ABNER HÄUGE
Abner Häuge (they/them) is a journalist and you can’t say they’re not because they got a Master’s from UC Berkeley’s Journalism School. After better journalist @desertborder texted them a hilarious screenshot of a Fox News segment, they spent all night memeing ‘ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD’ and it became their catchphrase. You can usually find them in the bisexual aisle of the supermarket stocking up on Pocari Sweat for the boog.
Articles by ABNER HÄUGE
CLOCKWORK CREW NAZIS GET CHASED OUT OF DOWNTOWN VENTURA
by ABNER HÄUGE | September 13, 2023
Clockwork Crew got quickly chased out of downtown Ventura last weekend.
CEDAR GLEN SHOOTER STEWED IN GAB PLATFORM’S BIGOTED CESSPIT FOR YEARS
by ABNER HÄUGE | August 24, 2023
A man who murdered a woman for displaying a pride flag at her store was a longtime Gab user, just as the Tree of Life shooter was.
BOOKS-A-MILLION IS STOCKING NAZI GROUPS’ LITERATURE
by ABNER HÄUGE | August 3, 2023
A major bookstore chain is stocking Nazi books from Nazi publishers.
FORMER PROUD BOY ALL-STAR ON FLORIDA REGISTRY FOR CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE CHARGES
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 27, 2023
A former big name in Proud Boy circles is on the FL sex offender registry for child sexual abuse charges.
LEXIT & CHURCH NETWORK STAGE ANTI-TRANS PROTEST AT O.C. CHILDRENS’ HOSPITAL
by KELLY STUART | ABNER HÄUGE | February 14, 2023
Proud Boys-affiliated groups & religious bigots protested an O.C. hospital for providing gender-affirming care last weekend.
“STOP THE STEAL” PARTICIPANT WHO HOSTED HATE GROUP’S “ANTI-CHILD TRAFFICKING” EVENT CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ABUSING MINORS
by ABNER HÄUGE | January 31, 2023
Former “Stop the Steal” caravan organizer Joshua Cantor is being charged with pedophilia-related crimes.
NAZIS “WALK FOR (WHITE) LIFE” UNOPPOSED AT SAN FRANCISCO ANTI-ABORTION RALLY
by ABNER HÄUGE | January 24, 2023
Nazis marched unopposed at a yearly San Francisco anti-abortion parade.
PROUD BOYS & OTHER BIGOTS WAGE LOW-EFFORT INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN AT RIVERSIDE DRAG STORY HOUR
by ABNER HÄUGE | January 16, 2023
Proud Boys stickered and banner dropped but a Riverside Drag Story Hour still happened.
NAZI METAL SHOW PLANNED FRIDAY IN UNDISCLOSED LOS ANGELES LOCATION
by 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 […]
ROE FALLS, CITIES RISE–MANY, MANY BRUTALIZED
by ABNER HÄUGE | JOE ORELLANA | ELI KNÉSÓL | ARIZONA RIGHT 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 […]
BANNER-DROPPING NAZIS IN VENTURA COUNTY RECEIVE CONTINUING COMMUNITY PUSHBACK
by 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
by 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 […]
HIGH PRODUCTION, LOW ENERGY ANTIVAXX RALLY CONSTIPATES DOWNTOWN L.A. TRAFFIC
by 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 […]
“I HAD SNIPERS ON ROOFS”—FLYNN, TRUMP SPAWN & ANTIVAXXERS CONVERGE IN KEIZER, OR
by 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.) […]
SEATTLE REPORTER MAKES PROMO VIDEO FOR PROUD BOYS COMPLETE WITH NAZI ANTHEM
by 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 […]
PORTLAND MASS SHOOTING SHOWS HOW FAR-RIGHT FOMENTS MURDER & POLICE TURN A BLIND EYE
by 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
by ARIZONA RIGHT 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 […]
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 […]
EYEWITNESSES & VICTIM DESCRIBE SHOOTING & PROUD BOY VIOLENCE IN PORTLAND
by ABNER HÄUGE | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL | August 27, 2021
All indications were that antifascists already won before the day even started. Richard, a beloved Portland local who shows up to nearly every damn protest, sat down next to me. I asked him how he’s been and he sat down on the bench next to me and started explaining, out of the blue, something I […]
AUDIO ANALYSIS SUGGESTS FORMER 8CHAN OPERATOR ACCOMPANIED MESA COUNTY CLERK IN BREACHING VOTING MACHINE DATA
by ABNER HÄUGE | August 20, 2021
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters went into a secure room with a currently unknown man who took photos and video of voting machine passwords. Peters then handed the information to conspiracy theory promoter and former 8Chan/8Kun operator Ron Watkins. Watkins used video of the machines to promote Trump’s claims the 2020 election was stolen from […]
OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT MANUFACTURES SHOUTING MATCH BETWEEN PRO-COP PROTESTERS & ABOLITIONISTS
by ABNER HÄUGE | July 11, 2021
Oakland Police Department sponsored a rally Saturday with the hashtag “#safeOakland.” The headline speaker was OPD’s police chief LeRonne Armstrong with “invited guests” speaking as well. OPD’s event was to start at 12pm, presumably in response to the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), which had previously scheduled an event at Lake Merritt for 1pm that day. […]
PEOPLE IN THIS WEALTHY CALIFORNIA TOWN WANTED TO PRETEND THEY WERE SLAVES FOR JUNETEENTH
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 16, 2021
A Monterey County nonprofit is calling off an event where people do unpaid labor in a field to somehow commemorate Juneteenth, the newly-recognized Federal Holiday celebrating the emancipation of slaves at the end of the Civil War. The aptly–named (or maybe not) Juneteenth Coalition’s event, “Anguish of the Elders” (archive,) was to be held in […]
COVID-DENIALIST SAN JOSE CHURCH TO HOST KLAN-LINKED HATE GROUP LEADER SUNDAY
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 4, 2021
On Sunday Calvary Chapel San Jose is hosting Tony Perkins, head of the Christian Nationalist Family Research Council. The FRC is a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group that, according to the SPLC, lobbies in Washington against LGBTQ+ rights and hate crime laws and conducts “outreach to pastors” in order to “transform the culture.” Perkins […]
ONE NAZI PLANNED A MASS SHOOTING IN TEXAS, ANOTHER’S IN SAN JOSE
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 4, 2021
As of May 26th, there were at least 232 mass shootings in the United States this year. On May 27th, Coleman Thomas Blevins, age 28, told an online message board he’d go to a Walmart and commit yet another. Kerr County Sherriff’s Office in Texas arrested him last Friday “on a warrant for a Terroristic […]
PROUD BOY ARRESTED FOR ROLE IN CAPITOL STORMING PREVIOUSLY CHARGED WITH RAPING MINOR
by ABNER HÄUGE | May 29, 2021
Sean Michael McHugh, 34, a Proud Boy from Auburn, California was charged this week in federal court for his role in the January 6th Capitol storming. He’s accused of “assault on law enforcement with a deadly or dangerous weapon; obstruction of justice; and physical violence on Capitol grounds, among other charges.” According to the charging […]
NORTH TEXAS NAZIS DO GRAFFITI TO COPE
by ABNER HÄUGE | MICHAEL BOORMAN | May 24, 2021
There’s a graffiti war going on in North Texas right now between Nazis and antifascists. Most of it, according to Dallas-area antifascists LCRW spoke to is just Patriot Front, the spinoff of Unite the Right marchers Vanguard America. The group is well known for putting up stickers and not doing much else these days. The […]
NAZI ASSOCIATE OF “THE HAMMER” WAS AN ARKANSAS JAILER
by ABNER HÄUGE | May 13, 2021
Antifascists announced on Twitter Tuesday that they’d identified Joshua Logan Barham of Searcy, Arkansas, as a member of Christopher Polhaus’s neo-Nazi “The Hammer” network. According to the antifascist research collective “Garfield but Antifascist” or “Garf” for short, Barham is a close friend of Polhaus and part of his ‘inner circle’ and has been since his […]
COPS KNEW THIS NEONAZI PREYED ON A CHILD FOR OVER 18 MONTHS BEFORE THE FBI ARRESTED HIM
by ABNER HÄUGE | May 5, 2021
ANDREW HAZELTON On October 2nd, 2019, a mother used her ten-year-old daughter’s Instagram to message a neo-Nazi. She told him, “You fucking pedo do not contact my daughter again kill yourself.” The same day, Penobscot County Sheriffs got a complaint from the mother. According to an FBI affidavit requesting a search warrant, she found her […]
ONLINE FASCISTS THOUGHT THIS BOOGALOO MARTYR WAS THEIR GUY–THEY MAY BE RIGHT
by HARVEY EISNER | ABNER HÄUGE | October 27, 2020
Facts surrounding the March 12th killing of Duncan Socrates Lemp by Montgomery County Police Department’s SWAT team are scarce. The police have their version of events. They claim Lemp was plotting violence, had illegal weapons, had a booby-trapped shotgun shell outside his room waiting for the cops and met them with a rifle in his […]
