🥡Weird Little Guys

Race Scientists and the Human Zoo

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In 1904, men who believed in 'race science' put hundreds of people in a human zoo at the St. Louis world's fair. Today, those same racist, pseudoscientific views persist, and the men who hold them demand to be taken seriously in the name of academic freedom.

Sources & Further Reading:

Newkirk, Pamela (2015). Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Amistad.

Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.

McCray, Carrie Allen (2012). Ota Benga Under My Mother’s Roof. University of South Carolina Press.

Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.

Nathan Cofnas’ Doctoral Thesis: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd78170f-1131-47ef-af8d-7a3bb2ef41d0

https://jannalangholz.wordpress.com/2022/12/26/17-worlds-fair-deaths/

https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/specimen-days-human-zoos-at-the-1904-worlds-fair/

https://web.archive.org/web/20070610034510/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Bontoc.html

https://ashp.cuny.edu/documentaries-list/savage-acts-wars-fairs-and-empire-1898-1904/#

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/how-i-became-the-scapegoat-in-the-jason-arday-affair-dc134088

https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2007046/ghent-university-under-fire-for-appointing-us-philosopher-with-ties-to-scientific-racism

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/reptiles-with-a-conscience-the-coevolution-of-religious-and-moral-doctrine-by-nathan-cofnas-pp-523-ulster-institute-for-social-research-press-london-2012-3000-isbn-9780956881151-paperback/4005A8AD3C5B21AC0A82A38D5D97BBF8

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/the-man-who-was-caged-in-a-zoo

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/nyregion/thecity/the-scandal-at-the-zoo.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevmrjd9lj1o

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/06/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/largest-human-zoo-world-history

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Mississippi's Still Burning: Byron de la Beckwith Pt 7

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of murder for killing Medgar Evers in 1963. He died in prison, his story is over. But history repeats itself.

Sources & Further Reading:

Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.

DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner.

Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster.

Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.

Newton, Michael (2010). The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. McFarland & Company, Inc.

Dittmer, John (1994). Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. University of Illinois Press.

Ball, Howard (2004). Murder in Mississippi. University Press of Kansas.

Snipe, Tracy (2021). The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, The Sarah Collins Rudolph Story. Africa World Press.

Doyle, William (2001). An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962. Doubleday.

Nossiter, Adam (1994). Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/719/1345/1438234/

https://shadowproof.com/2018/03/07/documents-reveal-police-targeting-anti-racists-charlottesville/
https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/4404359-DHS-Bulletin-Aug-9/

https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2007/may/30/dredging-up-the-past-why-mississippians-must-tell/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html

https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-minneapolis-news-agents-claim-alberto-castaeda-mondragn-hit-wall-shattered-skull-triggers-tension-hospital/18514566/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72504545/ge-v-immigration-and-customs-enforcement/

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No Golf No Masters: Celebrating Our Ungovernable Peccary Friends

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

James talks with Molly Conger about the javelina and their installable appetite for golf courses.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65x0RvhJNa8

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov/05/conservation.sciencenews

https://zoologicalbulletin.de/BzB_Volumes/Volume_56_1_2/049_054_BzB56_1_2_Moraves_Jiri_and_B%C3%B6hme_Wolfgang.pdf

https://www.azgfd.com/wildlife-conservation/living-with-wildlife/living-with-javelina/

https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/8e8abbf4-6775-4575-9a10-fedacb7cb2c1

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The Fiery Cross: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 6

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In 1964, crosses burned all over Mississippi, signaling a return of the Ku Klux Klan. Their big debut was perfectly timed as a show of support for Byron de la Beckwith.

Sources & Further Reading:

Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.

DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner.

Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster.

Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.

Sims, Patsy (1978). Stein & Day.

Nelson, Stanley (2016). Devils Walking: Klan Murders Along the Mississippi in the 1960s. Louisiana State University Press.

Dirks, Annelieke. “Between Threat and Reality: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Emergence of Armed Self-Defense in Clarksdale and Natchez, Mississippi, 1960-1965.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 1, no. 1, 2007, pp. 71–98.

Ball, Howard (2004). Murder in Mississippi. University Press of Kansas.

Hamm, Mark (2017). The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism. Columbia University Press

Biondi, K., and J. Curtis. 2018. “From Structural to Stochastic Violence.” Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

Newton, Michael (2010). The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. McFarland & Company, Inc.

Dittmer, John (1994). Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. University of Illinois Press.

Payne, Charles (1995). I’ve Got The Light of Freedom. University of California Press.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/accused-in-1964-mississippi-race-slayings-wrote-hate-letter-1.668898

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The First Trial: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 5

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Byron de la Beckwith was tried for the same murder three times. In 1964, it just wasn't generally considered illegal for a white man to kill a black man in Mississippi.

Sources & Further Reading:

Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.

DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner.

Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster.

Evers, Myrlie (1967). For Us, The Living. Doubleday & Company.

Tyson, Timothy (2017). The Blood of Emmett Till. Simon & Schuster

Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.

Martin, Ralph (1983). A Hero For Our Time. Bandwagon, Inc.

