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Far Right Extremism in 2023

See also: Far Right Extremism in 2022.

January 3.   Hannah Allam: Jan. 6 papers detail infighting, ‘chaos’ among extremist organizers: Newly released documents zoom in on the role of far-right militants and conspiracy theorists.

January 3.   Ellie Silverman: Judge slashes millions owed by hate groups for 2017 Charlottesville rally.

January 4.   Ellie Silverman: A ‘hate castle’ or welcome neighbor? VDare divides a West Virginia town. In Berkeley Springs, the purchase of an iconic castle by VDare, which some consider a hate group, has led to angst and ugliness.

January 4.   Tess Owen: Five Proud Boys are facing up to 20 years in prison on seditious conspiracy charges for their roles in planning the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

January 5.   The New York Times: The Veteran Outing Domestic Extremists.

January 6.   Cross Cultural Solidarity: Roundup of new articles on the 2nd anniversary of the insurrection.

January 6.   Bill Chappell: Five Democratic politicians’ homes or offices have been shot at in Albuquerque.

January 6.   Mack Lamoureux: A Neo-Nazi Street Fighting Gang Leader Was Just Indicted in LA.

January 6.   Zein Murib: Expect More Right-Wing Anti-Trans, Anti-“Critical Race Theory” Pushes in 2023 – and 2024: In this op-ed, political scientist Zein Murib explains the Republican legislative focus on trans people and “Critical Race Theory.”

January 6.   Annie Gowen: Supporters raise millions to rebrand Jan. 6 rioters as ‘patriots’.

January 7.   NPR: QAnon’s toehold in the wellness world.

January 9.   Elizabeth Dwoskin: Come to the ‘war cry party’: How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil. Researchers detected a surge in aggressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday’s rioting.

January 9.   DOJ: 69 Universal Aryan Brotherhood Gang Members and Associates Convicted During Multi-Year Investigation into Their Drug Trafficking of Methamphetamine.

January 9.  Tess Owen. American Politicians Are Facing More Gun Threats.

January 10.  Lawfare: Proud Boys Trial Diary.

January 12.   The Washington Post: U.S. says Proud Boys ‘did not stand back,’ sought to keep Trump in office.

January 12.   Michelle Boorstein & Scott Clement: Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S.

January 13.   Eric Rosane: Neo-Nazi fight clubs dupe Tri-Cities event center into hosting ‘Martyrs Day Rumble’.

January 13.   Tess Owen: FBI Informants Who Marched With Proud Boys on Jan. 6 Will Testify for Their Defense.

January 16.   Megan Gates: An Explosive Situation: Strategies to Prevent Youth Radicalization.

January 16.   Sara Boboltz & Nick Visser: Failed GOP Candidate Arrested In String Of Shootings At New Mexico Democrats’ Homes: Police charged Solomon Peña, a former Republican candidate for the state House of Representatives.

January 17.   SPLC: Idaho Republican Club Hosts Speech by Antisemite, Jan. 6 Attendee.

January 17.   Jacob Ware: The Violent Far-Right Terrorist Threat to the Republican Party and American Conservatism: In addition to minority communities and those on the political left, far-right extremism threatens violence against Republicans as well.

January 18.   Alejandra Caraballo: We are now at 134 anti-LGBTQ proposed state bills.

January 19.   Military.com: 3 Active-Duty Marines Who Work in Intelligence Arrested for Alleged Participation in Jan. 6 Riot.

January 19.   Jim Daley: Police district candidate’s social media full of racist and misogynist posts.

January 20:   Daniel de Visé: As hate crimes surge, most are going uncounted.

January 22.   The Washington Post. Gunman is dead after 10 killed in Monterey Park, Calif., shooting.

January 23.   The Washington Post: 7 Dead in Shootings in Half Moon Bay: It is the second mass shooting in California in three days.

January 23.   Rachel Cunliffe: “There are thousands of Andrew Tates out there”: The battle against online extremism. Counterextremism expert Milo Comerford on what Isis can teach us about the spread of radical misogyny.

January 24.   Hannah Allam: For one Proud Boys tracker, trial offers long-awaited accountability: For years, Megan Squire warned about the Proud Boys’ mobilization to violence. Now, she’s watching them stand trial over the U.S. Capitol attack.

January 24.   Brandi Buchman: An expectation of civil war and ‘second thoughts’ on Jan. 6: Former Proud Boy testifies at trial.

January 24.   Tess Owen: Instagram Has a White Nationalist ‘Groyper’ Problem. “Groypers,” followers of white nationalist livestreamer Nicholas Fuentes, are all over Instagram, some with thousands of followers.

January 24.   Bristol Cable: The Conspiracist in Recovery: A short documentary.

January 25.   U.S. Secret Service Media Relations: New Secret Service Research Examines for the First Time Five Years of Mass Violence Data.

January 25.   PBS: How a Washington state plan to fight domestic extremism could be a model for the nation.

January 26.   International Centre for Counter Terrorism: Mapping the Ideological Landscape of Extreme Misogyny.

January 29.   David Gilbert: Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members.

January 29.   Christopher Mathias: Inside The Online Community Where Home-Schoolers Learn How To Turn Their Kids Into ‘Wonderful Nazis’.

January 30.   David Gilbert: Nazi Homeschool Network Under Investigation by Ohio’s Department of Education: They are investigating a group that advocates white supremacist ideologies with the aim to make sure the children they teach “become wonderful Nazis.”

January 31.   Tess Owen: Kanye Is Now a White Nationalist Meme to Recruit College Kids.

January 31.   Paul Renfro: How the Right Got Waco Wrong: Militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry. But it was never the example of whiteness under siege that they invoke.

January 31.   Tess Owen: Kanye Paid These Far-Right Trolls Thousands to Work on His Presidential Campaign: Far-right trolls Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopolous have made tens of thousands of dollars working for Kanye’s apparent presidential campaign.

January 31.   Mack Lamoureux: Teen Gets 11 Years for Neo-Nazi Videos That Inspired Racist Buffalo Mass Shooting: The U.K teen’s hateful content was linked to two mass shootings in the U.S.

January 31.   The Washington Post: GOP report shows plan to ramp up focus on disproven election fraud claims.

February 1.   New York Times: Bias and Human Error Played Parts in F.B.I.’s Jan. 6 Failure, Documents Suggest: The F.B.I. appeared to be blinded by a lack of imagination, a narrow focus on “lone wolf”offenders and a misguided belief that the threat from the far left was as great as that from the far right, new congressional documents show.

February 1.   Vice News Reports podcast: Behind The Anti-Semite Advising Kanye’s Campaign.

February 1.   SPLC: Alex Jones described himself as living “in hell,” being part of “a sick joke,” and sinking down into a “black hole” in previously private text messages given to Hatewatch.

February 1.   The Big Take podcast: How Racist Groups Use Online Video Games To Spread Hate.

February 2.   Andrea Salcedo: Civil rights lawsuit against Kyle Rittenhouse can proceed, judge rules.

February 3.   Cynthia Miller-Idriss: How the internet supercharged white supremacist homeschooling: Extremists using homeschooling education to spread white supremacist ideology is becoming a growing problem.

February 6.   The Washington Post: Duo accused of neo-Nazi plot to target Maryland power stations: Atomwaffen founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel allegedly sought to attack substations around Baltimore.

February 6.   Tess Owen: Neo-Nazi Couple Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Power Grid and ‘Destroy Whole City’. Brandon Russell, leader of neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, and his prison-girlfriend allegedly plotted to attack five Baltimore-area energy stations.

February 6.   Ashton Kingdon: God of Race War: The Utilisation of Viking-Themed Video Games in Far-Right Propaganda.