FASCISTS FLOP IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOSE TEETH
by ABNER HÄUGE | October 20, 2020
Saturday about 20 fascists gathered in San Francisco under the pretext of complaining about their accounts being banned from social media websites like Twitter. Philip Anderson, a MAGA influencer and self-professed member of the Proud Boys who previously assaulted a friend of LCRW’s editorial board in July in Portland, organized the event–poorly. Most of the […]
MOUNT SHASTA POLICE TORTURE MAN WITH ELECTRIC SHOCKS BEFORE ARRESTING HIM
by ABNER HÄUGE | September 30, 2020
Video from Monday night shows an unhoused man who later identified himself as Trevor Hanson on the ground and wailing in pain as two Mt. Shasta police officers repeatedly shock him a taser. “I didn’t do anything! I didn’t do anything!” Hansen cries as officers pin him to the ground and repeatedly shock him with […]
EYEWITNESS: MULTIPLE CAR ATTACKS AT MONDAY SACRAMENTO TRUMP EVENT
by ABNER HÄUGE | September 17, 2020
On Monday, Trump came to Sacramento in between campaign events to be briefed on the massive wildfires happening across the West Coast and hold a press conference. His supporters and counter-protestors both showed up outside Sacramento McClellan Airport where he landed. At least Three civilian drivers and one highway patrolman used their vehicles to attack […]
DHS MEMO WARNS OF WHITE SUPREMACIST TERROR TARGETING ELECTIONS
by ABNER HÄUGE | September 5, 2020
A memo published by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), part of the Department of Homeland Security, on August 17th says that violent extremists motivated by ideologies like white supremacy “could quickly mobilize to threaten or engage in violence against election or campaign-related targets in response to perceived partisan and policy-based grievances.” The memo […]
Q AND LOATHING IN HOLLYWOOD
by ABNER HÄUGE | August 26, 2020
The swelling crowd looms up and hits me psychically like a wave I couldn’t tell was too damn big. “CHILD LIVES MATTER!” “AGAIN!” “CHILD LIVES MATTER! On every corner of Hollywood and Vine, the foam from an internet swell hisses in my ears. I can’t even hear their babble for the semi-coherent conspiracy theories they’re […]
MINDEN, NEVADA: MILITIAS PLAN ARMED INTIMIDATION AT BLACK LIVES MATTER RALLY
by ABNER HÄUGE | August 8, 2020
It started with the Douglas County Public Library’s relatively benign proposed statement against bigotry. “The Douglas County Public Library denounces all acts of racism, violence and disregard for human rights. We support #BlackLivesMatter,” the statement reads in part. “Due to your support of Black Lives Matter and the obvious lack of support or trust with […]
“IT CONSUMES YOUR LIFE”. INTERVIEW WITH A PORTLAND PROTESTER
by ABNER HÄUGE | July 25, 2020
‘TRANS RIGHTS’ is, in my opinion, a brilliant alias. That’s what my interviewee chose to call herself for this article. Before I even asked a question, there were a few things TRANS RIGHTS wanted to make clear: She’s white. She’s trans. She lives in Portland. Portland is stolen Chinook land. Oregon was founded as a […]
INTERVIEW: ROSA FROM THE WITCHES PDX ON POLICE BRUTALITY, HEXING FASCISTS AND MORE
by ABNER HÄUGE | July 23, 2020
At one point during our conversation, Rosa cleared her throat. “Excuse me,” she said. “It’s the teargas, not COVID.” Rosa is a lead organizer with The Witches PDX. She spoke to LCRW about the group’s mutual aid work, the brutality of the state and federal law enforcement’s response to the now over 50 days of […]
POLICE ALLOW DRUNKEN RACISTS TO INTIMIDATE MARTINEZ ANTI-WHITE SUPREMACY MARCH
by HARVEY EISNER | ABNER HÄUGE | July 18, 2020
There were a few disturbing incidents in the lead-up to the rally in Martinez on the 11th. In late June, white supremacist fliers calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization and saying “We (whites) our[sic] the chisen[sic] people” (probably meaning to say “We are the chosen people”) were found near downtown. The fliers may be […]
RACIST MOB ATTACKS BLM PROTESTERS AT NORCO MARCH
by ABNER HÄUGE | July 3, 2020
