Right-wing protesters, including members of the Proud Boys, staged another in a long-running series of confrontational demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, a city far-right extremists target often because of its famously progressive politics. The Sunday rally resulted in multiple brawls with counterprotesters and, ultimately, gunfire.
A Texas man arrested on charges related to an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at a Walmart ran a white supremacist Telegram channel enamored with terrorism, Hatewatch has learned.
In February 2019, on an encrypted chat platform, members of the white power accelerationist group The Base had a long discussion on a topic that had recently become a preoccupation: how to strike back against the antifascist or “antifa” activists who had again exposed the identity of one of their number.
Researchers studying the far right have sounded the alarm over the threat posed by the rapid proliferation of conspiracy theories, disinformation and misinformation for years, noting that shifts in the extreme right’s mobilization tactics could present new challenges to stemming a tide of violence.
Proud Boys attended a pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday that ended with members of the group tearing down and destroying Black Lives Matter banners from two historic Black churches.