Image: After Trump urged the Proud Boys to “Stand back and stand by”, the extremist group changed their logo and began selling apparel quoting Trump.

For resources on the January 6 Insurrection, see this separate resource page.  

See also these related resources: Contemporary Far Right Extremism & White Supremacy and Far Right Extremism in 2022.

Madison Alder & Jasmine Ye Han: Trump Nears Post-Nixon First: No Black Circuit Judges.

Hannah Allam: 5 Takeaways About The Trump Administration’s Response To Far-Right Extremism.

All Things Considered: Behind Reddit’s Decision To Boot ‘The_Donald’ Forum.

Bobby Allyn: Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An ‘Emoji’.

Alex Amend and Jonathon Morgan: Breitbart Under Bannon: Breitbart’s Comment Section Reflects Alt-Right, Anti-Semitic Language.

The Atlantic: An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry: His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.

Peter Baker: More Than Ever, Trump Casts Himself as the Defender of White America: Presenting himself as a warrior against identity politics, the president has increasingly made appeals to the grievances of white supporters a centerpiece of his re-election campaign.

Erin Banco & Asawin Suebsaeng: Trump Advisers: He Was ‘Triggered’ by Talk of White Supremacy.

Kathleen Belew:

• Stephen Miller And White Supremacy 
• Why ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Should Set Off Alarm Bells.

Noah Berlatsky: The Trump effect: New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism.  The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.

Jonathan Blitzer: How Stephen Miller Manipulates Donald Trump to Further His Immigration Obsession.  Donald Trump’s senior adviser has been the true driving force behind this Administration’s racist agenda. How far will he go?

Regina Branton, Ayal Feinberg, & Valerie Martinez-Ebers: Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes: There is suggestive evidence that Trump’s rhetoric matters.  

Michael Brice-Saddler and Colby Itkowitz: Trump still won’t apologize to the Central Park Five. Here’s what he said at the time.

DeNeen L. Brown: Trump rally in Tulsa, site of a race massacre, on Juneteenth was ‘almost blasphemous,’ historian says.

Philip Bump: In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens.

Philip Bump: In a pair of interviews, Trump highlights white victimhood: Asked about police killings of black Americans, Trump replies: What about whites?

Russ Bynum: At RNC, GOP echoes racial code of Nixon’s 1968 campaign.

Sewell Chan: The link between anti-Black racism and Trump’s ‘kung flu’ comment.

Channel 4 News: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016.

Sarah Churchwell: The return of American fascism: How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

Sean Collins: Trump once flirted with white nationalism. Now it’s a centerpiece of his White House.

Nicholas Confessore: For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance.

Robert Costa & Philip Rucker: Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him.

Jose A. Del Real: With ‘kung flu,’ ‘thugs,’ and ‘our heritage,’ Trump leans on racial grievance as he reaches for a campaign reset.

Liam Dillon, Chris Megerian, & Eli Stokols: Trump repeals rule meant to integrate neighborhoods, further stoking racial divisions in campaign.

Scott Detrow: KKK Paper Endorses Trump; Campaign Calls Outlet ‘Repulsive’.

Camila Domonoske: Former KKK Leader David Duke Says ‘Of Course’ Trump Voters Are His Voters.

Camila Domonoske: Trump Fails To Condemn KKK On Television.

Petula Dvorak: ‘Racial Hate’: A famed folk singer, Trump’s dad and angry lyrics at a Tulsa landmark.

Steve Eder and Jonathan Mahler: ‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias.

Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou & Jennifer Jacobs: Jared Kushner Says African-Americans Must ‘Want to Be Successful’.

Nicole Einbinder: The Trump administration has actually cut government resources to fight white supremacy and domestic terrorism.

John Fea: Why do white evangelicals still staunchly support Donald Trump? The answers lies in the Reagan-era religious right.

Aris Folley: San Juan mayor: Puerto Ricans won’t forget images of Trump throwing paper towels to hurricane survivors.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro: Stephen Miller And ‘The Camp Of The Saints,’ A White Nationalist Reference.

Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, & Jennifer Sutton: Toward a Global History of White Supremacy: The simultaneous success of Trump and Brexit was no coincidence: white supremacist politics are international in scope and often share entwined histories.

Isabella Gelfand and Vanessa Williamson: Trump and racism: What do the data say?

Lawrence B. Glickman: Why President Trump used lynching as a metaphor: The long history of politicians claiming to be victims of lynching and racial violence.

Carly Goodman: John Tanton has died. He made America less open to immigrants — and more open to Trump: The nativist helped make anti-immigrant politics mainstream.

David A. Graham: Sebastian Gorka and the White House’s Questionable Vetting: A report in The Forward links Trump’s terrorism adviser to a Nazi-linked Hungarian fraternal group.

Jean Guerrero: Stephen Miller’s Dystopian America: Language is a tool for shaping minds, and Miller knows how to weaponize it.

Jean Guerrero: Border Patrol Pulls Vid Reflecting How Stephen Miller Helped Make Homeland Security a Race War Propaganda Shop: The Border Patrol video includes false and misleading headlines and a fictionalized murder set to horror-movie music.

Adeel Hassan: Hate-Crime Violence Hits 16-Year High, F.B.I. Reports: The bureau’s annual report showed a significant upswing in violence against Latinos.

Brandon W. Hawk: Why far-right nationalists like Steve Bannon have embraced a Russian ideologue: And how his medieval fantasies distort history for his cause.

Astead W. Herndon: ‘Nothing Less Than a Civil War’: These White Voters on the Far Right See Doom Without Trump.

Bonnie Honig: What White Supremacists Want: Trump’s paternalistic language of care draws an exceptional circle around whites only.

Emily S. Johnson: How white evangelicals learned to love Donald Trump: Evangelical support for the president reflects four decades of political lessons.

Tamara Keith: President Trump Issues Divisive Statement On Race At Rose Garden Address.

Pete Kotz: Armed conspiracy group will defend Republicans at Minneapolis Trump rally.

By Michael Kranish & Robert O’Harrow Jr.: Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it.

Andy Kroll: Internal Emails Reveal How Stephen Miller Leads an Extremist Network to Push Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda.

Scott Laderman: How Richard Nixon captured white rage — and laid the groundwork for Donald Trump.

Derek Litvak: President Trump has embraced yet another white-supremacist talking point: Why Trump and white supremacists care about South African land reform.

Timothy J. Lombardo: Why white blue-collar voters love President Trump: He has mastered their language.

German Lopez: Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020.

Wesley Lowery: Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing [Jeff] Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination.

Peter Maass: Birth of a Radical: White Fear in the White House: Young Bannon Disciple Julia Hahn Is a Case Study in Extremism.

Peter Maass: Power Transfer: How Lachlan Murdoch Went From Studying Philosophy at Princeton to Exploiting White Nationalism at Fox News.

Alec MacGillis: The Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’: Tenants in more than a dozen Baltimore-area rental complexes complain about a property owner who they say leaves their homes in disrepair, humiliates late-paying renters and often sues them when they try to move out. Few of them know that their landlord is the president’s son-in-law.

Andrea Mammone: Steve Bannon claims to be the mastermind of European nationalism. Don’t believe the hype.

Christopher Mathias:

• Phrase ‘White Nationalists’ Cut From Measure To Screen Military Enlistees.
• Jewish Groups Demand Stephen Miller Resign From White House.
• At CPAC, Extremists On Stage And Off: The annual conference served as yet another reminder of how the conservative movement in America is joined at the hip with the white nationalist movement.
• See many more articles by Mathias here.

Media Matters for America: Tucker Carlson’s descent into white supremacy: A timeline.

Angie Maxwell: Donald Trump and the Lost Cause.

Dana Milbank: A massive repudiation of Trump’s racist politics is building.

Morning Edition: Experts Discuss White Nationalism And Trump’s Controversial Retweet.

Justin Wm. Moyer: The unbelievable story of why Woody Guthrie hated Donald Trump’s dad.

