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Content warning: This article contains graphic language, including hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. Reader discretion is advised.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson brought his 12-state, cross-country to the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania late last month, providing a platform for the disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and other luminaries of the far right to promote their campaign of lies and disinformation about an America under siege by immigrants and a shadowy cabal of 鈥済lobalists.鈥
The white nationalist website VDARE, which has ties to former White House aides who helped shape the Trump administration鈥檚 harsh immigration policies, suspended operations earlier this year amid a slew of legal and technical challenges.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp鈥檚 field director, Brad Hughes, sat in on lobbying meetings between the governor, his policy staff and two political groups that Hughes is affiliated with, emails from a public records request show. Frontline Policy Action, the lobbying arm of an anti-人兽性交+ hate group that Hughes helps lead, endorsed and funded efforts to reelect Kemp in 2022, finance records show. Hatewatch previously reported that in 2024, the group also gave $350,000 to Kemp鈥檚 Georgians First Leadership Committee.
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Hatewatch has identified a previously pseudonymous author and ideologue whose writings in the 2000s and early 2010s heavily influenced the 鈥渕anosphere,鈥 a loose network of blogs, forums, websites and influencers who support rolling back women鈥檚 rights, reject feminism and advocate for rigid gender roles.
Between July 30 and Aug. 10, Jaimee Michell, the founder and current president of the anti-人兽性交+ hate group Gays Against Groomers, posted a series of comments on X, formerly Twitter, equating Islam with pedophilia, characterizing Muslim faith as 鈥渁 cancer on this world鈥 and sharing content from an account that claims Europe is being invaded by immigrants and Muslims.
Anti-人兽性交+ and anti-abortion groups have joined forces with Georgia鈥檚 largest association of Baptist churches to sway Gov. Brian Kemp in support of a far-right policy agenda that rolls back the rights of transgender children, according to emails obtained through a public records request.
After Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd in late May 2020, the U.S. and the world were on the precipice of a cultural reckoning on racial injustice, marked by mass protests that swept the world. The day after the murder, as video of the violence hit the news and tensions were about to ignite, Bedford County, Virginia, passed a resolution in support of 鈥渢he militia.鈥 A similar resolution had passed in Campbell County, Virginia, earlier that year.
A member of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front who appears to operate a social media account that disclosed personal information about perceived political enemies 鈥 including journalists, left-leaning activists, politicians and community members 鈥 is an active-duty soldier in the U.S. Army, a Hatewatch investigation has revealed.
Anti-人兽性交+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is engaged in an ongoing crusade to force private businesses to adhere to conservative Christian theology, in part by spreading the false narrative that private sector banks have been dropping conservative religious clients since the Obama administration. The conspiratorial claim, which ADF calls 鈥渄ebanking,鈥 has arisen out of an ongoing effort from ADF to ban or disrupt private sector investments in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and environmental sustainability.