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The Arizonification of America BY MARK POTOK, EDITOR when even leading conservatives worry out loud about the right-wing vitriol and demonizing propaganda so commonplace in contemporary America, you’ve got to be concerned about where our country is headed. This January, former President George W. Bush, speaking in a question-and-answer session at Texas’ Southern Methodist University, warned that the nation seemed to be reliving its worst anti-immigrant moments. “My point is, we’ve been through this kind of period of isolationism, protectionism, nativism” before, he said. “I’m a little concerned that we may be going through the same period” again. In a column around the same time, conservative commentator Linda Chavez, a Fox News analyst and former Reagan White House official, warned against new nativist efforts to end birthright citizenship. “Now, egged on by radical population control groups, some Republicans want to reinterpret the Constitution and 11 decades of jurisprudence to subvert the 14th Amendment,” she wrote. “They are on a fool’s errand that will do great damage to the Republican Party.” Roll Call executive editor Morton Kondracke wrote the same month that we are seeing “the Arizonification of America,” a reference to the state that last year passed the harshest anti-immigrant law in memory. “It has become a state of Minuteman vigilantism, death threats against politicians and judges, talk-radio demagoguery, and bullying of Latinos and rival politicians,” he said. And neoconservative Bill Kristol, writing this February, worried about the “hysteria” in contemporary conservativism that he sees exemplified in a particularly voluble Fox News host. “When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society,” Kristol wrote. “He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.” Given these warnings from leading conservatives, it is not surprising that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest count found that the number of hate groups operating in America last year had risen to 1,002 from 932 in 2009. The number of nativist vigilante groups was up, too, from 309 in 2009 to 319 in 2010. And there was truly explosive growth in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement, which added 312 new groups last year, skyrocketing 61% from 512 in 2009 to 824 last year.

As we explain in this issue, this dramatic growth of the radical right for the second consecutive year is related to anger over the changing racial make-up of the country, the ailing economy and the spreading of demonizing propaganda and other kinds of hate speech in the political mainstream. The white-hot political atmosphere is not limited to hardline nativist politicians, conspiracy-mongering cable news hosts, or even openly radical hate groups. During the same month when most of these conservative commentaries were written, the nation witnessed an extraordinary series of events that highlighted the atmosphere of political extremism. On Jan. 8, a Tucson man opened fire in a parking lot on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, killing six people, critically wounding the congresswoman and badly injuring another 12 people. Giffords’ assailant appeared to be severely mentally ill, but he also seemed to have absorbed certain ideas from the radical right, including the notion that the federal government is evil. Six days later, a neo-Nazi named Jeffrey Harbin was arrested in Arizona for possessing 12 grenade-like devices packed with ball bearings — “to maximize human carnage,” as a federal prosecutor put it. A member of the National Socialist Movement, Harbin was heading for the border when he was arrested. Three days after that, on Jan. 17, police in Spokane, Wash., found and defused a sophisticated anti-personnel bomb that had been hidden along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. Officials said they were looking into local hate groups as part of their search for the would-be mass murderer. And on Jan. 24, police in Michigan arrested a man in a car loaded with M-80s and other explosives in a parking lot outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, packed at the time with 500 mourners at a funeral. He was charged with making a terroristic threat and possessing explosives with unlawful intent. We are living in a deeply polarized and dangerous moment, and that may be nowhere more obvious than in the state of Arizona, as Mort Kondracke pointed out. Perhaps no one captured that better than Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, speaking at a press conference after the Tucson assassination attempt. “[L]ook at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government,” the sheriff said. “The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous and, unfortunately, Arizona has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.” Sadly, much of the country is following Arizona’s lead. ▲

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Driven by anger over the country’s changing racial demographics, the continuing harsh economy and demonizing propaganda found increasingly in the political mainstream, the number of radical-right groups has expanded dramatically. For the second year in a row, the growth was led by the antigovernment “Patriot” movement, which saw more than 300 new organizations appear over a 12-month period.

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32 Shariah Shock

35 The Year in Nativism

Cliff Kincaid has spent more than 30 years at Accuracy in Media, a far-right organization that tirelessly attacks the “liberal” media. In that time, he’s cranked out reams of material savaging global institutions, political liberals, global warming theorists and the Catholic Church. But he reserves a special loathing for gay people.

Virtually all constitutional scholars and other legal experts agree that Shariah law — Muslim religious law — could never be imposed on Americans. But a measure banning the use of Shariah law passed overwhelmingly in Oklahoma after sponsor Rex Duncan claimed Americans were “in a war for the survival of our country.”

The anti-immigration movement savored a major victory last year with the adoption of Arizona’s controversial S.B. 1070, the harshest nativist law in memory. But as their issues were increasingly adopted by the more mainstream political right, the rate of growth of hard-line nativist and vigilante groups slowed to a trickle.

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12 Behind the Academies Two private academies in Mississippi, set up in 1968 for white children fleeing public school integration, are still being partly funded by a racist hate group.

14 Taking Aim In a self-published novel, an Ohio law school student targets the Southern Poverty Law Center for an imaginary assassination and dreams up a fanciful past for white people.

17 Making Myths The extreme-right version of American history pushed by the National Center for Constitutional Studies is gaining adherents. One of them is Fox’s Glenn Beck.

24 Electoral Extremism Over 20 candidates with extreme right-wing ideas ran for a variety of political offices around America last year. Five of them managed to win.

30 Tainted Thule A leading member of the now-defunct White Order of Thule describes the strange ideas of his “esoteric Nazi” group and explains how he came to leave it.

DEPARTMENTS 3 Intelligence Briefs A would-be clinic bomber calls himself a “Christian Osama”; a neo-Nazi is again convicted for threats; bank bombers get death; and other glimpses of extremism.

68 For the Record A sampling of hate crimes and hate group activities from the fourth quarter of 2010 is summarized in state-by-state listings.

69 The Last Word “Radical traditionalist” Catholics, many of them anti-Semites, gathered almost 500 years after Galileo to insist that the universe really does revolve around the earth.

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Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said critics of anti-gay religious right groups had refused to debate the issues. In fact, the criticism of his organization and others began with a televised debate between Perkins and an SPLC official.

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Anti-Gay Groups, on the Defensive After Criticism, Lash Out When the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) last November announced that it would be adding several so-called “pro-family” organizations to its list of hate groups because of their history of using known falsehoods to attack gay and lesbians, the religious right and its allies responded with a call to “Start Debating/Stop Hating,” saying the SPLC was seeking to stifle discussion of the issue. That was ironic, given that just a few days after the announcement, Intelligence Report Editor Mark Potok debated Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (FRC) on MSNBC. The FRC, which was one of the named groups, led the effort in December to take out a full-page adverIntelligence Briefs contributor: Ryan Lenz

ing peoples’ characters. These included an FRC booklet entitled “Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex with Boys” that claimed “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws tisement in two Washington, D.C., and to eventually recognize pedophiles newspapers. The ads accused “elements as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order.” of the radical Left” of trying to “shut The exchange came at a time when down informed discussion of policy religious-right leaders have accused the issues” — decrying those who attempt federal government of being beholden to suppress debate “through personal assaults that aim only to malign an oppo- to a “homosexual agenda” that purportedly includes “feminizing” nent’s character.” The ad the armed forces through was signed by 22 conservathe repeal of the so-called tive members of Congress, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” three governors and several policy; enhanced physof the listed organizations. ical airport pat-downs In a response to the that supposedly turn on advertisement, the SPLC gay security officials; and pointed to a number of demonizing an assistant examples that suggested state attorney general who that it was the groups, in Eugene Delgaudio waged a personal smear fact, that were malignspring 2011

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“They’re eating away at the foundation of American liberty, of American freedom.” – South Carolina State Sen. LARRY GROOMS (R), quoted in an Aug. 8 McClatchy Newspapers article comparing illegal immigrants to termites

“The deep, dark, dirty secret of Islam: It is a religion that promotes pedophilia — sex with children.” — First Baptist Church of Dallas pastor ROBERT JEFFRESS, in an Aug. 22 service called “Ask the Pastor”

“I hope all the queers are thrilled to see him. I am sure there will be a couple legislative fruitloops there in the audience.” — North Carolina State Rep. LARRY BROWN, in an E-mail sent to dozens of fellow Republican legislators Sept. 27, after learning Democratic House Speaker Joe Hackney was getting an award from a gay-rights group

“How is it for that for decades there were no bedbugs to speak of in New York City or anywhere else in America? … Is it a result of massive, massive waves of immigration from the Third World?” — Host MICHAEL SAVAGE, on the Dec. 1 edition of Talk Radio Network’s “The Savage Nation”

“Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question, in my opinion.” — HELEN THOMAS, in a Dec. 2 speech given six months after the legendary UPI journalist resigned following other remarks widely criticized as anti-Semitic

“If God has changed his mind, he must want the West to die.” — Family Research Institute chief PAUL CAMERON, in a Dec. 3 interview with The [Colorado Springs, Colo.] Gazette, suggesting God agrees with his condemnation of homosexuality

“We have only one blue-eyed bomber and that was Timothy McVeigh. And he wasn’t flying.” — U.S. Rep. STEVE KING (R-Iowa), in a Dec. 6 interview with the online Right Side News, discussing the purported advantages of profiling air travelers

— RUSH LIMBAUGH, on the Dec. 21 edition of Premiere Radio Network’s “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” following the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays qu ot e s on t h i s pag e were co mpiled fro m media acco unts, w eb pa ges, e -m a i l gro u p s a nd media matters fo r america , a g ro up t h at m o n i t o rs t h e fa r ri gh t.

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“Both Harvard and Yale do have a lesbian, transgender, gay, bisexual department… . I don’t know what you have to do to get a degree in those studies.”

campaign against an openly gay student at the University of Michigan. Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general in Michigan, was fired after waging a vicious campaign against Chris Armstrong, the University of Michigan student body president. Shirvell, who later said he had done nothing wrong, used his personal blog to accuse Armstrong of attempting to advance a “radical homosexual agenda,” calling him names like “Satan’s representative” and a “privileged pervert.” Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox ultimately fired Shirvell for conduct unbecoming a state employee. Meanwhile, Virginia lawmaker Eugene Delgaudio claimed last fall that federal transportation officials were motivated to implement new enhanced passenger search procedures by the “homosexual agenda,” not concerns about terrorism. Delgaudio, a Republican elected to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in 1999 and re-elected twice, made the claims in an E-mail sent in his role as president of the conservative nonprofit group Public Advocate of the United States. Calling the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) non-discrimination hiring policy “the federal employee’s version of the Gay Bill of Special Rights,” Delgaudio warned “the next TSA official that gives you an enhanced pat-down could be a practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from your submission.”

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Would-Be Clinic Bomber Saw Himself as ‘Christian Osama’

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The militant crusade against abortion providers shows no signs of abating in the aftermath of Dr. George Tiller’s 2009 assassination in Kansas — a murder that many in the anti-abortion movement celebrated as a watershed moment. Two years later, threats against abortion providers continue with unabated religious zeal. One of the epicenters of anti-abortion extremism seems to be in North Carolina, where the FBI in September arrested Justin Carl Moose, the selfprofessed “Christian counterpart to Osama bin Laden,” for conspiring to bomb an abortion clinic. Moose told a confidential FBI informant he was the organizer of a “phantom cell” for the Army of God, a theoretical group (no real structure is known to exist) composed of those who have attacked abortion providers. He used his Facebook page to issue communiqués, even posting detailed bomb-making instructions free for the taking. FBI agents in Greensboro, N.C., began investigating Moose in early August after Planned Parenthood contacted them and told them that a man was advocating violence against their clinics. Moose was arrested and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for leniency. He faces 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000, according to a plea agreement filed last

November in federal court. He was to be sentenced in March. Moose’s words to an online sympathizer left little doubt about whether he might follow through with his threats: “As far as I’m concerned, nothing is off limits to stop abortion. Anything and everything goes. I have learned a lot from the muslim [sic] terrorists and have no problem using their tactics.” Also in North Carolina, the Rev. Philip “Flip” Benham, director of the Concord-based Operation Save America and a long-time hardliner against abortion, ran into serious legal trouble of his own. In November, the fundamentalist Christian minister was found guilty of stalking a doctor who performs abortions. Benham came to national attention when he began papering neighborhoods with hundreds of Old West-style “Wanted” posters for doctors in Charlotte who perform abortions. The posters didn’t put a price on the doctors’ lives, but in the aftermath of Tiller’s murder in Kansas, many doctors felt threatened, especially considering the murderous outcome of similar fliers distributed in other states. David Gunn in Florida and George Patterson in Alabama, both doctors, were shot and killed in 1993. Another doctor, John Britton, was murdered a year later in Florida. All were once featured on “wanted” posters. Meanwhile, investigators have begun looking into whether Tiller’s killing was connected to a broad network of radical anti-abortion activists, one of gunman Scott Roeder’s former roommates told The Kansas City Star. Tim Parks, Roeder’s friend and former roommate, said he and six others appeared before a grand jury in October for a line of questions focusing on the Bible study group Roeder attended. The group, which met for potlucks and Scripture study, described themselves as Messianic Jews who, unlike mainstream Rev. Philip “Flip” Benham

Jews, believe that Jesus was the Messiah and that hastening his return would usher in the end of the world. In Boulder, Colo., Donald Hertz was sentenced to five years of probation for threatening the family of Dr. Warren Hern, one of only a few physicians nationwide who will perform late-term abortions. Prosecutors said Hertz called a clinic last summer and warned that his “associates” in Utah planned to kill Hern and members of his family. At the time of the threats, Hern was under the protection of U.S. Marshals. HATE IN THE MAINSTREAM

Once Again, Glenn Beck’s Views Invoked by Extremists Three men arrested in 2010 may have been the latest right-wing fanatics inspired to murder or threats of violence by conservative Fox News commentator Glenn Beck’s charismatic and sometimes end-times-focused diatribes, according to family members and attorneys. Kenneth Kimbley, the self-proclaimed leader of the Brotherhood of America Patriots, apparently interpreted Beck’s rants as a call to action. At the time of his arrest in July after discussing attacks on local bridges with a federal undercover agent, the 58-yearold had 20,000 rounds of ammunition, a stock of firearms and materials to construct grenades, according to court documents. He also conveyed threats against President Obama to the agent, describing extensive booby traps he had built and proclaiming his militia would “resist in the event the government started rounding up patriots.” That is a mainstay claim among militias driven by conspiratorial ideologies that accuse federal agencies of preparing concentration camps to one day round up well-meaning patriots. Kimbley pleaded guilty in November to unlawful possession of a firearm and attempt to make a firearm in violation of federal law. In his defense, his public defender attested, “Everything said by Mr. Kimbley is no different than what spring 2011

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INTELLIGENCE BRIEFS with police officers on his way to San Francisco last summer, where he allegedly planned shootings at the ACLU and the Tides Foundation — two frequent targets of Beck’s rants (the Tides Foundation was almost unknown to the public until Beck began attacking it regularly). Williams later described Beck as “like a schoolteacher on TV.” Nearly two years ago, extremist Richard Poplawski fatally shot three Pittsburgh police officers when they responded to a domestic dispute at his home. The killings drew attention to the allure of Beck’s rhetoric when a man described as Poplawski’s best friend said the killer was “obsessed” with some of Beck’s theories. Beck has denied any form of responsibility for the extreme actions of his viewers. The “schoolteacher”: There is evidence suggesting several violent extremists took their cues from Glenn Beck, but the Fox News host has denied that his extreme rhetoric and conspiracymongering played any part in influencing those who saw him as a mentor.

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Three Preachers Embroiled in Sex Abuse Scandals Polygamist and self-proclaimed prophet Warren Jeffs — one of at least three high-profile preachers embroiled in sex abuse scandals — has been extradited to Texas for a trial expected to begin sometime this year. Jeffs is the imprisoned head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), which has its roots in a split in the Mormon Church in 1890, when the main organization renounced polygamy. FLDS has compounds in southern Utah, northern Arizona, Texas, Colorado, South Dakota, Canada and Mexico. Jeffs was convicted in 2007 for his role in arranging the marriage of an unwilling 14-year-old girl to her 19-year-old cousin six years earlier. That conviction was overturned, but authorities plan to retry him and he remains in prison. The new charges in Texas stem from a 2008 raid at the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, Warren Jeffs

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his idol, TV commentator Glenn Beck, typically states on the air and is protected free speech.” Kimbley remains in federal custody and faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced this winter. Arrested with Kimbley was Steven Eugene Winegar, 52, who is under house arrest in Harpster, Idaho, until his trial is scheduled. In April, Charles Alan Wilson was arrested by the FBI for repeatedly threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) in retribution for her vote for health care reform, so-called “Obamacare.” Wilson was sentenced in October to a year and one day in prison. In a letter submitted to attest to his good character during sentencing, one of Wilson’s cousins said that “his fears were grown and fostered by Beck’s persuasive personality” and that Wilson was “under the spell that Glenn Beck cast, aided by the turbulent times in our economy.” A third man, Byron Williams, faces counts of attempted murder and a host of weapons charges after a shootout

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Texas, where authorities initially put more than 400 children in state custody on the grounds the girls were being sexually abused and the boys groomed to be sexual predators. In addition to his controversial teaching on the suitability of young girls for marriage, the rawboned prophet has preached to his more than 10,000 followers that “the black race is the people through which the devil has always been able to bring evil unto the earth,” and that homosexual intimacy “is the worst evil act you can do, next to murder.” Tony Alamo, another preacher convicted for sexually abusing children, made headlines again when a federal appeals court upheld his conviction for taking underage girls across state lines to sexually exploit them. Alamo, head of the virulently antigay Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, was arrested in 2008 after 100 federal and state investigators raided his compound in Texarkana, Ark., as part of a child pornography investigation involving allegations of physical and sexual abuse, polygamy and underage mar-

is because men are being feminized and women are being masculine! You cannot say, ‘I was born this way’ … I don’t care what scientists say!” The lawsuit alleges that Long gave the boys gifts of cars, college tuition and overnight trips to curry their favor.

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On the defense: Bishop Eddie Long, one of America’s most homophobic black preachers, has been accused by four men of coercing them into sexual acts when they were teenagers.

riage. During trial, one of his followers testified that Alamo, whose real name is Bernie LaZar Hoffman, had taken an 8-year-old wife. Alamo was sentenced to 175 years in prison after he was convicted in 2009 on 10 counts of violating the Mann Act, a century-old law originally aimed at stopping women from being sold into prostitution. He is being held in Tucson, Ariz., where he was recently placed in a special wing after he began threatening prosecutors and others connected to his case. Then there is the case of Bishop Eddie Long. He’s accused by four men of misusing his role as pastor, counselor and bishop of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia, one of the largest megachurches in the nation, to coerce them into sexual acts when they were teens. As of press time, both parties in the lawsuit had agreed to mediation to avoid what was expected to be a long and embarrassing civil trial, scheduled this summer in the event of an impasse in negotiations. The Southern Poverty Law Center in 2007 identified the charismatic pastor as “one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement.” In a videotaped sermon, Long declared, “The problem today, and the reason society is like it is,

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National Socialist Leader Again Convicted of Threat Charges Imprisoned former neo-Nazi leader Bill White can’t get a break — even when he’s broke. In a case that tested the limits of free speech, an all-white jury in Chicago found the ever-garrulous, imprisoned White guilty of using his website to threaten the foreman of a jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist. White targeted Mark Hoffman, the jury foreman in the 2004 trial of white supremacist Matthew Hale, who was found guilty of soliciting the murder of a federal judge. Years after the trial, White listed Hoffman’s address, telephone number and other personal information on his Overthrow.com website and called him a “gay, Jewish anti-racist,” adding that he “played a leading role in inciting both the conviction and the harsh sentence that followed.” White’s attorneys framed their defense around his First Amendment rights — a point the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Virginia supported. The ACLU pointed out in a friend-of-the-court brief that First Amendment case law distinguishes between protected free speech and what is known as a “true threat” — a threat that a reasonable third party would take seriously. It argued that White’s posting, which did not directly

propose violence against Offman, did not amount to a true threat. The jury, however, disagreed after hearing evidence about the full context of White’s website, which contained a plethora of verbal attacks and threats directed at various perceived enemies. The verdict came just as White was about to finish a two-and-a-half year sentence for making racially charged threats against other enemies. He also will have to pay $545,000 to five black Virginia Beach, Va., women in a separate discrimination lawsuit; White had sent them vulgar, threatening letters during their dispute with a local landlord. The women were awarded amounts ranging from $45,000 to $65,000. White’s now-defunct American National Socialist Workers Party was found liable for another $280,000. (The Southern Poverty Law Center assisted the attorney for the women.) It’s unclear just how much White can pay (he once claimed to be worth more than $2 million), but the plaintiffs can seek to collect any assets he might acquire over the next 40 years. Also, the financial punishments against him will stand even if he should file for bankruptcy. The ruling ends a lucrative run White enjoyed with his real estate empire in Virginia, where he bought property in largely black neighborhoods as part of what he called a “ghetto beautification project.” What an ugly brand of beauty it was: White would boot out residents who could no longer afford to stay without using Section 8 government vouchers, which he refused to accept. He sent letters calling his residents “dirty parasites” and once wrote tenants that his “patience with you and the government that coddles you runs thin.” As if financial and judicial ruin were not enough, an ironic twist left White’s family targeted by threats from the racist right last October. Apparently angered by things White had said in court, self-professed Aryan Brotherhood member Timothy Grant Bland, 45, allegedly began a terror campaign against White’s wife and daughter, calling in the middle of the night to leave lewd and sometimes hostile messages. spring 2011

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Father and Son Bank Bombers Head To Death Row in Oregon With faces swept free of emotion, Bruce Turnidge and his son, Joshua Turnidge, received death sentences in December for aggravated murder charges stemming from the bombing of an Oregon bank that killed two police officers.

During trial, a portrait of two angry men emerged: delusional and racist “Patriots” contemptuous of the government and police and fearful that President Obama would take away their right to possess guns. Both father and son harbored antigovernment ideas and fantasized about figures they viewed as antigovernJoshua Turnidge Bruce Turnidge ment heroes, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who she did so and promptly notified police. was executed in 2003. Nevertheless, William Hakim, a bomb technician with it remains unclear exactly why the the Oregon State Police, initially thought Turnidges thought planting a bomb outthe boxed bomb was a hoax and began side a suburban bank before a robbery would strike a blow against federal power. dismantling the package. The bomb went off unexpectedly. The Turnidge bombing occurred Prosecutors contended that it was set on Dec. 12, 2008, when an employee at Wells Fargo in Woodburn, Ore., received off by an unknown transmission of some a call from a man instructing her and her kind, perhaps from a local CB radio. Defense attorneys claimed that Hakim fellow employees to leave the building. set it off by hammering on the device. When her manager told her to hang up,

Throwing their support behind Arizona’s highly controversial anti-immigrant S.B. 1070 law, as many as 60 members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) were subjected to a hail of stones and other missiles hurled by anti-racist protesters as they marched toward the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Court Building. The NSM, which is the largest neo-Nazi group in the nation, targeted that building because it was there that a federal judge stayed major portions of the law, which would require immigrants to carry papers at all times and force police to demand those papers in many circumstances. About 100 anti-racists clashed violently with NSM members as they marched — at one point, a woman with the NSM was struck in the head by a projectile — and police in riot gear stepped in with tear gas and pepper spray to quell the melee. Two people were arrested for throwing rocks at officers. In a heroic retelling of the day’s events, the NSM sang the praises of its own “valiant members” and fulminated about the anti-racist “masked cowards” who attacked them. After the march, the NSM crowd retired to an unknown location where they burned a swastika and admired an altar of sorts, decorated with a Nazi flag and photos (from left) of late American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell, current NSM “commander” Jeff Schoep, and, naturally, a grimly determined Adolf Hitler.

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THE BLOTTER

Updates on Extremism and The Law The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from former

Zachary Loren Beck, a member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, withdrew from an agreement White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan member James to plead guilty to federal hate crime charges in a Ford Seale, serving three January 2010 attack on life sentences at the fedthe lone black patron of a eral prison in Terre Haute, sports bar in Vancouver, Ind., for his part in the Wash. In 2005, Beck had 1964 beating deaths of black teenagers Charles pleaded guilty to assault James Ford Seale Eddie Moore and Henry charges after shooting at Hezekiah Dee, who Seale Longview, Wash., police suspected of civil rights a year earlier. In 2003, activism. Initial charges against Seale he ran unsuccessfully for the Hayden, were dismissed by Mississippi officials Idaho, City Council. in 1965, but the case was reopened and he was convicted in 2007. NOV. 19 A U.S. magistrate judge in Detroit denied alleged members of the Hutaree Militia a hearing OCT. 22 Daniel Cowart, the one-time probationary member of the they sought to contest government conspiracy allegations. Nine members of Supreme White Alliance racist skinhead the self-described group of “Christian group who pleaded guilty in March to warriors” were arrested last March charges he plotted to kill then-Demand accused of plotting to murder a ocratic presidential candidate Barack police officer and then use bombs and Obama in 2008, was sentenced to 14 missiles to kill hundreds of other offiyears in prison. In addition to Cowart cers at the funeral in a bid to set off a of Bells, Tenn., Paul Schlesselman of national insurrection. The eight men West Helena, Ark., was convicted in a and one woman came from Michigan, separate trial. The pair met over the Internet and hatched plans for a robIndiana and Ohio. bery and killing spree culminating in Obama’s assassination. NOV. 30 Allen Goff, an 18-year-old white supremacist accused of threatening an American Indian teen NOV. 8 Daniel Lee Jones, a regional at gunpoint in Billings, Mont., pleaded director of the now-defunct not guilty to felony charges of assault American Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, was sentenced to 18 months in with a weapon. Goff leads the Montana Creators Assembly, an offshoot of the prison for mailing a hangman’s noose to F.M. Jason Upthegrove, former presneo-Nazi Creativity Movement. In 2009, ident of the Lima, Ohio, chapter of the Goff was charged with the racially motivated shooting of a Latino teen in the NAACP. Upthegrove was targeted leg, but claimed it was an accident and after he criticized a drug raid that left 26-year-old Tarika Wilson dead and her was only convicted last July of weapons charges. He got six months’ probation. 14-month-old son wounded.

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Actor Wesley Snipes began a three-year federal prison sentence in Pennsylvania for failing to file income tax returns on millions of dollars of earnings during the 1990s and later. The 48-year-old star of the “Blade” films and “Jungle Fever” had long maintained his innocence, telling CNN’s Larry King a day earlier that he wasn’t a tax protester, despite abundant evidence that he actively sought out and employed bogus taxavoidance advice from radical-right “sovereign citizen” gurus. DEC. 9

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A federal court in Bridgeport, Conn., sentenced Edwin

Westmoreland to 40 months in prison for providing weapons to an informant posing as a representative of the Imperial Klans of America. Westmoreland, a member of the Connecticut White Wolves neo-Nazi group, had pleaded guilty in June to selling guns to the informant, who he knew was a convicted felon. Prosecutors have said the plot, which allegedly involved several other White Wolves members, was part of a push to boost the group’s status and geographic base in the white supremacist movement. Following two mistrials, John Ditullio was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for a 2006 knife attack that badly wounded Patricia Wells and killed her son’s 17-year-old friend, Kristofer King. Ditullio, who was a recruit in a racist skinhead group called American Nazis , lived in a trailer park with fellow members in New Port Richey, Fla. , next to Wells’ home. Ditullio and his fellow neoNazis reportedly despised Wells because she sometimes had black house guests. DEC. 16

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A final goodbye: An honor guard was part of a funeral service held in Ecuador for José Sucuzhañy after he was murdered by nativists in Brooklyn in 2008. Together with the murder of another Ecuadorian immigrant in nearby Long Island the same year, the killing drew national attention to anti-Latino hate violence.

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Murder of Ecuadorian Man Dismissed With A Shrug Keith Phoenix — who confessed to the 2008 murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant in Brooklyn by saying, “So I killed someone — that makes me a bad guy?” — has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison. The case drew national outrage after the man’s death was captured on camera. According to investigators, Phoenix and another man, Hakim Scott, jumped out of their sport utility vehicle and began yelling racist slurs before pouncing on José Sucuzhañay and his brother because they were Latino and, the attackers thought, gay. A camera on a nearby tollbooth caught Phoenix laughing maniacally as he sped away, leaving Sucuzhañay mortally wounded in the gutter. Phoenix and Scott each received 37-year sentences in August, though

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Before moving to a fortified position, White climbed into a sheriff’s vehicle and taunted officers. “He got on the radio and basically was spouting off things about the deputies and law enforcement, making political and religious statements and making comments urging the snipers to make him a martyr,” Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman John Barton told the Odessa American. In the 22-hour siege that followed, police say White sporadically opened fire on law enforcement helicopters and officers from a large dirt mound that contained trenches, bunkers and firing positions. The dirt barricade, which had a white cross and a flagpole on top, was built near the trailer where White lived without utilities on several desolate acres. White finally surrendered as SWAT team members in an armored vehicle closed in on him. He was indicted in December on three charges of ANTIGOVERNMENT ‘PATRIOTS’ attempted capital murder and was being Texas Secessionist held on a $2 million bail. This wasn’t the first confrontation Charged With Shooting between law enforcement and individOilman, Police Officers uals associated with the ROT. In 1997, Richard McLaren, who was then head Victor Dewayne White was just of the ROT, initiated a six-day standanother reclusive extremist with ties off with hundreds of Texas Rangers to white supremacist groups and the after his followers kidnapped a neighRepublic of Texas (ROT), which claims bor couple at gunpoint and demanded Texas is a sovereign nation never the release of a jailed movement memlegally annexed by the United States. ber. One ROT member was killed Then, in September, police say he in the gunfight that followed, and decided to wage a one-man war against McLaren was eventually local authorities in a viosentenced to 111 years in lent standoff that left prison for his role. three people wounded in In addition, John Joe West Odessa. Gray, a reported former The standoff began ROT member, has been after an employee of holed up on his remote an oil company went to property near Trinidad, White’s property with Texas, for the past decade Ector County Sheriff ’s — ever since posting Deputy Ricky Tijerina bail on charges that he and Sgt. Steve McNeil Victor Dewayne White attacked a police officer to access an oil well during a traffic stop. He to which the company later sent a letter to authorities telling owned rights. White allegedly began them to bring along body bags if they firing almost immediately, wounding came after him. all three men as they retreated. Hakim and Woodburn Police Capt. Thomas Tennant were killed in the explosion. Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell lost his right leg, and bank employee Laurie Perkett was injured. One of the witnesses to the bombing, an ATF agent, likened the Turnidge’s bomb to those made by Eric Rudolph, the anti-abortion terrorist known as the “Olympic Park Bomber” who was responsible for a series of bombings between 1996 and 1998 that killed two people and injured more than 100. In a jail cell letter to his girlfriend before the death sentence was handed down, Joshua Turnidge vowed he would fight to the death against those who had “declared war” on him, and that his last breath would come in battle. “I fear my heart is growing cold with hate for what they have done to us,” he wrote. “I pledge to you that not a day will go by that will not be filled with retribution.”