February 7.   Bobby Harrison and Adam Ganucheau: ‘Only in Mississippi’: White representatives vote to create white-appointed court system for Blackest city in America.

February 7.   Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Andrew Tate’s violent, misogynistic teachings are seeping into classrooms: How to counter the “tidal wave of misogyny” spurred by anti-feminist influencers.

February 7.   Jason Burke: Rights abuses often ‘tipping point’ for extremist recruitment, UN study finds: Quality education and exposure to different cultures identified as key preventive factors in African survey.

February 8.   Public Religion Research Institute: A Christian Nation? Understanding the Threat of Christian Nationalism to American Democracy and Culture.

February 8.   Isaac Stanley-Becker: Charlie Kirk’s right-wing empire loses a key asset: Students for Trump. The split shows how Turning Point USA and its affiliates are wrestling with their identity as parts of the GOP seek a Trump alternative.

February 9.   David Gilbert: Ohio Department of Education Says It Won’t Do Anything About Neo-Nazi Homeschoolers.

February 9.   Dan Ladden-Hall: Another New Jersey Council Member Shot Dead, Officials Say.

February 9.   Stuart A. Thompson: Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is Top Misinformation Spreader, Study Says.

February 10.   Madeline Will: 5 Ways Teachers Can Confront Students’ Exposure to Andrew Tate and Other Online Extremists.

February 12.   Ben Quinn: ‘Rapid rise’ in Andrew Tate-related cases referred to Prevent by schools: Counter-extremism workers dealing with incidents including verbal harassment of female teachers and other pupils.

February 15.   The Washington Post: Proud Boys leader learned of upcoming arrest from D.C. police officer.

February 15.   The Washington Post: Election deniers face a nationwide wave of pushback.

February 16.   Timothy Bella: Alex Jones is ‘holding firearms’ for Jan. 6 participants, bankruptcy docs show.

February 16.   Rosh Lowe: Antisemitic slurs fuel violence during game between Miami-Dade religious private schools, parents say.

February 20.   Mike Allen: Exclusive: McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson access to trove of Jan. 6 riot tape.

February 22.   Nicole Asbury: Montgomery County schools toughen penalties after more antisemitic incidents.

February 23.   Ivana Saric: All U.S. extremist mass killings in 2022 linked to far right, report says.

February 23.   Alexander Hinton: Violent extremists are not lone wolves – dispelling this myth could help reduce violence.

February 23.   Hannah Gais and Jason Wilson: Leaked Chats, Documents Show Atomwaffen Founder’s Path to Terror Plot.

February 25.   Ivana Saric: All U.S. extremist mass killings in 2022 linked to far right, report says.

February 26.   Will Oremus: Musk defends ‘Dilbert’ creator, says media is ‘racist against whites’: The Tesla and Twitter chief blasted media outlets for dropping Scott Adams’s comic strip after the cartoonist’s rant against Black people.

February 27.   Lydia Bates: Conversations About Gun Violence, Disinformation and Extremism:To support young people as they grapple with harms motived by extremism, PERIL director of research, Pasha Dashtgard, Ph.D., argues that it’s incumbent upon the whole community to address hate-fueled violence.

March.   UNESCO: Addressing hate speech through education: a guide for policy-makers.

March 1.   Natalie Neysa Alund: Ex-Ohio National Guardsman sentenced to 6 years after creating ghost guns, antisemitic threats.

March 1.   Mack Lamoureux: A Neo-Nazi Troll Network Is Making Money Abusing Jews: The Goyim Defense League, or GDL, has been banned from almost every social media site. But videos of their stunts find a way online anyway.

March 2.   ABC News: TSA stopped a man at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley Airport trying to bring an explosive device on a plane.

March 2.   Tess Owen: Nazi Memorabilia Collector Accused of 7 Pipe Bombings in California.

March 2.    Christopher Mathias: Exposed: Dallas Humber, Narrator Of Neo-Nazi ‘Terrorgram,’ Promoter Of Mass Shootings: Her propaganda canonized white supremacist murderers as “saints.” She may have helped inspire a shooting at a gay bar. Now she’s been unmasked.

March 3.   Daniella Silva: Capitol Police confiscate assault-style ‘ghost gun’ and handgun capable of automatic fire during arrests:Kwame T. Keith, 24, of Hyattsville, Maryland, and Justin B. Campos, 19, of Landover, Maryland, were arrested after police encountered them while they were in a stolen car, police said.

March 4.   Vice News: Lights Out: Attacks on the Grid.

March 4.   Christopher Mathias: CPAC Speaker’s Trans Comments About ‘Eradication’ Sound Downright Genocidal: The conservative movement’s annual confab was creepily obsessed with trans kids and showcased the GOP’s alarming and intensifying anti-trans rhetoric.

March 4.   Timothy Bella: Ex-soldier sentenced to 45 years in neo-Nazi plot to kill his troops.

March 5.   Washington Post: Florida bills would ban gender studies, limit trans pronouns, erode tenure.

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.

March 6.   Spencer S. Hsu: Alleged Three Percenter who marched with Proud Boys on Jan. 6 pleads guilty.

March 6.   Devin Burghart: On Saturday, at the Fuentes Rally, the white nationalist leader rolled out his latest attempt to re-brand his genocidal bigotry as “Christian Futurism.” It’s not something Fuentes created, but has a long troubling history.

March 7.   Spencer S. Hsu: In video, Proud Boys leaders discussed plan to meet Alex Jones at Capitol.

March 7.   Spencer S. Hsu: Intelligence contractor who praised Nazis found guilty in Jan. 6 riot.

March 7.   Tom Jackman: Capitol Police chief blasts Tucker Carlson over ‘misleading’ Jan. 6 footage.

March 8.   ADL: White Supremacist Propaganda Soars to All-Time High in 2022.

March 8.   ADL: Fuentes Delivers Antisemitic, “Christian Nationalist” Rant to Fellow White Supremacists.

March 8.   Tess Owen:  The Boogaloo Bois Are Plotting a Bloody Comeback: ‘We Will Go to War’. Dozens of arrests fueled speculation that the Hawaiian shirt-wearing, gun-loving anti-government group was done for. But it seems they’d merely gone underground and appear to be angrier than ever.

March 9.   Tess Owen: Software Engineer Who Allegedly Blew Up Power Station Had Even More Bombs at Home: Peter Karasev, 36, was arrested last week after allegedly blowing up two transformers in the San Francisco Bay Area, knocking out power for thousands.

March 10.   U.S. Department of Justice: Michigan Man Arrested and Charged For Illegally Possessing Firearms While Making Threats to Kill Government Officials.

March 10.   NPR: In Florida, far-right groups look to seize the moment.

March 13.   Masood Farivar: US Hate Crimes Hit Record High: FBI Updated Report.

March 14.   María Luisa Paúl: Students made a racist deepfake of a principal. It left parents in fear.

March 14.   USA Today: Nazi salutes, pepper spray and pistols: Ohio drag event devolves into an extremist melee.

March 15.   Ken Ritter: Oklahoma City bombing figure’s son guilty in Nevada robbery.

March 19.   Jennifer Rubin: Why white Christian nationalists are in such a panic.

March 20.   Tess Owen: The Far-Right Is Scared Trump’s Call to Protest Is a Trap: Donald Trump says he’s about to be arrested and is calling for protests. But many of his most hardline supporters are scared of a repeat of the January 6 arrests.

March 20.   The Washington Post: Six people affiliated with the Oath Keepers convicted in Capitol riot.

March 21.   Daniel Wu: City will pay $750K after police allegedly drew swastika in man’s car.

