Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are impacting the election process.
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Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are impacting the election process.
Since March 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has tracked 329 flyering incidents on 241 different college campuses across the United States, a number that continues to grow.
From its inception, the alt-right has attempted to paint itself as “normal,” just a growing movement of average American white men who happen to be obsessed with racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and misogyny.
Russia’s global alliances with white nationalists; Trumpers meet theocrats at conclave; Mississippi town finally desegregates its schools; and more.
White nationalism destroying liberal democracies; Sessions undermines immigrants’ due process; Miller gets refugee numbers cut; and more.
The following is a list of activities and events of anti-LGBT organizations. Organizations listed as anti-LGBT hate groups are designated with an asterisk.
Values Voters an anti-constitutional gathering; Turner Diaries remains a force on the right; sheriff wants ‘good’ prisoners to stay where they’re useful; and more.
Since the SPLC’s warning in August, another violent black nationalist has carried out a mass shooting attack against whites. This time, a predominantly white congregation was attacked at their place of worship.
UPDATE: The Justice Department has just opened a civil rights investigation into an apparent hate crime last weekend in Spokane involving a 66-year African-American man. “We are concerned about elements of the incident because any crime that is potentially hate-motivated is not only an attack on the victim, but threatens and intimidates an entire community,” an FBI spokeswoman tells Hatewatch.
The FBI is expected to review a hate crime in which a black man was assaulted with a handgun and called ethnic slurs before several gunshots were fired into his home in Spokane last weekend.
Key leaders in the established anti-LGBT and anti-Muslim movements will gather this weekend in Washington, D.C., for the annual Values Voter Summit (VVS), along with President Donald Trump and his former strategist and Breitbart executive Stephen Bannon.
LoS leader involved in Charlottesville arrest; Spencer sees more flash mobs ahead; Would-be airport bomber wanted to ‘fight a war on U.S. soil’; and more.
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