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Several Well-Known Hate Groups Identified At Capitol Insurrection

By NWPB News January 9, 2021

Protesters gesture to U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber inside the Capitol on Wednesday. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

The precise composition of the mob that forced its way into the Capitol on Wednesday, disrupting sessions of both houses of Congress and leaving a police officer and four others dead, remains unknown. But a review by a ProPublica-FRONTLINE team that has been tracking far-right movements for the past three years shows that the crowd included members of the Proud Boys and Read More

Idaho Anne Frank Memorial Defaced With Nazi Propaganda

By NPR News December 10, 2020

A swastika sticker on a statue at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise. The vandalism took place sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, Boise police said. Wassmuth Center for Human Rights via AP

Nine stickers with swastikas were placed on the memorial in downtown Boise sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning. One of the stickers read, "We are everywhere."Read More

Police Arrest At Least 13 After Portland Demonstrations Bring Out Groups With Opposing Ideologies

By NWPB News August 18, 2019

Portland police watch as a Proud Boys rally continues under the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019. The Proud Boys espouse white supremacist ideology and have been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. CREDIT: Bradley W. Parks/OPB

Demonstrations in downtown Portland remained largely non-violent Saturday as the two opposing groups stayed mostly separated. The groups wandered across central Portland for hours, with counter-protesters crossing the Burnside Bridge, spilling onto Southeast Grand Avenue and impacting traffic.Read More

Mainstream Charities Are Unwittingly Funding Anti-Muslim Hate Groups, Report Says

By NPR News May 7, 2019

A woman holds up a sign during an anti-Sharia law rally organized by ACT for America. A new report finds that mainstream philanthropies are unknowingly funneling donations to anti-Muslim groups such as ACT for America. Kena Betancur /AFP/Getty Images

In a new report, called "Hijacked by Hate," the Council on American-Islamic Relations says nearly $125 million was funneled to anti-Muslim hate groups, some from mainstream foundations. Read More

White Nationalist Groups Increase Recruiting And Propaganda Across Western U.S.

By NPR News March 19, 2019

Mohan Sudabattula, a senior at the University of Utah, shows posters he found on campus from the white nationalist group Patriot Front. CREDIT: NATE HEGYI/KUER

Authorities are looking into whether the suspect in last week's terror attack on two mosques in New Zealand was inspired by an emerging, European-based breed of white nationalism. The identitarian movement, formed in France in 2016, broadly believes that white people in Europe and North America are being displaced by non-European immigrants.Read More

U.S. Hate Groups Rose 30 Percent In Recent Years, Watchdog Group Reports

By NPR News February 20, 2019

The National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group that has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, held a rally in Newnan, Ga., in April 2018. CREDIT: David Goldman/AP

The Southern Poverty Law Center says many groups are driven by white supremacist ideology and the "hysteria over losing a white-majority nation." Critics accuse the group of overblowing the threat.Read More

Proud Boys Founder Files Suit Against Southern Poverty Law Center Over Hate Group Designation

By NPR News February 5, 2019

Conservative speaker and Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes reads a speech written by conservative commentator Ann Coulter to a crowd during a rally in Berkeley, Calif., in 2017. CREDIT: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

SPLC has labeled the far-right Proud Boys a hate group. Gavin McInnes denies that and says the designation has ruined his reputation and caused him and the group to be barred from online platforms. Read More