Stories by David Neiwert

David Neiwert is a journalist and author based in Seattle. A National Press Club Award winner, he is the managing editor of the political blog Crooks and Liars, and is the author of five books on right-wing extremism. His book on Shawna Forde and the border-watch movement, And Hell Followed With Her, was published in March 2013 by NationBooks. subscribe to David Neiwert's feed

How the Anti-Immigrant Minutemen Movement Attracted the Psychopaths That Led to Its Downfall

Posted on: Jun 28, 2013, Source: AlterNet

If ever there was a movement tailored to recruit and promote social deviants, it was the Minutemen.

The Anti-Immigrant Paranoia That Drives Shawna Forde to 'Patrol' the American Border

Posted on: Mar 26, 2013, Source: Perseus Books

A powerful excerpt from David Neiwert's new book, "And Hell Followed with Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border."

How the Brutal Murders of a Little Girl and Her Father Doomed the Xenophobic Minuteman Movement

Posted on: Jul 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The brutal killings of Junior and Brisenia Flores highlighted growing extremism on the fringes of the anti-immigrant movement.

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 25, 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.

In Obama Era, Neo-Nazis Becoming More Visible

Posted on: Nov 13, 2009, Source: Orcinus

They're being much more public in their full-on expressions of racism, nativism, and xenophobia.

Pat Boone Wants to Rid the White House of "Vermin"

Posted on: Nov 7, 2009, Source: Orcinus

Eliminationism much, Pat?

Mississippi GOPer Jokes About "Hunting Liberal Democrats"

Posted on: Oct 24, 2009, Source: Orcinus

A knee-slapper indeed.

New York Orchestrates Video Sting ... Reveals Gun Dealers Shady Business

Posted on: Oct 9, 2009, Source: Orcinus

Gun shows represent a bus-sized loophole in the law.

The militia extremists of the '90s are back, and organizing quietly in the woods

Posted on: Jul 18, 2009, Source: Orcinus

A couple of months ago, a newly formed militia reared its head in a familiar place -- the Panhandle of Northern Idaho.

Fox Squawker: Swedes Are Pure and Americans 'Marry Other Species'

Posted on: Jul 12, 2009, Source: Orcinus

Whoa, that's some old-school eugenics right there.

White Supremacists Arrested in 2004 Bombing ... Is the FBI Finally Taking Domestic Terrorism Seriously Again?

Posted on: Jun 30, 2009, Source: Orcinus

An undercover ATF sting raided white supremacists in at least three states last Thursday.

Glenn Beck Thinks Progressives Are Toxic ... What Kind of America Does he Want?

Posted on: Jun 23, 2009, Source: Orcinus

When right-wingers attack "evil progressivism," it sounds like they yearn for the days when American workers were indentured servants to the wealthy.

Neo-Nazis, Obama, and the Real Domestic Terrorists

Posted on: Nov 3, 2008, Source: Orcinus

Where is the outrage when neo-Nazis plot to murder a black man running for President -- and 102 other people of the same race?

Note to the McCain/Palin Crowd: Your Roots Are Showing

Posted on: Oct 16, 2008, Source: Orcinus

These are the people who give John McCain so much pride.

Palin's Political Payback To Her Black-Helicopter Buddies

Posted on: Sep 23, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

Sarah Palin has some far-right fringe friends back in Wasilla, Alaska.

New Poll, Plus McCain's True Obsession: Obama

Posted on: Aug 21, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

So much for that 'respectful campaign' From Ol' McNasty.

Son of Undocumented Immigrants Wins Gold

Posted on: Aug 19, 2008, Source: AlterNet

A great victory for the U.S. comes from a citizen right-wingers would want to deport.

Children Are Paying the Price for Bush's Deportation Policies

Posted on: Aug 19, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

Thousands of children are dumped into squalor after being deported from the United States.

Wing-Nuts Go Crazy Over Today's Media Coverage of McCain

Posted on: Aug 18, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

Oh, how awful it is (whine whimper) that NBC and Andrea Mitchell aren't being "fair and balanced."

Mainstream Media Go Nuts for Attack Book on Obama, Ignore <i>The Real McCain</i>

Posted on: Aug 14, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

<i>Obama Nation</i> vs. <i>The Real McCain</i>: A Study In Contrasts

McCain Gets Smacked by Myers for Using 'Wayne's World' in Attack Ad

Posted on: Aug 13, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

McCain seems to be copying quite a bit these days.

Gun Control Activist Actually Paid NRA Spy

Posted on: Aug 7, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

Heaven help us if we become as paranoid as they are. And the funny thing is, they keep proving that we ought to be.

White Supremacists Try to Make Racist Lemonade Out of Lemons

Posted on: Jul 30, 2008, Source: Orcinus

White supremacists see their imminent defeat as a good thing.

Hate Politics Leads to Violence: Tennessee Shooter Attacked Liberals

Posted on: Jul 28, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

James David Adkisson attacked a church, killing two people and wounding seven more, all because of it's liberal views.

Domestic terrorists plotting against Obama

Posted on: Jun 15, 2008, Source: Orcinus

Militia bust reveals right-wing plans for race war.

The Media Don’t Care About The Other Kind Of Terrorists

Posted on: Jun 11, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

In the media's eyes, only brown people are terrorists.

Gun Proponents Pushing for "Open Carry" Laws

Posted on: Jun 10, 2008, Source: Orcinus

Fetishists want guns as accessories, "like iPods."

Immigration Raids: Harbinger of a Police State?

Posted on: May 26, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

What happens when the immigration raids in Iowa spread to other cities and states?

Bushvilles: Middle-Class Hoovervilles for the 21st Century

Posted on: May 22, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

In California, homeless middle-class women are banding together and sleeping in their cars in parking lots.

Corruption Bubbles Up Amidst the Immigration Crackdown

Posted on: May 16, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

Workers bear the brunt of government enforcement while business owners get off scott-free.

Handling Immigrants the Republican Way - Like Cattle

Posted on: May 14, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

The refusal of Republicans to treat immigrants humanely will cost America in more ways than one.

Things Americans Don't Want To Talk About

Posted on: Apr 30, 2008, Source: Orcinus

Dave Neiwert digs in to the deeper meaning of the Reverend Wright "scandal."

Racism In The Ranks

Posted on: Apr 25, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

The results of the Pennsylvania primary show that racism is a problem that still plagues the Democrats.

"Subversiveness" In Schools A Bigger Problem Than Failing To Educate?

Posted on: Apr 24, 2008, Source: Orcinus

McCarthyism never dies. It just redefines itself.

The Minutemen Scam

Posted on: Apr 21, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

Unsurprisingly, hints of graft raise more questions about anti-immigrant hate group.

Eliminationist Rhetoric Poisons Our Discourse

Posted on: Apr 16, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Why are patriotic Americans echoing language of tragedies past?

It's Time to Sink the Awful Immigrant Hate Bill -- "The SAVE Act"

Posted on: Mar 31, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

Among its more awful provisions, are "verification" measures that require every citizen to get an OK from the government whenever they change jobs.

The Republican Right's Moonie Problem

Posted on: Mar 21, 2008, Source: Firedoglake

You don't get to watch Moon's "hateful" and "anti-American" remarks being replayed endlessly on CNN and Fox.

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