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When the late white supremacist Richard Butler founded the Aryan Nations back in the early 1970s, he chose Idaho for the group's headquarters. The Aryan Nations opened a compound in Hayden Lake, a suburb of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho — and starting in 1981, Butler held the annual Aryan Nations World Congress gathering on the compound. Members of other white supremacist, white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups were invited, including the Ku Klux Klan, The Order, and former KKK Grand Dragon Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance (WAR).
In a lengthy article for Mother Jones' March/April 2026 issue, reporter Michael Edison Hayden (known for his work with the Southern Poverty Law Center in the past) examines Idaho's long history of far-right extremism — from the Aryan Nations to MAGA Christian nationalists — and describes the deep red state as a "bellwether for radicalization."
"North Idaho came up a lot during my time at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the storied civil rights watchdog where I worked from 2018 through 2023," Hayden explains. "The region seemed to have an uncanny ability to attract bigots from elsewhere in the country…. By the 1970s…. neo-Nazis were arriving…. Then in 1991, an Aryan Nations associate named Randy Weaver failed to appear in court on a firearms charge. U.S. marshals began surveilling his property the following year, and when they approached his residence in the Ruby Ridge area of North Idaho, they came into conflict with the Weaver family, ultimately killing Weaver's teenage son and Weaver's wife, who was carrying the couple's baby in her arms when she was shot."
More recently, Hayden notes, "new extremists" in Idaho have been "making inroads in the local GOP power structure."
"A Republican group called the North Idaho Pachyderm Club, which is promoted on the official Kootenai County GOP website, has invited far-right activists Vincent James Foxx and Dave Reilly to speak in recent years," Hayden reports. "Reilly, who has a history of antisemitic commentary, even secured a KCRCC endorsement for his failed 2021 school board campaign. More moderate Republicans became targets….. In June 2020, armed individuals patrolled (Coeur d'Alene's) streets in an event called 'Gun d’Alene' —part of the backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement. Two years after that, dozens of masked members of Patriot Front, a neofascist collective, were caught packed in a U-Haul, preparing to storm a Pride parade."
Hayden emphasizes that extremism in Idaho can encourage extremism in other parts of the U.S.
"One theme I heard repeatedly about Coeur d’Alene was that it is a bellwether for radicalization," Hayden warns. "Meaning that if you see something like authoritarians shutting down speech at a town hall there — or maybe even a maniac ambushing firefighters — you should take it seriously, because it could be coming to your city next…. As Kate Bitz of the Western States Center said, 'If it happens in North Idaho now, no one should be surprised when it happens nationally a few years later.'"
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Angry White Men: White Nationalist Explains How He Tries To ‘Fish’ For Attention From Elon Musk
Recently, X owner and Trump ally Elon Musk shared a post by Vincent James Foxx — a longtime antisemite and white nationalist. In a livestream for the far-right video-sharing platform Rumble, Foxx explained how he tailored his posts in an attempt to get Musk’s attention, and said that he’s trying to “fish” for more.
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MAGA figures are suddenly afraid that Trump will lose and are looking for someone to blame.
On July 30, Project 2025 Director Paul Dans suddenly stepped down, even after promoting his work on War Room earlier in the day. The Trump campaign, in a memo signed by senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, celebrated, even claiming they would welcome Project 2025’s demise.
But outside of the right-wing bubble, the PR move seems to have failed in its attempt to distance Trump from Project 2025.
As New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan noted, the Trump campaign reportedly has no transition plan — even compared to 2016 — and will need to rely on Project 2025 for staffing should he prevail in the election this fall. (This is also a reason why Project 2025 partner positions matter as much as what is in the official Project 2025 book: These are the people who would be in a position of power for staffing the federal government, especially if Trump follows through on threats to lay off thousands of federal civil servants.)
Other journalists and analysts reported similarly.
Project 2025 is the policy platform and staffing database organized by the Heritage Foundation for the next Republican presidential administration. The extreme policies have proved to be very unpopular with the American people, and this unpopularity seemingly led the Trump campaign to force Dans to resign.
The situation was already a tinderbox since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democrats' likely presidential nominee, replacing President Joe Biden, since Trump’s campaign was reportedly designed to face Biden instead of Harris; switching MAGA’s messaging on a dime was going to be no easy task.
Before Harris took the reins, Trump had complained about Project 2025, even as Project 2025 contributors were invited to speak at the Republican National Convention, a key Project 2025 figure was appointed to the RNC’s platform committee, and Trump himself named the elected official perhaps most closely tied to Project 2025 as his new vice presidential nominee.
Inside the MAGA bubble, recriminations and blame are growing as Trump’s electoral position apparently grows weaker.
Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist, Holocaust denier, and groyper leader who dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, has been railing at LaCivita for a while. Just days ago, Fuentes bragged that his audience is more loyal to him than it is to Trump and said that he would not vote in 2024 because the people closest to Trump, like LaCivita and Wiles, are not loyal to America First ideals.
Wiles and LaCivita’s decision to turn on Project 2025 so publicly has only made this wound larger.
Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich jumped in, writing that Project 2025 people were “loyal to the end” and that LaCivita is “preparing a coup against Trump.”
