Image: From Tess Owen’s The Proud Boys Changed Tactics After Jan. 6.
For anti-Asian hate crimes in 2022, see the separate page, Anti-Asian Violence in the Age of Covid-19.
January 3. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: How Extremism Went Mainstream: Washington Needs a New Approach to Preventing Far-Right Violence.
January 3. Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins: From the Capitol to the city council: How extremism in the U.S. shifted after Jan. 6. Domestic extremist groups have re-emerged in recent months, frequently trying to effect change at the local level.
January 4. PBS: Mainstream presence of Proud Boys, other extreme groups creates mass radicalization fears.
January 6. Kathleen Belew: Militia groups were hiding in plain sight on Jan. 6. They’re still dangerous.
January 6. Christopher Mathias: Living In The Florida County That Became A Breeding Ground For Capitol Rioters.
January 6. Odette Yousef: Why fringe movements now include middle-class Americans with jobs and families.
January 7. Sebastian Murdock: Alex Jones’ Infowars Store Made $165 Million Over 3 Years, Records Show.
January 8. Hannah Allam: A rural Washington school board race shows how far-right extremists are shifting to local power. The establishment candidate thought she was a shoo-in, but she hadn’t contended with the home-schooling, anti-masking member of the far-right Three Percent movement.
January 11. Eric Tucker: Justice Dept. creating unit focused on domestic terrorism.
January 13. PBS: Oath Keepers leader, 10 others charged with seditious conspiracy for Capitol insurrection.
January 13. Hannah Allam: Who is Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers leader arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 riot?
January 17. MSNBC: Trump shares stage with self-proclaimed Oath Keeper at Arizona rally.
January 18. Meghna Chakrabarti & Stefano Kotsonis: Far-right radio and the fight for American democracy.
January 19. Ryan Goodman & Justin Hendrix: The Oath Keeper Podcast Interviews – New Insights Into Jan. 6 and Continued Threats.
January 19. Christopher Mathias: Texas GOP Candidate For Governor Won’t Fire Staffer With Deep White Nationalist Ties.
January 20. CNN: Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states.
January 20. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Texas synagogue hostage-taker’s antisemitism not taken seriously by the FBI. The FBI’s statement that the hostage attack wasn’t antisemitic failed to capture the very nature of antisemitism.
January 21. Betsy Woodruff Swan: Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines: The Jan. 6 select panel has obtained the draft order and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.” Both are reported here in detail for the first time.
January 24. Moira Donegan: White nationalists are flocking to the US anti-abortion movement.
January 24. Mary B. McCord: Congress Can and Should Address the Threat from Unauthorized Paramilitary Activity.
January 25. Spencer Sunshine: Amazon’s Still Selling Lots of Nazi Books.
January 26. Odette Yousef: Homeland Security is trying to root out domestic violent extremism in the U.S.
January 28. Hanna Rigault Arkhis & Jessica White: Female veterans and right-wing extremism: becoming ‘one of the boys’.
January 30. Christopher Mathias: The ‘Perfect Anti-Semitism’ Of Tucker Carlson’s Latest Trip To Hungary: The Fox Nation host goes all-in on the white supremacist conspiracy theory that George Soros is waging “demographic war — on the West.”
January 31. Odette Yousef: Global culture wars: Some far right groups in the U.S. are taking a pro-Russia stance.
February. ADL: Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2021.
February 2. Sergio Olmos: Republicans to field more than 100 far-right candidates this year: Anti-Defamation League list includes at least a dozen with links to white supremacists, anti-government extremists and Proud Boys.
February 3. Enzo Traverso: Twenty-First Century Fascism: Where We Are. Enzo Traverso on post-fascism in times of pandemic.
February 3. Brad Reed. Tampa cop’s stepson exposed as member of neo-Nazi group Patriot Front.
February 3. Hannah Gais and Jason Wilson: Media2Rise Propagandist Identified as Montana Neo-Nazi.
February 15. Jordan Green: Why accelerationist Proud Boys latched on to big conservative rallies in DC last month.
February 15. Reuters: School boards get death threats amid rage over race, gender, mask policies.
February 17. Sarah Basford Canales: Far-right neo-Nazi group Nationalist Social Order added to Australia’s terror list.
February 25. Jake Thomas: AZ Governor Doug Ducey Says GOP Candidate With White Nationalist Ties Better Than a Democrat.
February 26. William Vaillancourt: CPAC Welcomes Marjorie Taylor Greene Hours After She Appears at White Nationalist Conference.
