On June 14, President Trump called for unity. His remarks came after a vicious shooting during a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. The shooter was a man reportedly enraged at the president and GOP policies; Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and four others were severely injured.
Whether it’s a vicious white supremacist street gang, secessionists or violent black nationalists, law enforcement officers across the country are facing an array of extremist threats that are examined in the latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, released today.
Five years after the deadly white supremacist attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, there are troubling signals from the Trump administration that it won’t be taking seriously the threat of violence and terrorism from white supremacists and other domestic extremists.
The RAISE Act represents a stealth attack on our immigration system that would begin to unravel the reforms of 52 years ago, when Congress discarded a racist quota system that discriminated against people who weren’t white and northern European.
In the nearly 30 years since the Southern Poverty Law Center has been monitoring the American radical right we’ve seen a major shift in the nature of organized groups that specialize in vilifying certain people because of their race, ethnicity or other characteristic.
While the new administration focuses on Muslim refugees and immigrants, the most lethal terrorism threat of recent years is homegrown, and most often comes from right-wing radicals.
Radical lawyer Kyle Bristow has started a new foundation that aims to become the legal arm of the racist radical right
The radical right was more successful in entering the political mainstream last year than in half a century. How did it happen?
Racist troll-turned-movement attorney Kyle Bristow finds a second wind and a new audience for his activism.
Despite his youth, Kyle Bristow, the white nationalist who recently started the Foundation for the Marketplace of Ideas to confront so-called "social justice warriors," has a long history on the radical right. His ex-wife Ashley Herzog last year published an essay about their marriage that was quickly taken offline. Hatewatch reached out to Herzog to talk about the essay, her time with Bristow, an attorney in Michigan, and just what it's like to be so close to one of the Alt-Right's most vicious attack dogs.