MAGA figures the Hodgetwins wrote that they don’t trust LaCivita and Wiles and that Trump needs “OG loyalists” to win the election.
Fuentes posted about the LaCivita/Wiles statement, and in replies and quotes, groypers directed rage against the pair. Groyper-aligned figure Tyler Russell reacted on a stream to Dans’ resignation, saying Fuentes was correct and LaCivita “needs to be the first person in jail.” He also added, “Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita — fuck both of you.”
White nationalist Vincent James Foxx also wrote that “Trump disavowing Project 2025 should be concerning because he's literally disavowing what he ran on in 2016.”
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh implored the Trump campaign to stop trying to disavow Project 2025.
Fox contributor Mollie Hemingway claimed that the Trump campaign was bowing to “left wing media lies.”
Noted extremist Pedro Gonzalez also criticized the decision.
This is not to say that all of MAGA is on the side of Project 2025 here. MAGA thought leader Catturd railed against the project, writing, “The Heritage Foundation doesn’t get to write this dumb 2025 project and get to pretend it’s Trump’s idea or something we real citizens (grassroots Trump supporters) support. Seriously, who in TF do these narcissists think they are speaking for us and Trump?”
Trump meme team leader Brenden Dilley simply wrote, “Fuck Heritage. Right in the ass.” (Bannon acolyte Grace Chong in turn harshly criticized Dilley.)
This is all quite reminiscent of 2016, when frequent turmoil roiled the Trump campaign, and he on a few occasions switched who was in charge, eventually settling on Steve Bannon less than 90 days before the election. Whatever solution Trump lands on this time will have to be different: Bannon is currently in federal prison.
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A drag queen who performed at the Idaho Pride event targeted by white nationalists in June is suing a right-wing blogger who doctored footage of his performance to falsely claim he had exposed himself to children. Even though the video was swiftly debunked by local news, right-wing media — including Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik and others who initially helped drive harassment against the Pride event — pushed the edited footage, leading to abuse against the performer.
On June 11, police in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, arrested 31 members of the Patriot Front near Pride in the Park, a planned Pride event. Authorities said evidence showed the white nationalists, who had gathered at the park from across the country, were planning to riot at the event and in multiple areas around the town. Patriot Front has a history of anti-LGBTQ actions, including burning trans pride flags and vandalizing a memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated it as a hate group.
The event was also targeted by a far-right biker group that announced it was holding an event nearby at the same time as Pride in the Park, with organizers saying there were “going to be going after the groomers” while alluding to possible violence.
One of the performers at the event was Eric Posey, whose drag name is Mona Liza Million. Following Pride in the Park, right-wing blogger Summer Bushnellposted footage from Posey’s performance that blurred his crotch. In her posts, Bushnell erroneously claimed Posey had exposed himself to minors and called for her audience to report the video to police. The video, which was debunked by local news two days after the event was held, led to harassment against Posey after it went viral on social media. Now Posey is suing Bushnell, claiming she defamed him in an effort to gain popularity as part of the nationwide effort to malign LGBTQ people and Pride Month events.
A key instigator in manufacturing outrage over the event was Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account “Libs of TikTok.” Raichik not only targeted Pride in the Park after Idaho-based white nationalist Dave Reilly called for her to do so, but she also helped spread Bushnell’s video weeks after it had been debunked by both the media and**authorities**. On July 31, Raichik retweeted a tweet with Bushnell’s video and calling Posey a “pedophile,” with Raichik adding, “This is what a ‘family-friendly’ drag show looks like.” Commenters reacting to Raichik’s post falsely accused Posey of being a “groomer” and “pedophile,” while others threatened extreme acts of violence against him, including multiple threats to castrate him.
Although the tweet she quoted was later removed for violating Twitter’s rule on hateful conduct, Raichik’s tweet was never deleted.
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raichik was joined in sharing the doctored video by anti-LGBTQ trolls including right-wing podcaster Liz Wheeler and Gays Against Groomers, with the latter writing, “If gay rights do get rolled back, it will only be because of things like this.”
The renewed social media pickup of the doctored video led to an article published by right-wing blog Post Millennial headlined “Drag queen accused of exposing self to children at 'family friendly' Pride event.” The article promoted conspiracy theories that antifa was involved in targeting the Idaho Pride event, and the header for the article included a still from Bushnell’s video, with the edited video embedded.
The Idaho Family Policy Center, a right-wing Christian nonprofit that partners with extreme anti-LGBTQ group Alliance Defending Freedom and multiple other anti-LGBTQ organizations, posted a petition on September 8 denying law enforcement’s debunking of the video and claiming it had “reviewed the unedited footage and can confirm it portrays public exposure of the performer’s genitalia.” Included with the petition, which called for drag performances to be banned from taking place around children, was a still from Bushnell’s video. The petition remains active as of publication date.
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Far-right conspiracy theory outlet Infowars posted an article also featuring a still from the doctored video. The article suggested the targeting of the event by Patriot Front was “a federal false flag operation” and criticized the “mainstream media” for “ignoring a potential child sex crime occurring at the very same event.”
