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emails  Reveal Identity of Longtime White Nationalist Propagandist as Onetime Conservative InsiderMarch 04, 2020Hannah GaisMonths before the “alt-right” became a household name, the nebulous band of white power activists seized upon their digital prowess to popularize a slur that would soon become a mainstay in the Republican infighting that defined the 2016 presidential election.
Frustrated by the GOP’s array of insufficiently racist presidential candidates, far-right wordsmiths from Breitbart News to the Daily Stormer branded their conservative enemies as “cuckservatives” – or “cucks.”
The proliferation of this portmanteau of “cuckold” and “conservative” ought to be remembered as no more than an early manifestation of the conservative infighting that would mark the run-up to President Trump’s election.At the heart of the media blitz was one white nationalist blogger, Gregory Hood, whose popular manifesto lambasting cuckservatives was cited by Salon, The Guardian and New Republic – not to mention a wealth of white supremacist websites. “Hood’s porny polemic, with its talk about wives being mounted and begging from the corner,” wrote former New Republic staffer Jeet Heer, “is proof of how the term cuckservative is popular because it pushes psycho-sexual hot buttons.”
“Porny” or not, Hood’s diatribe provided – both to the alt-right broadly and to journalists – a thinking man’s summary of a viral phenomenon.
But who was “Gregory Hood”? Despite being occasionally conjured up as a representative of the alt-right in mainstream publications, the prolific white nationalist blogger’s identity has remained a secret for over a decade. Yet a trove of leaked emails from former Daily Caller and Breitbart staffer Katie McHugh exposes “Hood’s” identity as Kevin DeAnna – an early leader and ideological architect of the alt-right. McHugh and DeAnna dated from 2013 to 2016, and again briefly in 2017, during which they often corresponded about DeAnna’s pseudonymous written work by email and Google Chat. These emails also tie DeAnna to another pseudonym, “James Kirkpatrick” – a pen name he used at other alt-right and far-right sites that tended to be more focused on anti-immigrant rhetoric, including, among others, VDARE.
DeAnna and his editors throughout the years – among them, American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor, WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah, the National Policy Institute’s Richard Spencer, and Counter-Currents’ Gregory Johnson – did not respond to Hatewatch’s repeated requests for comment via email.
"James Kirkpatrick" Twitter accountA screenshot from the "James Kirkpatrick" Twitter account.“Hood” and “Kirkpatrick” were prolific in their output. “Hood” published a book and contributed to several others – all while penning nearly 450 articles for various white nationalist sites since 2008. As “Kirkpatrick,” DeAnna has published over 1,130 articles since 2011. In October 2019, he even released his first book. “Hood” sought to hone the anger of young, white men in service of the movement. “Kirkpatrick” spoke to the broader far right’s anxieties about immigration and multiculturalism in more hardcore language that white nationalists could appreciate.
DeAnna frequently turned to McHugh to proofread articles written under both bylines. On a number of occasions, he asked for her assistance in running VDARE’s Twitter account.
Most importantly, DeAnna and McHugh’s emails shed light on the role DeAnna played in helping to lead the budding movement. While operating safely behind pseudonyms, his contributions propelled white nationalism into the realm of cultural palatability. The flexibility his pseudonyms gave him allowed DeAnna to express his beliefs on white nationalism and the need for white ethnic hegemony to an extreme degree.
These emails and DeAnna’s use of two different pseudonyms to represent two particular ideological trends on the far right illuminate the intimate ties between the anti-immigrant far right and the hardline white nationalists – connections some supporters, including in the Trump administration, would prefer be ignored.
From the campus cultural wars to the blogosphereDeAnna’s career as a pseudonymous blogger took off years before the alt-right became a household name.
On Feb. 17, 2012, DeAnna – the longtime white nationalist head and founder of the ultra-conservative Youth for Western Civilization – announced his intention to step down. A graduate student at American University’s School of International Service at the time, he noted his decision was motivated by “various personal (namely, I’m old) and professional reasons.” Neither DeAnna, nor YWC, were going to disappear, however. “I’ll still be working in the conservative movement . . . but I’ll be doing different things and won’t be associated with . . . YWC.”
DeAnna went on to abandon his perch at the Leadership Institute and become marketing coordinator at the far-right website WorldNetDaily. But his shift away from YWC also caused the once-prominent DeAnna to fade from the public eye.
His decision to abandon YWC and go dark gave him the space – and freedom – to shape the very movement he helped build. Over the course of a decade, DeAnna authored thousands of posts.
Gregory Hood AmRen articlesAmerican Renaissance has published nearly 200 articles bylined by Gregory Hood.As “Hood” he penned at least 82 articles for Richard Spencer’s Radix Journal, 116 articles for Gregory Johnson’s website and publishing house Counter-Currents and close to 250 articles for Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance.
These three outlets served as ground zero for the formation of the alt-right’s more “intellectual” wing, bridging the thought of the chin-stroking racist paleoconservatives with that of more traditional white nationalism.
Meanwhile, as “Kirkpatrick,” DeAnna authored nearly 1,110 articles for the anti-immigrant, white nationalist site VDARE, alongside more mainstream ultra-conservative figureheads, such as Ann Coulter. In 2018, “Kirkpatrick” picked up a columnist gig with The Social Contract – a journal published by anti-immigrant stalwart John Tanton.
Building a revolutionary alternative rightPaul GottfriedPaul Gottfried in 2017. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)More so than Paul Gottfried, a far-right thinker often credited with giving rise to the term “alternative right,” DeAnna as “Hood” set a roadmap for the alt-right to “destroy” the conservative establishment. Whereas Gottfried implored the racist paleoconservatives of the H.L. Mencken Society to “do what is possible rather than what lies beyond our limited material resources” in 2008, DeAnna called for a more aggressive revolutionary approach. Writing for Taki’s Magazine in July 2009 under his own byline, DeAnna argued in favor of a “post-conservative and post-national right” that could “be a voice for a ‘revolution’ that isn’t just rhetoric.” He cited the momentum of the Ron Paul movement as evidence that a new, “alternative” form of conservatism could take root. While distancing the YWC from the budding “alternative right,” DeAnna saw within corners of the conservative movement an openness to breaking with the establishment.
These currents have carried over into DeAnna’s pseudonymous work, where he has repeatedly decried the hegemony of, to use a term all-too-common on VDARE, “Conservatism, Inc.” Emboldened by the GOP’s failure to choose a suitable candidate to represent white nationalist ideals, “Hood” wrote an essay published on Counter-Currents that would quickly become foundational. The piece, “ A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans,” called upon disaffected white Americans to “fight for a country of [their] own.” From 4chan’s /pol/ and Identity Evropa-affiliated Discord servers to sites such as Occidental Observer, “Hood’s” essay was lauded as a classic.
“You need to recognize that America today is a filthy lie, the most vile and despicable fiction ever foisted upon decent people,” DeAnna wrote under the “Hood” pseudonym. Elsewhere in the same piece, he proclaimed: “It’s time to stop being Americans. It’s time to start being White Men again.”
As “Hood,” DeAnna painted a picture of an America that had forsaken the white race – and more specifically, white men. “Everything you loved about what used to be your country came from one group of people. It’s the group you belong to. It’s the white race,” “Hood” wrote in a 2012 article called “Waking Up from the American Dream” from his book of the same title. “And it’s not an accident that the same people who hate your country hate your race more than anything.”
But whites cannot “drop out” of the system; instead, they have to fight against it in defense of the ethnostate, as DeAnna, writing as “Hood,” argued in a Counter-Currents article published in December 2012:
You can’t drop out. You can’t remain silent. You can’t work a job quietly and hope they will leave you alone. . . . They are coming for you, your job, your family, everything you care about. . . . You can give in to their system, accept their oppression, play by their rules, do everything you are supposed to do. It just won’t matter.
Struggle is not a choice. That’s inevitable. The choice is a desperate struggle for a white homeland – or the surrender to eternal darkness.
In other words, there was no political solution from within the system; such a civilizational corrective had to come from outside of it. Whites were, in “Hood’s” account, unable to “drop out” of the system entirely, but only insofar as dropping out meant giving up on the ethnostate.
To that end, DeAnna as “Hood” repeatedly advocated for the destruction of mainstream conservatism, albeit now citing more extreme figures as inspiration.
In a Counter-Currents article from 2013, “Hood” called for a hostile takeover of the GOP. Citing James Mason – the author of the terroristic manifesto "SIEGE," which has inspired the likes of Atomwaffen Division, the Base, and others – “Hood” encouraged “white advocates” to form a movement that united all white people against a common enemy. Doing so effectively meant carving out alternative “cultural spaces,” such as “publishers, website, bands, or spiritual groups.”
Success, “Hood” continued, depended on translating traditional white nationalist talking points so they could be more easily digested by a mainstream audience. While claiming that the GOP constituted the largest and most amicable group of politically active white voters to the white nationalist cause, he argued that racist activists could not simply transform them into a viable base overnight. “A successful movement,” “Hood” observed earlier in the same piece, “has to have waystations that we control all along the political spectrum.”
Finding an admirer in Jared Taylor“Hood’s” reputation as a major driver of the alt-right’s approach to conservatism in particular was not built overnight. Indeed, DeAnna began cultivating his alter ego long before YWC collapsed.
The pen name “Gregory Hood” appeared for the first time in 2008 on a piece published in American Renaissance. “Hood” is simply described in his author’s bio as someone who “has been active in conservative youth movements in the US.”
“Hood” remained relatively inactive until 2011, when DeAnna began to more frequently write under the pseudonym. That year, he wrote four pieces for Counter-Currents, a white nationalist website and publishing house run by Gregory Johnson.
In May 2011, American Renaissance ran yet another essay from “Hood” – this time on what the neo-Confederate movement can offer “white advocates.” One month prior, American Renaissance head Jared Taylor encouraged the organization’s newsletter subscribers to support YWC and DeAnna.
Taylor’s admiration aside, it wasn’t until 2012 that “Hood’s” byline began to regularly appear in American Renaissance as an online contributor.
By 2015, those driving the alt-right moment into salience had heeded DeAnna’s advice. They recognized Trump, as “Hood” wrote in a 2015 Radix Journal post, as an opportunity to “disrupt the system.”
“Hood’s” profile rose throughout the 2016 election cycle. His July 24, 2015, article for American Renaissance on “cuckservatism” came to be referred to as a manifesto. Meanwhile, his persona garnered numerous mainstream media mentions in Vox, Mother Jones and the L.A. Times, among others. Riding off this momentum, Counter-Currents released DeAnna’s first collection of essays under the pseudonym, titled Waking Up from the American Dream, in 2016. It was warmly received by those within the movement. Taylor contributed a blurb to “Hood’s” book, writing, “In our movement, Gregory Hood is unquestionably the best writer of his generation. Heck, he could be the best writer in the entire movement.”
At other times, DeAnna’s reputation made for ample joke material. In a Feb. 1, 2016, email, longtime friend and former YWC member Marcus Epstein jokingly blamed DeAnna’s “negative energy” for Trump’s poor performance in the Iowa caucuses. “His naysaying became a self fulfilling prophecy,” Epstein wrote, copying Richard Spencer, McHugh, DeAnna and a number of other D.C.-area white nationalists.
“Fox News shilling hard to get voters in NH to abandon Trump,” responded DeAnna.
“Kevin is like the homeless guy in American Psycho,” Epstein countered. “Negative attitude.”
Regardless, “Hood’s” reputation as a content producer and ideologue among the alt-right would pay off. “Hood” was hired in February 2018 at American Renaissance as a full-time staff writer, where he worked with another YWC alum, Devin Saucier. As Joseph Bernstein reported in BuzzFeed in 2017, Saucier has, in addition to working for Taylor as an assistant, written for American Renaissance for years using the pseudonym “Henry Wolff.” According to McHugh, who was not talking frequently with DeAnna at that time, it is unclear whether “Hood’s” new gig at American Renaissance was immediately after, or just before, DeAnna left his job at WorldNetDaily.
American Renaissance used the opportunity to re-introduce “Hood” to their readers through an interview with fellow pseudonymous AmRen, VDARE and Radix contributor “Hubert Collins.” Collins had crossed paths with Hood many times prior, including during a now-deleted 2014 interview on the neoreactionary website Social Matter with DeAnna as “Hood,” former Daily Caller reporter Scott Greer as “Michael McGregor” and former Daily Caller reporter Jonah Bennett as “Hadley Bennett.”
“James Kirkpatrick’s” life in “prudent obscurity”Since 2011, DeAnna has cycled between his persona as “Hood” and writing under the pseudonym “James Kirkpatrick” for the anti-immigration, white nationalist hate site VDARE. Here, DeAnna acted as one of the site’s main contributors and, later, as a social media manager and editor. He railed against the behemoth that VDARE referred to as “Conservatism, Inc.” – that is, the people behind the party’s “ideological wonkery” – while occasionally bolstering insider efforts to shift the party to a more hardline stance on immigration and demographic change.
What would become DeAnna’s preferred nom de guerre for his more mainstream anti-immigration work appeared first at Richard Spencer’s AlternativeRight.org in early 2011. But by October 2011, “Kirkpatrick” took his talents to VDARE and DeAnna began writing under the “Kirkpatrick” pseudonym for the site. “Kevin DeAnna at Youth for Western Civilization writes that Occupy Wall St. protestors have accurately identified the problem,” “Kirkpatrick” wrote in the first sentence of his Oct. 14, 2011, piece, “namely the inability of ‘ordinary Americans to lead a middle class life.’”
As “Kirkpatrick,” DeAnna frequently aggregated and cited himself and “Hood.” Following Trump’s victory, he repurposed “Hood’s” 2012 essay “A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans.”
Despite “Kirkpatrick’s” prolific output at VDARE, where he has penned over 1,110 blogs, DeAnna’s work for the site was not limited to blogging. As early as December 2013, DeAnna acknowledged to McHugh that he had picked up additional responsibilities at the site after temporarily breaking from his job at WND. In a Jan. 16, 2014 email, he expressed frustration while grappling with some sort of “record keeping” issue at VDARE.
Among some of the writers DeAnna had the responsibility of editing were Donald Collins, a former board member and current advisory board co-chair at the anti-immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform and frequent VDARE contributor. DeAnna was, as his emails to McHugh make clear, not a fan.
DeAnna, July 19, 2014, 5:04 pm: “. . . was set to write [an] immigration piece. . . But instead have to edit Collins, [G]ottfried, and write something abour [sic] TN. This is why no one reads vdare.”
DeAnna issued the same complaint a few weeks later in an email about his editorial duties.
DeAnna, July 30, 2014, 6:22 pm: “Fuck, Don Collins roused himself from senility and sent in a steaming plate of horseshit again.”
DeAnna, July 30, 2014, 6:22 pm: “‘Hey folks! Did you know the Whore of Babylon, the Pope, is trying to destroy our precious rule of law to fulfill his sinister Jesuit designs?’ Every Don Collins column.”
About a year later, DeAnna emailed McHugh from his “James Kirkpatrick” Gmail account, prepared to bring his complaints to Brimelow. After asking McHugh if she thought “this is too much,” DeAnna wrote:
“Kirkpatrick,” Nov. 25, 2015, 11:49 am: “I really, really don’t want to be an editor. I hate talking to people, I hate editing people whose work I’m uninterested in. . . . I don’t want to spend the rest of my life editing [Allan] Wall, Federale, etc. . . . If you want me to send in an article or two a week great, but I don’t want to do anything else (including Twitter, which is eating up all of my time.)
