Tagged: Proud Boys
NEO-NAZI SPEECH INTERRUPTED AT SACRAMENTO CITY COUNCIL
ROBERT SANDS | June 1, 2023
A neo-Nazi who’s been spamming city council meetings in Northern California faced pushback late last month.
NAZIS HECKLE DRAG EVENT-GOERS & GOLFERS IN FLORENCE, OR
JAMES CROXTON | May 5, 2023
Neo-Nazis showed up at a golf course to protest a drag show in Oregon last weekend.
SOUTHERN WASHINGTON BREWERY VANDALIZED AFTER ANNOUNCING DRAG SHOW
ROBERT SANDS | March 15, 2023
A brewery in the Portland suburb of Vancouver had its windows smashed. Although culprits are unknown, they’ve been targeted for announcing a drag show.
LEXIT & CHURCH NETWORK STAGE ANTI-TRANS PROTEST AT O.C. CHILDRENS’ HOSPITAL
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.
SAN DIEGO CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS BRIGADE SCHOOL BOARD, CITY COUNCIL
LCRW STAFF | February 11, 2023
San Diego public meetings were recently flooded by out-of-town extremists.
PROUD BOYS & OTHER BIGOTS WAGE LOW-EFFORT INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN AT RIVERSIDE DRAG STORY HOUR
ABNER HÄUGE | January 16, 2023
Proud Boys stickered and banner dropped but a Riverside Drag Story Hour still happened.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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.) […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
PDX PROUD BOYS SURROUND, INTIMIDATE PRESS OUTSIDE OF EUGENE TPUSA EVENT
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
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 […]
VEGAS ANTIVAXX GROUP SPLITS WITH PROUD BOYS AFTER FAILED PUSH TO ALLY WITH BLM
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 […]
PROUD BOYS ASSAULT PEOPLE AT MODESTO STRAIGHT PRIDE, COLLABORATE WITH BLM ACTIVIST
LCRW STAFF | SIERRA FOOTHILLs STUMP STAFF | September 12, 2021
For the third year in a row, perennial fringe candidate Don Grundmann put on his “Straight Pride” event in front of a closed-for-the-day Planned Parenthood in Modesto, California on August 28th. The annual gatherings have become a defacto show of force for violent, hard-right paramilitary groups in the Central Valley and this year was no […]
HUGE LA ANTIVAXX RALLY DEVOLVES INTO VIOLENCE AS COPS TURN A BLIND EYE TO PROUD BOYS
DESERTBORDER | August 16, 2021
Hundreds of antivaxxers, Proud Boys, Capitol rioters and other neo-fascists rallied in Los Angeles Saturday, attacking journalists and counterprotesters while LAPD looked on. Police failed to intervene to curb the right-wing violence despite the fact the event took place directly in front of their downtown headquarters. Antivaxx-related violence has been steadily increasing in Los Angeles, […]
MAN SMASHES METAL CLUB OVER JOURNALIST’S HEAD, CALIFORNIA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE DRIVES GETAWAY CAR
WATERSPIDER | August 14, 2021
Republican candidate for California governor Sarah Stephens wants to “Make America Gold Again.” Her campaign website states that she will “bring the PROSPERITY back to California on EVERY LEVEL! Just like the GOLD RUSH times.” The “on every level” part is unsettling because Stephens advocates the ideals of her associates including Qanon scammers, violent Trump […]
PORTLAND FASCISTS TERRORIZE DOWNTOWN UNDER GUISE OF ‘PROTECTING’ COVID-SPREADING PREACHER
CHIP NOOO | August 13, 2021
The weather was pristine on Sunday as I walked down Jefferson Street towards Tom McCall Water Front Park in downtown Portland. The sun was out and it couldn’t have been more than 75 degrees. Even though it was only 6 o’clock, I could already hear the familiar sound of gospel music drifting through the city. […]
PROUD BOY ARRESTED FOR ROLE IN CAPITOL STORMING PREVIOUSLY CHARGED WITH RAPING MINOR
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 […]
THIS WEST PALM BEACH HOTEL HOSTED A WHITE NATIONALIST AND A VOTER SUPPRESSION BILL’S SIGNING
SARLACC ATTACK | May 15, 2021
THE HOTEL IN WEST PALM BEACH On May 6th, 2021 Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill (SB 90) designed to discourage mail-in voting and to render the administration of vote-by-mail much costlier for individual localities. The signing ceremony for the bill took place at the Majestic Ballroom at the West Palm Beach […]
