Thirsty for battle with their leftist foes, the closest the heavily-armed Islam-hatin’ crowd came to conflict this past Saturday during an anti-Sharia rally in Phoenix’s Paradise Valley Park was when an unidentified man in a blue golf shirt walked toward the large patch of grass they occupied.
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.
In 28 cities around the country, Act for America, an anti-Muslim hate group is organizing a series of events called “March Against Sharia.”
A week after a white nationalist murdered two men while harassing a Muslim woman, alt-righters ignored community pleas not to hold a 'free speech' rally in the civic center, protected both by militias and local police.
The moment seemed too surreal to believe.
Ten days ago, on the eve of a special election to fill Montana’s only U.S. House seat, GOP nominee Greg Gianforte was being pressed by a reporter.
Before he was accused of this week’s fatal shooting of a Montana sheriff’s deputy, an antigovernment extremist was involved in an eerily similar high-speed chase and gunfight with officers in California that included downing a police helicopter.
Two years after the Oath Keepers in Josephine County, Oregon, engaged in a standoff with federal agents at the Sugar Pine Mine, the leader of the chapter has broken away from the Oath Keepers, citing concerns with national leadership.
Last weekend, a motley crew of far-right groups assembled at New Orleans’ Lee Circle to protest the city’s removal of Confederate monuments. Bearing all manner of insignias, from the Confederate Battle Flag, Klan logos, Civil War kepis, Norse runes, the flag of “Kekistan,” the Gadsden flag, to U.S. flags, all were prepared for a brawl.
Justice Department prosecutors are having about as much trouble convicting members of the “Bundy gang” as federal agents faced in their failed attempt to round-up cattle during the infamous 2014 standoff at Bunkerville, Nevada.
Behind glass and wood display cases at a conference in Salt Lake City for end-times “preppers,” doomsday worriers and would-be survivalists, a medley of bronze and silver coins were delicately arranged, each snapped tightly into a collector’s case.