March 6. Mark Townsend: ‘Fascist fitness’: how the far right is recruiting with online gym groups. Anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate says extremists present self-improvement as part of wider political struggle.
March 7. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Fighting Russia in Ukraine sadly appeals to racist, far-right extremists: Counterterrorism officials are paying attention to the increased risks posed by volunteers from around the globe who are making their way to Ukraine.
March 8. Spencer S. Hsu & Devlin Barrett: Longtime Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio charged with conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol: Arrest shows prosecutors are moving beyond the scene of the crime toward anyone who directed or planned such violence.
March 8: KK Ottesen: ‘They are preparing for war’: An expert on civil wars discusses where political extremists are taking this country.
March 9. Ken Bensinger: Sidney Powell Has Secretly Been Funding The Legal Defense Of The Oath Keepers.
March 11. Bethany Moreton: The U.S. Christians Who Pray for Putin: The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.
March 12. Michelle Cohen: Twitter thread on the long history of connections between wellness cultures and fascism.
March 14. Alan Feuer: Document in Jan. 6 Case Shows Plan to Storm Government Buildings.
March 21. Igor Derysh: Pro-Trump group sent armed members door-to-door in Colorado to “intimidate” voters.
March 22. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Pandemic fitness trends have gone extreme — literally: White supremacists’ latest scheme to valorize violence and hypermasculinity has gone digital.
March 23. David Neiwert: ‘Fitness fascists’ hijack workout cultures to spread far-right politics and recruit a physical army.
March 24. CBS News: Ginni Thomas, Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, exchanged texts with Mark Meadows about efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
March 27. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Russia’s misguided ‘denazification’ of Ukraine is a self-fulfilling prophecy: How a relatively small private pro-state battalion in Ukraine triggered a global surge in neo-Nazi recruitment.
March 28. Hugo Lowell: Capitol attack panel expects to hear how militia groups coordinated plans before insurrection.
March 29. NPR: Why Did Tucker Carlson Echo Russian Bioweapons Propaganda On His Top-Rated Show?
March 31. NPR: The Growing Overlap Between The Far-Right And Environmentalism.
March 31. Odette Yousef: Extremism experts worry a QAnon theory is making into the mainstream political right.
April 1. NPR: The far-right and environmentalism overlap is bigger than you think — and growing.
April 2. Bob Brigham: ‘Nearly 300’ GOP state legislators may be implicated in Trump’s coup attempt.
April 5. Hannah Natanson & Moriah Balingit: Teachers who mention sexuality are ‘grooming’ kids, conservatives say.
April 6. Megan Squire and Michael Edison Hayden: Infowars Store Enjoyed Traffic Boost During ‘Stop the Steal’.
April 11. Charles Blow: Tucker Carlson and White Replacement: This racist theory is rooted in white supremacist panic.
April 12. Odette Yousef: Verdicts in Michigan governor kidnapping plot fuels questions on white extremism.
April 13. David Gilbert: ‘She Needs to Be Executed’: The Far-Right Is Doxxing School Officials They Think Are ‘Groomers’. On far-right forums, there’s been a significant spike in ultra-violent rhetoric, with users posting threats against specific teachers.
April 15. Derek Brouwer: Wilder Man Charged After Pipe Bombs, ‘White Power’ Rifle Discovered.
April 16. Ibram X. Kendi: The Danger More Republicans Should Be Talking About: White-supremacist ideology is harmful to all, especially the naive and defenseless minds of youth.
April 18. Sally Weale: Children coming across far-right material when researching, teachers say: NASUWT conference told of ‘online infiltration’ of views such as Holocaust denial among genuine accounts.
April 18. Kathryn Joyce: Think Capitol rioters were “ordinary people”? New research connects many to far-right groups. Almost a third of Jan. 6 defendants have extremist links, says researcher Michael Jensen. It could be much more.
April 18. Kyle Cheney: Text message trove shows Oath Keepers discussing security details for Trump associates: Roger Stone and Michael Flynn were among them.
April 19. Robert Legare & Scott MacFarlane: Far-right Oath Keepers exchanged messages about GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson during Jan. 6 riot.
April 26. SPLC: Former Marine Collaborates With Violent White Nationalist.
April 27. Chris Joyner: Groups call on Stone Mountain to cancel Confederate event.
April 29. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: How right-wing extremists weaponize the idea of motherhood: Women play a more significant role in far-right extremist movements than is often acknowledged.
April 30. Nicholas Confessore: How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable.
April 30. Nicholas Confessore: How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News — and Became Trump’s Heir.
