Extremists

The Messenger reports: In five separate filings, DOJ indicated it would seek intervention from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to obtain longer sentences for the leaders of the far-right group: Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and Ethan Nordean. DOJ had initially requested more prison time for all five of the Proud Boys …

Media Matters reports: Commentator Ian Smith has shared material denying the Holocaust, defended Nazis as simply “protecting their sovereignty,” said World War II was actually “engineered White genocide facilitated by international usurers,” and attacked Jewish people for being behind “all of these things that are used to control us.” Trump National Doral Miami recently welcomed him as a speaker alongside …

The Arizona Republic reports: Arizona State University police say they are investigating an incident in which a queer faculty member was confronted and injured on the school’s campus. An official with the conservative group Turning Point USA said late Thursday night that two of their “crew members” were involved in the altercation. Security footage shows two people — a “reporter” …

NBC News reports: The Epoch Times directed millions of dollars in advertising toward supporting President Donald Trump’s campaign and published dozens of articles parroting his lies about the election — resulting in huge growth to its audience and its coffers. The strategy garnered criticism from fact-checking groups and got it banned from advertising on Facebook, but it ultimately paid off …

“There’s not much you can do, folks. You have a government that hates you, you have a traitor as the president. Buy weapons, I keep on saying that. Buy weapons. Buy ammo. If you go into a public place, bring a gun with you and if you live in a state that doesn’t allow you to do it, I got …

The Texas Tribune reports: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Wednesday that he does not plan to return any of the $3 million he received from a group whose leader recently hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Defend Texas Liberty is a major donor to Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republicans, and is funded primarily by two far-right West Texas …

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports: A group dressed in Nazi clothing put anti-Semitic material on scores of cars at Fort Worth Botanic Garden on Sunday, the same day people wearing similar paraphernalia were videoed eating at a Torchy’s Tacos. The woman who posted the Torchy’s video, Jessica Gregorio, told the Star-Telegram that the group of about 10 people was already …

The Insider reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is vowing to oppose her party’s nominee for speaker of the House when it comes to a vote on the floor — because he has cancer. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise narrowly clinched the nomination for speaker during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, defeating Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio in a narrow 113-99 …

The Texas Tribune reports: Two conservative lawmakers said Wednesday that they have donated money they received from the leader of a group who recently hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes. In a statement, Frisco Rep. Jared Patterson said that he has given $2,500 to a pro-Israel charity, to account for the in-kind contribution of the same value he received from former …

“The proper takeaway from all this, as this is happening, and this goes to show why I got so upset, we need to shut down the government, with the cut continuing resolution if we don’t get border security. “If we do not know who is in our country, you want to know a proper takeaway of what’s happening in Israel? …

Mediaite has the transcript: JOHN BERMAN: Let me just ask you then, on Nick Fuentes for a second. He ate at Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump in 2022. He’s also said, among other things, “I love Hitler,” a guy like that who spreads conspiracy theories like the one you were just talking about. How do you feel about Republicans associating with …

The Texas Tribune reports: The revelation that an influential conservative PAC leader hosted a white supremacist at his office last week unleashed extraordinary criticism and infighting among Texas Republicans on Monday, calls by the House speaker and a majority of his caucus to return political donations, and a defiant demand from the lieutenant governor that the speaker resign. Speaker Dade …

Reuters reports: Arizona Republican Kari Lake, a far-right ally of Donald Trump, on Tuesday is expected to announce her candidacy for her party’s U.S. Senate nomination, in what could be a highly competitive three-way general election race in November 2024. Arizona is already one of the most politically competitive U.S. states but its Senate race became all the more so …

The Texas Tribune reports: Jonathan Stickland [photo], the ultraconservative leader of a group that has donated millions of dollars to high-profile Texas leaders, hosted prominent white supremacist Nick Fuentes and other right-wing activists for several hours on Friday. Acting on a tip, a Texas Tribune reporter and photographer observed Fuentes and others — including Kyle Rittenhouse — enter a one-story …

Vice News reports: Tensions are growing in a small Canadian town after a cult took over an abandoned school and followers of the so-called “QAnon Queen” sent death threats to local officials. On September 13, the small quiet town of Richmound, Saskatchewan, had its world turned upside down when Romana Didulo—a woman who has convinced a sizeable group of people …

“We live in a nation of potential collaborators. And if we don’t reduce the price of standing up, if we don’t make it less costly and encourage more people to stand, that is what lies ahead for all of us. “Who were the ones that voted for Trump? Who were the ones with Trump signs on their front porch? Who …

Media Matters has the transcript: Trump should violate this gag order. He certainly should violate the gag order. I’m not sure that I would have said a week ago that he should call the members of this judge’s staff big libs, but now he must. He has to do it because all of these prosecutions are a ridiculous farce. None …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Members of the white supremacist Tennessee Active Club provided security for Gabrielle Hanson, a Moms for Liberty-backed alderman in Franklin, Tennessee, and current candidate for mayor, at a recent candidate forum, according to local reporter Phil Williams. The Tennessee Active Club is one of the “prominent cells” in a rapidly growing network of …

Vice News reports: A young man falsely accused of being a federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi by Elon Musk and a bunch of other right-wing trolls has launched a lawsuit against the one-time richest man in the world. Earlier this year, college student Ben Brody, 22, had his life turned upside down when he was accused of being a …

The Guardian reports: Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who is a close ally of Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, hosted a social media debate in which one participant argued that conservatives should cooperate with a hypothetical white nationalist dictator “in order to destroy the power of the left”. Rufo, a Manhattan Institute fellow who has been a hugely …