Baden, Michael (2006). Exhumation. in Spitz & Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death.

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Rabid on the Subject of Segregation: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 4

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In the months leading up to the murder of Medgar Evers, the man who killed him was watching his world crumble. Byron de la Beckwith had dedicated his life to the cause of segregation, but it was a losing battle. The governor of Mississippi had backed down, allowing a second black student to enter Ole Miss. Governor George Wallace in Alabama backed down, too. Integration was creeping in all over. That, and his wife left him.

Sources & Further Reading:

Doyle, William (2001). An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962. Doubleday.

Lambert, Frank (2010). The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights vs States’ Rights. Oxford University Press.

Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.

Metzl, Jonathan (2009). The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease. Beacon Press.

Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press

Smith, Frank (1964). Congressman From Mississippi. Capricorn Books.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/100262race-ra.html

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news/index.3.html

https://www.southernfoodways.org/the-greenwood-food-blockade/

https://snccdigital.org/events/leflore-county-cuts-off-surplus-commodities/

https://snccdigital.org/people/dick-gregory/

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/22/us/samuel-block-60-civil-rights-battler-dies.html

https://www.crmvet.org/docs/src/6210_src_ns.pdf

https://themilitant.com/1962/2633/MIL2633.pdf

https://snccdigital.org/people/lawrence-guyot/

https://snccdigital.org/events/jimmy-travis-shot-greenwood/

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/multimedia/medgar-evers-and-jackson-movement.html

https://www.wlbt.com/video/2026/07/15/medgar-evers-historic-1963-wlbt-speech-missing-over-six-decades/

https://da.mdah.ms.gov/vault/projects/OHtranscripts/AU_MP198001_119_098611.pdf

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Black Monday: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 3

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Segregated schools didn't react right away, but segregationists did. Within months, the Citizens' Councils began to form in counties across Mississippi. And Byron de la Beckwith was one of the group's earliest and most enthusiastic members.

Sources & Further Reading:

Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.

Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press

Silver, James W (1963). Mississippi: The Closed Society. Harcourt Brace & World Inc.

Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.

Williams, Michael Vinson (2011). Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr. The University of Arkansas Press

Cook, James Graham (1962). The Segregationists. Appleton Century Crofts

McMillen, Neil (1971). The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1964. University of Illinois Press

Mendelsohn, Jack (1966). The Martyrs. Harper & Row

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/buried-truth-unresolved-disregarded-lamar-smith-murder-haunts-lincoln-county/

Cashion, S. A. (2013). "And So We Moved Quietly": Southern Methodist University and Desegregation, 1950-1970. Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Delao, Frank Delao, "Containing Communism in Texas: How the Right Interpreted the Cold War, 1945-1965" (2016).Open Access
Theses & Dissertations. 633

Rich, Evelyn (1988). "Ku Klux Klan Ideology, 1954-1988" Graduate Theses and Dissertations

https://supremecourthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Volume-37-Number-3-2012.pdf

https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_eea548ac-a609-4b6f-be15-7ae300c2206b

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/7/27/al-aqsa-one-encroachment-too-many

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Sons of Mississippi: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 2

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Byron de la Beckwith and Medgar Evers never met. Evers didn’t even see the man who killed him. But the man and his killer grew up a hundred miles apart, fought in the same war, worked similar jobs, and were both deeply invested in the outcome over the fight for integration.

Sources & Further Reading:

Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.

Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row

Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.

Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press

Williams, Michael Vinson (2011). Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr. The University of Arkansas Press

Evers, Charles and Andrew Szanton (1997). Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story. John Wiley & Sons Inc

Tisale, John (1996). Medgar Evers (1925-1963) and the Mississippi Press. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Texas

Sheridan, Louis (2021) "Patriotism Betrayed: How the U.S. Military Resegregated From 1913-1939," Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II : Vol. 26, Article 11.

Donaldson, Le'Trice, "A Legacy All Their Own: African American Soldiers Fight for Citizenship, Race, and
Manhood, 1870-1920" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1167.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1167

Hartgrove, W. B. “The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 1, no. 2, 1916, pp. 110–31. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3035634.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/07/06/where-is-the-voice-coming-from

https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty/welty-manuscripts/weltys08

https://press.bobmizer.org/releases/instant-gratification

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/books/my-uncle-the-bigot.html

https://www.history.com/articles/battle-of-tarawa

https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/Tarawa/InvasionCasualties

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/marine-killed-battle-tarawa-laid-rest-80-years-later

https://www.oyez.org/about-audio

https://www.army.mil/article/97705/black_soldiers_in_the_revolutionary_war

https://diaryofahistorian.com/2013/03/05/for-evers-his-is-a-story-that-must-be-told-and-retold-too-few-young-people-know-his-story-and-that-is-a-tragedy-greater-than-his-untimely-death/

https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/10/african-american-seamen-of-the-antebellum-era/

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/CombatMultipliers.pdf

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CZM Rewind: The Roommates & In Minecraft

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

It's a Weird Little Guys classic episode - the story of the Atomwaffen member who murdered two other Atomwaffen members. Stay tuned until the end for some updates to the story.