April 30. New York Times: Inside the Apocalyptic Worldview of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’.
May 3. ADL: U.S. White Supremacist Propaganda Remained at Historic Levels in 2021, With 27 Percent Rise in Antisemitic Messaging.
May 3. Odette Yousef: Far-right militant groups align with issue-oriented groups ahead of midterms.
May 4. Karim Zidan: Streetfighters, Hooligans and Nazis: Inside Sweden’s Most Notorious Underground Fight Club.
May 7. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Tucker Carlson is the No. 1 champion of this leading far-right conspiracy. How Tucker Carlson revived and supercharged the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy.
May 9. Odette Yousef: A growing number of white nationalists identify with Vladimir Putin.
May 9. Perry Bacon Jr.: Trumpism is terrible. It also might be popular.
May 10. Odette Yousef: Orthodox Christian churches are drawing in far-right American converts.
May 11. David Gilbert: Irish Proud Boys Try to Hide It, But They’re Just as Racist as Their US Counterparts.
May 12. Odette Yousef: Supremacy movements unite over abortion restriction, though for different reasons.
May 13. Ali Breland: Militias Still Have a Safe Space on YouTube: A new report found hundreds of videos from sympathizers of groups that participated in the Capitol riot.
May 14. Dan Feidt: Buffalo Mass Shooter Likely Sought Combat Gear Advice on Online Chats.
May 15. Isaac Chotiner: Making Sense of the Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo: An expert on the white-power movement and the “great replacement” theory puts the act of terror in context.
May 15. Juliette Kayyem: A ‘Lone-Wolf’ Shooter Has an Online Pack: Even when a shooter acts alone, their ideology is often shared.
May 16. Kathleen Belew: White Power, White Violence: A manifesto is not something to be ignored; it’s a playbook for the next attack.
May 16. Greg Sargent: How Elise Stefanik and the GOP sanitize ‘great replacement’ ugliness.
May 16. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: The racist theory that allegedly motivated the Buffalo shooter suspect, explained: The conspiracy theory is so powerful because it can easily be directed toward any demographic group seen as a threat to white people.
May 16. Odette Yousef: How Replacement Theory Moved From The Fringe To The Mainstream.
May 17. Kathleen Belew: The Long Game of White-Power Activists Isn’t Just About Violence.
May 17. Christopher Mathias: Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho: A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty. Some wonder: Is it time to leave?
May 17. Judd Legum: Republicans have invoked the ‘great replacement’ theory over and over.
May 18. Adam Serwer: Conservatives Are Defending a Sanitized Version of ‘The Great Replacement’: Their reaction to the Buffalo shooting shows that the racist theory has now entered the Republican mainstream.
May 19. NBC News: Michigan election chief: Trump suggested I be arrested for treason and executed.
May 19. Nicole Hemmer: What Oprah Winfrey Knows About American History That Tucker Carlson Doesn’t.
May 19. Caroline Bologna: What To Do If You Suspect Your Teen Is Getting Radicalized Online: Experts share their advice for parents when it comes to combatting extremist propaganda.
May 20. Flora Garamvolgyi: Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media.’ Hungarian leader also tells Republicans at Budapest conference that shows like Tucker Carlson’s should be broadcast ‘24/7’.
May 24. Foeke Postma: Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right Merchandise.
May 25. David Gilbert: The Far Right Is Falsely Blaming a Trans Woman for the Texas School Shooting: “It tracks with their policies which vilify and harm trans people in the USA. The problem is never gun safety—it’s always something else.”
May 28. The Washington Post: Uvalde: 90 minutes of terror, a failed police response and shattered trust.
May 31. Peter Smith: Former Canadian Proud Boys Behind Neo-Nazi Propaganda Network: We spent over a year inside the network uncovering the identities of former Proud Boys as they built a propaganda channel with 42,000 plus followers and networked with other fascists and a white power gang.
June 2. Alan Feuer & Patricia Mazzei: How the Proud Boys Gripped the Miami-Dade Republican Party: It was once Jeb Bush’s base of power. But an influx of far-right activists and the radicalization of other members brought turmoil.
June 5. PBS: Examining the warning signs of online extremism targeting young people.
June 6. Tess Owen: Proud Boys Leaders Were Just Charged With Sedition Against the United States.
June 7. Military.com: Veterans Make Up Most of Proud Boys Members Indicted on Sedition for Jan. 6 Violence.
June 7. Tess Owen: They Love Jesus, Bon Iver, and Incels. Inside America’s New Ultranationalist Youth Movement. They paint Pepe the Frog crosses at church camp while decrying modern American society.
