far right

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• SOURCE: Voice of America
  11/17/2020
  

  German Historians on Frontlines of Politics

  German historians have faced lawsuits for writing about World War II-era crimes by the Wehrmacht, part of a growing culture war in which right-wing Germans seek to deny or diminish the Holocaust and Nazi war crimes.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/7/2020
  

  Confronting the Damage of Trumpism

  by David W. Blight

  To rebuild a society and a political system, we must admit that they are broken. Institutionally, America is broken.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  10/30/2020
  

  Exposing the ‘Disguise’: UChicago Historian Kathleen Belew Spotlights the Rising White Power Movement

  “I think if people really understood and grappled with the fact that (Oklahoma City) was the work of a widespread terrorist movement that was deeply organized, had people in every region of the country,” she says in the interview, “I think that people would treat it very, very differently."

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/29/2020
  

  The Secret Power of White Supremacy — and How Anti-Racists Can Take It Back

  by Cord J. Whitaker

  The far right has long used chivalric language to advocate for white supremacy and the forcible defense of social hierarchy. A medievalist explains why their perception of history is wrong and how to respond. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/2/2020
  

  ‘I Am On Your Side’: How the Police Gave Armed Groups a Pass in 2020 (video)

  Armed groups showed up to scores of racial justice protests since May. Video shows how police officers at times let them operate freely.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  FBI Won’t Deliver Report on White-Supremacist Terror Threat Until After Election

  “This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3,” Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  10/6/2020
  

  Nation’s Deadliest Domestic Terrorist Inspiring New Generation Of Hate-Filled ‘Monsters,’ FBI Records Show

  “A mass casualty event like the Oklahoma City bombing is … meant to provoke further violence," noted Kathleen Belew, a University of Chicago historian.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/2/2020
  

  Why ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Should Set Off Alarm Bells

  by Kathleen Belew

  "What binds these disparate groups is that they espouse the violent defense of white supremacy."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/8/2020
  

  The Plot Against Whitmer Won’t Be The Last White Supremacist Threat

  by Kathleen Belew

  I'm very concerned that more violence is imminent, and that these ideologies pose an imminent threat to our democracy and to people going about their everyday lives.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/8/2020
  

  The Plot Against Gretchen Whitmer Shows the Danger of Private Militias

  by Mary B. McCord

  There is no right in any state for groups of individuals to arm themselves and organize either to oppose or augment the government.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/7/2020
  

  Golden Dawn Found Guilty of Running Criminal Organization in Greece

  The court tied the far-right party to a string of attacks, including the fatal stabbing of a left-wing rapper.

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• SOURCE: Detroit News
  10/8/2020
  

  Feds Say They Thwarted Militia Plot To Kidnap Whitmer

  The FBI announced that it thwarted a conspiracy to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who has drawn attacks from the far right over her advocacy for lockdown policies to stop the spread of COVID-19. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10/2/2020
  

  Trump's Call for Freelance Poll-Watchers Summons a Dark History

  by Nicole Hemmer

  In 1981, the Republican National Committee used threatening signs and deployed off-duty officers to polling places in Black and Latino neighborhoods to help win the New Jersey governorship. This is the first presidential election year since the decree expired, making Trump's call for supporters to "watch the polls" ominous. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/2/2020
  

  The Proud Boys Are Part of America's Long History of Vigilante Violence. Here’s What to Know About the Group's Origins

  Although he would later claim not to know about the "Proud Boys" far-right gang, Trump's debate comments could be seen as a "green light" for political violence, says historian Kathleen Belew. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/3/2020
  

  Germany’s Far Right Reunified, Too, Making It Much Stronger

  German reunification allowed the return of far-right political movements, in large part because communist education in East Germany did not emphasize the role of nazism in the nation's history.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/1/2020
  

  A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans

  It is difficult to know how many of the people--many retired or active military and law enforcement--listed in an Oath Keepers database are active members of the far right group, but the organization's history and the prospect of political violence mean it should be taken seriously.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  9/22/2020
  

  The Militia Menace

  by Tom Mockaitis

  The time has come to stop mincing words about militias and other far-right extremist groups. They are at best-armed vigilantes and at worst domestic terrorists acting on behalf of a racist ideology 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  8/31/2020
  

  US Cables: Colombia’s Ex-President Suspected Of Militia Ties

  The National Security Archive has publicized documents from the George W. Bush administration which show the US government was well aware of ties between Colombian president Alvaro Uribe and right-wing paramilitary groups that the US had identified as terrorist groups. 

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• SOURCE: Zocálo Public Square
  8/13/2020
  

  What We Don't Understand About Fascism

  by Victoria de Grazia

  It is less useful to draw comparisons between today's right-wing politics and past fascist parties than it is to understand how broad crisis in society resembles the conditions from which fascism arose. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/17/2020
  

  The Militias Against Masks

  After its emergence in the 1990s, the Michigan militia movement was dormant until the Obama years. The state's COVID lockdowns have brought a mix of libertarians, racists and anti-government radicals into a prominent public role again.