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Naples, Florida, Pride event succeeds despite persistent hate group opposition
Content warning: This article contains an image depicting anti-LGBTQ+ violence. Reader discretion is advised. Naples Pride held its annual community event at Cambier Park in Naples, Florida, on June 7, attracting thousands of attendees despite a years-long opposition campaign by hard-right groups and local government. Naples Pride overcame a last-minute legal challenge from the city…
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Echoing the Past: White supremacy, the policing of drag and Black resilience
The policing of gender has become a common tactic among some policymakers, whether it’s banning trans people in sports, legislation regulating bathroom usage or the targeting of drag performances. Such attacks can echo the past. The targeting of drag performances is no exception — especially when one considers drag’s history within the Black community. Drag,…
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Letter correcting the record House Judiciary Oversight Subcommittee July 15 hearing
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July 2025 Intelligence Project Dispatch: Trends and incidents of the hard right
The Southern Poverty Law Center works to dismantle white supremacy in public forums and online, exposes hate and anti-democracy extremism and counters disinformation and conspiracy theories with research and community resources. The Intelligence Project monitors and exposes white supremacy and its impact on communities. Hate prevention Anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim activity Militia and antigovernment movement activity…
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Antifeminist women’s summit: ‘The kitchen is where the real revolution starts’
Thousands of people gathered in Grapevine, Texas, to attend Turning Point USA’s 10th annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit in June. For three days, prominent conservative women made a pitch to a crowd of women and girls mostly in their teens and 20s: Trade feminism for femininity, ditch your career aspirations, and focus on finding your…
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In a systemically racist nation, apathy is a luxury Black people cannot afford
Growing up Black in Alabama, I saw firsthand how systemic inequities shaped daily life. I watched my mother endure hours-long waits in overcrowded clinics, my aunt struggle with unstable housing and law enforcement officers profile and brutalize Black men and women. These were symptoms of a broader system that denied Black and Brown communities access…
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Trump’s actions in Los Angeles fulfill the hard right’s dreams of revenge
A long-held wish of the hard right was fulfilled this month when President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard and, later, 700 active-duty U.S. Marines to Los Angeles ostensibly to crack down on people demonstrating against the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The massive demonstration of state power occurred against the objections…
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Extremist lawyer appears to be training Patriot Front members to fight
A longtime far-right activist and defense lawyer with a history of making death threats, Jason Lee Van Dyke appears to be leading Brazilian jujitsu (BJJ) training efforts inside Patriot Front, according to social media posts reviewed by Hatewatch. Training in martial arts like BJJ provides white nationalist groups such as Patriot Front a way to…
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‘Critical Memory’ sites remind us of our responsibility to acknowledge the past
As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II’s gradual, grinding close, from V-E Day on May 8 through V-J Day on Aug. 14, I recently had the opportunity to travel to Germany. I was one of 50 delegates from the U.S. and Germany gathered for a joint project titled “Building a Critical Memory:…
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Royal homecoming a chance to recharge as community faces uncertain future
By central Florida standards, the summer Saturday morning in Royal was mild. “The rain yesterday cooled things off,” said Cliff Hughes as he prepared chicken thighs and drumsticks in the parking lot adjacent to the site of the former Royal Community School, now part of a 4-acre park. He had two large, deep frying pans…
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