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We have determined that Matthew Q. Gebert, a U.S. State Department official since 2013, oversaw a Washington D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, hosted white nationalists in his home & published white nationalist propaganda online. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
Gebert operated under the alias “Coach Finstock,” based on a character from the 1985 movie Teen Wolf. His wife, Anna Vukovic, is also active in online white nationalist forums. She uses the pseudonym “Wolfie James,” possibly a reference to the same movie.
To report this story, @MichaelEHayden studied “Coach Finstock’s” online presence & spoke with Gebert’s neighbors, wife & sources who have attended gatherings of white nationalists at Gebert’s home.
A federal court just sentenced James Alex Fields Jr. to serve 2 consecutive life sentences and 27 concurrent life sentences on 29 counts of federal hate crimes. He will be sentenced in state court on July 15. splcenter.org/news/2019/06/2…
Fields drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racist counterprotestors during the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in #Charlottesville in August 2017. He killed 32-year-old #HeatherHeyer and injured 28 others during the attack. 
#HeatherHeyer worried that “someone might do something stupid and someone might die,” according to the sentencing memo. She attended the anti-racist counter-protest anyway. A few hours later she was dead, murdered by Fields. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…
Alexander Slavros, the founder of the online neo-fascist forum Iron March, disappeared from the internet in late November 2017. He spread an ideology rooted in thoughts of violence, racial conquest & fascist purity that still causes harm. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
Our reporter, @MichaelEHayden analyzed roughly 6,000 posts by Slavros scraped from Iron March. He analyzed a total of 150,000 posts. These messages were posted between its launch in 2011 & September 2017, 2 months before Slavros & the forum disappeared. bit.ly/2YOeZjy
The website slavros [dot] org was registered to a Moscow-based man named Alisher Mukhitdinov, according to publicly available records.
Russian journalist Alexey Kovalev confirmed that a propaganda video posted to Iron March was filmed in the Moscow neighborhood Tverskaya.
Russian journalist Alexey Kovalev confirmed that a propaganda video posted to Iron March was filmed in the Moscow neighborhood Tverskaya.
The Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes banned members from attending the Charlottesville rally. Now the group has named Enrique Tarrio as chairman. Here’s Tarrio, in Charlottesville.
Enrique Tarrio was the leader of the Proud Boys Miami chapter. In an interview following the rally in Charlottesville, Tarrio said: “After I saw the tiki torch thing, I was completely against it.” It didn’t stop him from attending Unite the Right the very next day.
In the photo below from the deadly Charlottesville rally, Tarrio is wearing the patch of the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (FOAK), the now defunct paramilitary wing of the Proud Boys.
“I just remember seeing Heather Heyer’s eyes. I thought ‘that’s what someone’s eyes look like when you’re dead'” said Jean Peterson, who was run over by James Fields during the "Unite the Right" rally. Today, prosecutors focused on the moment Fields drove his car into the crowd.
Charlottesville Police Detective Jeremy Carper said Fields' car had blood stains on it, and sunglasses + a water bottle were stuck to it. The grill + passenger side mirror fell off. Ryan Kelly, a former photographer for the @DailyProgress, said Fields didn’t hit the brakes.
@DailyProgress “It was faster than any car I’d seen go down that street,” Kelly told jurors.
Tonight at 9pm ET, tune into your local PBS station to watch the @frontlinepbs and @ProPublica film, “Documenting Hate: New American Nazis.” We’ll be posting extra info and resources live in a thread here as it premiers. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
In the meantime, check out @ACInvestigates' deep dive into Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group organized as a series of terror cells across the US. propublica.org/article/an-ato…
"Documenting Hate: New American Nazis" is starting now. You can also stream it online here: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
Social media postings of alleged #Pittsburgh shooter show adherence to antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through immigration - aka "white genocide."
This is also what white supremacists meant in Charlottesville when they chanted “Jews will not replace us!”
"HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people.” HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) is an American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIAS
The president of the United State has a white supremacy problem.
SOUTH AFRICA: In a tweet, President Trump telegraphs his intention to put the full force of the U.S. State Department behind a white nationalist conspiracy theory about “white genocide” in South Africa. bit.ly/2Mw0AGP
BEATTIE: Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie was fired after he spoke at a conference alongside white nationalist Peter Brimelow, founder of anti-immigrant hate group VDARE, who publishes work by white supremacists, antisemites & others on the radical right wapo.st/2N7azC3
At the #Portland rally today, Proud Boy and close associate of Joey Gibson Tusitala “Tiny” Toese is wearing a T-shirt once sold by a hate group.
The front of Tiny's shirt reads "PINOCHET DID NOTHING WRONG!" and on the sleeve it reads "RWDS," which stands for Right Wing Death Squads.
RWDS was a clothing company that was once the most popular white nationalist apparel outlet. The company designed and sold clothing based on numerous racist "alt-right" memes.