The article cited a press release from the local sheriff’s department saying police were investigating the video. The announcement came after a local outlet had already debunked the claims and released the unedited video, and despite law enforcement officials acknowledging that their investigation stemmed entirely from reports by individuals who had seen Bushnell’s doctored footage and none of whom had seen the performance in person. The stunt culminated on July 1 with the city prosecutor stating what had been demonstrated weeks earlier — Posey had not exposed himself.
Disregarding available evidence, right-wing media widely used the release to push the false narrative and disseminate the doctored footage. Stephanie Hamill, a contributing writer for Media Research Center and ambassador for Turning Point USA, tweeted Bushnell’s video while adding that the “dancer's genitals were reportedly exposed on the main stage with children viewing the ‘dance.’”[twt vid]
right-wing author Janie Johnson tweeted a link to the video to her nearly 200,000 followers, attempting to excuse the white nationalists who targeted the event and writing, “Wonder what ticked the Idaho dads? This drag demon exposed himself to children.”
The incident is nearly identical to another manufactured controversy pushed by right-wing media in which an edited photo of a drag performer reading to children at a library in 2019 was blurred and paired with the claim that they were exposing themselves to children. That smear, too, was quickly debunked, which did not prevent the ensuing harassment and an attempt from lawmakers to strip libraries of their funding.
The targeting of Posey and the broader attacks on Pride in the Park followed an escalating campaign of harassment against drag and Pride Month events that falsely accused participants of abusing children. This harassment, and the escalating rhetoric of maligning LGBTQ people as groomers, has largely been enabled by the failure of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to adequately handle the targeted harassment.
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upon realizing that threatening a community gay pride event with a bunch of guns might not be the best look, officials with the far-right Idaho bikers club Panhandle Patriots are backing off somewhat, claiming that the two spokesmen who told an evangelical organizing event that they intended to “go head to head” with the annual Pride in the Park gathering in Coeur d’Alene on June 11 gave out “incorrect information.” Complaining that the media have misrepresented them, they’ve announced they’re changing the name of their event the same day from “Gun d’Alene” to “North Idaho Day of Prayer.”
But their hateful rhetoric identifying the LGBTQ community as pedophilic “groomers” is still going full roar. "We're going to be going after the groomers," the group’s founder recently told his comrades. Their vice president, Justin Allen, recently told another gathering that presenting LGBTQ-friendly material to children in a park setting was “unacceptable”: "I am not a violent man. But I am not a peaceful man, either."
Two weeks ago, two leaders of the Panhandle Patriots—Allen, their vice president, and Jeff White, their “sergeant at arms”—got up before a “gameplan” organizing session to oppose “inappropriate materials in our schools and libraries” at a northern Idaho evangelical church and told the gathering their group was planning to confront the Pride in the Park event. White told them:
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We are having an event the very same day. That very same day we actually intend to go head to head with these people. A line has to be drawn in the sand. Good people need to stand up. And she was talking about the repercussions. We say, Damn the repercussions. Stand up, take it to the head. Go to the fight.
However, a spokesperson for the Patriots who only identified herself as “Bear” told the Coeur d’Alene Press that those men had misspoken, claiming White was only a club member and not a spokesman: “We are wanting this to be an extremely peaceful event,” she said.
Earlier this week, the group issued a statement blaming the media for misrepresenting its intentions: “It is the media’s goal to instigate a conflict, take photos of that conflict, and then produce media stories labeling our group and everyone associated with us as violent, racist, and hateful while ignoring the antics of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and LGBT extremists,” it said.
As a result, it was changing the name of the event to the “North Idaho Day of Prayer,” adding: “The event popularly known as Gun d’Alene will be moved to a later date that is yet to be determined.”
“Gun d’Alene,” in fact was billed as an anniversary of the day in 2020 that armed “Patriots” flooded the streets of Coeur d’Alene in response to hoax rumors of the impending arrival of buses full of evil black-clad “antifa” vandals who mysteriously never showed up anywhere they were rumored to be going. Dozens of people showed up on armed patrol, toting AR-15s and wearing body armor, at a downtown shopping strip mall.
Panhandle Patriots claimed that “our event has been hijacked by extremist groups. On the Left, we have seen evidence to suggest that Antifa radicals are planning on coming to disrupt our event to provoke violence. It has also come to our attention that a White Nationalist group called White Lives Matter is also planning to attend. While these two groups are planning on causing violence, the media plans on using them to condemn and tarnish our peaceful group.”
In spite of the surface shift in tone, the statement continues in typical far right fashion, urging Idahoans to turn out in numbers “to take a stand against the progressive left-wing, which is moving into Idaho, and into our schools and libraries, with intent on grooming our children and turning them into LGBT activists.” It concludes by identifying the Pride organizers as “groomers”:
As always, the Panhandle Patriots are a Christian group that stands against violence in all its forms, and will not allow our event to be hijacked by extremists on either side of the political spectrum. We implore the Christian community to come together and show these LGBT groomers that North Idaho stands firmly against their sick agenda and that God still rules in the Panhandle.
