Patrick Strickland

Infiltrator Goes Inside the Alt-Right, and What He Finds Is Disturbing

Patrik Hermansson, a gay anti-fascist activist, would seem like an obvious target for the white supremacists, far-right populists and neo-Nazis who make up the alt-right movement. Yet the 25-year-old was able to successfully infiltrate the alt-right's ranks as part of a year-long undercover investigation for Hope Not Hate, a UK-based organisation that monitors hate groups. Posing…

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Activists Came to Battle Fascism - but Now They're Fighting Felony Charges

Trump's America: Where activists face felony charges

After being hit in the head and stabbed in the arm during clashes with white supremacists at the California State Capitol in Sacramento last June, Yvette Felarca was defiant in an interview with local television news. "Everyone who came here today ... came here united with one goal, and that's to shut down the Nazi scum.…

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