June 8. Emmi Conley: Terrorists Read Your Articles, Too: How To Report On Manifestos.
June 10. Cameron Joseph: Key Trump Allies Were Talking to Proud Boys Before Jan. 6, Committee Says: Here’s what we know about the connections between the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and key members of former President Trump’s orbit.
June 11. Odette Yousef: 31 members of the white nationalist Patriot Front arrested near an Idaho Pride event.
June 12. CBS Bay Area: Proud Boys disrupted drag queen storytelling at San Lorenzo library.
June 13. David Neiwert: Patriot Front discovers Coeur d’Alene not the best place to bring fascist violence to Pride events.
June 13. Kathleen Belew (Twitter thread): To those asking why Patriot Front would target Pride: to the white power movement and some of the militant right, a host of social issues (abortion, gay rights, interracial contact, immigration, secularism) are all a problem for the same reason.
June 14. Amarnath Amarasingam, Brian Hughes, & Dave Jones: Ecofascism: An Examination of the Far-Right/Ecology Nexus in the Online Space.
June 14. Tess Owen: Everything We Know About the 31 Patriot Front Members Arrested in a U-Haul.
June 15. Ryan J. Reilly: Court document in Proud Boys case laid out plan to occupy Capitol buildings on Jan. 6: “The goal is to ensure there is an entry point for the masses to rush the building,” states the nine-page document, titled “1776 Returns.”
June 15. Tess Owen: White Nationalists Want to Reclaim Nature as a Safe Space for Racists: White supremacy groups have deep roots in the U.S. wilderness and recreation movements, going all the way back to the creation of the National Park System. (See also this related Twitter thread.)
June 15. Rachel Martin & Odette Yousef: Counterterrorism researchers say they lack the data to prevent future violence.
June 16. Leah Sottile: Hunting hate: what it takes to be an extremism reporter.
June 17. Hannah Allam: Pride events targeted in surge of anti-LGBTQ threats, violence: Extremism trackers say political hate speech is fueling a rise in demonstrations and attacks against LGBTQ communities.
June 21. David Neiwert: Once again, a gay-hating evangelical threatens neighbors, Pride parade, bringing police response.
June 21. Tess Owen: Arrested Patriot Front Brothers Have Ties to Apocalyptic Christian Nationalist Church.
June 27. Odette Yousef: Idaho’s fight against the far right, then and now.
June 28. Hannah Allam: In the mostly White world of extremism research, new voices emerge: The white supremacist attack in Buffalo, N.Y., revived criticisms about the lack of diversity among hate trackers.
July 1. Odette Yousef: Some fear Christian nationalism is getting legal legitimacy through the Supreme Court.
July 5. Tess Owen: Christian Fascist Propaganda Is All Over TikTok.
July 6. Odette Yousef: Why the Highland Park suspect represents a different kind of violent extremism.
July 8. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: America’s Epidemic of Hate: Stopping Mass Shootings Requires Combating Online Extremism.
July 12. Tess Owen: Congress Has Roger Stone’s Encrypted Chats With Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
July 13. Kathleen Belew, David Hogg, & Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: White Supremacists Aren’t “Lone Wolves”: The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing. But their desperation to prevent a public reckoning with the country’s racist past points the way toward how to fight them.
July 14. Tess Owen: Every Single House Republican Voted Against Investigating Neo-Nazis in the Military.
July 14. Christopher Mathias: Gab Was Key To The Tree Of Life Shooting. Doug Mastriano Seems To Be Paying It For Followers. The GOP nominee for governor of Pennsylvania paid the far-right platform a $5,000 “consulting” fee. Now, new Gab accounts are automatically following him.
July 17. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: The Jan. 6 hearings will not prevent the next wave of extremism: What we need right now is a massive investment in and commitment to countering disinformation at all levels.
July 18. Cameron Joseph: GOP May Nominate a Pro-Secession Christian Nationalist for Maryland Attorney General: Michael Peroutka believes public education is a communist plot, abortion and gay marriage violate God’s law, and the concept of separation of church and state is a “great lie.”
July 20. Cameron Joseph: The GOP Just Nominated a ‘QAnon Whackjob’ and a ‘True Confederate’ in Maryland.
July 20. Tess Owen: Indiana Mall Gunman Appears to Have Posted Plans on 4chan.
July 26. Seamus Hughes & Adam Rawnsley: Neo-Nazi Marine Plotted Mass Murder, Rape Campaigns with Group, Feds Say: While tasked with protecting the nation, Matthew Belanger was plotting a killing spree against minorities and to rape “white women to increase the production of white children,” according to federal prosecutors.
