A Guide to Who’s Coming to the Largest White Nationalist Rally in a Decade
A poster for Unite the Right combines imagery of Confederate flags and monuments, Pepe the Frog, as well as the Roman Eagle–reminiscent of Nazi Germany. The Unite the Right rally, which will take place...
View ArticleJoey Gibson and Patriot Prayer: The Westboro Baptist Church of the Alt Right
Joey Gibson is a Far Right activist who, since March 2017, has made a name for himself by organizing confrontational rallies in liberal enclaves on the West Coast that have frequently descended into...
View ArticleRumors of Civil War: How Anti-Communist Conspiracies Imagine an Antifa Civil...
A conspiracy theory has spread like wildfire through the Far Right claiming that on November 4, “antifa” will start a civil war and attempt to overthrow Donald Trump. The date is supposed to precede...
View ArticleThree Pillars of the Alt Right: White Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Misogyny
Photo credit: Karla Cote, August 11, 2017, Charlottesville, VA https://flic.kr/p/XuUyHe The new wave of avowed White nationalists who have been energized by Donald Trump—most prominently the Alt...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: Far Right Mobilization in 2017
Memorial for Heather Heyer in downtown Charlottesville. Photo: Courtesy of Bob Mical via Flickr. In the United States, 2017 was a banner year for fascist and related far right activism. There were...
View ArticleSteve Bannon’s “Washed Out” Antisemitism
Steve Bannon speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr. Stephen K. Bannon was the Executive Chairman of the Far Right media...
View ArticleThe Future of the U.S. “Populist Radical Right” and White Nationalism:...
Cas Mudde is the author of The Far Right in America (Routledge, 2017). Photo: Frankie Fouganthin. Donald Trump did not invent nativism or right-wing populism, but he did provide those ideologies a more...
View ArticleJake Laskey and the American Front
In the small Oregon town of Cottage Grove, just south of Eugene, a sign on an empty storefront that used to house a local museum announces a new business: Wolfclan Armory. While most towns would...
View ArticleStandoffs and the Far Right: What Changed After Oklahoma City?
Aerial view of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after bombing, 1995. Photo: Leonard Brakebill, Oklahoma Air National Guard. Twenty-three years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a...
View ArticleTHE U.S. FAR RIGHT’S 2018 ELECTION RESULTS: A BLIND-ALLEY FOR THE ALT RIGHT
A large number of candidates with ties to the Far Right ran for office in the 2018 midterm elections, mostly as Republicans. They ranged from neonazis to mainstream Republicans who courted the Far...
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