Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazis March and White Supremacist Propaganda Spreads
Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazis March and White Supremacist Propaganda Spreads
Blood Tribe, a White Supremacist neo-Nazi group, marched in Nashville, Tennessee, and White Supremacist propaganda continued to spread in communities around the country.
Morning Briefing: Blood Tribe, a White Supremacist neo-Nazi group, reportedly “marched in downtown Nashville, Tennessee,” and local law enforcement made no arrested and “the group left in a U-Haul box truck that ultimately exited greater Nashville.”
The staged protest by Blood Tribe “sparked a slew of wild claims on social media that the extremist rally was staged by Democrats,” and some far right figures claimed the staged protest “was done with the help of federal agencies.”
The group’s actions were condemned by state lawmakers and interfaith leaders.
In Chicago, Illinois, there were “at least four incidents of vandalism” reported local law enforcement near Logan Square, and “some of the messages left around the neighborhood had antisemitic meanings.” The incidents are reportedly under investigation.
Goyim Defense League, a White Supremacists neo-Nazi group, reportedly left “cardboard flyers displaying antisemitic messages” on several vehicles in a residential area of Brookfield, Illinois.
Chad Keith, who was recently convicted on federal weapons charges, and Rebecca Duncan, who is facing similar federal weapons charges, were repotedly “llegedly planning to build a school espousing White supremacist ideology in rural Fremont County.”
In Escambia County, Florida, Ronald Lee Murray was arrested and local law enforcement reportedly “discovered weapons, including handguns, ammunition and antisemitic memorabilia.”
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Peter Montgomery writes that “Project 2025, an unprecedented collaboration among former Trump officials and the Right’s legal and political infrastructure, would enable Trump to make good on his threats, were he to return to power. This should be a cause for alarm. While some commentators dismissed his 2016 campaign statements as hyperbole, as President, Trump willingly cast the Constitution aside and mobilized his followers to political violence to keep him in power after losing the 2020 election… Project 2025 builds on a tradition started when Heritage presented then President-elect Ronald Reagan with its ‘Mandate for Leadership’ policy wish list. Heritage does not describe Project 2025 as a Trump-specific project, saying it is preparing for ‘the next conservative administration.’ The breadth of coalition partners who have signed on reflects the influential role that Heritage plays; it also indicates a movement-level, ideological shift away from a libertarian mistrust of government power and toward an authoritarian view of government power being used ruthlessly—whether as a righteous force wielded to advance a ‘biblical worldview’ or turned against an ‘administrative state’ supposedly captured by a radical Marxist left.” [The Public Eye]
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I appreciate your article, but I don't want to like it, but acknowledge it.
How frightening.
Thank goodness my Dad who fought in WW2 is not alive to see this.