67 Articles from 2022
THE TURNING POINT NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS: A WEEKEND AT AMFEST
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | December 31, 2022
This year’s AmFest’s rallying cry was dehumanizing trans people. Also, Nazis attended but we were barred.
OLD NICK’S DRAG EVENT SUCCESSFUL DESPITE NATION-WIDE HATE-MONGERING, LOCAL INTIMIDATION
JAMES CROXTON | MARY BELL | December 11, 2022
This year, the far right launched an intensified effort across the United States to intimidate, attack, and ultimately stifle the LGTBQIA+ community. Family-friendly drag queen storytime events were some of the most frequent targets, with attacks in California, Iowa, Florida, Minnesota, and Arizona among other places.. On Oct. 31, a donut shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma […]
“A NEW CHURCH for RACISTS”: INSIDE the CHURCH of ARYANITY
SOCAL RESEARCH CLUB | November 16, 2022
A neo-Nazi cult recently emerged and already has tendrils in some of the most influential white nationalist groups in the country. Headquartered in Madisonville, Kentucky, the Church of Aryanity has recruited a small but dedicated base of racists, antisemites and accelerationists across the U.S. and Canada. They’re indoctrinating young men into “The Order” and training […]
ANTI-TRANS ACTIVIST WENT FROM “L.A. DEE DA” to STOKING HATE
SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL | November 4, 2022
For the last several years, former LA Weekly contributor Belissa Cohen has gone mostly unnoticed as an anti-trans voice in Los Angeles. Cohen has appeared at anti-trans protests undercover then used footage she took to appear on anti-trans outlets. She’s a spokesperson for “LGB Fight Back.” The organization regularly spreads baseless conspiracy theories that trans […]
ARIZONA LGBTQ+ & DRAG COMMUNITIES ARE BEING TERRORIZED. NOBODY’S LISTENING.
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | November 2, 2022
Drag Story Hour AZ organizers were under too much pressure. On October 8th 2022, Drag Story Hour Arizona (DSH-AZ) was scheduled to participate in a free event and fundraiser at the Tucson Children’s Museum. Previous DSH-AZ events and other LGBTQ+ spaces were put under siege by bigots. This time was too much, and they knew […]
ABORTION “ABOLITIONISTS” — THE FRINGE of the “PRO-LIFE” CROWD SELLING a MURDEROUS DOCTRINE
LCRW STAFF | September 21, 2022
Last month, the New York Times’ podcast The Daily produced an episode about the anti-abortion ideology of Jeff Durbin and his Apologia Church in Mesa, Arizona. Durbin, a bearded, hipster-dressing pastor, believes that abortions should be punishable by the death penalty. He’s part of a growing network of self-identified “abortion abolitionists.” Yes, you read that […]
VIOLENTLY TRANSPHOBIC, ANTI-VAX DENTIST HAS SOCIAL MEDIA HISTORY FRAUGHT WITH MURDER FANTASIES
CHICAGO FREE MEDIA | September 15, 2022
An Arkansas dentist has left a disturbing social media trail including violent threats against trans people, healthcare providers and politicians. 33-year-old Aaron L. Bratton, who has styled himself as “The Mustachioed DDS,” works at a dental clinic in Atkins, AR—a town of 3000 situated 66 miles northwest of Little Rock. He has been employed at […]
NAZI-LINKED METAL SHOW FRIDAY AT MAYWOOD, CA BAR THAT KEEPS HOSTING NSBM SHOWS
ROBERT SANDS | September 12, 2022
Nazi musician Kyle “KEP” Powell will be bringing his band “Engorge” and some of their Nazi friends to the greater Los Angeles area on September 16th to play at Bricks Sports Bar. It’s billed as the “first assault in California since 2015” Headliners Engorge prove that there’s a Nazi metal version of the Wu Tang […]
WHITE SUPREMACIST’S SPEECH AT ASU ATTRACTS GROYPERS & PEDOPHILE, OUTNUMBERED BY PROTESTORS
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | September 12, 2022
