When Donald Trump came down his golden escalator in 2015 to announce his bid for the presidency, it wasn’t long until the nation’s racist and conspiratorial fringe followed, creeping out of the shadows to form the largest and most visceral display of radical right-wing extremism the nation had seen in decades.
Phillip Parrish, a Republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, told a Muslim community leader, “Islam is ultimately not a faith,” and refused to meet with her if she was a “practicing Islamist."
SPLC President Richard Cohen testified today before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security about the need to focus on domestic terrorism from the radical right.
The past few weeks and month have been illuminating for those observing the bizarre statements and behaviors of John Guandolo, an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist and founder of the for-profit law enforcement training company, Understanding the Threat (UTT).
On October 20, 2017 President Donald Trump gave the public a good reminder about the cautionary spirit implied by “lies, damned lies and statistics,” when he carelessly linked the rise of reported crime in parts of the United Kingdom to “Islamic terrorism.”
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.
The White House chief of staff—retired Marine Gen. John Kelly—may have just given the most difficult directive of his career.
ACT for America, the nation’s largest anti-Muslim organization, has announced the replacement of its 67 ‘America First’ rallies across 36 states with an online ‘Day of ACTion’ on September 9.
The FBI has arrested an Oklahoma man on charges alleging he wanted to carry out a copycat bombing of the 1995 attack by extremist Timothy McVeigh.
