far right

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/18/2020
  

  One of these Stories about Guns in Public Places is not Like the Others. Here’s Why.

  by Jonathan Blanks

  As guns have become an increasingly common sight at protests and government buildings, it’s clear that carrying them means different things — and presents different risks — for black and white Americans.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  5/11/2020
  

  The Private Militias Providing "Security" for Anti-Lockdown Protests, Explained

  Nicole Hemmer and Jared Yates Sexton offer historical perspective on the growing presence of armed groups at protests. 

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  5/6/2020
  

  Let’s Be Inspired by True Past Leadership

  by Walter G. Moss

  Rather than inspiring us Americans to continue our fight against that main evil of our time, the coronavirus, President Trump encourages citizens to “liberate” their states from governors who have had enough sense to follow public-health guidelines that will save lives.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  COVID-19 and the White Horse Prophecy: The Theology of Ammon Bundy

  by Betsy Gaines Quammen

  In a country with segments of people who deny science, act on revelation, see regular events as either conspiratorial or supernatural, COVID-19 offers a platform for misinformation and agitation.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  5/5/2020
  

  U.S. Extremist Blames 'Compliant' Jews for Holocaust in Idaho Protest

  Ammon Bundy tells crowd during anti-lockdown demonstration that Jewish people thought 'putting their head down and trying to not be noticed was the better way' in WWII.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/4/2020
  

  New York Fed Paper Finds Pandemic a Century Ago Fueled Nazi Rise

  As far-right political movements gain in the U.S. and abroad, a paper by an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York argues that the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 fueled the rise of Nazism in Germany.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  5/3/2020
  

  Whitmer Says Michigan Protests 'Depicted Some of the Worst Racism and Awful Parts of Our History'

  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said protests inside the state Capitol last week, featuring demonstrators with assault weapons, swastikas and Confederate flags, depicted some of the “worst racism and awful parts” of the nation’s history.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  5/3/2020
  

  Auschwitz Museum Condemns Use Of Nazi Slogan At US Anti-Lockdown Protest

  The "work sets you free" sign repeated the inscription on the gates of Auschwitz and was aimed at the Jewish governor of Illinois.

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• 4/30/2020
  

  Right-Wing Protests Intensify over COVID Closures

  by HNN Staff

  The Michigan legislature has closed its session due to the threat of armed mobs at the state capitol. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  4/21/2020
  

  Phyllis Schlafly, ‘Mrs. America,’ Was a Secret Member of the John Birch Society

  by Ronald Radosh

  Schlafly denied to the end that she ever was a JBS member. After that, perhaps it was too late for her to admit the deception now fully exposed by the new documents shared by reseacher Ernie Lazar.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  4/20/2020
  

  Who are the Self-Styled Liberators? Looking More Deeply at those Protesting Coronavirus Shutdowns

  by Betsy Gaines Quammen

  The American militia movement — a network of armed people, some religiously motivated, some white supremacists, some neither, loosely organized to defend the Constitution, or at least their own version of it — have joined in protests of COVID closures.

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  4/15/2020
  

  Greater Idaho and the Ugly History of Northwest Secession Movements

  The impulse to separate and redefine the region is as old as the Euro-American settlement of the Northwest, and has roots in so-called “rural values” and racial exclusion that date back to before, during and after the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  3/30/2020
  

  The Prep-School Nazi

  by Benjamin Wallace

  Before he was Norman Spear, hate group founder and possible Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro was just another Jersey boy.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11/12/2019
  

  The key to defeating the far right’s online hate

  by Michelle Kelley

  “History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.”