Sources & Further Reading:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67075979/united-states-v-clendaniel/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71119306/united-states-v-brandon-russell/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/fbi-surveillance-terrorist-attack-00141200

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-did-a-convicted-neo-nazi-release-propaganda-from-prison-628437/

The Roommates
In 2017, police investigating a double homicide found more than just bodies in a Tampa condo. The founder of a neonazi group was making bombs in the garage.

Original Air Date: 8.7.25

Sources:

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-threat-is-the-network-the-multi-node-structure-of-neo-fascist-accelerationism/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/visions-chaos-weighing-violent-legacy-iron-march/

https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2019/11/15/meet-lauren-paul-mit-alumni-and-neo-nazi-atomwaffen-division-propagandist/

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2016/police-release-video-of-suspect-in-hate-poster-distribution/

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/all-american-nazis-628023/

In Minecraft

Original Air Date: 8.14.25

Sources:

https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/three-murder-suspects-linked-to-atomwaffen-where-their-cases-stand/

https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article156282099.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicholas-giampa-neo-nazi-teenager-murder-girlfriends-parents-virginia_n_5a4d0797e4b0b0e5a7aa4780

https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-4

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/transcript/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjEBXDfuBDE&ab_channel=COURTTV

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I Watched Uwe Boll's Far Right Power Fantasy So You Don't Have To

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

This week, Molly watched Citizen Vigilante, a new film from the world's worst director.

Sources & Further Reading:

https://scoutmagazine.ca/remembering-gastowns-ambitious-but-doomed-modern-german-restaurant/

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/cinema/hanau-attack-film-angers-victims-families

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-fall-of-armie-hammer-a-family-saga-of-sex-money-drugs-and-betrayal

https://people.com/movies/armie-hammer-controversy-timeline/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/sep/26/news

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/restaurant-reviews/article-tk-alex-gill-review-of-kozak-ukrainian-restaurant/

Simi, Pete, and Robert Futrell. American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010

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June 11, 1963: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 1

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

On the night of June 11, 1963, Byron de la Beckwith murdered Medgar Evers with a single shot. But how did he end up hiding in a bush across the street from the home of a civil rights leader?

Sources & Further Reading:

Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.

Zinn, Howard. (1964) SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Beacon Press. Boston.

Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/06/12/issue.html

https://www.lodinews.com/features/vintage_lodi/article_426cb4b4-269e-5c6f-ba07-7e92ecf23142.html

https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/witnesses/medgarevers.htm

https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/medgar-evers-and-the-origin-of-the-civil-rights-movement-in-mississippi

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnalhn/runawayslavenotices.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/us/byron-de-la-beckwith-dies-killer-of-medgar-evers-was-80.html

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Flagged for Removal

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Last week, a federal judge ordered the Department of the Interior to stop implementation of a Trump executive order that would whitewash history at National Park sites. A leaked database shows the materials that parks employees had flagged for removal. They want to 'make America great' by erasing its past.

Sources & Further Reading:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3431-restoring-truth-and-sanity-american-history

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72285106/national-parks-conservation-association-v-department-of-the-interior/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72178941/city-of-philadelphia-v-burgum/

https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/save-our-signs/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ulzIcpjpyTKLa52DClUkUlcazJPdAryK0B0oKmA9TF8/

https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/medgar-evers-killer-trump-says-stop-calling-him-racist/
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/visitor-brochures-returned-medgar-evers-home/

https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/12/medgar-evers-home-omissions-to-story/

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/03/17/wwii-vet-medgar-evers-erased-from-arlington-cemetery-website/

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/brochures-calling-medgar-evers-killer-racist-still-available-at-evers-home/

https://www.nhpr.org/2013-08-12/van-evers-honors-his-father-in-his-own-way

https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-announces-usns-harvey-milk-renamed-usns-oscar/story?id=123266490

https://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/medgar-evers-family-fights-efforts-to-strip-his-name-from-navy-vessel/

https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2026/02/national-park-service-plans-censor-brochures-murder-civil-rights-leader

https://npshistory.com/publications/memy/brochures/2021.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/16/philadelphia-trump-judge-slavery-history/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/us/politics/judge-national-parks-trump.html

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Klan Camp

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In 1980, Texas Klan Grand Dragon Louis Beam was running a paramilitary training camp outside of Houston. But they weren't just training klansmen for the race war. They ran a boy scout camp on the weekends.

Sources and further reading:

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/518/993/2128255/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/518/1017/2128803/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/543/198/1460786/

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/30/archives/paramilitary-actions-irk-neighbors-of-texas-camp-charter.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/11/24/boy-scouts-taught-to-fire-weapons-strangle-opponents/1eec4466-569a-47a8-b2e1-ce60c763ffe7/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/11/23/Charge-Klan-teaches-scouts-how-to-strangle-people/2641343803600/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/11/24/Klan-member-trains-youths-at-paramilitary-camp/6144343890000/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/11/25/A-mother-says-two-teen-age-Explorer-scouts-who-attended/4442343976400/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/12/05/The-owner-of-a-10-acre-plot-of-land-used/1128344840400/

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Outside Agitators

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

In 1967, segregationist lawyer Jack Kershaw swore out a warrant against George Ware, an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By the end of the week, a congressman was denouncing Ware on the house floor as an outside agitator. But what is an outside agitator? What do we mean when we blame unrest on these untrustworthy outsiders? Where does that idea come from? And is it even true?

