Hatewatch Headlines 12/19/2016
Hate groups rooted in white supremacism; Spencer eyes bid for Montana seat; Roof forgoes mental health experts; and more.
Vox: Most of America’s hate groups are rooted in white supremacism.
AlterNet: Donald Trump’s latest Cabinet pick, Montana’s Ryan Zinke, has ties to hate groups, white nationalist candidate.
Huffington Post: Richard Spencer, the Alt-Right leader who yelled ‘Hail Trump!’, eyes run for Congress in Montana.
Missoulian (MT): White supremacist website posts ‘call for action’ in Whitefish to defend Spencer.
New York Times: How a Putin fan overseas pushed pro-Trump propaganda to Americans as the ‘Patriot News Agency.’
CNN: Trump national security pick Monica Crowley repeatedly pushed conspiracy theory about Clinton aide.
Washington Post: Dylann Roof won’t use mental health experts to try to save his life in sentencing phase.
USA Today: Texas State University campus tense with racially charged incidents since Trump’s election.
Right Wing Watch: FRC’s Tony Perkins wants Trump to ‘ferret out’ State Department’s pro-LGBT officials.
Media Matters: 19 times Breitbart News cited a discredited hate group to spread harmful lies about pediatric medical care.
New America Media: Discovery of white nationalist’s presence roils Los Angeles Japanese-American group.
The Guardian (UK): The day I went hunting for the Ku Klux Klan, and what I found.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Group led by white supremacist helps police officer sue Roswell, GA, over Confederate flag.
The Times (Shreveport, LA): Louisiana House candidate says he won’t do business where Muslims are employed.
The Daily Beast: Alt-Right ‘dark enlightenment’ group seeks campus ‘safe space’ at Columbia, NYU.
PennLive: The seeds of the Alt-Right were planted early, and deep, in our politics.
Pro Publica: A conversation with longtime expert Chip Berlet on the rise of white nationalism.
