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Michael Hill’s desire to build his unruly neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) into a well-organized fighting group is best exemplified by Hill’s chief of staff, Michael Tubbs, and the Florida chapter. A disgraced Green Beret, Tubbs has used his position as chairman of the Florida League of the South (FLOS), to shape the FLOS into a well-organized, uniform group that might serve as an example to other League chapters.
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff — an Austrian anti-Muslim activist convicted of hate speech in her native country in 2011 — was invited to meet with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, in Topeka on March 7.
ACT for America — the largest grassroots anti-Muslim group in the country — has come under fire recently. Prominent San Antonio, ACT chapter leader Roy White was fired in late February for refusing to cancel a meeting designed to show activists how to “shut down mosques.”
On March 4, during a pro-Trump Spirit Of America Rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a local racist skinhead snapped a photo of himself standing next to U.S Senatorial candidate and current Berwick city council member Andrew Shecktor.
In 2011, the New York Times profiled David Yerushalmi, an anti-Muslim extremist and the go-to lawyer for the movement at large.
On February 27, a Douglas County Circuit Court judge sentenced Jose Ismael Torres and Kayla Rae Norton to more than 20 years in prison for terrorizing African Americans at a child’s birthday party in Georgia. Since then, white supremacists have come out in droves claiming the two defendants were given unjust sentences for using racial epithets and displaying the Confederate battle flag, going so far as to threaten the judge and one of the victim’s supporters.
This post is part of a continuing Hatewatch series examining the Newslinks & Articles section of Stormfront.org. Until last summer, Stormfront was the most trafficked white supremacist website online.
Senate asks Trump for ‘swift action’ on Jewish center threats; Mosques endure wave of phoned-in threats too; Malheur attorneys set stage at trial; and more.
It ain’t easy being a bulldog at a Trump rally, especially when your owner is wearing a brown paper bag over his head and pushing you around in a doggie stroller with a cardboard-and-sharpie “Bulldog 4 Trump” sign attached.
Authorities say a white supremacist arrested last week near Olympia, Washington, may be part of a larger group of racists involved in a “number of violent crimes” in the Pacific Northwest.