Sources & Further Reading:

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ARCHIVE/kerner_commission_full_report.pdf

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

https://www.crmvet.org/docs/sv/670400_sncc_nyc-newsletter.pdf

https://www.christcathedral.org/phase-to-history/st-anselms-liberation-school-and-the-long-hot-summer-of-1967/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/274/538/1574803/

https://www.phillytrib.com/obituaries/george-w-ware-jr-72-educator/article_0e1a1218-3c2b-51fa-b960-61094a1f6d98.html

https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/GSB/id/10262/

https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal67-1311343

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/05/archives/us-aides-in-visit-to-negro-school-view-a-drama-at-institution-cited.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/12/archives/nashville-panel-suspends-school-liberation-classroom-also-ousted.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/09/archives/official-changes-testimony-on-antiwhite-school.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/30/archives/sedition-charges-dropped.html

https://www.wsmv.com/2025/02/25/former-nashville-assistant-police-chief-dies-while-custody-wifes-death/

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/wife-former-mnpd-assistant-police-chief-found-shot-to-death-rutherford-county/

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-07-12/race-troubles-109-us-cities-faced-violence-in-1967

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2020/07/27/a-brief-history-of-dangerous-others/

https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/11/12/audio/defining-safe-defining-the-outside-agitator/

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In Loving Memory of Laura & Mike Sullivan

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

We lost one of the greats last month. Laura Sullivan was an antifascist researcher, a photographer, a journalist, a friend, a mother, and a mentor. She was a legend and we were lucky to have her while we did.

You can make a donation to One People's Project, the antifascist organization Laura was involved in for more than two decades, here:
https://onepeoplesproject.com/donate/

Daryle Lamont Jenkins' tribute to his longtime friends & collaborators, Laura & Mike Sullivan: https://idavox.com/index.php/2026/05/07/the-sullivans-much-love-and-rest-in-peace/

Abner Hauge's tribute to Laura & Mike: https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/in-memoriam-laura-mike-sullivan/

Laura's Obituary: https://obituaries.carewellcremations.com/laura-sullivan

Sources & Further Reading:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-clark-dc-neo-nazi-arrested_n_5beb99ffe4b0caeec2bf24e5

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nazi-punch-antifa_n_59e13ae9e4b03a7be580ce6f

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/fbi-court-battle-identity-imf-protest-informants

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It's One Nazi Rally, Donald, How Much Could It Cost?

Thu, 28 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Wrapping up the discussion of the MAGA narrative surrounding the SPLC indictment, Molly addresses the question of money. If the administration is implying the SPLC fully funded the 2017 Unite the Right rally, what would that mean? How much does something like that cost? And who actually paid for it?

Sources & Additional Reading:
https://www.integrityfirstforamerica.org/exhibits

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/4540209/splc-money-informant-unite-the-right-richard-spencer-national-policy-institute/

https://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/server/4

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/02/patriot-front-recruits-members-young-pyramid-scheme

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59680212/united-states-v-hiles/

https://vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontleaks/

National Policy Institute Form 990s
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521259838

Mary Noel Kershaw Foundation Form 990s
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/621608693

Charles Martel Society Form 990s
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/364397594

https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00583658/?tab=filings&cycle=2018

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Nazis React to the President Saying They Aren't Real

Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

The MAGA media is running with the President's theory that the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 wasn't real. That's offensive to anyone with a solid relationship with reality, but it's especially hurtful for the guys who worked very hard to plan that nazi rally.

Link to the September 29, 2025 episode of I Don't Speak German that was mentioned: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/136-the-final-cantwell

Sources:
https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/egg-sposed-we-reveal-the-identity-of-far-right-bodybuilder-the-raw-egg-nationalist/

https://eugeneantifa.noblogs.org/post/2019/06/28/davidzsutty/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IufVP9wHeUs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4pUinLZ_0

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The Southern Poverty Law Center Did Not Plan Unite the Right

Thu, 14 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

The President of the United States went on 60 Minutes last month and claimed that the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 was fake, a hoax perpetrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He's referring to allegations made in the recent indictment against the SPLC that one of their paid informants was a member of the planning chat for the rally. But what does the indictment actually say? And what kind of person snitches for money?

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Emergency Minisode: Jason Kessler Sues Gavin McInnes

Mon, 11 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000

It's the first ever Weird Little Guys emergency broadcast! A weird little guy has filed a lawsuit against another weird little guy.

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Listener Questions

Thu, 07 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Molly answers some of your burning questions about important stuff, like a nazi's tuna casserole recipe, who came up with a rhyming phrase about fascist violence, and what kind of cake she's eating this week.

