Tag Archives: Proud Boys

Three if you count the Proud Boy who showed up late. The Advocate reports: A Straight Pride event at Dallas City Hall plaza attracted three supporters on Saturday. The march was hosted by the anti-LGBTQ group Protecting Our Next Generations (PONG). On its Facebook, the group promised the event would include discussions of abortion (“it is murder”), marriage values (“one …

The New York Times reports: Two members of the far-right Proud Boys were each sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday by a State Supreme Court judge in Manhattan who criticized their participation in a “political street fight” last year on the Upper East Side. The defendants, Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman, were among ten men who prosecutors said …

Mediaite reports: When audience members showed up to former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s rally at Kent State University carrying assault weapons, he called them out. O’Rourke spoke to a crowd that included gun-toting “open carry” advocates — some of whom were members of the white nationalist Proud Boys — after meeting with a survivor of the 1970 massacre at the …

The Daily Beast reports: The conservative op-ed website Quillette announced Monday night that controversial right-wing writer Andy Ngo is leaving his job as an editor at the site, an announcement that comes on the same day that a Portland newspaper published a story revealing that Ngo witnessed a far-right group planning violence but never reported it. Ngo, a photographer who …

The New York Times reports: Since their founding in New York City in 2016, the far-right Proud Boys have cultivated a rough and ready image, with an oft-repeated organizational philosophy: “We don’t start fights. We finish them.” But on Monday, jurors in State Supreme Court in Manhattan rejected claims by two members of the group, who had said they had …

Courthouse News reports: Several hundred were part of a right wing rally organized by former Infowars reporter and Florida radio host Joe Biggs [photo]. That group included the often violent Proud Boys, an “extremist conservative group,” according to the Anti Defamation League. Also present were members of the anti-government militia group the Three Percenters and the American Guard, “hardcore white …

CBS News reports: The serenity of downtown Portland will be tested yet again on Saturday afternoon. Stores began closing Friday night ahead of dueling protests between groups of right-wing extremists and anti-fascist demonstrators. Several extremist groups are expected to show up, but no one has applied for any type of permit. Police learned about the protest from monitoring social media, …

Day by day their true agenda leaks out: Super Happy Fun America is excited to welcome Dr. Felecia Nace as a speaker at the Boston Straight Pride Parade on August 31st. Dr. Nace is an advocate for the right of children to embrace a straight lifestyle. She promotes maintaining schools that are free of adult gay topics. Dr. Nace is …

Will this anti-straight persecution never end? Super Happy Fun America received an email from PayPal on July 29, 2019 notifying us that our account had been permanently limited. This means that we can no longer use PayPal to collect donations. In the same manner as other corporations, they accused us of violating their “Acceptable Use Policy” without citing any violation. …

The Daily Beast reports: Members of the far-right Proud Boys men’s group allegedly made a threatening late-night visit recently to the home of one of their critics, the latest in the group’s escalating actions against its detractors. Gwen Snyder, an amateur researcher in Philadelphia who tracks the group’s movements, wasn’t at home when a group of men visited her residence …

The far-right extremists masquerading as Boston’s “Straight Pride Parade” have added more of the usual suspects to their lineup: Super Happy Fun America announces two new speakers and musical talent for Boston Straight Pride Parade. Teresa Stephens Richenberger is Founder / Director of Rahab’s Retreat and Ranch in Kilgore, TX will be a speaker at the parade. The organization is …

CBS News Boston reports: TripAdvisor sent the organizers of Boston’s upcoming “Straight Pride” parade a cease-and-desist letter on Friday. The Needham-based travel website said organizers claimed they’re in negotiations with the company as a potential sponsor. TripAdvisor said that’s not the case and in a letter using song titles popular with the LGBTQ community ordered the parade to stop using …

The far-right extremists masquerading as Straight Pride slapped a couple dozen major corporate logos on their website, proclaiming them all to be “prospective sponsors.” None of them are, of course, but Netflix stands out in their legal slap down. First, here’s how Straight Pride is spinning it: Super Happy Fun America reached out to Netflix with an offer to sponsor …

The Daily Beast reports: A far-right rally scheduled for downtown Washington on Saturday has been thrown into disarray by dramatic allegations centering on cocaine, a love triangle, and the far-right Proud Boys men’s group. “The Proud Boys? More like the Joke Boys,” Republican congressional candidate Omar Navarro, a key player in the bizarre feud, told The Daily Beast. On one …

The Daily Beast reports: Washington, D.C.’s Fourth of July week will go from a sweaty fete of fireworks, security checkpoints, tanks, and sunscreen to what is shaping up to be a protest-fest, featuring some of the pro-Trump right’s most extreme groups two days after the Donald Trump-centric festivities. The Proud Boys—self-described “Western chauvinists” who adhere to a dizzying array of …

The Daily Beast reports: Leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group say their members will make frequent appearances at Donald Trump’s future campaign rallies, after videos of Proud Boys marching in uniform outside Trump’s Orlando campaign kickoff went viral. “Our numbers have grown, so you’ll probably see more of us,” Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio told The Daily Beast. Dozens …

The Daily Beast reports: Members of the far-right Proud Boys men’s group repeatedly tried to confront an anti-Trump demonstration in Orlando on Tuesday, only to be blocked by police. The incident, documented by videos posted to social media, happened near President Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff at Orlando’s Amway Center. That footage shows dozens of Proud Boys and their pro-Trump allies …

The Huffington Post reports: The Proud Boys want the public to believe that they’re a “drinking club” who only resort to violence to defend themselves from anti-fascist protesters during political rallies. But in private, these extremists have discussed injuring and even killing their adversaries, plotting tactics and optics for months in order to assert a claim of self-defense should they …

Ford Fischer reports at News2Share: Members and leadership of right-wing organization “The Proud Boys” assembled Monday afternoon in front of the Lincoln Memorial to hold a press conference announcing a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). “The SPLC is the glue holding together all the media’s lies about us,” said Enrique Tarrio. The group argued that they are …

The Daily Beast reports: The most popular organization at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is one most famous for filming its members wearing diapers on a college campus. Turning Point USA’s Thursday-night bash was the most sought-after party at CPAC, the annual conference of right-leaning college students, presidential aspirants, overly passionate political junkies, and attention-starved conservative media stars. White …