70-year-old Jared Taylor is a longtime white supremcaist propagandist. His magazine-turned-website American Renaissance has been publishing his and similar racists’ screeds for decades. Taylor hosts an annual conference (also very originally called American Renaissance) where “racist intellectuals rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists,” as the Southern Poverty Law Center describes. On Friday […]
QANON RALLY FLOPS IN HOLLYWOOD
DESERTBORDER | September 4, 2022
QAnoners and MAGA cultists rallied in Hollywood on Saturday–but their turnout paled in comparison to the numbers they used to draw. About 50 QAnoners rallied at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles, a world-famous tourist hotspot. A roughly equal number of counter-protesters showed up to confront them, leading LAPD to point less-lethal […]
CONVERSION THERAPY-LINKED PASTOR FIRED FROM SOUTHERN OREGON HOMELESS SHELTER ORG
LCRW STAFF | September 2, 2022
Pastor Chad McComas is officially an unemployed bigot. McComas was the founder of Rogue Retreat, the largest provider of publicly funded homeless shelters in Southern Oregon, and served as the organization’s executive director for 24 years. McComas was terminated by his own board of directors on August 16, 2022, after local activists exposed his ties […]
BEND OREGON SHOOTER KILLS TWO, HAD PLANNED LARGER ATTACK
MICHAEL BOORMAN | August 29, 2022
A shooting in Bend, Oregon yesterday took the lives of two innocent people, followed by the suicide of the shooter. Police and Bend city officials confirmed today that the shooting was carried out by a man named Ethan Blair Miller, aged 20. Yesterday evening around 7pm he drove to a supermarket and according to witness […]
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY TO HOST WHITE SUPREMACIST JARED TAYLOR ON CAMPUS
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | August 25, 2022
On September 2, 2022 at Arizona State University (ASU) is hosting longtime white supremacist propaganist Jared Taylor for a lecture titled “If We Do Nothing: A Defense of White Identity Politics.” For decades, Taylor has been a major influencer amongst his fellow racist travelers as the founder of white supremacist magazine-turned-website American Renaissance. The publication […]
NEO-NAZI FIGHT CLUBS HELD MMA TOURNAMENT IN SAN DIEGO AREA
SOCAL RESEARCH CLUB | August 24, 2022
On August 20, neo-Nazis held an MMA tournament in an undisclosed location in San Diego. It was organized by three fascist groups: one local, one national and one international. The event marks the culmination of RAM founder Rob Rundo’s long-time efforts to bring organized white nationalist fight clubs to the U.S. The tournament, which was […]
L.A. COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL CLINIC PROJECT CANCELED AFTER FAR-RIGHT DISINFO & INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN
VISHAL P. SINGH | August 23, 2022
The lead-up to the July 18th school board meeting for Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District was anything but normal. LEXIT, a far-right group nominally advocating for Latino American Democrats to switch to the Republican Party, helped initiate an online firestorm over a proposed partnership with Planned Parenthood for a student clinic. Agenda item number 12A […]
NEWSOM ENDORSES MAYORAL CANDIDATE WITH TIES TO VIOLENT SAN DIEGO COUNTY HATE GROUP
JOE ORELLANA | August 10, 2022
On August 3rd, Ammar Campa-Najjar announced that he had received California Governor Gavin Newsom’s endorsement in Chula Vista’s mayoral race. This isn’t Campa-Najjar’s first campaign for public office. In 2020, he ran against congressman Darrell Issa to represent California’s 50th Congressional District. Running as a Democrat, Campa-Najjar flaunted his proximity to Donald Trump through comments […]
HOW KLAMATH FALLS PRIDE PUSHED BACK AGAINST BUNDYS & LOCAL BIGOTS—AND WON
LCRW STAFF | August 3, 2022
Even the rural towns of Southern Oregon cannot escape the growing panic surrounding drag queens and “groomers.” In July, conspiratorial preachers and Ammon Bundy’s “People’s Rights” network flung baseless allegations and threatened violence against local pride organizers. While the bigots readied themselves to counterprotest against Klamath Pride, queer community members used small town organizing tactics […]
