2014 - Winter - Back to the Border
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White-haired and 66, William "Jerry" Boykin is an old soldier who refuses to fade away. A popular speaker on the conservative Christian speaking circuit, Boykin is constantly on the road, crisscrossing the country from pulpit to pulpit, recruiting a Christian army to battle the forces of Satan, hell-bent, he says, on destroying America with such weapons as same-sex marriage, radical Islamists, gun control, abortion, and a “Marxist model” for world conquest.
Columbia University expert Donald Green argues that hate crimes tend to spike when rapid in-migration of minority groups occurs in formerly white neighborhoods. Perhaps that helps explain the sheer ugliness of the events in Murrieta, Calif., this July — events that came during the week of Independence Day, when Americans gather to celebrate our country and its democratic values.
This spring, a group of about 100 students and others gathered at Indiana University at Bloomington to participate in their local S---walk, an annual protest held in cities around the world to denounce rape culture and victim-shaming. Facing them were a handful of counter-protesters who, misunderstanding the idea of S---walk, heckled the crowd, wielding crude signs decrying “s--- culture.”
White power music was in trouble. But then racist bands discovered iTunes, and now they're back in business.
After years of escalating rhetoric, the neo-Confederate League of the South moves to form secret paramilitary unit.
A polished young American racist is knitting together a global network of white nationalists. And that has Europeans worried.
A woman who worked in religious-right ‘ex-gay’ ministries for years renounces the movement. She’s only the latest.
An interview planned with the head of a Florida milita ends at the county jail.
Ted Nugent called his nationwide summer tour “Shutup & Jam!” but the ’70s rocker did everything but shut up as he was hit with cancelled concerts and blistering criticism for his racist and anti-Indian statements.
A retired carpenter from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., by way of the Bronx, longs to be the Johnny Appleseed of the so-called “common-law grand juries” movement — a crusade by extreme-right “sovereign citizens” to create a judicial alternate universe.
Attorney and author Edgar J. Steele, who dove deeply into the world of anti-Semitism and racist extremism after unsuccessfully defending Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler, died Aug. 4 in a federal prison in California. He was 69, serving a 50-year term for hiring a hit man to murder his wife and her mother so he could start a relationship with another woman.
Ross Hack, the alleged neo-Nazi mastermind behind the ambush murders of two anti-racist skinheads 16 years ago, was found not guilty by a federal jury in Las Vegas in September despite his sister’s and ex-girlfriend’s dramatic testimony against him. Hack’s co-defendant, Leland Jones, was also acquitted after the two-week trial that included a parade of white supremacists and meth addicts, testifying for both the prosecution and the defense.
What a busy sovereign season it has been.
Poor Russell Pearce. He just can’t keep a job.
A recent report by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finds that the April confrontation between the federal government and a Nevada rancher will likely inspire more radical antigovernment violence — the same conclusion reached earlier in a major study of the incident by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Russia Today, a Moscow-headquartered news network aimed at enhancing Russia’s image in the West, is not known for its level-headed approach to the news. Since its founding in 2005, the network has endlessly touted 9/11 conspiracy theories, questioned President Obama’s place of birth, quoted “journalists” from unhinged “news” sources like WorldNetDaily, and even, in one case, interviewed a well-known white supremacist about Obama without mentioning his racism.
Among the thousands of candidates for political office who are brought out by every election cycle, there are almost always a number from the ideological fringe. This year, a mid-term election that could give control of the Senate (and therefore, both houses of Congress) to the Republican Party, is no exception. Here’s a brief roundup of a few:
There are propagandists who use selective facts to make their dubious points. There are propagandists who lie to cover up what the real facts are.
A sampling of hate crimes and hate group activities is summarized in state-by-state listings.
A movement was born this summer during the crisis over migrant children at the border. Are the vigilante extremists back for good?
White power music was in trouble. But then racist bands discovered iTunes, and now they're back in business.
