Category: Racism & Far-Right
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Tensions High as Far-Right Rally Tied To Threats Hits Portland
Portland, OR – Tensions are high in Portland as a far-right rally, whose organizers have threatened violence, is opposed by large anti-racist counter-protests. A massive police presence has saturated the downtown rally area and city officials has told people to avoid the area. Unicorn Riot…
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Inside the American Identity Movement’s Southwest Chapter
Los Angeles, CA – The alt-right neo-nazi group Identity Evropa, mostly known for its role in organizing the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, recently renamed itself the American Identity Movement. While the group has been reeling from mass exposure of its members due…
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Man Arrested Planning Vegas Attacks Joined Neo-Nazi Party, Leaked Chats Show
Las Vegas, NV – On Friday, August 9, federal prosecutors announced the arrest of 23-year-old Conor Climo for allegedly planning attacks to kill LGBTQ and Jewish people. According to the criminal complaint, Climo discussed making homemade explosives and intended to bomb synagogues, the offices of…
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Exposed: State Department Official Posted in Nazi Charlottesville Chats
Washington, DC – Today, an investigation by reporter Michael Hayden for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)’s Hatewatch revealed that US State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert has been active in the neo-nazi movement over the last several years. Leaked Discord chat logs obtained by…
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Inside the American Identity Movement’s Rocky Mountain Chapter
Denver, CO – Newly leaked chats provide a glimpse inside the Colorado and Rocky Mountain region chapters of Identity Evropa, the neo-nazi alt-right group that recently renamed itself the American Identity Movement.
The chats obtained by Unicorn Riot stretch from March into May 2019 and…
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Charlottesville Car Attack Case Ends in Multiple Life Sentences for Nazi Murderer
Charlottesville, VA – On Monday July 15, 2019 in Virginia state court, the criminal prosecution of James Alex Fields, Jr. drew to a close. The 22-year-old white supremacist had previously been sentenced to life in federal prison for his deadly car attack after the Unite…
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Far-Right Rally Fizzles in Washington, DC
Washington, D.C. –Â A rally organized by numerous far-right figures, including Laura Loomer and Milo Yiannopoulos, failed to organize more than a few hundred people, with approximately 500 – 700 antiracist counter protesters rallying against them. Although the organizers billed the event on Saturday, July…
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Slouching Towards The Ethnostate: Inside The American Identity Movement
Washington, DC –Â Earlier this year, the neo-nazi group Identity Evropa (IE), known for organizing the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, rebranded itself the ‘American Identity Movement’ (AmIM). By adopting generic patriotic imagery and conservative rhetoric, the group has sought to build a…
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Neo-Nazi Gets Multiple Life Sentences In Federal Prison for Charlottesville Car Attack
Charlottesville, VA – Last Friday, June 28, 2019, James Alex Fields appeared for sentencing in federal court on charges related to his deadly car attack after the neo-nazi Unite The Right rally on August 12, 2017. Fields, now age 22, had already pleaded guilty to…
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Far-Right Sacramento Rally Draws Small Crowd
SACRAMENTO, CA – State police are mobilized in and around the California State Capitol building, in anticipation of violence following the 2016 mass casualty incident at a similar rally, which left ten people injured, many with stab wounds from far right attacks.
The Golden State…