OREGON COASTAL COMMUNITIES MENACED BY NEO-NAZI GDL MEMBER
SOCAL RESEARCH CLUB | August 1, 2022
In early June, residents of the tiny coastal town of Garibaldi, Oregon took notice of a strange van that appeared at the local RV park. The late-model Chevy Sport Van was impossible to miss: Plateless, its windows obscured by cardboard and blackout tint, and a message scrawled in black paint across its tan body that […]
I SWEAT MY ASS OFF AT THE PRESCOTT VALLEY TRUMP RALLY SO YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | August 1, 2022
Since losing the 2020 election, Donald Trump has kept up his endless train of MAGA rallies, with Arizona hosting the most post-loss events. On July 24, 2021, Turning Point Action sponsored a Phoenix Trump rally while the fraudulent, discredited Maricopa “audit” was still ongoing. Six months later, on January 15, 2022, Trump helicoptered into the […]
NAZI METAL SHOW PLANNED FRIDAY IN UNDISCLOSED LOS ANGELES LOCATION
ABNER HÄUGE | July 26, 2022
We regret to inform you that the metal Nazis are at it again. At some undisclosed location in Los Angeles that LCRW hasn’t fully determined yet, a group or label or something called Ancient Rites Through Native Pride (A.R.T.N.P.) is having a show with 13 spoopy bands who are either Nazis or fine with playing […]
FAR-RIGHT MEDIA WANTS TO PIN MONKEYPOX ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE
ELI KNÉSÓL | July 25, 2022
Monkeypox virus (MPV), the hottest new trend in viruses, had recent outbreaks across the world and has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization. The disease shouldn’t be taken lightly, especially as it seems to have a foothold among men who have sex with men (MSM), and shows signs that it […]
ARIZONA’S GOP IS WAGING WAR ON DRAG QUEENS
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | July 1, 2022
On June 14, the Arizona Senate Republicans issued a joint statement expressing interest in writing a bill that would prohibit anyone under 18 from being “exposed” to drag shows. The proposed ban comes as a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ laws and attacks have the nation, with similar anti-drag laws being suggested in Texas and Florida. DRAG […]
ROE FALLS, CITIES RISE–MANY, MANY BRUTALIZED
ABNER HÄUGE | JOE ORELLANA | ELI KNÉSÓL | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | CARTER HUESTIS | June 27, 2022
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, making abortion illegal in many states and emperiling access in the rest. Reactions were swift. People had been anticipating an announcement since a draft of the decision was leaked to Politico in early May. Thousands gathered in cities across the country, occasionally harassed and attacked by […]
MASS SHOOTER’S FORMER BAND PLAYING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NAZI MUSIC FEST
ROBERT SANDS | June 13, 2022
From Resistance Records, a neo-Nazi record label founded in the 90’s, to the bowels of 4/8chan today, hate groups’ media continues to play a role in inspiring young fascists to attack minority communities with seemingly increasing force and frequency. After a 4chan poster-turned-Nazi terrorist murdered ten people in mostly Black neighborhood’s supermarket in Buffalo, New […]
PHOENIX SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE IS REGISTERED AGENT FOR III% GROUP, LED ANTI-LGBTQ CAMPAIGN
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | June 10, 2022
A far-right takeover is happening throughout the country at the local level. In Florida, at least half a dozen former and current members of the neo-fascist Proud Boys have secured official positions with the Miami-Dade Republican Party. Across the country, white nationalist propagandist Vincent James Foxx relocated from California to the small Idaho town of […]
