A series of scandals in the Nationalist Front — and a long-running and well-documented hypocritical streak on the part of leadership in the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) — has revealed a willingness on the part of president Michael Hill to look the other way when both allies and his own troops fail to meet his supposed moral standards.
Despite a failed bid to unseat Paul Ryan in 2016, businessman Paul Nehlen is running again — and hoping that the alt-right can help elect him.
A neo-Nazi and white nationalist with ties to the security company that works for musician Taylor Swift had a profile on a sexual fetish website.
On November 15, the European parliament called upon Polish authorities to condemn what it called a "xenophobic and fascist march" which had taken place in Warsaw four days earlier.
Students and residents mounted a peaceful protest at the University of Florida that threw Richard Spencer for a loop, exposing the hollowness of his message and the fragility of his ego.
Since March 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has tracked 329 flyering incidents on 241 different college campuses across the United States, a number that continues to grow.
UPDATE: The Justice Department has just opened a civil rights investigation into an apparent hate crime last weekend in Spokane involving a 66-year African-American man. “We are concerned about elements of the incident because any crime that is potentially hate-motivated is not only an attack on the victim, but threatens and intimidates an entire community,” an FBI spokeswoman tells Hatewatch.
The FBI is expected to review a hate crime in which a black man was assaulted with a handgun and called ethnic slurs before several gunshots were fired into his home in Spokane last weekend.
Joe Bernstein’s Buzzfeed scoop revealing the inner workings of Breitbart News—including a video showing white nationalist Richard Spencer giving a Nazi salute during Milo Yiannopolous' karaoke rendition of "America The Beautiful"—solidifies the far-right outlet’s reputation as a platform for the white nationalist “alt-right.”
On Thursday afternoon, a judge found Ryan King guilty of disorderly conduct for his role in a fight that broke out at Auburn University last April. King, a 38-year-old tattoo artist from Montgomery, Alabama, went to Auburn for Richard Spencer’s controversial appearance on April 18.
Fiery torch demonstrations on the University of Virginia campus — like those that marked the Unite the Right rally in August — will no longer be legal following action by a university board.