Despite his complaints, little about DeAnna’s situation at VDARE seemed to have changed. In an email sent to McHugh prior to the 2016 state of the union address, he complained about covering the event.
DeAnna, Jan. 12, 2016, 1:15 pm: “[The article on the State of the Union] will be a good mix with our cutting edge content about a random guy [that] I’ve never heard of [who] Paul Gottfried doesn’t like, a Stix column about an incident two months ago, and a Federale [column] complaining about a Washington Post article from two months ago. Also, we’re running a Don Collins ‘column’ which is literally just him copying the comments from a Washington Post article. . . . [I]t’s just plagiarism.”
These additional duties did little to stymie DeAnna’s production as a writer, however. In July 2017, he began publishing in The Social Contract. Two years later, in October 2019, DeAnna’s second pseudonymous book – his first as “Kirkpatrick” – was published by Arktos Media.
The book, titled "Conservatism, Inc.: The Battle for the American Right," was praised by reviewers at numerous white nationalist sites, including VDARE itself. “Kirkpatrick,” opined VDARE editor Peter Brimelow upon the book’s release, was one of many young authors compelled to hide from the mainstream media as a result of the “extraordinary unreported personal and professional . . . Holocaust after Trump’s 2016 election.”
“Once a rising figure in the Beltway Right,” Brimelow pontificated in his foreword for the book, “[‘Kirkpatrick’] has for some years now lived in prudent obscurity.” You, the reader, Brimelow continued, could blame the left’s “Reign of Terror” for that.
“The best you can do once you start down this road”
“I’m the best writer in the world for my niche,” DeAnna wrote in an email to McHugh on Aug. 10, 2015. “I’ve been told that directly.”
Yet DeAnna’s life as the “Prince of the Alt Right,” as he crowned himself in a June 1, 2014, email to McHugh, was far from glorious. His influence on the movement as “Hood” and “Kirkpatrick” was no replacement for the security guaranteed by a steady job outside of the extremist movement he had worked so hard to cultivate.
“I’m broke, know there’s no future in it, am terrified every day of being outed, would kill off the name entirely if I didn’t think that would increase the chances of being outed, and am desperate to find a way back to a normal job, having wasted the last 14 years,” DeAnna wrote to McHugh on Aug. 10, 2015, “My situation right now is basically the best you can do once you start on this road.”
Whatever sense of desperation DeAnna felt about his situation back in 2015 has done little to separate himself from the white nationalist movement. Some of the outlets “Hood” and “Kirkpatrick” wrote for have gone dark – most notably, NPI’s Radix Journal. But even as waves of infighting after the 2017 Unite the Right riots in Charlottesville tore apart the loose coalition of extremists who constituted the alt-right, both “Hood” and “Kirkpatrick” have carried on.=<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/kevin-deanna">https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/kevin-deanna</a><aside class="group-sidebar-one" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; width: 893px; margin-right: 21.0469px; padding: 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="extremist-info" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.83em 0px 0.2em; font-weight: normal; border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding-bottom: 0.2em; text-transform: uppercase;">EXTREMIST INFO</h2><div class="field field-name-field-extremist-dates field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em;"><div class="field-label" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold; float: none; display: inline;"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.83em 0px; border-bottom: none; display: inline;">Born</h2></div> <div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: none; display: inline;">1983</div></div><div class="field field-name-field-extremist-location field-type-text-long field-label-inline clearfix" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em;"><div class="field-label" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold; float: none; display: inline;"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.83em 0px; border-bottom: none; display: inline;">Location</h2></div> <div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: none; display: inline;">Arlington, VA.</div></div><div class="field field-name-field-ideology field-type-entityreference field-label-inline clearfix" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em;"><div class="field-label" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold; float: none; display: inline;"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.83em 0px; border-bottom: none; display: inline;">Ideology</h2></div> <div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: none; display: inline;"><div class="field-item even " style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; float: none;"><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/white-nationalist" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s; background: transparent;">White Nationalist</a></div></div></div></div></aside><div class="required-fields group-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; margin-right: 0px; width: 893px; padding: 0px 1em;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-label" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.83em;">About Kevin DeAnna</h2></div><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even " style="box-sizing: inherit;">YWC made its first public splash as a co-sponsor of 2009’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the right wing’s most important annual shindig, where in 2011 DeAnna moderated a discussion on immigration. That year, nativist panelist and former congressman Tom Tancredo, who is YWC’s honorary chairman, called multiculturalism “the dagger pointed at the heart of Western civilization.” DeAnna matched him, saying he opposed immigration even if it’s good for the economy “because it’s about our dispossession as a people.”Tancredo’s not the worst of DeAnna’s connections. In 2011, Jared Taylor (see profile below), editor of the racist journal American Renaissance, wrote a fundraising letter for DeAnna’s YWC in which he described DeAnna as “an eloquent and distinguished young man who knows how important our cultural identity is.” (Taylor has written that when “blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears.”) DeAnna, in an accompanying letter to Taylor’s mailing list, boasted that he had “defended western culture” against a “far left” that is trying to “destroy our people and culture.”DeAnna had flirted with hard-right politics for years before founding YWC, whose purpose is to defend “Western culture” from the perils of “radical multiculturalism,” in 2006. As an undergraduate at Virginia’s College of William and Mary, he ran a conservative student paper notorious for its sneering treatment of women. There, he worked closely with Marcus Epstein, who later described himself as YWC’s vice president. In 2007, while drunkenly walking through the streets of Washington, D.C., Epstein saw a black woman walking by, called her a “nigger,” and tried to physically attack her. When the incident became public two years later, YWC strove to put a distance between itself and its erstwhile associate.DeAnna retained his position at the head of YWC until February 2012, when he issued a statement saying that he was leaving for personal and professional reasons. Today, he is a faculty member of the Leadership Institute, a well-funded organization that claims to have trained close to 100,000 “future conservative leaders” — people like Bush adviser Karl Rove and religious activist Ralph Reed — and was an early supporter of both DeAnna and his YWC.Remarkably, DeAnna has now been named “marketing coordinator” for WorldNetDaily (WND), a far-right online publication known for its relentless anti-Obama “birther” propaganda and the kind of apocalyptic “news” stories that would look at home in a supermarket checkout line (see also Joseph Farah profile, below). Apparently, the once-serious student will also be “reporting” for the site that regularly features imminent end-times predictions. His first item, a fawning interview with white nationalist Pat Buchanan, who recently was ejected from the MSNBC lineup because of his racist views, appeared in February.</div></div></div></div>==
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Major Campus Group, Holding First National Conference in Capital Area Tomorrow, Has Racist Roots

