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May 9, 2023

Mark Weber, Jared Taylor Off to Estonia for Conference

White nationalists are thinking about the future. They are holding a conference entitled “The Year 2050,” on May 13-14 in Tallinn, Estonia.

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April 20, 2023

Working with Farmers to End Posse Influence

We continue our celebration of IREHR's forty years of fighting white nationalism by looking back at some important movement milestones. In this installment, one of IREHR's founders takes a look back at the monumental work during the farm crisis of the 1980s to stop efforts by the Posse Comitatus and…

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March 14, 2023

Remembering Our Engagement with the Posse Comitatus

Not too long after our Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights grouping got together, we started hearing about the KTTL radio station out of Dodge City, Kansas, broadcasting daily one-hour racist and anti-Semitic programs. We looked into it and then wrote about it in our February 1983 magazine—40…

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January 30, 2023

Looking Back at 1983

Editor's note: This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR). As part of our celebration of this milestone, each month we’ll look back at different chapters in the unique history of the organization, share personal stories, and dig…

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January 30, 2023

Oath Keepers Second Seditious Conspiracy Trial Finds Four Guilty

Two years after the infamous January 6, 2021 invasion of Capitol Hill by Trump-supporting bigots, the second trial of four Oath Keeper militia members ended in verdicts of guilt for seditious conspiracy. In the first trial, Oath Keepers boss Stewart Rhodes and Florida bigwig Kelly Megs were convicted of seditious…

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April 14, 2022

Michigan Governor’s Kidnap Case A Big Lose

May have Ramifications Further On. On April 8, 2022, the federal prosecutors failed to convict four militia members in a much-heralded plot to kidnap Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The plot allegedly began in April 2020, as Gov. Whitmer was mandating facial masks and other measures designed to save lives…

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January 16, 2022

Seditious Conspiracy Hits Oath Keepers Leader

Seditious Conspiracy Hits Oath Keepers Leader Can the Feds Pull it Off? The indictment of Elmer Stewart Rhodes III and ten other members of the far-right paramilitary group, the Oath Keepers, for seditious conspiracy looks strong. The charging document details a step-by-step plan by the group for ensuring that…

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December 13, 2021

November 9 at Kansas City Auschwitz Memorial

A group of forty-eight trade union members, fast-food workers, homeless individuals, faith leaders, and farmer and rural advocates attended the “Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away” exhibition at the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. After spending more than two hours at the memorial, they went to St. Mark’s…

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September 4, 2020

IREHR Speaks at SCLC March & Rally in Kansas City

IREHR’s Leonard Zeskind spoke briefly at a “March on Kansas City for Justice & Peace” on Friday, September 4, 2020. About 800 people march and rallied at the World War One Memorial. About 15 groups co-sponsored the event, which was led by the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership…

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August 15, 2020

Personal Remembrance of the Rev. C.T. Vivian

The New York Times did the best obit-bio after the Rev. C.T. Vivian died, and they mentioned—briefly—his work with the Center for Democratic Renewal. The Atlanta Journal Constitution also did a fine obit-bio on Rev. Vivian, emphasizing his civil rights leadership in the 1960s and his most recent activities in…

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Mark Weber, Jared Taylor Off to Estonia for Conference

Working with Farmers to End Posse Influence

Remembering Our Engagement with the Posse Comitatus

Looking Back at 1983

Oath Keepers Second Seditious Conspiracy Trial Finds Four Guilty

Michigan Governor’s Kidnap Case A Big Lose

Seditious Conspiracy Hits Oath Keepers Leader

November 9 at Kansas City Auschwitz Memorial

IREHR Speaks at SCLC March & Rally in Kansas City

Personal Remembrance of the Rev. C.T. Vivian

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