Far-right rally on UW campus one year after near-fatality draws hardcore true believers and counter-protesters in ever-shrinking numbers.
Far-right rally on UW campus one year after near-fatality draws hardcore true believers and counter-protesters in ever-shrinking numbers.
The radical right started the year on a roll, with allies in the White House. But then came Charlottesville, and the movement was knocked back on its heels. Still, Trump's rhetoric and the country's changing demographics continue to buoy the movement.
Far-right groups favor street-level action, as the so-called "alt-right" bickers over tactics.
A fractured but energized movement tried to pull itself together — but ended up exposing even deeper rifts.
In Charlottesville last August, heavily armed paramilitary groups and militias added to the chaos, confusion and violence of the Unite the Right rally.
Officials from the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office (SJCSO) in New Mexico dismissed the findings of a recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center that documented the influence of the alt-right on William Edward Atchison, the 21-year-old man who killed two students — Francisco I. Fernandez and Casey J. Marquez — and himself at his former high school last December.
White nationalist Matthew Heimbach is planning a college speaking tour starting at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville amid some turmoil within the Traditional Worker Party (TWP) and questions from the outside.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) counted over 100 people killed or injured by alleged perpetrators influenced by the so-called "alt-right" — a movement that continues to access the mainstream and reach young recruits.
In the past four years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has documented a string of violent acts involving the racist “alt-right” which has resulted in 43 people dead and more than 60 injured.
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