Posted By Mark Potok On June 16, 2011 @ 11:36 am In Anti-Black, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBT, White Nationalism | <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/16/major-campus-group-holding-national-debut-tomorrow-has-racist-roots/print/#comments_controls">23 Comments</a>

Editor’s Note: This lengthy story is slated for publication in a future issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, but is published early here because the group it focuses on, Youth for Western Civilization, is holding its first national conference this Friday through Sunday at an undisclosed location in the Washington, D.C., area. To read a summary of the report’s key findings, see <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-campus-group-has-history-of-associating-with-racist-leaders" rel="external" style="">here</a> [1].

By Mark Potok and Evelyn Schlatter

Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) — a 5-year-old ultraconservative student group whose national conference in Washington, D.C., this Friday is being billed by its leader as the organization’s “real birth” — asserts that it is “not a racist group.” Its only purpose, says the group that claims a swelling presence on U.S. campuses and even abroad, is to defend “Western civilization.”

But what exactly does YWC mean by that?

The answer to that question was never clearer than this April, when racist ideologue <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/jared-taylor" rel="external">Jared Taylor</a> [2] wrote a cover letter to his subscribers asking for support for YWC and its leader, Kevin DeAnna (pictured at right), who Taylor described as “an eloquent and distinguished young man who knows how important our cultural identity is.”

After reminding his backers that “race and race conflict” are at the core of the problems the West faces, Taylor said DeAnna “has agreed to continue our struggle on college campuses throughout the nation and dedicated himself to reaching our children and grandchildren.” For his part, DeAnna warned in an accompanying letter of the perils of “radical multiculturalism,” boasting that he had “defended western culture” against the “far left” that is trying to “destroy our people and culture.”

DeAnna’s fundraising partner, Jared Taylor, edits <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-renaissance" rel="external">American Renaissance</a> [3], a journal that specializes in issues of race, intelligence and the “psychopathology” of black people. In it, Taylor once mused: “When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears.” Taylor’s biannual conferences have featured a Who’s Who of radical-right leaders, including former Klan boss <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/david-duke" rel="external">David Duke</a> [4] and an array of leading neo-Nazi activists.

YWC is not some tiny Klan group on the margins of society. It claims a presence at nearly a dozen American universities, along with others in Canada and the United Kingdom. It appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a key Washington political venue, in 2009 and 2011, when it sponsored a panel on immigration. In 2010, it launched its own Internet radio show, “Western Resistance Radio.” Its honorary chairman is former Colorado congressman <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/spring/electoral-extremism-23-candidates-on-radical-right" rel="external">Tom Tancredo</a> [5], a well-known immigration opponent and Tea Party favorite. Perhaps most worrying of all are YWC’s close ties to The Leadership Institute, an organization with a budget of some $10 million that claims to have trained close to 100,000 “future conservative leaders” — people like top Bush advisor Karl Rove — and that now employs DeAnna as a leading official of its campus leadership program.

The key question, as YWC attempts to organize new campus chapters through this week’s national conference, is whether it will continue to grow.

Roots of Radicalism

It seemed to begin with resentment towards women.

A decade ago, in 2001, Kevin DeAnna started at the College of William & Mary, a well-regarded school in Williamsburg, Va., where he joined the staff of a right-wing campus newspaper, The Remnant. He was soon joined there by Marcus Epstein, who six years later would be arrested for his attack on a black woman. By 2003, DeAnna was managing editor and Epstein was editor-in-chief. The next year, DeAnna replaced Epstein, who had gone to New Orleans for a semester to study Austrian (libertarian) economics and became the paper’s “Editor in Exile.”

During these years, The Remnant became known for its sneering attitude toward women. It railed on about a campus art exhibit of nude females, aged birth to 100, saying the people depicted “were simply disgusting and not appealing” and the entire exhibit was “filth.” It claimed that the wage gap between men and women was due to women’s “different work habits” and “occupational preferences,” rather than any kind of discrimination. But most notably, The Remnant in this period seemed to delight in attacking alleged rape victims, saying in 2003 that “feminist lies about supposed rape designed to demonize all men should be exposed.”

In 2004, DeAnna wrote a long article demanding an apology from a 16-year-old girl after prosecutors dropped charges against a student she had accused of raping her at a fraternity party. The next year, after a rash of reported sexual assaults on students, The Remnant again attacked an alleged rape victim, saying she had lied, that she was a “wannabe victim” and “con artist,” and that she should be criminally charged. In 2006, after DeAnna’s 2005 graduation, the girl who was 16 in 2004 sued DeAnna, Epstein, and three other Remnant staffers for defamation. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed for reasons that are not clear from the court record.

The paper had other interests as well. In a section titled “Rebel Yell,” a reference to the Confederate battle cry, it argued that the Civil War was not fought over slavery — a claim that virtually no serious historian agrees with. It approvingly quoted the late <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/sam-francis" rel="external">Sam Francis</a> [6] while he was the chief editor of the white supremacist <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/council-of-conservative-citizens" rel="external">Council of Conservative Citizens</a> [7], a hate group that opposes interracial marriage and has described black people as a “retrograde species of humanity.”

And, in 2003, it sponsored a talk, “Was There a Civil Rights Revolution?” by the radical-right professor <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/intelligence-report/-year-hate/academic-racists" rel="external">Paul Gottfried</a> [8], who argued that Martin Luther King Jr. had pushed the nation onto a path that “had more to do with political coercion and relentless indoctrination than with appeals to conscience,” as he put it in an essay under the same title as his William & Mary presentation. (Last year, Gottfried scoffed at criticism of Richard Nixon’s slurring of various minority groups. “Was Nixon unusual in noticing that Jews are pushy, that the Irish have a tendency to imbibe too much, that Italians can be intemperate, or that Blacks generally don’t excel at intellectually demanding activities?” Gottfried asked.)

DeAnna wrote up the talk in a long, enthusiastic review.

DeAnna has written that he is “a former director” of the right-wing campus group Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), apparently during his time at William & Mary. In 2005, he also began to blog at the Smash Left-Wing Scum website, where Craig Burgers — who would later join DeAnna on the first board of YWC — also was a blogger. At the time, Burgers was a member of the Michigan State University chapter of DeAnna’s organization, known as <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/04/28/msu-yaf-takes-on-the-jews-temporarily/" rel="external">MSU-YAF</a> [9].

That same year, presumably after graduating, DeAnna became a field representative with The Leadership Institute, which says it trains some 10,000 future leaders every year. (In addition to Rove, graduates have included Christian Coalition founder Ralph Reed, lobbyist-turned-felon Jack Abramoff and prostitute-turned-White House correspondent Jeff Gannon.) DeAnna was later promoted to deputy field director for campus leadership programs, a post he retains today. Epstein once had an internship at the institute as well, although it’s unclear when. The institute did not respond to requests for comment on its relationship to YWC.

Crossing the Rubicon

The year 2006 was a critical one for DeAnna and his friends as they cast about, looking for an organization that would serve as a base for their increasingly radical views. By year’s end, they had finally decided to create their own.

In spring 2006, Marcus Epstein graduated and was hired as executive director of American Cause, a group led by white nationalist commentator Pat Buchanan and his sister Bay Buchanan that seeks to “promote traditional American values.” He also became executive director of Team America, a political action committee “dedicated to securing our nation’s borders” that is headed by Bay Buchanan and Tom Tancredo, who would later become YWC’s honorary chairman.

Also that year, DeAnna, Epstein, a white nationalist named Richard Spencer and one other man started a group called the Robert A. Taft Club. According to the journalist Max Blumenthal, one invited speaker that year was the man who would later write a fundraising letter for DeAnna’s YWC — Jared Taylor. (This may well be where DeAnna and Taylor first met.) Also attending a club meeting, Blumenthal reported, was Luke Pelican, who was a former president of MSU-YAF. Later in the year, with DeAnna and Burgers, Pelican would join YWC’s first board.

In a related effort, DeAnna helped create a Facebook page in 2006 for what he called the European American Students Association. He was an administrator of the page, along with an apparently new friend — <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/02/26/campus-hatemonger-lays-down-%E2%80%98torch-of-freedom%E2%80%99/" rel="external">Kyle Bristow</a> [10], who that spring had become the radical new head of MSU-YAF. Answering a request for comment from the Intelligence Report, DeAnna said this May that “that was never a real group but an online parody of all the race-based groups you see on any college campus.”

Shortly after taking the reins of MSU-YAF, Bristow began to develop a reputation as a racist and homophobic radical, and within months the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was talking to reporters about his activities. The SPLC announced its first listing of MSU-YAF as a hate group in April 2007.

