Extremists

“Satanist Nazi” Gets 2.5 Years In CNN Bombing Plot

The New York Post reports: A neo-Nazi ex-soldier who wanted to bomb CNN and incite a race war has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in federal prison — after prosecutors described him a self-confessed Satanist hellbent on overthrowing the government. US District Judge Daniel Crabtree decried having to follow such “low” sentencing guidelines for Jarrett William Smith, who committed “troubling …

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McEnany: I’ve Never Heard Trump Talk About QAnon

Politico reports: White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday said she has never heard President Donald Trump mention QAnon, as a growing number of Republicans sharply criticized Trump’s appreciative stance on the conspiracy theory. “The media talks a lot about this so-called QAnon. I’ve never heard the president mention it,” McEnany told Fox News. “I talk to him oftentimes …

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Twitter Refuses To Reinstate Extremist Laura Loomer

Politico reports: Laura Loomer won’t be getting her Twitter account reinstated despite winning the Republican primary Tuesday in her bid to represent Florida’s 21st Congressional District. “The account owner you referenced was permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules, and we do not plan to reverse that enforcement action,” the company said in a statement. Loomer was banned …

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Trump Endorses QAnon: “They Like Me Very Much”

The New York Times reports: QAnon was once a fringe phenomenon — the kind most people could safely ignore. But in recent months, it’s gone mainstream. Twitter, Facebook and other social networks have been flooded with QAnon-related false information about Covid-19, the Black Lives Matter protests and the 2020 election. QAnon supporters have also been trying to attach themselves to …

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Facebook Restricts QAnon Searches, Hashtags, And Ads

ABC News reports: Facebook says it will restrict the right-wing conspiracy movement QAnon and will no longer recommend that users join groups supporting it, although the company isn’t banning it outright. Facebook said Wednesday it is banning groups and accounts associated with QAnon and a variety of U.S.-based militia and anarchist groups that support violence. But the company will continue …

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Fellow Extremists Celebrated At Loomer’s Victory Party, Local And State GOP Officials Endorse Her For US House

Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: A cast of far-right figures joined anti-Muslim provocateur and self-proclaimed “Islamophobe” Laura Loomer at a party celebrating her win of the Republican nomination to represent Florida’s 21st Congressional District in the U.S. House last night. Although Loomer faces a difficult challenge against incumbent Democrat Rep. Lois Frankel in a solidly blue district, her …

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Far-Right Extremist Laura Loomer Earns Praise From Trump After Winning GOP Florida US House Primary

The Washington Post reports: Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist known for headline-grabbing stunts after getting kicked off social media platforms, won a Florida GOP primary on Tuesday — and then was quickly congratulated by her district’s most famous official resident. President Trump, whose Mar-a-Lago estate is in Loomer’s district, retweeted at least four posts about her win and tweeted himself, …

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Infowars “Reporter” Charged With Robbery [VIDEO]

Law & Crime reports: A correspondent for InfoWars, the Alex Jones-helmed far-right media organization known as a hub for conspiracy theories and false news stories, was arrested Friday evening at her home in Diamond, Ohio, midway between Youngstown and Akron. Millicent “Millie” Weaver, 29, and her husband Gavin Wince, 46, were taken into custody by the Portage County Sheriff’s Office. …

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GEORGIA: White Supremacist Militia Members Clash With Armed Protesters Near Stone Mountain [VIDEO]

Atlanta’s CBS News affiliate reports: A group with white supremacist ties and counter-protesters faced off in Georgia today at Stone Mountain. Police from multiple agencies and the Georgia National Guard were on scene. Stone Mountain park officials say a group called the Three Percenters out of Alabama applied for a permit. It was denied because of violence surrounding past protests. …

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MICHIGAN: Proud Boys And White Supremacist Militia Members Fist-Fight Protesters In Kalamazoo [VIDEO]

Kalamazoo’s CBS News affiliate reports: Members of the Proud Boys group moved through western Michigan on Saturday. The group originally planned to hold a rally in Arcadia Creek Festival Place in Kalamazoo, an outdoor area and event space. After hundreds of counterprotesters and police arrived at the location, the group began to move through the city. Police had a large …

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White Supremacist Militias Rally At Stone Mountain

The Hill reports: Stone Mountain Park in Georgia will close Saturday ahead of a rally planned in defense of one of the nation’s largest Confederate monuments. The City of Stone Mountain said in a statement Friday that it was closing the park in anticipation of at least two groups of counter-protesters converging at the site. Far-right protesters have announced plans …

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Trump Refuses To Say If He Backs QAnon Batshittery

The Hill reports: Trump was asked during his briefing about his tweet congratulating Majorie Taylor Greene on her primary victory, and specifically whether he agreed with her views on QAnon, which posits that Trump will expose and arrest a “deep state” cabal of Democrats and elites who control the government and run sex trafficking rings. “She did very well in …

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VIRAL: Alex Jones Screams At Teens About COVID

The Austin Statesman reports: Maskless and with a bullhorn in hand, Austin-based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones stood outside a Barton Creek greenbelt entrance and yelled at trail goers and park employees over the city’s reservation system, which he called an “illegal power grab of the people’s greenbelt.” In a widely circulated video Jones posted, the host of the website InfoWars …

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Trump Hails QAnon Freak As “Future Republican Star”

NBC News reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman who has expressed support for the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon and been criticized for a series of racist comments, has won the Republican nomination for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Greene beat neurosurgeon John Cowan in a primary runoff for the open seat on Tuesday in the deep-red district in northwest Georgia, despite …

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NBC: Millions Still Belong To QAnon Facebook Groups

NBC News reports: An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to internal company documents reviewed by NBC News. The investigation’s preliminary results, which were provided to NBC News by a Facebook employee, shed new light on the scope of activity and content …

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YouTube Permanently Bans White Supremacist Group That Was Promoted At 2016 Republican Convention

Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: YouTube terminated the account on its platform used by white nationalist hate group VDARE for violating the site’s policies against hate speech, a YouTube spokesperson told Right Wing Watch. This time last year, VDARE was suspended and reinstated on the platform, but a YouTube spokesperson told RWW that this suspension is permanent. “A …

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Nazi Party Applications Handed Out In Indiana Park

Newsweek reports: Nazi political party applications were being handed out by men wearing Nazi flag armbands in Indiana this weekend, according to a viral post on Twitter. Twitter user @GoldvesterCos shared a picture of the two men on Saturday, saying they were handing out anti-Semitic pamphlets and “Nazi political party” applications in Henryville, Indiana, a small town around 20 miles …

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Facebook Bans 200,000-Member Group Of QAnon Nuts

Reuters reports: Facebook said on Thursday it had removed one of the largest public groups devoted to the QAnon web of conspiracy theories after repeated violations of the company’s policies. The group, called Official Q/Qanon and with nearly 200,000 members, had been deleted after multiple individual postings were removed for crossing the lines on bullying and harassment, hate speech, and …

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Trump: NRA Should Move To Texas For A Beautiful Life

Yahoo News reports: President Trump on Thursday suggested the National Rifle Association (NRA) relocate to Texas following a lawsuit from the New York attorney general seeking to dissolve the gun rights group. “I just heard about that. That’s a very terrible thing that just happened,” Trump said of the lawsuit while speaking with reporters outside the White House. “I think …

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BREAKING: New York AG Files For Dissolution Of NRA

The Washington Post reports: The chief executive of the National Rifle Association and several top lieutenants engaged in a decades-long pattern of fraud to raid the coffers of the powerful gun rights group for personal gain, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the New York attorney general, draining $64 million from the nonprofit in just three years. In her …

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