POLICE DID LITTLE WHILE NAZI LIVESTREAMERS HARASSED WEHO, HOLLYWOOD, BEVERLY HILLS
SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL | May 31, 2022
On Saturday, May 21st an anti-Semitic hate group called the “Goyim Defense League” drove a U-Haul truck by stunned, angry and occasionally sympathetic onlookers in Hollywood, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. The entire event was live streamed on leader John Minadeo’s anti-Semitic video hosting website Goyim TV. While much of the hate speech live-streamed was […]
WHITE NATIONALIST AZ GOP POLITICIANS SPREAD DANGEROUS LIES IN WAKE OF MASSACRES
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | May 27, 2022
Another week, another senseless, violent tragedy in the so-called Greatest Country in the World. Dozens dead. A white supremacist terror attack targeting a Black community in Buffalo, New York. And a classroom of Fourth Graders violently ripped away from their families in Uvalde, Texas. Countless lives affected. It hurts to even process. Yet, somehow, the […]
ARMED ANTI-ABORTION RALLYGOERS IN RIVERSIDE SQUIRTED WITH PENIS-SHAPED WATER BOTTLE
SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL | May 26, 2022
On May 21st, about 50 anti-abortion protesters gathered at Shamel Park in Riverside, California for a “Babies Lives Matter” march to a nearby Planned Parenthood facility—the Riverside Family Planning Center. One hour earlier, a group of about 30 pro-abortion protesters gathered to oppose them. Though there was no physical violence, there were multiple threats of […]
MAD MAGA: BEYOND BELTWAYDOME RETURNING TO D.C. THREE SHOOTINGS & A CHILD MOLESTER LATER
QREMEDY RESEARCH COLLECTIVE | May 18, 2022
When we last left the convoy, they were licking their wounds after two days spent entering residential neighborhoods to harass elected officials and leaving humiliated by teenagers. Locals fought back with eggs and signs and middle fingers and drove the Convoy out of the Bay Area. The past three weeks have been generally quieter, interspersed […]
PLANNED PARENTHOOD RALLY DRAWS OUT L.A. AREA’S FAR-RIGHT REGULARS
SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL | May 16, 2022
Just days after a Politico report revealed that the U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to strike down Roe v. Wade, a right-wing group planned to protest a Planned Parenthood clinic in Highland Park, California. The protest took place May 7th. Among the attendees was a man who was taken into Federal custody after threatening to […]
KEIZER, OR PRIDE FAIR CANCELED AFTER DOXXING, HARASSMENT, CITY’S SUPPORT OF FAR-RIGHT
JAMES CROXTON | May 16, 2022
The far-right’s free speech-killing stranglehold on much of Oregon claimed another victim this month: Keizer Pride Fair. On May 6, organizers of Keizer’s Pride Fair announced on their website that this year’s celebration would be canceled. They cited both last year’s event—the city’s first—being disrupted by a far-right group and the community’s overall approval of […]
IF ROE FALLS, ARIZONA WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | May 9, 2022
Thousands of abortion rights demonstrators marched in response to the recently leaked Supreme Court draft opinion signaling the possible end to Roe v. Wade. Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Gilbert, and Prescott all took to the streets to protest the news, which would have devastating effects in Arizona. “Pro-life is a lie, you don’t care if people […]
BANNER-DROPPING NAZIS IN VENTURA COUNTY RECEIVE CONTINUING COMMUNITY PUSHBACK
ABNER HÄUGE | May 6, 2022
I’m at a deli talking to my sources. There’s a bunch of church ladies at the big table across from us in the outdoor dining area. One’s reading from some book, maybe the Bible. “Lemon,” the admin of the Conejo Valley Antifascists’ Twitter account, looks at them, looks back at me and says something to […]
NAZI-LINKED BLACK METAL BAND SET TO PLAY LOS ANGELES SATURDAY
ABNER HÄUGE | May 5, 2022