An online media site called the Idaho Tribune helped stir the extremist pot further with an article—widely distributed on far-right social media—headlined “Antifa Coming to Coeur d’Alene for June 11 LGBT Event in CDA Park to ‘Protect Gay & Trans People.’” It claimed that “Antifa members from across the country are planning on coming to Coeur d’Alene Idaho” for the event, based on a single Twitter account urging community defense.
“Antifa and LGBT groups have taken a particular interest in North Idaho as the predominantly conservative area is viewed as a challenge to the progressive liberal groups,” it claims. It also risibly claims that “antifa” is helping to campaign for conservative Republican Gov. Brad Little.
Journalist Daniel Walters of The Inlander was unable to find any person living in the region with the name of the article’s ostensible author, "Samantha Collins." The likely person behind the website is white nationalist David Reilly, who lost a 2021 campaign for the Post Falls school board and has been involved in attempts to secretly take over the Democratic Party apparatus in Kootenai County.
Among the Panhandle Patriots themselves and their supporters, the rhetoric has been similarly incendiary and eliminationist. Walters attended one of their gatherings, where one audience member claimed he’d seen "groomers—that's the only word for it" distributing condoms to little kids surreptitiously at Coeur d’Alene’s Fourth of July parade.
"We're going to be going after the groomers," the group’s founder, Michael "Viper" Birdsong—who took an active role in the Jan. 6 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol—told his cohorts. "Violence is the last thing we'd ever want to bring. But it doesn't mean we're not incredibly good at it," he added. "Mess around with a kid and find out."
Another northern Idaho white nationalist and notorious antisemite with a huge social media following, Vincent James Foxx, has posted modified copies of the flier for Pride in the Park, with its lines drawn to resemble a warped Star of David. He also has posted the names of every sponsor on a spreadsheet with addresses and contact information.
Panhandle Patriots say they intend to start their day on June 11 at around noon in downtown Coeur d’Alene, from where they say they plan to march through the downtown area to finish up at the waterfront park where their event is scheduled on Lake Coeur d’Alene.
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White nationalists and far-right personalities are celebrating Tucker Carlson's latest racist “great replacement” monologue
“This week alone both Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk addressed and acknowledged the Great Replacement. That was unthinkable even six months ago.”
WRITTEN BY NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM KELLIE LEVINE & ALEX KAPLAN
PUBLISHED 09/24/21 9:58 AM EDT
For the past year, Tucker Carlson has embarked on a dedicated campaign to insert the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, a core belief of white nationalist ideology, into mainstream Republican discourse. During the September 23 broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson explicitly referenced the term “great replacement” using a deceptively presented outake of remarks then-Vice President Joe Biden made in 2015 to accuse him of believing that “non-white DNA is … the source of our strength.” Carlson told viewers Biden had invoked “the language of eugenics,” indicating an effort to replace “legacy Americans” and “change the racial mix of the country” in order to gain political power.
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CitationFrom the September 22, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): You've got to ask yourself, as you watch the historic tragedy that is Joe Biden's immigration policy, what's the point of this?
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Nothing about it is an accident, obviously. It's intentional. Joe Biden did it on purpose, but why? Why would a president do this to his own country? No sane first-world nation opens its borders to the world.
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Promising the poorest people on the planet that they can have endless free taxpayer funded services if they show up and break your laws? That's not just stupid, it's suicidal.
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For generations, middle-class Americans have hadaccess to the best healthcare in the world, but not anymore. That's over for good. Our system cannot handle this many destitute newcomers, period. Imagine what hospitals are going to look like a year from now. How about schools?
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What Joe Biden is doing now will change this country forever. So again, why is he doing it? There's only one plausible answer. You're not allowed to say it out loud, CNN will attack you if you do. The social media companies will shut you down. The Southern Poverty Law Center will call you dangerous, you could lose your bank account. The left has become completely unhinged and hysterical and that's how you know it's true. They only censor the true things.
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An unrelenting stream of immigration. But why? Well, Joe Biden just said it, tochange the racial mix of the country. That's the reason,to reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here, and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans newly-arrived from the third world. And then Biden went further, he said that non-white DNA is the quote, "the source of our strength." Imagine saying that. This is the language of eugenics, it's horrifying. But there's a reason Biden said it.
In political terms, this policy is called "the great replacement," the replacement of legacy Americanswith more obedient people from far-away countries. They brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it's happening they will scream at you with maximum hysteria.
Following the monologue, the Anti-Defamation League reiterated its call for Fox to fire Carlson from the network. Carlson’s toxic combination of conspiracy-mongering and racist commentary has been bolstered by Fox Corp. and the Murdoch family’s all but explicit approval of his caustic programming, and it has resulted in a sharp increase in the instances of fearmongering about white replacement, genocide, and race war on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Carlson’s long history of endorsing, repackaging, and broadcasting white nationalist principles for layperson cable viewers has made him a favorite among extremist cohorts. The white supremacist website Daily Stormer has called Carlson “literally our greatest ally,” and white nationalists and far-right personalities were quick to make their approval known of Carlson’s most recent tirade.
On 4chan’s /pol/ board, users celebrated Carlson as the “only person calling out this Haitian migration surge for what it is, white replacement,” and “literally naming ‘the great replacement’ on cable TV.”
