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2024
January 10. Tess Owen: Paul Gosar Keeps Finding Himself Surrounded by Young Racists: A new report has exposed yet more former staffers for the Republican congressman as members of a white supremacist organization.
January 17. Tess Owen: Neo-Nazi With Felony Convictions Cleared to Remain on GOP Ballot: The North Carolina Board of Elections ruled that Joseph Gibson III is eligible to run for a state House seat.
January 19. Tess Owen: Far-Right Congressman Complains There Aren’t Enough White People Joining the Army: Rep. Paul Gosar blamed the drop in white recruits on the army’s supposed “woke Marxist ideologies.”
February 1. Christopher Mathias: A White Supremacist Killed Her Dad In El Paso. Now, GOP Politicians Sound Like The Shooter. Meg Juarez’s father was among 23 people killed by a man who wanted to stop the “Hispanic invasion.” Now, she hears that language everywhere.
February 20: Heidi Przybyla & Alexander Ward: Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration: Spearheading the effort is Russell Vought, president of The Center for Renewing America, part of a conservative consortium preparing for Trump’s return to power.
February 24. Ben Goggin: Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies.
February 27. Odette Yousef: Alabama justice’s ties with far-right Christian movement raise concern.
February 27. Amanda Moore: I Was Banned From CPAC, but the Extremists Weren’t: From the lobby, I watched neo-Nazis and other far-right figures waltz unimpeded into the Conservative Political Action Conference.
February 29. Alexandria Jacobson: ‘Hypocrites’: ‘Honorary’ KKK member running for Missouri governor trashes GOP comrades.
February 29. Ryan Krull: Missouri GOP Moves to Remove ‘Honorary’ KKK Member from Ballot: Darrell McClanahan III’s Nazi salute in front of a burning cross was apparently too much for the state Republican party.
March 7. Jordan Green: Republican public schools nominee supports political killings and ‘death’ to Bill Gates.
March 7. Steven Monacelli: A new social network built on a vision of Christian supremacy in America gains traction with GOP politicians.
March 6. David Gilbert: He Promoted an Election Conspiracy Film. Now He’s Headed for Congress. Brandon Gill, a far-right 2020 election denier who helped promote the debunked 2000 Mules film, just won his Texas primary.
March 11. Paul Blest: North Carolina’s GOP Nominee for Governor Is a Far-Right Fanatic.
March 13. Kyle Clark: Joe Oltmann, a prominent far-right voice in Colorado politics, says Biden should be tried and executed.
March 13. Christopher Mathias: He Didn’t Deny Being A White Supremacist. Then He Was Elected To City Council. Judson Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, won’t refute evidence tying him to a secretive fascist group. Does the city care enough to recall him from office?
March 13. Brandy Zadrozny: A small city in Oklahoma elected a white nationalist. Will it be able to vote him out? Judd Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, marched in the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally. Now he faces a recall vote.
March 14. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump’s praise of dictators tells us all we need to know.
April 2. Christopher Mathias: Judson Blevins, City Councilman With Neo-Nazi Ties, Loses Recall Election.
April 29. Eyes on the Right: Speakers At White Nationalist Conference Included Ex-DOJ Official.
June 12. Teddy Wilson: How Deep Does Right Wing Extremism Go In The Republican Party?
July 10. Jordan Green: Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested.
July 10. Martin Pengelly: Democrat warns US leaders about Trump loyalist’s ‘target list’ of people to be detained in live stream raids. Jamie Raskin says report on Ivan Raiklin, who calls himself Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’, is ‘deadly serious.’
July 11. Ed Pilkington: How Clarence Thomas has provided a list of legal targets to ultra-right groups.
July 17. Christopher Mathias: He Went To A White Supremacist Conference. He Just Spoke At The RNC. In 2022, Thomas Homan, the head of ICE under Donald Trump, accepted an invitation to speak at a racist event hosted by Nick Fuentes.
July 18. Amanda Moore: I Watched Groypers Descend on Detroit — Where They Were No Longer Pariahs Among Mainstream Republicans.
July 19. Sam Levine: Election denialism front and center at Republican national convention.