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Scott was cleared of the more serious a conspiracy between the Chamber of hate crime charges. Commerce, churches and corporations to That murder was among the more “put the derrieres of illegal aliens in the serious recent acts of violence against pews,” project chairman Eli Cawley told Latinos across the country. It came KSL Newsradio in Salt Lake City. amid a volatile anti-immigrant climate — vigilantes actively patrolling HATE CRIMES the borders with Mexico, fear-monMentally Disabled Navajo gering filling the airwaves, and states attempting to adopt sweeping changes Man Branded With Swastika to immigration policy that are likely to lead to illegal racial profiling. In the first known case filed under Just days before Phoenix and Scott the federal hate crimes law signed by were sentenced, 18-year-old Christian President Obama in 2009, three New Vasquez was beaten repeatedly in the Mexico men face charges after being Staten Island, N.Y., neighborhood of accused of using a heated wire coat Port Richmond until his left eye swelled hanger to brand a swastika on a menshut. According to police, his attacktally disabled Navajo man. ers took $10 while yelling anti-Mexican Paul Beebe, William Hatch and slurs and “Go home.” Jesse Sanford each face one count of The case drew national attention conspiracy and one count of violating after Staten Island Borough President the federal hate crimes law, also known James Molinaro told the Staten Island as the Matthew Shepard and James Advance, “These are not bias incidents Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. … these are criminal acts.” He later said They also face state felony charges of the victim “could have been anybody.” kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidIn Arizona, Jason Bush and his conapping, aggravated battery causing defendant, a former teen prostitute great bodily harm and conspiracy to named Shawna Forde who started and commit aggravated battery. led a vigilante group called Minuteman They are accused of more than American Defense (MAD), went to trial just branding in January for killing a Latino father and Vincent Kee’s daughter. Albert Gaxiola was also being arm in April charged as a co-conspirator in the mur2009. Police ders. Bush and Forde will face a possible death senThe price of hate: Swastikas were tence if convicted. The three shaven and branded on the body are accused of attacking the of a mentally disabled man in 2009. Now, the case has become family — the mother of the the first prosecuted under a new family was wounded but federal hate crimes law. survived — in a bid to steal money to fund Forde’s group. Meanwhile, state leaders in Utah are under attack after drawing up a five-point plan to address immigration reform. The so-called Utah Compact is a declaration of principles meant to guide the state’s discussion of immigration reforms. The Utah Minuteman Project opposes those reforms, calling the compact part of

say they shaved a swastika on the back of his head, drew two horns on his forehead and wrote the words “White Power” across the back of his neck. None of this seems incidental. The men are believed to be associated with the white supremacist movement, and a search of Beebe’s apartment turned up various items displaying Nazi iconography, including a Nazi flag mounted on a wall and a baseball bat painted with a swastika. In his defense, Sanford’s attorney claims Kee was a willing participant and that cell phone video footage shows Kee agreeing to the brand. It was meant, the men say, as a Navajo tribal symbol representing rolling water. Throughout history, the swastika has had many meanings, including its associations William Hatch with many southwestern Native American Indian tribes — but its use by the Nazis is surely the most frightening and lasting associations. The defense so Jesse Sanford far hinges on Kee, who suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome, a condition that diminished his mental capacity. Attorneys for at least two of the men say that alone is reason to Paul Beebe doubt Kee’s claim that the branding and markings were done against his will. Defense attorney Eric Morrow wrote that police and other adults convinced Kee that the branding was a criminal act. “At this point, his words are not his own,” Morrow wrote in court filings. ▲ spring 2011

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Behind the Academies

Half a century after school desegregation began, a racist hate group is still helping fund two private Mississippi schools BY HEIDI BEIRICH

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dents had withdrawn from public schools to avoid mandatory desegregation. Though the academies remain across the South, their days of overtly catering solely to whites have ended. But a minority presence at some schools can be hard to find: The headmaster of Carroll Academy, Steve Flemming, told the Intelligence Report that the school has one non-white student. Calhoun’s headmaster, Coach Cameron White, said that his school had four non-white students, some of whom “may have black blood in their families.” The Carroll and Calhoun academies, which both were founded in 1968 and offer classes from kindergarten through high school, are revered by the CCC. The CCC’s longtime national field coordinator, Bill Lord, who was president of Carroll Academy for 14 years in the 1980s and 1990s, called them “the mira-

Carroll Academy’s school mascot is Colonel Reb — the same symbol axed by the University of Mississippi because of its evocation of the racist doctrines of the Confederacy.

cle of the century.” In 2004, Lord wrote in the Citizens Informer that the academies create “an atmosphere free of social experiments” for those who want to “associate with persons of like persuasion,” presumably meaning other whites. According to his biographical profile, Lord helped organize both Carroll and Calhoun academies, as well as six others in Arkansas and Tennessee. The CCC works hard to support the schools, holding barbecue fundraisers that bring in substantial donations. In 1999, for instance, the CCC reported that it had raised over $100,000 for Calhoun Academy. The group also prominently features activities taking place at the academies in its publications. The CCC’s April-June 2010 Citizens Informer, for example, ran a photo of the Carroll Academy Lady Rebels basketball team along with congratulations for having won a championship. In February 2010, Carroll Academy hosted a CCC meeting that featured Jeppi Barbour, brother of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, describing a petition drive for a ballot proposal the would require voters to show ID before voting. Photos show Jeppi Barbour in the academy’s library speaking to dozens of CCC members. And the local CCC chapter regularly meets in the school’s facilities. In March 2009, the chapter’s meeting at the academy featured an unnamed guest

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ld times certainly are not forgotten in some parts of the South. Two private Mississippi academies, set up in 1968 for white children facing the unacceptable (to their parents) prospect of sharing their classrooms with African Americans, are still being enthusiastically funded by white supremacists. Calhoun Academy in Calhoun City and Carroll Academy in Carrollton have been the beneficiaries of considerable financial support over the past two decades from the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a crudely white supremacist group whose website has referred to blacks as “a retrograde species of humanity” and whose newspaper, Citizens Informer, regularly publishes articles condemning “race mixing” and lamenting the decline of white, European civilization. The CCC is the direct descendant of the segregationist White Citizens Councils of the 1950s and 1960s, having been largely built on the earlier councils’ mailing lists. The Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education, ordering desegregation of the nation’s public schools, sparked the growth of the White Citizens Councils, which declared, “We will not be integrated. We are proud of our white blood and our white heritage of sixty centuries.” The councils’ first order of business after the court decision was to create private, all-white schools that came to be known as segregation, or seg, academies. By 1975, at least a half million white stu-

A group of men helping to raise money for Mississippi’s Carroll Academy gather in front of a banner for the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, a school benefactor.

speaker who is “one of the top judges in Mississippi, who gave a talk on the need for conservative organizations across the state to offset the liberals that are trying to influence the courts.” (In recent years, the CCC has avoided naming public figures who address the group because of the ramifications of speaking to an openly racist group. Most politicians have strenuously avoided the CCC since the late 1990s.) In line with the CCC’s reverence for all symbols of the Old South, Carroll Academy’s sports teams are called the Rebels and the school’s mascot — featured prominently on its website — is Colonel Reb. (The colonel is identical to the mascot of the University of Mississippi that was axed seven years ago because of its connection to the Confederacy and its racist doctrines.) Several photos of a

recent barbecue fundraiser the CCC held for the school are on the academy’s website, including two that depict a big CCC banner alongside a Confederate flag. Calhoun Academy also gets considerable ink in the CCC’s newsletter. A picture in April-June Citizens Informer shows a massive barbecue pit full of chicken that was sold to help the school. “Tasty B-B-Q benefits Calhoun Academy,” reads the caption. On another page the newsletter notes that the barbecue event brought in over $1,600 for Calhoun, described as a “private school organized by the Council.” A 2004 description of another barbecue fundraiser put on by the local CCC chapter said the funds from “the program are used to purchase textbooks and visual aids for the school library.” These events have been held for nearly two decades for both schools. Given the CCC’s long relationship with Carroll Academy, it was surprising how unaware headmaster Flemming said he was about the group. He told the Report that CCC members have children in his academy and that the group is “supportive of the school.” But he said that he was “not informed” about the nature of the CCC, even though the group regularly meets on his campus. He declined to condemn their racist views, saying that he didn’t want “offend anyone” and that “they have their right to feel how they feel.” Flemming also told the Report that the parents of his school’s one non-white

student “have never had a concern” about white supremacists meeting at and helping to fund his academy. For his part, White, the headmaster at Calhoun Academy, told the Report that the CCC donates only “about $4 a year” to the school, which contradicts the CCC’s published accounts of its fundraisers for the school. When asked about the barbecue the group held earlier this year to raise funds for the school, White said his campus receives “no direct donations” and added that he didn’t know if the CCC had “assisted in cooking” to benefit the school. When asked about the CCC’s views — one of its platform statements is a promise to “oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind” — White said, “I wouldn’t comment on that.” Both academies are accredited members of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS), which includes dozens of private academies in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. A search of the association’s accreditation materials could find no reference to best practices or policies dealing with racism or discrimination. But in a November E-mail to the Report, MAIS Executive Director David Derrick said: “Policies of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS) provide that member schools shall not discriminate in enrollment on the basis of race. Member schools, however, are autonomous in their decisions regarding funding. There are no policies in place that allow for, or require, review of funding sources of member schools.” After the CCC’s support for these schools was initially disclosed in October on the Hatewatch blog, a sister Southern Poverty Law Center publication to the Intelligence Report, an anti-racist group called Change.org organized two petition campaigns to stop racist funding of the academies. By January MAIS had changed its tone, demanding that the schools end their financial relationship with the CCC. ▲ spring 2011

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Taking Aim

A law student targets SPLC in an assassination fantasy. Kyle Bristow also conjures up an imaginary past for white people BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK

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t was no surprise last October when former hate group leader Kyle Bristow self-published a white nationalist novel featuring the graphic assassination of a character based on a prominent employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Bristow, after all, has had an outsized ax to grind with the SPLC since his undergraduate years at Michigan State University. It was there that he first attained notoriety for inviting hate group spokesmen to speak on campus and for promoting a video game centered on killing Mexican migrants. Somewhat more surprising than the book itself are the dozen gushing blurbs Bristow collected in praise of his violently racist debut novel, White Apocalypse. Some of these blurbs are from usual suspects like Billy Roper, of White Revolution and the Nationalist Party of America, and James Edwards, of the hate radio program “The Political Cesspool.” But the book also received glowing praise from two academics with ties to well-known universities. The first is Kevin MacDonald, professor of psychology at California State University at Long Beach. McDonald calls White Apocalypse “an emotionally compelling account of Whites as historical victims of non-Whites — just the sort of thing we need to motivate a renaissance among our people.” Despite his high-sounding position, MacDonald is a raging anti-Semite who contends that Jews are driven by a genetically programmed evolutionary strategy to undermine Western civilization. 14

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MacDonald, whose writings on Jews have been condemned by his academic colleagues, recently joined an explicitly white supremacist group, the American Third Position, which was started by a man who has called for the deportation of all Americans with any “ascertainable trace of Negro blood.” Another fan of Bristow’s novel is selfdescribed white “separatist” Virginia Abernethy, a professor emerita at Vanderbilt University medical school. Abernethy calls White Apocalypse a “well-

Kyle Bristow’s fury at the SPLC is crystallized in a scene from his self-published novel that depicts a character obviously meant to be an SPLC official being assassinated.

researched page-turner” and hopes it is the first of many. “One looks forward to much more from this author,” she writes. Craig Bodeker, producer of the film “A Conversation About Race,” also weighs in with a prominent endorsement. Bodeker, who persists in claiming he is no racist despite posting Internet comments describing black people as “EVIL monkeys,” calls Bristow’s book “the jolt Whites need to awaken from our suicidal slumber!” Let’s hope no one takes Bristow’s book seriously, let alone finds themselves being “awakened” by it. Its plot is driven by puerile prose and revolves around a series of violent revenge fantasies against Jewish professors, Latino and Native American activists, and the SPLC. Targeting Enemies Much of White Apocalypse is spent d ra m a t i z i n g o n e m a n ’s c r u s a d e against the “evil, anti-Western” activities of an Atlanta-based organization called the “Center for Diversity and Multiculturalism.” The organization, with its “hate group list” and large legal staff, is clearly modeled on the Montgomery, Ala.-based SPLC. The book also includes characters whose roles match that of two SPLC senior staffers: Mark Potok, the director of SPLC’s Intelligence Project and editor of this magazine, and Heidi Beirich, the SPLC’s director of research. On page 195, the Potok character — the Center’s spokesman, named David Greenberg, who Bristow describes as an “oily, curly haired troll” — has just fin-

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While a student at Michigan State University, Kyle Bristow took time out from posting racist insults to display his unusual sense of humor.

ished delivering testimony in a federal courthouse. As Greenberg stands outside the building, the novel’s hero, a one-man militia named Jack Schoenherr (which translates roughly from the German as “Mr. Handsome”) fires a bullet from his AR-15 from the roof of a nearby parking garage. Bristow describes the event as follows: “The supersonic projectile hit the leftist agitator one inch below the eye, and the bullet exited the back of his head nanoseconds later. … Brain, blood, and skull fragments burst forth from what was once Greenberg’s head, and the leftist was blown off both of his feet. Greenberg died instantly, and his last words were ‘We must destroy the plague that is Western culture.’ Ironically, Western culture got him first. From Valhalla [a celebration

hall in Scandinavian mythology], Thor, the archenemy of trolls, smiled at the accomplishment of the epitome of Western Man.” When asked to comment on what is obviously a murder fantasy concerning the SPLC’s Potok, Bristow replied via E-mail to this reporter that any parallels were purely coincidental. “Dear Guttersnipe,” read Bristow’s response, “I do not ‘fantasize’ about anyone’s death. I do, however, fantasize quite often of taking the country over and implementing a real right-wing agenda that would make [archconservative MSNBC commentator] Pat Buchanan and the late Sam Francis [the chief editor of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens] proud. What I mean by this is the most offensive thing possible, and what this is I will leave to your imagination.” Precious little imagination is required. With its anti-Semitism and racist venom, White Apocalypse is the latest

entry into a long tradition of American hate-fiction animated by the hatreds, fantasies, and frustrations that fester in far-right circles. The most famous of the genre in recent times is, of course, the late neo-Nazi William Pierce’s The Turner Diaries, a race-war novel that inspired the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the murderous acts of the domestic terrorist group, the Order, in the mid-1980s. Bristow’s book makes clear that his current heroes include not just marginal far-right figures, but also conservative commentators employed by major cable news and radio networks. Early in the novel, Bristow quotes “Dr. Michael Savage” approvingly, an obvious reference to hate-radio jock Michael Savage. The book’s militia tough-guy hero offers a reading list that includes Pat Buchanan’s The Suicide of the West. Nor does it take long to figure out that the name of his protagonist, Samuel Buchanan, is meant as homage to Pat Buchanan and Buchanan’s late friend, one-time Washington Times columnist Samuel Francis. Bristow, now a law student at the University of Toledo, forged most of his connections to the radical right as the 21-year-old campus director of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). He gained notoriety (as well as the SPLC’s hate group designation) for inviting wellknown extremists to speak on campus, such as the leader of the whites-only British National Party, Holocaust denier Nick Griffin, and for stunts like advocating a video game in which players earned points by shooting Mexican migrants at the border. While representing YAF, Bristow earned notice from bookers and hosts at Fox News Channel. As Bristow still proudly boasts on his website, he once appeared on The O’Reilly Factor and has been quoted on-air by Sean Hannity. Bristow’s national television appearances occurred back when he was a lowly student activist. Today, he is a self-published author on a crusade not merely to entertain or inspire to violence his fellow white nationalists, but to reveal the true story of their Stone Age ancestors, spring 2011

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who, he firmly believes, settled North America some 20,000 years ago. Stone Age Aryans To the extent that Bristow’s violent novel can be said to service an idea, that idea is a newly resurgent fad on the far-right known as the “Solutrean Hypothesis.” The hero of White Apocalypse is on a mission to give the hypothesis its proper hearing. SPLC villains are the main obstacles standing in his way. The crux of Bristow’s “repressed knowledge” is the belief that Stone Age European explorers first settled the North American continent millennia before the Asian settlers known to history as Native Americans. The origin of the idea lies in the 1933 discovery of an arrow- and spearhead known as a “Clovis point.” Its design led archeologists to coin the term “Clovis culture” to refer to what they believed was distinctive about a wave of settlers who crossed the Bering Straight from Eastern Siberia during the last ice age, around 14,000 BCE. Soon after the Clovis discovery, an archaeologist named Frank Hibben began writing about the similarities between the Clovis points found in North America and those designed by a Stone Age Southwestern European civilization known as the Solutrean. While overwhelmingly dismissed by his peers, Hibben’s hypothesis struck a resonant chord with Americans who liked the idea that the discovery and settlement of the Western Hemisphere was a prehistoric triumph of European, not Asian, will and technology. Over the next 60 years, the Solutrean Hypothesis of a European-American “lost race” gained a handful of adherents, but it was generally considered crank science and dismissed. The hypothesis gained new life and professional traction only in the late 1990s. It was then that two archeologists associated with the Smithsonian Institution, Dennis Stanford and Brace Bradley, claimed to be in a position to finally build on Hibben’s original theory. The major event in this renaissance occurred in 1996, when archeologists discovered a skeleton in Washington State that was described as having “Caucasoid” features. Although a report by the National Park Service Archaeology and Ethnology Program later declared that the remains 16

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were Native American and only 9,000 years old, white nationalist advocates of the Solutrean Hypothesis seized on the initial reports to revive the idea that Europeans were the first to settle the Western Hemisphere. They were further encouraged a few years later, when Stanford and Bradley announced what they claimed was further evidence of prehistoric Solutrean settlement. This evidence was largely based on a negative discovery: They reported finding no trace of Clovis technology in the Asian areas that the Native Americans supposedly came from. This argument was matched with a complex and contested history of the lineage of a mitochondrial DNA called haplogroup X found in some mummified North American remains. As it had been in the 1930s, the archeology profession was once again largely dismissive of the new and improved Solutrean Hypothesis. The anthropologist Lawrence Guy Straus summed up the still-reigning consensus view that the Clovis civilization was native, and not dependent on contact with Solutreans, in a 2000 interview with National Geographic. “One of the great failings of archaeology,” he told the magazine, “is a continuous falling back on the notion that if a couple of things [like Clovis arrowheads] resemble one another, they have to have the same source. But these similarities appear and reappear time and again in different places.” The ‘Real’ Native Americans Despite any real proof that Solutreans settled North America, the hypothesis over the last decade has continued to gain white nationalist adherents who have seized on it to stage a prehistoric white persecution drama. If Europeans settled North America first, then the Asians that followed them — now known as Native Americans — not only have no claim on the land, but also must have committed genocide against the original white settlers, who did not survive to tell their story. This is the meaning of the title of Bristow’s novel, White Apocalypse,

which he dedicates to “the real Native Americans”—i.e., the descendents of Stone Age Europeans. The title for Bristow’s promotional site for the book, meanwhile, is named The Solutrean Liberation Front, after the fictional group created by the novel’s assassin-hero, Jack Schoenherr. Unfortunately for Bristow and his fellow white nationalist Solutrean proponents, the hypothesis as understood even by sympathetic archeologists does not exactly jibe with their reading. Shortly after Bristow released his book, the watchdog group YAF Watch contacted Dennis Stanford, the most prominent proponent of the Solutrean Hypothesis and head of the National Museum of Natural History’s Archaeology Division. His take on the crude appropriation of his ideas by white nationalists was not sympathetic. “There are several major problems” with using the Solutrean Hypothesis to advance a white nationalist racial politics, said Stanford. The biggest, he explained, is that “even if the Solutrean hypothesis is demonstrated, there is no evidence that these people were the same race as modern Europeans; in fact, they most likely were not the same race. Their origin in Europe is a major research question. At the present, most scholars believe the people who made the European Solutrean artifacts came out of North Africa [around] 25,000 years ago.” The other leading proponent of the Solutrean Hypothesis, Bruce Bradley, is no better disposed to the efforts that Bristow and others are making to use it as intellectual fuel for the white power movement. “It is quite likely that [if ] these events happened, [it was] before ‘racial’ diversification occurred,” Bradley, now an associate professor of experimental archeology at the University of Exeter in England, told the Intelligence Report. “Any facile explanations about the possible implications in relation to modern history will certainly be discredited.” Bristow has shown to the world he’s not much of a writer. It turns out he’s an even worse armchair archeologist. ▲

Making Myths With the rise of the right, the National Center for Constitutional Studies’ bizarre version of U.S. history is gaining adherents BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL ADEL

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AIRMONT, W. Va. — One fine Saturday morning last year, around 60 mostly middle-aged conservatives trickled onto the otherwise deserted campus of Fairmont State University. Clutching notebooks and coffee cups, they looked like groggy Continuing Ed students as they took seats in a modern lecture hall on the ground floor of the school’s engineering building. In a sense, they were Continuing Ed students. The room had been booked months in advance for a one-day, introlevel history and civics seminar entitled, “The Making of America.” But this was no ordinary summer school. Randall McNeely, the seminar’s

kindly, awkward, and heavy-set instructor, held no advanced degree and made no claims to being a scholar of any kind. He was, rather, a product of rote training in a religious and apocalyptic interpretation of American history that has roots in the racist right of the last century. His students for the day had learned about the class not in the Fairmont State summer catalog, but from the website of the obscure nonprofit run by fringe Mormons. Founded as the Freeman Institute in Provo, Utah, in 1971, the outfit now goes by the name National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCSS), and works out of a remote farmhouse in Malta, Idaho (population 177).

This humble base of operations, however, constrains neither the outfit’s national ambitions nor its missionary zeal. The NCCS has been touring the country and propagating its ultraconservative Mormon message for nearly four decades. Yet its message has never been in greater demand than in 2010. Since the rise of the Tea Party circuit, the all-volunteer NCCS has experienced exploding interest from Tea Party-affiliated groups such as the 9.12 Project and the Tea Party Patriots. On any given Saturday, several of nearly 20 “Making of America” lecturers are giving seminars across the country in spaces like the rented classroom in Fairmont, with $10 tickets and NCCS book sales paying for their travel and expenses. Along with a busier schedule, the NCCS also has a growing list of allies. In the media, it has found a powerful voice in the form of Fox News’ Glenn Beck, who is a Mormon himself and has used his pulpit to advocate for NCCS books and ideas. Through Beck’s sustained and energetic advocacy, once-forgotten NCCS tracts of Mormon-flavored pseudo-history such as The 5,000 Year Leap have become unlikely online bestsellers. As a result, traveling volunteer NCCS lecturers like McNeely today have no shortage of students eager to learn his version of “truth.” “In our time together, we’re going to learn the truth about American history and what our government is supposed to do—and not do,” said McNeely, after opening the August seminar in Fairmont with a Christian prayer and a patriotic song of his own authorship. “We’re going to learn sound principles. Once we have possession of these sound principles, we can solve nearly every problem in America, the way the Founders would have liked.” As the morning progressed, it became clear that the NCCS worldview and program were based on three major pillars: understanding the divine guidance that has allowed the United States to thrive; rejecting the tyrannical, implicitly sinful, nature of the modern federal government; and preparing for a divine reckoning that will bring down America’s government and possibly tear society as we know it asunder, thus allowing those spring 2011

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Second verse, same as the first: Fox News conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck draws many of his more bizarre ideas from the late W. Cleon Skousen, a rabid anti-communist who wrote of evil cabals of internationalist bankers and government officials.

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Keepers, a group of ex-police and military personnel who publicly promise to resist orders if they find those orders at odds with their understanding of the Constitution. At the 2010 National Liberty Unity Summit, a powwow of far-right groups, NCCS president Earl Taylor delivered the keynote address following speeches by leading Oath Keepers Richard Mack and Guy Cunningham. But mostly, the NCCS focuses on its seminars. And business has never been better. “We’re trying to flood the nation,” NCCS president Taylor told The Washington Post in June. “And it’s happening.” Communists, Capitalists and Jews Students of the American far right may not recognize the anodyne-sounding NCCS, but they no doubt know the name of its founder, the late W. Cleon Skousen. By the time Skousen founded The Freeman Institute in 1971 (the name was changed to NCCS in 1984), the bespectacled former police chief had become a minor legend in the annals of right-wing radicalism. Throughout the late 1950s and 60s, following 11 years of mostly administrative work in the

FBI, Skousen toured the country whipping up anti-communist (and anti-civil rights) hysteria under the banner of the John Birch Society. Among the stories in Skousen’s fantastical arsenal was the claim that New Dealer Harry Hopkins gave the Soviets “50 suitcases” worth of information on the Manhattan Project and nearly half of the nation’s supply of enriched uranium. When the John Birch Society came under attack for its founder’s claim that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist agent, Skousen wrote a pamphlet titled The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society. In the 1970s, he penned an influential tract of New World Order conspiracism, The Naked Capitalist, which described a cabal of scheming, internationalistminded bankers and government officials set on destroying the Constitution by manipulating left and liberal groups

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with sound principles — i.e., godly NCCS graduates — to rebuild the republic along “sounder,” more pious lines. America’s return to extremely limited government, as they think God intended, is destined to happen, NCCS lecturers teach, because God has already shown an interventionist role in American history. According to the NCCS, the founding of the United States was nothing short of a “miracle” in the literal sense of the word. God is watching, in other words, and he is not happy. Teaching out of the seminar’s 131-page illustrated workbook, McNeely argued that the current federal government is guilty of a “usurpation of power.” It is, therefore, illegitimate, though McNeely never actually uttered that word. Governmental powers should be used sparingly, he explained, limited largely to the common defense and the elimination of “debauchery and vice.” In some ways, the NCCS worldview can sound remarkably similar to that of antigovernment “Patriots,” whose movement has exploded in the last two years. So it’s not much of a surprise that it has found a number of new organizational allies among “Constitutionalist” groups such as the conspiracy-obsessed John Birch Society, the ultraconservative “profamily” group Eagle Forum, and the Oath

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around the world. The purpose of liberal internationalist groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, Skousen believed, is to push “U.S. foreign policy toward the establishment of a worldwide collectivist society.” Among the sources Skousen cited to substantiate this claim was is a former czarist army officer named Arsene de Goulevitch, whose own sources included Boris Brasol, a White Russian émigré who provided Henry Ford with the first English translation of the Jew-bashing classic, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and later became a supporter of Nazi Germany. The controversy that surrounded Skousen’s growing public profile in the 1960s and early 70s caused a debate within the Mormon Church leadership. For many church leaders, Skousen was

Benson quote: “The Greatest Watchdog of our Freedom is an informed electorate.” But Benson had a decidedly illiberal understanding of just what an informed electorate should believe. Benson read America’s history (and future) through a looking glass of apocalyptic Mormon theology and folklore. He believed that the Constitution would one day “hang from a thread,” at which time Mormons would assume leadership of the nation and rescue it from certain and irrevocable disaster. (These ideas are not part of official Mormon Church doctrine.) Benson was also an advocate for Bircher-style conspiracy theories. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he saw the hand of communism in every social welfare policy and fought them as both immoral and unconstitutional.

Mormon leader Ezra Taft Benson, a close ally of W. Cleon Skousen, had powerful acquaintances who included President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Benson rabidly opposed the civil rights movement and once allowed an essay of his to be printed as an introduction to a particularly vicious and racist book.

A rabid foe of the civil rights movement, Benson in 1971 allowed one of his anticivil rights talks to be reprinted as the introduction to a book of race hate called Black Hammer: A Study of Black Power, Red Influence, and White Alternatives. The book’s cover featured the severed, bloody head of an African American. By the end of the decade, his politics had taken a similar turn to that of his friend Skousen. During a 1972 general conference of the Church of Latter-day Saints, Benson recommended all Mormons read Gary Allen’s New World Order tract None Dare Call it A Conspiracy. Such was the state of Skousen and Benson’s politics (and intellectual seriousness) when they celebrated the opening of the Freeman Institute on July 4, 1971, in a converted storefront judo studio just off the Brigham Young University campus in Provo, Utah. The

bringing unwanted attention to the institution, which until then had generally eschewed involvement in politics. But Skousen also had allies in high places. The strongest and most loyal of them was Ezra Taft Benson, a Mormon Apostle and future church president. As with Skousen, Benson remains an icon among many ultraconservative Mormons, and his name is routinely invoked during NCCS lectures. The flyer for the NCCS seminar in Fairmont prominently displayed, as do so many materials produced by the NCCS, a

purpose of the Freemen Institute, said its literature, was to “inspire Americans to return to the Founders’ original success formula.” ‘Christ or Chaos’ Skousen’s new institute, then as now, was not greeted by universal acclaim among his fellow Mormons. Edwin Brown Firmage, a professor of law at the University of Utah, complained to the Mormon magazine Sunstone in 1981: “Skousen is teaching right-wing fundamentalism with a constitutional veneer. How anyone can prove that civil rights and welfare are unconstitutional is beyond me. For his people, ‘Constitutional’ is just a right-wing buzzword.” A reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Larry Eichel, reached the same conclusion after attending one of Skousen’s lectures in the birthplace of the Constitution. “He preached a political return to the eighteenth century,” wrote a dismayed Eichel. The reporter was off by a century, but his point was well taken. What the Mormon constitutionalism pioneered by Skousen pines after most is the federal government of the mid-nineteenth century. If the NCCS could stop the clock anywhere, it would be 1867, the year before the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. Like today’s Tenther movement, whose adherents cite the Tenth Amendment to advocate the sovereignty of the states over federal government power, Skousen argued that constitutional decline began when the federal government overrode the states to grant and enforce equality under the law. Skousen first laid out his views on the Constitution in 1981, with the publication of The 5,000 Year Leap. Now the central text of Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project — the Fox host calls the book “divinely inspired” — Leap is an illustrated recipe for turning the United States into 50 little theocracies, each dictating morality according to its own religious ethics. These ethics, argues Skousen in Leap, should be transmitted through “extensive Bible reading” in public schools. The project of the book is clear, even if its author never came right out and said spring 2011

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Glenn Beck calls The Five Thosand Year Leap, which argues for turning America into 50 minitheocracies, “divinely inspired.”

rent NCCS president, Earl Taylor, is not unknown to echo some of Skousen’s controversial views. At a Mesa, Ariz., seminar earlier this year, a Washington Post reporter heard Taylor argue that Thomas Jefferson hesitated to free his own slaves because of his “benevolence.” As Taylor often does, he defended this interpretation by referencing his participation in a walking tour. “If you’ve been to Monticello and you see how Jefferson cared for them, they didn’t want to leave,” the Post writer quotes Taylor as saying. Glenn Beck and the Apocalypse Defenders of the NCCS argue that the outfit, run by the grandfatherly Taylor, is merely teaching good old-fashioned civics to interested Americans. But while there is a large amount of straight, accurate history included in “Making of America” seminars, the lessons are about much more than just the Constitution. The organization’s larger mission is to crudely propagandize against America’s secular foundations and sow doubt over the legitimacy of the modern welfare and regulatory state, using a textbook written by a notorious conspiracist who adhered

to apocalyptic folklore. And like Skousen, current NCCS lecturers believe that time is quickly running out. There is a dark, often unspoken, subtext to the NCCS’s crusade to promote the “sound principles” of proper Constitutional government. That subtext is a belief in the imminent collapse of civilization. This collapse is interwoven in the bombastic teachings of NCCS friend and ally Glenn Beck, whose Doomsday-drenched shows are profitably promoted by fear-mongering purveyors of everything from gold bullion to “crisis gardens” and emergency radios. The NCCS has done much to encourage and spread a deeply apocalyptic worldview among far-right Mormons, of whom Beck is only the most famous. The NCCS views its education crusade as crucial for rebuilding America after a coming cataclysm; thus, “The Making of America” is best seen as a God-centric civics class for the bomb shelter. Speaking last year in Mesa, Ariz., Taylor spoke cryptically of the need for “the Good Lord’s help” to take America “into a much better phase of existence lasting for a thousand years.” Taylor’s remarks only make sense in the context of a cleansing, holy wrath, after which will emerge pure Constitutional defenders ready to build a new society on the ashes of the old. “I fear that the United States is going to have to go through the ringer,” said Taylor. “It’s gonna be rough.” “When the time comes, when the people who are in power for the power and the glory, and there is no more power and glory left, they’ll probably be looking around asking, ‘Can anybody help?’ And you’ll say, ‘Yeah, I’ve got some ideas. Come on over and eat a little something.’ Because there probably won’t be much food anyway, but if you’re wise, you’ll have some.” At this depressing image of future Constitutional scholars discussing the evils of the income tax and battling “debauchery” amid the scarred ruins of a post-Apocalyptic America, Taylor brightens up. “We’re gonna win this thing,” he said. “I’ve read the last chapter, like you have, and in the end, we’re gonna win this thing.” “Isn’t that great?” ▲

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it. Others would prove bolder in explaining the importance of Leap. In Ronald Mann’s introduction to Leap’s 10th-anniversary edition, he praises Skousen for grasping America’s choice of “Christ or chaos” and for acknowledging that its future depends on “accepting and demonstrating God’s government.” The project started by Leap was furthered a few years later with the publication of The Miracle of America. After reducing its contents to a smaller workbook suitable for one- and seven-day seminars, Skousen again hit the road. During the first “Making of America” tour, he demonized the federal regulatory agencies, arguing for the abolition of everything from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to the Environmental Protection Agency. He wanted to repeal the minimum wage, smash unions, nullify anti-discrimination laws, sell off public lands and national parks, end the direct election of senators, kill the income tax and the estate tax, knock down state-level walls separating church and state, and, of course, raze the Federal Reserve System. Skousen’s rolling theocratic lecture tour ran into problems in 1987, when outsiders started examining the contents of the book on which the seminars were based. The Making of America, it turned out, presented a history of slavery that could have been written by a propagandist for the Ku Klux Klan. Skousen relied for his interpretation of slavery on historian Fred Albert Shannon’s Economic History of the People of the United States (1934). Quoting Shannon, Skousen described African-American children as “pickaninnies” and described American slave owners as the “worst victims” of the slavery system. He further explained that “[slave] gangs in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains.” Shannon and Skousen also cast a skeptical eye on accounts of cruelty by slave masters and expressed much more interest in the “fear” Southern whites had while trying to protect “white civilization” from slave revolts. Newer editions of The Making of America lack the glaring racism of Skousen’s original version. But the cur-

Over the Cliff

Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid revels in attacking the ‘liberal’ press. But he reserves a special loathing for homosexuals BY LARRY KELLER ILLUSTRATION BY JEFFREY SMITH

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liff Kincaid is one of the American far right’s most energetic and obsessive propagandists. For more than 30 years at Accuracy in Media (AIM), a right-wing outfit opposed to the “liberal” media, Kincaid has cranked out reams of material — rife with innuendo and speculation but light on facts —aimed at buttressing his far-right, xenophobic and homophobic views. What’s more, some in the media mainstream actually take him seriously. Aside from his editorial role at AIM, the notably humorless Kincaid also runs an antigovernment “Patriot” group, America’s Survival, whose stated mission is to “expose the influence of global institutions,” mostly meaning the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. Ten days after Walter Cronkite’s death, Kincaid wrote that the famous news anchor had been a globalist “one-worlder.” Since 2008, the group’s obsession has been President Obama. While complaining mightily about the mainstream media’s supposed bias, Kincaid — who declined a request for comment from the Intelligence Report — revels in his own, citing as authorities in his articles farright ideologues and organizations that share his politics. And what exactly are his views? Basically, Kincaid advances a hodgepodge of fairly run-of-the-mill, far-right conspiracy theories and allegations:

President Obama has “well-documented socialist connections,” is the product of a “mysterious upbringing as a Muslim in Indonesia,” and may well not have been born in this country. Hillary Clinton is a lesbian. Global warming is a “fraudulent scheme.” And the Roman Catholic

Church has been hijacked “by Marxist elements” and is “facilitating the foreign invasion of the U.S.” by northbound Latinos. But Kincaid reserves a special loathing for gays and lesbians. He has blamed gays for corrupting the military and making America more vulnerable to terrorism. He says the “prohomosexual media” has created the false

perception of “overwhelming public support” for repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. “Establishment journalists,” he has written, “are aligned with academia” (“sexual perverts masquerading as scholars”) in supporting transgendered individuals — “a cruel hoax to undermine the already shaky foundation of the traditional family.” He can’t contain his rage at the Republicans for not expelling gays from their ranks, titling a recent article, “Is the GOP becoming the Gay Old Party?” And he has been one of the staunchest defenders of a draconian proposed law in Uganda that would impose the death penalty on large numbers of gay men — a proposal so radical that even many hard-line U.S. anti-gay groups have felt constrained to denounce it. To Kincaid, the proposed law seems merely “designed to send a message to … the foreign homosexual lobby to keep their hands off Uganda’s families and kids.” Kincaid has taken his anti-gay message on the road recently, participating in an August conference put on by the hard-edged Americans for Truth about Homosexuality where he promised to expose “gay influence on the media” and “the homosexual drive for the ‘right’ to donate possibly infected and contaminated blood to the nation’s blood supply.” Kincaid might be easily dismissed were it not for his ability to reach the general public. He has appeared regularly on Fox Ne w s programs and he’s been featured on other major television networks as well. Hate radio’s Michael Savage, who has an audience of some 8 million people, has had him on. He’s a regular at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, a major event for conservative Republicans. He’s appeared at other conservative confabs, such as last April’s Jericho March & Conference in Washington, D.C., where he joined a mix spring 2011

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Accuracy in Media (AIM) has celebrated anticommunist witch hunter Joseph McCarthy (left) and insisted that Clinton deputy White House counsel Vince Foster (right) was murdered. Cliff Kincaid, who once worked for Iran-Contra scandal figure Oliver North (center left) is now the principal writer at AIM, which was founded in 1969 by Reed Irvine (center right).

of religious-right activists and conspiracyoriented Patriot groups. Moreover, he’s working to extend his organization’s influence well into the future — AIM has become a prime training ground for aspiring “conservative” journalists.

