Fears mount over Kash Patel’s use of FBI to persecute leftwing protest groups Concern over crackdown on anti-fascists and Black Lives Matter movement as Trump loyalist takes control of agency The Guardian - US · Mar 11, 2025
FBI investigations of far right on road to nowhere under Kash Patel, experts warn Patel has signalled he isn’t interested in pursuing insurrectionists amid resurgence of extremist groups The Guardian - US · Feb 28, 2025
Extremists who were targeted by FBI cheer Trump Maga pick to head agency Experts warn if Kash Patel is confirmed the agency will ‘abandon any serious efforts to confront far-right groups’ The Guardian - US · Feb 7, 2025
Trump’s pardons have revitalized a weakened American militia movement Trump has “brought back two organizations that have extremely long track records of violence” with his mass pardoning of January 6 rioters, say experts The Independent UK · Jan 22, 2025
Musk Salute At Trump Rally Celebrated By Extremists Online Elon Musk's hand gestures at an inauguration event for US President Donald Trump, which quickly drew comparisons to Nazi salutes, appear to have resonated in some far-right extremist spaces online. International Business Times · Jan 21, 2025
Role of US servicemen in acts of extremist violence under scrutiny Active duty servicemen and veterans statistically most likely demographic to be ‘mass casualty offender’ The Guardian - US · Jan 16, 2025
Leader of Right-Wing Militia Revealed to Be Notorious Ex-Cop Who Called for 'Race War': Report A disgraced Las Vegas Metropolitan Police (LVMPD) homicide detective is now leading Oath Keepers USA, a right-wing militia located in Utah, after leaving the force once his colleagues discovered that he had advocated for a "race war" online. Latin Times · Jan 6, 2025
Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has retained links with police The Guardian - US · Jan 6, 2025
Bid to tackle extremism in US military unlikely to be revived under Trump Twin terror attacks bring renewed focus on scourge of extremism, but efforts to effect change have so far stalled The Guardian - US · Jan 3, 2025
Trump pick a threat to US military’s counter-extremism effort, experts warn Critics fear ‘absolute disaster’ and say Pete Hegseth’s far-right views will hinder attempts to counter serious problem The Guardian - US · Dec 6, 2024
Far-right militia targets US military over baseless hurricane ‘weather weapon’ claims Veterans on Patrol believes government caused Helene with weather manipulation tech, Telegram chats reveal The Guardian - US · Nov 19, 2024
Some GOP lawmakers air northern border crossing concerns, too - Roll Call Lawmakers from states along the northern border during the election turned some focus to immigration concerns in their communities as well. Roll Call · Nov 4, 2024
Is Trump actually a fascist – and why does the answer matter? Given the comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini, experts say it’s important to remember that fascism is a process The Guardian - US · Nov 4, 2024
‘Expect war’: leaked chats reveal influence of rightwing media on militia group Disinformation and conspiracy theories – some spread by Elon Musk – fuel group’s vitriol and paranoia The Guardian - US · Oct 28, 2024
The Guardian - US · Oct 10, 2024 Extremist who trained GOP poll watchers will speak at Washington event with two rightwingers Steve Sailer to appear alongside a ‘proponent of scientific racism’ and a law professor suspended for ‘racist’ remarks
The Guardian - US · Sep 8, 2024 Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric Extremist groups are latching on to ex-president’s xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideology
The Guardian - US · Jul 24, 2024 Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff face online wave of sexist, racist attacks Growing number of antisemitic, misogynistic posts reveal far right’s anxieties as Harris’s candidacy solidifies
The Guardian - US · Jun 29, 2024 Revealed: the tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network The Guardian used public records and open source materials to identify Daniel Linden of the Shirion Collective
WEKU · Feb 9, 2024 The border crisis is helping to mainstream a dangerous conspiracy theory The recent truck convoy that directed national attention to a surge of migrants at the Southern border featured dangerous, dehumanizing rhetoric that once was limited to extremists.
Salon · Feb 3, 2024 Libs of TikTok joins Okla. library panel Education chief actively integrating extremist right-wing ideologies into state's education system, critics say
The Guardian - US · Jan 31, 2024 Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory
The Guardian - US · Nov 21, 2023 Rightwing personalities use X to bring antisemitic theories to light in US Experts say figures like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson bringing ‘great replacement’ theory mainstream signals growing extremism
The Guardian - US · Sep 30, 2023 ‘No enemies to the right’: DeSantis ally hosts debate hedging white nationalism Christopher Rufo’s Twitter space discussed conservatives cooperating with extremists ‘to destroy the power of the left’
The Guardian - US · Sep 4, 2023 Revealed: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists Natal conference, to be held in Austin in December, promoted on far-right podcast circuit and set to host self-described eugenicists
Salon · Aug 26, 2023 Trump grand jurors face QAnon threats Experts warn of "chilling effect that personal targeting can have on jurors, on voters, on elected officials"