Tag Archives: white nationalists

The Guardian reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, members of Congress who spoke at a white nationalist event in Florida this week, are “morons” with no place in the Republican party, Mitt Romney said on Sunday. “I’m reminded of that old line from the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie,” the Utah senator and 2012 presidential nominee told …

The Huffington Post reports: A Republican candidate for governor of Texas says he will not fire a prominent white nationalist activist from his staff, despite extensive evidence of the staffer’s past leadership role in a deeply racist and anti-Semitic group. Don Huffines, a former Texas state senator and one of three Republicans running in a primary against Texas Gov. Greg …

The Orange County Register reports: Police were called to step in after a group of conservatives wearing orange shirts that said “RINO hunters,” with crosshairs making a target of the “O,” tried to storm a Republican Party of Orange County meeting in Costa Mesa on Monday night. The group was led by Nick Taurus, a self-proclaimed American Nationalist who last …

The Insider reports: Anti-abortion demonstrators confronted the far-right group Patriot Front members who wanted to attend a March for Life rally in Chicago on Saturday. In videos posted on social media, the white supremacist group members can be seen at the march in their signature khaki pants, navy blue jackets, baseball caps, and face coverings. Many also wore shin pads …

The Daily Beast reports: Jason Miller’s right-wing “free speech” social media alternative Gettr “suspended” the account of white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes on Monday. “My official Gettr account has been permanently suspended,” Fuentes wrote on Telegram, a messaging platform beloved by the far-right. “Nice free speech platform.” The Unite the Right attendee’s Gettr page currently displays an “account suspended” notice. The …

Law & Crime reports: A man recently arrested after authorities allegedly found a machete and bayonet-style knife inside a pickup truck with swastikas scrawled on it outside Democratic National Committee headquarters must stay behind bars, a D.C. judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. Capitol police arrested California man Donald Craighead, 44, after finding his Dodge Dakota pickup truck near the DNC …

This, of course, isn’t remotely surprising: Respondents to a Morning Consult poll published this week were asked “Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of each of the following? White nationalists,” and although every group polled overwhelmingly held unfavorable views, Republican men expressed the highest level of support. Among all respondents, just 10% said they had a “Very favorable” …

Salon reports: White nationalist and Unite the Right attendee Nicholas Fuentes, de facto leader of the ultra-far-right “groyper” movement, has announced that he plans to attending a Conservative Political Action Conference gathering this weekend in Dallas, although he has not been welcomed at previous CPAC events. A years-long feud between Fuentes and CPAC organizers appeared to escalate on Wednesday after …

Media Matters has the transcript: These children are being humiliated and hurt and damaged for life by a psychotic woman who came up with this lie called critical race theory, which is nothing but racism towards white people. No other race is targeted. I could go on. And I could go on and on. I’ve studied history. I know where …

USA Today reports: Daniel Berry, along with a member of the Wisconsin Proud Boys and another former recruit, told USA TODAY the group is a den of racism and antisemitism. Moving up within the group, they said, is dependent on sadistically bullying potential members and promoting white supremacist talking points. Berry and two other men, who asked not to be …

The Hill reports: A legal group founded by ex-Trump aide Stephen Miller on Thursday filed another lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of racial discrimination in the distribution of COVID-19 relief funds, this time for money designated for restaurant owners. Thursday’s lawsuit from America First Legal (AFL) specifically takes issue with the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) handling of the $28.6 billion …

“They don’t care about the conditions of the people at the border or the children in cages. They don’t care about human trafficking — most immigration at this point is human trafficking. I mean, that’s what it is. “They only care about stacking the electorate. By the way, immigration reform — the Reagan amnesty of ’86, led to — a …

“Really? The worst attack on our democracy in 160 years? How about the Immigration Act of 1965? That law completely changed the composition of America’s voter rolls, purely to benefit the Democratic Party. That seems like kind of an assault on democracy, a permanent one. But no, that was a good thing, because in the end, it helped Joe Biden.” …

CNN reports: Conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is scrapping the planned launch of her “America First” caucus after receiving blowback from leaders in her own party, despite confirming through a spokesperson on Friday that the caucus would launch. Nick Dyer, Greene’s spokesperson, told CNN in an email on Saturday afternoon the Georgia Republican is not “launching anything.” “The Congresswoman wants …

NBC News reports: A seven-page organizing document that includes the group’s name and a logo, first reported by Punchbowl News, says: “America is a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” The document also backs infrastructure projects — a topic currently being debated in Congress — as long as they …

The Hill reports: Several House Republicans, led by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.), are reportedly forming a caucus that calls for a “common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” The two lawmakers have both tied themselves closely to former President Trump and sparked controversy in the past for racist remarks or associations with white nationalists. Rep. …

The Daily Beast reports: A new caucus tied to Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has shared a platform with blatantly nativist language, arguing in favor of “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and new infrastructure that “befits the progeny of European architecture.” In the document obtained by Punchbowl News, the “America First Caucus” vows to follow in former …

Salon reports: Young white nationalist leader Nicholas Fuentes and his “groyper army” have joined forces with the coronavirus anti-vaccine community, falsely claiming that COVID-19 vaccines were equivalent to “gene therapy” and attempting to frighten his youthful, largely male audience into believing the government will “own” you if you get the shot. In December, Fuentes said during a live stream that …

After knocking down barricades around a media enclosure and forcing reporters to flee, a group of Trump cultists merrily filmed themselves destroying what is surely many thousands of dollars worth of video equipment. The group stomped, smashed, and poured water on the equipment as amid shouts of “traitors!” and “take a fucking souvenir!” One man picked up an abandoned microphone …

ABC News reports: President Donald Trump has responded to the events at the Capitol with a taped message on Twitter. “You have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order,” Trump told his supporters on the video. “This was a fradulent election, but we can’t play into the hands of these people. …