July 26. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Extremism in the military is a serious national security threat. The GOP needs to act like it.
July 28. Tess Owen: The Far-Right Is Using Monkeypox to Peddle Anti-LGBTQ ‘Grooming’ Conspiracies.
August 10. Tech Transparency Project: Facebook Profits from White Supremacist Groups.
August 10. David Gilbert: Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge: “Let’s find out if he has children… where they go to school, where they live… EVERYTHING,” one person wrote on a message board where the judge’s address was posted.
August 11. Odette Yousef: Far-right figures in prison get their message out by podcasting behind bars.
August 11. Christopher Mathias: 5 Years Later, The Hunt For White Supremacists Who Terrorized Charlottesville Continues: “We do not forgive,” a group of anti-fascists declared while announcing a new project to identify every attendee of the infamous rally. “We do not forget.”
August 11. Keegan Hamilton: FBI Standoff Suspect Posted ‘Call to Arms’ on Trump’s Truth Social.
August 12. Christopher Mathias: 5 Years After Fascist Rally In Charlottesville, An Insurrectionist Is On The City Payroll: Allen Groat stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, then returned to his job working for the town that was home to the massive neo-Nazi rally that defined the Trump era.
August 14. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: How the loss of Roe directly serves white supremacist’s horrifying plot.
August 22. Associated Press: Man sentenced in extremist killing of federal officer.
August 23. Associated Press: 2 men convicted in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer.
August 24. Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling: Photos Show Proud Boy Working at Miami Polling Station.
August 25. Center on Extremism: Antisemitism and Anti-Transgender-Hate in Attacks on Gender-Affirming Healthcare.
August 26. NBC News: ‘Terroristic Act’: Howard University Students Evacuated Over Bomb Threat for 2nd Time This Week.
August 27. Phil Stewart & Jarrett Renshaw: Pennsylvania candidate Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform at Army War College.
August 29. SPLC: New York Fired Racist Prison Guard for Identity Evropa Membership.
August 30. David Neiwert: Trump’s meltdown on Truth Social rips away façade as he embraces QAnon conspiracy theories.
August 30. Alex Kaplan: Trump this morning amplified on Truth Social at least 12 different QAnon accounts a total of 18 times. Below are images showing this.
September 2. Odette Yousef: What Biden’s speech left out about the growing popular support for political violence.
September 6. Citizens for Ethics: Judge removes Griffin from office for engaging in the January 6 insurrection.
September 6. The Washington Post: Biden warns ‘equality and democracy are under assault.’
September 7. Miranda Bryant: ‘Deep roots in racist organizations’: Sweden’s PM Magdalena Andersson on the far-right threat in the election.
September 8. NPR: A publisher abruptly recalled the ‘2,000 Mules’ election denial book. NPR got a copy.
September 8. David Gilbert: QAnon Is Losing It Over the Queen’s Death.
September 8. Ruby Cramer: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) recounts the night an armed man shouted at her and her husband outside their Seattle home — and how threats of political violence haunt and alter the lives of elected officials.
September 13. Bill Shannon: Armed PA man in wig trying to ‘restore Trump as President’ arrested at Dairy Queen.
September 14. Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, & Brian Friedberg: How Memes Led to an Insurrection: A president who understood the power of memes was able to send thousands of people into battle against democracy itself.
September 14. Brandy Zadrozny: Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers: Baseless accusations are branding people as satanist pedophiles at the speed of the internet — just ask a GOP prosecutor who recently lost re-election.
September 14: Alyshah Hasham: 17-year-old spa killer said he was inspired by Toronto van attack, cited ‘incel rebellion’.
September 14. Tess Owen: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Has Teamed Up With a White Nationalist: The MAGA-world personality’s company is now offering steep discounts to supporters of a far-right personality.
September 14. Hannah Allam: Missing people, buried bones at center of Oklahoma mystery: A high-stakes criminal investigation is a window into the often unseen threat of white-supremacist prison gangs.
September 15. NPR: White House summit kicks off efforts to help communities address hate-fueled violence.
September 15. Biden delivers a keynote speech at the United We Stand Summit.
September 16. Matthew Gault: ‘Radicalization in Gaming’: Several groups are coming together to study the little understood phenomenon.
September 16. Ishaan Tharoor: Sweden’s election marks a new far-right surge in Europe.
September 18. Adam Hochschild: The Proud Boys and the Long-Lived Anxieties of American Men: Andy Campbell details the history of an ascendant far-right group.
