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July 23, 2011

Norway Terror Suspect Described As Far-Right Nationalist Islamophobe

Shortly before midnight on Friday, July 22, police arrested a 32-year-old Norwegian man who allegedly went on a murderous shooting spree at a Labor Party youth camp on the island of Utoya and may also be responsible for the horrific bombing in Oslo earlier in the day. The man arrested…

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President Johnson signing the 1965 Immigration Act

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July 7, 2011

Tea Party Nation and the National Origins Act

Tea Party Nation, the fourth largest national Tea Party faction with 42,100 online members, continues to move towards an explicit expression of white nationalism. The group has already been widely criticized for its proposal to deny voting rights for those citizens who do not own property, and for promoting anti-gay…

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Christian Knights Rally for One of David Duke's Previous Presidential Bids

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July 6, 2011

The Other Side of David Duke: Living Like a Gangster

The following article was written for the Swedish magazine Expo in 2005. It was geared towards a Swedish audience unfamiliar with the various permutations of David Duke's career. IREHR has brought it out of mothballs because of the recent interest in Duke's presidential prospects, and this piece presents a useful…

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June 21, 2011

Special Report: FreedomWorks and the John Birch Society Problem

FreedomWorks has a John Birch Society problem.

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June 8, 2011

A Brief Note About New York’s 26th Congressional District: Its Not What You Think

By now the Democratic Party's hoopla about winning a seat from this staunchly Republican district has died down. With the smell of victory in their noses, how can you fault anyone for thinking that pro-Medicare politics defeated the let-them-eat-cake program of the Republicans. A quick look at the numbers, however,…

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May 31, 2011

The 2nd Annual Oregon Tea Party Celebration: A Movement in Which Ideas Seem to Have Growing Importance

The following article is a first-person account of a Tea Party "celebration" on February 26, 2011, held at the Shilo Inn near the airport in Portland, Oregon. The author, Mike Edera, found the importance of ideas within Tea Party ranks of particular note. Read alongside two articles by Devin Burghart,…

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April 28, 2011

Birtherism 2.0 – “Natural Born” Racism

Now that President Obama has attempted to quell the surge of birtherism by providing a copy of his oft-requested long form-birth certificate, will that satisfy the birthers? Will they go away now? Nope. Long before President Obama released his long-form birth certificate, Tea Party leaders and other birthers had already…

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Tea Party Patriots Idaho State Coordinator Pam Stout

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April 18, 2011

Tea Time with the Posse: Inside an Idaho Tea Party Patriots Conference

Tea Party Patriots Idaho State Coordinator Pam Stout {jathumbnail off} A year ago, Pam Stout, a soft-spoken 67 year-old retiree from Bonners Ferry, Idaho was featured in the New York Times and asked to appear on the David Letterman show. She performed swimmingly, and portrayed the Tea Party as a…

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Rep. Mike Pence at Tea Party Patriots Continuing Revolution Rally

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April 11, 2011

Tea Parties Pushed Toward a Shutdown

Tea Party Patriots and Tea Party Nation failed to push the government into a shutdown. They did succeed, however, in driving the Republican leadership close to the brink. In so doing, the Tea Party movement as a whole can justly claim to have turned the public debate toward a discussion…

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You Don't Need to Rely on Anger to Draw a Crowd. Over 2500 Tea Partiers Recently Gathered in Arizona for Summit.

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March 30, 2011

Are there Hitler-era Nazis in the Koch Family Closet?

Charles Koch and his younger brother David Koch, and their funding of various political causes over the past thirty-plus years have recently become a matter of public record and concern.

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Norway Terror Suspect Described As Far-Right Nationalist Islamophobe

Tea Party Nation and the National Origins Act

The Other Side of David Duke: Living Like a Gangster

Special Report: FreedomWorks and the John Birch Society Problem

A Brief Note About New York’s 26th Congressional District: Its Not What You Think

The 2nd Annual Oregon Tea Party Celebration: A Movement in Which Ideas Seem to Have Growing Importance

Birtherism 2.0 – “Natural Born” Racism

Tea Time with the Posse: Inside an Idaho Tea Party Patriots Conference

Tea Parties Pushed Toward a Shutdown

Are there Hitler-era Nazis in the Koch Family Closet?

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