The number of 鈥渘ativist extremist鈥� groups 鈥� organizations that go beyond mere advocacy to personally confront suspected undocumented immigrants or those who hire or help them 鈥� dropped again last year, falling from 17 to just 15.
Radical lawyer Kyle Bristow has started a new foundation that aims to become the legal arm of the racist radical right
The campaign language of the man who would become president sparks hate violence, bullying, before and after the election
In 2009, a former lesbian in a custody battle fled with her 7-year-old girl. The case still haunts the anti-LGBT movement today.
On Dec. 4, a 28-year-old North Carolina man bearing a handgun and a military-style rifle stormed a Washington, D.C., pizza joint called Comet Ping-Pong, determined to 鈥渟elf-investigate鈥� rumors that the restaurant was the center of a child sex-slave ring with connections to the Clinton campaign. Edgar M. Welch, of Salisbury, N.C., who fired his weapon inside the restaurant but injured no one, later admitted 鈥渢he intel on this wasn鈥檛 100%.鈥�
A federal jury stunned court watchers on Oct. 27 by delivering a not guilty verdict for Ryan and Ammon Bundy and five other defendants charged in connection with the armed, 41-day-long takeover of Oregon鈥檚 Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Much has been made of the rise in racist and xenophobic rhetoric, anti-Muslim attacks, and anti-Semitic trolling in the wake of Donald Trump鈥檚 ascent, and rightly so. But just as Trump鈥檚 promises to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, block Muslim immigration, and restore 鈥渓aw and order鈥� have emboldened nativists and racists, so has his history of casual misogyny and alleged sexual assault (鈥済rab them by the pussy鈥�) energized an explicitly sexist element within the noxious 鈥淎lt-Right鈥� movement.
The story of 2016 was one of right-wing extremists ascendant. But even as young racist radicals gained attention and influence, important members of the generation that preceded them passed away. Among them:
Google aspires 鈥渢o organize the world鈥檚 information and make it universally accessible and useful.鈥� Facebook鈥檚 mission is to 鈥渕ake the world more open and connected.鈥� Twitter, while occasionally billing itself as 鈥渢he free speech wing of the free speech party,鈥� prohibits 鈥渉ateful conduct,鈥� telling users: 鈥淵ou may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.鈥�
Orlando, Fla., became the site of the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, when a man who proclaimed allegiance to the Islamic State killed 49 people and wounded 53 at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub, before dawn on June 12.
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