September 19. Tess Owen: Neo-Nazis Protested Near Drag Brunch After Texas GOP Tweeted ‘Alert’: A group of neo-Nazis toting swastikas and transphobic signs gathered near a restaurant hosting a drag brunch in Pflugerville, Texas.
September 19. Ed Pilkington: Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for ‘street-level violence’.
September 20. Rolling Stone: ‘F–k If I Know’: Trump’s Embrace of QAnon Baffles Allies: The former president has been using Truth Social to tip his cap to the movement that believes America is run by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles.
September 20. Philip Bump: Trump asks QAnon to stand back and stand by.
September 20. Ryan J. Reilly & Zoë Richards: Members of far-right group America First charged in connection with Jan. 6 riot.
September 20: Ryan J. Reilly: Veterans group presses state and local prosecutors to go after far-right Patriot Front.
September 23. Jeff German & Briana Erickson: The rise and fall of the Oath Keepers, born in Las Vegas.
September 26. Tess Owen: Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church: About 100 far-right protesters were met by 100 counterprotesters at a Texas church hosting a drag event. Participants from both sides had guns.
September 26. Isaac Arnsdorf: How a QAnon splinter group became a feature of Trump rallies.
September 27. Moustafa Ayad: Resurrecting the Reich: Middle Eastern and North African Digital Nazi Communities.
September 27. Ishaan Tharoor: The mainstreaming of the West’s far right is complete.
September 27. Spencer S. Hsu: Jury selection underway in Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial: Founder Stewart Rhodes and four other members of his anti-government extremist group face trial in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
September 28. Ade Onibada: “My Brother Is So Far Gone”: How Male Influencers Turned The Men In These People’s Lives Toxic. People told BuzzFeed News how their loved ones have embraced deeply hateful and misogynistic worldviews since listening to “alpha male” influencers.
September 28. Odette Yousef: Calls grow for a tougher legal approach to white nationalist group Patriot Front.
September 29. Tess Owen: Gab Founder Andrew Torba Wants to Build a Christian Nationalist Internet: Facing increased competition from the likes of Truth Social, Torba has pivoted from free-speech zealot to hardcore Christian nationalist.
September 30. FiveThirtyEight: 60 Percent Of Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall.
October 2022. Andy Cao, Jason M. Lindo & Jiee Zhong: Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents? Evidence from Trump’s “Chinese Virus” Tweets.
October 3. Media Matters for America: After Twitter lifted Libs of TikTok’s suspension, the viral anti-LGBTQ account immediately returned to targeting educators and a children’s hospital.
October 4. David Gilbert: Trump’s Social Media Platform Is Now Showing Ads Targeting QAnon Believers.
October 4. Tess Owen: She Planned a Drag Event For Her Bakery. Now the Far-Right Stalks and Harasses Her.
October 6. Tess Owen: Armed Fringe Groups Are Gearing Up to ‘Protect’ Midterm Ballot Dropboxes.
October 9. Farah Pandith & Jacob Ware: Women and Children to the Front.
October 10. Annika Brockschmidt: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Genocide Rhetoric Creates a Permission Structure for the Right — But Permission to do What?
October 12. Intelbrief: Serious Concerns Over Political Violence Surrounding U.S. Midterm Elections.
October 14. Christopher Mathias: District Attorney To Review All Cases Handled By Cop Who Planned Charlottesville Nazi Rally.
October 17. Rachel Lerman & Jennifer Hassan: Kanye West plans to buy right-leaning social app Parler, company says: Ye was recently locked out of his Instagram and Twitter accounts for antisemitic posts.
October 17. Tess Owen: Kanye West Is Buying Parler as the Far-Right Scrambles to Co-Opt Him: The rapper, who has fully gone public with his antisemitism, is buying the far-right platform. The extreme right could not be more thrilled.
October 18. New York Times: Voters See Democracy in Peril, but Saving It Isn’t a Priority: A New York Times/Siena College poll found that other problems have seized voters’ focus — even as many do not trust this year’s election results and are open to anti-democratic candidates.
October 18. Kelcie Moseley-Morris: Bill prohibiting public drag performances to be introduced in upcoming Idaho legislative session.
October 18. Maurice Chammah: Does Your Sheriff Think He’s More Powerful Than the President? Richard Mack has built a “Constitutional sheriff” movement to resist state and federal authority on guns, COVID-19 and now election results. A new survey shows just how many sheriffs agree with him.