DeAnna, in his comments to the Report, said that he had never been a member of MSU-YAF and Bristow had never belonged to YWC. And he said that he had known Bristow when he was “involved in mainstream Republican circles” and that Bristow only later chose “to go further to the right,” adding that he had “nothing to do with” Bristow’s later views. But the truth is that Bristow was already a well-known radical by the time DeAnna worked with him on Facebook. Bristow had posted a 13-point agenda in the spring of 2006, including the goals of defunding all “non-heterosexual student organizations,” the creation of a “Caucasian Caucus,” and the elimination of minority group representation in student government.

In May 2006, DeAnna and “Craig Burgess”— an apparent nom de plume of Craig Burgers — wrote an article in a conservative magazine about a new YAF chapter at Liberty University, a Christian evangelical school in Lynchburg, Va., protesting Republican Sen. John McCain and the immigration reform law he co-sponsored. “This action,” they enthused, “is part of an effort to revitalize Young Americans for Freedom and create a real right-wing youth movement to mobilize against the Republican leadership for secure borders and national sovereignty.”

But they later apparently decided that YAF could not be revitalized. On Dec. 4, 2006, DeAnna incorporated Youth for Western Civilization in Falls Church, Va. Its first board of directors was composed of DeAnna, Burgers and Pelican.

Into the Wild

Much of YWC’s early activism seems to have been an angry response to the SPLC’s criticism of MSU-YAF, then run by Bristow and the former home of both Burgers and Pelican. One sign of that was the 2007 Facebook group called End the Southern Poverty Law Center that gave MSU-YAF’s E-mail address as its point of contact. One of the page’s two administrators was YWC’s Pelican.

On July 7 of that year, an episode occurred that would later bring great embarrassment to the allegedly non-racist YWC. Drunkenly walking through the streets of northwest Washington, D.C., Marcus Epstein, reportedly in the midst of a tirade about non-whites, saw a black woman walking by and called her a “nigger.” He then tried to physically attack the woman but was stopped by her husband, who briefly detained him until he broke free and fled. Epstein didn’t make it far, however, as a passing Secret Service agent saw the attack and detained him.

It would be almost two years before this became public, after Epstein pleaded guilty to assault and agreed to undergo alcoholism treatment, stay away from the couple in question, and donate $1,000 to the United Negro College Fund. When it did, YWC worked to put distance between itself and Epstein. This spring, DeAnna told the Report that he and Epstein had discussed the possibility of his becoming YWC vice president only in early 2011, but that Epstein had never taken the post.

That’s strange, because in 2009, a Vanderbilt University alumni newspaper ran a clarification of an earlier article about the YWC, apparently after DeAnna contacted the paper to complain. “The original article misidentified Marcus Epstein as one of the founders of YWC,” it said. “According to … DeAnna,” it explained, “Marcus Epstein is a vice president of the national YWC. Epstein also identifies himself as vice president of YWC on the American Cause website.”

Epstein disappeared from visible activism after his arrest was publicized in 2009 and DeAnna drafted Devin Saucier, the co-founder of a YWC chapter at Vanderbilt University, as YWC vice president. In 2009, Saucier complained in a student newspaper that today’s immigrants are not assimilating: “[Y]ou can move to a Mexican ghetto or something like that and retain your same language, retain your same culture, root against the U.S. at sporting events, hang a Puerto Rican flag from your visor … and it’s not the same dedication to America that there used to be.” That December, Saucier attended a two-day Leadership Institute training.

Making Friends

YWC got its first introduction to the wider conservative world in February 2009, when it appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a sponsor, or funder, and ran a booth in the conference’s main exhibition hall. It also hosted an “Inaugural Reception” in a ballroom at a nearby hotel.

Since that time, evidence of YWC’s radicalism has only accumulated:

<ul>

<li>Current YWC Vice President Devin Saucier in 2009 brought in <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/filling-the-void" rel="external">Richard Spencer</a> [11], president of the white nationalist <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2006/summer/irreconcilable-differences/the-groups" rel="external">National Policy Institute</a> [12], a racist think tank that normally avoids guttural language but has featured interviews with rabid anti-Semites like <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/kevin-macdonald" rel="external">Kevin MacDonald</a> [13] and the Rev. <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/winter/overheard" rel="external">Ted Pike</a> [14]. Spencer was a founder, with DeAnna and Epstein, of the Taft Club.</li>

<li>

</li><li>At a 2009 American University event organized by YWC, Tancredo gave a speech with an explicitly racial theme. “Throughout history, people who are not white Anglo-Saxon have become American by adopting a white Anglo-Saxon culture,” he said, according to the student newspaper. “Today, this cult of multiculturality emphasizes our differences.” He reportedly went on to identify Latinos and Muslims as members of “problem” cultures.</li>

<li>DeAnna spoke the same year to a conference of the H.L. Mencken Club founded by Paul Gottfried, the same radical professor whose William & Mary speech he had enthused about in 2003. Other guest speakers included Richard Spencer and Jim Russell, an editorial adviser to <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/occidental-quarterly" rel="external">The Occidental Quarterly</a> [15], which writes on topics like eugenics and “the Jewish Mafia.”</li>

<li>In a June 2010 speech at an anti-immigration rally sponsored by the Phoenix Rising Tea Party, DeAnna said America cannot survive being “Balkanized” by immigrant groups that do not assimilate to American culture. “If we lose this battle,” the YWC president told his listeners, “we lose everything.”</li>

<li>In October of that year, DeAnna spoke to a conference hosted by <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/the-social-contract-press" rel="external">The Social Contract</a> [16], a racist nativist journal that has fretted that “Europhobia” is making white people strangers in their own land. DeAnna told his listeners that what was needed was to “destroy the multicultural paradigm on campus.”</li>

<li>During the same month, Tim Dionisopoulos, president of the Providence, R.I., chapter of YWC, spoke at a rally hosted by the nativist Rhode Islanders for Immigration and Law Enforcement, citing racist ideologue Sam Francis.</li>

</ul>

Recent blog items on YWC’s website also suggest an underlying antipathy towards blacks and Latinos. One unattributed 2010 posting complains that we are “importing a servant class of groundskeepers, nannies and pool boys from the Third World.” Another blamed “permanently aggrieved racial and ethnic minorities” for corporate diversity training, which it described as “a form of affirmative action in that it provides middle class jobs for those without any other marketable skills.” Another said it was a “tragedy” that so many blacks ended up “behind bars or growing up in broken homes. This can be attributed to personal failings though, not the American system.” And still another mentioned “how largely Jewish intellectual elites have utterly transformed American social and political discourse.”

At times, YWC can sound like a parody of its own racial fears. Last year, a blog item complained that the Obama Administration was using “politically correct” recyclable paperboard eggs in its Easter egg hunts rather than “fattening” real eggs. “But that’s not their most objectionable characteristic,” the defenders of Western civilization huffed. “Real eggs have the misfortune of being white!”

The Beat Goes On

This year, YWC returned to the February CPAC conference, hosting a panel called “Will Immigration Kill the GOP?” DeAnna moderated the panel, while panelist Tom Tancredo, who warned in 2003 that immigrants “are coming here to kill you and to kill me and our families,” told his listeners that multiculturalism “is the dagger pointed at the heart of Western civilization.” According to the Anti-Defamation League, DeAnna had his own provocative language: “Even if you prove to me … that [curtailing illegal immigration] would hurt the economy, I would still be opposed to immigration because it’s about our dispossession as a people.”

