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I SPENT A WEEKEND AT A FASCIST YOUTH CONFERENCE SO YOU WOULDN’T HAVE TO
by ARIZONA RIGHT WATCH | December 27, 2021
‘Twas the weekend before Christmas when Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA hosted a massive, sold-out 4-day conservative youth conference featuring 10,000 teens and young adults screaming for Dennis Prager, the Fox News lineup, January 6-plotting politicians, a dancing James O’Keefe, and former active shooter Kyle Rittenhouse in Phoenix, AZ. AmericaFest was located in the […]
WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH DROWNED OUT, OUTNUMBERED ALMOST 9 TO 1 IN DENVER
by SYLVIE EVANS, COLORADO People’s PRESS | December 25, 2021
Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) came to Denver on Saturday, December 18th. It was a low turnout for them—only 8 members attended, while around 70 people countered. The infamous hate group was in town to protest Jared Polis Colorado’s openly gay Governor and his Jewish partner. “The people of Colorado have elevated a sodomite to be […]
“A PATHWAY…TO A MASS-CASUALTY EVENT”: NEW DETAILS IN CASE OF NAZI CAUGHT WITH SILENCER
by JAMES STOUT | December 4, 2021
New documents in the case against Brandon Thibodeau uncover disturbing details about his neo-Nazism and plans for mass violence. At the time of his arrest back in May, which LCRW covered, some of the details about the extent of Thibodeau’s plans and preparations were unclear, but transcripts of his May 26th detention hearing, which still […]
“WE SHOULD NOOSE YOU COMMIES!” VEGAS ANTIVAXXERS ARE SHOWING UP TO OFFICIALS’ HOUSES NOW
by ELI KNÉSÓL | December 1, 2021
“Come on, bitch!” a man with a long pole adorned with a yellow “Don’t tread on me” flag says to an off-camera group. The man with a pole is part of a group of thirty or so antivaxxers/anti-maskers/anti-CRT protesters or whatever the right wing rabble riled up by conspiracy theories and racist rhetoric wants to […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT II: FLORIDA MAN DEMANDS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER or I WAS A TEENAGE OATHKEEPER
by MICHAEL BOORMAN | November 2, 2021
In our first installment on the Oath Keepers data dump, we met Ed Durfee Jr and Brett Wynkoop, respectively the membership director and system administrator for the Oath Keepers. When the organization was abruptly deplatformed in the wake of the Capitol riots on January 6, they worked night and day to get the website back […]
PDX PROUD BOYS SURROUND, INTIMIDATE PRESS OUTSIDE OF EUGENE TPUSA EVENT
by JAMES CROXTON | October 29, 2021
On Oct. 27, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA’s long-planned stop in Eugene for his college campus Critical Racism Tour took place at the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell. With Proud Boys—seeming to act like security—present, Kirk’s 100-plus-minute speaking and Q&A event happened after several locations canceled their hosting. Previous locations had cited safety […]
REPORTER AND WITNESSES DESCRIBE VIOLENT OLYMPIA RALLY, SHOOTING
by ALISSA AZAR | October 26, 2021
On September 4th, a group of antifascists met up in a park to counter continuing far-right demonstrations in downtown Olympia. Fascist groups like the Proud Boys had been regularly gathering every Saturday at the Washington State Capitol building under the guise of rallying against mask and vaccine mandates. As is typical with far-right groups, these […]
NETFLIX WALKOUT DEMONSTRATION UNIMPEDED BY TERFS AND OTHER LOCAL BIGOTS
by ABNER HÄUGE | October 22, 2021
On Wednesday about 200 people gathered at one of Netflix’s offices near downtown Hollywood to support a walkout by employees. Netflix employees were protesting that company’s decision to pay comedian Dave Chapelle for yet another transphobic rant marketed as a comedy special and, among other things, firing a pregnant trans employee who warned Netflix about […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT I: HYPE, LIES AND COMMS FAILURES
by MICHAEL BOORMAN | October 19, 2021
In early October, journalistic nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets released a trove of data collected from the Oath Keepers website. LCRW has been studying the material since the release. It reveals an organization mired in dysfunction and distrust – its membership directionless and often paranoid, its administration slipshod and laughably insecure, and its leadership seemingly […]
VEGAS ANTIVAXX GROUP SPLITS WITH PROUD BOYS AFTER FAILED PUSH TO ALLY WITH BLM
by ELI KNÉSÓL | October 17, 2021
An anti-vax group in Las Vegas is experiencing tension and in-fighting as leadership seeks support from leftist groups and hardline fascists push the group towards militant white supremacy. Freedom of Choice (FoC) is an anti-vaccine/mask-focused misinformation group based in Las Vegas headed up by Brandon Burns, a veteran who started the Facebook group after being […]