Elizabeth Neumann: The threats against Democratic governors prove Trump’s rhetoric encourages violence.

The New York Times: What Have We Lost?

Ron Nixon and Eileen Sullivan: Revocation of Grants to Help Fight Hate Under New Scrutiny After Charlottesville.

NPR: ‘Hatemonger’ Tracks How Right-Wing Media Shaped Trump Policy Architect Stephen Miller.

NPR: Former DHS Official: Trump Pouring ‘Fuel On The Fire’ Of Domestic Extremism.

Nell Irvin Painter: Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin.

Sara Patenaude: President Trump’s Baltimore tweets were racist — but he also fails to grasp what ails our cities: Decades of racist policies — not absentee congressmen — explain cities’ biggest struggles.

Mike Pearl: All the Evidence We Could Find About Fred Trump’s Alleged Involvement with the KKK: Newspaper clips obtained by VICE suggest the Republican frontrunner’s father may have worn the robe and hood of a Klansman in 1927.

Susan Pearson: Birth certificates have always been a weapon for white supremacists: Policing the color line through vital documents.

Christopher Petrella: The ominous history surrounding President Trump’s Fourth of July rally: White nationalists have long used the holiday to advance their dreams of a white country.

Shannon Pettypiece: Trump calls for ‘patriotic education,’ says anti-racism teachings are ‘child abuse.’  (See also the response from the American Historical Association.)

Christian Picciolini: Former Neo-Nazi Says Trump’s Call for Proud Boys to “Stand By” Will Encourage More Violence.

Laura Pulido: Trump Racist and Environmental Database.

Leo Ribuffo: Who Is Our Most Bigoted President? Trump? Nixon?

Leo P. Ribuffo: The Forebears of Trumpism.

Eugene Robinson: Trump is shouting his racism. He must be stopped.

Denis Romero: In the Era of Trump, Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Jumped 69% in L.A.

Rachel E. Rosenbloom: There’s no question about Harris’s citizenship. So why is Trump questioning it? The assumption that only White Americans are citizens drives the campaign to discredit Kamala Harris.

Patrick Rucker: Trump Financial Regulator Quietly Shelved Discrimination Probes Into Bank of America and Other Lenders: At least six investigations into discriminatory mortgage loan “redlining” have been halted or stalled — against staff recommendations — under the Trump administration’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Greg Sargent: A former DHS insider sheds a darker light on Trump’s vile ‘Proud Boys’ comment.

Adam Serwer: Jeff Sessions’s Unqualified Praise for a 1924 Immigration Law: Trump’s pick for attorney general made the remarks during an interview with Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon, now an adviser to the president-elect.

Donald K. Sherman: Trump’s corruption is racist, and his racism is corrupt: Last week’s cynical GOP convention made the intersection all too clear.

Christianna Silva: Reformed Neo-Nazi Discusses President Trump’s Controversial Shared Retweet.

Laura Ellyn Smith: How Donald Trump put an end to the GOP’s Southern strategy: Trading the dog-whistle for the bullhorn.

Zachary Smith: Why Donald Trump’s response to the New Zealand shooting is dangerous:  A lack of vigilance from our leaders could result in white nationalism reentering the cultural mainstream.

Kyla Sommers: How politicians use fear of cities like Baltimore to stoke white resentment: President Trump is building on a tactic pioneered by segregationists.

The Southern Poverty Law Center: Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails.

Alexandra Minna Stern: Is Trump Building a White Ethnostate? 

Thomas J. Sugrue: Jeff Sessions’ Other Civil Rights Problem.

Thomas J. Sugrue: The Big Picture: America’s Real Estate Developer in Chief.

Matthew Avery Sutton.  Explaining the bond between Trump and white evangelicals: It’s all about an agenda — and it’s nothing new.

Benjamin Swasey: Trump Retweets Video Of Apparent Supporter Saying ‘White Power’.

Elizabeth R. Varon: Trump’s 2020 playbook is coming straight from Southern enslavers: Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.

Carl A. Zimring: The dirty (and racist) origins of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant slur: How the connection between race and waste shapes not only slurs but policy and economics.