In the audience were several people not often seen at CPAC gatherings: <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/summer/minute-mess" rel="external">Jim Gilchrist</a> [17], founder of the nativist Minuteman Project; <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/william-daniel-johnson" rel="external">William D. Johnson</a> [18], chairman of the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-third-position" rel="external">American Third Position</a> [19] hate group and a man who has advocated deporting any American with an “ascertainable trace of Negro blood”; and Jared Taylor.

Two months later, Taylor Rose of the YWC chapter at Liberty University, the evangelical college started by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, met in Belgium with members of the Vlaams Belang political party. In 2004, under the name of Vlaams Blok, the party was outlawed because of its racist views; the party later reorganized under the new name to get around the prohibition. Rose also gave a speech in early May to an anti-Muslim demonstration in Germany hosted by two groups classified by the German government as “right-wing extremist.” DeAnna scoffed at that designation, telling the Report that European officials “recklessly” use “smear words.”

At around the same time, subscribers to Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance began to receive the envelope containing fundraising pitches for YWC from both Taylor and DeAnna. Today, DeAnna claims that he had nothing at all to do with that. In an E-mail to the Report, DeAnna said that YWC had asked an outside conservative fundraising group to “get lists for us.” The firm, he said, went on to contact Taylor “without my knowledge” and organized the entire mailing without ever showing it to YWC officials. While this may be so, it would be extremely rare in the world of fundraising consultants, who virtually never mail out letters on a client’s behalf without first securing the client’s approval of every word. DeAnna declined to identify what he called the “third party fundraising firm.”

Today, YWC is only starting to really become known on the national conservative scene, although it’s clear that it has developed a network of friends both on the extreme right and among some more mainstream conservatives. Currently, it has active chapters at American University (Washington, D.C.), where DeAnna is now pursuing a master’s degree in international relations; Vanderbilt (Tennessee); Washington State University; Liberty University (Virginia); Bentley University (Massachusetts); Providence College (Rhode Island); the University of Rhode Island; Boise State University (Idaho); and the University of Idaho.

DeAnna said recently that the “real birth” of YWC will come at its first national conference, this Friday to Sunday, in the capital. “All the work we have been doing over the last couple of years will come together at this conference,” DeAnna enthused. “It will be YWC’s real birth as a national organization with a support structure to build and maintain at campuses all around the country.”

The question now is whether it will be a stillbirth — a group like so many others that ventured from mainstream concerns into clearly racist thinking and withered — or instead manage to fool people into seeing it as a healthy newborn.

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eganti immigration--<div class="catItemHeader" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thursday, 03 February 2011<h2 class="catItemTitle" style="padding: 10px 0px 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 28px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/bush-fatigue/" title="Bush Fatigue" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bush Fatigue</a></h2><h3 class="catItemSubtitle" style="padding: 3px 0px 12px; margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21.6px; font-style: italic;">Neocon Globalist George W. Bush Frets About Nativism and Isolationism</h3>By <a title="William L. Houston" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/authors/william-l.-houston/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">William L. Houston</a></div><div class="catItemBody" style="padding: 15px 0px; margin: 0px;"><div class="catItemLeftBlock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: left; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 10px 5px 5px; width: 220px;"><div class="catItemImage" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; width: 220px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/bush-fatigue/" title="Bush Fatigue" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024im/http://www.westernyouth.org/media/k2/items/cache/6a501db6788f8bc3147fbec59d7a4924_S.jpg" alt="Bush Fatigue" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 8px; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 153) 0px 0px 5px;" /></a></div></div><div class="catItemIntroText" style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;">George W. Bush is back <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.nationaljournal.com/member/congress/george-w-bush-frets-about-new-nativism--20110131" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wagging his finger</a> at conservatives.He recently told a forum at Southern Methodist University that he is concerned about the growth of "isolationism, protectionism, and nativism" in the United States. We are <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/03/george-w-bush-nativist_n_817996.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">going through a period</a> like the 1920's now ... you know, the Tea Party, the Klan, same script, different aesthetics.Nativists are "evil."In George W. Bush's view, America will eventually adopt a "rational immigration policy." It will take "some time" though for Americans to be converted to the ideology of globalism. Conservatives who are opposed to social and economic policies which ship American jobs overseas, drive down wages, increase crime, dilute our sovereignty, degrade the environment, displace natives, and bankrupt hospitals and entire states - which benefits the Cheap Labor Lobby and the Democratic Party - are nothing more than mindless irrational haters.The rich in this country must not be denied access to their Latino servant class. This is the moral imperative of our age!I believe it is also the editorial position of the New York Times.In other news, Jeb Bush is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-14/jeb-bush-other-republicans-start-effort-to-court-latino-voters.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">trying to revive</a> the constituency for "comprehensive immigration reform" in the Republican Party with his "Plan Latino." Barbara Bush, George W. Bush's daughter, recently <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/01/bushes-daughter-barbara-endorses-gay-marriage-new-york/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">came out in support</a> of gay marriage and Obamacare.She joins her mother Laura Bush who <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtNabdDx_mU" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">endorsed gay marriage and abortion</a> after W. left office. The Bush family is doing their part to bring about this "generational shift." I don't remember that being in the 2000 and 2004 campaign platforms.Are conservatives suckers enough to be duped a third time? We will find out next year when Jeb Bush runs for president.In the meantime, let the Bush hating commence.</div></div><div class="catItemHeader" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thursday, 03 February 2011<h2 class="catItemTitle" style="padding: 10px 0px 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 28px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/fighting-back-against-the-bureaucrats/" title="Fighting back against the bureaucrats" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fighting back against the bureaucrats</a></h2><h3 class="catItemSubtitle" style="padding: 3px 0px 12px; margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21.6px; font-style: italic;">By <a title="Alexander Rowson" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/authors/alexander-rowson/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Alexander Rowson</a></h3></div><div class="catItemBody" style="padding: 15px 0px; margin: 0px;">
<div class="catItemIntroText" style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;">Recently, the great state of Arizona took a groundbreaking step against the multicult bureaucrats of academia. The media reported it as a ban of so-called "ethnic studies classes". As usual, this was not quite the truth.

In Arizona, you can still take a class on the history and culture of any ethnic group of the world - from the Aztecs, to the Germans, to the Japanese or Greeks. That is any sane person's definition of what an ethnic studies class is. But not to the liberal academia of Arizona, allied with radical ethnocentric groups like "The Council of La Raza (The Race)".

Their vision of "ethnic studies" classes was radical leftism, hatred of the historical American nation, and encouragement of racial grievances amongst "oppressed minorities"... for example, the substantial Hispanic population of the Southwest United States. A common mythology promoted by groups like La Raza declares that land won by the USA in the Mexican-American War is stolen, and should be reconquered by Mexican nationals. This includes much of California, Colorado, Texas, and Arizona. Of course, this was all paid for by the taxes of honest, hardworking Arizonans, without their consent.

The Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal, said that when he went into these classrooms, he would see portrayals of Ben Franklin as a "racist" and portraits of Communist mass-murderer Che Guevara, a hero of both Hispanic ethnocentrists and far-left loonies.

So Arizona, led by Governor Jan Brewer, took action. The state legislature drafted and passed a law which allows the Arizona government to halt funding to any school with classes that:<ul style=""><li style="">1) promote the overthrow of the United States government;</li><li style="">2) promote resentment toward a race or class of people;</li><li style="">3) are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group; or</li><li style="">4) advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.</li></ul>In other words, the majority of multicult, left-wing classes are no longer eligible for public funding in the great state of Arizona. Anyone can still preach these ideas if they want - but no longer will they be supported by the the money of the Arizonan taxpayer, and no longer will student money that should be going to maintenance, equipment, and real classes be used to fund this garbage.

Of course, there was an outcry from the usual suspects. The New York Times said that the Arizona government "promotes discord and intolerance" and called the concerns of the voters "nativist fears". Dolores Huerta, a race hustler along the lines of Jesse Jackson, proclaimed that "we’re just going to teach ethnic studies and violate the law, [and] get people in jail."