Another day, another Nazi band trying to have a show in L.A. Maquahuitl, a Nazi-linked black metal band whose logo has a stylized swastika, is set to play Catch One in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 7th. For those who aren’t history buffs, “Nazi” was the German acronym for “National Socialist.” But the Nazi metal […]
A LOOK BEHIND THE RECENT NEO-NAZI BANNER FLOP IN COSTA MESA
SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL | May 4, 2022
A group of seven people began unfurling two Neo-Nazi banners above the 55 freeway in Costa Mesa, California on April 24th. In less time than it took to put them up, the group began to take the banners down after community members and reporters confronted them. Costa Mesa Police arrived shortly after, offering to assist […]
EXTREMISTS MINGLE WITH L.A., RIVERSIDE, SAN BERNARDINO SHERIFFS AT FIRST TRI-COUNTY FORUM
VISHAL P. SINGH | May 2, 2022
Upon arriving at the first-ever Tri-County Sheriff’s Forum in California, you might find yourself asking whether you’re at a community forum or a spy convention. Supercars, guns, gadgets, snowmobiles, helicopters, military-grade special operations gear, armored vehicles, scuba-diving equipment, and even a rocket propelled grenade launcher? There was quite a militarized spectacle on display at the […]
QANON WEBHOST’S FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS HIS & AMERICAN POLITICS’ CRUEL ABSURDITY
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | April 30, 2022
QAnon figure Ron Watkins will not win the 2022 primary in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District. The former 8kun administrator’s run has been puzzling to many. Is he grifting? Is he trolling? A bit of both? If Watkins is attempting to pull off a grift or secure a seat in D.C., then he’s been failing miserably. […]
MAD MAGA: FURY ROAD’S EGG-CELLENT ADVENTURE
QREMEDY RESEARCH COLLECTIVE | April 27, 2022
The first sign that this would be a weird week—even by convoy standards—was the arrival of the FAFO fire truck, a retired bright yellow fire truck with working lights, siren, and fire hose. This week the convoy had one protest at a Jewish Community Center, two protests at the Capitol in Sacramento, three protests at […]
SAN DIEGO SHERIFFS DEFLECT COMPLAINTS AFTER ALLEGED WHITE POWER GANG MEMBER STABS BLACK TEENAGER
JOE ORELLANA | April 22, 2022
On April 16th, Lakeside experienced its first recorded hate crime of the year. Two white youths stabbed and beat a sixteen-year-old black girl while using racial and misogynistic slurs against the victim. A lieutenant with the San Diego Sheriff’s Department Lakeside Substation fielded the majority of questions and comments during a town hall on the […]
HIGH PRODUCTION, LOW ENERGY ANTIVAXX RALLY CONSTIPATES DOWNTOWN L.A. TRAFFIC
ABNER HÄUGE | April 14, 2022
LAPD rolled out the red carpet for an astroturfed right-wing event, funneling traffic around Grand Park and blocking off streets for the sake of about a thousand antivaxxers, fifth-dimension vibe-nauts, Proud Boys, and at least one neo-Nazi last Sunday. They wandered in to watch “COVID is a hoax” cranks and celebrities who got hooked on […]
TENNESSEE BILL COULD MAKE SLEEPING VIRTUALLY ANYHWERE WHILE HOUSELESS A CRIME
CARTER HUESTIS | April 12, 2022
Tennessee is part of a wave of Southern states passing draconian bills aimed at punishing people for existing and restricting their control over their own bodies. From Arizona’s abortion and trans healthcare bans to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill there is seemingly no end to this wave of repression. The newest addition is Tennessee’s SB1610, […]
“I HAD SNIPERS ON ROOFS”—FLYNN, TRUMP SPAWN & ANTIVAXXERS CONVERGE IN KEIZER, OR
ABNER HÄUGE | JAMES CROXTON | April 6, 2022
It was, as one local activist accurately described it, “Warped Tour for QAnon.” All-stars from Q-world and the antivaxx/COVID conspiracy theory scene took their big-tent revival, “ReAwaken America,” to Keizer, Oregon (just outside of Salem, the state’s capitol) this past weekend, selling out about 4,000 tickets for $250 a pop (half-off if you’re a pastor.) […]
