Last June, six months after paying a visit to the occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Washington State Representative Matt Shea organized a chapter of the anti-Muslim hate group ACT For America in Spokane, Washington.
The story of 2016 was one of right-wing extremists ascendant. But even as young racist radicals gained attention and influence, important members of the generation that preceded them passed away. Among them:
A director and a screenwriter discuss their new movie about white supremacists and what they hoped to accomplish.
The radical right was more successful in entering the political mainstream last year than in half a century. How did it happen?
‘Patriot’ groups have long seen the government as their primary enemy. But now, the movement is adopting Anti-Muslim Hate
Conspiracists, militiamen and bikers are up in arms over nefarious ‘Marxist’ plot to wreak mass chaos, cause a coup and assassinate the president-elect.
A man enmeshed in the antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movement, including involvement in child protective services cases, has been arrested in Florida on charges of armed kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Republican Steve McLaughlin signed onto a letter protesting the Hammonds' arrest, and the next thing he knew, his biggest supporters were 'Patriots.'
A U.S. attorney announced this afternoon domestic terrorism charges against three men stemming from a plot to attack a mosque and apartment complex in Garden City, Kansas. The following statement is by Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project:
Brandon Curtiss built his '3% of Idaho' into the state's leading antigovernment organization, but it all came tumbling apart this week when his mountain of dubious financial dealings caught up with him.