March 21.   Anya Zoledziowski: ‘Under His Wings’: Leaked Emails Reveal an Anti-Trans ‘Holy War’: Leaked emails from anti-trans lobbyists and state lawmakers read, at times, like scripts from “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

March 22.   R.L. Stollar: Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right.

March 22.   Annie Gowen: Iowa’s sharp right turn: From centrist state to ‘Florida of the North’.

March 23.   ADL: Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2022.

March 23.   The Washington Post: DeSantis wants ‘media accountability.’ A new bill makes suing journalists easier.

March 24.   NBC News: Letter sent to Bragg follows a wave of threats and highlights the security nightmare of a Trump indictment: Law enforcement may not only have to deal with the practicalities of potential mass gatherings at the courthouse but also with threats against judges and prosecutors.

March 26.   Kathleen Belew: We aren’t talking enough about the Trump rally in Waco this weekend. This site is important to the white power movement and other extremist groups because it signifies not only a moment of federal overreach, but a response by extremists: the Oklahoma City.

March 27.   Kathleen Vail: Preventing online radicalization and extremism in boys.

March 27.  Hannah Allam: The Radical’s Rifle: Armed groups on the right and left exploit the AR-15 as both tool and symbol.

March 27.   Philip Bump: In Waco, Trump stokes anger and valorizes violent actors.

March 27.   Cameron Joseph: Trump’s Favorite Extreme Think Tank Is Jumping Ship for DeSantis: The Claremont Institute’s leaders helped engineer Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in office after his 2020 loss. They’re now mostly siding with Gov. Ron DeSantis.

March 29.   Greg Walters. This Black Church Is Demanding $22 Million From the Proud Boys.

March 29.   Vice News: The Right Is Using the Nashville Shooting to Declare War on Trans People.

March 30.   Washing Post: Elon Musk’s Twitter pushes hate speech, extremist content into ‘For You’ pages: A Washington Post analysis found that accounts following dozens of Twitter handles pushing hate speech were subjected to an algorithmic echo chamber,in which Twitter fed additional hateful and racist content to users.

March 31.   Agence France-Presse: US white supremacist arrested in Romania.

March 31.   SPLC: Violent White Nationalist Rob Rundo Arrested in Romania.

March 31.   Drew Harwell: How a fake Nashville manifesto fueled anti-trans rage online.

April 2.   Omer Aziz: Why do so many young white men in America find fascism ‘cool’?

April 2.   Kia Fatahi & Liam Reilly: Member of pro-Nazi group used Molotov cocktails in attempt to burn down Ohio church planning to host a drag event, FBI says.

April 4.   Michael Colborne: How (Not) To Interpret Far-Right Symbols.

April 4.   New York Times: In Days Before Trump Appears in Court, Few Signs Point to a Jan. 6 Repeat: Even as Donald Trump’s arraignment differs from the Capitol riot, law enforcement’s response is informed by lessons learned from that day and the nationwide protests against police.

April 4.   Jordan Fischer: Maryland man threatened to ‘slaughter’ LGBTQ+ people after Covenant School shooting, DOJ says.

April 4.   Jewish Currents: The ADL’s Antisemitism Findings, Explained: The organization’s annual audit found a worrisome surge in incidents—but experts say some of its numbers lack context.

April 4.   Tess Owen: SWAT Police, Bomb-Sniffing Dogs, and Extremists: A Drag Queen Story Hour in America. A church in Ohio was firebombed and threatened by extremists after it announced a Drag Queen Story Hour for children. But they did not back down.

April 6.   Holmes Lybrand & Hannah Rabinowitz: Proud Boys juror raises concern she’s being followed.

April 6.   Anya Zoledziowski: We Talked to Drag Queens About Being Banned: ‘We’re Not Going Anywhere’. VICE News spoke with drag queens in Tennessee about the new ban on drag shows.

April 7.   Sylvie McNamara: Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts.

April 7.   Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan: Trump Wanted to Hire Laura Loomer, Anti-Muslim Activist: The former president’s aides feared that hiring Ms. Loomer, who has a long history of bigoted remarks, would set off a backlash. That proved to be correct.

April 7.   Kimberly Kindy: Tennessee leads charge in passing laws targeting LGBTQ rights

April 7.   Kyle Melnick: WWE apologizes for using footage of Auschwitz in a WrestleMania promo.

April 11.   Mack Lamoureux: Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Fat-Shaming Men Into White Nationalism: Fitness groups and fight clubs exclusively for white men, known as “active clubs,” have become a crucial recruitment tool for white nationalists in the U.S.

April 11.   PBS:  Texas governor seeks to pardon man who murdered BLM protester.

April 14.   Kelsey Ables: Man who killed BLM protester shared racist content, new documents show.

April 14.   Josh Marshall: Press Pushes ‘Mass of Contradictions’ Storyline about Far-Right Radical Teixeira.

April 16.   Josh Dulaney: Oklahoma sheriff, commissioner, accused of discussing killing a reporter and returning to Black hangings.

April 17.   Manuel Roig-Franzia: A brash new media network bets ‘Trump’ translates into Spanish: Americano Media, the first national Spanish-language conservative radio and streaming news service, aims to nudge more Latinos to the right.

April 18.   SPLC: Male Supremacy Is at the Core of the Hard Right’s Agenda.

April 19.   CNN: Twitter removes transgender protections from hateful conduct policy.

April 19.   Hannah Allam: 30 years later, Waco siege fascinates, infuriates new generations: Young Americans today learn of the 1993 standoff through pop culture and social media, often with an anti-government undertone.

April 20.   Jonathan Edwards: Okla. official resigns amid accusations of racism, talk of killing journalists: Mark Jennings allegedly lamented no longer being able to lynch Black people who had been arrested.

April 21.   Annika Brockschmidt: Hamburg Shooter’s Manifesto Reveals the Complexity of the Influence of Far-Right Ideologies.

April 21.   Hannah Allam: The deadly world of white-supremacist prison gangs.

April 21.   Ben Makuch: Rightwing Edgelords Are the Real Threat to National Security: “The amount of Three Percenters and Boogaloo guys I work with is untenable,” said one Department of Defense worker.

April 22.   Minyvonne Burke: Jewish student with autism had swastika carved onto his back, mother says.

April 22.   The Washington Post:  In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself: Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles.

April 24.   The Washington Post: Proud Boys saw themselves as ‘Trump’s army,’ U.S. says in trial closings.

April 24.   Jordan Fischer: ‘A fighting force lined up behind Trump’ | Prosecutors say Proud Boys came to D.C. ready for war on Jan. 6.

April 24.   Adam Reinherz: Day one of the synagogue shooting trial: Judge Colville begins questioning of potential jurors.

April 24.   Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazis Wanted to Attack US Power Grid. Instead They’re Going to Prison. The pair had hoped to cripple the American power grid and set off chaos and unrest.

April 25.   Kathleen Belew: White power movements in US history have often relied on veterans – and not on lone wolves.

April 26.   Joe Jurney: Fort Bragg soldier with genocidal goal to eliminate minorities pleads guilty to gun charge, US Attorney says.

April 26.   Brandi Buchman: THE BIG FINISH: The Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial goes to the jury.

April 27.   CBS News: Jury deliberates for second day in Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case.

April 27.   Kelsey Ables: Discord leaks suspect discussed mass violence, had ‘arsenal,’ prosecutors say.

May 1.   Just Security:  Introduction to Expert Statements on Democracy and Political Violence, submitted to January 6th House select committee.

May 2.   Sarah Ellison: Tucker Carlson text on ‘how white men fight’ alarmed Fox board members.

