Senior Research Fellow, ADL Center on Extremism. Historian, long-time expert on right-wing extremism. Long-lost scion of Sidney Greenstreet. My own views only.
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This past year, De Soto--a recent arrival to West Virginia--ran for a seat in the state house. He beat the incumbent in the GOP primary. Unfortunately, not a single Democrat ran against him; his only opponent was from the tiny right-wing extremist Constitution Party. De Soto won. 
methodology (as you'll see), but it is broadly applicable for many different types of extremism, though much less useful for movements, such as the boogaloo movement, that tend to communicate primarily in memes.
The sovereign citizen fixation with license plates pre-dates the movement itself (which began to cohere in the late 1970s). It starts with its parents: the tax protest movement and the Posse Comitatus. Anti-gov't extremists really did not like having to have (& pay for) plates.
"Daddy Stole Our Last Clean Sheet and Joined the Ku Klux Klan." Shortened versions of this tidbit started appearing in newspapers all around the country in 2024--but with a strange twist. Miss Marcell was from Ottawa, Kansas, but when newspapers repeated the factoid, most of
an expose of neo-Nazis in the U.S. Army in Germany. I can't find the original article, but here, in this tweet and the next, is a summary subsequently published in Jet Magazine. Please read. 
confusion of war and several significant errors by the Israeli military and was a tragic, preventable incident. Many of the details of that incident remain disputed even today, but what is not in dispute is that for the past 60 years antisemites and anti-Israel ideologues have
The British Soddy was co-author of this 1939 pamphlet, "Abolish Private Money, or Drown in Debt," complete with antisemitic stereotype on the cover. His fellow author, Walter Crick was uncle to another famous Nobel Prize winner, Francis Crick. Crick was an outspoken antisemite. 
I want to make clear that this is a murder and there are details that are disturbing. Please do not continue if you are easily upset.
On November 16, the bodies of a man and a woman were found, covered up but not buried, near the Rock Creek Natural Area in King County, Washington. The man, Robert Riley, was 57; the woman, Ashley Williams, was 34.
In 2008, we began compiling a dataset of all (domestic) extremist-related murders in the U.S. we could find, back to 1970. Since 2015, using that data, ADL has released annual reports analyzing the deaths caused by extremists (you can find the reports at ). adl.org
First, it's important to acknowledge that the actual storming of the Capitol was merely the final and, thankfully, unsuccessful part of a series of acts that occurred in many states and at many levels, from the day after the election up to Jan 6.