Sources:

Testa, M. Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance. AK Press, 2015.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/m-testa-militant-anti-fascism

https://socialistworker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/a-radical-guide-to-antifascism-LR-1.pdf

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-should-give-no-quarter-those-seeking-divide-us

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/society/ttom-donegan-friedan/

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Say a Good Word for Slavery: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 3

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In the final part of the story about Jack Kershaw, we'll talk about his legal career. Before he represented MLK's assassin, before he sculpted a gigantic racist statue out of old bathtubs, he got a law degree from a part time night school program at the YMCA so he could do his part to stop integration.

Sources:

Phillips, Betsy. Dynamite Nashville: the FBI, the KKK, and the bombers beyond their control. Third Man Books 2021.

Houston, Benjamin, et al. “‘We Kept the Discussion at an Adult Level’: Jack Kershaw and the Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government.” Southern Cultures, vol. 20, no. 4, 2014, pp. 72–88. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26217566

Graham, Hugh Davis. “Desegregation in Nashville: The Dynamics of Compliance.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2, 1966, pp. 135–54. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42622869

McMillen, Neil R. “Organized Resistance to School Desegregation In Tennessee.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3, 1971, pp. 315–28. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42623247

Michael J. Henry, Student Display of the Confederate Flag in Public Schools, 33 J.L. & EDUC. 573 (2004).
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2824&context=jled

Egerton, Joel. Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
https://southernspaces.org/2009/walking-history-beginning-school-desegregation-nashville/

https://www.ahcuah.com/lawsuit/federal/melton.htm

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/328/88/1428295/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/klanbly-friendly-tennessee-state-becomes-hate-tourist-mecca/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/42777957/james-n-mason/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/BR/81/897/1821803/

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/the-fugitives/

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/clinton-desegregation-crisis/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/us/nashville-civil-rights-bombings.html

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The Princess in the Parking Lot

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Police in New Jersey arrested a woman found sleeping in her car in a strip mall parking lot after the plates came back registered to a stolen vehicle. Her lawyer, Tennessee segregationist Jack Kershaw, insisted that his client was not only innocent, but said she was telling the truth - she really was a Romanian princess.

Sources:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1509995/HRH-Prince-Carol-of-Romania.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/23/archives/new-jersey-weekly-the-princess-and-the-police-once-upon-the.html

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/15/Lawsuit-against-princess-dismissed/2985395553600/

https://stiri.botosani.ro/stiri/actualitate/paul-de-romania-mai-are-un-frate-printul-alexandru.html

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CZM Rewind: Disney's Villain

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

After losing his job, an ex-Disney employee tried to get his former employer's attention by hacking in and making strange updates to company files.

Original Air Date: 6.5.25

Sources:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69534211/united-states-v-scheuer/
https://www.eeoc.gov/what-you-can-expect-after-you-file-charge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/disney-worker-prison-hacking.html

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Playboy Payola: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 2

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Decades before he sculpted a Confederate general out of old bathtubs, Jack Kershaw briefly represented his most famous client - Martin Luther King Jr's assassin, James Earl Ray. The relationship soured after Ray discovered his lawyer had pocketed a payment from Playboy magazine.

Sources:

James McKinley, "Playboy Interview: James Earl Ray," Playboy Magazine, September 1977

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/09/archives/polygraph-indicates-ray-lied.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/25/archives/james-earl-ray-wants-mark-lane-to-replace-his-tenth-lawyer.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/sports/the-barkley-marathons-few-know-how-to-enter-fewer-finish.html

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Strange People on the Hill feat. Michael Edison Hayden

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Molly interviews Michael Edison Hayden about his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town. The book is an intimate portrait of what happened in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia after a white nationalist group moved into the castle on the hill.
Preorder the book now or buy it anywhere books are sold when it comes out on April 7, 2026

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/

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The Ugliest Confederate Statue in the World: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 1

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Jack Kershaw created his most famous piece of art in his 80s. His lifelong passion for the arts had to take a backseat when he shifted his focus to becoming a professional racist during the fight against integration. He was doing it for his confederate ancestors, he would often say. But he was never very specific about who exactly his ancestors were...

The It Could Happen Here episode mentioned, originally aired 2/22/2024 -
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ZQAqsxImsNGQUTzHGKhNp

Sources:

https://thesewaneepurple.org/2021/03/23/polk-sculpture-donated-by-white-supremacist-jack-kershaw/

https://thesewaneepurple.org/2021/03/22/polk-sculpture-removed-by-student-taken-to-archives/

https://meridiana.sewanee.edu/2022/04/30/a-year-later-a-letter-of-explanation/

https://www.moca.org/collection/work/unmanned-drone

https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/28/swords-plowshares

https://www.sipcville.com/

https://www.vpm.org/news/2026-03-23/swords-into-plowshares-cville-jefferson-school-designs-hood-push-mass

https://www.vpm.org/news/2024-05-23/swords-into-plowshares-robert-e-lee-statue-charlottesville-centennial

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/970610428/nearly-100-confederate-monuments-removed-in-2020-report-says-more-than-700-remai

https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/confederate-icongraphy.html

https://wpln.org/post/even-as-statue-forrest-still-draws-fire/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/03/30/Ray-says-lawyer-hid-Playboy-fee/1722386312400/

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, August 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvCjM1lPwg4

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, October 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5b_-TZwQ0I

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Minisode: The Real Earl Turner

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Before we leave the novels of William Luther Pierce behind us, let's take a quick look at the real Earl Turner. The protagonist of The Turner Diaries was, like all of Pierce's characters, named after a real guy he knew.

