January 2. Tess Owen: Man Arrested After Shooting His Way Into Colorado Supreme Court Building.
January 3. Mari Cohen & Alex Kane: Top Executive Leaves ADL Over CEO’s Praise of Elon Musk: Yaël Eisenstat’s departure is the most prominent instance of post-October 7th dissent within the organization.
January 3. Jewish New Syndicate: Jeffrey Hobgood pleads guilty to threatening NC Jewish Federation.
January 4. The Washington Post: A quarter of Americans believe FBI instigated Jan. 6, Post-UMD poll finds: More than 3 in 10 Republicans have adopted the falsehood that the FBI conspired to cause the Capitol riot.
January 4. Spencer Sunshine: The Far Right Is Growing Stronger—and Has a Plan for 2024: Increasingly ignored by the mainstream, right-wing edgelords are amassing power behind the scenes.
January 5. Tess Owen: Headed Into Election Year, Proud Boys Appear to Be on Decline: Data collected by VICE News shows the far-right street fighting group has drastically cut back on public appearances over the last year.
January 5. Diana Falzone: Roger Stone Recorded Telling Associate to ‘Abduct’ and ‘Punish’ Mueller Investigator.
January 5. AP News: Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
January 5. Mack Lamoureux: It’s Not Even a Week Into 2024 and There’s a School Shooting Conspiracy: Conspiracy theorists think that a shooting that killed a sixth grader was really a coverup to protect Democrats from the recent Jeffrey Epstein revelations.
January 6. Ford Fischer (Twitter thread): In what appears to be their biggest showing of force in three years, Proud Boys gathered today outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus for a rally commemorating Ashli Babbitt and January 6 prisoners on the anniversary of the riot at the US Capitol.
January 8. Mack Lamoureux: US Military Veterans Are Increasingly Turning to Extremism: DOD Report.
January 8. JP Sottile: Right-Wing Christians Are Making Climate Apocalypse a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
January 9. The Washington Post: Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins, haunting American democracy.
January 10. Mack Lamoureux: Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Have Gone Dark Since Terror Arrests in Canada: The once-growing movement appears to be laying low following the arrests of two of their leaders.
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 11. Josh Kurtz: A Republican member of the Maryland State Board of Elections was arrested by federal authorities this week and charged for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
January 11. AP News: Donald Trump defies judge, gives courtroom speech on tense final day of New York civil fraud trial.
January 11. Tess Owen: Democrats Propose Bill to Neuter Militias: The “Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act” would effectively limit most militia activity.
January 11. Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazis in the US no longer see backing Ukraine as a worthy cause.
January 11. Jared Holt & Meghan Conroy: Is ‘swatting’ the latest trend in political violence? Not so fast.
January 11. Ari Fife: A firebombing in Tulsa highlights gaps in Oklahoma hate crime law.
January 11. Seamus Hughes: FBI: White Supremacist Accelerationist Threatened Mass Murder. FBI arrests Alexander Lightner of Florida for making online threats and having an unregistered silencer. FBI raid found guns, ammo, & white supremacist propaganda.
January 11. Jordan Fischer: Maryland elections board member resigns after being charged in Capitol riot.
January 12. Cameron Joseph: Q&A: Tina Nguyen’s Unique Perspective on the American Right.
January 12. Jordan Fischer: Ax-handle wielding Proud Boy sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for Capitol riot: William “Billy” Chrestman pleaded guilty to obstructing the joint session of Congress and threatening a federal officer.
January 12. Carolyn Thompson: Prosecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarket.
January 14. The Washington Post: ‘Ordained by God’: Trump’s legal problems galvanize Iowa evangelicals.
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 18. Barbara Serra: The Normalization of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni.
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.”
January 20. Jason Wilson: Revealed: far-right figures try to create Christian nationalist ‘haven’ in Kentucky. Venture fund and real estate startup linked to far-right groups promote residential development as community for rightwingers.
January 20. Joel Achenbach: Science is revealing why American politics are so intensely polarized: Political psychologists say they see tribalism intensifying, fueled by contempt for the other side.
