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Jun 17, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Big money donors pumped *$4.3 million* into the white nationalist non-profit VDARE in 2019.

If you want signs of how the conservative movement has changed after Trump, read this.

Me with @alexkotch:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
Readers may recall my story from 2020. VDARE bought a historic castle in West Virginia for 1.4 million in cash.

This helps explain how they set up their new home base:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
How else does VDARE spend their $$$?

They dispatched goons to DC last summer during the George Floyd protests. The goons pretended to be VICE Canada reporters and told demonstrators to ID themselves on their stream.

Again, $4.3m but banned from YouTube:
'I'm not mad, I'm actually laughing' ImageImageImage

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May 12, 2023
CNN's Kaitlin Collins followed up the Trump debacle last night by interviewing Chad Wolf about Title 42.

He's the Stephen Miller crony at DHS who a whistleblower accused of whitewashing threats from white supremacist terrorists.
Chad Wolf's expertise on immigration basically centers around working as "acting" DHS chief. He was not lawfully appointed. Critics pointed out that Stephen Miller may have run the department through him.

Kaitlin Collins wants this guy's input:
nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Kaitlan* -- at least I got the K right
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May 9, 2023
New: Mauricio Garcia's social media trail touched neo-Nazi content and misogynist incel filth.

But he also referenced Tim Pool, VDARE, Libs of Tik Tok and Nick Fuentes. A Trump-era cluster of hate:

@hannahgais, me, Rachel Janik and @MeganSquire0:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
The white nationalists at VDARE rushed to notify their readers of Garcia being Latino.

Big surprise, VDARE made a cameo in Garcia's social media history.

It's not about race, ethnicity or immigration status. It's about justifying cruelty and hate: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023… Image
Looking for a through-line with neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, Nick Fuentes and Tim Pool? They all flatter angry young men with grievances about women.

Garcia's misogyny can be found in so many of these killers. It's basically universal on the radical right: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
Read 4 tweets
Apr 18, 2023
Jack Posobiec blocks me so I can't ask him directly about his thoughts on Ali Alexander's scandal.

Posobiec helped make the "groomer" slur go viral in smearing LGBTQ+ people in the run-up to Pride '22.

He's associated himself with Ali publicly for years. Image
I'd be very interested to know what Alex Jones thinks about Ali Alexander's scandal, given his friendship with him.

Jones is basically the godfather of conflating LGBTQ+ culture with pedophilia: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023… Image
How about longtime Ali Alexander buddy "Weird" Mike Cernovich?

What did Cernovich know about Ali's behavior while he was baselessly smearing innocent people as pedophiles?

Does anyone else find this curious? Image
Read 4 tweets
Apr 4, 2023
New: the radical right has misled people about Doug Mackey’s verdict and what happened at his trial.

Here’s how the Ricky Vaughn “shitposting” defense fell apart: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
Tucker Carlson, Darren Beattie, Glenn Greenwald, and other performers who have audiences in the MAGA space have eroded key details from this trial.

Mackey’s white supremacist views are 1A protected. But they also helped prove out his motive:

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023… ImageImageImage
Even with many bigoted Ricky Vaughn statements removed for being incendiary, prosecutors repeatedly got Mackey to admit that he didn’t want women, Black people and immigrants to vote.

They hammered Doug during cross:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023… ImageImageImage
Read 5 tweets
Mar 31, 2023
The jury in the “Ricky Vaughn” trial just found Douglass Mackey GUILTY
Mackey took the news with an inscrutable expression on his face.

Deliberations went on four days for just one charge.

People sent him prayer emojis on here.
Mackey’s defense attorney argued that Ricky Vaughn was just “stuff posting” — a baby talk euphemism for shiposting.

The jury considered this at length and decided to trash it.

He will be sentenced on August 16th.
Read 7 tweets
Mar 27, 2023
Jury still deliberating in the Douglass Mackey/Ricky Vaughn case and will pick up tomorrow.

Mackey’s defense name checked John Lewis, Michelle Obama, Gandhi and other people liberals admire in his closing remarks.
Prosecutors zeroed in on potential motive — repeatedly hammering Mackey’s comments disparaging Black people, immigrants and women, arguing that they shouldn’t vote.

Ricky Vaughn said these things repeatedly. He didn’t say them sideways. He was blunt.
I wouldn’t read into this going on another day FWIW.

Deliberations started late in the day and some materials came to the jury in roughly the final hour.

Mackey’s entire family came to court today. Previously he had no one or just his Dad.
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