Articles
GROYPERS? GAB? QANON? HOW ARIZONA REPUBLICANS KEEP COURTING NAZIS & CONSPIRACY PEDDLERS
by ARIZONA RIGHT 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
by 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
by 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
by DESERTBORDER | ARIZONA RIGHT 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by ARIZONA RIGHT 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
by 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 […]