Extremists Links: Texas at the Epicenter of White Supremacist and Extremist Movements

Texas is home to an increasing amount of White Supremacist and far right violent extremists activities, including several recent incidents of antisemitic and White Supremacist propaganda.

Members of the Aryan Freedom Network, the Texas-based White Supremacist neo-Nazi group, in front of First Christian Church in Katy, Texas. (Image: Meridith Kohut / Houston Chronicle)

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The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militia Movement, and Far Right Extremists

• Extremists have turned Texas into a hotbed for hate, report finds [Texas Tribune]

• Propelled by presence of hate group, Texas sees 'alarming' rise in extremism, report says [Dallas Morning News]

• Texas has seen a ‘significant increase’ in extremist and anti-Semitic incidents since 2021, report says [NPR]

• How Texas became the new "homebase" for white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups [Salon]

• Texas Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5M to families over 2019 racist attack [Associated Press]

• State trial for Walmart mass shooting could be two years away [El Paso Matters]

• Antisemitic flyers left on cars at Allen event hours before Yom Kippur [NBC News]

• Racist, antisemitic flyers placed around Prosper and Allen, police say [ABC News]

• University of Texas receives reports of antisemitic vandalism near campus, days before Yom Kippur [Houston Chronicle]

• Antisemitic graffiti found near UT Austin campus [NBC News]

• Residents find racist flyers from white power group in their yards [ABC News]

• Hate crimes are soaring in major US cities and LGBTQ folks are most at risk [Reckon]