ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

• PRESIDENTS DAY WEEKEND IN PHOENIX BRINGS OUT GUN RALLIES, PROUD BOYS AND A BOMB THREAT

  February 27, 2023 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  A gun rally filled with extremists on Presidents’ Day weekend preceded bomb threats shutting down a drag story hour event.

• PHOENIX ANTI-ABORTION FAKE CLINIC TEAMS UP WITH TURNING POINT USA

  February 6, 2023 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  TPUSA is allying with a fake clinic whose board has cross-membership with a hate group.

• PHOENIX THREE PERCENTER WINS HIS SCHOOL BOARD RACE, GETS NAME DROPPED IN Epps’ J6 DEPOSITION

  January 13, 2023 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  A recently-elected AZ school board member was mentioned in Ray Epps J6 deposition.

• THE TURNING POINT NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS: A WEEKEND AT AMFEST

  December 31, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  This year’s AmFest’s rallying cry was dehumanizing trans people. Also, Nazis attended but we were barred.

• ARIZONA LGBTQ+ & DRAG COMMUNITIES ARE BEING TERRORIZED. NOBODY’S LISTENING.

  November 2, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• WHITE SUPREMACIST’S SPEECH AT ASU ATTRACTS GROYPERS & PEDOPHILE, OUTNUMBERED BY PROTESTORS

  September 12, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY TO HOST WHITE SUPREMACIST JARED TAYLOR ON CAMPUS

  August 25, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• I SWEAT MY ASS OFF AT THE PRESCOTT VALLEY TRUMP RALLY SO YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO

  August 1, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• ARIZONA’S GOP IS WAGING WAR ON DRAG QUEENS

  July 1, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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

  June 27, 2022 | ABNER HÄUGE | JOE ORELLANA | ELI KNÉSÓL | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | CARTER HUESTIS

  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 […]

• PHOENIX SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE IS REGISTERED AGENT FOR III% GROUP, LED ANTI-LGBTQ CAMPAIGN

  June 10, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• WHITE NATIONALIST AZ GOP POLITICIANS SPREAD DANGEROUS LIES IN WAKE OF MASSACRES

  May 27, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• IF ROE FALLS, ARIZONA WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT

  May 9, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• QANON WEBHOST’S FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS HIS & AMERICAN POLITICS’ CRUEL ABSURDITY

  April 30, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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. […]

• ARIZONA PASSES TWO TRANSPHOBIC LAWS ON EVE OF TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY

  April 1, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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, […]

• HERE’S THE NAZIS FLYERING TUCSON NEIGHBORHOODS

  March 14, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• MAD MAGA: FURY ROAD PASSES THROUGH ARIZONA—HERE’S WHAT WE SAW

  February 27, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | ELI KNÉSÓL | ABNER HÄUGE

  “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 COMING, IT’S JUST A MATTER OF WHERE & WHEN

  February 14, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• GROYPERS? GAB? QANON? HOW ARIZONA REPUBLICANS KEEP COURTING NAZIS & CONSPIRACY PEDDLERS

  February 8, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• MR. TRUMP GOES TO PRISON TOWN & OTHER ARIZONA TALES

  January 22, 2022 | DESERTBORDER | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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, […]

• TPUSA’S “AMERICAFEST” ATTRACTED A SATELLITE WHITE NATIONALIST CONFERENCE

  January 3, 2022 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  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 […]

• I SPENT A WEEKEND AT A FASCIST YOUTH CONFERENCE SO YOU WOULDN’T HAVE TO

  December 27, 2021 | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH

  ‘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 […]