All articles tagged with #white supremacy
Republican Senator Jon Husted dismissed his political director, Stephen Woytek, after The Washington Post revealed Woytek used Nazi SS soldiers as a Facebook profile picture and created a playlist celebrating Rhodesia. The firing occurred during a tight re-election race against Sherrod Brown, adding to a pattern of controversies involving young Republican associates and extremist online activity.
A 17-year-old from Winston-Salem, NC, Sarah Santiago, was indicted on murder charges for allegedly helping to live-stream and record the deadly May attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego. The two other teen shooters killed three people and then died by suicide; authorities say they shared extremist motives and planned additional attacks, and Santiago also bought a Sonnenrad patch for one of the attackers.
A 17-year-old Winston-Salem student, Sarah Lindsey Santiago, has been indicted in connection with the San Diego Islamic Center shooting, charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. Prosecutors allege she planned to livestream the attack, publicly distribute the recording, and release the attackers’ manifesto. Three people were killed and the two gunmen died by self-inflicted gunshot wounds; a security guard who helped shield others during the incident is being hailed as a hero.
Patriot Front members boarded and marched on a Washington, DC Metro train on July 4, with an Asian American rider recounting the moment; an extremism expert says the group sought publicity to promote a white-only message, underscoring concerns about white supremacist visibility and racial tensions in public spaces.
Masked men in Washington, DC on the Fourth of July were seen chanting and marching with Confederate flags and gear bearing the Patriot Front logo, a white-supremacist group. Video shows the crowd near Union Station and the Eastern Market Metro, with slogans like ‘Reclaim America’ and calls to deport immigrants, while the ADL notes Patriot Front’s white-supremacist affiliations.
A real estate broker alleges a Ravenden, Arkansas whites-only settlement run by a private group rejected her bid to buy land because of her Jewish ancestry, her Black husband, and biracial children, describing the policy as an all-white community and citing federal and state fair-housing laws. The group’s co-founder says the community is a “private membership association” with selective admissions; the complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Arkansas.
Vox traces Trump’s birthright-citizenship challenge to a 19th‑century white supremacist argument popularized by lawyer Alexander Morse, who argued that citizenship should be denied to the children of foreigners transiently in the U.S. and, in practice, to Chinese Americans. Morse later abandoned the approach, and Wong Kim Ark settled the Citizenship Clause, but Trump’s brief echoes that old theory even as the constitutional text and Wong Kim Ark undermine it; the legal case against birthright citizenship remains strong.
An Albany law student, 23-year-old Dawson Maloney, traveled about 2,500 miles to Nevada and rammed a rental car toward a Las Vegas-area power substation, injuring no one but dying from a self-inflicted gunshot. Investigators treat the incident as terrorism; Maloney was found with firearms, flame throwers, a hatchet, and armor in the car, and explosives-making materials plus extremist literature in a hotel room. The substation sustained no major damage, and motive remains unclear beyond prior threats and a note to his mother referring to himself as a “dead terrorist son.”
Remigration, a concept originating from far-right and ethnonationalist ideologies, involves forcibly removing non-white populations from traditionally white countries and is gaining traction in the US and Europe, with some government entities considering policies aligned with this idea.
The article covers a range of political topics including Ben Shapiro criticizing the GOP's embrace of white supremacists like Nick Fuentes, ongoing election results, concerns about the Republican Party's direction, and various international issues, highlighting deep divisions within American politics and the global impact of conflicts.
The Kansas Young Republicans organization was shut down after a Politico investigation revealed that its chairman and vice chairman participated in encrypted chats containing racist, violent, and antisemitic rhetoric, including references to white supremacy and Hitler.
Desmond Holly, a 16-year-old who shot at Evergreen High School, was deeply influenced by online extremist content, white supremacist symbolism, and previous mass shooters, with his online activity revealing a pattern of radicalization and fascination with violence, which aligns with recent findings by the ADL on similar cases.
The article argues that the deployment of National Guard troops by Republican governors to Washington, D.C., under Trump’s influence, resembles a Confederate-style military occupation aimed at reversing racial progress and establishing a fascist regime, with historical symbolism and threats of increased militarization and control over Black and progressive cities.
Sydney Sweeney's recent denim campaign for American Eagle sparked controversy for allegedly promoting whiteness and eugenics, leading to widespread criticism, a defensive statement from the brand, and even support from the White House and Donald Trump.
The White House and various commentators have criticized the backlash against Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle jeans ad, which some allege promotes white nationalism and eugenics, with the White House blaming 'cancel culture' for influencing political outcomes in 2024.