Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through March 15.
Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through March 15.
The House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim staff report last week that erroneously claimed millions of Americans might support Christian Identity.
Editor's note: On June 25, two months after this interview, Chris Eddy died. Her funeral service will be held today – July 6.
Russell Walker, who is running for the state legislature in North Carolina, believes in advocating term limits, supporting the Second Amendment right to bear arms, ending the war on drugs – and that God is a racist and a white supremacist.
One of the nation’s most-notorious sovereign citizens, who toured the country teaching antigovernment extremists how to set up bogus “common law” courts, faces 38 years in prison for a long list of crimes committed against public officials.
Mark Downey, a Christian Identity leader, has died at the age of 63, according to the white supremacist website, Stormfront. The cause was lung cancer.
If you’re visiting Bentonville, Arkansas, one of the first things locals will direct you to is the Walmart Museum.
James Paul Wickstrom, a leader in the Posse Comitatus and Christian Identity movements, has died at the age of 75 in Michigan, according to sources within the white supremacist movement.
The racist “alt-right” is killing people.
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.