May 2.   Jordan Fischer: ‘A rabbit hole of darkness and extremism’: Ex-Navy Reservist sentenced to 4 years in Capitol riot case.

May 2.   Ryan J. Reilly: FBI says former agent arrested over Jan. 6 called officers Nazis and encouraged mob to ‘kill ’em’: Jared L. Wise, who worked at the FBI for 13 years ending in 2017, was arrested Monday in Oregon.

May 3.   NBC: Ex-FBI agent who feds say urged Jan. 6 rioters to kill police worked terrorism task force: Jared Wise was part of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and was supervisory special agent in charge of the Homegrown Violent Extremism unit.

May 4.   By Alan Feuer & Zach Montague: Four Proud Boys Convicted of Sedition in Key Jan. 6 Case.

May 5.   Alan Feuer: After Jan. 6 Sedition Convictions, Far-Right Threats Remain: The Justice Department has been successful in holding leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to account, but threats from other groups and radicalized individuals are on the rise.

May 5.   NPR: Hate-fueled violence is growing even as Proud Boys are convicted for extremism.

May 6.   Yvonne Wingett Sanchez: Arizona official targeted by election deniers now struggles with PTSD.

May 6.   Spencer S. Hsu: U.S. seeks 25 years in prison for Rhodes in first Jan. 6 sedition case: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four others are set to be the first sentenced for seditious conspiracy in the Capitol breach.

May 7.   The Washington Post: Behind Trump’s musical tribute to some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters.

May 8.   The Washington Post: Texas gunman fantasized over race wars on social media before mass killing.

May 8.   Aymann Ismail: There’s a Deeper Threat Than the Proud Boys: The “seditious conspiracy” verdicts are historic. They are far from a cure.

May 8.   NBC: Leading Neo-Nazi Website Is Now Publishing in Spanish: The Daily Stormer, a leading neo-Nazi website with racist and anti-semitic content which has also railed against Hispanic immigrants, is expanding its audience by publishing in Spanish.

May 8.   MSNBC: Radical right wing mass violence sits dangerously close to Republican politics.

May 8.   MSNBC: Why being Latino and also a neo-Nazi are not mutually exclusive.

May 9.   PBS: Texas mall shooter’s ‘RWDS’ patch linked to far-right extremists.

May 10.   Paul Gattis: Tuberville on white nationalists in the military: ‘I call them Americans’.

May 10.   SPLC: Extremists Receive Large Ethereum Cryptocurrency Donations.

May 11.   SPLC: Atomwaffen Co-Founder Pleads Guilty to Double Murder Charges.

May 11.   Marlene Halser: Immune therapy against conspiracy myths: Extremism is booming and, in many countries, threatening democracy. The good news is that you can train resistance to propaganda and disinformation.

May 12.   Cecilia Márquez: The Long and Violent History of Anti-Black Racism in the Latino Community.

May 14.  The Washington Post: Alleged leaker fixated on guns and envisioned ‘race war’.

May 15.   ABC News: Threats against the LGBTQIA+ community intensifying: Department of Homeland Security.

May 15.   Jack Stripling: DeSantis signs bill to defund DEI programs at Florida’s public colleges.

May 16.   Tess Owen: Hard-Right Republican’s Staffer Reportedly a White Nationalist Groyper.

May 16.   Greg Sargent & Paul Waldman: DeSantis’s celebration of vigilantism is a new low in MAGA extremism.

May 16.   The Washington Post: Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity,’ compares him to Jewish supervillain.

May 17.   Zoya Teirstein: When disaster strikes, far-right groups see an opportunity to gain trust: As FEMA struggles to keep up with climate disasters, extremist groups see an opportunity.

May 18.   Steven Lee Myers and Kellen Browning: Extremism Finds Fertile Ground in Chat Rooms for Gamers: In the past year, about half the people who played online multiplayer games in the world’s major gaming markets encountered extremist statements.

May 19.   Tess Owen: More Than Half of Users Have Seen Extremist Content in Online Games.

May 19.   The Washington Post: D.C. police officer arrested, accused of leaking info to Proud Boys leader.

May 22.   Julianne McShane and Andrew Blankstein: 60,000 pounds of an explosive chemical lost during rail shipment.

May 24.   Andrew Lapin: The Florida mom who sought to ban Amanda Gorman’s poem says she’s sorry for promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

May 24.   Tess Owen: Target Is Removing Pride Products Because the Far-Right Is Threatening Staff: The retail giant is latest U.S. corporation to face a transphobic backlash.

May 24.   The Washington Post. The deepening radicalization of Donald J. Trump: Watch how the former president’s positions and rhetoric have grown more confrontational and extreme as he seeks a second term.

May 25.   The Washington Post: Trump workers moved Mar-a-Lago boxes a day before FBI came for documents: New details, including alleged ‘dress rehearsal’ for moving sensitive papers, show a focus on Donald Trump’s instructions and intent.

May 25.   Maya Yang: Florida mother behind ban on Amanda Gorman poem has Proud Boys links.

May 25.   Alan Feuer: Oath Keepers Leader Is Sentenced to 18 Years in Jan. 6 Sedition Case.

May 25.  White House Briefing Room: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Releases First-Ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.

May 26.   Hannah Allam: At all levels of public office, threats now come with the job: New research on targeted officials shows that fear and intimidation are eroding democratic participation nationwide.

May 28.   Michael Kunzelman: Jan. 6 rioters are raking in thousands in donations. Now the US is coming after their haul.

May 30.   Geraldo Cadava: The Rise of Latino White Supremacy: At a time of increased racial violence, Latinos are potential perpetrators and potential victims.

May 30.   David Gilbert: The QAnon Shaman Is Out of Prison and Selling Yoga Leggings Now.

May 30.   David Nakamura: Prosecutor says gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue killings hunted victims: Testimony begins in the trial of Robert G. Bowers, who faces 63 hate-crime and gun-related charges in the 2018 attack that killed 11 people.

May 31.   Tess Owen: The Leader of the Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Is Now a MAGA Rapper: Pastor Hyung-Jin “Sean” Moon, the leader of the controversial Rod of Iron Ministries, is now spreading far-right rhetoric via a series of wild low-budget music videos.

June 1.   SPLC: Notorious Nashville Store Hosts White Nationalist Fight Clubs.

June 1.   Jordan Green: Neo-Nazi Marine Corps vet accused of plotting terror attack possessed classified military materials.

June 2.   The Washington Post: Four Oath Keepers sentenced for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy: Prosecutors sought 10 years or more for each defendant, but judge imposed less than five years for each.

June 2.   Colin Boyle & Trey Arline: Man With Weapons, Swastika Flag, Found Dead After Friday Standoff With Police In West Humboldt Park.

June 6.   SPLC: Assault on Inclusive Education and How We’re Fighting Back.

June 6.   David Enrich: A Reporter Investigated Sexual Misconduct. Then the Attacks Began. After publishing an exposé, journalists in New Hampshire faced broken windows, vulgar graffiti and a legal brawl, with important First Amendment implications.

June 7.   David Gilbert: Moms for Liberty Has Been Designated an Extremist Group, and Trump Is a Big Fan.

June 8.   The Washington Post: Jan. 6 cases yield courtroom wins but no change in extremist threat.

June 9.   David Gilbert: ‘We Need to Start Killing’: Trump’s Far-Right Supporters Are Threatening Civil War. Within minutes of Trump’s indictment, supporters lit up social media platforms with violent threats and calls for civil war.

June 9.   Jack Jenkins: With Turning Point Faith, pastors use politics as a church-growth strategy: For a growing number of evangelical pastors, embracing right-wing rhetoric is seen as a way to put more people in the pews — and it may be working.

