Stories by David Neiwert

David Neiwert is a freelance journalist based in Seattle and the author of five books, including most recently (with John Amato) Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane. He is also the managing editor of CrooksandLiars.com and writes for the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch blog.subscribe to David Neiwert's rss feed

Why Right-Wing Fearmongers Have Blood on Their Hands

Posted on Jan 16, 2011, Source: Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute

The Right bears the lion's share of the blame for creating a toxic environment in which unstable people come to believe their political opponents are pure evil.

"We Are at War": How Militias, Racists and Anti-Semites Found a Home in the Tea Party

Posted on Nov 21, 2010, Source: AlterNet/The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute

In places like rural Montana, the Tea Party is working hand-in-glove with Patriot movement radicals -- including some with close ties to white supremacists and armed militias.

How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane

Posted on May 26, 2010, Source: PoliPoint Press

For huge numbers of dedicated right-wing Americans, November 5, 2008, was the end of the world. Or at least, the end of America as they knew it.

The Right Plays to its Nativist Base

Posted on Oct 2, 2007, Source: TomPaine.com

What passes for "conservatism" these days is a theater of scapegoating that fuels not just the anti-immigrant right but also the anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-liberal rhetoric.
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