January 21. Lulu Garcia-Navarro: Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plans for ‘Institutionalizing Trumpism’: “People will lose their jobs,” the think tank’s president says about federal workers. “Hopefully their lives are able to flourish in spite of that.”
January 22. Ryan J. Reilly: Ex-soldier convicted of manslaughter for killing Iraqi civilian is arrested on Jan. 6 charges: Edward Richmond Jr. of Louisiana is accused of assaulting law enforcement officers with a baton during the Capitol attack.
January 23. Nikki McCann Ramirez: Libs of TikTok Fueled Bomb Threats at Oklahoma Schools. The Superintendent Just Hired Her.
January 24. Moustafa Ayad & Isabelle Frances-Wright: Minors exposed to mass shooter glorification across mainstream social media platforms.
January 25. By Jim Rutenberg and Kate Conger: Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone: Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk’s claims about voting. The Biden campaign called his posts “profoundly irresponsible.”
January 25. Spencer S. Hsu: Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months for contempt of Congress in Jan. 6 probe: Navarro, 74, became the second senior former Trump adviser to face time behind bars for stonewalling Congress, joining Stephen K. Bannon.
January 26. Tess Owen: Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’.
January 26. Tess Owen: Trump Calls on ‘All Willing States’ to Send National Guard Soldiers to Texas.
January 26. Christopher Mathias: Right-Wing Talk Of An ‘Invasion’ And ‘Civil War’ Risks Rise In Vigilantism, Experts Say: A conservative panic about immigrants at the southern border has included calls to “buy weapons.”
January 28. Refuse Fascism Podcast: The White Power Movement in 2024.
January 28. Martin Pengelly: US historians sign brief to support Colorado’s removal of Trump from ballot: Twenty-five civil war and Reconstruction scholars support invoking 14th amendment to bar Trump from ballot over January 6.
January 29. Tess Owen: ‘Fedsurrection’ Looms Large as ‘Army of God’ Protest Convoy Heads to Border: Would-be participants are expressing fears that the demonstration could be a “psyop” or “honeypot,” spearheaded by the federal government.
January 30. Ryan J. Reilly: ‘White Lives Matter’ member gets 18 years for firebombing church that planned drag events.
January 31. Jason Wilson: Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal: Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory.
January 31. Mack Lamoureux: Man Posted YouTube Video With Father’s Severed Head While Ranting About Joe Biden: Justin Mohn was arrested in Pennsylvania after his mother found the headless corpse.His social media shows a long history of troubling far-right conspiracy theories and talking points.
January 31. Global Project Against Hate & Extremism: How The Far-Right Spreads Hate Through Gaming.
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 1. Tess Owen: The ‘God’s Army’ Convoy Says Militias Can Join But No Big Guns, Please: Organizers of the convoy have tried to distance themselves from extremist elements, but their own militia connections are making it hard.
February 1. Kate Briquelet: Trucker Rally Turns Into January Sixer Worship Wagon.
February 1. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: It Can’t Happen Here: Denial, Detachment, and the Desire for Normality. Ruth Ben-Ghiat looks into the consequences of underestimating the danger of authoritarianism and stresses the importance of staying informed and actively defending democracy.
February 2. Michel Martin & Odette Yousef: Growing list of public and private people are being targeted by swatting attempts.
February 2. Hannah Allam & Arelis R. Hernández: Texas border showdown is far-right magnet, hate trackers warn: As a convoy gathers in Eagle Pass, extremism monitors see vestiges of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s defiance of federal orders.
February 4. Silvia Foster-Frau & Beth Reinhard: Luxury spending, internal strife leave NRA staggering into 2024 election: Even as civil trials drain the NRA’s finances, the gun-rights movement remains a powerful force on the right.
February 4. AP News: Claims that Jan. 6 rioters are ‘political prisoners’ endure. Judges want to set the record straight.
February 6. Seamus Hughes: FBI Arrests Would-Be Border Militia Member.Authorities say Paul Faye wanted to bring explosives and weapons to border. A common federal gun charge of Tennessee man reveals an extensive FBI investigation into border militias.
