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June 4, 2013

Guns and the New Amalgamated Hard Right

The following article appeared first in Searchlight magazine’s May 2013. It incorporated enough new material to warrant its republication by IREHR, despite including some information that had been previously released on this site. Searchlight, a London-based anti-fascist anti-racist monthly with an international cast of correspondents, will celebrate 50 years of…

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June 4, 2013

Guns and the New Amalgamated Hard Right

The following article appeared first in Searchlight magazine’s May 2013. It incorporated enough new material to warrant its republication by IREHR, despite including some information that had been previously released on this site. Searchlight, a London-based anti-fascist anti-racist monthly with an international cast of correspondents, will celebrate 50 years of…

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March 8, 2013

CPAC and Bigotry: Who is in and Who is Out

American Conservative Union (ACU) chairman Al Cardenas once said “CPAC is like an ‘All Star’ game for conservatives.” Watching it unfold, however, is less like a ball game and more like surveying the line-up at a Moscow May Day parade during the times of the Soviet Union, if you can push…

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The "Come and Take it Flag" is flying alongside the Gadsden flag at a growing number of Tea Party rallies.

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February 21, 2013

.223 Ammo and a Day of Tea Party Rallies

.223 Ammo and a Day of Tea Party Rallies By Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart The diameter of the .223 bullet is about a quarter of an inch. You can find them at gun shows sold in bulk. Hundreds of small pieces of lead stuffed into garbage bag-sized clear plastic containers. These…

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February 5, 2013

2012: A Year in Review

The article below ran in the January 2013 edition of Searchlight, an anti-racist, anti-fascist magazine published monthly in London with international distribution. It analyzes Klan, neo-Nazi and Tea Party activity during 2012, and recounts some of the movement's most violent episodes. At the end, please note the data that points…

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January 3, 2013

What to Expect from the Tea Parties in 2013 – And How to Stop it

The congressional vote at the turn of the New Year should tell us something about what to expect in 2013. Although a boiled down half-measure aimed at avoiding the fiscal cliff passed, a strong "no" vote from the far right bucked Speaker Boehner's leadership. The fact that a new session…

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The idea of a turning the Northwest into an Aryan homeland is again gaining traction in white nationalist circles.

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November 27, 2012

The Northwest Imperative Redux

Two self-avowed white supremacists, Holly Ann Grigsby and David Pederson, are awaiting trial in district courts in Oregon and Washington State for a five-month crime spree in 2011 that included kidnapping, robbery and murder—all in the name of preserving and purifying the "white race." They are charged under the same…

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October 13, 2012

Abridging the Vote: True the Vote in North Carolina

Foreword: Where We Are in History By Rev. Dr. William Barber II President, North Carolina NAACP We must admit that the history of voting in this country is a curious, contentious and contorted story. And when you know this history; when you know where we are in history; then…

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January 26, 2012

More Evidence for Beyond FAIR

While all eyes were focused on the Republican Party primary in South Carolina, and commentators were proclaiming the Tea Party movement finished because it had not yet picked a single presidential candidate to act as its standard-bearer, five hundred Tea Partiers gathered in Myrtle Beach on January 15 and 16,…

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January 18, 2012

Beyond FAIR Appendix A: Nativist Leaders Involved in Tea Party Activity.

Name Nativist Title Nativist Group City State National Tea Party Membership Local Tea Party Activity Al Garza Vice President Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Cochise County AZ Founder, Patriots Coalition; Member Central Valley Tea Party Barbara Coe Chairwoman California Coalition For Immigration Reform Huntington Beach CA Spoke At…

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Guns and the New Amalgamated Hard Right

Guns and the New Amalgamated Hard Right

CPAC and Bigotry: Who is in and Who is Out

.223 Ammo and a Day of Tea Party Rallies

2012: A Year in Review

What to Expect from the Tea Parties in 2013 – And How to Stop it

The Northwest Imperative Redux

Abridging the Vote: True the Vote in North Carolina

More Evidence for Beyond FAIR

Beyond FAIR Appendix A: Nativist Leaders Involved in Tea Party Activity.

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