Ron DeSantis has used his power as Florida governor to intimidate voters, influence elections, threaten immigrants and attack those that advocate for causes he opposes, such as LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance. He even picked a fight with Disney World. He has also positioned himself as the standard bearer for the right wing’s “war on woke,” which is the concept of having an awareness of social injustices and fighting for equity.
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At CPAC Hungary this week, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama will speak alongside a global collection of radical-right figures, including the leader of an Austrian political party founded by Nazi SS officers.
Experts tell Hatewatch that conservative blogger Rod Dreher should register as a foreign agent for far-right Hungary under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, a 1938 law that regulates advocacy for foreign governments in the U.S.
Hard-right “constitutional sheriff” Charles “Chuck” Austin Jenkins of Frederick County, Maryland, was indicted by a federal grand jury this week for breaking federal gun laws.
Tuesday’s midterm elections saw candidates who held extremist anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, election-denying and anti-abortion positions widely rebuffed by voters around the country.
Uncensored America (UA), a student organization sanctioned at three university campuses, plans to host Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes at Penn State University and far-right social media performer John Doyle at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in coming weeks.
A group of sheriffs associated with the extremist constitutional sheriff movement lent their support to the anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday to promote a “crisis” happening at the Southern border.
In Sasabe, Arizona, along the U.S.-Mexico border, far-right Christian nationalists and QAnon adherents have steadily visited the area trying to detain migrants to stop a supposed migrant invasion.
For decades, a network of Washington, D.C., nativist groups and their political allies have advanced ideas resembling a “great replacement” spurred on by immigration, as seen in materials associated with the suspect alleged to be responsible for the mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket on May 14.