February 7. Andrew Dyer: Leaked audio reveals Navy SEAL accused of extremism using Proud Boys slogan.
February 7. Rowaida Abdelaziz: Palestinian American Man Stabbed After Attending Protest.
February 7. David Gilbert: Russia Is Boosting Calls for ‘Civil War’ Over Texas Border Crisis: An all-encompassing Russian disinformation campaign is using everything from bots to lifestyle influencers to powerful state-run media to sow division in the United States.
February 8. Tori Otten: Moms for Liberty Completely Collapses in Former Strongholds: Moms for Liberty appears to be slowly imploding.
February 8. William Turton: The Far Right’s Favorite Web Host Has a Shadowy New Owner: Known for doing business with far-right extremist websites, Epik has been acquired by a company that specializes in helping businesses keep their operations secret.
February 8. Daniel Walters: How local Idaho prosecutors lost the case against Patriot Front’s white nationalist leader.
February 9. Global Project Against Hate & Extremism: Evidence of widespread interactions between Heritage Foundation officials and Viktor Orbán’s regime show a deep relationship that would bring Hungary’s “illiberal democracy” to the U.S.
February 9. Odette Yousef: The border crisis is helping to mainstream a dangerous conspiracy theory.
February 8. Nancy MacLean: Warn Voters About the Radicalism Beyond Trump: The Republicans are plotting to literally rewrite the Constitution to eliminate core rights and protections.
February 9. David Gilbert: Russian Memes Celebrate ‘Tucker Carlson Day’ After Putin Interview.
February 12. Ben Lorber: Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7.
February 12. Tim Dickinson: Trump and the GOP’s Fascist Rhetoric Has Broad Appeal. Poll: “There is a significant market for openly authoritarian ideologies in the United States,” says an academic who oversaw the new poll.
February 13. David Gilbert: YouTube Livestreamers Made Money ‘Hunting’ for Migrants Along the US Border: After leaving Texas, members of the Take Our Border Back convoy livestreamed their harassment of migrants in Arizona and California.
February 14. Amy McGrath: Ritual Humiliation: The Favorite Sport of Autocrats.
February 15. CNN: Head of US Marshals identifies an alarming trend and warns of a threat to democracy.
February 15. Steven Monacelli: Parker County ‘White Nationalist Fight Club’ Leader Exposed.
February 15. Carmen Forman: New Oklahoma bill could allow state to create database of women who had abortions.
February 16. Jennifer Bendery: ‘Disgusting’: Dark Money Group Unveils Wildly Islamophobic Ads Against Biden Court Pick.
February 17. María Luisa Paúl & Adela Suliman: Tucker Carlson faces new backlash over Putin interview after Navalny death.
February 18. Elaine Ganley: French mayors face violence and intimidation from xenophobic far-right groups.
February 19. NPR: Poland’s new government deprograms its once far-right public media.
February 20. Jordan Green: Inside the neo-Nazi hate network grooming children for a race war.
February 20: Will Sommer: A reporter investigated neo-Nazis. Then they came to his house in masks. The chilling visit to Raw Story reporter Jordan Green’s home represents an increasingly common tactic by extremist groups.
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 21. Jordan Green: Parents of ‘2119’ Nazi teens haunted by fear and regret.
February 21. Tess Owen: What We Know About the Death of Nonbinary Teen Nex Benedict: The death of the 16-year-old Oklahoman is raising new fears about the connection between anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policies and deadly real-world violence.
February 21. David Gilbert: Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust: The proliferation of generative AI chatbots on extremist platforms could lead to increased radicalization, experts warn.
February 21. Payton Armstrong: Alabama Supreme Court chief justice spreads Christian nationalist rhetoric on QAnon conspiracy theorist’s show.
February 22. Tess Owen: Inside the Christian Nationalist Church Where Proud Boys Go to be Baptized: Southern California pastor Hansel Orzame leads an “unwoke church” where he prepares his followers to wage “spiritual warfare.”
February 22. Christopher Mathias: Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist’s Show.
