Hard-right movements are based on exclusion and the construction of hierarchies.
Hard-right movements are based on exclusion and the construction of hierarchies.
Alex Jones’ texts reinforce how closely connected the Infowars host is to members of the Proud Boys – the violent, ultranationalist hate group that rose to prominence during the presidency of Donald Trump.
Tuesday’s midterm elections saw candidates who held extremist anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, election-denying and anti-abortion positions widely rebuffed by voters around the country.
Five years after white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, the statue they came to protect is gone, and the “alt-right” coalition they embodied has imploded. At the same time, the existential threat that far-right extremism poses to the U.S. has arguably never been more severe.
The far-right Proud Boys have ramped up a campaign aimed specifically at attacking LGBTQ rights and reproductive justice.
Intelligence Project staff submitted the following report on the Proud Boys to the Jan. 6 Select Committee in April.
The House committee investigating the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection spent its first night focusing on the violence, conspiracy theories about electoral fraud and alleged cooperation between former President Donald Trump and two extremist groups Hatewatch monitors.
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