ARIZONA PASSES TWO TRANSPHOBIC LAWS ON EVE OF TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | April 1, 2022
International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st is a celebration of trans people and the accomplishments of trans and gender-nonconforming individuals worldwide. The annual day of awareness is also a time to highlight continued discrimination and what still needs to be done to achieve trans liberation and justice. The day before this year’s TDOV, […]
INCELS BLAME ARTIST’S “DUMBASS LOSER TWEETS” FOR SHUT DOWN VEGAS SHOW
ELI KNÉSÓL | March 31, 2022
A show featuring “incelcore” artists that was set to take place in Las Vegas was quickly canceled after locals reached out to the prospective venue about the hyper-misogynistic “involuntary celibate” subculture’s hateful nature. Near the edge of the arts district, 11th Street Records had planned to host “RockAngels 2” in their combination vinyl store and […]
SEATTLE REPORTER MAKES PROMO VIDEO FOR PROUD BOYS COMPLETE WITH NAZI ANTHEM
ABNER HÄUGE | March 21, 2022
Johnathan Choe, a now-former Seattle reporter for Sinclair-owned KOMO News tweeted out a video Saturday promoting a public relations event for local chapters of the Proud Boys. The “Meet your local Proud Boy” event was at Tivoli Fountain in Olympia Saturday. The video was a slideshow of their event with a song called “We’ll Have […]
INSIDE ROB RUNDO’S FASCIST PROPAGANDA NETWORK
JORDAN HOPKINS | March 17, 2022
A white supremacist propaganda site operated by infamous neo-Nazi Robert Rundo is using his international associations to develop close ties with groups like Patriot Front, signaling a worrying fusion between the tactics and aesthetics of some of the most violent fascists in the modern international movement. Even before Rundo fled the United States for Eastern […]
HERE’S THE NAZIS FLYERING TUCSON NEIGHBORHOODS
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | March 14, 2022
In December 2021, the Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League released their end-of-year report showing antisemitic and hate incidents had risen in the state by 26% since the previous year. The southern city of Tucson saw a noticeable wave of neo-nazi hate incidents. Last June, local synagogue, Chabad on River, had their doors vandalized with […]
GABRIEL NADALES DOESN’T HAVE MUCH PROOF HE WAS A “FORMER ANTIFA MEMBER”
MARK MISOSHNIK | March 11, 2022
His shtick is claiming to be a former “member of antifa.” Gabriel Nadales says he suddenly saw the light and joined the ranks of Turning Point USA. The conservative personality has mostly flown under the radar, save for a few appearances on Fox News and Campus Reform over the last few years. Recently, however, he […]
MAD MAGA: BEYOND BELTWAY-DOME WAS HALF SHEEPHERDING GRIFT, HALF GROUNDWORK FOR THE NEXT J6
LCRW STAFF | March 9, 2022
They were so close. They had the trucks, the bodies, the money, the supplies. They had the fervor and the rhetoric. They had over a million and a half in funding. In Hagerstown, Maryland, on the eve of March 5, the crowd filled the bleachers of the speedway. They hung onto every word from the […]
MAD MAGA: FURY ROAD DECREES—OBEY GOD, DEFY TYRANTS
LCRW STAFF | March 4, 2022
MONROVIA, INDIANA— The star of the evening was…a dog. Outfitted with a patriotic blindfold and a personal miniature Jeep, Dixie the Praying Dog took the stage for the rally’s opening prayer. Her prized trick—bowing toward the ground and “praying”—earned coos from the audience. Some whipped out their phones to record her as they prayed along. […]
PORTLAND MASS SHOOTING SHOWS HOW FAR-RIGHT FOMENTS MURDER & POLICE TURN A BLIND EYE
JAMES CROXTON | ABNER HÄUGE | March 1, 2022
