Hatewatch

🚨We should all be alarmed by Project 2025 - and ready to act against it for democracy. The 2023 #YIHE report highlights the far-right playbook's early days and initial peddlers, as well as the @SPLCenter's recommendations for combating such extremism🔗: splcenter.org/year-hate-extr…

Steven Anderson, leader of the NIFB sect, has called for executing LGBTQ+ people and been banned from multiple countries for his hateful rhetoric. Three of his children have come forward with allegations of years of domestic violence from their parents. bit.ly/3DoDehx

The "Big Lie" conspiracy to undermine the 2020 election results helped create a wave of election deniers and conspiracy theories. Read Part 3 of the #Hatewatch series, highlighting how communities are fighting back against election conspiracy theories. bit.ly/40z4e7y

NEW: Amalia Halikias, a director with the Heritage Foundation and an individual listed as a contributor to the dangerous far-right Project 2025 plan, was invited to the wedding of a man who attended the #Jan6 insurrection. Read the latest from #Hatewatch: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024…

The "Big Lie" conspiracy that the 2020 election was stolen still affects U.S. democracy today, 4 years later. This new #Hatewatch series looks at how disinformation & those peddling it have had lasting consequences & how the #2024Election is affected. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024…

📲 New #Hatewatch: Extremists Jack Posobiec and Tucker Carlson's recent live event platformed far-right figures like Alex Jones: bit.ly/3YstcUG They shared their chilling vision for the future and disinformation about a nation under siege by immigrants and “globalists.”

The white nationalist website VDARE suspended operations earlier this year amid a slew of legal and technical challenges. VDARE has served as a bridge between mainstream anti-immigrant figures within the Republican Party & the white nationalist fringe. bit.ly/4enGNm5

NEW from #Hatewatch: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's field director is a board member of anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Frontline Policy Council, which backed Kemp's 2022 reelection. Despite ethics rules, Kemp's office has no written record of conflict disclosure. bit.ly/3XjQp9R

Despite the lack of evidence for any broad-based, anti-conservative Christian banking conspiracy, the idea has been gaining traction in the right-wing political sphere. Read this analysis from #Hatewatch for more: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024…

Ron DeSantis signs anti-woke law to stop banks from freezing Floridians’ bank accounts based on their politics — but Treasury says the law puts ‘America’s national security at risk.’ bit.ly/3XExtDd

Two noncommissioned officers in the Virginia Army National Guard run a county-approved militia, that has made overt threats against the government. bit.ly/3Zlqz87 In August, #Hatewatch covered the history of the antigovernment militia movement: bit.ly/4fNvPHo

🚨 NEW Hatewatch analysis: A monthlong sample of posts on the anonymous message board 4chan reveals an interest beyond regulating abortion among a significant number of users who posted comments about abortion. Read more from #Hatewatch: bit.ly/3AS7zUF

NEW: @Hatewatch identifies the white nationalist & male supremacist pseudonymous author “F. Roger Devlin” as Christopher Moore: bit.ly/4e1ZKdo Moore’s work as Devlin has helped shape parts of the male supremacist movement into what it is today.

The founder and president of anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Gays Against Groomers posted a series of comments on X, formerly Twitter, equating Islam with pedophilia, characterizing Muslim faith as “a cancer on this world.” Read the latest from #Hatewatch: bit.ly/3X6NjGd

Arrests and convictions related to #Jan6 continue to dismantle key orgs within the antigovernment movement. But fringe right-wing antigovernment movements like local militias continue to take power from the states. Access the #IdeologyFile:🔗:bit.ly/3T3lXjb #YIHE23

Learn about the anti-LGBTQ extremist ideology 🔗:bit.ly/4ejJo0q The most recent #YIHE report documents the highest number of active anti-LGBTQ+ groups we have ever recorded. It also notes the rise in anti-LGBTQ legislation and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric throughout 2023.

🎯FACT: The @SPLCenter's 2023 Year In Hate & Extremism #YIHE report tracked 838 antigovernment groups. At their core, these extremist groups traffic in conspiracy theories & believe the federal government is tyrannical. Access the #IdeologyFile📲: bit.ly/3L0VEFW

NEW from #Hatewatch: Anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion groups have joined forces with #Georgia’s largest association of Baptist churches to sway Gov. Brian Kemp to support a far-right policy agenda that rolls back the rights of transgender children. bit.ly/4dTBhGX

NEW: #Hatewatch examines the history of the antigovernment militia movement and the emergence of county militias: bit.ly/4fNvPHo These local militias have been lobbying for legitimate recognition, despite counties lacking the authority to recognize a militia.

The great replacement conspiracy theory is dangerous rhetoric that has fueled extremist attacks. Revisit the #YIHE report, noting how the idea of an invasion by migrants & asylum seekers, pushed by select elected officials, feeds into the conspiracy📲 bit.ly/4aQsmEf

In our article in @newyorker this week, Jeff Tischauser of the Southern Poverty Law Center did the crucial research identifying Kai Nix of the 82nd Airborne as an active white nationalist threatening journalists: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024…