This Year in Extremism: What Happened in Far Right Extremism in 2022
This Year in Extremism: What Happened in Far Right Extremism in 2022
Guest Speakers Include: Jordan Green, Amanda Moore, Steven Monacelli, Noelle Cook, and Jerod MacDonald-Evoy.
This Year in Extremism: What Happened in Far Right Extremism in 2022
A discussion with Jordan Green, Investigative Reporter for Raw Story; Amanda Moore, Researcher and MAGA Infiltrator; Steven Monacelli, Special Investigative Correspondent for the Texas Observer; Noelle Cook-Bouton, Researcher Focused on Online Radicalization; and Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Reporter for the Arizona Mirror.
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This Week in Extremism Recommended Reading:
Who were the Jan. 6 attackers? Isolated white folks, searching for meaning — and enemies [Salon]
It wasn’t just Proud Boys. Interconnected extremists converged on Jan. 6 [The Washington Post]
The Politics of the Capitol Insurrection Are Spreading Across the Country [The Nation]
While the deliberate lies that led to the January 6 insurrection are exposed, misinformation runs riot on social media [Coda]
Congress Eyeing ‘Dumpster Fire’ of Hate Talk in Spy Agency Chat Rooms [The Daily Beast]
White Supremacy in the Military “Like a Drop of Cyanide in Your Drink” [The War Horse]
Advocates Worry About Uncommon, But Growing Radicalization Among Veterans [Military.com]
Law Enforcement Has an Extremist Problem in Its Own Backyard [The Daily Beast]
The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: ‘This Is a Jesus Movement’ [The New York Times]
Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn ‘at the center’ of new movement based on conspiracies and Christian nationalism [Associated Press]
White nationalists get religion: On the far-right fringe, Catholics and racists forge a movement [Salon]
The Center for Renewing America is preparing for the next Republican administration to govern as Christian nationalists [MMFA]
Stranger Dangers: The Right’s History of Turning Child Abuse Into a Political Weapon [Mother Jones]
How Red States Plan to Reach Beyond Their Borders and Outlaw Abortion in America [Slate]
How the American Legislative Exchange Council Turns Disinformation into Law [Union of Concerned Scientists]
When Hate Goes Viral: Publicizing attacks and exploiting social media is the new normal for terrorism. [Foreign Policy]
The Intoxicating Pleasure of Conspiratorial Thinking [Wired]
How Alex Jones’ Conspiracy Empire Has Kept Itself Going Even While Being Banned From Social Media [The Daily Beast]
Inside Keffals’ Battle to Bring Down Kiwi Farms [Vice]
Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers [NBC News]
From Orange to Red: An Assessment of the Dark MAGA Trend in Far-Right Online Spaces [GNET]
The wellness-to-white-supremacy pipeline is alive and well [The Monitor]
Anti-Vaxxers and Domestic Terrorists Are Aligning [Dame]
How the far-right is turning feminists into fascists [Xtra*]
Trumpism before Trump: Misogyny remains the thread tying the right-wing coalition together [Salon]
They Love Jesus, Bon Iver, and Incels. Inside America’s New Ultranationalist Youth Movement. [Vice]
Moms for Liberty Has Created Nightmares for Schools Across the Country [The New Republic]
The Most Powerful Moms in America Are the New Face of the Republican Party [Mother Jones]
The GOP's Army of Christian Nationalists and White Supremacists Poses a Danger Greater Than You Know [Common Dreams]
Doug Mastriano, Christian Nationalism, and the Cult of the AR-15 [The Bulwark]
Overtly white supremacist ideology is being sanitized and mainstreamed [Prism]
White nationalists are flocking to the US anti-abortion movement [The Guardian]
Proud Boys Aid the Right-Wing Assault on the LGBTQ Community and Reproductive Justice [SPLC]
Neo-Nazi MMA fight clubs are spreading hate across the U.S. [SB Nation]
Inside an international network of teenage neo-Nazi extremists [Insider]
Inside Patriot Front: The Masked White Supremacists On A Nationwide Hate Crime Spree [Huffington Post]
Building the “Big Lie”: Inside the Creation of Trump’s Stolen Election Myth [ProPublica]
Trump-Aligned Sheriffs Target Election Officials [Bolts]
Inside the remote California county where the far right took over: ‘Civility went out the window’ [The Guardian]
Is Hungary’s Viktor Orbán the US Christian Right’s new Vladimir Putin? [openDemocracy]
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border [Religion Dispatches]
The Far-Right Attack on Education From Poland to the UK and US [Byline Times]
How Fascism Inspired Radical Right Movements Across The Global South [Rantt Media]