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The Nazi's Mary Sue: Hunter, Pt. 2

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

At the end of this exploration of nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin and the novel loosely based on his crimes, the question remains: did any of his friends in the white power movement know what he was going to do before he did it? What clues does the novel hold?

Sources:
Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020

Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.

Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011

Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge

Bill Simmons, "Defendants All Acquitted In Sedition Trial," AP News, April 8, 1988

https://www.kcur.org/news/2024-04-12/overland-park-antisemitic-murders-jewish-community-center-shooting-survivors

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article2595772.html

http://www.kansas.com/2014/04/15/3406670/records-suggest-federal-authorities.html

https://momentsthatsurvive.org/tribute/pierce-hastings/

https://www.wunc.org/2014-04-15/an-idiot-with-a-gun-leaves-families-in-kansas-reeling

https://www.kmbc.com/article/shooting-victim-remembered-for-upbeat-attitude-work-with-kids/3681879

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The Nazi's Mary Sue: Hunter, Pt. 1

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

A closer look at the second novel by the man who wrote The Turner Diaries reveals that it isn't just about serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin... it's the author's fantasy about the man he wishes he could have been.

Sources:

Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020

Thomas Martinez, Brotherhood of Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of The Order. McGraw Hill, 1988

Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.

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One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 6

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

As we approach the end of the series on nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, the rest of the timeline is filled in. Shortly after murdering two young men in Utah, Franklin was arrested at a motel in Kentucky after calling to complain that a police car had him double parked.

Sources:

Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011

Ralph Echols, Life Without Mercy: Jake Beard, Joseph Paul Franklin and the Rainbow Murders,

Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge

Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.

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Raymond Turner

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Just about every source of information about nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin gets the name of one of his victims wrong. In my search for information about the man who was murdered in Falls Church, Virginia in August of 1979, I came up mostly empty. We've erased a man from the story of his own murder because it's easier to tell a story about a racist than it is to talk about racism.

Sources:

Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011

Moon, V. The middleburg mystique: A peek inside the gates of Middleburg, Virginia. Waverley Lee Media, LLC. 2016

Matthew Exline, We Have Been Waiting Too Long: The Struggle Against Racial Segregation in Loudoun County, Virginia. Have History Will Travel Press, 2020.

Carole Townsend, Blood in the Soil. Skyhorse, 2016

Douglas, John E., Ann W. Burgess, et al. Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes. John Wiley and Sons, 2006.

The Study of the Operation of Segregated Schools in Loudoun County, Virginia conducted by Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project Research Team University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development
https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/214704/The-Study-of-the-Operation-of-Segregated-Schools-in-Loudoun-County-Virginia_FINAL

https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/index.cfm?fa=newsinfo.displayContent&theFile=content/deathPenalty/trial

https://www.aclunorcal.org/app/uploads/2010/03/costs_of_death_penalty_trials.pdf

https://fds.duke.edu/db?attachment-34--1667-view-301

https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/259-0162-0007_ShilohBaptistChurch_2017_NRHP_FINAL.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/04/26/middleburg/74b1854a-dca2-4b45-8bc5-7999ab4e015c/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/05/loudoun-county-segregated-schools-reparations/

http://www.virginiaplaces.org/government/constitution1902.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/08/21/turner-raymond-elton/4ae0ab2f-ef82-477d-a8f8-39ababc4c72c/

https://edwinwashingtonproject.org/files/original/62047/1014789_EWP_2-5A_Yr_1930_CountyWide_on_Gibbons_Lot.pdf

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One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 5

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000

After Joseph Paul Franklin was arrested in 1980, prosecutors all over the country were waiting their turn to try him for murder. After a federal prosecutor failed to convince a jury that shooting a man just for being black was a civil rights violation, they lost their confidence. But Joseph Paul Franklin was desperate to get out of the federal prison where he was serving his first few life sentences.