On the evening of Feb. 19, a regularly-scheduled Black Lives Matter march was supposed to start out near Normandale Park in North-East Portland. Instead, someone came out of a building, approached a group of women volunteering with the march and shot them. One woman, June Knightly, age 60, who went by “T. Rex,” was killed. […]
MAD MAGA: FURY ROAD PASSES THROUGH ARIZONA—HERE’S WHAT WE SAW
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | ELI KNÉSÓL | ABNER HÄUGE | February 27, 2022
“The People’s Convoy” began their journey towards Washington D.C. in Adelanto, California, with plans to hold a vehicle protest styled after the recent blockade in Canada. For weeks, a series of noisy blockades occupied the capital city of Ottawa and international border crossings between the United States and Canada, including the Ambassador Bridge. As a […]
MAD MAGA: FURY ROAD IS GETTING READY TO ROLL OUT FROM THE MIDWEST, TOO
CHICAGO FREE MEDIA | February 22, 2022
While the main American copycat of the Canadian anti-mandate “Freedom Convoy” protest gets ready to head east from inland California on Wednesday, midwestern supporters organized multiple events to prepare for the conspiracy-fueled event this past weekend. In Round Lake Beach, Illinois on Sunday, organizers with the self-proclaimed Illinois chapter of the “People’s Convoy” gathered in […]
MAD MAGA: FURY ROAD IS COMING, IT’S JUST A MATTER OF WHERE & WHEN
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | February 14, 2022
Dates and location suggestions vary but the objective is clear: to recreate a U.S. version of the Canadian convoys and (still ongoing) vehicle blockades. For weeks, Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, has been occupied by incessantly honking demonstrators who gathered from several points across the country. Protesters claim their grievances surround the COVID-19 vaccine mandates for […]
NEO-NAZI HOLDS “PLANNING MEETING” FOR POTENTIAL SUPERBOWL TRUCKER CONVOY IN L.A.
VISHAL P. SINGH | February 11, 2022
The “Freedom Convoy” anti-vaxxer protest in Ottawa, described by law enforcement as a siege, is inspiring similar acts around the world. New Zealand is already dealing with its own convoy situation, and the United States could be next. The Department of Homeland Security just issued a warning about the upcoming Super Bowl in Los Angeles […]
PRO-COUP TENNESSEE PASTOR HOLDS ANTI-MASONIC, ANTI-DISNEY BONFIRE
CHRIST, JESUS | February 9, 2022
POLEMIC It’s rained all day. You’ve been wondering if the bonfire is still going to happen tonight. Luckily though, god’s good graces have prevailed, and the downpour seems to have stopped just in time. You chide yourself for having doubted. With some occult stuff (mostly old Disney merch) sitting in the back of your flatbed, […]
THE SILENCE OF THE DOLPHINS: ARREST UNCOVERS BOOGALOO BOY NETWORK
MICHAEL BOORMAN | February 9, 2022
Another day, another Boogaloo arrest: this time an overconfident gun technician and a brand new network of civil war wannabes. Thanks to a tip from the extremely handsome and charismatic Seamus Hughes at the George Washington University Project on Extremism LCRW is both amused and depressed to report the recent arrest of Matthew Chen, 26, […]
GROYPERS? GAB? QANON? HOW ARIZONA REPUBLICANS KEEP COURTING NAZIS & CONSPIRACY PEDDLERS
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | February 8, 2022
Arizona has become an unspeakable hotbed for right-wing extremist activity in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The state is no stranger to Bundy-friendly politicians or the numerous racist militias who harass migrants at the border, but the “Stop the Steal” era has severely shifted the Arizona right. Nothing highlights this radicalization more than the […]
GETTY HEIRESS GIVES TENS OF THOUSANDS TO BLOCK SOCAL SCHOOL VACCINE MANDATES
WATERSPIDER | January 30, 2022
Sharon McKeeman, leader of booming anti-mask and antivax organizations Let Them Breathe and Let Them Choose, has created at least seven new fundraisers in recent months, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars with the help of Bay Area tech giant GoFundMe and Getty fortune heiress Anna Getty. In September 2021, LCRW reported on McKeeman’s first […]