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White supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes cheered Carlson’s comments, lauding his use of “groyper” rhetoric. Fuentes also praised TurningPoint USA founder Charlie Kirk’s “rhetoric” who the next afternoon had called for Texas to “deputize a citizen force, put them on the border” in order to protect “white demographics in America.”
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Vincent James Foxx, a far-right video blogger affiliated with the white nationalist street-fighting group the Rise Above Movement, highlighted that Carlson had shared the great replacement theory with his millions of Fox viewers and encouraged his followers to share the clip.
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Reacting to Carlson’s monologue, Joseph Jordan, known by his online pseudonym “Eric Striker” criticized the possibility that Republicans would simply refuse to act as Democrats ran out “the white biological clock.” Jordan reiterated Carlson’s call for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to intervene directly at the southern border.
Jordan has reportedly been affiliated with the neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn,is a prolific contributor of antisemitic articles at The Daily Stormer, and hosts the antisemitic YouTube show The People’s Square.
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Far-right social media account The Columbia Bugle tweeted about Carlson “exposing” Biden’s immigration policy.
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Tommy Robinson News, an account dedicated to following Tommy Robinson (birth name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), boosted The Columbia Bugle’s language in a tweet. Carlson interviewed Robinson in 2018 when he was released from prison pending another trial for contempt of court charges. Robinson is the former leader of the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim extremist group.
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Michelle Malkin appeared on the YouTube channel of prominent white nationalist content creator Vincent James on Tuesday, where she applauded young alt-right supporters for having “come to the epiphanies that for me took a long time in the making.”
It appears that Malkin, after becoming a pariah among mainstream conservatives, has decided to lean into her support among the far-right.
Writers and members of the mainstream GOP began distancing themselves from Malkin after she explicitly endorsed anti-Semitic and white nationalist YouTube political personality Nicholas Fuentes in a speech at UCLA in November. Subsequently, Young America’s Foundation cut ties with Malkin. Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe chided Malkin for affiliating with racists “because [Malkin] sees them as the most potent allies available to back a militantly xenophobic agenda.” Jonathan S. Tobin wrote in the New York Post that Malkin “thinks these haters are allies in a crusade to halt all non-European immigration (ironic, since Malkin’s parents were Filipino immigrants)." [yak twt]
Malkin said she met Vincent James, who also goes by the pseudonyms of Vincent Foxx and Vincent James O’Connor, at the UCLA event, adding that it was “excellent to make that connection.” James is a far-right YouTube political entertainer who often pushes white nationalist and conspiratorial content and was spotted perusing the perimeter of the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference with Fuentes.
[Michelle Malkin appears on the YouTube channel of Vincent James on December 10, 2019. (Screenshot / YouTube)]
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“I feel like there’s a good synergy and partnership here because that’s the work that I’ve been trying to do for 25 plus years. It’s been frustrating because so many people don’t care. And so, when I see a glimpse, a glimmer of a spark of energy and hope and optimism, yeah, hell yeah, I’m going to run to that,” Malkin said. “That’s what I did.”
Earlier in the interview, James had vouched for Malkin to the “groyper” crowd, which recently co-opted Trump’s “America First” slogan to brand its latest efforts.
“I can’t stress this enough. Michelle Malkin supports America First. Michelle Malkin tells the truth. Michelle Malkin is standing up against the conservative establishment,” James said.
In one portion of the duo’s conversation, James asked Malkin to stop him when one of the following policy proposals sounded white nationalist: an immigration moratorium for at least 10 years, prosecuting employers who hire undocumented immigrants, banning welfare for undocumented immigrants, and requiring high school students visit a third-world country “so that they see how great they have it here.”
Malkin did not stop him.
Malkin alleged that conservatives know and believe that demographic changes in the United States could negatively affect them, but says they don’t talk about it publicly for monetary reasons. (Malkin does not seem to consider the possibility that conservatives could try appealing to immigrants instead.) Malkin also praised “America First” activists who hung a banner over a bridge in Virginia that featured a design scheme remarkably similar to the one used by American Identity Movement, the rebranded white nationalist group Identity Evropa.
During his interview with Malkin, James scrolled through her Twitter profile and revealed that he is the operator of “The Red Elephants Fan Account” on Twitter. James has been banned from Twitter before, and banned users often pose as fan accounts to gain access back onto the platform.
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During his interview with Michelle Malkin, Vincent James shared his screen view of Twitter, revealing that he was logged into a purported “fan account” associated with his YouTube channel. (Screenshot / Youtube; Emphasis Added)
James has appeared on a neo-Nazi podcast and was
in 2017 asking members of Rise Above Movement, a violent white supremacist group, to recite the white supremacist slogan “14 Words” on camera. Members of that white supremacist group have since faced federal charges for engaging in violence at the 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The same year,James**blamed**Jews for social media bans, saying that the people responsible for fact-checking articles on Facebook were “very similar in DNA to [Facebook COO] Sheryl Sandberg,” who is Jewish. James once kept a Holocaust denier on his payroll who later ran the failed Senate campaign of neo-Nazi Patrick Little.