June 9.   Sarah Posner: How Pat Robertson Helped Create The Christian Nationalist Lawyer Brigade Reshaping American Life: The legal movement that is today eroding church-state separation, abortion rights, and the rights of LGBTQ people may be Robertson’s most lasting legacy.

June 12.   Elaina Plott Calabro: A Star Reporter’s Break With Reality: Lara Logan was once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even far-right media disavow. What happened?

June 12.   Tess Owen: Proud Boys Too Upset About Bud Light to Care About Trump’s Indictment: All indications suggest the far-right gang remains focused on targeting the LGBTQ community, and have so far brushed off the charges against Trump.

June 13.   Mack Lamoureux: What Happens When a QAnon Cult Leader Moves Into Town: After being chased off an island in eastern Canada, the so-called “QAnon Queen” hunkered down for winter in rural Nova Scotia with her followers. We tried to visit the property. It did not go well.

June 15.   David Gilbert: This County Chose an Election Denier, 9/11 Truther, and QAnon Conspiracist to Run Its Elections.

June 15.   Tess Owen: The Far Right Has Made Security a Huge Issue For Pride: Faced with the threat of anti-LGTBQ violence, some Pride organizers have turned to queer-led private security to help with safety.

June 15.   Justine McDaniel: Shooter Who Wanted to Rid Town of LGBTQ People Gets 18 Years.

June 15.   The Washington Post:  Documents show how conservative doctors influenced abortion, trans rights.

June 15.   SPLC: How a Whites-Only Group Plans To Turn Rural Tennessee Into Its Homeland.

June 20.   David Gilbert: Inside Moms for Liberty’s Close Relationship With the Proud Boys. Across the United States, Moms for Liberty chapters have forged close relationships with far-right extremist groups.

June 20.   Rasha Al Aqeedi: How Andrew Tate and the Far Right Made Common Cause with Islamists: Western groups find in Muslim communities what they believe is a prototype for a social contract free of wokeism and women’s liberation.

June 22.   SPLC: Georgia teacher fired for reading children’s book about acceptance in class.

June 22.   The New York Times: Report Cites More Than 350 Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Incidents Over 11 Months: The incidents included online harassment, gatherings of armed protesters outside drag shows, and bomb threats against hospitals that provide gender transition care.

June 23.   Drew Harwell: New video undercuts claim Twitter censored pro-Trump views before Jan. 6: In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence.

June 23.   David Gilbert: Moms for Liberty Uses Hitler Quote To ‘Scare’ Parents.

June 23.   Chris Arnold: Death threats and harassment: 2024 election workers already are scared.

June 27.   NPR: Protests against LGBTQ inclusivity in schools have turned violent in LA County.

June 27.   The Washington Post: The conservative doctors upending trans rights: The American College of Pediatricians has promoted views on abortion and transgender care that have been rejected by the medical establishment. But their views are still shaping conservative laws restricting abortion and trans rights across the country.

June 28.   Teddy Wilson: Far right groups have targeted nearly 200 LGBTIQ events during the past year, according to a new report by ADL and GLADD.

June 28.   Media Matters: Moms for Liberty will feature Oath Keepers militia member who spoke at pro-Confederate conference.

June 29.   David Gilbert.: The GOP Is Lining Up to Pay Homage to America’s Newest Extremist Group, Moms for Liberty.

June 29.  Department of Justice: Member Of White Supremacist Group [The Base]Charged for Allegedly Defacing Synagogue With Neo-Nazi Symbols.

June 29.   SPLC: Moms for Liberty Summit Injects Extremism Into the Mainstream.

June 29.   Tess Owen & Mack Lamoureux: Suspect in Attack on Canadian Gender Studies Class Was Motivated by Hate:  Police say the stabbing spree, which injured a professor and two students, was a “hate-motivated incident related to gender expression and gender identity.

June 30.   Ryan J. Reilly & Fiona Glisson: Jan. 6 defendant arrested near Obama’s home had guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van.

June 30.   Christopher Mathias: He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak. Renton Sinclair’s mother is a former Miss Illinois who wants to force trans people out of public life. That’s exactly what makes her a rising star in MAGA World.

July 4.   David Neiwert: How Wingnuts Made Violent Extremism the New Normal.

July 5.   David Gilbert: The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People: There’s no evidence the suspect was trans, and he posted repeatedly about his pro-gun stance and his support for former president Donald Trump.

July 8.   Ben Makuch: Russian Militia Has Links to American Neo-Nazi and Anti-Trans Figures.

July 10.   Mia Gingerich: Some right-wing media admit eliminating civil rights protections is the goal of anti-LGBTQ Supreme Court cases.

July 10.   Tess Owen: Liberal LA Has Become an Epicenter of Violent Culture Wars. Here’s How. Last month, three separate protests outside LA-area schools against “grooming” turned violent as newly radicalized parents joined forces with a familiar group of culture war extremist.

July 12.   Spencer S. Hsu: Proud Boys member who led Jan. 6 charge at Capitol sentenced to 5 years: Daniel ‘Milkshake’ Scott shouted about taking the Capitol hours before breach, led assault that broke a key police line.

July 14.   Brandy Zadrozny: Facebook banned anti-government ‘Boogaloo’ groups. They found a way to return, research says. Members of the loose-knit Boogaloo movement who found each other online joined armed protests against Covid lockdowns.

July 15.   Tim Carman: A gay couple ran a rural restaurant in peace. Then new neighbors arrived.

July 18.   Ryan J. Reilly: Charlottesville tiki torch carrier arrested, accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.

July 19.   Nick Robins-Early: Disinformation reimagined: how AI could erode democracy in the 2024 US elections.

July 19.   AP Press: Ta-Nehisi Coates attends school board meeting to back teacher told to stop using his book on racism.

July 21.   Will Carless: The military ordered big steps to stop extremism. Two years later, it shows no results.

July 21.   Ishaan Tharoor: A far-right European Union could be around the corner.

July 24.   Alan Feuer: Jan. 6 Rioter Who Beat Officer With Flagpole Gets Four-Year Sentence.

July 24.   Susanna Cassisa: The ‘groomer’ anti-LGBTQ+ panic is not new — and has caused immense harm.

July 27.   SPLC: Neo-Nazi Ex-Marine Buys Up Land in Rural Maine for ‘Blood Tribe’.

July 27.   Joseph Lowndes: Trump wants no limits on presidential power. That’s not new for the GOP.

July 28.   Rachel Weiner: Man who stole badge, radio from D.C. officer Fanone on Jan. 6 sentenced.

July 28.   Marc Sternfield: Nazi propaganda, explosive device, ammunition seized in L.A. raid, prosecutors say.

July 28.   Mack Lamoureux: The Grandfather of Modern Neo-Nazism Is Fighting With Satanic Neo-Nazis Now.

July 29.   AP News: Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials.

August 1.   Timothy Bella: Police shoot Memphis man who fired gun outside Jewish school.

August 2.   Tyler Pager: Obama warns of Trump’s political strengths in private talk with Biden.

August 2.   SPLC: Marjorie Taylor Greene Employed White Nationalist Collaborator.

August 2.   Aria Jones & Kelli Smith: Fired Southlake cop smiled for swastika photo accidentally texted to citizen.

August 4.   Christopher Mathias: Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym.

August 8.   Will Carless: After USA TODAY investigation, watchdog report says military failed to screen extremist recruits.

August 9.   Ben Brasch: Man killed in FBI raid after alleged threats against Biden, other officials.

August 9.   Ned Parker & Peter Eisler: Political violence in polarized U.S. at its worst since 1970s.

