The number of “nativist extremist” groups — organizations that go beyond mere advocacy to personally confront suspected undocumented immigrants or those who hire or help them — dropped again last year, falling from 19 to just 17.
Anti-Muslim hatred ratcheted up sharply after the Islamic State attacks in Paris. Then came San Bernardino and Donald Trump.
The number of extremist groups operating in the United States grew in 2015 – a year awash in deadly extremist violence and hateful rhetoric from mainstream political figures, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual census of hate groups and other extremist organizations.
Billy Roper, long-time neo-Nazi with Klan ties, announces political bid.
White nationalists celebrate after Rush Limbaugh quotes Sam Francis, claiming vindication of their views
Rush Limbaugh and the Breitbart News Network, two of the most popular media outlets on the American right, are no stranger to giving a platform to a host of anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant groups. But promoting white nationalists?
After months of echoing the American racist right—promising to catalogue all American Muslims, accusing immigrants of being rapists, proposing to build a wall covering the entire U.S.-Mexico border—Donald Trump was caught retweeting a racist Twitter account.
Two prominent white nationalists appeared on a robocall released in Iowa last weekend voicing support for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
The year 2015 is drawing to a close with a continuing wave of firebombings and apparent hate crimes at mosques in various U.S. cities, including Christmas-weekend arson attacks in California and Texas.
The Center for Security Policy puts a veneer of normalcy on a daylong program of fearmongering and conspiracy, even as it's being courted by GOP presidential candidates.