As Right Wing Watch reported in 2018, James “uses his platform to
speakers and sympathizers,
such white nationalist organizations as Identity Evropa,
racist fears about immigrants,
“race war” narratives, and
to aggrieved white people at-large.” Last year, James dedicated one video to arguing that the Trump administration should not hire black people and especially not black women.
James denies having ever advocated for anti-immigrant, white nationalist, or anti-Semitic ideas, claiming such accusations are a tactic of communists.
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Watch: Donald Trump Jr booed off stage at UCLA book event — by members of the far right
Written by Tom Boggioni / Raw Story November 11, 2019
An appearance by Donald Trump Jr. at UCLA was abruptly ended on Sunday when the son of President Donald Trump was attempting to promote his book “Triggered.”
According to the LA Times, “Chanting ‘humanity first,” dozens of people protested outside the UCLA hall on Sunday where Donald Trump Jr. was speaking as part of a promotional tour for his new book.”
Inside the hall, protesters chanted “America first,” and then booed after Trump, TPUSA activist Charlie Kirk and Trump girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle refused to take questions.
According to the Guardian, “the appearance backfired when his own supporters, diehard Make America Great Again conservatives, raised their voices most loudly in protest and ended up drowning him out barely 20 minutes into an event scheduled to last two hours.”
“At first, Trump and Guilfoyle tried to ignore the discontent, which originated with a fringe group of America Firsters who believe the Trump administration has been taken captive by a cabal of internationalists, free-traders, and apologists for mass immigration,” The Guardian continued. “When the shouting would not subside, Trump Jr tried – and failed – to argue that taking questions from the floor risked creating soundbites that leftwing social media posters would abuse and distort. Nobody was buying that.”
You can see clips from the event below via Twitter.
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/cpac-unable-to-separate-itself-from-the-rights-formerly-fringe-elements/
CPAC Unable to Separate Itself From the Right’s Formerly Fringe Elements
By Jared Holt | March 4, 2019 6:17 pm
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is billed as the place where the leading ideas of the conservative movement are showcased, but this year’s CPAC was little more than a collection of formerly fringe right-wing enclaves that have been ushered to the forefront in the Trump era, all of which are vying for dominance. The conservative movement is—at its core—inseparable from the fringe elements it empowers, and this year’s CPAC was a reminder of that intersection.
CPAC 2019 seemed to have no coherent vision, aside from patting President Donald Trump on the back, and it operated a lot more like a Trump rally than an ideological summit. The panels featuring conversations about tax reform, national security, and energy production—which have long been core GOP concerns—were met with only a fraction of the enthusiasm showered on pro-Trump celebrities. On Saturday, Trump gave his longest-ever speech as president to the CPAC audience. It was a two-hour stream of consciousness display that featured more arguably comedic bits than it did substantive policy discussion. Seemingly vanished from CPAC was the National Rifle Association, save for a scheduled speech from NRA President Oliver North on “What Makes America Great,” and a speech by NRA’s Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre that was not listed on the schedule. Neither did LaPierre appear on the list of CPAC speakers adorning the conference website.
But the real story of CPAC is less about what happens on the main stage and more about who shows up.
White Nationalists Demand to be Taken Seriously
Nicholas Fuentes, Faith Goldy and Patrick Casey appeared in a CPAC 2019 recap video. (Screenshot / Twitter)
CPAC organizers banned some white nationalists, but not all.
Nicholas Fuentes, a podcast host who regularly expresses racist and anti-Semitic views, made an appearance outside of CPAC this year; he was seemingly forbidden from entering the conference but would not confirm to Right Wing Watch whether he had actually been banned. On the second day of the conference, Fuentes received an attendee badge and roamed the exhibition hall briefly with a cohort of college-aged fanboys—one of whom heckled this reporter, calling me a “Judeo Communist.” Playboy’s Alex Thomas reportedly witnessed hotel security staff darting down the conference center’s escalators looking for Fuentes. Right Wing Watch never received confirmation from CPAC that Fuentes had been banned from entering.
Spotted alongside Fuentes was Vincent James Foxx of the YouTube channel “Red Elephants.” Foxx has used his presence on YouTube to bolster white nationalist groups like Identity Evropa, provide friendly coverage for white nationalist personalities and inflame racist fears about immigrants. He has appeared on a neo-Nazi podcast and once supported the campaign of Patrick Little, a California neo-Nazi who sought election to Congress. Last year, Foxx argued that the Trump administration should not hire black people.
Patrick Casey of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa also made an appearance on the periphery of CPAC this year. Casey complained on Twitter that his registration had been invalidated and spent his time at CPAC railing against organizers, who he said were turning away nationalists in favor of left-leaning media and hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House. Instead, Casey pulled a move reminiscent of what white nationalist Richard Spencer did last year: Book a room at the convention center hotel and host a brief talk. Right Wing Watch attempted to attend that brief event but was turned away.
Virginia Dare (VDARE), a racist website named for the first white child born in the New World, was let in to the conference. The website was denied media credentials, but Peter Brimelow, the site’s founder, was permitted in as an attendee. Faith Goldy, a “14 Words”-reciting white nationalist, was also permitted in the venue and conducted interviews with Michelle Malkin and Laura Loomer on behalf of VDARE. Goldy was permitted to buy a pass to CPAC but was not credentialed as media.
