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Hatewatch Headlines 1/5/2018

White nationalists hiding out in academia; Alt-righter charged in train terror attack; Jones hawks a white nationalist children’s primer; and more.

TruthOut: How white nationalists manage to hide in the halls of academia.

Nebraska Journal-Star (Omaha): FBI accuses white supremacist of October terror attack on Amtrak train in rural Nebraska.

Right Wing Watch: Trump’s voter fraud commission kaput, but Kobach sees work shifting to an agency.

Media Matters: Alex Jones hawks a pro-Trump picture book that indoctrinates children into white nationalism.

Raw Story: GOP strategist sees disturbing parallels between Fox News and Nazi propaganda.

Esquire: That anti-Muslim gun-range owner has a bright political future leading the next generation of far-right snowflakes.

Associated Press: Defense in Kansas militia bomb-plot trial wants Trump voters in the jury pool.

Angry White Men: White nationalist Kyle Bristow claims he’s fighting the left with a racist version of the ACLU.

Vice: What I learned on my road trip to meet American homophobia face-to-face.

VoxPol: The hidden face of hate groups online: A former participant’s perspective.

Huffington Post: We found the Twitter account of the young neo-Nazi accused in a Virginia double homicide.

Think Progress: Far-right candidate for Wyoming governor says he would arrest federal workers on public lands.

Salon: Fox’s Tucker Carlson blames BuzzFeed and The Root for the rise in white nationalism.

The Root: Why are the media afraid to call Colorado shooter Matthew Riehl a racist, anti-cop terrorist?

Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV): Judge in Oregon standoff case sanctions defendants for making visit to Bundys in Nevada.

Willamette Week: Extremist ex-sheriff David Clarke to join others at far-right ‘Freedom Rally’ in Oregon.

Seattle Times: Judge lowers bond for immigrant tracked down by ICE after speaking to reporters.

Pew Research Center: Americans agree that certain behaviors constitute online harassment, but are divided on others.

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