On AlterNet: hate groups

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "hate groups"

"Family Friendly" Machine Gun Festival Welcomes Neo-Nazi Extremists

David Holthouse, Media Matters for America. April 13, 2011.

What's up with the little kids in Nazi shirts at the Knob Creek Gun Range Machine Gun Shoot?

Number of Radical Right-Wing Hate, Patriot, and Militia Groups Exploded in 2010

Mark Potok, SPLC Intelligence Report. February 28, 2011.

The three strands of the radical right — the hatemongers, the nativists and the antigovernment zealots — grew by 22% last year and 40% the year before.

Right-Wing Rage: Hate Groups, Vigilantes and Conspiracists on the Verge of Violence

Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center. March 2, 2010.

The radical right has caught fire, as broad-based anger over the past year has ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation.

Controversial Anti-Immigrant Network Invades the Nation’s Capitol

Eric Ward, Imagine 2050. September 14, 2009.

The mainstream media chose to ignore the racist connotations of Obama as nothing more than man in Black Face.

A Brief History of the Radical, Violent Right: How Racist Hate Groups Joined Up with Abortion Terrorists

James Ridgeway, MotherJones.com. June 6, 2009.

Alleged murderer Scott Roeder was once a white separatist before he became an anti-choice zealot -- many others have followed the same deadly path.

What It's Like to Go Undercover and Infiltrate Some of America's Most Dangerous Hate Groups

Sonia Scherr, SPLC Intelligence Report. June 3, 2009.

Special Agent Bart McEntire shares his experiences joining hate groups like White Reich and the Alabama Knights of the Klu Klux Klan.

The Minutemen Scam

David Neiwert, Firedoglake AlterNet: Immigration. April 21, 2008.

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

Anti-Gay Hate Group Says Fred Thompson Shares Their Values

Paddy, AlterNet: PEEK. October 18, 2007.

Paddy: Fred Phelps' church says, "we saw eye to eye" on the issue of homosexuality.