The white nationalists who say they were denied media credentials or entry to CPAC this year expressed great excitement over a speech that Malkin delivered to the main stage.During Malkin’s speech, she railed against immigration and “the ghost of John McCain.” She also gave approving shout-outs to known bigots and conspiracy theorists, describing them as frontline activists.
“So many speaking up and fighting on the frontlines for liberty and security are being de-Twittered, de-PayPaled, de-Facebooked, de-platformed – people like Laura Loomer and Gavin McInnes and the Center for Immigration Studies and Robert Spencer and so many others,” Malkin said. She closed her speech saying, “Diversity is not our strength.”
In an interview Malkin gave to Goldy for VDARE after her speech, she said that “our enemies are not just from without. They are from within [the conservative movement].”
Despite their hostility toward CPAC officials this year, Casey, Fuentes and Goldy were briefly featured in the CPAC 2019 recap video. The conference deleted the original video from Twitter.
Enrique Tarrio and Luke Rohlfing, respectively the leader of the Proud Boys and a third-degree member of the Proud Boys—a group formerly led by Gavin McInnes and often seen alongside white nationalist groups—were also spotted outside the conference, mingling with their MAGA counterparts. They also attended Turning Point USA’s CPAC party on Thursday night. The Proud Boys have recently been taken up as Roger Stone’s de facto security detail.
Conspiracy Theorists Beg for the Spotlight
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Following the mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 59 dead and over 500 injured, conspiracy theories about the massacre have quickly germinated among right-wing websites. The Red Elephants, an alt-right media outletfounded by Trump supporter Vincent James, is no exception.
James, who also goes by Vincent Foxx and Vincent James O’Connor, has written a handful of articles at The Red Elephant promoting bizarre theories about false flags and police cover-ups.
One article posted two days ago suggests Stephen Paddock escaped after the massacre and was seen gambling in an Atlantic City casino. And while James wrote that it “may be a stretch” to believe this doppelgänger is actually Stephen Paddock, he continued to fan the flames of a conspiracy that Cassandra Fairbanks won’t even touch. As he put it, “But at any rate, you have to admit the resemblance and the fact that it is at a casino are pretty unlikely coincidences.”
In another, Vincent declared that “this whole case stinks” and that the Las Vegas police “have lied on several occasions,” perhaps even about the number of shooters.
“MSNBC was also reporting that authorities are probings [sic] whether there were ‘others’ in Paddock’s suite at the time of the shooting. Of course there were. Any old guy who has fired a weapon knows what overlapping cadence sounds like,” James wrote.
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with alt-lite YouTube personality Tarl Warwick (better known as Styxhexenhammer666) James repeated his claim that multiple shooters were involved in the massacre.
James told Warwick that he “didn’t really wanna get into the conspiracy theory parts,” but that he reviewed footage from a nearby taxicab which points to a theory that there were other gunmen involved.
James said that he heard “two different sounds of fire” with a few seconds to a minute between shots, some of which sounded close and others far away. “I basically slowed down the video and I shared it on Facebook and it’s got over four million views on it right now,” he boasted, “and I’m getting a lot of hate mail from liberals who are saying ‘Take your right-wing crap off of Facebook. Go back to the NRA.'”
And, lest one get the impression that James was alone in believing this multiple shooter theory, he revealed that he had been exchanging messages with the likes of Tim Pool — the supposedly independent journalist who runs with the likes of anti-immigrant activist Lauren Southern — and YouTube fraudster Joey Salads. And really, if you can’t trust a man who calls himself “Joey Salads,” then who can you trust?
And although Warwick initially distanced himself from conspiracies such as the one being pushed by James, he nevertheless called a police cover-up “entirely possible.” “I mean we can’t immediately label an alternative theory as automatically a conspiracy theory,” he added. “And I think a lot of times people do that.”
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James: So I’m sure that you’ve seen the — I mean, obviously all [of] what’s going on and the people’s theories about what happened in Las Vegas, right? This is what we wanna talk about. And I know I saw a video that you basically stated, saying leave the conspiracy theories alone, wait until the bodies are cold before we start talking about things like that. Do you still share that opinion?
Warwick: Yes. And there’s a counterpart to that. On the one hand I’m gonna question any specific, you can term ’em “conspiracy theories” that come up with anything like this. I also will question the official line because a lot of times things are botched, things are messed up in some way.
Or they’re like the early reporting turns out to be totally wrong. The police’ll come out with a report, a week later they’re like “Oh yeah, we screwed up something and our report was not necessarily true.”
The same, though, I would say would be for people looking at footage here, I think the taxi dude has footage, there was footage from a taxi that was there in the area, other footage from the crowd and from bystanders. Sometimes we can’t rely too much on video footage because of the quality alone. And I think a lot of people, they try to rush out really early.
Whether it’s an alternative view of what happened, or it’s just political discourse — we saw what Hillary Clinton did. She comes out, she’s like “Oh we need to have time to grieve. But, here let me weigh in politically on this for the next half hour.”