ANTIVAXXERS DROWNED OUT BY DRUM CIRCLE IN OAKLAND, CROWD STREET CORNERS IN DANVILLE
JAMES CROXTON | MARK MISOSHNIK | January 24, 2022
This weekend, antivaxxers held “End the Mandate” rallies around the country—the largest of which was in Washington D.C. on Sunday. The D.C. rally only drew a few thousand people despite a large stage and highly organized activist infrastructure and aggressive outreach. The events around the country were notable for their attendees’ antisemitism—both in the classical […]
MR. TRUMP GOES TO PRISON TOWN & OTHER ARIZONA TALES
DESERTBORDER | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | January 22, 2022
The fascists were out in force in Arizona on Saturday. Thousands upon thousands of QAnoners, Christian dominionists, white nationalists and other assorted far-right cultists turned out for a large anti-abortion march in the morning, followed in the evening by a rally featuring Trump, the cult leader himself. GATHERING OF THE PREGNANCY UNDERSTANDERS The anti-abortion rally, […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT IIIA: THE MAN IN THE ROOM FULL OF GUNS
MICHAEL BOORMAN | January 21, 2022
A new detention memo for one of the Oath Keepers defendants charged with seditious conspiracy sheds more light on the group’s plans for J6. While Rhodes stood outside the Capitol directing his troops into battle (albeit not very effectively) another member of the team, Edward Vallejo, was standing by across the Potomac with a cache […]
BRUCE BOYER: HOW A LITIGIOUS CONSPIRACY THEORIST SPENT DECADES BRUTE-FORCING HIS WAY INTO SOCAL POLITICS
SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL | January 20, 2022
Public comment at city council meetings throughout Ventura County often feature a man with a cowboy hat who introduces himself with “good evening! My name is Bruce Boyer. I’m candidate for Sheriff here in Ventura County…” Boyer, often dressed with a Gadsden flag t-shirt underneath a black blazer and a black Stetson, mouths off about […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT III: FALL OF THE HOUSE OF RHODES
MICHAEL BOORMAN | January 17, 2022
2022 is off to a rough start for the right wing. In the last week, several prominent right wing figures have found themselves behind bars. First up, Proud Boy Tiny Toese, arrested in his home state of Washington and held without bail on – count ’em – 15 charges. Three of the charges related to […]
CAPITOL RIOT REUNION IN BEVERLY HILLS POORLY ATTENDED, FAILED COUP SUPPORTERS MENACE JOURNALISTS
SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL | January 8, 2022
On the first anniversary of the Capitol Riot of 2021, a group of about 40 pro-Trump rally-goers went to Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills to speak glowingly of the day in Washington where two pipe bombs were placed and nearly 150 officers and uncounted others were injured in clashes with a crowd that breached […]
TPUSA’S “AMERICAFEST” ATTRACTED A SATELLITE WHITE NATIONALIST CONFERENCE
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | January 3, 2022
Charlie Kirk has long tried to keep Nick Fuentes and his white nationalist “America First groyper army” out of Turning Point USA events. Last month’s AmericaFest 2021 in Phoenix, AZ, however, showed the clashing conservative subcultures are merging closer than ever. Fuentes has been determined to nudge the mainstream of right-wing politics into embracing white […]
NAZIS MADE A MURDER CALENDAR & COUNTERTERROR ANALYSTS ARE HELPING SPREAD IT
MICHAEL BOORMAN | January 2, 2022
With a new year comes new challenges, and one of the biggest struggles for antifascists is the unhealthy relationship between right wing propagandists and a security-industrial complex that claims to protect the public but actually enables and amplifies terror. For much of 2021, LCRW has been monitoring a subset of the Terrorgram network that publishes […]