“I’ve never in my life seen the cops get so scared that they turned away from protesters and were facing Nazis with their batons out,” Jen said. “Never seen that shit. That never happens. At least not down here.” On Monday, protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally in Norco, a city in Riverside County, […]
EYEWITNESSES: ALLEGED SHOOTER AND MILITIAMEN ATTACKED PROTESTERS BEFORE INCIDENT WHILE COPS WATCHED
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 19, 2020
Kate Kane tells me that “on the surface it sounded like they were just going to have a prayer meeting and hopefully put pressure on the city to take down the statue of Oñate.” Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a conquistador and governed New Mexico for the Spanish Empire. “He raped and pillaged native […]
TUOLUMNE COUNTY EVANGELICAL PASTOR INVITES ANTI-LGBTQ+ HATE GROUP LEADER FOR JUNE 20TH EVENT
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 15, 2020
“Come on out on June 20th. 9am – 3:30pm General Boykin of “Black Hawk Down” fame, and a founding member of Delta Force will be our morning speaker,” reads Calvary Chapel Sonora’s event page (archive) for its annual ‘Tent Days in the Last Days,’ a festival that combines sermons and sharpshooting competitions. The event garnered […]
BMWS ON FIRE OFF THE SHOULDER OF TELEGRAPH AVE
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 13, 2020
I was kind of disappointed the ‘ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD’ meme’s gone a little stale but hey, with the autonomous zone in Seattle and now I guess in Chicago, Ashville and Nashville the mood is less destroy everything bad and more let’s create the new world already. Just so I spell it out now by […]
“CALLING ME A NAZI IS RACIAL PROFILING”–INSIDE BOOGALOO PUBLIC RELATIONS
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 12, 2020
By now a lot of us are aware of the “Boogaloo Boys”––a seemingly loose-knit group of militiamen and gun enthusiasts who fetishize having a “Civil War II: Electric Boogaloo.” These types first got on the mainstream media’s radar because they showed up to the Virginia Citizens Defense League’s massive gun rally in Richmond way back […]
CHARTER SCHOOL DISTRICT’S SUPERINTENDENT COURTS FOX NEWS WITH PLANS TO REOPEN SCHOOLS THIS WEEK
by ABNER HÄUGE | May 26, 2020
A school district superintendent whose Facebook profile picture is Beavis from Beavis and Butthead told Fox News host Laura Ingraham last Friday evening that “[a]s far as I know, I will be the only school district in the state who will be reopening their school next week for the last week of school.” David Thoming […]
RACIST FLYERS TARGET MINORITY RESIDENTS OF SAN LEANDRO
by ABNER HÄUGE | May 24, 2020
The flyers were hand-written. One left on a San Leandro resident’s door read “If you are a woman or man born in another country go back, return immediatly [sic]” and if you’re a woman “takes [sic] your children with you.” 52 yr-old Nancy Arechiga posted the racist statements around the Heron Bay neighborhood Friday. Police […]
Antifascists Allege They Were Chased by Proud Boys with a Knife after Q-anon Rally
by ABNER HÄUGE | April 29, 2020
“Q anon is currently at the bike bridge off of failing and Missouri and is currently doing a banner drop,” the Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front (PNWYLF) tweeted Wednesday at 1:45PM. “One of the fash displaying the Qanon banners from the bridge was wearing a Proudboy [sic] hat and drove a white Kia,” they added. […]
WASHINGTON QANON CANDIDATE REPORTS PORTLAND MUTUAL AID ORGANIZATION TO FBI FOR GIVING AWAY FLOUR
by ABNER HÄUGE | April 26, 2020
“Hey @TheJusticeDept, my grocery store has been out of flour for a month…are people hoarding it?? Why are antifa/communist groups giving away 3k pounds of it suddenly? @FBI @FBIPortland,” Amber Krabach wrote on Twitter Sunday. Krabach was quote-tweeting Symbiosis PDX, a Portland-based mutual aid organization. Instead of just seeking donations and doing charity work, mutual […]
CALIFORNIAN ANTI-QUARANTINE PROTESTORS USE LITTLE-KNOWN APP TO ORGANIZE RALLIES AFTER PARTIAL FACEBOOK SHUTDOWN
by ABNER HÄUGE | April 25, 2020
On the streets this week, they held signs calling for businesses to opened back up–public health be damned. But behind closed virtual doors, they’re talking about getting armed. “Time to form a militia!” Matthew Hinrichs wrote on a closed Facebook group planning the “ReOpen California” protests across the state on May 1st. LCRW received a […]