August 10.   Jordan Green: U.S. Army reservist ran a ‘white nationalist’ training camp and touted KKK ties.

August 10.   Mack Lamoureux: Upcoming Neo-Nazi Rally Shows How Disparate Extreme-Right Groups Work Together: The relationship between the Blood Tribe and the Goyim Defense League, two very different neo-Nazi groups, show just how symbiotic the far-right ecosystem is.

August 11.   Tess Owen: Neo-Nazis Are Using Climate Disasters to Recruit New Members: Experts have been sounding the alarm that the far-right are exploiting climate change and natural disasters.

August 11.   NPR: Experts say many Americans see violence as an acceptable way to resolve differences.

August 11.   Christopher Mathias: 5 Years Later, The Hunt For White Supremacists Who Terrorized Charlottesville Continues.

August 11.   Kansas Reflector: Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones.

August 11.   Amy B Wang & Patrick Marley: GOP lawmaker warns of ‘civil war’ at fundraiser for indicted Trump electors.

August 13.   Albert R. Hunt: Prospect of Far-Right Extremist Violence Has Not Dissipated.

August 14.  Tess Owen: Provocateur Ammon Bundy Out of Jail on Bond After His Supporters Bombard Sheriff With Harassment: Bundy was arrested Friday night in Idaho.

August 16.   Robert Downen: Kyle Rittenhouse launches nonprofit with far-right Texans as he ramps up political engagement in the state.

August 17.   Tess Owen: The Boogaloo Movement Keeps Finding Ways to Return to Facebook: Facebook axed nearly 100 Boogaloo Pages. Weeks later, they were back.

August 17.   CBS: DOJ seeks 33 years in prison for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in Jan. 6 case.

August 18.   Odette Yousef: Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors.

August 18.   Dan Balz & Clara Ence Morse: American democracy is cracking. These forces help explain why.

August 18.   Jordan Green: Why Trump indictments haven’t triggered another Jan. 6 — and why the worst may be yet to come.

August 21.   Kyle Melnick: She hung a Pride flag at her shop. She was killed over it.

August 23.   Jordan Libowitz and Sara Wiatrak: Emails reveal Secret Service contacts with Oath Keepers.

August 23.   Russell Contreras: Education “intimidation” bills have skyrocketed since 2021, report says.

August 23.   Isaac Arnsdorf: Trump suggests in Carlson interview that U.S. could see more political violence: The former president also again defended the mob of his supporters that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

August 24.   Military Times: A ‘lethal threat’: why the far right sees more scrutiny than the left.

August 25.   Rachel Weiner: Ex-Virginia school board candidate accused of attacking police on Jan. 6.

August 27.   The Washington Post: Jacksonville shooter tried to enter historically Black college before killing 3 in Dollar General store.

August 28.   Erik Ortiz Jonathan Dienst: Racist Jacksonville shooter wore Rhodesian army patch, a symbol of white supremacy.

August 29.  Kathleen Belew with Rachel Maddow: Why it’s wrong to assume a single gunman is a ‘lone wolf’ shooter.

August 30.   Yvonne Wingett Sanchez: In court, Trump supporter faces election official he violently threatened.

August 31.   Jordan Fischer: Proud Boys leaders get terrorism enhancement, more than a decade in prison.

August 31.   Hamed Aleaziz: Asylum seekers from Muslim-majority countries disproportionately imprisoned at Texas border.

August 31.   Michael Colborne: Saunas and Swastikas: Finland’s Summertime neo-Nazi Meet-Up.

September 1.   Caroline Kitchener: Highways are the next antiabortion target. One Texas town is resisting. A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion.

September 1.   Tom Jackman: Proud Boys leader, Capitol window smasher set to be sentenced: Prosecutors are seeking 30 years for Ethan Nordean and 20 years for Dominic Pezzola.

September 5.   Tom Jackman & Rachel Weiner: Ex-Proud Boys leader Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

September 5.   Alan Feuer: Ex-Leader of Proud Boys Sentenced to 22 Years in Jan. 6 Sedition Case.

September 6.   Tess Owen: A Trump Judge Sentenced Proud Boy Leader to 22 Years. Jan. 6 Apology Crew Blames ‘Biden Regime’.

September 6.   Andy Campbell: Proud Boys Didn’t Just Crash An Election. They Upended The Next One Too. Five Proud Boys leaders are going to prison over Jan. 6. But we haven’t seen the end of the gang, or the damage it inflicted on the American political landscape.

September 7.   David Gilbert: Inside the Fight to Forcibly Out Transgender Students in California: Even in a blue state where anti-trans education bills have failed, local extremists have found ways to target trans students.

September 7.   Krystal Nurse: Boogaloo member Stephen Parshall sentenced for plot to blow up substation near BLM protest.

September 8.  Ellie Silverman & Rachel Weiner: They confronted Proud Boys but don’t celebrate their prison sentences.

September 11.   Hannah Gais: Jan. 6 Participant Who ‘Fled to Russia’ Hasn’t Come Home.

September 12.   Tom Jackman: Former Proud Boys leader says prosecutors pushed him to implicate Trump: After being sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy, Tarrio tells The Post he met with government shortly before trial but that no deal was cut.

September 13.   Mack Lamoureux: Inside the Neo-Nazi Trial of ‘Boneface’, the Man They Think Made Them Look Bad.

September 13.   James Callery: Finland far-Right terror group plotted to kill Prime Minister Sanna Marin and start a race war after they created firearms using 3D printers.

September 13, 2023.   Jason Wilson: Revealed: far-right venture capitalist has contracts with US for ammunition.

September 14.   Will Carless: ‘Attack on military readiness’: Human rights groups sound new alarm on extremism.

September 14.   Mack Lamoureux & Tess Owen: As 2024 Looms, Neo-Nazis Are Returning to the Streets: VICE News built a database out of the public neo-Nazi actions over the last four years and it shows a dramatic increase year over year that’s only growing.

September 14.   Philip Bump: The terrorizing style in American politics.

September 15.   Lauren del Valle: 3 acquitted in final trial of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot.

September 18.   Will Carless: Federal agencies promised to tackle extremism. Years later, experts see efforts sputtering out.

September 18.   Mack Lamoureux: Man Who Killed Muslim Family Bragged to Police He Was a White Supremacist.

September 19.   Bruce Hoffman & Jacob Ware: American Hatred Goes Global: How the United States Became a Leading Exporter of White Supremacist Terrorism.

September 19.   AP News: White supremacist admits threatening jury and witnesses in Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s trial.

September 20.   Mack Lamoureux: ‘Go Home’: Locals Drive QAnon Queen Cult Leader Out of Yet Another Town: After being chased out, the so-called QAnon Queen of Canada made her way to set up base in an abandoned school in rural Saskatchewan.

September 22.   Jeff Seldin: Research Warns White Supremacists Are Building a Shadow Militia.

September 22.   Mack Lamoureux: Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Growing Rapidly, New Research Shows: A new report shared with VICE News outlines the massive growth so-called Active Clubs, neo-Nazi fitness and fight clubs, have experienced in both the United States and internationally.

September 22:   Michael Kunzelman: Capitol rioter who attacked AP photographer and police officers is sentenced to 5 years in prison.

September 23.   Antonio Olivo & Emily Wax-Thibodeaux: Amid rising antisemitism, the vivid language of Yiddish makes a comeback.

September 24.   Ali Swenson: RNC’s livestreaming partner for the GOP debate is a haven for disinformation and extremism.

September 25.   Justin Baragona: Jewish Leaders and Rabbis Call Out Elon Musk for Spreading ‘Overt Antisemitism’.

September 26.   Cynthia Miller-Idriss: In the US, ‘extreme political partisanship and divisive rhetoric from elected officials is driving violence’.

