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Robert R. Doggart really wanted to plead guilty and go to prison after he was charged with a crime fueled by anti-Muslim hate.
Back in 2011, Gavin McInnes, the writer and talk show host who would later found the Proud Boys, published his thoughts about anti-gay and racial slurs on the paleoconservative website Taki’s Magazine.
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A Texas man who openly expressed hatred of Muslims faces more than 24 years in federal prison after being convicted by a jury of firebombing a mosque in Victoria, Texas. Prosecutors call it a “straightforward case of hate.”
Last Friday, Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes riled up a crowd of supporters at New York City’s Metropolitan Republican Club with what he played off as a comedy routine: the commemoration and celebration of the 1960 televised assassination of a socialist.
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The speakers were lined up and the promotions had started for “Unite the Right,” the large gathering of racists, white supremacists and alt-righters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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National Security Council staffer Fred Fleitz will leave the Trump administration to head up the anti-Muslim hate group Center for Security Policy.
A diverse and powerful cast of elected officials from New York called for law enforcement to act after a video surfaced showing members of the Proud Boys, joined by ultranationalist skinheads, viciously attacking people this weekend in New York City.