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.
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.
Sam Bushman, CEO of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), attended a barbecue this summer hosted by a known white nationalist. Bushman also guested on a radio show syndicated by his online network alongside a host who praised Hitler.
Mere days after Alabama state representative Will Dismukes’ appearance at an event honoring Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest sparked national controversy, the 30-year-old lawmaker was arrested and charged with first-degree theft of property.
Will Dismukes, a representative in Alabama’s state house, posted Sunday on Facebook about his participation in an event that day honoring KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest. The event was hosted at the home of Pat Godwin, a longtime member of neo-Confederate hate group the League of the South.
A former League of the South member who attended multiple rallies with the neo-Confederate hate group faces disorderly conduct charges in east Tennessee.
Ryan Matthew King, 42, of Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested June 20 on two charges of 3rd degree domestic violence, according to the Autauga County, Alabama, Sheriff’s Office website.
In December 2018, a man named Rinaldo Nazzaro purchased 30 acres of remote land in Republic, Washington, a city of roughly 1,000 people about an hour’s drive south of the Canadian border. The tract was meant to serve as a training ground for a terroristic white power group he founded earlier that year called The Base.
As communities across the country unite to protest killing of African Americans at the hands of police, acts of unbridled racism have simultaneously reared up in the form of cars being rammed into protests.
Amid ongoing protests against police brutality spurred by the recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, cities from Richmond to Tampa are removing divisive symbols of the Confederacy. On Monday, one angry caller told police in Birmingham, Alabama, he planned to kill police, protestors and the city mayor if they proceeded with plans to remove a monument in the city.
After days of tense and sometimes violent protests in cities across the country, President Trump continued to use coded language, political division and threats to quell the activities.