September 27.   Mack Lamoureux: Murder Suspect Calling Himself ‘Laseranon’ Charged With Threatening Anti-Nazi Sheriff: A 4Chan user already facing two murder charges has been indicted after police allege that he threatened to use lasers to kill or blind an anti-Nazi sheriff. 

September 28.   Jon Swaine & Beth Reinhard: Inside the tactics that won Christian vendors the right to reject gay weddings: Opponents accuse conservative legal group behind landmark Supreme Court case of manufacturing lawsuits to advance its agenda.

September 29.   Tess Owen: Staten Island Protesters Torment Asylum Seekers With Speakers and Flashlights.

October 2.   David D. Kirkpatrick: The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe: Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it wants religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws—and is going after trans rights.

October 3.   Ellen Francis: Hitler’s birth house will become a police station to keep neo-Nazis away.

October 3.   Eric Hananoki: Sinclair stations aired a sponsored segment featuring a white nationalist who supports killing journalists.

October 3.   SoCal Research Club and Sunlight Anti-Fascist Action: Brian Tierney, Skyler Philippi, and the rise and fall of Primal Aryan Warlord Gang.

October 4.   Shane Burley: Review: We Are Proud Boys.

October 4.   Tess Owen: Schools Report Bomb Threats Following Libs of Tiktok Anti-LGBTQ Posts: Almost a dozen schools or school districts contacted by VICE News reported a surge in bomb threats and harassment following the posts.

October 5.   Paul Farhi: Trump’s violent rhetoric is getting muted coverage by the news media.

October 5.   Shane Burley: Book Review: Jewish Space Lasers. The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories.

October 5.   Patrick Marley: Man with a gun demands to see Wisconsin governor, is arrested, and returns with rifle.

October 6.   Brandy Zadrozny: Michael Benz, a conservative crusader against online censorship, appears to have a secret history as an alt-right persona: Frame Game, the pseudonym of an alt-right internet personality, hid his face while pushing racist conspiracy theories.

October 6.   Mara Silvers: Shots fired into front of Planned Parenthood clinic in Helena.

October 6.  Rueben Dass: 3D-Printed Weapons and the Far-Right: The Finnish Accelerationist Cell.

October 10.   Beau Yarbrough: Brian Levin, Cal State San Bernardino expert on extremism and hate, retires: Levin helped shape hate crime law as a leading expert in the field for more than 20 years.

October 10.   The Proud Boys Were Selling Merch at Festival Hosted by Fringe AR-15 Church: The Proud Boys’ presence at the festival is the latest example of the far-right street-fighting gang’s willingness to forge alliances with fringe groups.

October 11.   Tess Owen: Nick Fuentes Hung Out With a Prominent Texas Donor for 7 Hours: Fuentes has made no secret of his goal to gain a foothold in the GOP, via his organization America First and an army of followers known as “groypers.”

October 12.   Aaron Blake: The story behind Steve Scalise and David Duke that helped end a bid for speaker.

October 12. Sarah D. Wire: At far-right roadshow, Trump is God’s ‘anointed one,’ QAnon is king, and ‘everything you believe is right’.

October 16.   Hannah Allam: Palestinian American boy stabbed to death in hate crime, sheriff says: Authorities cite the war between Israel and Gaza as a factor in the deadly attack on a Muslim family in Illinois.

October 17.   Kathleen Belew: Rachel Maddow offers a chilling history lesson — and hope for today: In her new book, ‘Prequel,’ Maddow looks at a past moment of crisis that might help us understand both the threats we face today and how we can endure them.

October 17.   Robert Downen: Defend Texas Liberty PAC names new president after leader met with white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

October 17.   Tom Jackman: U.S. to appeal sentences of five Proud Boys in Jan. 6 Capitol riot case: Prison terms were among the longest for Jan. 6 defendants, but far below government recommendations.

October 18.   Simmone Shah: The Israel-Hamas War Is Leading to an Uptick in Hate Crimes.

October 18.   Jahd Khalil & Ben Paviour: Youngkin event planner helped organize Jan. 6 rally at US Capitol.

October 19.   Rachel Weiner & Dan Morse: Md. police officer, hired a year after Jan. 6, now accused of taking part in it: A Montgomery County officer was arrested Thursday and charged with assaulting police during the 2021 raid on the Capitol.

October 19.   Ben Lorber: The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians.

October 20.   Aaron Blake: Threats couldn’t save Jim Jordan. But Trump-era intimidation has had an impact. The holdouts on Jordan’s speaker bid spotlighted a problem that has long lurked beneath the surface.

October 20.   Associated Press: Judge rules Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families.

October 20.   Alex Seitz-Wald: Muslim members of Congress face spikes in death threats: Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., one of Congress’ highest-profile progressive members, said she worries for her children’s safety as her office is inundated with profanity-laced threats.

October 20.   Rachel Weiner: Jan. 6 charge faced by Trump upheld on appeal for second time.

October 20.   Ben Lorber: ‘No Nazis on Our Streets!’ Combating Far-Right Entryism in Palestine Solidarity Protests.

October 20.   Maya Henson Carey: Anti-LGBTQ+ rallies buoyed by big right-wing money.

October 22.  WBEZ: Extremism in the ranks, part 1: Chicago police with extremist ties have troubling records.

October 22.   Chicago Sun Times: Chicago police with extremist ties have troubling records: An investigation by WBEZ, Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project found allegations of excessive force, improper searches and racist comments on the job.

October 24.   Eric Hananoki: Kari Lake has embraced numerous antisemitic media figures in recent years.

October 24.   ADL: ADL Center on Extremism notes nearly 400-percent increase in preliminary antisemitic incidents reported year over-year.

October 25.   NPR: 23% of Americans support political violence ahead of the 2024 election, survey shows.

October 25.   NPR: When Israeli-Palestinian conflicts erupt, threats against U.S. Jews and Muslims surge.

October 25.   Kanishka Singh: US antisemitic incidents up about 400% since Israel-Hamas war began.

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.

October 28.   The New York Times: As China Looks to Broker Gaza Peace, Antisemitism Surges Online: China’s state-run media has blamed the United States for deepening the crisis, while perpetuating tropes of Jewish control of American politics.

October 30.   Michael Edison Hayden: Davis, California, Faces Bomb Threats, Harassment From Anti-Trans Extremists.

October 30.   Marlene Lenthang: Cornell University police investigate online threats targeting Jewish students: “Horrendous, antisemitic messages threatening violence” were posted Sunday on a website unaffiliated with Cornell, sparking a police presence at its Center for Jewish Living.

October 31.   Hannah Rabinowitz: FBI director: Antisemitism reaching ‘historic level’ in US.

October 31.   Stephen Collinson: A new wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world.

October 31.   CNN: Cornell University student threatened to stab and rape Jewish students and ‘shoot up’ school, prosecutors say.

October 31.   Sakshi Venkatraman and Mirna Alsharif: For Muslim Americans, a spike in hate incidents feels reminiscent of post 9/11 Islamophobia.

November 1.  LA Times: Antisemitic graffiti at Canter’s Deli investigated as possible hate crime.

November 1.   Tess Owen: Neo-Nazis and the Far-Right Are Trying to Hijack Pro-Palestine Protests: Neo-Nazis are showing up at protests in an attempt to push antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.

November 1.   Shane Burley: How the far right is trying to manipulate the crisis in Gaza: White nationalists are attempting to hijack Israel’s escalating war to draw new recruits and push their antisemitic and Islamophobic narratives.

November 2.   Will Carless: When Libs of TikTok tweets, threats increasingly follow.

