim refugee.

LobeLog: Right-wing funder Rebekah Mercer joins board of anti-Muslim ‘think tank’ Gatestone Institute.

Star-Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul): Minneapolis Muslims ‘sharia’ vigilante setting up patrols in Cedar-Riverside.

Think Progress: Kris Kobach wins a vote-fraud conviction, but his claim it’s the ‘tip of the iceberg’ doesn’t hold up.

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