We stand with Arizona whole-heartedly on this issue. In fact, we find this to be the most exciting conservative development in recent memory. The leftists captured America by capturing the schools and the academia, and this is the first blow against that stranglehold. Ethnic studies classes and the immigration situation are not the core of this issue- it is that a corrupt and narcissistic academia dictates far too much of the national rhetoric.

Why just Arizona? Why not Idaho? Washington? Montana? In all states, the majority of tax money comes from middle and upper-middle class, hardworking people, who tend to be conservative. They don't want their tax-money funding radical propaganda. Nor do most students want their hard-earned tuition money spent on the same.

Let's start getting organized and demand change from the university system. Simple activism really can change things, as can contacting your senators and representatives. Let them know that YOU know and care about these issues, and that you're ready to take a stand for what is right. The leftists knew that once they controlled the schools they controlled the country - and once we take back the schools, the future for young patriots and conservatives will look much brighter.</div></div>=<div class="itemContainer" style=""><div class="catItemView" style="padding: 4px 4px 10px;"><div class="catItemHeader" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wednesday, 02 February 2011<h2 class="catItemTitle" style="padding: 10px 0px 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 28px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/ywc-student-makes-top-10-list-for-student-academic-freedom/" title="YWC Student Makes 'Top 10' List for Student Academic Freedom" style="text-decoration-line: none;">YWC Student Makes 'Top 10' List for Student Academic Freedom</a></h2><h3 class="catItemSubtitle" style="padding: 3px 0px 12px; margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21.6px; font-style: italic;">By <a title="John Anderson" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/authors/john-anderson/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Anderson</a></h3></div><div class="catItemBody" style="padding: 15px 0px; margin: 0px;"><div class="catItemLeftBlock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: left; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 10px 5px 5px; width: 220px;"><div class="catItemImage" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; width: 220px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/ywc-student-makes-top-10-list-for-student-academic-freedom/" title="YWC Student Makes 'Top 10' List for Student Academic Freedom" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024im/http://www.westernyouth.org/media/k2/items/cache/b208182456855b5680dad1bcd630c63f_S.jpg" alt="YWC Student Makes 'Top 10' List for Student Academic Freedom" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 8px; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 153) 0px 0px 5px;" /></a></div></div><div class="catItemIntroText" style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;">Alex Rowson, of the Idaho University chapter of Youth for Western Civilization, has been busy combatting political correctness on campus. The politically correct adminstration doesn't like this of course, and has repeatedly taken measures to suppress his freedom of speech. For their suppression of his courageous actions, the University of Idaho has made <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/01/07/desecrating-academia-1/8/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">'The Top 10 Outrageous Assaults on Academic Freedom and Education' </a>list for this year. From the article: <a name="IL_AD9" style="" /><a name="IL_AD1" style="">Young Alex didn’t take too kindly to a loud musical performance being staged in honor of Cesar Chavez Day. (Unlike a real holiday, Cesar Chavez Day is all about pushing the Leftist ideas of, well, Cesar Chavez, of course.) Anyway, Alex thought the music had disrupted his nearby class, and he was probably a bit out of sorts anyway, due to the fact that he’s a conservative kid. So, in between songs, he took the microphone – for about 30 seconds – to make a political statement of his own, describing “how illegal immigration destroyed my home state of California.” Then, the music and general Cesar Chavez Day frivolity continued unabated.</a><a name="IL_AD7" style="" /><a name="IL_AD7" style="">For this, the fascists who run the University of Idaho charged Alex with thought crimes. I mean, they charged him with “violating the rights of the university community” (apparently, the right to hear nothing but Leftist propaganda) and “interrupting a sponsored cultural event and making statements denigrating an ethnic group.” How pointing out that ILLEGAL immigration is a problem denigrates a specific ethnic group was not explained. However, due to this grievous violation of Leftist Thought, Rowson was also charged with violating the school’s discrimination policy.</a><a name="IL_AD7" style=""></a><a name="IL_AD4" style="">Oh, but you can’t keep a feisty conservative youngster down. A few weeks later, the university was hosting a “she fears you” type “Take Back the Night” parade, purportedly to protest sexual violence. As the parade passed him, Rowson shouted comments to the group indicating his opinion that “liberalism is destroying America.”</a>For stating THAT truth, which the university then classified as “hostile and offensive statements,” Rowson was again charged with violating the school’s harassment policy. The school also charged Rowson with “intimidation, specifically by intentionally walking into a participant in an aggressive manner.”The identity of the individual who claimed Rowson “walked into him” was never revealed, and Rowson says he didn’t touch anyone. But it’s important, when you’re trying to harass and intimidate a conservative student, that you throw in some outright lies just to spice things up, right?<a name="IL_AD5" style="" /><a name="IL_AD10" style="">The good attorneys at FIRE had a field day with this one. They  explained to the constitutionally-retarded U of I administration (probably very, very slowly, so they could understand), that saying something is protected by the First Amendment. It is not discrimination. What’s more, yelling something is also protected by the First Amendment. It is not harassment.</a>U of I eventually dropped the discrimination and harassment charges, but still made Alex perform “community service” for his crime of “walking into someone” which he supposedly did while standing and watching the parade go by.This is probably the most egregious violation of an individual student’s rights that I saw this year. Youth for Western Civilization is proud have members such as Alex Rowson amongst our ranks. Alex has continued his activism undaunted, including helping set up our print publication <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/we-ve-started-a-paper/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Northwest Alternative.</a></div><div class="clr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"><div class="moduleItemVideo" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="clr" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"></div><div class="clr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"><div class="catItemLinks" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;"><div class="commentsReadMore" style="padding: 0px 4px 15px 0px;"><div class="catItemReadMore" style="display: inline;"><a class="readmore" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/ywc-student-makes-top-10-list-for-student-academic-freedom/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" web="web" im="im" http="http" www.westernyouth.org="www.westernyouth.org" components="components" com_k2="com_k2" images="images" readmore-sprite.png="readmore-sprite.png" right="right" top="top" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" transparent="transparent" display="display" block="block" float="float" font-weight="font-weight" height="height" px="px" line-height="line-height" margin-top="margin-top" padding-right="padding-right" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb"><span style="background: url(" web="web" im="im" http="http" www.westernyouth.org="www.westernyouth.org" components="components" com_k2="com_k2" images="images" readmore-sprite.png="readmore-sprite.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" transparent="transparent" display="display" block="block" padding="padding">View More...</a></div></div><div class="clr" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"><div class="catItemCategory" style="padding: 4px 4px 4px 0px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204);">Published in: <a title="Articles" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Articles</a></div><div class="clr" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"><div class="separator" style="background: url(" web="web" im="im" http="http" www.westernyouth.org="www.westernyouth.org" components="components" com_k2="com_k2" images="images" separator.gif="separator.gif" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" transparent="transparent" clear="clear" left="left" height="height" px="px" line-height="line-height" margin="margin"> </div></div><div class="itemContainer" style=""><div class="catItemView" style="padding: 4px 4px 10px;"><div class="catItemHeader" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tuesday, 01 February 2011<h2 class="catItemTitle" style="padding: 10px 0px 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 28px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/ywc-to-host-immigration-panel-at-conservative-political-action-conference/" title="YWC To Host Immigration Panel at Conservative Political Action Conference" style="text-decoration-line: none;">YWC To Host Immigration Panel at Conservative Political Action Conference</a></h2><h3 class="catItemSubtitle" style="padding: 3px 0px 12px; margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21.6px; font-style: italic;">By <a title="John Anderson" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/authors/john-anderson/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Anderson</a></h3></div><div class="catItemBody" style="padding: 15px 0px; margin: 0px;"><div class="catItemLeftBlock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: left; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 10px 5px 5px; width: 220px;"><div class="catItemImage" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; width: 220px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/ywc-to-host-immigration-panel-at-conservative-political-action-conference/" title="YWC To Host Immigration Panel at Conservative Political Action Conference" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024im/http://www.westernyouth.org/media/k2/items/cache/25da67824c9f1869e8ef3eacb5d2ced0_S.jpg" alt="YWC To Host Immigration Panel at Conservative Political Action Conference" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 8px; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 153) 0px 0px 5px;" /></a></div><div class="clr" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"><div class="catItemSocial" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 83px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 6px 5px 6px 8px;">
</div></div><div class="catItemIntroText" style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;">YWC is sponsoring a panel on immigration at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the nation's largest and most prominent yearly convention of conservative activists.The panel we are hosting is entitled Will Immigration Kill the GOP?The Panelists are: Bay Buchanan, Congressman Tom Tancredo, Congressman Virgil Goode, YWC President Kevin DeAnnaTime: 1-3pm Friday, February 11, 2011 in the Harding Room of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.Admission is free to all Conference attendees.</div><div class="clr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"><div class="moduleItemVideo" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="clr" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"></div><div class="clr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"><div class="catItemLinks" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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line-height: 0; float: none;"><div class="separator" style="background: url(" web="web" im="im" http="http" www.westernyouth.org="www.westernyouth.org" components="components" com_k2="com_k2" images="images" separator.gif="separator.gif" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" transparent="transparent" clear="clear" left="left" height="height" px="px" line-height="line-height" margin="margin"> </div></div><div class="itemContainer" style=""><div class="catItemView" style="padding: 4px 4px 10px;"><div class="catItemHeader" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tuesday, 01 February 2011<h2 class="catItemTitle" style="padding: 10px 0px 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 28px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/new-mailing-address/" title="New Mailing Address" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New Mailing Address</a></h2><h3 class="catItemSubtitle" style="padding: 3px 0px 12px; margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21.6px;">But don't worry -- we will still get mail at the old address</h3>By <a title="Kevin DeAnna" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/authors/kevin-deanna/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kevin DeAnna</a></div><div class="catItemBody" style="padding: 15px 0px; margin: 0px;"><div class="catItemLeftBlock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: left; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 10px 5px 5px; width: 220px;"><div class="catItemImage" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; width: 220px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/new-mailing-address/" title="New Mailing Address" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024im/http://www.westernyouth.org/media/k2/items/cache/8d967de4fb0deac392e6fc1838a87d15_S.jpg" alt="New Mailing Address" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 8px; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 153) 0px 0px 5px;" /></a></div></div><div class="catItemIntroText" style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;">Friends and comrades,