Sources:

Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011

Thomas Martinez, Brotherhood of Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of The Order. McGraw Hill, 1988

Jessica Mitford, Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business, New York, Vintage Books, 1973

Devins, Neal, "Reagan Redux: Civil Rights Under Bush" (1993). Faculty Publications. 429.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/429

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/06/28/reynolds-nomination-voted-down/115c0520-c848-4c17-a302-209a9a9d5a4a/

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/28/us/senate-committee-rejects-reynolds-for-justice-post.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/07/us/us-rights-official-discounts-tension.html

https://virginiamercury.com/2019/04/22/can-a-local-prosecutor-decide-to-just-stop-prosecuting-marijuana-cases-the-va-supreme-court-will-decide/

https://www.hcpros.org/case-vault-1

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/us/slayer-faces-trial-in-2-apparently-racial-killings.html

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_v._Lanza

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-5/dual-sovereignty-doctrine

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7299259/united-states-v-fields/

https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Utah-AG-Report.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4403054/mitchell-v-roberts/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-02-mn-747-story.html

https://people.umass.edu/~kastor/ceml_articles/cu_in_us.html

https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC3_scans/3.journal.prisons.prisoners.griffin.1993.pdf

https://concrim.asc41.com/wp-content/uploads/j32.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/10/23/murders-of-blacks-baffle-us-officials/f8eefeac-1ca3-48de-85a0-4b9db645b01e/

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/24/us/study-accuses-justice-dept-of-waging-attack-on-civil-rights-laws.html

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/10/marion-prison-lockdown-thomas-silverstein-how-a-1983-murder-created-america-s-terrible-supermax-prison-culture.html

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One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 4

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000

When Joseph Paul Franklin hit the road to start his killing spree, his movements seemed completely random. But what if they weren't?

Sources:

Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011

Fine, Morris, and Milton Himmelfard. American Jewish Year Book 1979. 1978.

Frenkel, Margaret. American synagogue directory, 1963

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-25016217

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4300634/zink-v-lombardi/

https://isthmus.com/archive/from-the-archives/in-cold-blood/

https://www.almd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022-04/OH-transcript-baxley.pdf

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/14/timeline-hate-filled-life/7712569/

https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2000/sc-81859-1.html

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One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 3

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Last week, we looked at the nazi newletters serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was probably reading in the leadup to his killing spree. But there is one thing we know for certain he was reading: Hustler.

Sources:

Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011

Jonathan Golomb, Regulation of Indecency in Political Broadcasting, 13 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 69 (1979).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol13/iss1/5

https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/justice/death-row-interview-joseph-paul-franklin

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/12/archives/antiobscenity-drive-disputed-in-atlanta-prosecutors-campaign-widely.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/10/archives/a-bullet-paralyzed-flynt-below-waist-his-doctor-reports-operating.html

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/convicted-killer-avowed-racist-tells-of-a-life-of-rage-hatred/article_c2093272-4768-52d2-8c0b-2e0bf719c1b1.html

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One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 2

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000

In 1977, Joseph Paul Franklin started his three year killing spree, but he wasn't the only neo-nazi who murdered for the movement that summer.

Sources:

Sunshine, Spencer. (2024). Neo-Nazi terrorism and countercultural fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Taylor & Francis.

Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020

Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011

Gardell, Mattias. “Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide.” Cambridge University Press eBooks, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108609760.

Bart Schuurman, Lasse Lindekilde, Stefan Malthaner, Francis O'Connor, Paul Gill & Noémie Bouhana (2017): End of the Lone Wolf: The Typology that Should Not Have Been, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2017.1419554

Jeffrey Kaplan (2014) Mel Ayton. Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin , Terrorism and Political Violence, 26:5, 855-857

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To Catch A Fascist: An Interview with Christopher Mathias

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Molly interviews Christopher Mathias about his new book, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right. It's a rollicking tale of infiltrating nazi groups and exposing their private communications to dox them en masse.

Preorder Chris' book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767

The article Chris mentioned about Spit & Dan: https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/death-in-the-desert-2263332/

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CZM Rewind: Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Part One: Frank Abbott Sweeney Jr may be the Forrest Gump of American white supremacy in the 20th century. Starting with a failed bank robbery for the American Nazi Party in the 60s, Frank stumbled his way into being an inconsequential side character in major historical events for decades.

Original Air Date: 8.28.24

Part Two: In part two of the life of the Forrest Gump of fascism, Frank Sweeney leads the CIA on an international goose chase, befriends and then betrays a serial killer, and just can't stop committing crimes by mail.

Original Air Date: 9.5.24

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One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 1

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Years before he set off on his three year killing spree, Joseph Paul Franklin left his home in Alabama to attend a nazi conference in Virginia.

Sources:

Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.

Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge

Kaplan, Jeffrey. (2022). No Longer Alone: Lone Wolves, Wolf Packs, and Made for Web TV Specials. In: Perry, B., Gruenewald, J., Scrivens, R. (eds) Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States . Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Saslow, Eli. Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist. Anchor, 2018.

Malthaner, Stefan, et al. “Scattered Attacks: The Collective Dynamics of Lone-Actor Terrorism.” Perspectives on Politics, vol. 22, no. 2, Dec. 2023, pp. 463–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592723002852.

Bart Schuurman, Lasse Lindekilde, Stefan Malthaner, Francis O'Connor, Paul Gill & Noémie Bouhana (2017): End of the Lone Wolf: The Typology that Should Not Have Been, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2017.1419554

Pantucci, Rafaello. A Typology of Lone Wolves: Preliminary Analysis of Lone Islamist Terrorists. (London: International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), 2011): 14-31.

