The U.S. government, media organizations, and political scholars often characterize the “War on Terror” as a clash of civilizations or a battle against radical Islam.
The U.S. government, media organizations, and political scholars often characterize the “War on Terror” as a clash of civilizations or a battle against radical Islam.
There were two dynamics that determined the fate of America’s radical right in 2017: the election of President Trump and the fallout from the Charlottesville, Virginia, deadly white nationalist rally.
In Charlottesville last August, heavily armed paramilitary groups and militias added to the chaos, confusion and violence of the Unite the Right rally.
Brandon R. Curtiss, the former head of a militia-style group called Idaho III%, faced arraignment today in Boise on 19 felony charges related to the alleged theft of $87,000 in rent payments from business clients.
Since 2010, 201 anti-Sharia law bills have been introduced in 43 states. In 2017 alone, 14 states introduced an anti-Sharia law bill, with Texas and Arkansas enacting the legislation.
This Saturday, January 27, the League of the South (LOS), a neo-confederate organization that seeks to establish a white, Christian ethnostate in the southeastern U.S., will hold its first rally of the new year on the steps of Florida’s capitol building in Tallahassee.
Two monuments commemorating a Reconstruction-era fight for white supremacy stand on public property in a majority-black town in central Louisiana, the only markers to an 1873 riot that killed 150 African Americans.
Cliven Bundy, just released from a Nevada jail cell, is already making the rounds as a guest speaker at grass roots, antigovernment group events opposing federal control of public lands.
Nevada rancher Cliven D. Bundy, his two sons and a militia commander were tried on charges that they led an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014. Read the Hatewatch staff's live updates from the trial below.
Federal prosecutors are urging a Nevada judge to not dismiss criminal charges against Cliven Bundy, the Nevada cattleman and antigovernment icon, and three other men, claiming the government’s failure to release certain records was merely inadvertent.