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Hatewatch Headlines 10/16/2017

White nationalism destroying liberal democracies; Sessions undermines immigrants’ due process; Miller gets refugee numbers cut; and more.

New York Times: White nationalism is destroying the West, both in Europe and in America.

Vox: Leaked memos show Jeff Sessions’ DOJ aims to undermine due process for immigrants.

The New Yorker: How Stephen Miller single-handedly got the U.S. to accept fewer refugees.

Right Wing Watch: Sebastian Gorka, Steve Bannon recruit religious right to their ‘war’ on GOP establishment.

Washington Blade: Here’s what was in the grab bag at the Values Voters summit.

Think Progress: Website targeting black Americans appears to be elaborate Russian propaganda effort.

Washington Post: Researcher for Kobach’s voter-fraud commission arrested for possessing child porn.

Los Angeles Times: Black man who wielded makeshift flamethrower in Charlottesville now under arrest, too.

Philly Voice (PA): Reports of neo-Nazi rally in downtown Philadelphia create stir on social media.

Daily Commercial (Leesburg, FL): University of Florida braces for Richard Spencer’s white-nationalist presence on campus.

WLWT-TV (Cincinnati, OH): Spencer now approved to speak at University of Cincinnati.

Raw Story: White supremacists fly into white-hot rage at news some Vikings may have been Muslim.

Talking Points Memo: Roy Moore led the charge against removing segregation from the Alabama Constitution.

The Forward: GOP Rep. Dana Rohrbacher brought Holocaust denier to meeting at Capitol.

KTXL-TV (Sacramento, CA): White nationalist goes after DACA student on social media, demanding his deportation.

Huffington Post: Former Indiana GOP candidate arrested for mailing pipe bomb, bullet to political enemies.

The Inquirer (Philadelphia): Bravo to daycare owner who didn’t cave to racist threat to fire black employee.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA): White restaurant manager enslaved black man for years, prosecutors say.

ABC News: Five people arrested in 1983 ‘racially motivated’ murder of 23-year-old black man in Georgia.

KXLY-TV (Spokane, WA): FBI investigating assault on black man by two white suspects as a hate crime.

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