white nationalism

'Sisters In Hate' Profiles 3 Women Who Find Bonds In White Nationalist Movement

11:38am July 20, 2020

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Though their stories encourage gawking, at least one throughline sticks after reading Sisters — the ugly deal these women have made with a movement that is ultimately ambivalent toward them.

People attend the visitation service for Margie Reckard at La Paz Faith Center in El Paso, Texas, in August 2019. She was killed in white supremacist attack that targeted Latinos at a Walmart.

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2019 Brought Stepped-Up Efforts To Counter White Supremacist Violence

7:00am December 29, 2019

by Hannah Allam

Extremism monitors say 2019 was the year the country started taking serious measures to address a growing far-right threat.

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Mainstream Politics Long Has Traded On Fear Of A Non-White America

11:59am August 06, 2019

by Gene Demby

White nationalism is not limited to the United States' radical, violent fringe groups. There's a long history in mainstream politics of stoking anxiety about America becoming less white.

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At a ceremony Monday at the White House, President Trump defended his racist tweets against Democratic lawmakers. The language used in that tweet has a long history connected with nativist political movements in the U.S.

'Go Back Where You Came From': The Long Rhetorical Roots Of Trump's Racist Tweets

9:26pm July 15, 2019

When the president told several young congresswomen of color to "go back" to where they came from, he borrowed nativist language about as old as the country itself. Here's a little history.

A group from the Proud Boys confronts anti-Trump protesters outside Trump's 2020 campaign kickoff rally Tuesday in Orlando, Fla. The Proud Boys group is known for white nationalist and other extremist rhetoric.

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Politics Shape The Debate Over What To Call Far-Right Extremism

7:00am June 23, 2019

by Hannah Allam

Federal authorities say far-right violence is the deadliest and most active form of domestic extremism. Now, a debate is heating up about how to define a threat the White House barely acknowledges.

Michael McGarrity, FBI Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division; Calvin Shivers, FBI Deputy Assistant Director in the Criminal Investigative Division; and Elizabeth Neumann, an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, answer

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5 Takeaways About The Trump Administration's Response To Far-Right Extremism

6:12pm June 07, 2019

by Hannah Allam

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing the federal government to detail its plans to fight white supremacy and other far-right extremism. Details are scarce, but here's what we know so far.