February 22. Tim Dickinson: Indiana Attorney General Sets Up Website for Snitching on ‘Socialist’ Teachers: Todd Rokita has launched a portal where citizens can tattle on so-called ‘woke’ educators.
February 22. Jeff Tischauser: Neo-Nazis Rally in Nashville for the ‘Great White South’.
February 24. Ali Velshi: ‘It’s very well-thought-out’: Authoritarian expert breaks down dangers of Project 2025.
February 24. Ben Goggin: Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies.
February 26. Just Security: American Autocracy Threat Tracker A Comprehensive Catalog Based on Donald Trump and His Associates’ Plans, Promises, and Propositions.
February 26. Jerod MacDonald-Evoy: Mr. QAnon Shaman goes to the Arizona Capitol.
February 27. Odette Yousef: Alabama justice’s ties with far-right Christian movement raise concern.
February 27. Eyes on the Right: Massachusetts GOP Candidate Is A Neo-Nazi Who Wants To ‘Expel’ Jews And ‘Overthrow The Government’.
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 28. Aurelien Mondon & Alex Yates: The word ‘populism’ is a gift to the far right – four reasons why we should stop using it.
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.
February 29. Alexandria Jacobson: ‘Hypocrites’: ‘Honorary’ KKK member running for Missouri governor trashes GOP comrades.
March 4. Maurice T. Cunningham: Key Takeaways of Moms for Liberty on ‘60 Minutes’.
March 5. Jordan Green: Feds gave classified information to neo-Nazi defendant.
March 5. Stephanie McCrummen: The Alabama Embryo Opinion Is About More Than Christian Nationalism: An insurgent religious movement is beginning to feel its strength.
March 6. Salvador Hernandez: ‘We f— them up … Lmao’: Northridge woman arrested in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol.
March 6. David Gilbert: Inside Election Conspiracy Groups on Super Tuesday: Despite Trump’s overwhelming victories on Tuesday, election deniers still found room to boost baseless conspiracies about voting fraud across the country.
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 7. Steven Monacelli: A new social network built on a vision of Christian supremacy in America gains traction with GOP politicians.
March 7. Jordan Green: Republican public schools nominee supports political killings and ‘death’ to Bill Gates.
March 8. CNN: Expert explains ‘the danger’ in Trump’s meeting with far-right leader.
March 8. Anthony Faiola & Catarina Fernandes Martins: Cool to be far right? Young Europeans are stirring a political youthquake.
March 9. Josh Kovensky: Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’: A trove of documents obtained by TPM reveal the society’s inner workings.
March 10. Matthew P. Barker: Small group of screaming protesters barge into Drag Queen Storytime at St. Catharines library.
March 11. Sheikh Saaliq: India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims.
March 11. Jason Wilson: Revealed: US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order. Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal, which experts say is rooted in Christian nationalism.
March 11. David Gilbert: An AI-Altered Hitler Speech Is Going Viral On X: Two AI-altered clips of Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech have racked up millions of views on X after being shared by a far-right troll.
March 11. Paul Blest: North Carolina’s GOP Nominee for Governor Is a Far-Right Fanatic.
March 12. Caolán Magee: Conor McGregor: How MMA star became a figurehead for the far-right in Ireland.
March 13. Jordan Green: Arrested: ‘2119’ neo-Nazi gang collaborator.
March 13. Kyle Clark: Joe Oltmann, a prominent far-right voice in Colorado politics, says Biden should be tried and executed.
March 13. Arianna Coghill & Garrison Hayes: Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism: He is the “patient zero for this sort of stuff right now.”
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.
March 14. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: How to Destroy Democracy: Break Public Trust in Its Institutions, the Presidency Included.
March 14. Tess Megginson: Canada’s Right Is Moving Further Right—And Closer to the U.S.
March 15. Will Carless: Black Hammer trial delayed, Nex Benedict cause of death: The week in extremism.
March 15. Pete Young: Third Boogaloo Boy sentenced to life for court security guard’s murder.
March 15. Rowaida Abdelaziz: They Desperately Wanted To Build A Muslim Cemetery. Then Came The Backlash. Muslim American communities still face resistance when trying to find places to bury their loved ones.
