13 Articles from 2019

• TACOMA REPUBLICAN CLUB HOSTS ANTI-TRANS SPEAKER, PUSHED OUT OF TWO VENUES

  ABNER HÄUGE | November 29, 2019

  ALERTA pic.twitter.com/ANSzFJGj1s— UPSantifa (@UPSantifa) November 25, 2019 On Monday this week, The 27th District Virginia Taylor Club, a Tacoma-area Republican Party org, hosted an anti-trans speaker who previously harassed a children’s event along with armed militia members. The talk, titled “Transgenderism and Our Children,” was part of their regular monthly social hour at Knapp’s Restaurant. […]

• INTERVIEW WITH ‘SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT DENNY’S’ DIRECTOR XAVIER ROTNOFSKY

  ABNER HÄUGE | November 28, 2019

  Sunday Afternoon at Denny’s from Xavier Rotnofsky on Vimeo. On September 22nd, Harim Uzziel, a minor figure in the Trump/far-right protest scene in Southern California, held a meetup at a Culver City Denny’s. It seemed like it’d be a boring event where a dozen or so Trump supporters ordered chicken tenders, heard speeches and learned […]

• GROYPERS IN THE GOLDEN STATE: BEN SHAPIRO SPENDS MOST OF STANFORD SPEECH TRYING TO DIFFERENTIATE HIMSELF FROM ALT-RIGHT

  ABNER HÄUGE | November 18, 2019

  If you’ve only ever been to Stanford’s campus in the dark, it’s a hell of a maze to try to navigate. Luckily, I found the auditorium quickly because of the chanting. “Say it loud! Say it clear! Ben Shapiro’s not welcome here!” I could hear protestors shouting before I reached the place. Here was some […]

• NEO-NAZI NETWORK “THE BASE” PLANS SPOKANE-AREA MILITARY TRAINING CAMP AND MEETUP

  ABNER HÄUGE | August 10, 2019

  They translated “Al Qaeda” into English and called themselves “The Base.” They’re a network of neo-Nazis with a doomsday prepper streak. They have cells in South Africa, Canada, Australia, and of course, the Good Ol’ U.S. of A. And if you’re in the area of Spokane, Washington, as antifascist activists warned last week, you might […]

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  ANTI-LGBTQ+ GROUPS TARGET LIBRARIES IN SEATTLE METROPOLITAN AREA

  ABNER HÄUGE | June 21, 2019

  A “Teen Pride” event tomorrow at a public library in Renton, WA is being targeted by anti-LGBTQ+ activists. More demonstrations against a library in the same system are planned for next week. Elizabeth Johnston, a far-right Christian media personality who brands herself as “The Activist Mommy,” went on a transphobic rant about the event Thursday […]

• TRANS ACTIVIST CITED BY POLICE FOR HATE CRIME FOR PROTESTING ANTI-LGBTQ+ GROUP

  ABNER HÄUGE | June 11, 2019

  This is an updated version of a story that ran yesterday. It includes an interview with the activist at the center of the incident and information from police documents. “The pride festival was over, and initially we were just trying to walk from it to other local festivities. We hear the religious protesters,” Marcello recounts, […]

• ANTI-LGBTQ+ DEMONSTRATORS SHOVE, THREATEN QUEER ACTIVISTS AT CALIFORNIA STATE CAPITOL DURING PRIDE WEEKEND

  ABNER HÄUGE | June 10, 2019

  In Angie’s video, her friend Marcello, a queer activist in a tie-dye shirt, holds a trans pride flag and dances around in front of a bearded street preacher with a red tie and a suit vest. Angie said that she and Marcello and went to confront them outside of the Capitol Building and that other […]

• BOMB THREATS AND ARRESTS: AFTERMATH OF TWO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RALLIES

  ABNER HÄUGE | May 10, 2019

  Friday night April 26th while I was watching my friend DJ at someone’s 16th birthday, FBI agents arrested an ex-Army Infantryman named Mark Domingo. Feds spent weeks pretending to plot an attack with him. Beats thumped, my friend took a break to check on his infant son, and I ate pizza and stared at my […]

• COUNTER-PROTESTS ORGANIZED FOR WEEKEND FAR-RIGHT RALLIES IN LONG BEACH AND O.C.

  ABNER HÄUGE | April 24, 2019

  On April 27th and 28th, two right wing extremist rallies are going to be held Southern California. April 27th’s “March to END Sanctuary State” in Huntington Beach is organized by a group called “What You Can Do Now.” Arthur Schaper of the California chapter of Mass Resistance, which the SPLC calls an “anti-LGBT hate group,” […]

• HELL FOR HORNA: ANTIFASCISTS CAMPAIGN AGAINST BLACK METAL BAND’S U.S. TOUR AFTER NAZI LINKS COME TO LIGHT

  ABNER HÄUGE | April 18, 2019

  In Finnish, “Horna” means ‘abyss’ or ‘hell.’ Horna is a Finnish black metal band with extensive ties to national socialist black metal (NSBM.) What is NSBM? Well, most people know “national socialists” better as Nazis. Horna attempted to play 14 shows across the United States between March 28th and April 10th. 11 shows were cancelled. […]

• WHEN A PORTLAND TRANS WOMAN WAS ATTACKED, A PATRIOT PRAYER ASSOCIATE APPARENTLY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY AND ANOTHER HARASSED HER GOFUNDME

  ABNER HÄUGE | February 16, 2019

  “A beloved member of our community was violently attacked from behind with a baseball bat possibly by multiple individuals in the Buckman neighborhood near S.E. Morrison,” the GoFundMe page for “Trauma recovery fund for our girl” reads. The attack occurred sometime around 1AM on Sunday the 10th. The survivor, Sophia, said she was ambushed. “I […]

• MAGA GIRL ORGANIZATION SET TO HOLD ANTI-LGBT EVENT ON A HIGHWAY OVERPASS

  ABNER HÄUGE | February 4, 2019

  “Are you sick and tired of watching perverted mentally ill pedophiles brainwash our youth and society with their idiologies [sic]? They have abused the rainbow for the last time!!!” reads the description of MAGA Girl founder Denise Ruiz’s latest rally, the “The Rainbow Event.” Ruiz, who organized the Las Vegas “Alpha March” counter to the […]

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  LAURA LOOMER DRESSES UP AS RACIST CARICATURE AND GETS ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING AT GOVERNOR’S MANSION

  ABNER HÄUGE | January 31, 2019

  “How many people do we have on the livestream so far?” Laura Loomer asks, standing on the sidewalk by the Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento. It’s Wednesday January 30th. Ben Bergquam grins in the foreground. “I have to do my botox smile.” He says. They’re both dressed as racist caricatures of Mexican people, wearing ponchos and […]