Because of recent fundraising success, we have moved some operations to Arlington, VA.  We have a new snail mail address.  We can be reached at --Youth for Western Civilization
PO Box 101803
Arlington, VA 22210 

However, anything sent to our Lynchburg mailing address will still get to this, it might just take a little longer.</div></div></div></div>wOdin's day] Wednesday, 02 February 2011<div class="catItemHeader" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="catItemTitle" style="padding: 10px 0px 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 28px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/extreme-rhetoric/" title="Extreme Rhetoric" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Extreme Rhetoric</a></h2><h3 class="catItemSubtitle" style="padding: 3px 0px 12px; margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21.6px;">Real Death Threats Against Restrictionists</h3>By <a title="William L. Houston" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/authors/william-l.-houston/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">William L. Houston</a></div><div class="catItemBody" style="padding: 15px 0px; margin: 0px;"><div class="catItemLeftBlock" style="float: left; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 10px 5px 5px; width: 220px;"><div class="catItemImage" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; width: 220px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/extreme-rhetoric/" title="Extreme Rhetoric" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024im/http://www.westernyouth.org/media/k2/items/cache/5709ab37f70d899bd3794356bcaad57a_S.jpg" alt="Extreme Rhetoric" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 8px; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 153) 0px 0px 5px;" /></a></div><div class="clr" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; float: none;"><div class="catItemSocial" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 83px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 6px 5px 6px 8px;">
</div></div><div class="catItemIntroText" style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;">In the wake of the Tucson shooting, the pro-amnesty website "Imagine2050" <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/10/communities-in-fear-the-after-effects-of-hate-violence/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a> a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/08/did-hateful-rhetoric-fuel-deadly-shooting-in-arizona/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">series of articles</a> blaming <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/13/sarah-palin-and-the-pied-pipers-of-political-violence/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">extreme rightwing rhetoric</a> for Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.Sheriff Dupnik went on national television to label Arizona the "mecca for prejudice and bigotry." The Left spent over a week attempting to tie Jared Loughner to Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. Paul Krugman and numerous other progressive columnists wrote scathing articles that all but blamed Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck for the Tucson massacre. It quickly became apparent that Jared Loughner was a deranged psychopath in the mold of John Hinckley, Jr. His friends came forward to describe him as "quite liberal" and "apolitical," but never as "conservative." The Left's narrative of "rightwing hate" fell apart under scrutiny after the details of Jared Loughner's political and religious views came to light on the internet.No apology was ever made for this unwarranted demonization of conservatives and restrictionists.Yesterday, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/02/02/mass_man_arrested_in_threat_to_fla_lawmaker/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the news broke</a> that a self-described Hispanic "political activist" and "immigrant" from Ecuador in Massachusetts named Manuel Pintada <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/man-arrested-for-threatening-lawmaker-who-sponsored-immigration-law" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">was arrested and charged</a> with death and corruption threats after sending threatening emails to Rep. William D. Snyder of Florida.Rep. Snyder is sponsoring an Arizona-style immigration law and a birthright citizenship law in the Florida House of Representatives.Unlike Jared Loughner, Pintada specifically targeted Snyder for his political views. The threatening email was sent within hours of the Giffords shooting from a Starbucks in Northampton, Massachusetts.The email said:<blockquote style="background: url(" web="web" im="im" http="http" www.westernyouth.org="www.westernyouth.org" templates="templates" ywc="ywc" images="images" typo="typo" blockquotebg.jpg="blockquotebg.jpg" left="left" bottom="bottom" repeat-x="repeat-x" scroll="scroll" transparent="transparent" border="border" px="px" solid="solid" rgb="rgb" clear="clear" both="both" float="float" none="none" margin="margin" padding="padding">"You better just stop that ridiculous law if you value your and your familie’s [sic] lives"</blockquote>Pintada is a "47 year old student" at the University of Massachusetts. He <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://dailycollegian.com/2011/02/01/umass-student-arrested-for-threatening-fla-representative/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">told police</a> that he was glad the email intimidated Snyder and "made him nervous." He sent the email because Snyder was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/02/02/mass_man_arrested_in_threat_to_fla_lawmaker/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">trying to</a> "abolish the 14th Amendment."This type of hateful rhetoric has long emanated from leftwing websites like <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Imagine2050</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.longislandwins.com/index.php/about_us/4/patrick/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Long Island Wins</a>. Now it is inspiring unhinged Hispanic criminals like Manuel Pintada to target restrictionists with death threats.For some reason, I doubt Manuel Pintada will be appearing on Hardball With Chris Matthews or The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. He doesn't fit the progressive media elite's profile of a killer: White, Christian, Tea Party, Republican, male, straight, conservative, middle class, native born ... the source of all that is evil in America.This story will drop off the national radar screen within the week.Just a Thought: I wonder if the Left <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110209172024/http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/glory-to-god-the-left-s-war-against-chick-fil-a/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">will now blame</a> Starbuck's for catering to a potential assassin of an elected official.</div></div>==

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