Mapping Paramilitary and Far-Right Threats to Racial Justice AppFeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

Mapping Paramilitary and Far-Right Threats to Racial Justice

About this Resource Working with Political Research Associates, the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights has been tracking reports of paramilitary and other far-right…

Devin BurghartJune 19, 2020

Dangerous Liaisons: Some in law enforcement look to militia groups COVID-19FeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

Dangerous Liaisons: Some in law enforcement look to militia groups

The protests demanding justice for George Floyd, and an end to police racism, have mobilized people across the country. As these protests have unfolded, nationalist…

Chuck Tanner and Devin BurghartJune 4, 2020

Proud Boys and the COVID-19 Insurrection COVID-19FeaturedRace, Racism, & White NationalismTea Party NationalismTreaty Rights & Tribal Sovereignty

Proud Boys and the COVID-19 Insurrection

Since early April, protests aimed at rapidly reopening the economy have exploded across the country. Images of armed protesters screaming at masked police officers at…

Chuck TannerMay 11, 2020

New Far-Right Groups Protesting COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Directives (Updated 05/06) AppCOVID-19FeaturedRace, Racism, & White NationalismTea Party Nationalism

New Far-Right Groups Protesting COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Directives (Updated 05/06)

Latest Count New far-right groups ("Liberate", "ReOpen", "Against Excessive Quarantine", "Operation Gridlock", "Lockdown", etc.) formed on Facebook to protest COVID-19 Stay-at-Home directives. Some groups may…

Devin BurghartApril 23, 2020

New Effort to Inject White Nationalist Immigration Stance into College Republicans AppFeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

New Effort to Inject White Nationalist Immigration Stance into College Republicans

In late March, the first signs of a groyper-linked national campus expansion emerged when the University of Maine College Republicans – now officially the University…

Chuck TannerApril 22, 2020

Groyper Leader Nick Fuentes Calls for Trump “Rule by Decree” COVID-19FeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

Groyper Leader Nick Fuentes Calls for Trump “Rule by Decree”

This week white nationalist and “groyper” leader Nick Fuentes let out his inner fascist. In a series of tweets on April 13 and 14, Fuentes…

Chuck TannerApril 19, 2020

Twenty-Five Years Later: The Legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing AppFeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

Twenty-Five Years Later: The Legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing

Twenty-five years ago today Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder rental truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The contents…

Chuck TannerApril 19, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic, White Nationalist Plague COVID-19FeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

Coronavirus Pandemic, White Nationalist Plague

In this article, IREHR takes a look at how white nationalists are framing the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in an effort to advance their…

Chuck TannerMarch 27, 2020

Far-Right Calls for Violence Against Wet’suwet’en Defenders and Anti-Fascists FeaturedRace, Racism, & White NationalismTreaty Rights & Tribal Sovereignty

Far-Right Calls for Violence Against Wet’suwet’en Defenders and Anti-Fascists

The outburst of protest across Canada and beyond that followed the RCMP invasion of Wet’suwet’en territory has inspired all who support Indigenous rights to political…

Magdelane MartelMarch 12, 2020

An Affinity for Bigotry: Jaden McNeil of America First Students FeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

An Affinity for Bigotry: Jaden McNeil of America First Students

In the wake of the IREHR special report, From Alt-Right to Groyper: White Nationalists Rebrand for 2020 and Beyond, and subsequent media attention, Jaden McNeil, a…

Chuck Tanner and Devin BurghartFebruary 27, 2020

White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Booted from YouTube FeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Booted from YouTube

Nick Fuentes has been banned from YouTube, the white nationalist and “groyper” leader tweeting today that his account had “been wrongly terminated” as a “result…

Chuck TannerFebruary 14, 2020

“Groypers” Planning College Campus Tour FeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

“Groypers” Planning College Campus Tour

Yesterday, IREHR released the report From Alt-Right to Groyper, detailing efforts by white nationalists to rebrand their cause and support college campus activism around the…

Chuck TannerFebruary 12, 2020

Far Right “Constitutionalist” Krisanne Hall Back at the White House FeaturedNation, State, & CitizenshipRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

Far Right “Constitutionalist” Krisanne Hall Back at the White House

Krisanne Hall was back at the White House this week. This time, the far right activist reported attending a briefing with 120 to 150 people,…

Chuck TannerDecember 13, 2019

IREHR at Kitsap Human Rights Conference FeaturedFight the RightIREHRRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

IREHR at Kitsap Human Rights Conference

IREHR’s Chuck Tanner took part in a panel with members of Kitsap Showing Up for Racial Justice (Kitsap SURJ) on December 6 at the 29th…

Chuck TannerDecember 10, 2019

Maryland Sheriff Speaks at Social Contract Press Event FeaturedNation, State, & CitizenshipRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

Maryland Sheriff Speaks at Social Contract Press Event

In the period of the Donald Trump presidency, it is disturbingly clear that anti-immigrant politics are a conduit for white nationalism to gain a foot…

Chuck TannerDecember 10, 2019

Threats to a Welcoming Kitsap FeaturedRace, Racism, & White NationalismTea Party Nationalism

Threats to a Welcoming Kitsap

ADDENDUM: Just a few week after this report was issued, the Kitsap Patriots Tea Party re-branded itself as the Puget Sound Patriots with an aim…

IREHR and Kitsap SURJDecember 5, 2019

ProEnglish Promoting Rep. Steve King’s English Only Bill FeaturedNation, State, & CitizenshipRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

ProEnglish Promoting Rep. Steve King’s English Only Bill

Demonstrating once again the link between racism and English Only politics, the group ProEnglish is promoting U.S. Representative Steve King’s (R-IA) H.R. 97 – a…

Chuck TannerDecember 4, 2019

Canadian Anti-Fascists Targeted by “John Southern” FeaturedFight the RightIREHRRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

Canadian Anti-Fascists Targeted by “John Southern”

Known as “doxing,” the practice of circulating photos and personal information of human rights and environmental activists has been used by a wide range of…

Magdelane MartelNovember 22, 2019

Far Right Speaker at Washington State Farm Bureau Annual Conference FeaturedNation, State, & CitizenshipRace, Racism, & White NationalismTreaty Rights & Tribal Sovereignty

Far Right Speaker at Washington State Farm Bureau Annual Conference

Far right “constitutionalist” Krisanne Hall is scheduled to speak at the Washington Farm Bureau’s Annual Meeting & Trade Show in Wenatchee, Washington. Sponsored by businesses…

Chuck TannerNovember 18, 2019

White (Nationalists) Whine Over Financial Woes FeaturedRace, Racism, & White Nationalism

White (Nationalists) Whine Over Financial Woes

Two prominent Northwest white nationalists are complaining about recent financial woes. Shortly before being arrested in Norway en route to a meeting of the Scandza…

Chuck TannerNovember 6, 2019