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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.
KKK elated with Trump’s first 10 days; White nationalist harasses journalist; FBI probes supremacists in law enforcement; and more.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 on Liberty Island, he had no doubt about the perniciousness of the law that it was replacing. The 1924 Immigration Act, which imposed a racist quota system favoring Northern European whites, was a "cruel and enduring wrong," a "harsh injustice" and "un-American in the highest sense," he said at the signing ceremony.
Following a “Southern Alt-Right” gathering last weekend in Georgia, Brad Griffin, who runs the white nationalist website Occidental Dissent and headlined the event, updated his blog with a flashy new banner and a new brand to sell –– the Alt-South.
A suspect in custody for a deadly mosque shooting over the weekend in Quebec City, Canada, left a trail of right-wing extremist rants online and in social networks.
Trump’s far-right alliances in Europe; White nationalists cheer Muslim ban; Twitter moves against harassers; and more.
Joseph Rice, founder of the Oath Keepers chapter in Josephine County, Oregon, announced on Facebook last week that he intends to run for chairman of the Oregon Republican Party.
The widow of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, an antigovernment activist who was killed in the closing days of the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last year, promised a crowd of almost 500 gathered in Oregon on the year anniversary of his death that she would soon be filing a lawsuit against the federal government.
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Jon Feere, a longtime staffer with the nativist think tank Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), is set to join the Department of Homeland Security in an “immigration-related position,” according to The Washington Post.
Jones says Infowars has White House credentials; Muslim ban bad for national security; Kobach’s laws don’t work out well; and more.
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