Extremists

The New York Daily News reports: A white nationalist conference held at a federal building in Washington D.C.in celebration of “the year of Donald Trump” ignited violent clashes between protesters and attendees of the hate group event. Scores of demonstrators swarmed the conference venue in downtown D.C., Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, on Saturday afternoon shouting “Fascists we …

Politico reports: On Friday Breitbart News appeared before the Standing Committee of the Senate Press Gallery in order to secure permanent Capitol Hill credentials. But while the act may seem mundane, the process may help shed light on the inner workings of the right-wing news site, whose chairman, Stephen Bannon, is now chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump. Within the …

From the editor of the Nazi website The Daily Stormer: Honestly, I didn’t even expect this to all come together so beautifully. It’s like we’re going to get absolutely everything we wanted. Basically, we are looking at a Daily Stormer Dream Team in the Trump administration. I mean, you add these two to Steve Bannon, rumors of even Steve King …

The Hollywood Reporter has interviewed incoming White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and OMG. From their article: “Darkness is good,” says Bannon, who amid the suits surrounding him at Trump Tower, looks like a graduate student in his T-shirt, open button-down and tatty blue blazer — albeit a 62-year-old graduate student. “Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power. It only …

The Huffington Post UK reports: Milo Yiannopoulos, the self-styled poster child of the ‘alt-right’ movement, has gone down like a bucket of cold sick after a tense televised encounter with Channel 4 News’s Cathy Newman where he claimed the wage gap and university rape culture is “not real”. The Breitbart News senior editor brought his right-wing schtick to the broadcaster …

Gizmodo reports: Yes, Facebook had the tools to filter out fake news and decided not to use it, but do not fear for the future of truth, dear readers. The soldiers in the war on fake news have a new ally: 9/11 truther and prominent Trump supporter Alex Jones. Alex Jones is the founder of InfoWars, best known for his …

The Washington Post reports: Twitter suspended more accounts associated with the alt-right, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as “a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that ‘white identity’ is under attack by multicultural forces using ‘political correctness’ and ‘social justice’ to undermine white people and ‘their’ civilization.” Included among them was the verified …

CNN reports: Nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck said Tuesday that the alt-right movement is “truly terrifying,” adding that while leading Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon gave a voice to white nationalists. “He has given a voice and power to that group of people,” Beck told Anderson Cooper on “AC360.” “You don’t empower people like that. You just don’t. It’s not …

The Hill reports: Breitbart News is preparing a lawsuit against a “major media company” over claims that it is a white nationalist website, it said in an exclusive statement to The Hill. The website has been under intense scrutiny since President-Elect Trump named Steve Bannon as a senior White House counselor and strategist. Bannon is the former executive chairman of …

The Boston Globe reports: An “alt-right” website for white supremacists is encouraging its followers to buy shoes from New Balance in a show of solidarity after a company representative said last week that president-elect Donald Trump’s victory was good for American manufacturing. The website “The Daily Stormer,” which identifies itself as a source for Republican news but is filled with …

Via Breitbart: With Black Friday quickly approaching and gun sales on an 18-month record breaking streak, Breitbart News believes the timing is right to point out six great concealed carry pistols for your Christmas list. Being pistols, the guns on the following list all share one thing in common–they are semiautomatics. Beyond that, some are very compact and light and …

Via Politico: Trump’s team has rushed to Bannon’s defense in recent days, even as some other Republicans have been hesitant to do so, trying to reassure Americans that the incoming chief strategist is not the man that his website’s headlines would make him out to be. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who will be Trump’s chief of staff, said …

From the editor of the Nazi site Daily Stormer: I probably would have preferred Bannon as chief-of-staff and Priebus as press secretary. But apparently Trump views Reince as a Washington insider who also loyal to him and can be a go-between between the administration and the old GOP establishment. And I think he knows what he’s doing here. He’s surrounded …

From World Net Daily: In his blockbuster new book, “Scorched Earth: Restoring The Country After Obama,” Savage calls for nothing less than the restoration of the House Un-American Activities Committee. “I know what’s going to happen: the left will go insane,” he writes. ‘They’ll say, ‘You’re violating our civil rights.’ They’ll say, ‘You do not have probable cause to bring …

Via Raw Story: Apparently, it’s “divisive” to point out Steve Bannon has ties to white supremacists. But according to Donald Trump’s communication director Jason Miller said on CNN that it isn’t divisive to appoint someone with ties to white supremacists to the White House. Miller attempted to parrot the new message from the Trump transition, claiming that he’s beyond attacking …

Via Politico: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said efforts to pin anti-Semitic and sexist headlines from Breitbart news to Steve Bannon, the site’s former executive and incoming White House chief strategist, are “baloney.” In fact, Gingrich said during a Monday morning interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” the controversy stirred up by Bannon’s appointment to such a high-level White …

From the Huffington Post: Steve Bannon, the Breitbart News Network executive chairman known for having white nationalist views ― and who has himself been accused of anti-Semitism ― was named chief strategist and senior counselor to President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday. Bannon, 62, was taking time off from Breitbart to serve as CEO of the Trump campaign before Sunday’s announcement …

Marion Marechal-Le Pen today declared that she has been hired by Breitbart CEO and Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon as part of the site’s previously announced expansion into France and Germany. Marion is the granddaughter of the Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s neo-Nazi National Front Party, and the niece of Marine Le Pen, whose chance of ascending to France’s …

Newsweek reports: The Daily Stormer, a Neo-Nazi website, published a list of dozens of Twitter users who expressed sadness over the election outcome on Wednesday, urging its readers to target and harass them to the point of suicide. The frontpage of the white supremacist website shows a large photo of President-elect Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, meeting with Speaker …

“I don’t think Donald Trump is me, I don’t think Donald Trump is alt-right. I don’t think Donald Trump is an identitarian as I would use that term. I think Donald Trump is a kind of first step towards this. He’s the first time that we’ve seen a genuinely if, you could say incomplete, politician who’s fighting for European identity …