March 15. NPR: The number of book titles that people tried to ban rose by 65% last year.
March 15. Casey Michel: How Viktor Orbán Conquered the Heritage Foundation: Once the redoubt of Reaganism, the think tank has taken to promoting Trump’s favorite strongman.
March 15. David Gilbert: New Far-Right Conspiracy Claims Boeing’s Accidents Are Intentional:Following a series of incidents involving the company’s planes, some conspiracists are baselessly alleging that Boeing is failing on purpose as part of a global plot to bring down Western civilization.
March 18. Vittoria Elliott: Today’s Supreme Court Hearing Addresses a Far-Right Bogeyman: For years, government agencies have flagged misinformation and harmful content to platforms. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Murthy v. Missouri could change all that.
March 18. Adam Gopnik: The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers: The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.
March 18. Norman Eisen & Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Context only makes Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ comment worse: Authoritarians know that to get people to overcome taboos about committing violence.
March 19. NPR: Young conservatives have grown up in Trump’s Republican Party. Now, it’s time to vote.
March 19. Molly Redden: Inside The Ritzy Retreats Hosting Right-Wing Judges: During Koch-funded trips to mountain resorts, Trump judges huddled over a new strategy to advance “history and tradition” as the law of the land.
March 19. Michael Goldberg: Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ deputies get yearslong sentences for racist torture of 2 Black men.
March 19. The Guardian: White supremacy groups in Chillicothe: Investigating hate and controversy.
March 20. Bill Chappell: Alabama governor signs ban on DEI funds that restricts ‘divisive concepts’ in schools.
March 20. Makena Kelly & William Turton: Parler’s New Owners Swear This Time Will Be Different: The “free speech” social media alternative is back on Apple’s App Store ahead of its official relaunch.
March 20. David Gilbert: Elon Musk’s X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist’s Alleged Identity: Researchers and journalists have been blocked on X from sharing the alleged identity of the neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss.
March 22. Will Carless: To combat bullying and extremism, Air Force Academy turns to social media sleuthing.
March 22. Will Carless: This social media network set the stage for Jan. 6, then was taken offline. Now it’s back.
March 22. Mark Alesia: Convicted January 6 felon wants to storm the Capitol again — as an elected congressman.
March 23. The Washington Post: Trump escalates solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters as his own trials close in: The presumptive Republican nominee is aligning himself with the rioters and intensifying his use of dark, graphic and at times violent language.
March 25. Musk’s X Corp loses lawsuit against hate speech watchdog.
March 26. Anna Merlan: A new HBO documentary shows how Alex Jones’ lies are still ruining lives: “The harassment never goes away,” one family member says.
March 26. Debbie Elliott & Odette Yousef: As he campaigns, Trump has been leaning into his narrative of Jan. 6.
March 26. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax.
March 27. Michael Lee: Fugitive US Militant Ammon Bundy Geolocated to Utah.
March 27. Anna Merlan: Transvestigation: What to Know About the Bizarre and Transphobic Conspiracy Theory.
March 28. Hannah Gais & Spencer Sunshine: How a Mainstream Racist Group Revived the Terroristic Tome ‘Siege’.
March 29. CNN: Federal judge delivers rare response after Trump attacks the daughter of a judge.
March 29. Jason Wilson: Revealed: US professor was behind extremist site that spread conspiracies. Documents show Scott Yenor ran Action Idaho, which attacked LGBTQ+ people and Republicans deemed not rightwing enough.
March 29. Kate Brady & Karla Adam: Once wary of extremist violence, Europe now fears extremism in politics.
March 29. The Washington Post: Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6. They’re coming back to Trump.
March 29. Shane Burley: Christ Is King: Candace Owens’ antisemitism was a feature, not a bug. And it’s the whole Right that’s infected.
March 29. J.D. Wolf: Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope: Trump signals approval of violent imagery targeting his political opponents.
March 29. Will Carless: Study found hate speech in tweets. So Musk tried to punish the researchers, judge says.
March. 30. CNN: Trump posts video that shows image of Biden tied up in the back of a truck.