Extremists

CNBC reports: Target CEO Brian Cornell defended his decision to pull some of the retailer’s Pride Collection merchandise off shelves earlier this year, saying backlash against the items led to the most serious safety threats that he can recall in his decade with the company. In an interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick that aired Thursday morning on “Squawk Box,” Cornell …

The Hill reports: House Democrats scrapped plans to vote on a resolution to censure Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday, a last-minute move that came immediately after a coalition of Republicans joined with Democrats in torpedoing a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over her criticism of Israel. Rep. Becca Balint’s resolution, which stretches eight pages, is a …

“I’m not trying to deride the people, but it looks like locusts are coming because they’re going to destroy everything in their path. You’re seeing the end of America. That right there is the end of this nation. End of this nation. End of this nation as the constitutional republic that was bequeathed to our generation. Right there. If you …

The Hill reports: The attorneys attempting to paint former President Trump as an insurrectionist in order to get him banned from the ballot in Colorado in 2024 focused their case Tuesday on signals he sent to extremist groups who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Chapman University professor Pete Simi, who studies political violence and extremism, argued that Trump cultivated …

NBC News reports: A Nevada man has been charged after allegedly leaving a series of antisemitic, profanity-laced voicemails at the office of Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev. John Anthony Miller of Las Vegas was arrested Thursday and appeared in federal court a day later in connection with one count of threatening a federal official, the Justice Department said in a news …

CBS News reports: A physical altercation broke out during a hearing on Monday in the case of Vitali GossJankowski, a defendant convicted of several charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, resulting in toppled tables and multiple federal agents subduing the defendant on the ground. Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District …

Media Matters reports: Rumble host and X influencer Stew Peters called for the murder of Catholic Charities workers, stating that the best option to stop undocumented immigration is “shooting everyone involved” with the nonprofit. X has been monetizing Peters’ account and placed an ad for the Philadelphia Eagles on Peters’ post featuring video of him calling for violence. Peters, who …

“Halloween is coming up, which is All Saints Day, but let’s just be honest, Halloween is a dark, dark day. Not a fan of it. It’s what you do with it. Not a fan of all the kind of dressing up and all that nonsense. I don’t like it. “And if you are a Christian, you must be, and by …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Dozens of protesters physically blocked the entrance to the San Fernando Library this week to stop a scheduled drag storytime reading event from taking place. Videos posted on social media showed a group of about 70 people — some of whom had previously attended similar demonstrations in North Hollywood, Glendale and elsewhere — wearing black-and-white …

The Texas Tribune reports: Faced with ongoing scandals this month involving his allies’ ties to antisemitic extremists, the leader of the Republican Party of Texas has come out strongly — to attack other conservatives who’ve criticized his friends. For three weeks, Texas GOP Chair Matt Rinaldi has been defiant in the face of calls from members of his own party …

Mediaite has the transcript and it’s a doozy: Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly fanned the flames of racism, antisemitism, LGBTQ hate speech, Islamophobia, anti-Asian hate, xenophobia, and other forms of hatred; Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly debased the memories of thousands of victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, by perpetuating conspiracy theories to …

“We have this scumbag psychopath who said, oh, I heard voices, and he previously said he wanted to shoot up a national guard place. Should have been put in an insane asylum, period. Went for mental health treatment and now unnecessarily 16 to 17 people are dead. And this is evil that it’s just so hard to wrap our heads …

Mediaite reports: Once it became clear he would win the gavel on Wednesday, the left began to hammer him for his conservative social views and hawking of conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. But the far-right, too, has found a bone to pick with Mike Johnson. In the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020, Johnson said Floyd had …

The Texas Observer reports: A Fort Worth police report from August 20 acquired by the Texas Observer revealed the identities of four neo-Nazis who were issued trespassing warnings outside of Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, where they distributed antisemitic flyers associated with the Goyim Defense League (GDL): David Bloyed, a 58-year-old resident of Frost; Jeremy Fuller, a 49-year-old resident of …

“Here’s the important thing on Johnson, he is part of the Trump era. All he’s known is the Trump era. He came — he won in ’16 when President Trump came from behind to win in the great ’16 election, he’s been here, he was one of the intellectual architects of pushing back on the stolen election. Audience understand, the …

The Jewish Insider reports: Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina and a leading Republican candidate for governor, found his efforts to declare solidarity with Israel backfiring — by drawing renewed scrutiny to his long history of invoking antisemitic conspiracy theories and casting doubt on the Holocaust. Robinson, while briefly serving as acting governor two weeks ago, sought to …

The Daily Beast reports: Gabrielle Hanson, the Tennessee mayoral candidate who’s found herself embroiled in weekly controversy on the home stretch of her campaign, appeared to keep making blunders on Election Day—decrying that voting machines were malfunctioning on Tuesday despite an election official insisting otherwise. Hanson, who in the past month has been exposed as a Pride hypocrite and embracer …

“A judge, a Democrat judge in Colorado, has just green-lit a campaign to keep Trump off the ballot in Colorado. This judge, Sarah Wallace, was appointed by the Democrat governor, Jared Polis, and she has denied a motion by Trump and the Colorado GOP to throw out a lawsuit seeking to block Trump from appearing on the ballot in Colorado. …

The Miami Herald reports: A Florida man, described as an “adult film actor” and a Proud Boy, is heading to federal prison. Steven Miles, 40, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Miles and more than 2,000 other rioters stormed the Capitol to disrupt the Electoral College’s …

The Texas Tribune reports: While Nick Fuentes’ unapologetic hate mongering has made him perhaps the nation’s best-known white supremacist, he was merely the latest in a line of people who have been embraced by Defend Texas Liberty and its close allies despite publicly espousing antisemitic views or partnering with extremists. That includes, among others, Ella Maulding, a social media coordinator …