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Hatewatch Headlines 6/15/2017

Study find racial, ethnic fear drove Trump voters; Savage calls for media takeover after shootings; Racial politics lurk behind national monuments fight; and more.

Politico: Study finds that views on immigration, Muslims drove white voters to Trump.

Media Matters: Trump ally Michael Savage calls for government takeover of media after D.C. shootings.

Raw Story: ‘You guys are next’: Black and Latino Democrats receive ‘party-specific’ threats after baseball shootings.

Huffington Post: Pastor who once linked Obama to the anti-Christ says it’s time to stop demonizing politicians.

Salon: The ugly racial politics behind the battle over national monuments like Utah’s Bear Ears.

Colorlines: The growing alliance between neo-Nazis, right-wing paramilitaries and Trumpist Republicans.

Oregonian: Oregon expert on white supremacism explains the changing landscape of hate groups.

Think Progress: Confederate nostalgia almost won the night in Virginia’s GOP gubernatorial primary.

Mother Jones: Virginia’s most anti-LGBT lawmaker might lose his seat to state’s first openly transgender candidate.

The Atlantic: A resolution condemning white supremacy causes chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention.

Right Wing Watch: Scott Lively says the ‘hand of God’ forced a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit against him.

New York Daily News: Bronx mosque targeted three times by pellet-gun shooter in possible hate crime.

Newsday: Police say door shattered, ‘anti-Christian’ graffiti sprayed at East Meadow Church in likely hate crime.

The Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA): Man accused of assault on Long Beach officers referred to himself as a ‘tribal sovereign.’

Vice: The birth of Canada’s armed, anti-Muslim ‘Patriot’ militia group.

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