October 18. Jonathan Chait: There’s No Comparison Between How the Parties Handle Antisemitism: Marjorie Taylor Greene shows it pays in the GOP.
October 18. Annika Brockschmidt: As Midterms Approach, White Christian Nationalism is Mainstream for the GOP — And it’s Only Getting Worse.
October 20. Karim Zidan: Fight for the Right: Why So Many MMA Fighters Are Becoming Right-Wing Political Activists.
October 22. New York Times: For Trump’s Backers in Congress, ‘Devil Terms’ Help Rally Voters: In vilifying tweets and speeches, G.O.P. lawmakers who contested the election have far outpaced other Republicans and Democrats in fueling polarization.
October 23. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Christian nationalism is a racist, ahistorical ideology of violence.
October 25. Tess Owen: What Really Happened at the Penn State Protest Against Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes:For weeks, students had been demanding the school cancel a right-wing “comedy” event on campus. The school eventually did, minutes before it was meant to happen, as tensions mounted between protesters and uniformed Proud Boys.
October 26. PBS: Threat of political instability rises as candidates indicate they won’t concede defeat.
October 26. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: The Proud Boys at Penn State was never going to end well: Penn State played right into the hands of the far-right’s long-term strategy of using college appearances to platform hate.
October 27. Pew Research Center: In their own words: How Americans describe ‘Christian nationalism’.
October 28. Kathleen Belew: What do we do about fascism?(Twitter thread.)
October 28. Vice News: Man Accused of Attacking Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Left Trail of Far-Right Hate.
October 29. Hannah Allam, Ashley Parker, & Marianna Sotomayor: Attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband follows years of GOP demonizing her.
October 31. Hannah Allam & Souad Mekhennet: Accused Pelosi attacker’s history shows blurry lines of radicalization.
November 1. Paul Blest: A Democratic Candidate Was Beaten and Knocked Unconscious at His Home: “He knocked me out,” says the candidate, who suspects he was targeted with election-related violence.
November 2. Kipp Jones: Man Firebombs Oklahoma Donut Shop After it Hosts Drag Queen Event.
November 3. CNN: Biden sends a stark warning about political violence ahead of midterms: ‘We can’t take democracy for granted any longer’.
November 4. CNN: FBI identifies source of New Jersey synagogues threat.
November 4. Christopher Mathias: Doug Mastriano’s Prophets In Pennsylvania: A shocking weekend with the supporters of the nominee for governor — full of swords, demons, and wild prophecies — shows the theocratic future of the GOP.
November 7. The Washington Post: Tracking which 2020 election deniers are winning, losing in the midterms.
November 8. David Gilbert: Meet the ‘Black Robe Regiment’ of Extremist Pastors Spreading Christian Nationalism.
November 9. New York Times. There Are No Lone Wolves.
November 16. NBC News: Moms for Liberty-backed school board members fire superintendent, ban critical race theory.
November 19. Vimal Patel and McKenna Oxenden: 2 Men Arrested in Threats to New York Jewish Community.
November 20. Thomas Peipert & Jesse Bedayn: Gunman kills 5 at gay club, is subdued by patrons.
November 23. Eric Hananoki: Marjorie Taylor Greene paid antisemitic and white nationalist haven Gab for “fundraising” in August.
November 27. Josh Wingrove: Key Trump 2024 Rivals Silent After His White Supremacist Meeting: Trump met with Ye, white nationalist Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago.
November 27. Leah McElrath: The Kanye West and Nick Fuentes collaboration strikes me as potentially dangerous for Jewish Americans. It’s multiracial unification around antisemitism. I am concerned about how that might take hold within white, Latino, and Black Christian evangelical and Catholic communities. (Twitter thread.)
November 28. BBC: Buffalo shooting: Gunman pleads guilty to murder and terrorism charges.
November 28. Thomas Lecaque: Not Only is the Right Unapologetic For Violent Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric — It’s Doubling Down.
November 28. Greg Sargent: How Trump is handing white supremacists huge propaganda victories.
November 28. Hugo Lowell: Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes’: Advisers wanted ex-president to distance himself from white supremacist with whom he dined but Trump feared alienating supporters – insiders.
November 30. Philip Bump: Right-wing White men are not usually convicted of seditious conspiracy.
November 30. Jordan Green. J6 rioter with a pattern of sexual assault went from rallying with the Proud Boys to recruiting for the Base.
December 1. Tess Owen: Kanye Says He ‘Likes Hitler’ In Disturbing Rant to Alex Jones.