July 25. Arthur Delaney: JD Vance Wrote Book Blurb For Jack Posobiec, Far-Right Influencer Of Pizzagate Fame. The book, “Unhumans,” suggests progressives aren’t really people.
August 7. Isaac Stanley-Becker & Beth Reinhard: JD Vance in texts with far-right figure: Profane and off-the-cuff. Private messages show Trump’s running mate entertaining conspiracy theories and scorning the late Sheldon Adelson.
August 27. Jordan Green: Rudy Giuliani finds a new low: platforming a Nazi.
August 28. Jason Wilson: Top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links: Parker Magid worked for Beck & Stone, which is close to shadowy fraternal order and Claremont Institute.
September 19. CNN: ‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum.
September 20. Hannah Knowles & Amy Gardner: Porn site user linked to Mark Robinson also praised Hitler’s Mein Kampf:The Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina has denied writing the posts, which have upended his campaign in the battleground state.
September 25. Aaron Blake: The nativists have taken over the GOP:Just five years ago, 21 percent of Republicans in a CNN poll said increasing racial and ethnic diversity threatened American culture. Today, 55 percent say that.
September 28. Jason Wilson: Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right:Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a ‘proponent of scientific racism’.
October 7. Jordan Green: White supremacist ideas go mainstream: How the GOP is embracing a dangerous narrative.
2023
March 6. Chris D’Angelo & Christopher Mathias: GOP Congressman Matt Rosendale Poses With Neo-Nazis: The Montana Republican was photographed outside the U.S. Capitol smiling alongside white supremacists Ryan Sanchez and Greyson Arnold.
April 7. Sylvie McNamara: Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts.
April 11. PBS: Texas governor seeks to pardon man who murdered BLM protester.
May 8. MSNBC: Radical right wing mass violence sits dangerously close to Republican politics.
May 10. Paul Gattis: Tuberville on white nationalists in the military: ‘I call them Americans’.
May 16. Tess Owen: Hard-Right Republican’s Staffer Reportedly a White Nationalist Groyper.
August 2. SPLC: Marjorie Taylor Greene Employed White Nationalist Collaborator.
September 24. Ali Swenson: RNC’s livestreaming partner for the GOP debate is a haven for disinformation and extremism.
September 26. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: In the US, ‘extreme political partisanship and divisive rhetoric from elected officials is driving violence’.
October 12. Aaron Blake: The story behind Steve Scalise and David Duke that helped end a bid for speaker.
October 17. Robert Downen: Defend Texas Liberty PAC names new president after leader met with white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
October 25. Melissa Gira Grant: The Absurd Lawsuit That Could Bankrupt Planned Parenthood: An anti-abortion activist and Texas’s attorney general have teamed up to try to force the organization out of the state—and now an anti-abortion judge has advanced their cause.
November 2. SPLC: Hate Groups Rejoice Over Newly Elected Speaker Mike Johnson.
November 4. Damon Linker: Get to Know the Influential Conservative Intellectuals Who Help Explain G.O.P. Extremism.
November 6. Chauncey DeVega: “Apocalypticism”: Polling expert reveals the root of “panic among conservative White Christians”. “That core belief explains so much of the extremism and the proclivity toward violence on the political right”.
2022
January 19. Christopher Mathias: Texas GOP Candidate For Governor Won’t Fire Staffer With Deep White Nationalist Ties.
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 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.
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 14. Tess Owen: Every Single House Republican Voted Against Investigating Neo-Nazis in the Military.
July 20. Cameron Joseph: The GOP Just Nominated a ‘QAnon Whackjob’ and a ‘True Confederate’ in Maryland.
August 27. Phil Stewart & Jarrett Renshaw: Pennsylvania candidate Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform at Army War College.
October 10. Annika Brockschmidt: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Genocide Rhetoric Creates a Permission Structure for the Right — But Permission to do What?
Older articles
Ken Bensinger, Jessica Garrison, & Jeremy Singer-Vine: Leaked Oath Keepers Data Shows At Least 28 Elected Officials Have Ties To The Group: The far-right group is sometimes associated with anti-government ideas, but on a local level, it has already made inroads in democratic institutions.
Joshua Green: Why Is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi?