SPLC President Richard Cohen testified today before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary about the obligation of universities to uphold not only the First Amendment rights of controversial speakers but to speak out against speech that threatens our democratic values.
Wielding M-4s and a warrant, with one of their helicopters sputtering overhead, U.S. Border Patrol agents last week raided the so-called “Byrd Camp” of the humanitarian group No More Deaths (NMD) located near Arivaca, Arizona, about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, taking four Mexican migrants into custody.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has long had an appetite for nativist, anti-immigrant thinking.
This week various members of the so-called “Alt Right” have been taking shots at Oath Keepers — an antigovernment organization that primarily recruits current and veteran military, law enforcement and emergency first responders — after video surfaced of a Texas militia member putting a neo-Nazi protester in a headlock in a Houston park last Saturday.
A lone gunman who open fired on Republican members of the congressional baseball team who were practicing at a field in suburban Washington, D.C., early Wednesday morning has been identified as James T. (Tom) Hodgkinson.
Sovereign citizens are a diverse group of individuals whose activities and motives vary, but whose core tenets are the typically the same. They view United States citizenship, established government, authority and institutions as illegitimate and consider themselves immune from and therefore above the law.
The image from nationwide rallies this past weekend seems quite clear: The country’s largest anti-Muslim organization with close ties to the Trump Administration, ACT! for America, is welding its bonds with armed militia and Patriot groups, including Oath Keepers.
The following is a list of activities and events of anti-LGBT organizations. Organizations listed as anti-LGBT hate groups are designated with an asterisk.
Here’s what Donald Trump said about immigrants less than two weeks before he was elected: “We have some bad hombres here, and we’re going to get them out.”
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, whose pursuit of voter restriction and anti-immigrant laws made him a leading light of the nativist movement, announced today that he will run for governor in 2018.
