Morning Briefing: A new wave of neo-Nazi accelerationist groups is “emerging internationally,” according to a new report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), and these groups are “drawing heavily on the legacy of Atomwaffen Division,” the international neo-Nazi terrorist organization.
This new generation of White Supremacist violent extremists is “forming new international alliances, bringing together different violent extremist networks,” and “openly encouraging racist murders and other acts of violence, with threats extending beyond online propaganda.”
Trenton Touch has reportedly been charged with making a threats against the president of the United States, following an investigation into social media posts which “authorities are calling both violent and threating content.” Federal prosecutors claimed in charging documents that Touch is allegedly a white supremacist and also “threatened to carry out a school shooting.”
On Monday, during an appearance in federal court, prosecutors alleged that Touch is an adherent of “violent white supremacist, Nationalist Socialist, and accelerationist ideology,” and the judged ruled that Touch will “remain in custody for at least the next week.”
Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, reportedly staged a protest in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and members of the group “wore white masks, blue shirts, and tan jeans” while displaying a banner reading: “Two Parties, One Tyranny, Patriot Front.”
In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, residents in multiple neighborhoods reportedly
”received flyers from apparent white supremacist groups,” and the racist propaganda appears to have been distributed by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Local law enforcement stated there no ongoing investigation into the incidents because there is “no evidence of a crime.”
In the days after Temecula Valley Pride’s annual festival in Murrieta, California, there was a series of “thefts and vandalism that saw several Pride flags stolen,” swastika was reportedly “discovered on a church where the event took place.” However, while local law enforcement is apparently the investigating — the incidents are “not currently being investigated as a hate crime.”
Meghyn Booth, the treasurer of Maple Valley Township, Michigan who was previously revealed to be married to a neo-Nazi influencer who posted videos under the name Shameless Sperg, has reportedly resigned.
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David Gilbert writes that “while some of the Republican party’s extremist candidates were rejected during the elections last week, many did win their elections. The Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights tracked 535 candidates running in statewide races who were members of at least one far-right Facebook group. The researchers found that of the 476 races that had been called by last Friday, 338 of those candidates were victorious, representing a 71 percent win rate (the vast majority of these races saw GOP incumbents retain their seats). In Florida, for example, 34-year-old citrus farmer Marshall Rawson, who attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, easily defeated his Democrat opponent in the state’s 10th District State House race. Many states also passed ballot measures that could further far-right agendas, including anti-transgender rules, onerous voter ID laws, and anti-immigrant measures…The success of these ballot measures were celebrated by extremists groups as evidence that Americans wanted that the current GOP could not deliver.” [Wired]
Sarah Posner writes that “with the blue tsunami that inundated Texas on Election Day, the Christian right has lost the state that made it one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics. Since forging an unbreakable pact with the Republican Party in the Reagan era, for decades the Christian right purposefully notched its national successes by building robust state-level legislative and electoral machinery across the country. Texas was the crown jewel of this strategy, where operatives and elected officials together hatched plans to kill off church-state separation, Christianize the public schools, criminalize abortion, and eviscerate the civil rights of LGBTQ people… Up and down the ballot, those decades of calculated power consolidation throughout the state government collapsed. What comes next will be crucial to watch. The Christian right is a movement with formidable staying power, owing to the determination of its funders and dedication of its foot soldiers. That is why this is not, by any means, a column about the demise of the Christian right. But it is about what we learn about how movements consolidate and later lose control.” [Talking Points Memo]
Jason Wilson writes that a “college Republican coalition claiming 31 affiliated student groups in 14 states that attacked the Trump administration from the right routed its email through the same Microsoft 365 account as a company controlled by white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Until Monday morning, Microsoft’s public sign-in records put the College Republican Patriot Coalition (CRPC)’s web domain in an account registered to NJF LLC, a Fuentes-managed company that also runs his personal website and online store. By Monday evening, hours after The Guardian sent questions to Fuentes and the coalition, the domain no longer appeared in that account, and a Microsoft verification code had been deleted from its settings. Fuentes’s own domains remained in the account. The organization has hinted at ties with Fuentes in the past, but no operational link has been definitively shown until now. The revelation of an operational link between Fuentes and the highlights the inroads that Fuentes and his white nationalist ‘Groyper’ movement have made among younger Republican activists and student organizations.” [The Guardian]
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