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.
An examination of the growing extremism over public lands; What you need to know about Republicans and birthright citizenship; Bomb-carrying man leads to abortion clinic evacuation; and more.
This coming weekend, the white nationalist group Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) will hold its national conference in Nashville, Tenn. The event comes just a few months after the horrific shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., where nine African Americans were shot to death.
When he set out to build a radiation gun concealed in a van to kill Muslims he deemed “medical waste,” Glendon Scott Crawford had lofty visions of what his weapon would be. “Hiroshima on a light switch,” the Klansman said, before spending years using straw buyers, code names and throwaway “burner” phones to get the necessary hardware.
A white supremacist who gained national attention for trying to take over a town in North Dakota two years ago is back at it. Now, Craig Cobb says he has his eye on another town – and he wants to name it after Donald Trump.
Confederate flag rally turns ugly; The roots of Donald Trump’s nativist immigration plan; Anti-Muslim organizer threatens bloodshed; Larry Klayman warns of a coming revolt; and more.
Militia group snared in plot to steal drugs from bogus cartel; Jindal’s defense of Confederate statues comes out of thin air; Court nixes Arpaio’s stereotype; and more.
Federal authorities say a Pittsburgh man, just convicted of possessing a pipe bomb, held meetings of white supremacists at his home, which he called “The White Church."
Mississippi is the only state still blocking adoptions by same-sex couples, Arizona militia members are busted on drug-rip charges, and the term “c---servative” is catching on with some Republicans.
In the past few weeks, the American Freedom Party (AFP) has switched its presidential candidate, increased campaigning in the Pacific Northwest –- traditionally a focal point of most white nationalist political efforts –– and moved to build ties with other like-minded organizations. Though none of these efforts stand to impact the political landscape nationally, AFP’s is clearly trying to dig the party out of the bin of the political insignificance.
No group has shown more fury over recent campaigns to remove the Confederate battle flag from the public eye than the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS).
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