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Nevada rancher Cliven D. Bundy, his two sons and a militia commander were tried on charges that they led an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014. Read the Hatewatch staff's live updates from the trial below.
Since the听听against the World Trade Center, Shanksville, and the Pentagon in 2001, U.S. counterterrorism policies have overwhelmingly focused on international threats emanating from terrorists, such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (IS)听and their affiliates.
Well-known advocate for far-right 鈥榗ommon law鈥 system sponsors legislation that would officially sanction pseudo-legal 鈥榗ontracts鈥 in state system.
A group of 鈥sovereign citizens鈥 in Pennsylvania have handed down an 鈥渋ndictment鈥 and are seeking the possible execution of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, movie producer Harvey Weinstein and others.
On an unseasonably warm and clear afternoon in Anchorage, Alaska, in early December, Anna Maria Riezinger, aka Anna von Reitz, a self-proclaimed judge and internet guru in the anti-government extremist听sovereign citizen听movement, concludes a three-hour interview in a suburban home with a complex series of prescriptions for the visiting Hatewatch reporter.
鈥In September 2012, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), acting as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, held a Congressional hearing on the threat posed by violent right-wing extremists after a white supremacist murdered six worshippers at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
State prosecutors in Colorado have obtained guilty pleas or convictions against five of nine antigovernment sovereign citizens and common-law court activists accused of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy against assorted elected public officials.
In this month鈥檚 Sovereign Files, a famous pitchman turned pariah attempts sovereign citizenship in court, a man who calls himself 鈥淢an鈥 is sentenced to prison and a tax preparer who sought to defraud the government will be behind bars in the New Year
NYT鈥檚 profile of Nazi backfires with public; Trump pushes conspiracist website; Daily Stormer finds a safe harbor in Hong Kong; and more.
White millennials are divided on whether they believe President Trump is a racist; a California congressman welcomes support from a Holocaust denier; 鈥渃rying Nazi鈥 Chris Cantwell is doing radio shows from his jail cell, and more.