TAX DAY RALLY IN SONORA, CALIFORNIA GIVES SNAPSHOT OF THE STAY-AT-HOME-ORDER PROTESTS
by ABNER HÄUGE | April 19, 2020
Nearly 100 protestors, mostly small business-owners and church-goers, gathered in Courthouse Park in Sonora Wednesday to protest the stay-at-home order to slow the spread of COVID-19. One man held a sign that said “Give me liberty or give me death!” with his Twitter handle, @libertylover61, on the bottom. “I’m here to support the small business […]
FASCIST YOUTH MOVEMENT GAINS FOOTHOLD ON CAMPUSES ACROSS COUNTRY AS COLLEGE REPUBLICAN GROUPS CALL TO BAN ALL IMMIGRATION
by ABNER HÄUGE | April 7, 2020
Young fascists from the University of Maine to San Diego State signed a resolution at the end of March calling for President Trump to “pass an indefinite moratorium on all immigration to the United States.” Seven college Republican groups from Maine, Arizona, and California initially signed on. The statement, viewable in full at the bottom […]
KLAN LEADER ANNOUNCES MULTNOMAH COURTHOUSE RALLY ON FEBRUARY 8TH
by ABNER HÄUGE | January 30, 2020
There’s a Klansman looking to rally in Portland on February 8th. Afterwards, he’ll burns a cross up the way in Vancouver, Washington. Steven Howard announced on Facebook January 9th he plans to rally in front of the Multnomah County Courthouse. Howard told Sergio Olmos of Underscore.news that the Klan rally will be followed by a […]
TACOMA REPUBLICAN CLUB HOSTS ANTI-TRANS SPEAKER, PUSHED OUT OF TWO VENUES
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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 […]
ANTI-LGBTQ+ GROUPS TARGET LIBRARIES IN SEATTLE METROPOLITAN AREA
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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.
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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 […]
LAURA LOOMER DRESSES UP AS RACIST CARICATURE AND GETS ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING AT GOVERNOR’S MANSION
by 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 […]
ALL WEST COAST “ALPHA MARCHES” CANCELLED EXCEPT FOR LAS VEGAS
by ABNER HÄUGE | December 28, 2018
Denise Ruiz, self-identified III% member and official MAGA Girl store owner, announced a change of plans recently. In the description of a livestream interview Sunday, fellow III% supporter Erin A. Gooch said that the only west coast rally for the nationwide “Alpha March” on January 19th would be in Las Vegas. In the livestream, Ruiz […]
UPDATE–THE YELLOW VESTS AND FAR-RIGHT INFILTRATION
by ABNER HÄUGE | December 23, 2018
This is an updated version of an article that ran on December 21st. It includes comment from a Maine-based organizer with American Yellow Vests (AYV) who did not give a name. For over a month now, the gilets jaunes or Yellow Vests, a popular uprising in France that started in response to a gas tax, […]
THE YELLOW VESTS ARE COMING TOMORROW–AND FAR-RIGHT ACTIVISTS ARE LOOKING TO JOIN
by ABNER HÄUGE | December 21, 2018
For over a month now, the gilets jaunes or Yellow Vests, a popular uprising in France that started in response to a gas tax, has captured international attention. Protests have been violent, with police often firing less-lethal munitions at demonstrators. Like the Arab Spring and Occupy movements before it, the Yellow Vests have spread across […]
FAR-RIGHT ACTIVISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR WOMENS’ MARCH COUNTER PROTEST IN FRESNO
by ABNER HÄUGE | December 14, 2018
On January 19th the “Alpha March” is set to counter what its organizers call the “Anti-American haters” of the nation-wide Womens’ March. “They might be a women’s organization that is paid & funded by leftist foundations but we have the man power to march along side our real women’s National Community of Alpha’s who know […]
ALLEGATIONS OF PROUD BOYS VIOLENCE LEAD BAY AREA VENUES TO CANCEL SHOWS
by ABNER HÄUGE | December 10, 2018
Ollie Cline’s band, White Lighter, is having some bad luck lately. Last month, they were booted from historic Berkeley venue 924 Gilman. Two other Bay Area venues cancelled their shows shortly after. Why? It started with a hoodie. White Lighter was on the bill at Gilman on November 3rd. They loaded their gear in and […]