QANONERS ARE RALLYING SATURDAY IN HOLLYWOOD. LAST TIME THEY BEAT A BYSTANDER AND THREATENED A JOURNALIST
WATERSPIDER | DESERTBORDER | April 22, 2021
HOLLYWOOD RALLY, MARCH 27TH After a series of batshit rallies in Hollywood last summer, SoCal QAnoners briefly quieted down–the Capitol riot and their widespread ban from social media had been disastrous for the movement. Unfortunately, it didn’t take them long to crawl back out of the woodwork. Around 200 QAnoners led by Fresno-area rapper Thaddis […]
ALBUQUERQUE: “WHITE LIVES MATTER” RALLY DRAWS ONE ARMED MAN AND HUNDREDS OF COUNTER-PROTESTERS
BELLA DAVIS | April 14, 2021
“The Proud Boys and other white supremacist groups should never be given the space to feel comfortable openly displaying hatred in Albuquerque,” Zoey Craft, co-founder of the student activist organization Fight For Our Lives, said. A “White Lives Matter” rally that was expected to take place in downtown Albuquerque on Sunday and be attended by […]
NEW JERSEY NEONAZIS PLAN MARCH THROUGH PHILLY
JORDAN HOPKINS | April 2, 2021
An April “White Lives Matter” rally planned to take place in Philadelphia is being organized primarily by members of the New Jersey European Heritage Association, or NJEHA. An SLPC-designated hate group, NJEHA was formed in 2018 and has a wide presence in the Northeast United States. The Telegram group “White Lives Matter Philadelphia” is operated […]
PROUD BOYS ARE EATING THE PATRIOT PARTY ALIVE
| March 21, 2021
JORDAN HOPKINS In the harried days following the J6 Capitol riots, mainstream media boiled about the collapse of the Republican party. Donald Trump raged at “RINO”s (Republicans-In-Name-Only) who had betrayed him and refused to back his attempted coup. Trump loyalists spoke openly of leaving the party entirely and forming a new coalition, separate from the […]
ANALYSIS: THE PROUD BOYS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
| February 3, 2021
SARLACC ATTACK Late into the morning on January 6, 2021, about 300 men from the far-right fraternity known as the Proud Boys assembled on the eastern side of the Capitol Building across the street from the Supreme Court. They traveled from as far as Washington State to stop the Democrats from “stealing” the presidential election […]
FASCISTS FLOP IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOSE TEETH
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 […]
PROUD BOYS RALLY BEHIND RELIGIOUS BIGOTS TO INTIMIDATE MODESTO LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
SIERRA FOOTHILLs STUMP STAFF | LCRW STAFF | September 14, 2020
Last year, Don James Grundmann, a religious bigot with ties to the Proud Boys and founder of the National Straight Pride Coalition, tried to hold a “Straight Pride Parade” in Modesto, CA. Grundmann’s intent was to hijack the “Straight Pride” branding of a Boston-based fascist group called Resist Marxism, who got national attention for the […]
TUJUNGA: SEIG HEILS, BLOODY FISTFIGHTS AND PEPPER SPRAY MARK FRIDAY’S OPPOSING RALLIES
OWEN GRADY | August 19, 2020
Los Angeles sees itself as an idyllic melting pot. Every few miles is an entirely new community. Each town has its own individual culture and history. Many residents shelter in their own neighborhood’s bubble and have an unrealistic assumption that L.A. is free of racism and bigotry. But it’s right next door. Residents of Tujunga […]
LA MESA, CA: COPS LET RIGHT WING MOB ASSAULT CHILD, BRANDISH WEAPONS AT PROTESTERS
TOM MANN | August 5, 2020
The intimidation planned for the August 1st “Justice for Womxn of Color” march in La Mesa wasn’t exactly covert. Then again, neither were the knives, bear spray cannisters, and clubs carried by the coalition of white supremacists, border militias, and assorted “patriots” who came together under the banner of Defend East County (DEC). The racists, […]
Antifascists Allege They Were Chased by Proud Boys with a Knife after Q-anon Rally
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
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 […]