December 1. Tess Owen: From Charlottesville to Mar-a-Lago: Nick Fuentes’ White Nationalist Journey. Despite his rhetoric growing increasingly vile over the years, the white nationalist has only moved closer to conservative political power.
December 2. Becky Sullivan: Alex Jones files for bankruptcy following $1 billion Sandy Hook verdicts.
December 3. Liam Stack: Druggings, Deaths and Robberies Put New York’s Gay Community on Edge.
December 5. Mack Lamoureux: Kanye West Is Dragging Far-Right Figures Into the Mainstream: Numerous far-right figures are clambering to gain access to the disgraced rapper, whose antisemitism and celebrity could raise their profile.
December 5. Tess Owen: The Far-Right Attacked Drag Events in 4 States This Weekend: Protests against drag events have been an almost weekly occurrence this year. This weekend was no different.
December 7. New York Times: Germany Arrests 25 Suspected of Planning to Overthrow Government: Among those detained were a German prince, a former far-right member of Parliament, an active soldier and former members of the police and elite special forces.
December 7. CNN: Investigators are zeroing in on two possible motives centered around extremist behavior in NC power stations attacks.
December 8. Conrad Wilson: String of electrical grid attacks in Pacific Northwest is unsolved.
December 9. David Gilbert: Inside the Far Right QAnon Plot to Overthrow the German Government.
December 9. Tess Owen: What We Know—and Don’t Know—About Recent Power Grid Attacks. Two power substations in North Carolina were shot up last weekend. At least five similar attacks have been reported since late November.
December 11. SPLC: White Nationalists, Other Republicans Brace for ‘Total War’.
December 14. Mack Lamoureux: Kanye Keeps Circling the Bottom, Hit With More Cancellations: After months of antisemitic rants, Ye is now finding out how few people want to talk to him.
December 14. Tess Owen: Proud Boys Abruptly Shifted Focus to Anti-LGBTQ Action in 2022: VICE News tracked Proud Boy activity over the year, showing the far-right street fighting gang’s change in tactics as the GOP pushed a new culture war.
December 14. Kathleen Belew: The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline: Those living on the fringe of the left and the right share more in common than you might think. (See also Belew’s Twitter thread on this.)
December 14. Casey Parks: Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric brought violence, shooting survivors tell House panel. Survivors of the Club Q and Pulse nightclub shootings testified for more than three hours Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
December 15. NPR: Extremism experts say Germany’s far-right actors are familiar.
December 16. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: The FBI’s 2021 Hate Crime Data Is Worse Than Meaningless.
December 17. Annie Gowen: Jan. 6 rioter charged with plotting to kill agents who investigated him.
December 17. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Elon Musk’s Twitter is a welcoming home for Trump-disillusioned QAnon.
December 17. Julie Zauzmer Weil: Antisemitic graffiti discovered at Montgomery County high school.
December 20. Tess Owen: Gay New York Councilman’s Home Targeted by Anti-LGTBQ Mob.
December 21. Mack Lamoureux: 2 Men With Neo-Nazi Ties Arrested in Armed Bank Robbery Scheme: The pair, both of whom had access to weapons and connections to numerous neo-Nazi groups, planned the robbery using a coded channel called “SS Screenplay Guild,” court documents allege.
December 21. Anya Zoledziowski: How 2022 Became the Year Trans Hate Went Mainstream.
December 22. The Washington Post: Publix heiress was willing to spend $3 million on Jan. 6 rally, documents show. Groups controlled by Charlie Kirk received $1.25 million for buses to take people to Washington and for rally promotion.
December 23. Tess Owen: Proud Boys Leader Told Jan. 6 Investigators Oath Keepers Dropped His Name for Clout.
December 25. Dennis Romero and Antonio Planas: Four substations attacked in Washington state, leaving thousands without power.
December 26. Kathleen Belew: Why these multiple power station attacks are concerning to domestic terrorism experts: There is a long, long history of white power attacks on infrastructure targets. (Twitter thread.)
December 27. Agence France-Presse: Fears of Extremist Campaign After Attack on US Power Station.
December 28. Kim Bellware: Architect of Mich. governor kidnap plot sentenced to more than 19 years in prison.
December 28. Hannah Allam: How to fight domestic terrorism? First, officials have to define it. Republican attempts to minimize far-right violence hampers government efforts to combat the threat, extremism analysts say.
December 29. Rachel Olding: Misogynist Influencer Andrew Tate’s Rough Week Capped by Romanian Rape Arrest.
December 30. Vera Bergengruen: Why a Group of Christians Is Fighting the Growing Threat of Christian Nationalism.