James: Right.
Warwick: And I find — I just don’t think that that’s helpful when something like this happens because it’s all speculation or political nonsense. And what I was pointing out is just, a tragedy happened, they’re are gonna be a lot of people that have lost somebody in this. Can’t we take a few hours at least before we start launching off helter skelter into the obvious gun control debate, what actually happened — it was a false flag, it was something else under the Sun, what kind of terrorism was it, what was the motive? Who cares what the motive was? These people are still dead.
James: Right. Exactly. And I understand that part of it. And I didn’t really wanna get into the conspiracy theory parts, but I am guilty of that. I guess you can call it a conspiracy theory, but I noticed that in the taxi video, that there was two different sounds of fire. Sometimes with seconds in between, sometimes with 60 seconds in between, a minute in between. One sounded very close. One sounded very far away.
I basically slowed down the video and I shared it on Facebook and it’s got over four million views on it right now and I’m getting a lot of hate mail from liberals who are saying “Take your right-wing crap off of Facebook. Go back to the NRA.” Things like that.
But you can’t really dispute — and I was even messaging back and forth with Tim Pool, Joey Salads — you can’t really explain those differences in sound. It’s not echo because I slowed it down, I counted the shots, plus there’s different distances of time in between the two different sound levels of fire.
And then it’s not because he was firing from one window or the next because a man can’t — ’cause there was sometimes only two seconds in between the two different level sounds of fire, because a 64-year-old man can’t run 50 feet and pick up a weapon and, I’m just sorry, it just doesn’t happen.
Warwick: Haha.
James: And so there’s a lot — I mean even the LVPD sheriff came out today and he said that there’s proof that this guy didn’t plan this alone. But they don’t know who was involved. So those are the only things that I’m questioning and I’m getting a lot of hate from people on — I’m sure you get lots of hate mail.
Warwick: Yeah.
James: So I mean those are the only things that I’m questioning. And I’ve had messages from people that were there that are telling us that the police department is not telling the truth, so, I mean —
Warwick: And that’s entirely possible. I mean we can’t immediately label an alternative theory as automatically a conspiracy theory. And I think a lot of times people do that.
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Jennifer Kabbany, editor of The College Fix, told NPR that the site's purpose is to train future journalists, not to foment hate. "The College Fix has publicly denounced any vile emails that a professor might get," she said. "I'm sorry if professors received that kind of backlash." In reference to Ponce, of Diablo Valley College, she added, "It appeared the lecture was not balanced and didn't do academic inquiry and debate justice."
The College Fix is run by the Student Free Press Association. The association has had Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' son listed on its board of directors and is funded by an anonymous conservative donor fund.
Campus Reform is a project the Leadership Institute, a conservative think tank. Professor Watchlist, which lists more than 250 professors who advance what it calls a "radical" left-wing agenda, is maintained by Turning Point USA, an on-campus group that has been labeled "alt-right."
Campus Reform and Professor Watchlist did not respond to requests for comment.
The Red Elephants is a pro-Trump "alt-right media collective" founded in November 2016. Founder Vincent James Foxx has reportedly denied the Holocaust and been accused of urging violence at rallies. The site posted an edited video of Ponce's talk on YouTube with commentary calling it "Marxist, Communist, disgusting rhetoric that they spew in these classrooms to indoctrinate these children." It used the video to kick off an initiative called "Film Your Marxist Professor."
The administrator of the "Film Your Marxist Professor" Facebook page, who gave his name as Aaron Burr, told NPR via Facebook message: "We receive around 10 submissions per day. Our goal is to stop the anti-white and anti-American rhetoric that is being spewed on college campuses all across the country."
From these specialized sites, content travels to alt-right media sources like Breitbart and Infowars and neo-Nazi sites like Stormfront, and then, sometimes, to Fox News and the New York Post, CNN and other outlets.
Meanwhile, harassment is coordinated out in the open on anonymous, uncensored forums like 4chan, 8chan and Reddit, where self-identified "trolls" uncover and post people's personal information, known as doxing, and try out strategies of attack. Cuevas at the University of North Georgia obtained screenshots of the 4chan forum on which people were fabricating social media posts in an attempt to paint him as anti-Semitic and racist or, alternatively, as pushing anti-Trump views onto his students.
"Their stated goal was to get me fired," he says, but he fears that is not the worst of it: "Georgia had just passed the campus carry law [for firearms], and what worried me was a lone nut case."
Flyers for Ponce's talk about white supremacy in the United States sit next to a flyer for Identity Evropa, a white supremacist group.
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Ponce says he sees a fresh wave of abusive calls and letters every time a new media story hits. He has gotten letters in the mail, emails and Facebook messages, and his colleagues and administrators have gotten calls and emails.He has found his personal information on a Hungarian right-wing websiteand gotten calls from South America. He, like other professors, has called the police, but the messages keep coming.
Most troubling, he says, are "the real threats against my family" and "pictures on the Web of my 9-year-old daughter."
He and his wife are trying not to park their cars in the same places every day, peek out into the street at night and warn their daughter not to touch the mail....