Far-right groups favor street-level action, as the so-called "alt-right" bickers over tactics.
Far-right groups favor street-level action, as the so-called "alt-right" bickers over tactics.
A fractured but energized movement tried to pull itself together — but ended up exposing even deeper rifts.
On Saturday, January 27, 2018, members of the Florida chapter of the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) emerged from a Tallahassee parking deck and made their way toward the state’s capitol to host their first rally of the new year. They were met by a massive crowd of counter-protesters bearing signs and chanting slogans decrying the League’s desire for an all-white ethnostate in the Southeastern United States.
According to the League of the South’s website, Saturday’s “Rally to Restore Florida Sovereignty” was supposed to get the group “off and running in 2018.”
A League of the South member has been arrested in Florida and charged with beating a man after the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.
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.
A long-time white supremacist and National Alliance member, 53-year-old James Mathias of Davenport, Iowa, was arrested on a warrant for a weapons charge on Monday, January 22.
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.
The first sign that the neo-Nazis had arrived in Knoxville came a few minutes past noon with the sound of shouting outside a downtown parking garage.
A series of scandals in the Nationalist Front — and a long-running and well-documented hypocritical streak on the part of leadership in the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) — has revealed a willingness on the part of president Michael Hill to look the other way when both allies and his own troops fail to meet his supposed moral standards.