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Calling the Kettle Black In the event he bothers to substantiate his positions at all, Kincaid typically relies on sources who parrot his views. Take global warming. While there is consensus among the vast majority of climatologists worldwide that the earth is warming and human activity is the cause, Kincaid sees a scam perpetrated by the “religious left,” among others. In an article last January, Kincaid tried to buttress this allegation by quoting from a bizarre book by James Wanliss, a physics professor at tiny Presbyterian College in South Carolina. Wanliss argues that the environmental movement “is a religion with a vision of sin and repentance, heaven and hell.

Its communion is organic food. Its sacraments are sex, abortion, and when all else fails, sterilization. Its saints are Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Both professing Protestants and Roman Catholics bear a burden of guilt for the current political mess we are in with the global warming and other hysterias.” Despite his self-appointed role as a media monitor, Kincaid often settles in his own work for simple speculation. In an article last February, for example, Kincaid quoted from a couple of poems that Barrack Obama wrote at age 19 about his father. “But what if it was really about [Frank Marshall] Davis?” Kincaid asked about one of them, referring to a man he has described as Obama’s communist mentor, a “sex pervert and pothead.” “Perverts” seem to occupy a good portion of Kincaid’s waking hours. In 2005, he said news organizations should engage in a “Quit Gay Sex” campaign against “the dangerous and addictive homosexual lifestyle.” In the years since, he has repeatedly railed about the alleged “homosexual agenda.” Today, he never misses an opportunity to tell his readers that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is a lesbian and that she and Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart are part of a “homosexual cabal.” Nationally syndicated conservative columnist Kathleen Parker isn’t gay, but Kincaid declared her conservatism “a farce and a fraud” after the Pulitzer Prize winner criticized the antigay Uganda legislation. The Homosexual Addenda Kincaid, who describes himself as a married father of three, gets especially worked up when writing about gays in

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Joe McCarthy to Vince Foster Born in Kansas City, Mo., in 1954, Cliff Kincaid graduated with a B.A. from the University of Toledo and went to Washington, D.C., via a national journalism program headed by conservative author M. Stanton Evans, a contributing editor to Human Events, a weekly magazine. (Last year, AIM gave Evans an award to honor his “groundbreaking research into the media’s vilification of Senator Joe McCarthy” and his book, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies.) Kincaid spent seven years at Human Events and also worked as an editorial writer and newsletter editor for IranContra scandal figure Oliver North at North’s Freedom Alliance foundation. In addition, Kincaid worked for Citizens United, a right-wing organization fixated on Bill Clinton that created the racially charged Willie Horton TV ads in 1988 that helped doom the presidential aspirations of Democrat Michael Dukakis. In 1978, Kincaid joined Accuracy in Media. He has been a prolific and wordy contributor ever since. AIM was founded as a nonprofit in 1969 by economist Reed Irvine to correct what Irvine saw as serious media errors. In truth, he was only concerned with liberal media errors. (Just last year, AIM sponsored a so-called Conservative Leadership Summit to Confront Media Bias, with Kincaid joining other far-right

media and political figures for a six-hour talkfest on the topic.) In its early years, AIM sent letters to newspaper editors asking for corrections. If newspapers refused, AIM bought ads in the publications with its corrections. Eventually, AIM began to buy stock in major media companies, enabling its representatives to speak at shareholder meetings. When Kincaid came on board in 1978, the AIM Report was six years old. He and AIM savaged the Clintons, promoting the theory, which became received wisdom on the far right, that Clinton deputy White House counsel Vince Foster was murdered. (He was not.) Not coincidentally, that claim also was zealously pursued by conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, a major financial backer of AIM. That kind of backing has helped to make AIM far better financed than most groups with similar views. As of April 2009, it held $3.6 million in net assets.

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the military. In May, he raised what he apparently saw as the haunting specter of homosexual soldiers wearing women’s uniforms if the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy were repealed. He predicted that straight soldiers would “probably leave in disgust and dismay,” while others would “choose never to sign up.” The military would be a “shambles,” the war on terrorism “jeopardized,” and a draft required “with soldiers reporting to the male homosexuals already there and in command positions.” And then this gem: “They will demand sexual favors to rise in the ranks. … [I]t is a recipe for national suicide.” Last year, AIM published a guest column by Scott Lively, a pastor who runs the anti-gay hate group Abiding Truth Ministries and co-founded another antigay hate group, Watchmen on the Walls. Lively is co-author of The Pink Swastika:

Homosexuality in the Nazi Party, which falsely claims that “the Nazi party was entirely controlled by militaristic male homosexuals throughout its short history.” (In fact, Hitler violently purged gays within the party’s own ranks and sent thousands of others to concentration camps.) Backing up Kincaid’s arguments, Lively warned of a mass exodus of “normal men” from the military if homosexuals were allowed to serve openly. “Will proud young men being honed to become weapons of aggression against America’s enemies tolerate being ogled in the showers or touched inappropriately or bunking near sexually-active sodomites?” Lively

wondered darkly. Eventually, he warned, there could be “a homosexual takeover of the military branches.” It was Lively, too, who Kincaid relied upon heavily as a supposed expert for an article he wrote last year — one of several — that supported what has become widely known as Uganda’s proposed “kill the gays” law. Lively was one of three American evangelical Christians who in 2009 visited Uganda to conduct a seminar titled, “Exposing the Truth Behind Homosexuality and the Homosexual Agenda” that was heard by thousands of that nation’s citizens. The anti-gay legislation was introduced a month after the Americans’ visit. Lively suggested that the proposed law was a rational response to the homosexuality of a Ugandan king more than a century earlier and to U.S. and European activists “working aggressively to re-

students from bullying. When Jennings was appointed in May 2009 to a position in the Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools, Kincaid and AIM responded with several columns containing some of their most vicious vitriol to date. For one thing, Kincaid began promoting the theory that GLSEN had praised a “communist pervert.” That would be Harry Hay, who Jennings once said inspired him. Kincaid noted the gay-rights pioneer had supported the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), and claimed that Hay was a communist. In fact, Jennings had only praised Hay’s role in the start-up of the first ongoing gay rights group in 1948, not NAMBLA. Even so, one of AIM’s student interns posted a blog item last December on AIM’s website describing Jennings as “President Obama’s favorite pedophile.” The next day, the organization that says it specializes in finding liberal media inaccuracies removed Cliff Kincaid (left) claims the item and posted a halfthat controversy over hearted apology, conceding Uganda’s infamous “kill that it had no evidence of the gays” bill was really a White House ploy to Jennings “being a pedophile draw attention away from and personally teaching perthe “real scandal” of its verted sexual practices to appointment of Kevin young people.” Jennings (right) to the But it was a bone that Department of Education. Jennings founded a group AIM just couldn’t let go of. dedicated to protecting “We continue to urge the straight and gay schoolmedia to vigorously investichildren from bullying. gate Jennings’ background” and his “role in promoting the homosexual agenda and exposing children to discussions of dangerous sexual homosexualize their nation.” When both practices,” AIM said, listing three veheThe Washington Post and The New York mently anti-gay websites as sources. Times editorialized in favor of the United Despite Kincaid’s repeated efforts to States ending foreign aid to Uganda if the get him ousted, Jennings remains at the proposed legislation became law, Kincaid Department of Education. wrote that the threat of rescinding forThe irony of Kincaid’s stated mission eign aid “to force a country to accept the of correcting media bias and his own homosexual lifestyle is morally wrong.” regular flouting of basic journalistic stanThe true reason for the “orchestrated dards apparently escapes him entirely. As controversy” surrounding the Uganda bill, the Jennings episode and others demaccording to Kincaid, was to divert atten- onstrate, Kincaid is perfectly willing to tion from the “real scandal” of the Obama engage in speculation, distorted halfAdministration’s appointment of Kevin truths, and unproved assertions of fact. If Jennings to a post in the Department of that means gays and others are depicted Education. Jennings founded the Gay, in an entirely false and demonizing light, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, so be it. That is “accuracy in media” — or GLSEN, to protect both gay and straight Cliff Kincaid-style. ▲ spring 2011

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ELECTORAL EXTREMISM Over 20 candidates with radical-right ideas ran for public office in last year’s election contests. Five of them actually won BY ROBERT STEINBACK

AMERICANS ARE GENERALLY POSSESSED OF AN OPTIMISM that the democratic electoral process will filter out extremists, radicals and dangerous ideologues. Indeed, there is a temptation to chortle with satisfaction that the number of voters who wrote 2E0CT1IO0 NS in neo-Nazi Billy Roper as their 2010 choice for governor of Arkansas wouldn’t fill the EL seats in an undersized fast-food restaurant. Still, a 2010 candidate who has argued that private businesses should be free to deny service to black people now sits in the U.S. Senate. A candidate who believes the Southern states should secede again and form a confederacy dominated by white people won a seat in the Arkansas legislature, while an antigovernment “Patriot” who grossly exaggerates the criminality of undocumented immigrants (who studies have shown are on average much less criminal than native-born Americans) captured a California Assembly seat. Even failure energized some right-wing extremists: A white supremacist received one of every three votes cast in his New York congressional district, while another in West Virginia received enough votes for his “party” to boast of a moral victory. The Intelligence Report has compiled an accounting of 22 men and one woman with extreme rightwing views who sought public office during the 2010 election season — including five who succeeded. Those who won their races are marked “elected.”

Harry Bertram OFFICE SOUGHT

Board of Education, Monongalia, W. Va. PARTY American Third Position (A3P) RESULTS General election: Finished last among three candidates, receiving 14.1% (2,582 votes) of the 18,256 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White nationalism

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Jim Condit Jr. OFFICE SOUGHT

U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio District 8 PARTY Constitution RESULTS General election: Finished last among four candidates, receiving 1.7% (3,701 votes) of the 217,436 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-Semitic, conspiracy-mongering

Condit promotes anti-Semitic and antiZionist conspiracy theories. He believes the Federal Reserve Bank is engineering a New World Order. He embraces the theories of the late Father Denis Fahey, an Irish Catholic priest who stridently opposed institutions he felt conflicted with Catholic order, including communism, freemasonry and Judaism, all of which he believed were intertwined. Condit in 2007 said he believed that “Zionists” had successfully infiltrated the Vatican II Catholic reform conferences in the 1960s intent on “bending the doctrines of the Catholic Church to accord with the demands of the Zionist interests.” Condit once stated that a “Phase II” of the Sept. 11 attacks, intended to benefit the Israeli government, was imminent.

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Bertram ran openly as an A3P candidate. A3P’s founder, William Daniel Johnson, supports the deportation of all non-white immigrants and U.S. citizens, including anyone with any “ascertainable trace of Negro blood.” Bertram for years personally distributed to white people in Ohio and West Virginia copies of Don Wassall’s Nationalist Times,

which promotes white nationalist and anti-Semitic ideologies as well as government conspiracy theories. In a video, Bertram denounced “gay and lesbian studies” as “liberal nonsense.” Bertram received the enthusiastic endorsement of Jamie Kelso, a long-time associate of top Klansmen and now operator of the White News Now website.

Tim Donnelly

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California State Assembly, District 59 PARTY Republican RESULTS Primary: Finished first among six candidates, receiving 30.3% (12,449 votes) of the 41,112 votes cast. General election: Won with 57.3% (82,475 votes) of the 144,007 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigration, antigovernment “Patriot”

Donnelly in 2005 founded what became the largest anti-immigrant Minuteman chapter in California. He advocates a California version of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, which makes it a state crime to be in this country illegally. Donnelly is prone to exaggeration. In interviews, he claimed to have heard the screams of women being raped in the Mexican desert near the border. According to LA Weekly, Donnelly once wrote that Muslim extremists were proselytizing to “so-called ‘innocent’ illegal aliens” with the aim of destroying the American Southwest. “It is not a stretch,” he wrote, “to picture a revolt in Los Angeles, whose population is comprised of [sic] over 50 percent illegal aliens. At the [current] rate of influx and births, it will be 80 percent illegal alien within a decade.” A more reliable estimate places the number of undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles County at about 7.3% of its population of 10.4 million. Donnelly claimed undocumented immigrants accounted for “nearly one-third of our prison space” — a demonizing assertion, once also pushed by CNN’s Lou Dobbs, with no basis in fact.

Jeff Hall

OFFICE SOUGHT Western

Municipal Water District Board of Directors, Division 2, Riverside, Calif. PARTY National Socialist Movement RESULTS General election: Received 27.8% (8,139 votes) of the 29,243 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi

Hall is California director and southwest regional leader of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) — currently the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group. The NSM is known for its swastika-waving, sieg-heiling rallies, many of them held in minority neighborhoods, and its Hitler worship. Hall affirmed in a Los Angeles Times interview his belief that all nonwhites should be deported. “I want a white nation,” he said. “I don’t hide what I am, and I don’t water that down.” After the election, Hall wrote, “It is a great victory when a National Socialist candidate receives over a quarter of the votes for an elected position in his district.”

Dwayne Hemingway-El OFFICE SOUGHT Mayor, High Point, N.C. PARTY Unspecified RESULTS General election: Received 7.9% (1,718 votes) of the 21,503 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment “sovereign citizen”

Hemingway-El describes himself as a member of the Louisiana-based Washitaw De Dugdamoundwah, also known as the Washitaw Moorish Nation and the Washitaw Empire. The group

“It is a great victory when a National Socialist candidate receives over a quarter of the votes for an elected position in his district.” — Jeff Hall, Riverside, California

claims status as a sovereign entity not subject to U.S. or state laws, and says the 828,000-square-mile territory of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was land stolen from the Washitaw, a predominantly black group, by the United States. The group’s leader once filed an $80 quadrillion claim against the United States. State authorities have investigated allegations the group has engaged in money laundering, offshore banking fraud and other practices derived from its antigovernment “common law,” or “sovereign citizen,” ideology. Though Hemingway-El invokes sovereign citizen ideas, he told an interviewer he does not advocate defying the law. He complied with a state law requiring candidates for public office to swear they are U.S. citizens.

Dan Maes OFFICE SOUGHT

Governor, Colorado PARTY Tea Party-backed Republican RESULTS Primary: Won with 50.7% (197,629 votes) of the 390,108 votes cast. General election: Finished third with 11.1% (199,034 votes) of the 1,787,730 votes cast. (See also Tom Tancredo, below.) EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY World-government conspiracy theorist

Maes interpreted a United Nationssponsored program encouraging cities to promote bicycle riding as being part of a plot to undermine American sovereignty. “This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms,” Maes said, according to the Denver Post. “At first, I thought, ‘Gosh, public transportation, what’s wrong with that, and what’s wrong with people parking their cars and riding their bikes? … But if you do your homework and research, you realize ICLEI [the U.N.’s International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives] is part of a greater strategy to rein in American cities under a United Nations treaty.” Denver is one of 600 American member cities of ICLEI, which promotes sustainable development. spring 2011

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Loy Mauch

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Arkansas House of Representatives, District 26 PARTY Republican RESULTS Primary: Unopposed. General election: Won with 53.4% (4,041 votes) of the 7,561 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Confederate, white nationalist

Ray McBerry Jr. OFFICE SOUGHT

Governor, Georgia PARTY Republican RESULTS Primary: Finished sixth in a field of seven, receiving 2.5% (17,171 votes) of the 680,499 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Confederate, white nationalist

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Tom Metzger

OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. House

of Representatives, Indiana District 3 PARTY Unspecified RESULTS Received 0.005% (10 votes) of the 185,049 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, Christian Identity

A guttural racist, Metzger is a former California grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In the mid-1980s, he founded White Aryan Resistance (WAR), one of the leading neo-Nazi groups of the period. In a 2002 interview, Metzger said, “My total concern is with the survival of the white European people in North America.” He is an ordained minister of Christian Identity theology, whose adherents typically believe that Jews are the literal “seed of Satan,” people of color are soulless “mud people,” and the Bible is the history of the white race. He promotes a particularly nasty version of anti-Semitism. “Jews are

supreme masters of manipulation and deceit,” according to Metzger’s website. “They run and distort our foreign policy because lazy and corrupt non-Jew leaders had previously found them valuable as grifters.” Metzger’s 2010 race was a far cry from his earlier, more successful runs for public office. In 1980, he won the three-way Democratic primary for California’s 43rd Congressional District with 37.1% (33,071 votes) of the votes cast before going on to lose the general election with 13.4% (46,361 votes). In 1982, Metzger ran in an 11-way Democratic primary for Senate in California, coming in sixth with 2.8% (76,502 votes) of the votes cast.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. Senate, Missouri PARTY Unspecified RESULTS General election: Received 0.0004% (7 votes) of the 1,943,899 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist, anti-Semitic

Miller promised that if elected, he would “work … to expose the jewish [sic] domination of the US government, the mass media, the federal reserve bank [sic], and the decadent American culture.” He has advocated incentive payments to white Americans to produce white children. Miller formerly headed the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which later morphed into the White Patriot Party. Miller went on the lam in 1986 after

“Every non-White on the planet has to become extinct. We need to remove these minor-league amateur races out of the game, and refine the playoff brackets a bit, if you get my meaning. The whole world is ours, and the only part of the earth that non-Whites should inherit is however much it requires to cover them.” — Billy Roper, Arkansas

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Mauch is a member of the League of the South (LOS), a neo-Confederate organization formed in 1994 that advocates a second Southern secession and espouses bitter hostility toward the United States – an “alien occupier.” The LOS envisions a Christian theocratic state run by an “Anglo-Celtic” – that is, white – elite that would legally dominate both racial and religious minorities. In a 2008 interview, Mauch referred to the Confederate battle flag as “a symbol of Jesus Christ above all else. It’s a symbol of Biblical government.” (The LOS also describes the battle flag as the “antithesis” of the Stars and Stripes.) For seven years, Mauch also was a local unit “commander” with the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), stepping down in 2009. Over the last decade, the Southern heritage group has been wracked by a kind of internal civil war between moderates and racial extremists.

[T]he South is the only part of America that is still American to any degree,” McBerry states in a video. He refuses to salute the American flag. The League of the South’s founder routinely attacks egalitarianism as a radical-left “Jacobin” doctrine and opposes interracial marriage; its essayists have defended legal segregation as a doctrine meant to ensure the racial integrity of both white and black Americans.

mailing a letter to 5,000 people calling for “total war” against the feds, blacks and Jews. Authorities finally tear-gassed him out of a mobile home in Ozark, Mo. Miller testified against 14 leading white supremacists in a 1988 Arkansas sedition trial and is still viewed as a “white race traitor” by many former allies, although he remains an active white supremacist. Miller had run in three earlier electoral campaigns. In 1984, he came in eighth in a 10-way Democratic primary race for North Carolina governor, receiving 0.61% (5,790 votes) of the votes cast. In 1986, he received 3.17% (6,662 votes) of the votes cast in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, coming in last in a field of three. And in 2006, Miller received 0.01% (23 votes) of the votes cast in his bid as an independent for Missouri’s 7th Congressional District, coming in last in a three-way race.

Ryan Joseph Murdough

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OFFICE SOUGHT New Hampshire House of Representatives, District 8 PARTY Republican and American Third Position (A3P) RESULTS Primary: Finished last among five candidates for three seats, securing 11.3% (296 votes) of the 2,623 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist

Murdough is the New Hampshire state chairman of A3P (see also Harry Bertram, above), a white supremacist political party whose leader, William Daniel Johnson, advocates the deportation of all non-whites, even U.S. citizens, including anyone with any “ascertainable trace of Negro blood.” Another A3P leader, Kevin B. MacDonald, has claimed that Jews are genetically programmed to undermine Gentile societies. Murdough claims he isn’t a racist because he doesn’t hate people of other races. “I just don’t want to live around areas that are heavily, predominantly non-white,” he told the Concord Monitor. However, according to writer Mark Berman on the Opposing Views website, Murdough once tweeted, “In celebration of Black History month, I am going to recognize what they do best, commit crime, get AIDS/STD’s, blame whitey, cry racism.”

Chelene Nightingale OFFICE SOUGHT

Governor, California PARTY Constitution RESULTS General election: Finished third, receiving 1.7% (166,308 votes) of the 10,095,185 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Patriot, anti-immigration, “birther,” conspiracy theorist

Nightingale was director of Save Our State, an anti-illegal immigration group in California, when she joined the Constitution Party in 2009. She espouses numerous right-wing conspiracy theories, including “chemtrails” and the claim that 9/11 was an “inside job.” In May, Nightingale conjured up several familiar demons of the radical right, saying, “[T]he Bilderbergs, George Soros, the cartels – they’re all working on the destruction of America with their open borders.” After the election, Nightingale became spokeswoman for the SoCal Patriot Coalition, whose founder is Jeff Schwilk, former leader of the San Diego Minutemen (SDMM). The SDMM was a border-patrol group so extreme that even the groups from which it cribbed its name – the Minuteman Project and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps – wanted nothing to do with it. Schwilk’s SDMM members accosted and physically intimidated migrants and would-be day-labor employers.

Norm Olson

OFFICE SOUGHT Lieutenant governor, Alaska PARTY Alaskan Independence RESULTS Withdrew before election. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment

“Patriot” militia, conspiracy theorist

Olson in the early 1990s founded the Michigan Militia, which was thrust into the national spotlight after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Olson told reporters then that conspirators Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh had attended a meeting but were not encouraged to return. Olson was booted out of the Michigan Militia after offering the bizarre theory that the Japanese government was behind the McVeigh bombing — a statement he later said he should have “fully corroborated.” By 2005, Olson had moved to Alaska, where

he soon formed the Alaska Citizens Militia (ACM). The ACM lists 17 “acts of war” on its website, including “Mandatory medical anything” and “Involuntary involvement in anything.”

Rand Paul

ELECTED

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U.S. Senate, Kentucky PARTY Tea Party-backed Republican RESULTS Primary: Won with 58.8% (206,986 votes) of the 352,275 votes cast. General election Won with 55.7% (755,411 votes) of the 1,356,468 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Right-wing libertarian

Paul rode Tea Party support to upset the Kentucky GOP’s preferred candidate. During the campaign, many of Paul’s unorthodox political beliefs came to light, including his assertion that private businesses shouldn’t have been compelled to comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that barred discrimination. In a 2002 letter to the Bowling Green Daily News, Paul also criticized the Fair Housing Act, explaining that “a free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on skin color.” After winning the Republican primary and being subjected to national criticism, Paul issued a press release declaring “unequivocally” that he would not support any effort to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that he had criticized just days earlier. This January, Paul sent out a fundraising letter declaring that Hillary Clinton and the “global gun-grabbers” at the United Nations are trying “finally strip you and me of ALL our freedoms” by signing a treaty that would “almost certainly” force the U.S. to “CONFISCATE and DESTROY” all “unauthorized” civilian firearms. (In fact, the treaty being discussed has nothing to do with regulating guns in the U.S., something that would be impossible in any event under the Constitution.) Paul added that “the United Nations has been hell-bent on bringing the United States to its knees” since its founding in 1945. Last fall, he said he wanted to abolish the U.S. Department spring 2011

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of Education so it couldn’t, for instance, mandate teaching kindergartners “that Susie has two mommies,” a reference to same-sex couples with children. On immigration, Paul wants to erect a physical or electronic fence along all U.S. land borders, complete with “satellite surveillance” and “helicopter stations,” and deploy “any unnecessary foreign units” of the American military to the border.

Jim Rizoli OFFICE SOUGHT

Massachusetts House of Representatives, 6th Middlesex District PARTY Unspecified RESULTS General election: Finished last of three candidates, receiving 8.8% (1,226 votes) of the 14,009 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigrant, Holocaust denier

Rizoli, along with his twin brother Joe, has used his public-access cable television show — “Illegal Immigration Chat” — to spout relentless and vicious attacks on the “criminaliens” who make up the Brazilian community of Framingham, Mass., which comprises about 20% of the town’s population. “Framingham has been turned into a Brazilian slave camp,” Jim Rizoli told reporters in 2006. Rizoli, who run a nativist extremist group with his brother called Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal Immigration Law Enforcement, has also repeatedly suggested that the Holocaust did not occur or has been greatly exaggerated.

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Governor, Arkansas PARTY Unspecified (ran as a write-in candidate) RESULTS General election: Received 0.006% (49 votes) of the 781,381 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist, neo-Nazi

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James C. “Jim” Russell

OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. House of Representatives, New York District 18 PARTY Republican RESULTS Primary: Unopposed. General election: Received 37.6% (70,413 votes) of the 187,364 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist, anti-Semitic

Russell is on the editorial advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly, a white nationalist publication. He denounces interracial marriage and has written favorably of eugenics, the long-discredited pseudo-science of race breeding. In a 2001 article, Russell noted an “excellent inquiry” by Elmer Pendell: “In our own civilization we see a lessening of the struggle for survival. Welfare does away with natural selection. … Compassion, unfortunately, is the enemy of biological progress.” To this, Russell added, “While liberals and universalists constantly yammer about ‘bringing us all together,’ and how ‘diversity is our strength,’ it may be suggested that … culture in human societies … must establish a sense of group identity so that the individual knows whom to act altruistically toward and

whom to mate with.” Russell quoted T.S. Eliot’s formula for the ideal society: “The population should be homogeneous. What is still more important is unity of religious background, and reasons of race and culture combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.” The New York Republican Party withdrew its support of Russell after news organizations wrote about the article during his campaign.

Daniel B. Schruender OFFICE SOUGHT

Unified School District board, Rialto, Calif. PARTY Unspecified RESULTS General election: Finished last among six candidates for two open seats, receiving 9.6% (2,290 votes) of the 23,756 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi

Schruender formerly headed the California chapter of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, which broke up into weak and small factions around the country after being financially crippled by a Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit in 2000 and the 2004 death of founder Richard Butler. Schruender’s personal blog, “Sense and Sensibility” carries a sub-headline describing the site as “now affiliated with the American Nazi Party,” and Schruender describes himself there as an “official supporter” of the group. The blog is replete with swastikas, attacks on Jews, a reference to President Obama as “King Kongo Obongo,” and a photograph of Adolf Hitler — “our REAL commander,” as the shot is captioned. As media scrutiny increased during the campaign, Shruender complained, “The Jew media is really doing a hatchet job on me since they found out I’m running for school board and in Aryan Nations.”

Jeffrey Stankiewicz

OFFICE SOUGHT Tax assessor, Boundary County, Idaho PARTY Constitution RESULTS General election: Received 19.6% (654 votes) of the 3,330 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment militia

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Billy Roper

secure the existence of our people and a future for our children by creating the opportunity for the establishment of a government which has only the interests of our group [white people] in mind.” In an E-mail to members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance (of which he was then deputy membership coordinator) immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Roper said, “The enemy of our enemy is, for now at least, our friends. …[A]nyone who is willing to drive a plane into a building to kill jews [sic] is alright [sic] by me. I wish our members had half as much testicular fortitude.” In a 2005 interview, Roper added: “Every non-White on the planet has to become extinct. We need to remove these minorleague amateur races out of the game, and refine the playoff brackets a bit, if you get my meaning. The whole world is ours, and the only part of the earth that non-Whites should inherit is however much it requires to cover them.”

Stankiewicz serves as major of the 21st Battalion of the North Idaho Light Foot Militia. “We have our enemies,” he told the Bonners Ferry Herald in 2009. “China and Russia are both building up military and flexing their muscles.” His battalion, he said, is preparing for an economic collapse. “We don’t want this to happen, we hope it doesn’t happen, but we want to be prepared for it if it does,” he said, sounding themes familiar in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement. “When the truck stops delivering food and people’s federal checks stop coming there could be rioting in cities.” The militia’s “standards” include not only repelling foreign aggression and invasions but also “encouraging and showing reason why all citizens should stand stoutly against socialism, fascism, communism, humanism and all forms of tyranny.” Stankiewicz has called President Obama a socialist.

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Governor, Colorado. PARTY American Constitution RESULTS General election: Finished second in a three-way race with 36.4% (651,232 votes) of the 1,787,730 votes cast. (See Dan Maes, above.) EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigration, conspiracy theorist

Tancredo promotes a hard-line “deport ’em all” stance on immigration. As a congressman, he introduced bills to virtually choke off all immigration. In 2005, he declared – inaccurately – that federal prisons were overflowing with undocumented immigrants. “They’re coming here to kill you, and you, and me, and my grandchildren,” he said. In 2006, Tancredo addressed a crowd that included many members of the neo-Confederate League of the South (see Loy Mauch, above) from a podium draped in a Confederate battle flag and joined in the singing of “Dixie,” a favorite anthem of white supremacists. Tancredo in 2006 referred to Miami as a “Third World country.” In 2009, he called the

National Council of La Raza, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights organization, a “Latino KKK without the hoods or the noose.”

James A. Traficant Jr. OFFICE SOUGHT

U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio District 17. PARTY Independent RESULTS General election: Received 16% (30,556 votes) of the 190,666 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-Semitic, conspiracy theorist

Traficant served nine years in Congress before being convicted of bribery, racketeering and other charges and serving seven years in prison. He told Fox News: “I believe that Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the American government. … They control both members of the House and the Senate. They have us involved in wars in which we have little or no interest. … They [Jews] control much of the media, they control much of the commerce of the country, and … they own the Congress.” Traficant gave a lengthy interview to American Free Press, a newspaper founded and run by longtime racist, anti-Semite and Christian Identity adherent Willis Carto.

—INCUMBENTS— U.S. Rep. Steve King

REELECTED

OFFICE SOUGHT

U.S. House of Representatives, Iowa District 5 PARTY Republican RESULTS Primary: Unopposed. General election: Won with 63.9% (128,363 votes) of the 200,812 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigrant, anti-gay

King has a long record of inflammatory and inaccurate statements about undocumented immigrants. In May 2006, he

published the grossly exaggerated claim that undocumented immigrants killed an average of 25 Americans per day – either by murder or by illegal activities such as driving drunk. If true, that would be the equivalent of more than half of all homicides nationwide in most years. King has also warned that if marriage is not restricted to one man and one woman, children could be taken away and raised collectively in “warehouses.” King extolled Sen. Joseph McCarthy of 1950s communist-hunting infamy as a “hero for America.” For a time, King publicly questioned details of President Obama’s birth certificate, although he later backed away from extreme “birther” rhetoric.

Russell Pearce

REELECTED

OFFICE SOUGHT

Arizona Senate, District 18 PARTY Republican RESULTS Primary: Unopposed. General election: Won with 56.6% (17,552 votes) of the 31,023 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigrant

Pearce gained national prominence as the principal sponsor and nominal author of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, which makes it a state crime to be in this country as an undocumented immigrant. A federal judge enjoined parts of that bill, and the Obama administration has challenged its c o n st i t u t i o n a l i t y. Bu t n u m e ro u s other state legislatures, caught up in anti-immigrant fever, have vowed to pursue similar laws. Pearce’s profile is spangled with associations with rightwing extremists, including neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, a former member of the National Socialist Movement. Pearce once endorsed Ready (and described him as “a true patriot”) when Ready ran for the Mesa City Council in 2006. A former deputy sheriff, Pearce also forwarded an anti-Semitic article from the neo-Nazi National Alliance to supporters in October 2005. When the matter became public, Pearce claimed he hadn’t fully read it. ▲ spring 2011

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Tainted Thule

A leading member of a now-defunct ‘esoteric’ neo-Nazi group describes its unusual beliefs and how he came to reject them Espousing highbrow “Aryan” ideas, the White Order of Thule (WOT) was a neo-Nazi spiritualist group in the closing years of the 1990s (the name Thule refers to the northernmost habitable regions known to ancient Greek geographers). Founded by imprisoned cocaine dealer Peter Georgacarakos, art student Michael Lujan and new age occultist Joseph Kerrick — eccentrics who considered themselves the intellectual vanguard of the white supremacy movement — WOT required inductees to advance through “degrees of membership,” studying German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler and others. The group’s belief system promoted “Nietzschean notions of the Superman against Judeo-Christian religion,” as well as the darker sides of paganism, scholar Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke wrote in Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, a seminal 2003 work on what’s often called “esoteric Nazism.” Among the White Order’s core beliefs was the idea of Aryan superiority as supposedly embodied in Greco-Roman culture. While WOT avoided overt acts of violence in promoting an all-white nation in North America, one of its more prominent members, Leo Felton, went to prison for plotting to bomb Jewish and black landmarks and incite a race war. (After his arrest, to the shock of his comrades and his skinhead girlfriend, it emerged that Felton’s father was black.) Nathan Pett, also known as Nate Zorn, was a member of the group and worked on both of its publications — Crossing the Abyss, a newsletter that claimed to shed “light on the murky area between cutting-edge Aryan pagan spirituality and revolutionary realpolitik,” and another called Fenris Wolf. Today an avowed critic of the white supremacy movement, Pett spoke with the Southern Poverty Law Center about the White Order and his own eventual dismissal of racist ideas. 30

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How would you describe the makeup and identity of the White Order of Thule? They were a very motley crew of eccentric people that weren’t satisfied or didn’t fit in with [more traditional neoNazi groups like] the Hammerskins or the American Front or the National Alliance. It was this pseudo-intellectual group, guys who were smarter than some of the knucklehead skinheads I knew. The group catered to people who felt that they wanted something a little smarter, more professional, and a little bit more elitist. But it was really a prison-run fascist book club, more or less. I say that because most of the members hadn’t met each other. What were the group’s core beliefs? The more intellectual people would deny it, but it’s all the same crap [as in less pretentious parts of the white supremacist movement] in hindsight for me. They would combine theosophy [a mystical religious philosophy founded in the 19th century that also influenced some German Nazis] with pagan beliefs, primarily more Greco-Roman, which is different than most of the other racist groups obsessed with the Nordic thing. They rejected that in favor of this more Mediterranean, rightwing, pagan mindset. And as you got more into what they called study, you started to find they also dabbled in things like Christian mysticism, but rejected mainstream Christianity and Christian Identity [a racist variant of Christianity that says Jews are biologically descended from Satan and people of color do not have souls] as unsound. Now you might ask,

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why? They’re all racist and they’re all the same. But they don’t look at it that way. It was an alternative to the other white separatist, white nationalist, white supremacist groups.

Did that thinking draw a large base of followers when the group was most active? We had a hard time getting a lot of followers because, as you know, the white power movement is very right wing. That goes back to the John Birch Society [that was founded in 1958], very anti-communist. But the White Order would promote things like Stalin as a good leader, and so forth. And that’s why the group never caught on — the white supremacist movement will always be right wing. It will always be anti-communist and xenophobic.

Of course, I always felt bringing leftist philosophy into this was just a front. I don’t really think you can be a neoNazi and truly be a leftist thinker or a progressive or a liberal. Instead, it was catering to people that were looking for an alternative religion, people who felt they wanted something supposedly a little smarter. You’re dealing with a con artist, after all. Peter Georgacarakos was the number one con artist you will ever deal with. I mean, let’s face it: the group is a cult. It was about getting people to join and follow the leader, very similar to Jim Jones’ People’s Temple.

A cult? What can you say about that? It was very much a cult of personality surrounding one man, Georgacarakos. He wanted to be the godhead of this group. It’s kind of why Lujan got tired of it, and why I got tired of it. Overall, he’s a good example of why when you talk about any type of discrimination, whether its discrimination against people because of sexual orientation, or their economic background, or their nationality, or their religion, or race, there’s always a Hitler type that wants to be a figurehead. And that’s Georgacarakos. The others wanted to follow the leader — Joseph Kerrick was more or less a former hippie, new age kind of cult person. He has been in every new age cult that you can think of. Mike Lujan is another guy. He’s

what you call a joiner and followed Charles Manson for years.

Was the group sizeable enough to be divided into chapters? The chapter thing is funny. Let’s face it — the White Order of Thule had such a small amount of people. The chapter in Virginia was just Michael Lujan and a P.O. box. The same with me in Washington state. I was the only guy there. I had one or two people I knew who I tried to get interested, but it was so bizarre to most white supremacists to do the weird mix of philosophy. Most people just didn’t want to get into it, you know? It was so esoteric. People couldn’t understand what the hell it meant, including me. So did you feel conned when you left the group? Something happened when I worked at a fish market in Baton Rouge, near the Louisiana State University campus. Louisiana is a strange place for a white supremacist [because of its multicultural population]. I still don’t understand how David Duke can have so much support. But this was a big market of about 50 to 100 employees. Everyone was Caucasian, except for a Hispanic woman and a black guy. And here is the ironic thing about that — the guy that I identified with more than anybody else was the black guy. We had a similar sense of humor and we really hit it off, because we were basically forced to have to work together. He was such a good guy that it started to really make me doubt my own beliefs. I actually thought, “If I wasn’t a damn skinhead, this guy would have been a great friend.” So it’s like living a double life, and I started to get wise to the fact I was being lied to. And that puts a lot of doubt in your mind. ▲

The White Order of Thule’s sigil — a sign or image that is considered magical — was designed by Joseph Kerrick and incorporates a Nazi swastika.

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Shariah Shock

Oklahoma has forbidden Islamic religious code. But its new law is nothing more than political posturing and Muslim-bashing

klahoma State Rep. Cory Williams is exasperated. He was one of only 12 state legislators to resist the political stampede to put before voters a referendum to prohibit state judges from considering Islamic Shariah or international law in their rulings. He derided his colleagues’ fervor as “irresponsible” and “pandering.” Voters, Williams said, “think that their legislators are not screwing around and putting things on the ballot [ just] to get a certain electorate out there. They think that if the legislators put it there, then there’s an issue” that must be addressed, he told the Intelligence Report. “What they don’t pay us to do is be political assholes.” 32

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Legal experts say banning Shariah law is superfluous; there is no mechanism by which any foreign criminal or civil code can trump U.S. laws. Business experts add that such a ban could hurt the image of domestic companies doing business overseas. Yet when Oklahoma voters got the chance to vote on State Question 755, the so-called “Save Our State Amendment,” 70% approved it. Rep. Rex Duncan, who authored and co-sponsored the House joint resolution that later was presented to voters as S.Q. 755, said it was a “pre-emptive strike” that would stop “activist judges” from imposing the type of repressive justice found in the most oppressive Islamic regimes. Duncan made national news with his proposal. In June, he told MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer that Oklahoma voters

Could it Happen Here? Shariah law is derived from the Koran and the teachings of Mohammed. Like other systems of religious law – Jewish Halachic law, for instance – it establishes guidelines for major life events like marriage, birth and death, and outlines conduct that is forbidden and required. Interpretations of what the rules are and precisely how they are to be followed vary among different branches of Islam and among Muslims as individuals. It also varies among Muslim-majority countries, whose implementation of Shariah law ranges from nominal to strict. In coun-

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“understand that this is a war for the survival of America. It’s a cultural war, it’s a social war, it’s a war for the survival of our country.” Two days after the vote, Muneer Awad, a lawyer and executive director of Oklahoma’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), filed a lawsuit alleging that the amendment violated his and other Muslims’ constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued a preliminary injunction on Nov. 29 to prevent the vote from being certified.

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At loggerheads: State Rep. Rex Duncan (left) says he pushed a legally meaningless ban on using Shariah law in Oklahoma because “it’s a war for survival of our country.” but for Muslim Muneer Awad, who wants to be buried according to his religion’s custom, the ban feels more like a war on him and other Muslims.

tries like Saudi Arabia, where there is little or no separation of secular and religious authority, courts of law may mete out punishments according to Shariah law as interpreted by imams. Awad’s challenge to the Save Our State Amendment got little visible support from his fellow Oklahomans. Islamophobes, however, had a field day. Reposting an article titled “Taliban chops off man’s hand for theft,” JihadWatch. org’s Robert Spencer asked, “Isn’t it great that Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange has made Oklahoma safe for Sharia?” That the punishment in question was meted out in an illegal court controlled by a banned branch of the Taliban operating in lawless northwest Pakistan clearly didn’t matter to Spencer, a longtime Muslim-basher who co-heads Stop Islamization of America with blogger Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com, a leader in condemning an Islamic center planned for lower Manhattan last year. Unlike Spencer, legal scholars do distinguish between “law” as defined by rogue Taliban thugs and law as it is used American courtrooms — and they say comparisons like the one Spencer made are baloney. “Oklahoma law, like the law of every other state in the country, prohibits people from chopping other peoples’ hands off. An imam cannot chop a hand off. Anyone who did would be in violation of

very serious criminal law and they would go to jail,” said Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany (N.Y.) Law School and Editor-in-Chief of Religion and American Law: An Encyclopedia. Joseph Thai, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Oklahoma, agreed. “The reason that won’t happen is the same reason it has never happened. We have never had anyone’s hand cut off in Oklahoma because we have this background principle that states will not enforce foreign laws that are contrary to the law of the states. … It is not just stuff like cutting off hands and genital mutilation; Oklahoma will not enforce Texas law if it’s contrary to Oklahoma law,” he said. “We do not enforce foreign law that is contrary to state policy. We never have and we never will.” That doesn’t mean certain Shariah principles would never find application in Oklahoma, which is home to an estimated 20,000-30,000 Muslims. Awad, for instance, specifies in his will that his body be prepared in accord with Islamic law as described in “Shahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 23, Number 345.” Although there is no contradiction between this Islamic tradition and Oklahoma state law, the execution of wills is subject to court oversight — and if Oklahoma courts were forbidden to heed Shariah law, Awad argued in his petition

Muslim-basher Robert Spencer, whose Jihad Watch website is quick to accuse groups of links to terrorism, suggested falsely that an Oklahoma judge was making the state a haven for Islamic religious law.

for an injunction, his will could not be carried out, violating his constitutional right to freely exercise his religion. Awad has been outspoken in denouncing the law as unconstitutional, bigoted, and prejudicial to Muslims. In return for his trouble, he’s received an avalanche of hate mail — some of it from beyond Oklahoma. “The Muslims are so fucking stupid that they don’t realize southern people have our own brand of justice,” wrote a man from Texas, who may or may not have realized the irony of his remark. “Again, muslim asshead(s), you are not welcome in The United States. Go fuck camels and whatever else you do like worshipping devils in some other country that will have you. Get out of America. You are not welcome here!!!” Wrote another: “[W]e will work together in this country Jews and Gentiles to destroy those mosques built here, and cover them with the blood of swine, because you’re [sic] religion is nothing more than a superstition.” And a third: “Take your Islamic laws, shove them up your ass and go back to where you came from. You lice infested bastards are not welcome and that goes, [sic] for that Black Bastard that sits in the White House.” Rex Duncan’s ‘Enemy’ Duncan, the resolution’s enthusiastic author, told the media that he was inspired by a 2010 case in New Jersey family court, where a judge denied a Muslim woman’s request for a restraining order against her husband, who was raping and beating her. The New Jersey judge did not deny the woman’s allegations of abuse, but he ruled that the husband’s responsibility for his behavior was mitigated because his understanding of Shariah law informed him that he was entitled to have intercourse with his wife whenever he desired. Under New Jersey law, nonconsensual sex is rape even between a married couple. A state appeals court pointedly overturned the decision, saying it clearly violated the legal principal that no foreign law can supplant U.S. law. But the mere fact that the clearly erroneous lower court ruling could happen in America at all was enough to convince spring 2011

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Duncan that Oklahoma was in desperate need of protection – even though no problems regarding Shariah law had ever been reported in Oklahoma. Duncan did not reply to repeated requests for interviews from the Intelligence Report. In the interview with MSNBC’s Brewer, however, he said: “Oklahomans recognize that America was founded on Judeo-Christian values, and we’re unapologetically grateful that God has blessed America and blessed Oklahoma. And State Question 755, the Save Our State Amendment, is just a simple effort to ensure that our courts are not used to undermine those founding principles and turn Oklahoma into something that our founding fathers and our great-grandparents wouldn’t recognize.” “Frankly, it’s the face of the enemy. It’s the face of the enemy, and we need to call it what it is,” he added. “Oklahomans are going to do that, and they’re going show other states what it looks like to take a leadership role in saving their own future and the sanctity of their state court system.” Joseph Thai, the Oklahoma law professor, could hardly disagree more strongly. “The repudiation of the New Jersey case by the New Jersey court of appeals demonstrates that our legal system works, that we do not allow foreign law,” he said. “Why in the absence of 755 has this never happened? It’s because American courts will not enforce foreign laws that are contrary to public policy.” As it happens, at least one matter involving Shariah law has been adjudicated in Oklahoma state court. The outcome aligned precisely with what Finkelman and Thai predicted. The judge, who requested anonymity to avoid any possible impact on Awad’s lawsuit, told the Report what happened when a married Muslim couple brought a dispute over a premarital dowry agreement to the courtroom. Oklahoma law does not recognize dowry rights, so the judge ruled that the agreement was not enforceable under state law. Neither party appealed. “I’m not going to enforce anything that is contrary to Oklahoma law,” the judge explained. Islamophobia on Steroids S.Q. 755 did not materialize in a vacuum. Like fungus in a damp climate, 34

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its growth was encouraged by a recent mushrooming of Islamophobia across America. Impassioned and hate-filled reactions to last spring’s announcement that a 13-story Muslim community center and mosque would be going up several blocks from New York City’s Ground Zero shifted into violence within months. In May, a pipe bomb went off at a Florida mosque while 60 people were inside. In August, a knife-wielding passenger attacked his Muslim cab driver in New York City, and an arsonist damaged equipment at the site of a planned mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn. In September, it took a phone call from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to persuade Florida pastor Terry Jones to call off plans to lead “International Burn a Koran Day” on the anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. (Undaunted, Jones has now designated March 20 as “International Judge a Koran Day.” You can “burn it! Drown it! Shred it! Shoot it!” his church’s website proclaimed.) Anti-Muslim activists helped S.Q. 755’s sponsors spread their message of intolerance and fear. Brigitte Gabriel’s ACT! For America spent $45,000 to promote the amendment, targeting voters with radio ads and robo-calls voiced by former CIA Director James Woolsey. By fall, ACT chapters had begun to spring up across Oklahoma. Williams said the effect of his vote against putting the “Save Our State” amendment on the ballot was “painful” during campaign season. His Republican challenger sent out postcards with pictures of shadowy, burqua-clad figures, claiming that Williams wanted Shariah to be the law of the land. Williams beat him anyway, but only by a slim margin — 280 votes out of 9,500 cast. Likely fearing a similar backlash, the Oklahoma business community was silent — even though the amendment could directly affect its interests. “It is a regular part of our transactional practice to deal with the laws of other nations,” said lawyer Louis Price of Oklahoma City’s McAfee & Taft. “When you’re dealing with a global economy, it’s hard to say ‘Yeah, you can do business with us, but only if you use our laws.’” Asked if he expected anyone in busi-

ness community to join Awad in his suit, Price said, “Individual businesses would tend not to pick fights on hypothetical matters. … [A]nd [the amendment] is still a hypothetical for our concerns.” Hypothetical or not, businesses did foresee the amendment could cause problems, and while they preferred not to “pick fights” themselves, they had little hesitation asking Awad and CAIR to fight on their behalf. “We had people in the business community calling and asking us to bring up the international law aspect in press conferences,” Awad told the Report. “I think they hoped someone else would stand up because they didn’t want to get muddied.” Voters in other states may soon have to decide where they stand on the question of forbidding their judges to consider to Shariah law. Lawmakers in at least six states – Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah – made campaign promises to introduce similar proposals. Legislators in Wyoming and Texas have already introduced anti-Shariah resolutions, and the conservative American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has pledged its support to states that need help writing and defending anti-Shariah laws. Jordan Sekulow, director of ACLJ international operations (his father, Jay, is the group’s chief counsel), is soliciting signatures for an online petition to ban Shariah law in U.S. courts. According to The Christian Century, Sekulow is also “advising” Oklahoma State Sen. Anthony Sykes, who co-authored and co-sponsored the resolution that became S.Q. 755. While the ACLJ pursues its multiplatform anti-Muslim agenda, Awad also is fighting the battle on more than one front. In the court of law, he is on the offense. But in the court of public opinion, he must strike a careful balance between making his case against the law and being sensitive to the plight of his coreligionists across the state. When Awad first came to Oklahoma, he believed that drawing attention to people spouting anti-Muslim vitriol would shame them into silence. But just a few months in the state have shattered that illusion, he told the Intelligence Report. “Some people,” he said, “can’t be shamed.” ▲

The Year in Nativism

Growth in the hard core of the nativist movement is slowing as the battle over immigration moves into the nation’s courts BY HEIDI BEIRICH

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wo major trends were evident last year in the hard-line anti-immigration movement. Most worryingly, a cadre of racial extremists began patrolling Arizona for undocumented border-crossers. Led by neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, they scour the deserts while armed with semiautomatic rifles and clad in fatigues, military-style helmets and Kevlar vests. Pictures of their exploits show terrified migrants forced to the ground by guntoting captors. At the same time, many nativist activists expanded their alliances with other far-right political movements, a trend that first began to take shape in 2009. In the past year, major nativist leaders have allied their organizations with antigovernment “Patriot” groups or fringe Tea Party factions. In some cases, they have created new far-right hybrid entities of their own. Nativists received a burst of energy with the signing last April of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, a harsh anti-immigration ordinance that makes the failure of non-citizens to carry immigration documents a crime and obligates police to check immigration status when there is “reasonable suspicion” that someone is undocumented. Anti-immigrant groups were highly active in pushing for the law, which is currently held up in federal court. Legislators in several states are set to introduce copycats, which may further inflame anti-immigrant sentiment. Even so, the movement is no longer growing at the rapid pace of prior years. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) latest count, the number of what the SPLC characterizes as “nativist extremist” groups — organizations that do not limit themselves to pushing for legislative change or more border patrols, but rather target suspected undocumented immigrants at

work sites or when they cross the border — is up slightly, rising to 319 last year from 309 groups in 2009. Still, it is noteworthy that the movement’s rate of growth slowed considerably, with the three largest groups — the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the Minuteman Project, and the Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition — staying about the same size as last year. In fact, without the activism surrounding S.B. 1070, the movement might well have shrunk in 2010. The slowed growth of the movement is a big change. Between 2008 and 2009, the groups skyrocketed nearly 80%, rising to 309 from 173. A year earlier, the number of groups went up 20%, from 144 to 173. This slower growth is partly attributable to leadership battles that have drained the energy of some groups. It also reflects the relocation of some nativists into other sectors of the far right that have concerns beyond immigration.

As hard-line nativism has gone mainstream, the growth of anti-immigrant groups patrolling the border for crossing migrants has slowed.

Toil and Trouble As neo-Nazis like one-time National Socialist Movement member J.T. Ready became more prominent on the nativist scene this past year, one of the major early nativist leaders exited the scene ignominiously. In June, allegations surfaced in court documents that Chris Simcox — arguably the highest profile individual in the movement, a man who co-founded of the Minuteman Project in 2005 and, later, founded the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) — had threatened to kill his wife and family in a 2009 domestic dispute. It turned out that a restraining order had been issued against Simcox in April, when his third wife, Alena, filed for divorce. This was not the first time that Simcox had been accused of violent behavior by a spouse. His second wife told the Intelligence Report in 2005 that she filed for full custody of their teenage son because she feared Simcox had suffered a mental breakdown, was sometimes violent and seemed dangerous. In early July, after a short period when Simcox disappeared from public view (prompting one bounty hunter working for his wife to issue a “Wanted” poster), he released an E-newsletter, “The Simcox Report,” that defended his actions. In it, Simcox accused his wife of having been involved in an adulterous relationship with Stacy O’Connell, a former member of MCDC with whom Simcox had feuded for years (O’Connell and Alena Simcox denied the allegations). The soap opera intensified when it emerged that O’Connell ran the bounty hunting service that put up the “Wanted” poster for Simcox. Meanwhile, MCDC’s leadership spent 2010 in complete disarray. When Simcox announced in April 2009 that he would run for the Arizona Senate seat spring 2011

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Building Bridges Certain nativist extremists are gaining political muscle by building bridges to other kinds of far-right groups, with many nativists morphing into Tea Party activists or redefining themselves more broadly as opposed to the federal government’s authority in general. This trend began in 2009, when nativist extremist groups first began to find common cause with the antigovernment Patriot movement, which includes militias and similar groups. That the two movements dovetail in many ways 36

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held by John McCain, MCDC was left in the hands of his long-time lieutenant, Carmen Mercer. Mercer shut the organization down in March 2010, after being accused by Arizona’s attorney general of involvement in a property scam. In a March 22 E-mail to supporters announcing the shutdown, Mercer nevertheless encouraged former MCDC members to continue their work independently. “I predict Americans, on their own, will lock, load and do what the feckless cowards in Washington refuse to do — and frankly I hope Americans do take up arms to defend this great nation,” she wrote in her “urgent alert.” This missive came after Mercer sent a hot-blooded E-mail out the week before urging supporters to bring their long arms to the border and to “forcefully engage” the “criminals” who try to cross without documentation. Despite having claimed MCDC was no more, Mercer within a few months was again posting on MCDC’s website as though nothing had happened. Long an Arizona entity, MCDC now lists Herndon, Va., as its headquarters address and sends those wishing to contact it by mail to the far-right advocacy group, Declaration Alliance, that is headed by conservative activist Alan Keyes. The alliance had long helped raise money for MCDC. But earlier this year, Mercer reported that MCDC was going broke after breaking off relations with the group. Apparently, they have now mended their rift. The turmoil had little effect on the size of the group, which had 77 chapters in 30 states in 2010. That’s up by two chapters from last year.

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is not entirely surprising. Both cotton to Revolutionary War rhetoric and imagery, and the first major nativist extremist group, the Minuteman Project, branded itself intentionally with a name right out of the American Revolution. The Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Coalition (FIRE), which is the largest nativist extremist group with 136 chapters in 35 states (up one chapter from 2009), took up the antigovernment flag in 2009 when it launched The Patriot Coalition. FIRE is best known for a website that allows individuals to inform on employers of undocumented workers and for aggressive protests aimed at the undocumented. In August, the group went one step further down the Patriot road, cosponsoring a national conference in Pennsylvania that brought together a motley crew of far-right activists, conspiracy-minded groups like the John Birch Society and an array of other opponents of the Obama Administration. Patriot hero Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff who believes that county sheriffs are the highest authority and can ignore demands from the federal government, spoke to the conference. The event’s core theme — “demand [states’] sovereignty from the tyranny of the Federal government”— sounded more like a paean to the Confederacy and

“states’ rights” than a complaint about immigration. FIRE National Director Jeff Lewis is active in several antigovernment groups, three of which he heads. Billing himself as “a direct descendant of the original American Revolutionaries,” Lewis is listed as a delegate on the website of We the People (WTP), a federal government-hating outfit led by prominent tax protester Bob Schulz; he also participated in WTP’s 2009 “Continental Congress” and is listed as a leader in the North Carolina chapter. (The congress issued documents warning that any infringement on the people’s liberty as laid out in the Constitution is “an act of WAR” that “the People and their Militias have the Right and Duty to repel.”) Another example of a nativistturned-patriot is Al Garza, who was vice president of MCDC until he quit the group in August 2009. Garza went on to form The Patriots Coalition, not to be confused with FIRE’s Patriot Coalition, another group that merges the ideas of the nativist movement with those of the Patriots. Its website is filled with images of Revolutionary War troops and the Constitution and laments, “God and country are being taken away each day.” Garza was helped in this effort by Joanne Daley, his local Tea Party coordinator, according to The Nation. Daley, who led protests against Obama’s health care plan in Arizona and ran a Cochise County chapter of Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project, is on the group’s board. Arguably the most obnoxious nativist extremist, Jeff Schwilk, became a full-time antigovernment activist in 2010. Schwilk, founder of the San Diego Minutemen, has subsumed his anti-immigrant activities into a larger cause and now concentrates more on his Southern California Patriot Coalition, or SoCal Patriots. Instead of harassing migrant camps and pro-immigrant activists, Schwilk now focuses on gun rights and antigovernment issues. “Our fight is all political now,” Schwilk told The Nation in October. “Our fight is in our cities, county and state, and federal governments.” Sipping With the Tea Parties The Tea Party movement, too, has become home to many nativist extrem-

ists. These groups saw their interests first align during the healthcare debate, as medical coverage for undocumented immigrants became a flashpoint issue. The lines between the movements have become increasingly blurred, with leaders making official appearances at each other’s events. S.B. 1070, the Arizona law that requires police to ask for proof of legal residency from people they believe could be undocumented immigrants, helped to deepen this relationship. Tea Party activists gathered thousands of signatures in favor of the law and the Tea Party Nation, one of several Tea Party factions, cosponsored a rally in support of the law in Phoenix on June 5. Jim Gilchrist, who co-founded the Minuteman Project with Simcox in 2005 and now runs his own outfit of the same name, glommed on to the Tea Party movement in the last year. In late November, Gilchrist attended a “Minuteman Tea Party” event in Texas that his website claims had more than 2,000 attendees. Gilchrist hasn’t been to the border in quite some time, preferring to work the right-wing circuit and post anti-immigration material on his website. Reaching out to the right has helped Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project (MMP). It had 38 chapters in 2010, up from 35 the year before. MMP Executive Director Stephen Eichler joined his colleague Gilchrist in the Tea Party movement. Eichler is now listed as the executive director (and “general trouble maker”) on TeaParty. org. That Tea Party faction is led by Dale Robertson, who gained some notoriety for displaying arguably racist signs during protests of Obama’s health care proposals. The anti-immigrant influence at TeaParty.org is clear. The site lists as part of its “non-negotiable core beliefs” that “Illegal Aliens Are Here illegally.” The group also has issued E-mail alerts that blame an “illegal alien putsch” and “invasion” for “the pestilence of National Socialism” that it claims is on the rise in America. At the Extremes This January, Shawna Forde, formerly of the Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project and then the leader of her own Minuteman

American Defense (MAD) group, was scheduled to go on trial in Arizona for the murder of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter. Forde’s case is a reminder of how anti-immigrant fervor can explode into extreme violence. Pima County authorities allege that Forde and two accomplices, one of whom had ties to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, invaded their victims’ home in search of drugs and cash to fund MAD border activities. That tragic and horrifying incident makes the appearance of neo-Nazi J.T. Ready and his immigrant-hunting pals all the more worrisome. Until recently a member of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), Ready and his U.S. Border Rangers, an armed group largely peopled by other NSM members, have detained a number of migrants. Last July, Ready called a press conference in Pinal County’s Vekol Valley, known as a drug trafficking and illegal immigration route, where he paraded his heavily armed group for the news cameras. “This is the Minuteman Project on steroids. We’ve got people with assault weapons. … We will use lawful, deadly force when appropriate,” Ready told a TV reporter. One NSM member and avid patroller, Harry Hughes, posted to the Web plenty of photos of the migrants the group said it stopped. Hughes really doesn’t like Mexicans, citing approvingly on his blog an article that says: “Mexican illegal aliens are revolting. And they know it. It is their purpose to disrupt us, interfere with us and give us diseases that we haven’t had in this country for 100 years.” Hughes’ anger, by his own account, sometimes spills over into action. In July 2007, Hughes posted on a racist forum that he had shot a Mexican family’s dog. Hughes said the charges were later dropped and “the Mexicans [sic] home mysteriously burned down.” The NSM border outings are slated to continue. What follows is a state-by-state tally of the 319 groups that the SPLC lists as nativist extremist groups. In the case

of the three major formations — the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the Minuteman Project and the Federation Immigration Reform and Enforcement Coalition — acronyms have been added to help identify their affiliated chapters. >>

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Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Southeast Alabama Statewide Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Arab Blountsville River Region Minutemen (MCDC) Millbrook Tennessee Valley Minutemen (MCDC) Rogersville

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ARIZONA (18) American Freedom Riders Phoenix Arizona-Maricopa Patriots 1st Division MMP (MMP) Maricopa Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Green Valley North Phoenix Phoenix Pinal County Tucson Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Cochise County Green Valley Lake Havasu City La Paz County Phoenix Prescott Tucson Mohave County Minutemen Mohave County Patriots Coalition Huachuca City Riders Against Illegal Aliens Phoenix Yuma Patriots

Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Northwest Arkansas

CALIFORNIA (61) Antelope Valley Minutemen Antelope Valley Border Patrol Auxiliary San Diego California State University Minuteman Project Club (MMP) Long Beach Campo Minutemen Campo Carlsbad Citizens Brigade Carlsbad Castro Valley Minutemen Castro Valley Central Coast Minutemen Salinas Crispus Attucks Brigade Los Angeles Desert Cities Minutemen (MCDC) Palm Desert East Bay Minutemen (MCDC) Walnut Creek Escondido Minutemen Brigade Escondido Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Antelope Valley Coachella Valley East San Francisco Bay El Cajon Lake Elsinore Long Beach Marina del Rey Menifee Valley Moreno Valley North Edwards and Boron Northern California Oceanside Redlands Riverside spring 2011

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San Diego San Gabriel Valley San Juan Capistrano Santa Cruz County Silicon Valley Sonoma County South Coastal Orange County Southeast Riverside County South Lake Tahoe Statewide Ventura County Vista West Sacramento Friends of the Border Patrol Covina Golden Gate Minutemen San Francisco Kern County Minutemen (MMP) Bakersfield Los Angeles Minutemen (MCDC) Los Angeles Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Boulevard Minuteman Project (MMP) Ontario San Clemente Mountain Minutemen Jacumba No Invaders.Org Running Springs North Bay Minutemen San Francisco Northern California Minutemen (MCDC) Napa Operation Generation (MMP) Costa Mesa Sacramento Region Minutemen (MCDC) Sacramento San Diego Citizen’s Brigade San Diego San Diego Minutemen San Diego San Fernando Valley Minutemen (MMP)

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Ventura Sonoma County Minutemen (MCDC) Sonoma Southern California Minuteman Project (MMP) Southern California Southern California Patriot Coalition Southern California Southern Sierra Minuteman Project Chapter (MMP) Bodfish Ventura County Minutemen (MMP) Thousand Oaks Vista Citizens Brigade Vista WE THE PEOPLE California’s Crusader Victorville

COLORADO (4) Colorado Minuteman Project (MMP) Statewide Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Denver Grand Valley Minuteman Project Statewide

CONNECTICUT (3) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Danbury Prospect United States Citizens for Immigration Law Enforcement West Redding

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (1) Defend DC Washington

FLORIDA (17) Central Florida Minutemen (MCDC) Orlando Central Florida Patriots Minuteman Project (MMP) Central Florida Dixie County

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Minutemen Old Town Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Central Florida Lady Lake Lee and Collier County Pinellas County Sarasota South Palm Beach County Treasure Coast Floridians for Immigration Enforcement, Inc. Palm Beach Legal Immigrants of Miami-A Minuteman Project Chapter (MMP) Miami The MinuteMan@FSU (MMP) Tallahassee Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Haines City Miami Report Illegals Pompano Beach Space Coast Minutemen (MCDC) Melbourne

GEORGIA (15) Cherokee Minutemen Canton The Dustin Inman Society Marietta Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Atlanta Central Savannah River Area Cobb County Gwinnett County North Georgia Statewide Middle Georgia Minutemen (MCDC) Macon Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

(MCDC) Athens Atlanta Augusta Minuteman Project (MMP) Atlanta Northwest Georgia Minutemen (MCDC) Dalton Southwest Georgia Minutemen (MCDC) Albany

HAWAII (2) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Waikiki Hawaii Minuteman Project (MMP) Oahu

IDAHO (1) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Statewide

ILLINOIS (6) Chicago Minuteman Project (MMP) Lindenhurst Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Chicago Lake County Statewide Illinois Minutemen A Minuteman Project Chapter (MMP) Dix Minutemen Midwest Harvard

INDIANA (7) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Elkhart County Fort Wayne Northern Indiana Southeast Indiana Southern Indiana Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement Valparaiso Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

(MCDC) Southern Indiana

IOWA (10) Cherokee County Minutemen (MCDC) Cherokee Des Moines Minutemen (MCDC) Des Moines Harrison County Minutemen (MCDC) Logan Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Council Bluffs Denison Griswold Iowa City Shelby County Minutemen (MCDC) Shelby County Taylor County Minutemen (MCDC) Taylor County Woodbury County Minutemen (MCDC) Woodbury County

KANSAS (6) Burlington Minutemen (MCDC) Burlington Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Statewide Heart of America Minutemen (MCDC) Kansas City Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Emporia Topeka Wichita

Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Northeast Louisiana Southeast Louisiana MCDC of Louisiana (MCDCC) Leesville

MAINE (1) Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Hanover

MARYLAND (17) Help Save Maryland Anne Arundel County Baltimore Baltimore County Calvert County Caroline County Carroll County Charles County Frederick County Harford County Howard County Montgomery County Prince George’s County Queen Anne’s County Rockville St. Mary’s County Talbot County Old Line State Minutemen - A Minuteman Project Chapter (MMP) Jefferson

MASSACHUSETTS (4) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Lancaster Metro West North Shores Southeast Massachusetts

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Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Meade County Richmond Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Lexington

Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Jackson County Mid Michigan Western Michigan

LOUISIANA (3) Federal Immigration

MINNESOTA (5) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Statewide

Twin Cities Minnesota Minuteman Project (MMP) Statewide Minnesota Minutemen (MCDC) Mound Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform Hanska

MISSISSIPPI (1) Minuteman Project of Mississippi (MMP) Statewide

MISSOURI (4) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) CoalitionChristian County Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Joplin Kansas City Springfield Minutemen (MCDC) Springfield

MONTANA (3) Eastern Montana Minutemen (MCDC) Ryegate MCDC of Montana (MCDC) Missoula Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Western Montana

NEBRASKA (4) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Omaha Lincoln Minutemen (MCDC) Lincoln MCDC of Nebraska (MCDC) Omaha Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Grand Island

NEVADA (8) Americans4America Las Vegas

Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Las Vegas Northern Nevada Southern Nevada Statewide Nevada Action Coalition Las Vegas Nevada Las Vegas Minuteman Project (MMP) Las Vegas Pahrump Minutemen Pahrump

NEW HAMPSHIRE (1) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Statewide

NEW JERSEY (8) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Bergen County Cape May County Statewide MCDC of New Jersey (MCDC) Bound Brook Minuteman Project (MMP) Bergen County Trenton New Jersey Citizens for Immigration Control Carlstadt United Patriots of America Lindenhurst

NEW MEXICO (1) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition El Paso

NEW YORK (5) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Nassau County Staten Island Statewide MCDC of New York (MCDC) Freeport

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NORTH CAROLINA (9) Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) Raleigh Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition North Central North Carolina Northwest North Carolina Piedmont Region Piedmont Triad Area Statewide Triangle Region Western North Carolina Triangle Minutemen Patriots (MMP) Pittsboro

OHIO (9) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Columbiana County Darke County Dayton Northeast Ohio Statewide MCDC of Ohio (MCDC) Cincinnati Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Cleveland Columbus Northeast Ohio Stern Warning Chapter (MMP) Northeast Ohio

OKLAHOMA (3) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Muskogee Minuteman Project (MMP) Tulsa Oklahoma Minutemen (MCDC) Oklahoma City

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PENNSYLVANIA (9) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Albrightsville Berks County Northeast Pennsylvania Philadelphia Spring City Great Lakes Minuteman Project (MMP) Union City Pennsylvania Minuteman Project (MMP) Statewide Pennsylvanians for Immigration Control and Enforcement Warminster Voice of the People Shenandoah

RHODE ISLAND (4) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Statewide Rhode Island Minutemen (MCDC) Providence Rhode Island Minutemen (MMP) Statewide Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement (MMP) Central Falls

SOUTH CAROLINA (6) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Beaufort County Charleston Horry County

North Charleston Horry County Minutemen (MCDC) Surfside Beach Low Country Minutemen (MCDC) Charleston

TENNESSEE (5) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Knox County Lebanon Oak Ridge Rutherford County Warren County

TEXAS (16) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Central Texas Conroe Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex HarrisCounty Hidalgo County Hill Country San Antonio Statewide Tarrant County Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Austin Minuteman Project (MMP) Lone Star North Texas Minuteman Project (MMP) North Texas Texans for Immigration Reform Houston Texas Border Volunteers Conroe Texas Minuteman Project (MMP) Arlington U.S. Border Watch Spring

UTAH (9) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Cache Valley Greater Salt Lake City

Layton Ogden Southern Utah South Salt Lake City Statewide Southern Utah Minutemen (MCDC) St. George Utah Minutemen Project (MMP) Salt Lake City

VIRGINIA (6) Centreville Citizens Coalition Centreville Declaration Alliance (MCDC) Herndon Help Save Hampton Roads Hampton Roads Help Save Manassas Manassas Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) Herndon Save the Old Dominion Manassas

WASHINGTON (4) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Eastern Washington King County Statewide MCDC of Washington Yakima

WISCONSIN (3) Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition Southeast Wisconsin MCDC of Wisconsin Oconto Falls Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration La Valle

WYOMING (2) MCDC of Wyoming Casper New Castle Minutemen Newcastle ▲ spring 2011

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or the second year in a row, the radical right in America expanded explosively in 2010, driven by resentment over the changing racial demographics of the country, frustration over the government’s handling of the economy, and the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and other demonizing propaganda aimed at various minorities. For many on the radical right, anger is focusing on President Obama, who is seen as embodying everything that’s wrong with the country. Hate groups topped 1,000 for the first time since the Southern Poverty Law Center began counting such groups in the 1980s. Anti-immigrant vigilante groups, despite having some of the political wind taken out of their sails by the adoption of hard-line anti-immigration laws around the country, continued to rise slowly. But by far the most dramatic growth came in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement — conspiracy-minded organizations that see the federal government as their primary enemy — which gained more than 300 new groups, a jump of over 60%. Taken together, these three strands of the radical right — the hatemongers, the nativists and the antigovernment zealots — increased from 1,753 groups in 2009 to 2,145 in 2010, a 22% rise. That followed a 2008-2009 increase of 40%.

What may be most remarkable is that this growth of right-wing extremism came even as politicians around the country, blown by gusts from the Tea Parties and other conservative formations, tacked hard to the right, co-opting many of the issues important to extremists. Last April, for instance, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed S.B. 1070, the harshest anti-immigrant law in memory, setting off a tsunami of proposals for similar laws across the country. Continuing growth of the radical right could be curtailed as a result of this shift, especially since Republicans, many of them highly conservative, recaptured the U.S. House last fall. But despite those historic Republican gains, the early signs suggest that even as the more mainstream political right strengthens, the radical right has remained highly energized. In an 11-day HATE GROUPS 2000–2010

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period this January, a neo-Nazi was arrested headed for the Arizona border with a dozen homemade grenades; a terrorist bomb attack on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., was averted after police dismantled a sophisticated anti-personnel weapon; and a man who officials said had a long history of antigovernment activities was arrested outside a packed mosque in Dearborn, Mich., and charged with possessing explosives with unlawful intent. That’s in addition, the same month, to the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, an attack that left six dead and may have had a political dimension. It’s also clear that other kinds of radical activity are on the rise. Since the murder last May 20 of two West Memphis, Ark., police officers by two members of the so-called “sovereign citizens” movement, police from around the country have contacted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to report what one detective in Kentucky described as a “dramatic increase” in sovereign activity. Sovereign citizens, who, like militias, are part of the larger Patriot movement, believe that the federal government has no right to tax or regulate them and, as a result, often come into conflict with police and tax authorities. Another sign of their increased activity came early this year, when the spring 2011

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Treasury Department, in a report assessing what the IRS faces in 2011, said its biggest challenge will be the “attacks and threats against IRS employees and facilities [that] have risen steadily in recent years.” Extremist ideas have not been limited to the radical right; already this year, state legislators have offered up a raft of proposals influenced by such ideas. In Arizona, the author of the S.B. 1070 law — a man who just became Senate president on the basis of his harshly nativist rhetoric — proposed a law this January that would allow his state to refuse to obey any federal law or regulation it cared to. In Virginia, a state legislator wants to pass a law aimed at creating an alternative currency “in the event of the destruction of the Federal Reserve System’s currency” — a longstanding fear of right-wing extremists. And in Montana, a state senator is working to pass a statute called the “Sheriffs First Act” that would require federal law enforcement to ask local sheriffs’ permission to act in their counties or face jail. All three laws are almost certainly unconstitutional, legal experts say, and they all originate in ideas that first came from ideologues of the radical right. There also are new attempts by nativist forces to roll back birthright citizenship, which makes all children born in the U.S. citizens. Such laws have been introduced this year in Congress, and a coalition of state legislators is promising to do the same in their states. And then there’s Oklahoma, where 70% of voters last November approved a measure to forbid judges to consider Islamic law in the state’s courtrooms (see story, p. 32) — a completely groundless fear, but one pushed nonetheless by Islamophobes. Since then, lawmakers have promised to pass similar laws in Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah. After the Giffords assassination attempt, a kind of national dialogue began about the political vitriol that increasingly passes for “mainstream” political debate. But it didn’t seem to get very far. Four days after the shooting, a campaign called the Civility Project — a two-year effort led by an evangelical conservative tied to top Republicans — said it was shutting down because of a 42

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lack of interest and furious opposition. “The worst E-mails I received about the Civility Project were from conservatives with just unbelievable language about communists and some words I wouldn’t use in this phone call,” director Mark DeMoss told The New York Times. “This political divide has become so sharp that everything is black and white, and too many conservatives can see no redeeming value in any” opponent. A Washington Post/ABC News poll this January captured the atmosphere well. It found that 82% of Americans saw their country’s political discourse as “negative.” Even more remarkably, the poll determined that 49% thought that negative tone could or already had encouraged political violence. Last year’s rise in hate groups (see map, p. 43, and list, p. 44) was the latest in a trend stretching all the way back to the year 2000, when the SPLC counted 602 such groups. Since then, they have risen steadily, mainly on the basis of exploiting the issue of undocumented immigration from Mexico and Central America. Last year, the number of hate groups rose to 1,002 from 932, a 7.5% increase over the previous year and a 66% rise since 2000. At the same time, what the SPLC defines as “nativist extremist” groups — organizations that go beyond mere advocacy of restrictive immigration policy to actually confront or harass suspected immigrants or their employers — rose slightly, despite the fact that most of their key issues had been taken up by mainstream politicians (see story, p. 35, and list, p. 37). There were 319 such groups in 2010, up 3% from 309 in 2009.

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But like the year before, it was the antigovernment Patriot groups that grew most dramatically (see list, p. 57), at least partly on the basis of furious rhetoric from the right aimed at the nation’s first black president — a man who has come to represent to at least some Americans ongoing changes in the racial makeup of the country. The Patriot groups, which had risen and fallen once before during the militia movement of the 1990s, first came roaring back in 2009, when they rose 244% to 512 from 149 a year earlier. In 2010, they rose again sharply, adding 312 new groups to reach 824, a 61% increase. The highest prior count of Patriot groups came in 1996, when the SPLC found 858 (see also chart, above). It’s hard to predict where this volatile situation will lead. Conservatives last November made great gains and some of them are championing a surprising number of the issues pushed by the radical right — a fact that could help deflate some of the even more extreme political forces. But those GOP electoral advances also left the Congress divided and increasingly lined up against the Democratic president, which is likely to paralyze the country on such key issues as immigration reform. What seems certain is that President Obama will continue to serve as a lightning rod for many on the political right, a man who represents both the federal government and the fact that the racial make-up of the United States is changing, something that upsets a significant number of white Americans. And that suggests that the polarized politics of this country could get worse before they get better. ▲

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“Every non-White on the planet has to become extinct. We need to remove these minor-league amateur races out of the game, and refine the playoff brackets a bit, if you get my meaning. The whole world is ours, and the only part of the earth that non-Whites should inherit is however much it requires to cover them.”

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Miller promised that if elected, he would “work … to expose the jewish [sic] domination of the US government, the mass media, the federal reserve bank [sic], and the decadent American culture.” He has advocated incentive payments to white Americans to produce white children. Miller formerly headed the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which later morphed into the White Patriot Party. Miller went on the lam in 1986 after

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A guttural racist, Metzger is a former California grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In the mid-1980s, he founded White Aryan Resistance (WAR), one of the leading neo-Nazi groups of the period. In a 2002 interview, Metzger said, “My total concern is with the survival of the white European people in North America.” He is an ordained minister of Christian Identity theology, whose adherents typically believe that Jews are the literal “seed of Satan,” people of color are soulless “mud people,” and the Bible is the history of the white race. He promotes a particularly nasty version of anti-Semitism. “Jews are

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of Representatives, Indiana District 3 PARTY Unspecified RESULTS Received 0.005% (10 votes) of the 185,049 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, Christian Identity

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Mauch is a member of the League of the South (LOS), a neo-Confederate organization formed in 1994 that advocates a second Southern secession and espouses bitter hostility toward the United States – an “alien occupier.” The LOS envisions a Christian theocratic state run by an “Anglo-Celtic” – that is, white – elite that would legally dominate both racial and religious minorities. In a 2008 interview, Mauch referred to the Confederate battle flag as “a symbol of Jesus Christ above all else. It’s a symbol of Biblical government.” (The LOS also describes the battle flag as the “antithesis” of the Stars and Stripes.) For seven years, Mauch also was a local unit “commander” with the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), stepping down in 2009. Over the last decade, the Southern heritage group has been wracked by a kind of internal civil war between moderates and racial extremists.

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supreme masters of manipulation and deceit,” according to Metzger’s website. “They run and distort our foreign policy because lazy and corrupt non-Jew leaders had previously found them valuable as grifters.” Metzger’s 2010 race was a far cry from his earlier, more successful runs for public office. In 1980, he won the three-way Democratic primary for California’s 43rd Congressional District with 37.1% (33,071 votes) of the votes cast before going on to lose the general election with 13.4% (46,361 votes). In 1982, Metzger ran in an 11-way Democratic primary for Senate in California, coming in sixth with 2.8% (76,502 votes) of the votes cast.

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Groups are categorized as Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi, White Nationalist, Racist Skinhead, Christian Identity, Neo-Confederate, Black Separatist, and General Hate. Because skinheads are migratory and often not affiliated with groups, this listing understates their numbers. Christian Identity describes a religion that is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic. Black Separatist groups are organizations whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred. Neo-Confederate groups seek to revive many of the racist principles of the antebellum South. White Nationalist groups espouse white supremacy or white separatism but generally avoid anti-Semitism. General Hate groups espouse ideologies of hatred and include the sub-categories of Anti-Gay groups, Anti-Immigrant groups, Holocaust Denial groups, Racist Music labels, Radical Traditionalist Catholic groups (which reject core Catholic teachings and espouse anti-Semitism), and Other (a variety of groups endorsing a hodge-podge of hate doctrines).

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Aryan Nations Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Ashland, AL* Sharpsburg, MD Association of Georgia Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Conyers, GA Association of Independent Klansmen Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan Maryland Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Homer, LA* Smackover, AR Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Marion, OH* Alabama Arkansas Arizona California Colorado District of Columbia Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Michigan Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New York North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah

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Richmond, VA Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Dixie Rangers of the Ku Klux Klan Walker, LA The Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Homosassa Springs, FL Fraternal White Knights of the KKK Charles City, IA Imperial Klans of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Dawson Springs, KY* Johnstown, PA International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Colt, AR* Headland, AL Sheridan, AR Young Harris, GA Elwood, IN Cleveland, OH Knight Riders Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Ellijay, GA* Live Oak, FL Bainbridge, GA Brunswick, GA Byron, GA Harrisburg, IL Pelham, NC Abingdon, VA Knight Riders Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (W. Va.) Beckley, WV* Montgomery Co., AL Arkansas Georgia Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Ohio South Carolina Tennessee Knights of the Ku

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Klux Klan Harrison, AR* Newport, TN Knights of the Southern Cross Soldiers of the Ku Klux Klan Powhatan, VA Ku Klux Klan LLC Compton, AR Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Petal, MS* Brookhaven, MS Jackson, MS Meridian, MS Mize, MS Pearl, MS Philadelphia, MS Ripley, MS Shannon, MS WA 1

Warrenville, SC Brush Creek, TN Kanawha County, WV Original Knights of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Philadelphia, MS* Booneville, MS Supreme White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Van Wert, OH* Illinois Bloomington, IN Kentucky Missouri New York Texas Rebel Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Splendora, TX Traditional Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Carlsbad, TX North Carolina Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Potosi, MO* ND 2

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California State Assembly, District 59 PARTY Republican RESULTS Primary: Finished first among six candidates, receiving 30.3% (12,449 votes) of the 41,112 votes cast. General election: Won with 57.3% (82,475 votes) of the 144,007 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigration, antigovernment “Patriot”

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Tupelo, MS Mountain State Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Hartford, KY* Delaware County, OH Davidson County, TN Washington Co., VT Kanawha County, WV National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan South Bend, IN* Maricopa County, AZ Georgia Kentucky New Hampshire

Oregon Pennsylvania North Providence, RI South Carolina Kingsport, TN Texas Utah Virginia Gordonsville, VA Washington United Realms of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Shelbina, MO* Ukiah, CA United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Longview, TX* South West Region, AR Illinois Homer, LA Monroe, LA Sarepta, LA Shreveport, LA South Louisiana Region, LA Tullos, LA Michigan Detroit, MI

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Pulaski, TN* Anderson, AL Cullman, AL Toney, AL Nashua, IA Tennessee Brush Creek, TN Estill Springs, TN Hohenwald, TN Robertson County, TN Whiteville, TN Woodbury, TN United Knights of Tennessee Ku Klux Klan Morristown, TN United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Fraser, MI* Alabama Arizona California Longmont, CO Connecticut Delaware Hampton, FL Georgia Chicago, IL

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Donnelly in 2005 founded what became the largest anti-immigrant Minuteman chapter in California. He advocates a California version of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, which makes it a state crime to be in this country illegally. Donnelly is prone to exaggeration. In interviews, he claimed to have heard the screams of women being raped in the Mexican desert near the border. According to LA Weekly, Donnelly once wrote that Muslim extremists were proselytizing to “so-called ‘innocent’ illegal aliens” with the aim of destroying the American Southwest. “It is not a stretch,” he wrote, “to picture a revolt in Los Angeles, whose population is comprised of [sic] over 50 percent illegal aliens. At the [current] rate of influx and births, it will be 80 percent illegal alien within a decade.” A more reliable estimate places the number of undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles County at about 7.3% of its population of 10.4 million. Donnelly claimed undocumented immigrants accounted for “nearly one-third of our prison space” — a demonizing assertion, once also pushed by CNN’s Lou Dobbs, with no basis in fact.

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Municipal Water District Board of Directors, Division 2, Riverside, Calif. PARTY National Socialist Movement RESULTS General election: Received 27.8% (8,139 votes) of the 29,243 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi

Hall is California director and southwest regional leader of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) — currently the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group. The NSM is known for its swastika-waving, sieg-heiling rallies, many of them held in minority neighborhoods, and its Hitler worship. Hall affirmed in a Los Angeles Times interview his belief that all nonwhites should be deported. “I want a white nation,” he said. “I don’t hide what I am, and I don’t water that down.” After the election, Hall wrote, “It is a great victory when a National Socialist candidate receives over a quarter of the votes for an elected position in his district.”

Dwayne Hemingway-El OFFICE SOUGHT Mayor, High Point, N.C. PARTY Unspecified RESULTS General election: Received 7.9%

(1,718 votes) of the 21,503 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment “sovereign citizen”

Hemingway-El describes himself as a member of the Louisiana-based Washitaw De Dugdamoundwah, also known as the Washitaw Moorish Nation and the Washitaw Empire. The group

“It is a great victory when a National Socialist candidate receives over a quarter of the votes for an elected position in his district.” — Jeff Hall, Riverside, California

claims status as a sovereign entity not subject to U.S. or state laws, and says the 828,000-square-mile territory of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was land stolen from the Washitaw, a predominantly black group, by the United States. The group’s leader once filed an $80 quadrillion claim against the United States. State authorities have investigated allegations the group has engaged in money laundering, offshore banking fraud and other practices derived from its antigovernment “common law,” or “sovereign citizen,” ideology. Though Hemingway-El invokes sovereign citizen ideas, he told an interviewer he does not advocate defying the law. He complied with a state law requiring candidates for public office to swear they are U.S. citizens.

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Governor, Colorado PARTY Tea Party-backed Republican RESULTS Primary: Won with 50.7% (197,629 votes) of the 390,108 votes cast. General election: Finished third with 11.1% (199,034 votes) of the 1,787,730 votes cast. (See also Tom Tancredo, below.) EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY World-government conspiracy theorist

Maes interpreted a United Nationssponsored program encouraging cities to promote bicycle riding as being part of a plot to undermine American sovereignty. “This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms,” Maes said, according to the Denver Post. “At first, I thought, ‘Gosh, public transportation, what’s wrong with that, and what’s wrong with people parking their cars and riding their bikes? … But if you do your homework and research, you realize ICLEI [the U.N.’s International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives] is part of a greater strategy to rein in American cities under a United Nations treaty.” Denver is one of 600 American member cities of ICLEI, which promotes sustainable development. spring 2011

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Aryan Nations Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Ashland, AL* Sharpsburg, MD Association of Georgia Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Conyers, GA Association of Independent Klansmen Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan Maryland Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Homer, LA* Smackover, AR Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Marion, OH* Alabama Arkansas Arizona California Colorado District of Columbia Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Michigan Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New York North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah

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Richmond, VA Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Dixie Rangers of the Ku Klux Klan Walker, LA The Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Homosassa Springs, FL Fraternal White Knights of the KKK Charles City, IA Imperial Klans of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Dawson Springs, KY* Johnstown, PA International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Colt, AR* Headland, AL Sheridan, AR Young Harris, GA Elwood, IN Cleveland, OH Knight Riders Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Ellijay, GA* Live Oak, FL Bainbridge, GA Brunswick, GA Byron, GA Harrisburg, IL Pelham, NC Abingdon, VA Knight Riders Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (W. Va.) Beckley, WV* Montgomery Co., AL Arkansas Georgia Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Ohio South Carolina Tennessee Knights of the Ku

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Klux Klan Harrison, AR* Newport, TN Knights of the Southern Cross Soldiers of the Ku Klux Klan Powhatan, VA Ku Klux Klan LLC Compton, AR Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Petal, MS* Brookhaven, MS Jackson, MS Meridian, MS Mize, MS Pearl, MS Philadelphia, MS Ripley, MS Shannon, MS WA 1

Warrenville, SC Brush Creek, TN Kanawha County, WV Original Knights of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Philadelphia, MS* Booneville, MS Supreme White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Van Wert, OH* Illinois Bloomington, IN Kentucky Missouri New York Texas Rebel Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Splendora, TX Traditional Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Carlsbad, TX North Carolina Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Potosi, MO* ND 2

MT 1 ID 1

OR 1 NV 1

UT 2

CO 2 NM 2

KS 1 OK 9 TX 23

AK 0

MO 5 AR 9

IL 6

MI 7 IN 7

NY 3 OH 9

KY 7 TN 15

MS AL LA 15 8 12

GA 10

PA 5 WV 5 VA 7 NC 5

FL 5

Arkansas Florida Illinois Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia True Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

NJ 2 DE 1 MD 5 DC 1

MA 1 RI 2 CT 1

SC 4

HI 0

Tupelo, MS Mountain State Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Hartford, KY* Delaware County, OH Davidson County, TN Washington Co., VT Kanawha County, WV National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan South Bend, IN* Maricopa County, AZ Georgia Kentucky New Hampshire

Oregon Pennsylvania North Providence, RI South Carolina Kingsport, TN Texas Utah Virginia Gordonsville, VA Washington United Realms of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Shelbina, MO* Ukiah, CA United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Longview, TX* South West Region, AR Illinois Homer, LA Monroe, LA Sarepta, LA Shreveport, LA South Louisiana Region, LA Tullos, LA Michigan Detroit, MI NH 1 ME VT 2 0

WI 1

IA 2

NE 2

CA 3 AZ 3

MN 0

SD 1

WY 3

Pulaski, TN* Anderson, AL Cullman, AL Toney, AL Nashua, IA Tennessee Brush Creek, TN Estill Springs, TN Hohenwald, TN Robertson County, TN Whiteville, TN Woodbury, TN United Knights of Tennessee Ku Klux Klan Morristown, TN United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Fraser, MI* Alabama Arizona California Longmont, CO Connecticut Delaware Hampton, FL Georgia Chicago, IL

West College Corner, IN Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Battle Creek, MI Gladwin, MI Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Mays Landing, NJ New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio

Monroe, MI New Mexico Ohio Dayton, OH Oklahoma Atoka, OK Henryetta, OK Holdenville, OK Oklahoma City, OK Shawnee, OK Tulsa, OK Pennsylvania Abilene, TX ArkLaTex Region, TX Beaumont, TX Buffalo, TX Corpus Christi, TX Dallas, TX Forney, TX Fort Worth, TX Goose Creek, TX

Klan

Houston, TX Marshall, TX Midlothian, TX Panhandle Region, TX San Antonio, TX

San Saba, TX Vidor, TX Waco, TX Wichita Falls, TX Wyoming

Movement Zion, IL* Denver County, CO Connecticut Maryland Billings, MT Bozeman, MT Helena, MT Kalispell, MT Laurel, MT Lockwood, MT Miles City, MT Missoula, MT Chillicothe, OH Texas Wise, VA Mountain, WI Laramie County, WY Gallows Tree Wotansvolk Alliance Grand Rapids, MI Illinois National Socialist Front Peoria, IL* Palatine, IL Knights of the Nordic Order Cardiff, AL Maryland National Socialist Party Elkridge, MD National Alliance Hillsboro, WV* Sacramento, CA Columbus, GA Raleigh, NC Las Vegas, NV Cincinnati, OH

Cheyenne, WY Virgil White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Virginia ▲

NEO-NAZI 170

This listing of neo-Nazi groups does not include racist skinheads, although most of them hold neo-Nazi beliefs.

American National Socialist Party Chillicothe, OH* Arizona Corning, CA Colorado Bonita Springs, FL Iowa Michigan Mississippi Montana Nevada North Dakota Oklahoma Milton, WA American Nazi Party Westland, MI* Aryan Nations Coeur d’Alene, ID* Arkansas California Colorado Wanaque, NJ New York Oregon

Tennessee Aryan Nations (offshoot) St. Cloud, FL* Lexington, SC Aryan Nations 88 Calhoun, LA* Ashland, AL Arizona Arkansas Poway, CA Colorado Wilmington, DE Bonita Springs, FL Statesboro, GA Boise, ID Illinois Iowa Kansas Sharpsburg, MD Michigan Isle, MN Florissant, MO Mississippi Montana

WA 4

ND 2

MT 10 ID 3

OR 4 NV 4

Spencer, NC North Bergen, NJ Nevada North Dakota Chillicothe, OH Oklahoma Charleston, SC Antioch, TN Wills Point, TX Virginia Tacoma, WA Battalion 14 Jackson, MI Christian Defense League Mandeville, LA The Creativity Alliance Clovis, CA Georgia Philadelphia, PA Mountain City, TN Draper, UT Virginia The Creativity

MN 3

SD 0

WY 2

NE 4

UT 2

CO 6

AZ 6

NM 0

CA 9

KS 3 OK 4 TX 8

AK 0

NH 0 VT 0 ME 1

WI 4

IA 2 MO 2 AR 3

IL 6

MI 8 IN 2

NY 3 OH 6

KY 1 TN 5

MS AL 2 LA 3 2

GA 6

PA 4 WV 3 VA 3 NC 3 SC 5

FL 9 HI 0

Parma, OH Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Nationalist Coalition St. Petersburg, FL* Mesa, AZ Denver, CO National Socialist American Labor Party Burbank, CA* Florida Georgia Idaho New Castle, ME New York Toledo, OH Texas Washington National Socialist Aryan Order Davison, MI National Socialist Freedom Movement Tulsa, OK National Socialist German Workers Party Lincoln, NE National Socialist Movement Detroit, MI* Mesa, AZ Phoenix, AZ Dulzura, CA Riverside, CA Hudson, CO Connecticut Delaware Lake Worth, FL Tampa Bay, FL

NJ 5 DE 2 MD 5 DC 0

MA 1 RI 0 CT 2

South Georgia, GA Schiller Park, IL Wakarusa, IN Haysville, KS Lansing, KS Kentucky Suffolk County, MA Elkridge, MD Wyoming, MI Minneapolis, MN Rochester, MN Oak Grove, MO Tupelo, MS Birmingham, NJ Browns Mills, NJ Clifton, NJ Nevada Brooklyn, NY Oklahoma City, OK Oregon Medford, OR Portland, OR Lehigh Valley, PA Mather, PA Philadelphia, PA South Carolina Greenville, SC Spartanburg, SC Central Tennessee East Tennessee Texas Lubbock, TX Tyler, TX Utah Vancouver, WA Berlin, WI Green Bay, WI Kanawha County, WV Romney, WV Wyoming Nordwave Lake Worth, FL SS Regalia Edgewater, MD White Aryan Resistance Warsaw, IN White Brothers of America Canton, IL White Knights of America Tonopah, AZ* Whitney, TX White Revolution Russellville, AR* Orange County, CA Loxahatchee, FL Woodstock, GA Wilmington, NC Omaha, NE Union Grove, WI ▲ spring 2011

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WA 2

ND 0

MT 0 ID 2

OR 1 NV 5

MN 1

SD 0

WY 0

IA 0

NE 0

UT 0

CO 1

AZ 2

NM 0

CA 10

KS 0 OK 2 TX 3

NH 2 VT 0 ME 0

WI 1

MO 4 AR 1 LA 4

IL 4

MI 2 IN 4

NY 7 OH 2

KY 0 TN 7 MS AL 11 8

AK 0

GA 6

PA 2 WV 2 VA 8 NC 5

NJ 4 DE 0 MD 2 DC 2

MA 2 RI 0 CT 1

SC 9

FL 7 HI 0

WHITE NATIONALIST 136

White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites. Groups listed in several other categories could also be described as white nationalist.

American Nationalist Union Las Vegas, NV American Renaissance/New Century Foundation Oakton, VA* Southern California Chicago, IL Arlington, VA American Third Position Westminster, CA* Arizona San Diego, CA Ashland, NH Butler, NJ Nevada New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Monongalia Co., WV Aryan Wear Keller, TX Bay Area National Anarchists Dublin, CA British National Party Overseas Unit Berryville, VA Center for Perpetual Diversity Gaithersburg, MD Charles Darwin Research Institute Port Huron, MI Conservative Citizens Foundation, Inc St. Louis, MO Council for Social and

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Institute Augusta, GA New Century Productions Littleton, CO North East White Pride Haverhill, MA* Connecticut New Hampshire New Jersey Northern Voice Bookstore Las Vegas, NV Northwest Front Seattle, WA Occidental Dissent Birmingham, AL Occidental Quarterly/Charles Martel Society Augusta, GA Pacifica Forum Eugene, OR Patriotic Flags Summerville, SC Pioneer Fund New York, NY The Political Cesspool Bartlett, TN Proud Aryan Brothers Kokomo, IN Racial Nationalist Party of America Lockport, NY Representative

Columbia, SC Woodruff, SC Memphis, TN Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Irving, TX Richmond, VA European Americans United Sacramento, CA Euro Pride Apparel Summerville, SC The Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation Vienna, VA Folk and Faith Idaho Falls, ID Free American Tucson, AZ Freedom 14 Orange County, CA Free Edgar Steele Sagle, ID Heritage and Destiny Falls Church, VA Iron Rain Nationalists Utica, NY* Chicago, IL The Kinist Institute Orlando, FL The League of American Patriots Garfield, NJ Nationalist Movement Learned, MS National Policy

Government Education Foundation Raleigh, NC Scott-Townsend Publishers Washington, DC Sigrdrifa Vancouver, WA Stormfront West Palm Beach, FL Temple 88 Farmington, WV Tip of the Spear Consulting Services Palm Beach Co., FL VDARE Foundation Warrenton, VA Voice of Reason Broadcast Network Pasadena, CA Washington Summit Publishers Augusta, GA White Boy Society Illinois White Christian Soldiers Lee’s Summit, MO White Ethnic Preservation Coalition Green Bay, WI Women for Aryan Unity Brooklyn, NY WTM Enterprises Roanoke, IN ▲

White Nationalist

Economic Studies Washington, DC Council of Conservative Citizens St. Louis, MO* Anniston, AL Birmingham, AL Cullman, AL Florence, AL Huntsville, AL Jasper, AL Montgomery, AL Little Rock, AR San Francisco, CA Southern California Citrus County, FL Jacksonville, FL Tampa Bay, FL East Georgia Chicago, IL Carmel, IN Indianapolis, IN Shreveport, LA St. Amant, LA Silver Spring, MD Caledonia, MI Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN St. Louis, MO Byram, MS Calhoun City, MS Greenwood, MS Holly Springs, MS Jackson, MS Mathiston, MS Pineywoods, MS Tupelo, MS Vaiden, MS Clemmons, NC Forest City, NC

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Yadkinville, NC Fort Lee, NJ Las Vegas, NV New York, NY Parishville, NY Cleveland, OH Oklahoma City, OK Revere, PA Charleston, SC Greenville, SC Saluda, SC Summerville, SC West Columbia, SC Bartlett, TN Erwin, TN Franklin, TN Knoxville/ Chattanooga, TN South Central Tennessee Southwest Virginia Do Right Foundation Las Vegas, NV East Coast White Unity Chelsea, MA European American Issues Forum San Bruno, CA European American Unity and Rights Organization Mandeville, LA* Jacksonville, FL Columbus, GA Savannah, GA Thibodaux, LA Ripley, MS Cleveland, OH Tulsa, OK

WA 2

ND 0

MT 0 ID 3

OR 4 NV 1

WY 0 UT 0

CO 2 NM 0

KS 1 OK 1 TX 5

NH 0 ME VT 0 2

WI 1

IA 2

NE 1

CA 10 AZ 3

MN 0

SD 0

IL 5

MO 5

IN 4

NY 1 OH 7

KY 2 TN 2

AR 2 LA 0

MI 6

MS AL 4 2

AK 0

GA 3

PA 10 WV 0 VA 5 NC 5

MA 1 RI 0 CT 1 NJ 23 DE 0 MD 1 DC 0

SC 0

FL 9 HI 0

RACIST SKINHEAD 136

Skinheads are migratory and often not affiliated with groups. This listing understates their numbers.

AC Skins Absecon, NJ Atlantic City, NJ Browns Mills, NJ Galloway, NJ

Skinhea

Linwood, NJ Little Egg Harbor City, NJ Manchester Township, NJ

Marlton, NJ Somers Point, NJ Wildwood, NJ Woodbine, NJ American Front

Sacramento, CA St. Cloud, FL Hackensack, NJ Haledon, NJ Roselle, NJ Aryan Terror Brigade Flemington, NJ* Arkansas California Colorado Florida Idaho Illinois Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts Missouri Fords, NJ New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Texas Bergen County Hooligans Garfield, NJ Wallington, NJ Blood and Honour American Division Portland, OR* Arkansas Northern California Southern California Lakeland, FL Maine Michigan Lake St. Louis, MO Mississippi Ohio Pennsylvania Virginia Blood and Honour U.S.A. Littleton, CO Salem, OH Flemington, NJ Richardson, TX California Skinheads Fresno, CA Confederate Hammerskins Orlando, FL* Huntsville, AL Jacksonville, FL North Carolina Dallas, TX Petersburg, VA Connecticut White Wolves Stratford, CT Coors Family Skinheads Big Bear Lake, CA

Crew 38 Huntsville, AL New Port Richey, FL Nampa, ID Detroit, MI Mississippi North Carolina Oregon Allentown, PA Tennessee Virginia Seattle, WA Firm 22 Indiana* Georgia Michigan Newark, OH Crum Lynne, PA Folkish Women Front Mississippi Golden State Skinheads

California Independent Skins Southwest Cleburne, TX* Callahan, FL Keystone United Harrisburg, PA* Altoona, PA Philadelphia, PA Wilkes Barre/ Scranton, PA Maryland State Skinheads Baltimore, MD Midland Hammerskins Wichita, KS Northern Hammerskins Illinois Detroit, MI Northwest

WA 1

ND 0

MT 0 ID 2

OR 0 NV 0

CO 1 NM 1

KS 0 OK 0 TX 2

Missouri New Jersey Nevada North Carolina Texas United Society of Aryan Skinheads San Diego, CA Vinlanders Mesa, AZ Ft. Lauderdale, FL Illinois Knightstown, IN Michigan Missouri Cherry Hill, NJ Closter, NJ Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Volksfront

MO 3

IL 1

LA 1

MI 2 IN 1

NY 0 OH 1

KY 2 TN 1

AR 2

MS AL 0 1

AK 0

GA 1

PA 0 WV 0 VA 1 NC 0 SC 0

FL 0 HI 0

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Christian Identity describes a religion that is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic. Some groups listed in other categories, such as the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and several Klan groups, also hold Christian Identity beliefs.

11th Hour Remnant Messenger Santa Fe, NM Abundant Life Fellowship Morgantown, IN America’s Promise Ministries

Sandpoint, ID By Yahweh’s Design Stevensville, MI Christ’s Gospel Fellowship Spokane, WA Christian Identity Church — Aryan

Nations Simms, TX Church of Jesus Christ Bergman, AR The Church of Jesus Christ Christian / Aryan Nations Granby, MO

Portland, OR* Phoenix, AZ California Pensacola, FL Chicago, IL Iowa Maine Detroit, MI Mississippi Bridgeton, MO Nebraska Cleveland, OH Pennsylvania Tennessee Norfolk, VA Western Hammerskins San Diego, CA White Power Skinheads Shelby, OH ▲

NH 0 VT 0 ME 0

WI 0

IA 0

NE 1

CA 0 AZ 0

MN 1

SD 0

WY 0 UT 0

Hammerskins Portland, OR Washington Old Glory Skins Georgia North Carolina Virginia Retaliator Skinhead Nation Gilmanton, WI* Arizona Skinhead Stormtroopers Portage, IN Supreme White Alliance Ohio* Georgia Iowa Idaho Chicago, IL Kentucky

NJ 0 DE 0 MD 0 DC 0

MA 0 RI 0 CT 0

Ecclesiastical Council for the Restoration of Covenant Israel (ECRCI) Chicago, IL Fellowship of God’s Covenant People Burlington, KY First Century Christian Ministries The Woodlands, TX Kingdom Identity Ministries Harrison, AR Kinsman Redeemer Ministries Alexandria, KY Mission to Israel Scottsbluff, NE Non-Universal Teaching Ministries Fostoria, OH Reformed Church of Israel Schell City, MO Scriptures for

Identity

Church of the Sons of Yhvh Calhoun, LA Church of True Israel Hayden, ID Covenant People’s Ministry Brooks, GA

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America Ministries Laporte, CO The Shepherd’s Call Ministries New Tazewell, TN United Church of WA 2

YHWH Lincoln, AL Virginia Publishing Company Lynchburg, VA Watchmen Bible ND 0

MT 0 ID 0

OR 4 NV 2

WY 0 UT 0

CO 1

KS 0 OK 4

NM 0

TX 8

NH 0 VT 0 ME 0

WI 1

IA 0

NE 2

CA 14 AZ 3

MN 1

SD 0

Study Group Wappapello, MO Weisman Publications Burnsville, MN Yahweh’s Truth Linwood, MI ▲

MO 5

IL 2

IN 2

NY 7 OH 5

KY 2 TN 3

AR 3 LA 3

MI 8

MS AL 3 5

AK 0

GA 6

PA 9 WV 0 VA 2 NC 8

MA 2 RI 0 CT 1 NJ 12 DE 1 MD 3 DC 4

SC 3

FL 10 HI 0

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BLACK SEPARATIST

Greensboro, NC Atlantic City, NJ Newark, NJ Plainfield, NJ Willingboro, NJ Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn, NY Harlem, NY Rochester, NY Akron, OH Cincinnati, OH Columbus, OH Youngstown, OH Portland, OR Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh, PA Charleston, SC Columbia, SC Memphis, TN Nashville, TN

Austin, TX Dallas, TX Fort Worth, TX Houston, TX Richmond, VA Seattle, WA Milwaukee, WI New Black Panther Party Washington, DC* St. Louis, MO Newark, NJ Trenton, NJ Houston, TX United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors/ All Eyes on Egypt Bookstore Milledgeville, GA* Stone Mountain, GA ▲

NEO-CONFEDERATE

Black separatist groups are organizations whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred.

The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ New York, NY* Washington, DC Fort Myers, FL North Miami, FL Orlando, FL West Palm Beach, FL Baltimore, MD North Minneapolis, MN Kansas City, MO Fayetteville, NC Goldsboro, NC Wilmington, NC Omaha, NE Asbury Park, NJ Camden, NJ Jersey City, NJ Vineland, NJ Lawton, OK Oklahoma City, OK Tulsa, OK Beaverton, OR Portland, OR Allentown, PA Coatesville, PA Norristown, PA Philadelphia, PA (2) Pittsburgh, PA National Black Foot Soldier Network Mobile, AL Little Rock, AR

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Tampa, FL Atlanta, GA Columbus, GA Indianapolis, IN Louisville, KY New Orleans, LA Shreveport, LA Boston, MA Baltimore, MD Detroit, MI Flint, MI Grand, MI Jackson, MI St. Louis, MO Greenville, MS Greenwood, MS Southaven, MS Charlotte, NC Durham, NC Fayetteville, NC

Neo-Confederate groups seek to revive many of

42 the racist principles of the antebellum South. Black Sep

Los Angeles, CA Oakland, CA San Diego, CA Washington, DC Gainesville, FL Jacksonville, FL Atlanta, GA Savannah, GA Chicago, IL Indiana Louisville, KY Shreveport, LA Boston, MA Baltimore, MD Detroit, MI Muskegon, MI Oak Park, MI Taylor, MI St. Joseph, MO St. Louis, MO Sanford, NC Omaha, NE New Jersey Jersey City, NJ Las Vegas, NV New York New Hartford, NY Rochester, NY Cincinnati, OH Ardmore, OK Portland, OR Pennsylvania South Carolina

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Knoxville, TN Beaumont, TX Dallas, TX Houston, TX Virginia Beach, VA Seattle, WA Nation of Islam Chicago, IL* Birmingham, AL Mobile, AL Montgomery, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Little Rock, AR Pine Bluff, AR Phoenix, AZ Compton, CA Fresno, CA Inland Empire, CA Long Beach, CA Los Angeles, CA Oakland, CA Richmond, CA Sacramento, CA San Diego, CA San Francisco, CA Stockton, CA Aurora, CO Bridgeport, CT Washington, DC Wilmington, DE Fort Lauderdale, FL Miami, FL Orlando, FL

WA 0

ND 0

MT 1 ID 0

OR 0 NV 0

MN 0

SD 0

WY 0

IA 0

NE 0

UT 0

CO 0

AZ 0

NM 0

CA 1

KS 0 OK 2 TX 1

NH 0 VT 0 ME 0

WI 0

MO 1 AR 2

IL 0

MI 0 IN 1

OH 0

KY 1 TN 2

MS AL 7 LA 2 1

AK 0

NY 0

GA 5

PA 0 WV 0 VA 1 NC 1

NJ 0 DE 0 MD 1 DC 0

MA 0 RI 0 CT 0

SC 7

FL 5 HI 0

Brian Pace Trading Booneville, MS Dixie Republic Travelers Rest, SC Kingdom Treasure Ministries Owasso, OK League of the South Killen, AL* Hackneyville, AL Montgomery, AL Selma, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Weogufka, AL Wetumpka, AL Hot Springs, AR Mammoth Spring, AR Scotts Valley, CA Goldenrod, FL

Jacksonville, FL Key West, FL Polk County, FL Southeast Florida Barnesville, GA Macon, GA McDonough, GA North Georgia Statesboro, GA Lexington, KY Monroe, LA Prince Frederick, MD West Plains, MO Mendenhall, MS Big Fork, MT Wilmington, NC Oklahoma Abbeville, SC Columbia, SC

Laurens, SC Lobelville, TN LaPorte, TX Marion, VA League of the South Institute Clemson, SC League of the South/ Southern Patriot Shop Cayce, SC League of the South/ Southern Patriot Super Store Abbeville, SC Livin’ the Legacy Nashville, IN Mary Noel Kershaw Foundation Lobelville, TN ▲

Neo Co

late Heart of Mary Richmond, NH St. Joseph Forum South Bend, IN St. Michael’s Parish/ Mount St. Michael Spokane, WA Tradition in Action Los Angeles, CA

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These organizations are subdivided into anti-gay, anti-immigrant, Holocaust denial, racist music, and radical traditionalist Catholic groups. A final “other” sub-category includes groups espousing a variety of hateful doctrines.

ANTI-GAY (17)

Abiding Truth Ministries Springfield, MA America Forever Sandy, UT American Family Association Tupelo, MS Americans for Truth About Homosexuality Naperville, IL American Vision Powder Springs, GA Bethesda Christian Institute San Antonio, TX Biblical Family Advocate San Diego, CA Chalcedon Foundation Vallecito, CA Faithful Word Baptist Church Tempe, AZ Family Research Council Washington, DC Family Research Institute Colorado Springs, CO Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment Downers Grove, IL Illinois Family Institute Carol Stream, IL Mass Resistance Waltham, MA Traditional Values Coalition Anaheim, CA* Washington, DC Westboro Baptist Church Topeka, KS

ANTI-IMMIGRANT (13)

American Border Patrol Sierra Vista, AZ American Immigration Control Foundation/

Americans for Immigration Control Monterey, VA American Patrol/ Voice of Citizens Together Sherman Oaks, CA Border Guardians Livingston, TX California Coalition for Immigration Reform Huntington Beach, CA Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal Immigration Law Enforcement Framingham, MA Emigration Party of Nevada Henderson, NV Federation for American Immigration Reform Washington, DC Press 2 For English Jackson, MS Save Our State San Bernardino, CA Social Contract Press Petoskey, MI United for a Sovereign America (USA) Phoenix, AZ US Border Guard & Border Rangers Mesa, AZ

ANTI-MUSLIM (5)

9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero New York, NY Casa D’Ice Signs North Versailles, PA Christian Phalange Newton, NC Right Wing Extreme Gainesville, GA Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA) New York, NY

HOLOCAUST DENIAL (8) Barnes Review/ Foundation for Economic Liberty, Inc.

Washington, DC Campaign for Radical Truth in History Coeur d’Alene, ID Castle Hill Publishers New York, NY Inconvenient History San Ysidro, CA Institute for Historical Review Fountain Valley, CA Institute for Historical Review Store Newport Beach, CA The International Conspiratological Association Coeur d’Alene, ID Noontide Press Newport Beach, CA

RACIST MUSIC (15)

Desastrious Records Springtown, TX Diehard Records Chesapeake, OH DJ GOR Bedford, PA Fetch the Rope Bozeman, MT Final Stand Records Newark, DE Get Some 88 Castaic, CA Heritage Connection Harrison, AR ISD Records Lancaster, OH Life Rune Industries North Highlands, CA Micetrap Distribution Maple Shade, NJ MSR Productions Wheat Ridge, CO Poker Face Allentown, PA Resistance Records Hillsboro, WV Tightrope Calico Rock, AR Unholy Records Marlinton, WV

RADICAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC (17)

Alliance for Catholic Tradition Pleasant Unity, PA Catholic Apologetics International Publishing, Inc. State Line, PA WA 1 ID 2

OR 1 NV 2

MN 1

CO 6 NM 0

KS 1 OK 1 TX 9

AK 0

NH 2 ME VT 0 0

WI 0

IA 0

NE 0

CA 21 AZ 7

a2z Publications Las Vegas, NV American Free Press Washington, DC Artisan Publishers Muskogee, OK

SD 1

WY 0 UT 2

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ND 0

MT 1

Jewish Defense League Los Angeles, CA* Arizona San Diego, CA Fort Lauderdale, FL Skokie, IL Louisiana Michigan South Carolina Texas Jewish Task Force Fresh Meadows, NY M.A.C.S. Klan Merchandise Louisiana

MO 1 AR 7 LA 2

IL 5

MI 2 IN 3

NY 10 OH 2

KY 0 TN 0 MS AL 2 0

GA 2

PA 6 WV 3 VA 2 NC 1

NJ 1 DE 1 MD 0 DC 5

MA 3 RI 0 CT 0

SC 2

FL 4 HI 0

Catholic Counterpoint Broomall, PA Catholic Family News/ Catholic Family Ministries, Inc. Niagara Falls, NY Culture Wars/ Fidelity Press South Bend, IN The Fatima Crusader/ International Fatima Rosary Crusade Constable, NY IHM Media Richmond, NH IHS Press Odessa, TX In the Spirit of Chartres Committee Suffolk, VA Legion of St. Louis Odessa, TX Most Holy Family Monastery Fillmore, NY OMNI Christian Book Club Palmdale, CA The Remnant/The Remnant Press Forest Lake, MN Slaves of the Immacu-

Bill Keller Ministries St. Petersburg, FL Chick Publications Ontario, CA Christian Books and Things Harrison, AR Cross Bearer Ministry Indianapolis, IN Cultural Studies Press New York, NY Dove World Outreach Center Gainesville, FL Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI) New York, NY Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints Hildale, UT* Colorado City, AZ Cotopaxi, CO Custer County, CO Florence, CO Mancos, CO Pringle, SD Eldorado, TX Holy Nation of Odin Kingsburg, CA Illinois United Palatine, IL Invictus Books Wentzville, MO

National Prayer Network Clackamas, OR National Vanguard Books Hillsboro, WV Ozark Craft LC Harrison, AR Power of Prophecy Austin, TX The Redneck Shop Laurens, SC Sons of Aesir Motorcycle Club Maricopa County, AZ Tony Alamo Christian Ministries Fouke, AR* Fort Smith, AR Canyon Country, CA New York, NY Texarkana, TX Truth Triumphant Eustis, FL Vinland Folk Resistance Kingsburg, CA Voz de Aztlan Whittier, CA White Pride Home School Resource Center Bergman, AR ▲

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Hate Websites in the U.S.

This list of 657 U.S.-based hate sites active on the World Wide Web in 2010 includes pages from Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi, White Nationalist, Racist Skinhead, Christian Identity, Neo-Confederate, Black Separatist, and General Hate groups. Web sites tend to move from server to server or shut down without notice, so they may be hard to locate. Sites marked with an asterisk (*) are organizations that actively promote hate beyond the mere publishing of Internet material (see also hate group listing, p. 44). Their locations are listed. KU KLUX KLAN (49)

Aryan Nations Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* aryannationsknights.us/Home.html Ashland, AL Association of Georgia Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* associationofklanskkkk.weebly.com/ index.html Conyers, GA Association of Independent Klansmen Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* independentklansmen.webs.com Maryland Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* knightskkk.com BrotherhoodofKlans.com KnightsKuKluxKlan.com Marion, OH Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* cnkkkk.net South Bend, IN Dixie Rangers Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* dixierangerskkk.com Walker, LA The Empire Knights of the Ku klux Klan* knights311.org Homosassa Springs, FL Fraternal White Knights* fraternalwhiteknights.com Charles City, IA Imperial Klans of America* kkkk.net realmofky.blogspot.com Dawson Springs, KY kkkk.net/Realm%20Links%20Folder/ RealmOfPennsylvania.html Johnstown, PA International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Inc.* ikkkkk.org Colt, AR Jason Robb Blog jasonrobb.blogspot.com Knight Riders Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* knightriderskkkk.com knightriderskkkk.org Ellijay, GA

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Knight Riders Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (WV)* kkkknights.com Beckley, WV Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* arkpower-light.com Concord, AR kkk.com kkk.bz Harrison, AR newporttennessee.net Newport, TN Knights of the Southern Cross Soldiers of the Ku Klux Klan* knightsofthesoutherncrosssoldiersofthekukluxklan.com Powhatan, VA Knights Party Veterans League knightspartyveteransleague.com/ index-1.html Ku Klux Klan, LLC* kukluxklan.bz Compton, AR Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* mwkkkk.com Petal, MS Mountain State Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* mskkkk.tripod.com/index.html Hartford, KY National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* arizonacnkkkk.webs.com Arizona cnkkkkgeorgia.weebly.com Georgia nationalknightsindiana.webs.com Indiana cnksc.weebly.com/index.html South Carolina cnkkkktennessee.com/index.php/Home Tennessee cnkkkkwv.comuf.com West Virginia New Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan International LLC* theklan1865.com Clemmons, NC Order of the Ku Klux Klan kkklan.com Original Knights of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* originalknightsofamerica.webs.com

Philadelphia, MS Rachel Pendergraft Blog rachelpendergraft.blogspot.com Southern Alliance of Klans sakkkk.com Supreme White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* supremewhiteknights.com Van Wert, OH Texas Rebel Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* texasrebelknightskkk.com Splendora, TX Thomas Robb Blog tarobb.blogspot.com Traditional Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* nctckkkk.net North Carolina tckkkk.org Carlsbad, TX Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* traditionalistamericanknights.com Potosi, MO True Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* tiekkkk.webs.com Pulaski, TN United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* unskkkk.com Fraser, MI United Realms of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* curakkkk.com Ukiah, CA United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* uwkkkk.com Midlothian, TX World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan worldknights.org

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1488 Folk 1488folk.com Adolf the Great adolfthegreat.com American National Socialist Policy Institute anspi.club.officelive.com American Nazi Party* americannaziparty.com

Westland, MI Aryan Front aryan-front.com Aryan Nations* aryannationsrevival.org Coeur d’Alene, ID Aryan Nations (offshoot)* posse-comitatus.org aryan-nations.org Lexington, SC Aryan Nations 88* aryannations88information.blogspot.com AryanNations88.com Athol, ID Aryan Volk of Midgard Forum aryanvolkofmidgard.com Bowles For President bowlesblog.blogspot.com/index.html Christian Defense League* cdlreport.com Mandeville, LA Church of Jesus Christ Christian/ Aryan Nations National Headquarters aryannations88hq.blogspot.com The Creativity Alliance* creativityalliance.com sites.google.com/site/deseretcreators Draper, UT rahowadirectory.com/georgia Georgia The Creativity Movement* illinoiscreators.com Zion, IL rahowa.us/maryland Maryland rahowa.us Emmet, MI creativitymovement.com/ohio Ohio creativitymovement.com/virginia Virginia ENationalist enationalist.com/portal/index Friends of a New Dawn friendsofanewdawm.proboards.com/ index.cgi Gallows Tree Wotansvolk Alliance wotansvolk.com wotansreich.webs.com Grand Rapids, MI Illinois National Socialist Front* illinoisnsf.com Peoria, IL Iron Will Radio ironwillradio.com Jew Crime jew-crime.com Lebensborn Assembly Church lebensbornassemblychurch.com Libertarian National Socialist Green Party nazi.org Maryland National Socialist Party Blog* mdnaziparty.blogspot.com Eldridge, MD National Alliance* natvan.com natall.com Hillsboro, WV

National Alliance Earl Turners Blog earlturneralliance.wordpress.com National Alliance News natallnews.com National Socialist American Labor Party* nsalp.org Burbank, CA nsalpfl.blogspot.com Florida National Socialist Aryan Order* nsaryanorder.tripod.com Davison, MI National Socialist Black Metal nsbm.org National Socialist German Workers Party* nazi-lauck-nsdapao.com Lincoln, NE National Socialist Movement* webspawner.com/users/nsmmaryland88/index.html Maryland nsm88.org whitepowerchat.com/nsmforum Detroit, MI nsm88nv.com Nevada nukeisrael.com Portland, OR nsmspartanburg.20fr.com Enoree, SC National Socialist Movement Radio nsm88radio.com National Socialist Punk nazipunk.8k.com Nationalist Coalition* ncoal.com St Petersburg, FL New Order* theneworder.org Milwaukee, WI Nordwave* nordwave.net Lake Worth, FL NSM 88 Records nsm88records.com NSM88 Womens Division wd.nsm88.org NSM Blog blog.nsm88.org NSM South Carolina Blog nsmsouthcarolina.blogspot.com NS Publications* nspublications.com Wyandotte, MI PA Creator PACreator.com SS Regalia* ssregalia.com Edgewater, MD Third Reich Books third-reich-books.com White Aryan Resistance* resist.com Warsaw, IN White Brothers of America* whitebrothersofamerica.webs.com Canton, IL White Honor

whitehonor.com White Knights of America* whiteknightsofamerica.com Tonopah, AZ White Pride MI whitepridemi.webs.com White Revolution* whiterevolution.com Russellville, AR whiterevolution-ne.org Omaha, NE

WHITE NATIONALIST (187)

Access St. Louis! accessstlouis.blogspot.com Age of Treason age-of-treason.blogspot.com AlterMedia International altermedia.info Alternative Right AlternativeRight.com American Italian White Separatist Front angelfire.com/rebellion2/aiwsf American National Conference ancpage.com American Nationalist Union* anu.org anunews.net castefootball.us Las Vegas, NV American Renaissance/ New Century Foundation* chicagoamren.com Chicago, IL amren.com nc-f.org Oakton, VA American Third Position* american3p.com Los Angeles, CA A Race Against Time araceagainsttime.blogspot.com AryansBook aryansbook.com Aryan Wear* aryanwear.com Keller, TX Bay Area National Anarchists* bayareanationalanarchists.com Birdman Bryant: The World’s Most Controversial Author thebirdman.org Celtic Reign celticreign.com Center for Perpetual Diversity* perpetualdiversity.com Gaithersburg, MD Charles Darwin Research Institute* charlesdarwinresearch.org Port Huron, MI Christian Legal Reformation Club clrc.net The Color of Crime colorofcrime.com Conspiracy Penpal conspiracypenpal.com Council of Conservative Citizens* alcofcc.wordpress.com Jasper, AL arcofcc.freeservers.com/index.html

Little Rock, AR northcalcofcc.wordpress.com California scccc.wordpress.com Southern California hoosiernation.us Carmel, IN lacofcc.wordpress.com Louisiana arklatexcofcc.webs.com/www.cofcc.org Shreveport, LA cofcc.org saintlouiscofcc.wordpress.com countenance.wordpress.com St. Louis, MO mississippicouncilofconservativecitizens.wordpress.com Jackson, MS cofccnc.wordpress.com North Carolina heritagelost.wordpress.com Charleston, SC midtncouncil.wordpress.com Franklin, TN Daughters of Boudica daughtersofboudica.com David Duke Online davidduke.com davidduke.org David Lane’s Pyramid Prophecy freetheorder.org/DavidLane/ whywotan.html Day of the Rope Blogspot dayoftherope.blogspot.com Defensive Racism defensiveracism.com delray times delraytimes.blogspot.com Detroit is Crap detroitiscrap.com Diversity is Chaos diversityischaos.blogspot.com Do Right Foundation* doright.org Law Vegas, NV Dr. Virginia Deane Abernethy virginiaabernethy.com EAU School of Western Culture europeanamericansunited.org/school1 European American Issues Forum* eaif.org San Bruno, CA European Americans United* europeanamericansunited.org Sacramento, CA European American Unity and Rights Organization* whitecivilrights.com Mandeville, LA European Caucasian Preservation University e-CPU.blogspot.com European Union Times eutimes.net Euro Pride Apparel* europeanpride.com Summerville, SC Faith, Folk, and Family* odinist.com/othala/index.php

Maple Shade, NJ Fallen Freedom fallenfreedom.blogspot.com The First Freedom gulftel.com/firstfreedom The Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation* fgfbooks.com Vienna, VA Folk and Faith* folkandfaith.com Idaho Falls, ID The Foremost Problem theforemostproblem.blogspot.com Frank Roman’s Blog frankroman.wordpress.com Free American Magazine Online* freeamerican.com Tucson, AZ Free Edgar Steele* edgarsteele.blogspot.com free-edgar-steele.com Sagle, ID Future Generations eugenics.net Get Some 88 getsome88.com Guy White Making Sense On Race guywhite.wordpress.com Honest Media Today honestmediatoday.com Iron Rain Nationalists * irnnfchicago.tripod.com/index.html Chicago, IL irnnf.20.forumer.com Utica, NY Jamie Kelso’s Blog stormfront.org/forum/blog.php?u=5122 Jared Taylor jaredtaylor.org Jewish Tribal Review jewishtribalreview.org Jew Watch jewwatch.com John De Nugent johndenugent.com johndenugent.org Kentuckyanna True News kentuckyannatruenews.blogspot.com Kevin MacDonald Blog kevinmacdonald.net/Blog.htm The Kinist Institute* kinism.net Orlando, FL Koinen’s Corner koinenscorner.blogspot.com Latte Island latteisland.blogspot.com The League of American Patriots* leagueap.org Garfield, NJ Lee in the Mountains leeinthemountains.wordpress.com Louis Beam louisbeam.com Malevolent Freedom malevolentfreedom.org The Mankind Quarterly mankindquarterly.org March of the Titans A History of the

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White Race white-history.com Merlin’s Castle stormfront.org/forum/blog. php?u=30943 Micetrap Radio aryanradio.com Nationalist Library nationalistlibrary.com Nationalist Movement* nationalist.org Learned, MS National Policy Institute* nationalpolicyinstitute.org Augusta, GA NationalSalvation.net nationalsalvation.net Nation of Cowards nationofcowards.us Natural Consequences naturalconsequences.blogspot.com NeoEugenics neoeugenics.com New Century Productions* aconversationaboutrace.com Littleton, CO New Nation News newnation.org New Nation News Reporters Forum newnation.vg/forums/index.php New Saxon newsaxon.com NewsNet14 1488.net newsnet14.com Nicholas Stix, Uncensored nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com Noahide News samliquidation.com/noahidenews30.htm No New World Order nonwo.com North East White Pride* newp.org Haverhill, MA Northern Voice Bookstore* northernvoicebookstore.com Las Vegas, NV Northwest Front* northwestfront.org Seattle, WA Northwest Homeland Blogspot northwestfront.org/blog No War for Israel nowarforisrael.com Occidental Dissent* occidentaldissent.com Birmingham, AL The Occidental Observer theoccidentalobserver.com Occidental Origin occidentalorigin.com Occidental Quarterly/ Charles Martel Society* theoccidentalquarterly.com toqonline.com Augusta, GA Odin’s Reich odinsreich.com Order of White Knights

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orderofwhiteknights.org Original Dissent originaldissent.com OURGAZETTEER.ORG ourgazetteer.org/?page_id=2 Pacifica Forum* pacificaforum.org Eugene, OR Patriotic Flags* patriotic-flags.com Summerville, SC Pioneer Fund* pioneerfund.org New York, NY The Political Cesspool Blog* thepoliticalcesspool.org thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards Bartlett, TN Political Soldier.net and Final Conflict politicalsoldier.net Professor Kevin MacDonald, CSULB, Department of Psychology kevinmacdonald.net Proud Aryan Brothers* proudaryanbrothers.webs.com Kokomo, IN Put Troops on the Border puttroopsontheborder.com Racial Compact racialcompact.com Racial Nationalist Library library.flawlesslogic.com Racial Nationalist Party of America* rnpaheadquarters.org Lockport, NY Radio Free Mississippi rebelarmy.com Representative Government Education Foundation* repgov.org Raleigh, NC Revilo Oliver revilo-oliver.com robertsgriffin.com robertsgriffin.com The Sam Francis Letter samfranciscolumn.blogspot.com The Scarecrow Chronicles stormfront.org/forum/blog. php?u=180274 Scott-Townsend Publishers* scott-townsend.com Washington, DC Shots Fired shotsfired.us Sigrdrifa Publications* sigrdrifa.net Vancouver, WA SolarGeneral.com White Nationalist News Portal solargeneral.com Solutrean Liberation Front solutreanliberationfront.blogspot.com Spirit Water Blood spiritwaterblood.com Stalking the Wild Taboo lrainc.com/swtaboo/index.html The State of White America thestateofwhiteamerica.blogspot.com

Stormfront* stormfront.org wpww.com West Palm Beach, FL Temple 88* temple88.com Farmington, WV Thewhitechrist’s Weblog thewhitechrist.wordpress.com Thoughtcrime — Harold Covington downwithjugears.blogspot.com Tightrope tightrope.cc Tip of the Spear Consulting Services* tipofthespear.tv Palm Beach County, FL Tomislav Sunic (Tom Sunic) tomsunic.info Truck_Roy Blog stormfront.org/forum/blog. php?u=115496 The Truth About Panzerfaust Records anthonypierpont.com Vanguard News Network vanguardnewsnetwork.com govnn.com Vanguard News Network Forum vnnforum.com Vanishing American vanishingamerican.blogspot.com VDARE.com: Blog Articles blog.vdare.com VDARE Foundation* vdare.com Warrenton, VA View From the Right amnation.com/vfr Vinland Folk Patriots vinlandfolkresistance.com Voice of Reason Broadcast Network* reasonradionetwork.com Pasadena, CA Wake Up or Die wakeupordie.com Washington Summit Publishers* wspublishers.com Augusta, GA Welcome Kinsmen Blog stormfront.org/forum/blog. php?u=110896 Western Voices World News wvwnews.net Whitaker Online whitakeronline.org White Boy Society* localwhiteboy.com whiteboysociety.net/news.php Illinois White Boy Society Blog whiteboysociety.blogspot.com White Christian Heritage Festival whitechristianheritagefestival.org White Christian Soldiers* angelfire.com/ny2/Lansky2000/cda. html Lee’s Summit, MO White History white-history.com White Racial Patriots

tworca.org White Survival whitesurvival.wordpress.com Why Blacks Suck whyblackssuck.blogspot.com WNTube wntube.net Women for Aryan Unity* w-a-u.net Brooklyn, NY W.O.T.A.N. allfatherwotan.org WPWW — The Folk wpww-thefolk.com WTM Enterprises* thornwalker.com/ditch/index.html Roanoke, IN Yggdrasil’s Library whitenationalism.com Young John’s Blog yjohn.wordpress.com

RACIST SKINHEAD (24) American Front* americanfront.org Sacramento, CA Aryan Terror Brigade* atb8318.webs.com Flemington, NJ Blood and Honour American Division Forum 28american.proboards.com Blood and Honour U.S.A.* wix.com/bloodandhonourco/ bloodandhonourcolorado Littleton, CO bloodandhonour-usa.com kriegsberichter.com Richardson, TX California Skinheads* caskinhead.com Fresno, CA Crew 38* crew38.com Florida Folkish Womens Front* folkishwomensfront.com folkishwomensfronthomeschool. blogspot.com Mississippi Hammerskin Nation hammerskins.net Hooligan Site hooligansite.com Independent Skins* independentskins.com Cleburne, TX Keystone United* keystoneunited.com kss88.com Harrisburg, PA Maryland State Skinheads* marylandskinheads.com Baltimore, MD Old Glory Skins* old-glory-skinheads.webs.com North Carolina Skinheadz skinheadz.com Supreme White Alliance*

supreme-white-alliance.net swa43.com Central City, KY Vinlanders Social Club* vinlanders.com Knightstown, IN Volksfront* volksfrontinternational.com Portland, OR White Power Skinheads* whitepowerskinheads.com Shelby, OH Wolf Lair Radio wolflairradio.com

CHRISTIAN IDENTITY (42)

11th Hour Remnant Messenger* 11thhourremnantmessenger.vpweb.com Santa Fe, NM Abundant Life Fellowship* abundant-life-fellowship.org Morgantown, IN Adam’s Bible adamsbible.com America’s Promise Ministries* amprom.org Sandpoint, ID Aryan Nations Revival aryannationsrevival.org By Yahweh’s Design* blogtalkradio.com/byd Stevensville, MI Children of Yahweh israelect.com/ChildrenOfYahweh Christian Identity christian-identity.com Christian Identity Church — Aryan Nations* christian-aryannations.webs.com Simms, TX Christogenea christogenea.org Church of Jesus Christ — Aryan aryanchurch.blogspot.com The Church of Jesus Christ Christian/ Aryan Nations Blog* cjcc-an.blogspot.com Granby, MO Church of Jesus Christ/ Thomas Robb Ministries* christianidentitychurch.net Bergman, AR Church of the Sons of Yhvh* churchofthesonsofyhvh.org Calhoun, LA Church of True Israel* churchoftrueisrael.com Hayden, ID Covenant People’s Ministry* covenantpeoplesministry.com cpm.noonhost.com Brooks, GA Dr. James P. Wickstrom posse-comitatus-usa.blogspot.com doctorjamespwickstrom.blogspot.com Ecclesiastical Council for the Restoration of Covenant Israel* anglo-saxonisrael.com Chicago, IL First Century Christian Ministries*

angloisrael.com The Woodlands, TX God Save America Again godsaveamericaagain.com Israel Elect israelect.com Israelite Watchmen israelitewatchmen.com Jesus Was Not a Jew jesuswasnotajew.com Kingdom Identity Ministries* kingidentity.com Harrison, AR Kinsman Redeemer Ministries* kinsmanredeemer.com Alexandria, KY Mission To Israel* missiontoisrael.org Scottsbluff, NE Non-Universal Teaching Ministries* emahiser.christogenea.org/site Fostoria, OH Pastor Bill’s Christian Identity Page cichaplain.blogspot.com Philip Luger Blog philipluger.blogspot.com Reformed Church of Israel* reformedchurchofisrael.com Schell City, MO Scriptures for America* scripturesforamerica.org scripturesforamerica.com Laporte, CO Serpent’s Seed serpentseed.com The Shepherd’s Call Ministries* oneyahweh.com New Tazewell, TN Skip Baker skipbaker.com United Church of YHWH* ucoy.christogenea.org Lincoln, AL Virginia Publishing Company* richardhoskins.com Lynchburg, VA Watchmen Bible Study Group* biblestudysite.com Wappapello, MO Weisman Publications* seek-info.com Burnsville, MN Yahweh’s Truth* posse-comitatus-usa.blogspot.com Linwood, MI

NEO-CONFEDERATE (27) Brian Pace Trading* brianpacetrading.com Booneville, MS Confederate American Pride confederateamericanpride.com Dixie Republic* dixieoutpost.net dixierepublic.com Travelers Rest, SC Florida League of the South Online Store cafepress.com/freeflorida Kingdom Treasure Ministries*

truthinhistory.org Owasso, OK League of the South* auburnlos.20m.com Auburn, AL dixienet.org leagueofthesouth.net Killen, AL arKSlos.org Mammoth Springs, AR freeflorida.org Jacksonville, FL coolchange.net Northeast Florida southerncrescentlos.org Barnesville, GA georgialos.org McDonough, GA georgials.org Statesboro, GA louisiana.chapterlos.org Monroe, LA missourilos.org West Plains, MO northcarolina.chapterlos.org Wilmington, NC abbevillecolos.wordpress.com Abbeville, SC sclos.org Columbia, SC freetennessee.org Lobelville, TN texaslos.org LaPorte, TX virginialos.org Marion, VA League of the South/Southern Patriot Super Store* spsstore.com Abbeville, SC Living Well is the Best Revenge bigchiefrevenge.blogspot.com Livin’ the Legacy* livinthelegacy.com Nashville, IN

BLACK SEPARATIST (47)

Black Lawyers for Justice blfj.org Blacks and Jews Newspage blacksandjews.com Final Call finalcall.com The Israelite Church of God In Jesus Christ* icgjcmd.org Baltimore, MD icgjcpgh.org Pittsburgh, PA The Last Crusade thelastcrusade.org National Black Foot Solider Network* nationalblackfootsoldiernetwork.wordpress.com California Nation of Islam* noituscaloosastudygroup.blogspot.com Tuscaloosa, AL noipb.org Pine Bluff, AR

noiwest.com Los Angeles, CA muhammadmosque51.org Aurora, CO muhammadstempleofislam41.org Bridgeport, CT noidc.org Washington, DC muhammadmosque15.org Atlanta, GA noicolumbusga.org/Local.htm Columbus, GA noi.org Chicago, IL noimm74.wordpress.com Indianapolis, IN noineworleans.org New Orleans, LA noishreveport.org Shreveport, LA noibaltimore.org Baltimore, MD thenationspeaks.org Dorchester, MA noidetroit.org Detroit, MI noigrandrapids.com Grand Rapids, MI noims.org Southaven, MS muhammadmosque28.org St. Louis, MO muhammad75.wordpress.com Las Vegas, NV muhammadmosqueno25.com Newark, NJ mosque7.org New York, NY mosque36.com Charlotte, NC mosque34.org Durham, NC noifayettevillenc.webs.com Fayetteville, NC noiakron37.com Akron, OH muhummadmosque9.org Youngstown, OH muhammadstemple12.faithweb.com Philadelphia, PA pghmosque22.org Pittsburgh, PA noicharlestonsc.org Charleston, SC muhammadmosque55.com/index2.html Memphis, TN noinashville.org Nashville, TN austinnoi.com/index.html Austin, TX noidallas.org/index2.html Dallas, TX noifortworth.ning.com Fort Worth, TX noiswregion.org Houston, TX muhammadmosque24.org Richmond, VA mosque3.org

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Milwaukee, WI New Black Panther Party* newblackpanther.com Washington, DC United Nation of Moors/ All Eyes on Egypt Online Bookstore* alleyesonegyptbookstore.com Milledgeville, GA alleyesonegypt.net/page/ page/307358.htm Stone Mountain, GA

GENERAL HATE (214) ANTI-GAY (21)

Abiding Truth Ministries* abidingtruth.com defendthefamily.com Springfield, MA America Forever* americaforever.com Sandy, UT American Family Association* afa.net Tupelo, MS Americans for Truth About Homosexuality* americansfortruth.com Naperville, IL American Vision* americanvision.org Powder Springs, GA Article8.org article8.org Bethesda Christian Institute* bcisa.org San Antonio, TX Biblical Family Advocates* bfamilyadvocates.com San Diego, CA Chalcedon Foundation* chalcedon.edu/blog/blog.php Vallecito, CA Chalcedon Store chalcedonstore.com Chris Armstrong Watch chris-armstrong-watch.blogspot.com Faithful Word Baptist Church* faithfulworldbaptist.org Tempe, AZ Family Research Council* frc.org Washington, DC Family Research Institute* familyresearchinst.org Colorado Springs, CO Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment* home60515.com Downers Grove, IL Illinois Family Institute* illinoisfamily.org Carol Stream, IL Mass Resistance* massresistance.org Waltham, MA The Traditional Values Coalition* traditionalvalues.org Anaheim, CA Westboro Baptist Church*

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godhatesfags.com Topeka, KS You Can Run, But You Cannot Hide, International (Ministries) youcanruninternational.com

ANTI-IMMIGRANT (20)

American Border Patrol* americanborderpatrol.com Sierra Vista, AZ American Immigration Control Foundation/Americans for Immigration Control* aicfoundation.com immigrationcontrol.com Monterey, VA American Patrol/Voice of Citizens Together* americanpatrol.com Sherman Oaks, CA Border Guardians* borderguardians.org Livingston, TX California Coalition for Immigration Reform* ccir.net Huntington Beach, CA Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal Immigration Law Enforcement* ccfile.org Framingham, MA Federation for American Immigration Reform* fairus.org/site/PageServer Washington, DC I Hate Illegals web.mac.com/buffalorick/iWeb/Buffalo%20Rick%20Galeener/I%20 Hate%20Illegals.html Mexican Criminals of OR mexicancriminalsofOR.wordpress.com NeuterMexicans neutermexicans.com NoAztlan.org noaztlan.org Press 2 for English* p2fe.com Jackson, MS Save Our State* saveourstate.info/index.php San Bernardino, CA Send The Border Jumpers Home sendtheborderjumpershome.info Social Contract Press* thesocialcontract.com Petoskey, MI Stop the Invasion of OR stoptheinvasionofOR.wordpress.com United for a Sovereign America (USA)* immigrationbuzz.com Phoenix, AZ Washington Grassroots Granny grassrootsgranny.com We Hate Gringos wehategringos.com

ANTI-MUSLIM (8)

6th Column Against Jihad thethirdjihad.com/?gclid=CKnsqdjwt5

0CFQOenAodEzEHkQ 9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero* 911christiancenter.com New York, NY Atlas Shrugs atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com Casa D’Ice Signs* casadice.com/signs/index.htm North Versailles, PA Christian Phalange* phalange.com Newton, NC Florida Security Council floridasecuritycouncil.org Right Wing Extreme* rightwingextreme.us Gainesville, GA Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA)* sioaonline.com New York, NY

HOLOCAUST DENIAL (18)

Barnes Review/Foundation for Economic Liberty* barnesreview.org Washington, DC Campaign for Radical Truth in History* revisionisthistory.org Coeur d’Alene, ID Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust codoh.com The Forbidden Truth theforbiddentruth.net Friedrich Paul Berg’s ‘NaziGassings.com’ nazigassings.com Historical Revisionism by Virj Historisch Onderzoek vho.org Holocaust Denial Videos holocaustdenialvideos.com Holocaust Historiography Project historiography-project.org Inconvenient History* inconvenienthistory.com/index.php San Ysidro, CA Institute For Historical Review* ihr.org Newport Beach, CA Institute for Historical Review Store ihrstore.com The International Conspiratological Association* conspiratology.com Coeur d’Alene, ID Noontide Press* noontidepress.com Newport Beach, CA One Person With Proof bradleysmithsblog.blogspot.com On the Contrary revisionistreview.blogspot.com The Piper Report mikepiperreport.com The Revisionist Clarion revurevi.net/revclar/clarindex.html The Zundelsite — Dedicated to Ernst Zundel — Prisoner of Conscience zundelsite.org

RACIST MUSIC (23)

Aryan 88 — The Official Johnny Rebel Website aryan88.com/whiterider/officialjr Battlecry battlecrymusic.com Desastrious.com* desastrious.com Springtown, TX Diehard Records* diehardrecords.net Chesapeake, OH DJ GOR* djgor.com Bedford, PA Fetch the Rope* fetchtherope.com Bozeman, MT Final Stand Records* finalstandrecords.com Newark, DE Get Some 88* getsome88.com Castaic, CA Heritage Connection* heritageconnection.tv Harrison, AR ISD Records* isdrecords.com Lancaster, OH Label 56 Music label56.com Life Rune Industries* liferune.net North Highlands, CA Micetrap Distribution* whitepride.net whitepride.com micetrap.net Maple Shade, NJ MSR Productions* msrproductions.com Wheat Ridge, CO NS88 Videos ns88.com Poker Face* pokerface.com Allentown, PA Radio White radiowhite.com Resistance Records* resistance.com Hillsboro, WV Satanic Skinhead Propaganda satanichatefulwarskin.com Unholy Records* unholyrecords.com Marlinton, WV Victory Forever victoryforever.com

RADICAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC (17) Catholic Aplogetics International Publishing/ Bellarmine Theological Forum* catholicintl.com State Line, PA Catholic Counterpoint*

catholiccounterpoint.com Broomall, PA Catholic Family News/ Catholic Family Ministries, Inc.* cfnews.org/cfn.htm Niagara Falls, NY Catholicism.org catholicism.org Culture Wars/Fidelity Press* culturewars.com South Bend, IN FATIMA NETWORK* fatima.org Constable, NY Hutton Gibson — Defending the Faith of Our Fathers huttongibson.com IHM Media* sai-cs.org Richmond, NH In the Spirit of Chartres Committee* realcatholicism.net Suffolk, VA The Legion of St. Louis* legionofstlouis.com Odessa, TX Most Holy Family Monastery* mostholyfamilymonastery.com Fillmore, NY Omni Christian Book Club* omnicbc.com Palmdale, CA The Remnant Online* remnantnewspaper.com Forest Lake, MN Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary* catholicism.org Richmond, NH St. Joseph Forum* stjosephforum.org South Bend, IN St. Michael’s Parish/ Mount St. Michael* stmichaels.org Spokane, WA Tradition In Action* traditioninaction.org Los Angeles, CA

OTHER (107)

88Tube 88tube.net a2z Publications* a2zpublications.com Las Vegas, NV AlanStang.com alanstang.com Alex Jones’ Prison Planet prisonplanet.com American Free Press* americanfreepress.net Washington, DC Artisan Publishers* artisanpublishers.com Muskogee, OK Aryanism aryanism.net Attorney Jason Robb

jasonrobb.blogspot.com Bad Eagle badeagle.com Bamboo Delight Company bamboo-delight.com The Beast Obama beastobama.com Bill Keller Ministries (Bill Keller)* liveprayer.com St. Petersburg, FL Billy the Heretic billytheheretic.com Chick Publications* chick.com/default.asp Ontario, CA Chimpout.com chimpout.org chimpout.com/forum/index.php Christian Books and Things* christianbooksandthings.net/index1.htm Harrison, AR Cultural Studies Press* culturalstudiespress.com New York, NY Diversity is Crap diversityiscrap.com Dove World Outreach Center* doveworld.org standupamericanow.org Gainesville, FL Eric Hufschmid erichufschmid.net Ether Zone etherzone.com Ethnic Crime Reports ethniccrime.blogspot.com Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI)* freedomdefense.typepad.com New York, NY The French Connection iamthewitness.com Genocide of African Americans in America genocideofafricanamericans.8m.com Gentile Alliance gentilealliance.org Globalization, Immigration, & Political Correctness immigration-globalization.blogspot.com HateLawsExposed.org hatelawsexposed.org The Heretical Press heretical.com Hitler Historical Museum hitler.org Holy Nation of Odin* holynationofodin.org Kingsburg, CA Invictus Books* invictusbooks.com Wentzville, MO Irateirishman irateirishman.com/blog James Hart for Congress jameshartforcongress.com Jew Crimes jewcrimes.com Jewish Defense League*

jdl.org Los Angeles, CA Jewish Task Force* jtf.org Fresh Meadows, NY judenfrei judenfrei.org Judicial-Inc.org judicial-inc.biz La Verite Interdi laveriteinterdi.theproductjudge.com LaTrine’s Blawg latrinejakscoon.blogspot.com Lemming Report lemmingreport.blogspot.com M.A.C.S. Klan Merchandise* macsconfederate.com Louisiana Mind If I Do A J? Forum mindifidoaj.com/forum Missing Links: The Truth About 9/11 911missinglinks.com mynameisjoecortina mynameisjoecortina.wordpress.com National Vanguard Books* natvanbooks.com Hillsboro, WV News from the West newsfromthewest.blogspot.com Niggermania! niggermania.com niggermania.net NiviusVir’s Blog niviusvir.wordpress.com NordicHeathenVinlander Blog stormfront.org/forum/blog. php?u=174725 Obambi.com obambi.com Ozark Craft LC* ozarkcraft.net Harrison, AR Patriot Militia.com patriotmilitia.com Pilgrimage to Monsalvat pilgrimagetomonsalvat.blogspot.com Power of Prophecy* texemarrs.com powerofprophecy.com Austin, TX Pragmatic Witness whitewraithe.wordpress.com Pro Think: The Study of Parasitism prothink.org Racist Jokes racist-jokes.com mohammedbaboor.angelfire.com Real Zionist News realzionistnews.com The Redneck Shop* theoriginalredneckshop.com Laurens, SC Snippits and Snappits snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com Sons of Aesir Motorcycle Club* sonsofaesirmc.com Maricopa County, AZ The Sovereign States

sovereignstates.org Spiritually Smart spirituallysmart.com The Spoils of War silentconsort.com Subverted Nation subvertednation.net Take Our World Back takeourworldback.com This is Zionism thisiszionism.blogspot.com Thug Report thugreport.com THY WEAPON OF WAR thy-weapon-of-war.blogspot.com Tony Alamo Christian Ministries* alamoministries.com Fouke, AR Truth in Our Time truthinourtime.com T-Shirt Hell tshirthell.com/hell.shtml Vanquishing Georgia vanquishinggeorgia.blogspot.com The Vatic Project vaticproject.blogspot.com Vinland Folk Resistance* vinlandfolkresistance.com/index.html Kingsburg, CA Voz de Aztlan* aztlan.net Whittier, CA Wake Up America!!! wake-up-america.net West Coast westcoastinroch.com Westboro Baptist Church* godhatesamerica.com godhatesireland.com godhatescanada.com godhatesmexico.com godhatessweden.com godhatestheworld.com hatemongers.com jewskilledjesus.com priestsrapeboys.com blogs.godhatesamerica.com blogs.sparenot.com blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/workmen blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/ dearmargie blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/ dearshirley blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/fred7 blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/obama signmovies.net westborobaptistchurch.com Topeka, KS White Pride Home School Resource Center* whitepridehomeschool.com Bergman, AR White Pride T.V. whitepride.tv Wing TV wingtv.net ZSIDOZAS — The Jewish Question zsidozas.wordpress.com ▲

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‘Patriot’ Groups

The Intelligence Project identified 824 anti-government “Patriot” groups that were active in 2010. Of these groups, 330 were militias, marked with an asterisk, and the remainder includes “common-law” courts, publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups. Generally, Patriot groups define themselves as opposed to the “New World Order,” engage in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines. Listing here does not imply that the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, or are racist. The list was compiled from field reports, Patriot publications, the Internet, law enforcement sources and news reports. Groups are identified by the city, county or region where they are located.

ALABAMA (13) 2nd Alabama Militia, Co. A* Mobile Alabama Shoals Badgers* Tuscumbia Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide America Can Be Free Newton Confederate States Home Guard* Statewide Constitution Party Montgomery Free Patriot Press Birmingham Jefferson Rangers Birmingham John Birch Society Statewide Oath Keepers Statewide Ordo Militis Gladius* Robertsdale THREE%ER Pinson We the People Madison County ALASKA (10) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Alaska Citizens Militia* Delta Junction Nikiski Alaska Peacemakers Militia* Fairbanks Confederate States Home Guard* Statewide Constitution Party (Alaskan Independence Party) Soldotna John Birch Society

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Statewide Oath Keepers Statewide Second Amendment Task Force Fairbanks We the People Homer ARIZONA (18) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide American Grand Jury Nogales American Patriot Friends Network Peoria Arizona Citizens Militia* Douglas Maricopa County Pima County Arizona Militia* Glendale Cochise County Militia* Tombstone Committee of Safety Mesa Constitution Party Goodyear Hour of the Time Eagar John Birch Society Statewide Northern Arizona Militia* Flagstaff Oath Keepers Statewide Riders United for a Sovereign America, Corp. Phoenix Shadow Mountain Bank Ash Fork UnitedStates.fm Golden Valley We Are Change

Statewide ARKANSAS (14) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Arkansas Militia* Eastern Little Rock Northeast South Central Southwest Western Constitution Party Fayetteville John Birch Society Statewide Liberty Tree Rangers* Statewide Militia of Washington County* Fayetteville Oath Keepers Statewide We Are Change Bentonville Searcy CALIFORNIA (31) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide American Armenian Militia* Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley Area American Independent Party Vacaville California State Militia — 31st Field Force Squad Alpha/SOG* Orange County Confederate States Home Guard* Statewide Constitution Party Riverside The Dorean Group Union City Educate Yourself Costa Mesa Freedom Force International Thousand Oaks Freedom Law School Phelan Free Enterprise Society Fresno Guardians of the Free Republics Soquel Northern California State Militia* Butte County Falcon Creek Sacramento Solano County Stockton Sunnyvale Tehama County Oath Keepers High Desert Northern San Diego

Southern Second Amendment Committee Hanford State of California Unorganized Militia* Monrovia Truth Radio Delano We Are Change Chico Oakland Sacramento San Francisco Bay Area WorldNetDaily Long Beach COLORADO (12) America First Party Boulder American Freedom Network Johnstown Constitution Party Arvada Discharge Debt Broomfield eMilitary Manuals Montrose EZREMEDY4U Arvada John Birch Society Aurora Oath Keepers Statewide We Are Change Colorado Springs Huerfano Statewide We the People Gunnison CONNECTICUT (8) Committees of Safety Weston Connecticut 51st Militia Statewide Connecticut Patriot Alliance Canterbury Connecticut Survivalist Alliance Middlefield John Birch Society Statewide Oath Keepers Statewide We Are Change Meriden We the People Statewide DELAWARE (3) Constitution Party Bear Oath Keepers Statewide We the People Statewide DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (4) Oath Keepers Washington, DC

We the People Washington, DC WorldNetDaily Washington, DC WorldNetDaily Books Washington, DC FLORIDA (23) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide America First Party of Florida Fort White Confederate States Home Guard* Ft. Lauderdale Raiford Constitution Party West Palm Beach Florida Constitution Guard* Orlando Florida Free Militia* Palm Coast Florida Preparedness Group* Daytona Gainesville Miami Orlando Palm Beach County St. Augustine St. Lucie County Statewide Tampa North Florida Survival Group* Statewide Oath Keepers Statewide We Are Change Fort Walton Beach Jacksonville Orlando Tampa We the People Statewide GEORGIA (34) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Confederate States Home Guard* Tate Constitution Party Woodstock Georgia Militia* Bartow County Blairsville Bulloch County Camden County Catoosa County Chatham County Cobb County (2) Coweta County Douglas County Franklin County Fulton County Gwinnett County Jackson County Meriwether County

Paulding County Richmond County Statewide Stephens County It’s Over Morganton John Birch Society Statewide Militia of Georgia* Lawrenceville Militia Recruiting Command* Columbus The Moorish Science Temple of America 1928 Atlanta Oath Keepers Statewide Preamble Trust Atlanta Society for American Sovereignty Marrietta We Are Change Atlanta Columbus LaGrange Trenton HAWAII (3) Constitution Party Honolulu ISA (Spiritual Sovereignty) Kapaa Oath Keepers Statewide IDAHO (13) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Commercial Redemption Boise Constitution Party Parma Idaho Observer Spirit Lake National Center for Constitutional Studies Malta North Idaho Light Foot Militia* Bonner County Boundary County Kootenai County Oath Keepers Statewide Police & Military Against the New World Order Kamiah Status Is Freedom Boise We Are Change Statewide We the People Statewide ILLINOIS (19) 135th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry* Statewide Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day

Alarm Riders Statewide America First Party of Illinois Rolling Meadows Camp FEMA Northbrook Constitution Party East Peoria Illinois Sons of Liberty* Cook County Fulton County Kane County Knox County Macon County McHenry County Statewide Will County Winnebago County Illinois State Militia (Unorganized) 167th Battalion, 21st FF* Statewide Martial Law Survival Thomson Oath Keepers Statewide Restore the Republic Northbrook We the People Statewide INDIANA (43) 4th Regiment Watchmen of Indiana* Clark County Crawford County Dearborn County Fortville Rush County Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Constitution Party Indianapolis Indiana Citizens Volunteer Militia, 3rd Brigade* Tippecanoe County Indiana Constitutional Militia* Statewide Indiana Militia Corps* Ingalls Northeast Northwest Pendleton Southeast Southwest Indianapolis Baptist Temple Indianapolis Indiana Sedentary Militia — 29th Battalion* Southwest Indiana Indiana’s Greene County Militia* Greene County Indiana Sons of Liberty* Clay County Daviess County Elkart County

Floyd County Grant County Hamiliton County Henry County Howard County Johnson County La Porte County Miami County Porter County Scott County St. Joseph County Steuben County Tippecanoe County Vigo County Wabash County Wayne County Indiana State Militia 14th Regiment* Owen County John Birch Society Indianapolis National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act (NORFED) Evansville Oath Keepers Statewide Sons of Liberty Columbus We the People Statewide IOWA (10) 2nd Iowa Colonial Marines* Statewide Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Confederate States Home Guard* Mason City Constitution Party Eldon Oskaloosa Oath Keepers Statewide We Are Change Cedar Falls Des Moines Quad Cities We the People Statewide KANSAS (8) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Constitution Party Wichita The Freeman Perspective Lawrence John Birch Society Statewide Kansas State Militia* Wichita Oath Keepers Statewide We Are Change spring 2011

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Lawrence Statewide KENTUCKY (16) 1st Joint Public Militia* Bowling Green Louisville Marshall County Northern Statewide Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Jefferson County Confederate States Home Guard* Marion Constitution Party Lexington Great Registry Post Simpsonville John Birch Society Statewide Kentucky Section 8 Militia* Central Kentucky State Militia — Ohio Valley Command* Louisville Oath Keepers Statewide PatriotResistance.com Lexington Take Back Kentucky Clarkson We the People Statewide LOUISIANA (11) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Constitution Party Mandeville Louisiana Militia* Statewide Oath Keepers Statewide Truth Attack Shreveport Washitaw Empire de Dugdahmoundyah Monroe We Are Change Arcadia New Orleans Shreveport Slidell We the People Statewide MAINE (12) Constitution Party New Castle John Birch Society Statewide Maine Constitutional Militia* Statewide Maine Highlands Defense Force* Bangor Maine Patriot Militia*

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Berwick Maine Sons of Liberty* Cumberland County Sanford Oath Keepers Statewide Sovereignty International, Inc. Bangor We Are Change New England Area Portland We the People Statewide MARYLAND (5) America’s Survival, Inc. Owings Oath Keepers Statewide Save A Patriot Fellowship Westminster We Are Change Statewide We the People Statewide MASSACHUSETTS (6) America First Party of Massachusetts New Bedford Constitution Party Amesbury Oath Keepers Statewide We Are Change Boston Cape Cod We the People Statewide MICHIGAN (66) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide America First Party of Michigan Ypsilanti Delta 5 Mobile Light Infantry Militia* Eaton County East-Central Volunteer Militia of Michigan* Lapeer County The Heartland USA Sagola Hutaree Militia* Southern Michigan Area Jackson County Volunteers* Jackson County John Birch Society Statewide Lenawee County Free and Independent Militia* Adrian Lost Horizons Commerce Township Michigan Militia* Lansing Redford

Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines 8th Division — 19th Brigade* South Central Michigan Area Michigan Patriot Alliance* Arenac County Bay County Cheboygan County Clinton County Crawford County Genessee County Jackson County Lapeer County Macomb County Midland County Oakland County Oceana County Saginaw County Sanilac County Shiawassee County St. Clair County Statewide Tuscola County MILITIA 5th Division MI* Clare County Ionia County Isabella County Kent County Lake County Mason County Mecosta County Montcalm County Muskegon County Newaygo County Oceana County Osceola County Ottawa County MILITIA 5th Division MI — 9th Brigade Sniper School* Mecosta County Moorish Republic Trust Oak Park Northern Michigan Backyard Protection Militia* Northern Oakland County Volunteers* Oakland County Oath Keepers Statewide Patriot Broadcasting Network Dexter Republic of the United States Portage Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia* Livingston County Macomb County Oakland County Washtenaw County Wayne County Southwest Michigan Volunteer Militia* Southwest We Are Change Battlecreek Clio

Detroit Flint Royal Oak Schoolcraft Statewide West Central Michigan Volunteer Militia* Grand Rapids West Michigan Volunteer Militia* Muskegon County MINNESOTA (8) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Constitution Party Redwood Falls John Birch Society Statewide Oath Keepers Statewide We Are Change Duluth Minneapolis Statewide We the People Statewide MISSISSIPPI (9) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide America First Party of Mississippi Greenwood Constitution Defense Militia of Attala County* Attala County Constitution Party Pontoc East Central Mississippi Militia* East Central Mississippi Militia* Southaven Oath Keepers Statewide South Mississippi State Militia* South We the People Statewide MISSOURI (20) America First Party of Missouri Imperial Confederate States Home Guard* Rogersville Constitution Party Arnold Don’t Tread on Me Columbia John Birch Society St. Peters Liberty Restoration Project Kansas City Springfield St. Louis Missouri Militia* Joplin (2) Springfield

St. Louis West Central Oath Keepers Statewide Our Sammie Statewide Take Back Washington Versailles United American Freedom Foundation Grandview We the People Statewide William Lewis Films Columbia WorldNetDaily Blue Springs MONTANA (9) Celebrating Conservatism Missoula Constitution Party Great Falls John Birch Society Statewide Lincoln County Watch Bozeman Militia of Montana* Noxon Oath Keepers Bozeman We Are Change Billings Missoula We the People Statewide NEBRASKA (11) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Constitution Party Omaha John Birch Society Statewide The Nebraska State Militia* Statewide Nebraska State Militia — Tall Grass Guard* Douglas County Oath Keepers Bellevue Statewide We Are Change Omaha South Sioux City Tri-Cities Area We the People Statewide NEVADA (9) America First Leadership Las Vegas Center for Action Sandy Valley Nevada Action Coalition Las Vegas Oath Keepers

Northern Southern Southern Nevada Militia* Statewide Sovereign People’s Court for the United States of America Las Vegas We Are Change Reno We the People Statewide NEW HAMPSHIRE (5) America First Party of New Hampshire Windham New Hampshire Patriot Militia* Statewide Oath Keepers Statewide We the People Statewide What Really Happened Concord NEW JERSEY (9) Constitution Party Cinnaminson The Great Seal Moorish Science Temple of America, Inc. Asbury Park John Birch Society Ringwood New Jersey Militia* Trenton Oath Keepers Statewide We Are Change Cape May Statewide We the People Statewide Wolfpack Militia* Statewide NEW MEXICO (17) Constitution Party Albuquerque John Birch Society Statewide New Mexico Citizen’s Militia* Chaves County Dona Ana County Grant County Los Lunas Otero County Sandoval County San Juan County Oath Keepers Statewide Southern New Mexico Militia* Chaves County Curry County Dona Ana County Hidalgo County Otero County We Are Change Statewide

We the People Statewide NEW YORK (34) Aboriginal Law Institute New York America First Party of New York Lynbrook Beneficiaries of Commerce Clifton Park Constitution Party New York Empire State Militia* Northwestern Oneida Area Staten Island Statewide Ulster County Area Westchester Area The Jekyll Island Project Queensbury New York Liberty Council Albany Oath Keepers Chatham We Are Change Hempstead Ithaca Long Island New York Northern Staten Island We The People Queensbury Statewide West New York Patriots* Chautauqua County Chemung County Erie County Jefferson County Livingston County Monroe County Oneida County Onondaga County Ontario County Southern Statewide Steuben County You Have Tread On Me New York NORTH CAROLINA (22) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Constitution Party Fuquay-Varina Cultural Freedom Norlina Cultural Freedom Bookstore Fayetteville Granny Warriors Leicester John Birch Society Raleigh North Carolina American Republic Charlotte

North Carolina Citizens Militia* Charlotte Coastal Area Sandhills Area Waynesville North Carolina Regional Militia* Coastal Chapter Mountain Chapter Piedmont Chapter Oath Keepers Statewide Preamble Trust Charlotte United Nations of Turtle Island Lumberton Washitaw Empire de Dugdahmoundyah High Point Washitaw Nation Greensboro We Are Change Mount Airy Statewide We the People Statewide NORTH DAKOTA (6) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Constitution Party Mandan John Birch Society Statewide Little Shell Pembina Band of North America Pembina River Area Oath Keepers Statewide We the People Statewide OHIO (27) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide America First Party of Ohio Cleveland Clock of Destiny Moorish International Order of the Great Seal of 360 Cleveland Confederate States Home Guard* Chillicothe Constitutional Militia of Clark County* Clark County Constitution Party Delaware John Birch Society Columbus North Coast Citizens Militia* Northwest Ohio/Southwest Pennsylvania Northeastern Ohio Defense Force 3BN* Lisbon Northwestern Ohio Defense Force spring 2011

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4BN* Kenton Oath Keepers Statewide Willoughby Ohio Defense Force State Headquarters* Zanesville Ohio Militia* Statewide Ohio Minutemen Militia* Central Region Northeast Region Northwest Region Southwest Region Statewide Ohio Patriot Guard* Ashtabula County Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters — Northern Command* Southeast Ohio Richland County Citizens for the 2nd Amendment Ontario Southeastern Ohio Defense Force 1BN ODF* Belmont County Zanesville Southwestern Ohio Defense Force 5BN* Lebanon Unorganized Militia of Champaign County* Saint Paris We the People Statewide OKLAHOMA (8) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Billy Hill Militia* Statewide Confederate States Home Guard* Stillwater Constitution Party Chandler John Birch Society Statewide Oath Keepers Statewide OK SAFE, Inc. (Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise) Tulsa We the People Statewide OREGON (24) America is Crying Tyranny: Created by NMC Services Beaverton American Patriot Party Ashland The American’s Sovereign Bulletin Central Point Basileia Ouranous Summer Lake

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Constitution Party Hubbard Embassy of Heaven Stayton Emissary Publications Clackamas Freedom Bound International Klamath Falls The Intel Hub La Pine John Birch Society Statewide McCutcheons Ink. Central Point Oath Keepers Statewide Oregon Militia Alliance* Statewide Oregon Militia Corps* Statewide Oregon Watchmen* Statewide Real Debt Elimination Cave Junction Southern Oregon Militia* Eagle Point We Are Change Cave Junction Eugene Florence Portland Salem We the People Statewide WorldNetDaily Medford PENNSYLVANIA (20) 2-4 MACHSA* Hanover America First Party of Pennsylvania Ridgway Berks County Tea Party Reading Confederate States Home Guard* Grove City Constitution Party Blawnox Keystone Freedom Fighters* Gettysburg Oath Keepers Kutztown Statewide Pennsylvania 1st Rifle* Philadelphia Pennsylvania Citizens Militia* Statewide Pennsylvania Unorganized Militia* Ford City Sisyphus Press State College We Are Change Harrisburg Philadelphia Pittsburgh Scranton

We the Aboriginal People Philadelphia We the People Statewide WING TV State College Wolf Creek Rangers (100th) North Liberty Militia* North Liberty RHODE ISLAND (4) Constitution Party Middletown Oath Keepers Statewide Patriot Freedom West Warwick We the People Statewide SOUTH CAROLINA (16) 1st Mountain Lightfoot Brigade* Greenville Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Myrtle Beach Statewide Confederate State Home Guard* Gray Court Constitution Party Greenville John Birch Society Greenville Long Cane Militia* Greenwood County Oath Keepers Statewide The Patriot Network Anderson South Carolina 1st BN Central Midlands* Statewide South Carolina Civilian Militia* Lower State Middle State Washitaw Empire de Dugdahmoundyah Columbia We Are Change Columbia Greenville We the People Statewide SOUTH DAKOTA (4) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Constitution Party Brandon Oath Keepers Statewide We the People Statewide TENNESSEE (16) 1st Tennessee Rifles UMIT* Lafayette Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day

Alarm Riders Statewide Confederate States Home Guard* Greenville Constitution Party Englewood The East Tennessee Militia* East Lawful Path Lynnville Oath Keepers Statewide The Order of Constitution Defenders Chattanooga Tennessee Sons of Liberty Nashville US Grand Jury Institute Nolensville We Are Change Cookeville Johnson City Knoxville Memphis Nashville We the People Statewide TEXAS (80) AMARA Temple of Moorish Science Arlington The American Open Currency Standard Frisco American Patriots for Freedom Foundation* Spring Brave New Books Austin Buffalo Creek Press Cleburne Central Texas Militia* Central Church of God Evangelistic Association Waxahachie Concho Valley Volunteer Militia* San Angelo Confederate States Home Guard* Port Lavaca Constitution Party Cleburne Constitution Society Austin Dallas City Troop (DCT)* Carrollton Freedom School Austin The Freemen Project* Houston John Birch Society Corpus Christi The Liberty Regulators* Houston North Central Texas Patriots* Dallas

Oath Keepers Statewide The Order of Constitution Defenders Houston PatrioticSpace Waco Republic Broadcasting Round Rock Republic of Texas Bastrop County Bexar County Bowie County Brazos County Colorado County Fayette County Galveston County Goliad County Harris County Harrison County Houston County Jackson County Jasper County Jefferson County Lamar County Liberty County Matagorda County Milam County Montgomery County Nacogdoches County Red River County Refugio County Robertson County Rusk County Sabine County Shelby County Travis County Victoria County Washington County Southeast Texas Patriots* Sugar Land Southwest Desert Militia* West Texas Texas Central — District 14 Patriots* Lockhart Texas Militia* Huntington The Texas Militia* Austin College Station Conroe Corpus Christi Dallas Fort Worth Houston Katy Killeen Laredo New Braunfels San Antonio Statewide Waco

Wichita Falls Winnsboro Texas Patriot’s Militia* Statewide Texas Well Regulated Militia* Edwards County We Are Change Austin Dallas Fort Worth Pasadena San Antonio San Marcos Tyler We the People Statewide UTAH (13) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Confederate States Home Guard* Salt Lake City Constitution Party Layton Hutaree Militia* Statewide JoelSkousen.com Orem Liberty News Radio Highland Oath Keepers Statewide Remnant Saints International Patriot Alliance Ephraim We Are Change Orem Salt Lake City West Valley City We the People Statewide Winston Shrout — Solutions in Commerce Santa Clara VERMONT (3) Constitution Party Williston Oath Keepers Statewide We the People Statewide VIRGINIA (12) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide The Autonomous Authchthon International Muurish Gansul Norfolk Confederate States Home Guard* Salem Constitution Party Vienna NAU WAR ROOM

Vienna Oath Keepers Statewide U.S. National Party Oakton Virginia Citizens Militia* Roanoke We Are Change Shenandoah Statewide We the People Statewide WorldNetDaily Catharpin WASHINGTON (27) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide Church of Sovereigns: Sacred Family Temple of the Living Saint Satsop Confederate States Home Guard* Lakewood Constitution Party Kent Debt Free Sovereign Trust Blaine Eastern Washington Lightfoot Militia — 63rd Lightfoot Btn* Spokane County Grant County Militia* Grant County Grays Harbor Civilian Defense Force* Grays Harbor County John Birch Society Puyallup Kissata* Statewide Kitsap County WA Militia* Kitsap County National Association of Rural Land Owners Fall City Northwest Washington Recon — 73rd BN 42nd FF* Grant Oath Keepers Statewide Peoples’ Patriot Coalition Militia* Western Sovereign-Citizenship Satsop Sovereign Trust Blaine Washington State Civil Defense* Northwest Washington State Militia* Kalama Longview Ridgefield Statewide Woodland

We Are Change Bellingham Seattle Spokane We the People Statewide WEST VIRGINIA (7) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Kanawha County Constitution Party Martinsburg Oath Keepers Statewide Ohio Valley Minutemen CVM* Statewide We Are Change Huntington Statewide We the People Statewide WISCONSIN (18) Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide America First Party of Wisconsin Muscoda American Opinion Publishing Appleton Confederate States Home Guard* Somerset Constitution Party Ripon John Birch Society Appleton John Birch Society Shop Appleton Oath Keepers Statewide People’s Awareness Coalition Kieler Southeast Wisconsin Volunteers* Southeast Wisconsin We Are Change Green Bay Kenosha Madison Milwaukee Oshkosh Racine Stockbridge We the People Statewide WYOMING (4) Constitution Party Afton John Birch Society Statewide Oath Keepers Statewide We the People Statewide ▲

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‘Patriot’ Websites

This list of 484 sites on the World Wide Web includes pages linked to the anti-government “Patriot” movement, which generally defines itself as opposed to the “New World Order,” engages in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocates or adheres to extreme antigovernment doctrines. Pages were current in 2010, but sites tend to move from server to server or shut down without notice, so they may be hard to locate. Of the sites, 110 were connected to militias or militia ideology; the rest, grouped in the Other Patriot category, include sites associated with “common-law courts,” publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups. Listing here does not imply that the individuals or groups with websites advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activity or are racist. Listings indicated with an asterisk (*) belong to actual groups that promote Patriot doctrine beyond the mere publishing of their Internet material.

MILITIA (110) 1st Joint Public Militia — 105th Blue Guard* nkymilitia.weebly.com Northern Kentucky 1st Joint Public Militia — Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters* ovfreedomfighters.com/index.html Louisville, KY 1st Tennessee Rifles UMIT* 1sttnrifles.net Lafayette, TN 2-4 MACHSA* machsa.org Hanover, PA 2nd Alabama Militia, Co. A* freewebs.com/alabamamilitia/index. htm Mobile, AL 4th Regiment Watchmen of Indiana* patriotresistance.com/ MILITIAPAGE-4thReg-WatchmenOfIndiana.html Dearborn County, IN A Well Regulated Militia awrm.org Alaska Citizens Militia* centralasaskamilitia.com Delta Junction, AK alaskacitizensmilitia.com Nikiski, AK American Armenian Militia* americanarmenianmilitia.com Los Angeles, CA Arizona Citizens Militia* arizonamilitia.com Douglas, AZ Arizona Militia*

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arizonamilitia.com/20090514.htm Glendale, AZ Arkansas Militia* arkansasmilitia.us Little Rock, AR Billy Hill Militia* billyhillmilitia.com Oklahoma California State Militia — 31st Field Force Squad Alpha/SOG* californiastatemilitia.yolasite.com Orange County, CA Cochise County Militia* cochisecountymilitia.org Tombstone, AZ Confederate States Home Guard* confederateamericanpride.com/ CSM.html Tate, GA confederatestatesguard.ning.com Rogersville, MO Constitution Defense Militia of Attala County* attalamilitia.webs.com Attala County, MS Constitutional Militia of Clark Co.* ccsg0.tripod.com Clark County, OH Dallas City Troop* dallascitytroop.org Carrollton, TX Delta 5 Mobile Light Infantry Militia* delta5mlim.webs.com South Central Michigan East Central Mississippi Militia* mississippimilitia.com East Central Mississippi

East-Central Volunteer Militia of Michigan* michiganmilitia.com Lapeer County, MI Eastern Washington Lightfoot Militia-63rd Lightfoot Btn* wa63lightfoot.us Spokane County, WA The East Tennessee Militia* freewebs.com/easttennesseemilitia/ index.htm Eastern Tennessee Florida Free Militia* floridafreemilitia.com Palm Coast, FL The Freemen Project* thefreemenproject.com Houston, TX Georgia Militia* georgiamilitia.net Lawrenceville, GA gamilitia.com Georgia Grant County Militia* grantcountymililtia.com Grant County, WA Grays Harbor Civilian Defense Force* graysharborciviliandefenseforce. weebly.com militias.ning.com/group/GraysHarb orCivilianDefenseForce?comment Id=3567481%3AComment%3A83 053&xg_source=activity Grays Harbor County, WA Hutaree Militia* hutaree.com Utah Illinois Sons of Liberty* illinoissonsofliberty.com Illinois Illinois State Militia (Unorganized) 167th Battalion, 21st FF* ilstm.bravehost.com Illinois Indiana Militia Corps* IndianaMilitia.org Pendleton, IN Indiana State Militia 14th Regiment* 14thregofism.tripod.com Owen County, IN Indiana’s Greene County Militia* fortunecity.com/victorian/ crayon/881/gcm.html Greene County, IN Jackson County Volunteers* jacksonccm.org Jackson County, MI

Kansas State Militia* kansasstatemilitia.webs.com Wichita Area, KS Kentucky’s Section 8 Militia* freewebs.com/section8militia Central Kentucky Kentucky State Militia* freewebs.com/privatecitizensofky Louisville, KY Kissata* kissata.homestead.com Washington Kitsap County WA Militia* militias.ning.com/profile/ KitsapCountyWAMilitia?xg_ source=activity Kitsap County, WA Lenawee County Free and Independent Militia* lenaweemilitia.com Adrian, MI Maine Constitutional Militia* mainepatriot.741.com/aboutmcm.htm Maine Maine Highlands Defense Force* mainepatriot.net Bangor, ME The Maine Patriot Board frost.bbboy.net/themainepatriotboard Maine Patriot Militia* mainepatriotmilitia.webs.com Berwick, ME Maine Sons of Liberty* unitedmilitiasofmaine.webs.com/ mainesonsofliberty.htm Sanford, ME Michigan Militia* michiganmilitia.com/capcity.htm Lansing, MI michiganmilitia.com Redford, MI Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines 8th Division* mmcw8thdiv.22web.net South Central Michigan Michigan Patriot Alliance* michiganpatriotalliance.com Michigan MILITIA 5th Division MI* oocities.com/mecostacountymichigan/headquarters.html Mecosta County, MI Militia of Montana* militiaofmontana.com Noxon, MT Militia of Washington County* arkansasmilitia.org Fayetteville, AR Militia Recruiting Command*

gomilitia.com Columbus, GA Mississippi Militia* mississippimilitia.us Southaven, MS Missouri Militia* missourimilitia.com St. Louis, MO Missouri Militia — 1st Battalion/ 3rd Brigade* 3rdbrigade.missourimilitia.com Joplin, MO Missouri Militia — 4th Battalion/ 8th Brigade* 8thbrigade.missourimilitia.com Springfield, MO Modern Minuteman modernminuteman.net MrLockandload.com mrlockandload.com The Nebraska State Militia* nebraskamilitia.com Nebraska Nebraska State Militia — Tall Grass Guard* tallgrassguard.tripod.com Douglas County, NE New Hampshire Patriot Militia* nhmilitia.com New Hampshire New Jersey Militia* njmilitia.org Trenton, NJ New Mexico Citizen’s Militia* newmexicomilitia.tripod.com Los Lunas, NM North Carolina Citizens Militia* ncmilitia.org Waynesville, NC North Carolina Citizens Militia Mecklenburg County Militia* mcmilitia.org Mecklenburg County, NC North Carolina Regional Militia* ncregionalmilitia.org/Home.html Piedmont Region, NC Northeast Ohio Defense Force* neodf.org Lisbon, OH Northern California State Militia* cal-militia.com Sunnyvale, CA Northern Michigan Backyard Protection Militia* nmbpm.webs.com Northern Michigan North Florida Survival Group* northfloridasurvival.webs.com North Florida

North Idaho Light Foot Militia* northidaho21lightfoot.org Boundary County, ID Northwest Washington Recon — 73rd BN 42nd FF* angelfire.com/wa3/nwwr1 Grant, WA Ohio Defense Force Home Guard* sodf.org Zanesville, OH Ohio Minutemen Militia* ohiominutemen.webs.com Ohio Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters — Northern Command* ovff-nc.blogspot.com Southeast Ohio Ohio Valley Minutemen CVM* ovmcpg.blogspot.com West Virginia Oregon Militia Alliance* countryrebel118174.webs.com Oregon Oregon Militia Corps* oregonmilitia.homestead.com Oregon Oregon Watchmen* oregonwatchmen.org Oregon Pennsylvania Unorganized Militia* 1stpa-militia.net Ford City, PA Peoples’ Patriot Coalition Militia* ppcmilitia.com Western Washington SOCAL 1st PATRIOT UNIT socal1stmilitia.webs.com Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia* michiganmilitia.com/SMVM/smvm. htm Detroit, MI Southern Nevada Militia* snmilitia.webs.com Southern Nevada Southern New Mexico Militia* snmmilitia.tripod.com Dona Ana County, NM Southern Oregon Militia* inlibertyandfreedom.com/index.htm Eagle Point, OR Southwest Desert Militia* southwestdesertmilitia.com sdm.cogia.net West Texas State of California Unorganized Militia* californiamilitia.com Monrovia, CA

Texas Militia* texasmilitia.info Huntington, TX The Texas Militia* texasmilitia.org Texas Texas Patriot’s Militia* texaspatriotmilitia.org Texas Unorganized Militia of Champaign County* champaigncounty.tripod.com Saint Paris, OH Virginia Citizens Militia* virginiamilitia.org Roanoke, VA Washington State Civil Defense* wacivildefense.com Northwest Washington Washington State Militia* wastatemilitia.com wsmswbattalion.weebly.com 15thwsm.weebly.com Washington The Well Regulated American Militias wellregulatedamericanmilitias.com West Central Michigan Volunteer Militia* volunteermilitia.com Grand Rapids, MI West Michigan Volunteer Militia* freewebs.com/westmivolunteermilitia West Michigan Wolf Creek Rangers (100th) North Liberty Militia* wolfcreekrangers.yolasite.com/ 100th-western-pennsylvania.php North Liberty, PA Wolfpack Militia* 3sog.org/COCORNER.html New Jersey MEDIA (15) America News Network (American Freedom Network)* americanewsnet.com Johnstown, CO American Resistance Radio americanresistanceradio.com freedomfighterradio.net The Federal Observer federalobserver.com Freedom’s Phoenix freedomsphoenix.com Genesis Communication Network gcnlive.com Idaho Observer* proliberty.com/observer Spirit Lake, ID

Liberty News Radio* libertynewsradio.com Highland, UT Liberty Tree Radio libertytreeradio.4mg.com/index.html The New American thenewamerican.com Patriot Broadcasting Network* pbn.4mg.com Dexter, MI The Power Hour thepowerhour.com Radio Liberty radioliberty.com Republic Broadcasting* republicbroadcasting.org Round Rock, TX Truth Radio Network* truthradio.com Delano, CA MINISTRIES (3) Church of God Evangelistic Association (Newswatch Magazine)* newswatchmagazine.org Waxahachie, TX Iahushua iahushua.com Indianapolis Baptist Temple* indianapolisbaptisttemple.com Indianapolis, IN PUBLISHING (5) American Opinion Publishing* aobs-store.com Appleton, WI Buffalo Creek Press* buffalo-creek-press.com Cleburne, TX Emissary Publications Midnight Messenger* midnight-emissary.com Clackamas, OR The Freeman Perspective* thefreemanperspective.blogspot.com Lawrence, KS Shop JBS* shopjbs.org Outagamie County, WI SUPPORT (183) The 10th Amendment on the 7th of August 10thonthe7th.org Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders* alarmandmuster.com Myrtle Beach, SC America First Leadership* afleadership.org Las Vegas, NV America First Party* spring 2011

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americafirstparty.org Boulder, CO The American Open Currency Standard* opencurrency.com Frisco, TX American Patriot Friends Network* apfn.org Peoria, AZ American Patriot Network civil-liberties.com American Patriot Party* americanpatriotparty.cc Ashland, OR American Sons of Liberty americansonsofliberty.com America’s Survival, Inc.* usasurvival.org Owings, MD The Amero Currency amerocurrency.com AssaultWeb.Net Assaultweb.net Barefoot’s World barefootsworld.net Berks County Tea Party* berksteaparty.org Reading, PA Celebrating Conservatism* montanaconservative.wordpress. com/?ref=spelling Missoula, MT Center for Action* bogritz.com Sandy Valley, NV Citizens for a Constitutional Republic Firebase For Freedom citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com Committee of Safety* committee.org Mesa, AZ Committees of Safety* committeesofsafety.org Weston, CT Connecticut 51st Militia* ctmilitia.homestead.com/home.html Connecticut Connecticut Patriot Alliance* ctpatriotalliance.com Canterbury, CT Connecticut Survivalist Alliance* digivill.net/~iirg/csa.html Middlefield, CT Constitution Society* constitution.org Austin, TX The C.R.E.S.T. (The Constitutional Rights Enforcement & Support Team) thecrest.ws

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David Wynn Miller dwmlc.com Dprogram.net dprogram.net Educate Yourself* educate-yourself.org Costa Mesa, CA Extremum Spiritum extremumspiritum.com Flyover Press flyoverpress.com Freedom Fighters for America freedomfightersforamerica.com Freedom Force International* Freedom-Force.org Thousand Oaks, CA Freedom Law School* livefreenow.org Phelan, CA Freedom Underground freedomunderground.org Free Enterprise Society* freeenterprisesociety.com Fresno, CA The Freeman Perspective* freemantv.whynotnews.eu Lawrence, KS Free Patriot Press* freepatriot-press.com Birmingham, AL Free Republic freerepublic.com Got Freedom? gotfreedom.org Granny Warriors* grannywarriors.com Leicester, NC The Heartland USA* theheartlandusa.com Sagola, MI Hour of the Time* hourofthetime.com Eagar, AZ Infowars.com infowars.com The Intel Hub* theintelhub.com La Pine, OR Jack McLamb — Police & Military Against the New World Order* jackmclamb.us Kamiah, ID The JAG Hunter thejaghunter.wordpress.com The Jekyll Island Project* jekyllislandproject.com Queensbury, NY JoelSkousen.com* joelskousen.com

Orem, UT LewRockwell.com lewrockwell.com Liberty Dollar of Chambersburg chambersburglibertydollar.com Liberty Restoration Project* libertyrestorationproject.org St. Louis, MO LizMichael.com lizmichael.com The Mental Militia Forums thementalmilitiaforums.com/forums Minuteman Patriot MinutemanPatriot.homestead.com National Association of Rural Land Owners* narlo.org Fall City, WA National Organization to Repeal the Federal Reserve Act (NORFED)* LibertyDollar.org Evansville, IN NAU WAR ROOM* nauwarroom.com nauwarroom.org Vienna, VA Nevada Action Coalition* nvaction.com Las Vegas, NV New World Order News newworldordernews.com NWOTruth nwotruth.com OK SAFE, Inc. (Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise)* ok-safe.com Tulsa, OK Outpost of Freedom outpost-of-freedom.com/blog Patriot Freedom* patriotfreedom.org West Warwick, RI Patrioticspace* patrioticspace.com Waco, TX PatriotResistance.com* patriotresistance.com Lexington, KY Patriots of America (Richland Co. Citizens for 2nd Amendment)* patriotsofamerica.org Richland County, OH Remnant Saints International Patriot Alliance* rsicc.org Ephraim, UT Republic of Texas* texasrepublic.info Bastrop County, TX

The Resistance — Mark Dice’s Official Website markdice.com Restore the Republic* restoretherepublic.com Northbrook, IL Richard T. Osborne richard-t-osborne.com Riders United for a Sovereign America, Corp.* ridersusa.net Phoenix, AZ Save A Patriot Fellowship* save-a-patriot.org Westminster, MD Second Amendment Committee* libertygunrights.com Hanford, CA Second Amendment Task Force* secondamendmenttaskforce.com Fairbanks, AK SheriffMack.com sheriffmack.com Sovereignty International, Inc.* sovereignty.net Bangor, ME Stop the North American Union stopthenorthamericanunion.com Take Back Kentucky* takebackkentucky.com Clarkson, KY Take Back Washington* takebackwashington.com Versailles, MO Tennessee Sons of Liberty* tennesseesonsofliberty.com tnsonsofliberty.typepad.com Nashville, TN THC Ministries of Arizona thcministriesofarizona.com THREE%ER* threepercenter.org Pinson, AL TNSONSOFLIBERTY* tnsonsofliberty.blogspot.com Nashville, TN Township News townshipnews.org The Truth as I see it usavsus.info Truth Attack* truthattack.org/jml/index.php Shreveport, LA United American Freedom Foundation* uaff.info Grandview, MO United States.fm* zanna.us

Golden Valley, AZ U. S. National Party* nationalparty.us Oakton, VA U.S.A. The Republic: How you Lost It usa-the-republic.com The Voice of Freedom (Freedom Bound International)* freedomradio.us/Joomla Klamath Falls, OR We Are Change* wearechangearizona.com Arizona wearechangecolorado.org Colorado wearechangecoloradosprings.org Colorado Springs, CO wearechangehuerfano.us Huerfano County, CO wearechangeatlanta.com/Site/ Home.html Atlanta, GA waccolumbusga.com Columbus, GA wearechangega.bappy.com LaGrange, GA wearechange.org Cedar Falls, IA wearechangeidaho.org Idaho freewebs.com/wearechangeks Wichita, KS truthla.blogspot.com Shreveport, LA wearechangeboston.org Boston, MA somethingmustbreak.net Maine wacmd.weebly.com Maryland wacmichigan.wordpress.com Michigan mnchange.org Minnesota battleforjustice.com/social-change. html Missoula, MT wacnewengland.org New England Area wearechangenc.com North Carolina wearechangemountairy.webs.com Mt. Airy, NC wearechangenewjersey.org New Jersey capemaychange.com Cape May, NJ wearechangereno.org

Reno, NV wearechangepgh.org Pittsburgh, PA wearechangenepa.blogspot.com Scranton, PA wearechange-memphis.webs.com Nashville, TN sanantoniotruth.org San Antonio, TX wacut.org Salt Lake City, UT utahwearechange.org West Valley City, UT wearechangevirginia.org/main. php?page=home.php Virginia wearechangeseattle.org Seattle, WA wearechangekenosha.webs.com Kenosha, WI We the People* givemeliberty.org Queensbury, NY We the People — Continental Congress 2009* givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=AK Homer, AK givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=AL Madison County, AL givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=AZ Arizona givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=ca San Diego, CA givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=CT Connecticut givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=CO Gunnison, CO givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=DC Washington, DC givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=DE Delaware givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=FL Florida givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=GA Georgia givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=HI Hawaii givemeliberty.org/user/congress/

Region.aspx?state=ID Idaho givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=IL Illinois givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=IN Indiana givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=IA Iowa givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=KS Kansas givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=KY Kentucky givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=LA Louisiana givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=ME Maine givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=MD Maryland givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=MA Massachusetts givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=MI Michigan givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=MN Minnesota givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=MS Mississippi givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=MO Missouri givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=MT Montana givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=NC North Carolina givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=ND North Dakota givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=NE Nebraska givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=NH New Hampshire givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=NJ New Jersey

givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=NM New Mexico cc2009.us givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=NY Queensbury, NY givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=NV Nevada givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=OH Ohio givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=OK Oklahoma givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=OR Oregon givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=PA Pennsylvania givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=RI Rhode Island givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=SC South Carolina givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=SD South Dakota givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=TN Tennessee givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=TX Texas givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=UT Utah givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=VT Vermont givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=VA Virginia givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=WA Washington givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=WV West Virginia givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=WI Wisconsin givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=WY Wyoming We the People Foundation* spring 2011

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wethepeoplefoundation.org Queensbury, NY What Really Happened* whatreallyhappened.com Concord, NH WorldNetDaily* wnd.com Washington, DC WorldNetDaily Books* wndbooks.wnd.com Washington, DC You Have Tread On Me* youhavetreadonme.com New York, NY Zion’s Camp zionscamp.yuku.com VENDOR (14) Brave New Books* bravenewbookstore.com Austin, TX Camp FEMA* campfema.com Northbrook, IL Don’t Tread on Me* donttreadonmemovie.com Columbia, MO eMilitary Manuals* emilitarymanuals.com/orgmilitia.htm Montrose, CO Frugal Squirrel’s Homepage for Patriots, Survivalists, and Gun Owners frugalsquirrels.com It’s Over* its-over.info Morganton, GA Lawful Path* lawfulpath.com Lynnville, TN Martial Law Survival* martiallawsurvival.com Thomson, IL National Center for Constitutional Studies* nccs.net Malta, ID New York Liberty Council* nylibertycouncil.com Albany, NY The Order of Constitution Defenders.com* constitutiondefender.com Chattanooga, TN Sons of Liberty* sons-of-liberty.net Columbus, IN William Lewis Films* williamlewisfilms.com Columbia, MO

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WING TV* wingtv.net State College, PA POLITICAL/CITIZEN GROUPS (95) American Independent Party* aipca.org Lemon Grove, CA Christian Exodus christianexodus.com Constitution Party* alconstitutionparty.org Cullman, AL cparkansas.org Fayetteville, AR azconstitutionparty.com Golden, AZ AIPCalif.blogspot.com Riverside, CA americanconstitutionparty.com Arvada, CO cpflorida.com Jupiter, FL gaconstitutionparty.org Woodstock, GA cpiowa.org Oskaloosa, IA cpidaho.org Parma, ID constitutionpartyil.com East Peoria, IL kansasconstitutionparty.org Wichita, KS kyconstitutionparty.com/index.php Louisville, KY CPofLA.org Mandeville, LA constitutionalview.org Amesbury, MA cpmn.org St. Cloud, MN constitutionpartymo.org Fenton, MO constitutionpartync.com Fuquay-Varina, NC constitutionparty-nj.org Cinnaminson, NJ cpnm.us Albuquerque, NM constitutionpartyny.com Albany, NY freewebs.com/cpoklahoma Chandler, OK constitutionpartyoregon.net Hubbard, OR constitutionpartypa.com Lancaster, PA cpri.weebly.com/news.html Middletown, RI

scconstitutionparty.com Greenville, SC sdakcp.org Brandon, SD constitutionpartyoftennessee.com Englewood, TN utah-constitution-party.org Layton, UT constitutionpartyvt.com Williston, VT constitutionpartyofwa.com Tacoma, WA cpwv.org Martinsburg, WV Constitution Party — The Conservative Caucus* conservativeusa.org Vienna, VA John Birch Society* jbs.org Appleton, WI Lincoln County Watch* lincolncountywatch.org Bozeman, MT Oath Keepers* oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ alabama Alabama oathkeepers.ning.com/group/alaska Alaska oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ arkansas Arkansas oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ arizona Arizona oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ northerncalifornia Northern California oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ southerncalifornia Southern California oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ colorado Colorado oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ connecticut Connecticut oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ delaware Delaware oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ washingtondc Washington, DC oathkeepers.ning.com/group/florida Florida oathkeepers.ning.com/group/georgia Georgia oathkeepers.ning.com/group/hawaii

Hawaii oathkeepers.ning.com/group/idaho Idaho oathkeepers.ning.com/group/illinois Illinois oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ indiana Indiana oathkeepers.ning.com/group/iowa Iowa oathkeepers.ning.com/group/kansas Kansas oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ kentucky Kentucky oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ louisiana Louisiana oathkeepers.ning.com/group/maine Maine oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ maryland Maryland oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ massachusetts Massachusetts oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ michigan Michigan oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ minnesota Minnesota oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ mississippi Mississippi oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ missouri Missouri oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ montana Montana oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ nebraska Nebraska oathkeepers.ning.com/profile/ StevenNickerson Bellevue, NE oathkeepers.org/oath Las Vegas, NV oathkeepers.ning.com/group/nnv Northern Nevada oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ southernnevada Southern Nevada oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ newhampshire New Hampshire oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ newjersey

New Jersey oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ newmexico New Mexico oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ newyork Chatham, NY oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ northcarolina North Carolina oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ northdakota North Dakota oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ohio Ohio oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ oklahoma Oklahoma oathkeepers.ning.com/group/oregon Oregon oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ pennsylvania Pennsylvania oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ rhodeisland Rhode Island oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ southcarolina South Carolina oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ southdakota South Dakota oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ tennessee Tennessee oathkeepers.ning.com/group/texas Texas oathkeepers.ning.com/group/utah Utah oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ vermont Vermont oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ virginia Virginia oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ washington Washington oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ westvirginia West Virginia oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ wisconsin Wisconsin oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ wyoming Wyoming Oath Keepers Blog oath-keepers.blogspot.com

OK4TROOPS.com ok4troops.com The Patriot Network* patriotnetwork.info Anderson, SC The Sheriff Project usa1911.com SOVEREIGN/COMMON LAW/ JURAL (59) Aboriginal Law Institute* knowtheledgemedia.ning.com/ group/aboriginallawfirm New York, NY AMARA Temple of Moorish Science* amexm.com Arlington, TX America Can Be Free* americacanbefree.com Newton, AL America is Crying Tyranny: Created by NMC Services* mncservices.net Beaverton, OR American Grand Jury* americangrandjury.org agjnow.org Nogales, AZ American Militia msmilitia.ning.com The American’s Sovereign Bulletin* theamericansbulletin.org Central Point, OR Ancient Order of Free Asiatics ancientorderoffreeasiatics.com The Autonomous Authchthon International Muurish Gansul* muurishgansul.com Norfolk, VA The Azizan Moorish Nation of North Amexem azizan_moors.tripod.com Basileia Ouranous* govid.org Summer Lake, OR Beneficiaries of Commerce* bicforum.org Clifton Park, NY The Brothers for Mercy reocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/2987/index.html Christian National Common-Law Court christiancommonlaw-gov.org Church of Sovereigns: Sacred Family Temple of the Living Saint (Copwatch TV)* copwatch.tv

sovereigncopwatch.ning.com sovereign-citizenship.net/home.html title4flag.ning.com Satsop, WA Commercial Redemption* commercialredemption.com Boise, ID Cultural Freedom* cultural-freedom.com Norlina, NC Cultural Freedom Bookstore* freewebs.com/cultural_freedom Fayetteville, NC Debt Free Sovereign Trust* freewebs.com/debtfreesovereign debtfreesovereign.webs.com Blaine, WA Discharge Debt* discharge-debt.com/id155.htm Bloomfield, CO Dixieland Law Journal fly.hiwaay.net/~becraft The Dorean Group* thedoreangroup.blogspot.com Union City, CA Embassy of Heaven* EmbassyOfHeaven.com Stayton, OR EZREMEDY4U* hallelu-yah.org/ezremedy4u.comnew/ucc.html Arvada, CO FAMILY GUARDIAN famguardian.org famguardian1.org familyguardian.tax-tactics.com For the Entity of This Vessel lawfortherecord.blogspot.com Great Registry Post* greatregistrypost.org Simpsonville, KY Guardians of the Free Republics* guardiansofthefreerepublics.com gotfr.org Soquel, CA ISA (Spiritual Sovereignty)* spiritualsovereignty.com Kapaa, HI Little Shell Pembina Band of North America* officialpnlsbna.org/membershipupdate.html Pembina River Area, ND Lost Horizons* losthorizons.com Commerce Township, MI McCutcheons Ink.* mccutcheons.info Central Point, OR

Moorish Republic Trust* moorishrepublic.com Oak Park, MI The Moorish Science Temple of America 1928* themoorishsciencetempleofamerica.org Atlanta, GA Our Sammie* oursammie.net Missouri Preamble Trust* preambletrust.com Charlotte, NC Private Bankers Forum privatebankersforum.com Real Debt Elimination* real-debt-elimination.com Cave Junction, OR The Redemption Service (TM) redemptionservice.com Republic of the United States of America* republicoftheunitedstates.org Portage, MI Save Our Sheriff saveoursheriff.com Shadow Mountain Bank* shadowmountainbank.org Ash Fork, AZ Sovereign-Citizenship.Net* sovereign-citizenship.net Satsop, WA Sovereign Trust* sovereigntrust.info Blaine, WA State Citizens Service Center Research Headquarters state-citizen.org Status is Freedom* StatusIsFreedom.com Boise, ID Team Law teamlaw.org United Nations of Turtle Island* unitednationsofturtleisland.com Lumberton, NC US Grand Jury Institute* usgrandjury.org Nolensville, TN Washitaw Empire de Dugdahmoundyah* EmpireWashitaw.org Columbia, SC We the Aboriginal People* wetheaboriginalpeople.com Philadelphia, PA ▲

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FOR THE RECORD incidents of apparent hate crimes and hate group activities listed in for the record are drawn primarily from media sources. These incidents include only a fraction of the approximately 191,000 reported and unreported hate crimes that a 2005 government report estimated annually. This listing carries a selection of incidents from the fourth quarter of 2010. Any additional listings can be found on the Intelligence Project’s website at www.splcenter.org.

CALIFORNIA

INDIANA

San Francisco • Nov. 29, 2010 A Muslim cab driver was allegedly attacked by a passenger who allegedly robbed him while making references to Osama Bin Laden. Westminster • Oct. 22, 2010

Bloomington • Oct. 31, 2010 Eight Asian students at Indiana University were allegedly attacked and robbed by a group of black men and women who used antiAsian slurs during the incident.

John DeLoach, a 20-year-old white man, pled guilty to one felony count of hate crime battery causing injury and one felony count of hate crime assault causing injury in connection with a September incident where he yelled racial slurs at a black woman and her white male friend and then punched the man. DeLoach was sentenced to four years in prison.

KENTUCKY

FLORIDA Jacksonville • Dec. 8, 2010 Eric Francis Sandefur, 17, was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a homeless man. New Port Richey • Dec. 16, 2010 Neo-Nazi John Ditullio Jr., 24, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of firstdegree murder and attempted second-degree murder after he attacked a white neighbor with a knife for having a black friend and a gay son in 2006. Ditullio then stabbed to death 17-year-old Kristopher King, a friend of the woman’s son.

IDAHO Twin Falls • Dec. 22, 2010 A Muslim woman shopping with her two children was allegedly threatened by a man who claimed he had killed Muslims and planned to kill more and that he had a concealed weapon. The man was charged with felony malicious harassment.

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Louisville • Dec. 6, 2010 White supremacist Johnny Logan Spencer, 28, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for writing a poem depicting the fatal shooting of President Obama.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge • Dec. 11, 2010 Racially charged text messages, including one containing a picture of a black man hanging from a tree, were sent to several black female city council members.

MAINE Portland • Nov. 11, 2010 A group of teens allegedly beat and kicked a 17-year-old black youth and bit off part of his ear.

MASSACHUSETTS Dartmouth • Nov. 6, 2010 An anti-gay slur was spraypainted on the car of an openly gay student at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Springfield • Nov. 1, 2010 Benjamin Haskell, 24, was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitution for setting afire a church being built for a predominantly black congregation in November 2008 because he was angry over Barack Obama’s presidential victory hours earlier.

MICHIGAN Saginaw • Nov. 17, 2010 A note with the words “All shall perish” and three tombstones with three black students’ names

inscribed on them was left in an eighth-grade black student’s locker by a white student.

while punching her in the face and trying to hit her son.

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Cincinnati • Dec. 14, 2010 An E-mail was sent to the Islamic Association of Cincinnati that stated, “You should know that you are not wanted in Cincinnati … We don’t want you here. Mohammad is a joke. Go back to your desert. Beware. We may just declare jihad on you.”

Lincoln • Oct. 25, 2010 Thod T. Kuaygong, a native of Africa, was charged with committing a hate crime assault after allegedly yelling he was a racist and hated white people. He then punched a white man who attempted to intervene as Kuaygong was trying to convince a 19-year-old woman, who is also a native of Africa, to come home with him because she needed to be “with her people.”

NEW JERSEY Sparta • Oct. 13, 2010 Paul Rinaldi, 24, a former instructor at a school for people with developmental disabilities, was charged with bias intimidation and endangering the welfare of an incompetent person after he, while still an instructor at the school, allegedly punched an autistic black woman in the stomach on Sept. 22 while calling her a racial slur and asking an onlooking staff member, “Do you want to see a gorilla cry?”

NEW YORK Long Island • Nov. 2, 2010 Richard Vitale, a retired New York City police officer, his sons Richard Jr. and Gregory, and Christopher Makmaltchi and Nicholas Lazarus were charged with assault after they allegedly beat a Turkish immigrant with American flags while telling him to get out of their country. New York • Oct. 14, 2010 A Muslim woman and her 4-yearold son were allegedly attacked by a man who called her “a terrorist”

OHIO

OREGON Portland • Nov. 8, 2010 Daniel Lee Jones, former regional director of the neo-Nazi American National Socialist Workers Party, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for mailing a noose to an Ohio NAACP chapter president in 2008.

PENNSYLVANIA Dover • Dec. 22, 2010 A 14-year-old student faces juvenile charges of ethnic intimidation, criminal mischief, institutional vandalism, disorderly conduct and terrorist threats after he allegedly scribbled the letters “KKK,” the words “white power” and a swastika in an intermediation school restroom and then left a message on a 12-year-old black student’s cell phone in which he threatened to hang and burn the victim.

TENNESSEE Jackson • Oct. 22, 2010 Daniel Cowart, 22, a former probationary member with the Supreme White Alliance skinhead group, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in plotting multiple robberies, the killing of dozens of black people and the assassination of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008. ▲

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Anti-Semitic ‘radical traditionalist’ Catholics insist the universe revolves around the Earth. The devil reportedly disagrees

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BY ROBERT STEINBACK south bend, ind. — it took some 350 years for the Roman Catholic Church to finally admit it was wrong to have found pioneering astronomer Galileo Galilei “vehemently suspect of heresy” in 1633 for affirming Nicolaus Copernicus’ groundbreaking 1543 theory that the earth and planets revolve around the sun. But there remains a strain of “radical traditionalist” Catholics who basically tore up Pope John Paul II’s 1992 acknowledgement and is still adamant that the Bible’s accounts of an earth-centered universe are literal truth — and that the church was right to convict the old stargazer all those years ago. Eight of the world’s leading proponents of neo-Dark Ages cosmology (with one token dinosaur-age conspiracy theorist thrown in) met here on Nov. 6 for the First Annual Catholic Conference on Geocentrism — the theory that the earth sits motionless at the center of the universe. The oneday seminar was entitled, “Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right.” “Seminar” might be generous phrasing: The presentation was a mindnumbing, 15-hour-long sermon-cum-pep rally for radical traditionalist Catholic apologists desperate to debunk any science that suggests the Bible shouldn’t be interpreted literally. Numerous biblical passages describe the earth as at rest, with the sun in transit around it. About 90 mostly Catholic devotees, curious skeptics and feisty college students who converged on South Bend endured a series of one-sided monologues declaring that theorists from Copernicus and Galileo to Einstein and Hawking were wrong about celestial physics. Though much of it was difficult for mathematical mortals to follow, the presenters’ gambit was clear enough: Can anyone really prove the earth isn’t

cial church condemnation and have rendered him unwelcome in most mainstream Catholic circles. E. Michael Jones, who also was at the gathering, has used his South Bend-based magazine Culture Wars to viciously denounce the “Jewish world view” and has expressed enthusiasm for many core Nazi ideas about Jews (a sampling of his magazine’s cover stories: “Judaizing: Then and Now,” “The Judaism of Hitler” and “Shylock A “geocentrist” conference held in Indiana used the same name as a book Comes to Notre (above) co-authored by one of its main participants, Robert Sungenis. Dame”). Martin G. Sungenis rejects modern Catholic teachings on both the motion of the Selbrede, who also planets and toleration of the Jews. spoke, is vice-president of the Chalcedon Foundation, the “If we’re saying that the earth is in leading think tank of the Bible-literalist the center of the universe and it’s not Christian Reconstruction theology; the moving, that means Someone, with a foundation has never renounced the raccapital S, put it there,” said the conferist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views ence’s principal speaker and emcee, of its late founder, R.J. Rushdoony. Robert Sungenis, founder of Catholic Except for some of Jones’ anti-JewApologetics International. “You can’t ish books being offered for sale, there have the earth at the center of the universe by chance. … The devil is a pow- was little evidence of these unsavory connections at the conference. erful foe and he will use something like The best moments of the gather[the model of a sun-centered solar sysing came when 15 or so bright college tem] to win his battle. If [scientists] have students finally got to confront the purto admit that the earth is in the center of the universe, where does the power shift ported experts at the end of the long day. The panel struggled with and occaback to? It shifts back to the church.” sionally mocked their questions and Some of the South Bend presenthost Sungenis at times seemed to bristle ers have taken their certainty about at the students’ audacity. what they see as literal biblical truth to If such an attitude is typical of all hateful extremes far more consequenlike-minded theorists, it’s easy to sciential than dismissing Galileo: Sungenis tifically postulate that geocentrism is a has published a number of venomously lot of solar hot air. ▲ anti-Semitic screeds that drew offisitting still? That’s tougher than it sounds: Even though astrophysicists tell us that every body in the universe is in motion, it will always appear that the thing you’re on is standing still relative to everything else.

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