November 2.   Evy Kwong & Mack Lamoureux: A QAnon Cult Set Up a Compound in a Small Town. The Locals Are Fighting Back.

November 2.   SPLC: Hate Groups Rejoice Over Newly Elected Speaker Mike Johnson.

November 3.   Adam Serwer: Don’t Equate Anti-Zionism With Anti-Semitism: It is not anti-Semitic to want equal rights for all in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, in Gaza, in Ramallah.

November 4.   Max Lewis: Indy police arrest ‘terrorist’ for purposely driving her car into what she thought was a Jewish school.

November 4.   Damon Linker: Get to Know the Influential Conservative Intellectuals Who Help Explain G.O.P. Extremism.

November 5.   Shera Avi-Yonah: Long before Elon Musk, Henry Ford went to war with Jewish groups.

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”.

November 7.   Danny Postel: The Conservative Fault Lines Revealed by Debates Over Israel: Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro’s argument on the war in Gaza is a microcosm of the fractures on the American right that lie behind the Republican Party line.

November 8.   NBC News:  Synagogue and Jewish community center in Montreal hit by attempted firebomb attack.

November 8.   Lajward Zahra: Palestinian Americans worry anti-Gaza rhetoric will turn into Islamophobic legislation: Palestinians across the U.S. are speaking out about what it’s like living in the U.S. right now and seeing their country seemingly turn against them.

November 8.   Justin Horowitz: Holocaust denier and other extremists celebrate Charlie Kirk’s antisemitic “Jewish dollars” attack.

November 9.   The Washington Post: Suspicious letters sent to elections offices in at least five states: At least one letter contained fentanyl. The letters forced evacuations and in some cases disrupted ballot counting.

November 11.   NYT: Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans.

November 13.   Michael Finnegan: Paul Pelosi recounts attack at home, ‘waking up in a pool of blood’.

November 13.   Steven Monacelli: These Are the Right-Wing Ideologues Taking Over School Boards.

November 15.   Reuters: U.S. political violence driven by new breed of ‘grab-bag’ extremists.

November 15.   Andrew Buncombe: Idaho judge issues new arrest warrant for far-right activist Ammon Bundy.

November 16.   BBC: IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts.

November 16.   Tess Owen: Racist Premium X Users Exploiting Israel-Hamas War to Push Antisemitism, Islamophobia.

November 18.   NPR: The waning influence of Moms for Liberty.

November 19.   The Washington Post: Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.

November 19.   The Washington Post: Argentina set for sharp right turn as Trump-like radical wins presidency.

November 23.   Jonathan M. Katz: Substack Has a Nazi Problem: The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.

November 24.   Karla Adam: Far-right protesters burn and loot in Dublin in worst violence ‘in decades’.

November 25.   The Washington Post: Dutch election shows far right rising and reshaping Europe.

November 26.   Hannah Allam & Abigail Hauslohner: Three Palestinian American students injured after Vermont shooting: Police, who are still searching for the suspect, are investigating the incident as a potential hate crime.

November 30.   Jacob Stern: Ammon Bundy Has Disappeared: An anti-government extremist seemed on the verge of another standoff with the law. Then he vanished.

December 2023.   Institute for Defense Analysis: Prohibited Extremist Activities in the U.S. Department of Defense.

December 1.   Odette Yousef: For years, the FBI quietly stopped tracking anti-Arab violence and hate crimes.

December 1.   Mack Lamoureux: Trolls Tricked the QAnon Queen’s Followers Into Volunteering to Kill.

December 1.   Mack Lamoureux: Meet the ‘Entrepreneur of Hate’ Behind the Rise Of Canadian Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs: VICE News can reveal the identity of the man who is behind the spread of neo-Nazi groups across Canada, as well as his ties to a terrorist group.

December 5.   Odette Yousef: Speaker Mike Johnson draws scrutiny for ties to far right Christian movements.

December 5.   Matthew Gault: Pentagon Has Investigated Dozens of Extremism Cases Within Its Ranks: A new Department of Defense reports says dozens of soldiers were suspected of advocating or supporting the overthrow of the U.S. government.

December 8.   Heidi Pérez-Moreno: ‘Neo-Nazi group’ harassed drag queens and hotels sheltering migrants.

December 8.   The Washington Post: Trump, U.S. conservatives embrace Argentina’s controversial new leader.

December 8.   Nolan Clay: Only murder charge to come from investigation into Aryan Brotherhood, disappearances has been dropped.

December 8.   Mack Lamoureux: Two Canadians Arrested, Charged With Terrorism For Participating in Neo-Nazi Groups.

December 11.   Mack Lamoureux: The Names of Thousands of Neo-Nazi Music Fans Just Got Leaked.

December 12.   The Washington Post: Problematic pockets’: How Discord became a home for extremists.

December 12.   Hannah Gais & Michael Edison Hayden: We Went to a Christmas Party at an Infamous White Nationalist Castle. It got weird.

December 12.   Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet: Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right. What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?

December 14.   Kieran Doyle, Daniel Hershfield, & Bianca Ho: Riding the Tide: The Shifting Identity of the Proud Boys Since the Capitol Riot.

December 14.   Jacob Gurvis: FBI arrests California minor for role in synagogue swatting ring: The suspect is believed to be a member of a swatting ring that carried out false bomb threats and swatting attempts targeting at least 25 synagogues in 13 states during July and August.

December 15.   Jacob Gurvis: Menorahs Across US Vandalized as Jewish Communities Celebrate Chanukah.

December 15.   Jeff Tischauser: ‘We’re Not Scared of These Parasites’: The Violent White Nationalist Leader Menacing Tennessee.

December 17.   Seamus Hughes: FBI Arrests Head of Neo Nazi Child Exploit Cult: Kalana Limkin, a purported member of Order of the Nine Angles, 764, and founder of splinter group ‘Cultist’ was arrested on Friday on possession of child pornography.

December 17.   Kelly Weill: Ladies of the Right: A Q&A with Madeline Peltz.

December 18.   A Martínez & Odette Yousef: Two states are filing lawsuits to curtail the activities of a neo-Nazi organization.

December 18.   Kate Brady: Germany’s far-right party wins mayoral election, showing group’s rising appeal.

December 18.   Keegan Hamilton: As border extremism goes mainstream, vigilante groups take a starring role.

December 19.   Mack Lamoureux: Police Arrest Alleged Leader of Horrific Child Sextortion Ring: The group, which is connected to satanic neo-Nazi pedophiles, has made their victims take nude photos of themselves, self-mutilate, and abuse other children

December 20.   Jennifer Bendery: Colorado Secretary Of State ‘Extremely Concerned’ About Pro-Trump Violence: Jena Griswold received 64 death threats and more than 900 threats of abuse within three weeks of the case being filed to keep Trump off the state ballot.

December 20.   Lawfare: Section 875 Is Having Its Moment: The Justice Department has found its new favorite statute to address domestic extremism.

December 21.   Tess Owen: At Leading Anti-Hate Group, Boss’s Embrace of Elon Musk Raises Tensions: Some staff at the Anti-Defamation League are wondering why, when antisemitism is on the rise, their CEO is treating the X owner with kid gloves.

December 22.   Odette Yousef: Violent online rhetoric heats up after Colorado ballot ruling on Trump.

December 25.   Jennifer Bowers Bahney: Militia Leader Ammon Bundy Hints At Retaliation After Losing $52M Defamation Suit.

December 30.   Nicholas Slayton: Confusion, uneven reporting hurting Pentagon effort to combat extremism: Extremist activity is growing among veterans, the study found, but internal DoD efforts to track the problem are hamstrung by a lack of unified policies.