Gardell, Mattias. “Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide.” Cambridge University Press, 2021.

https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NCITF-Final-Paper.pdf

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/movement-and-madman/#part01

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/11/20/november-mobilization/

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/nixons-secret-plan-for-ending-the-vietnam-war-nuclear-annihilation-of-vietnam/

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Cops & Klan

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

In 1965, a car full of klansmen shot and killed Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit who volunteered to drive civil rights activists back to Selma after the march to Montgomery. The FBI immediately kicked into overdrive to drag her name through the mud.

Sources:

Stanton, Mary. From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998

Mendelsohn, Jack. The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row 1966

https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/micheal-schwerner-james-chaney-andrew-goodman

https://famous-trials.com/mississippi-burningtrial/1978-barnetteconfession

https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/schwerner-michael/

http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/7p88cm77s

https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-september-10-2017-1.4280530/daughter-of-civil-rights-worker-murdered-in-selma-on-racism-white-supremacy-and-her-mother-s-legacy-1.4280754

https://archive.org/details/martyrssixteenwh00mend/page/176/mode/2up

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Earl Turner's Diary

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

When the man responsible for bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City was arrested, he was carrying a page of his favorite book. The book had been sold at gun shows and in ads in nazi newsletters for years, but suddenly the rest of the country was asking... can a book kill?

Sources:

Berger, J.M. "The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism’s Deadly Bible", The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague 7, no. 8 (2016).

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.

Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge

Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020

Martin Durham, White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics (new
york: routledge, 2007)

Gardell, Mattias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham: Duke University Press.

Kaplan, Jeffrey (July 2018). "America's apocalyptic literature of the radical right". International Sociology. 33 (4): 503–522

Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.

Michael, George(2003) 'The revolutionary model of Dr William L. Pierce', Terrorism and Political Violence, 15: 3

Michael, George(2010) 'Blueprints and Fantasies: A Review and Analysis of Extremist Fiction', Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33: 2

Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.

Cullick, Jonathan S. “The Literary Offenses of a Neo-Nazi: Narrative Voice in ‘The Turner Diaries.’” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 24, no. 3, 2002, pp. 87–99.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/guru-white-hate-william-pierce-timothy-mcveigh-831091/

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CZM Rewind: Blood River & Mission South Africa

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Parts 7 & 8 of the South Africa arc.

Blood River

Original Air Date: 4.17.25

Sources:

Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986.
FA Mouton (1995) F A van Jaarsveld (1922–1995) — a flawed genius?, , 27:1,
5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011
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Stephney, Inez Mary. “Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990’s, with particular reference to South Africa”
https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/b04bdabb-ecd9-4f99-a3ae-fff55b88f483/content

Schönteich, Martin, and Henri Boshoff. “Volk”, Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right. Institute for Security Studies, 2003.

Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. “Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of ‘Blood River’ and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.” History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052.

http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage

https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222024000200001

https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838

https://web.archive.org/web/20071220164018/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-617.html#_ftn13

https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf

https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/

https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c

https://www.news24.com/news24/five-boeremag-members-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-murder-madiba-20150430

https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/

Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999.

Mission South Africa

Original Air Date: 5.1.25

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration

https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2022/May/diplomatic-expulsions

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-after-air-force-one-arrival-february-2-2025/#15

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/

https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-africa-whites-only-town-orania-is-booming

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/

https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary

https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-03-17-eff-condemns-us-ambassador-expulsion-vows-to-block-white-supremacist-appointment/

https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-30-new-us-envoy-might-be-even-more-conservative-than-me-joel-pollak/

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html

https://mistra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MISTRA-Statement-webinar-Implications-of-changes-in-US-administration-for-South-Africa-and-Africa.pdf

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/

https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-south-africa-actively-opposed-fight-to-end-apartheid

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2025-02-19-ernst-roets-leaves-solidarity-movement-to-live-out-his-calling/

https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html

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CZM Rewind: The Whites' Last Stand & The Jamboree in Jamba

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Parts 5 & 6 of the South Africa arc.

The Whites' Last Stand

Original Air Date: 4.3.25

In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century.

Sources:

https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/

https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong

Guelke, Adrian. “Political Violence and the South African Transition.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810.

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm

Death of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.

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The Jamboree in Jamba

This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.

Sources:

Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.

Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.

Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Ivon, David. “Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.” Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.

Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.

Cachalia, Firoz and Mervyn Shear. WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era. Wits University Press, 2022.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/

https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/

https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf

https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdf

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293602.html?c=on

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/pam19811200.026.009.580.pdf

https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20060128022735/http://www.alternet.org/story/13134/

https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/1996/3.pdf

https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/Local-News/robert-hall-pioneer-in-medical-equipment-dies-20170711

https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/

https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdf

https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html

https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress

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CZM Rewind: The White Wolf & White Guns for Hire

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Parts 3 & 4 of the South Africa arc.

The White Wolf

Original Air Date: 3.2.25

In 1989, four Afrikaner nationalists and one German mercenary killed a security guard at a United Nations outpost in Namibia. After escaping from custody, they fled home to South Africa. A possibly non-existent group called The White Wolves took credit for the wave of bombings that followed.

Sources:

Du Preez, M. (2010). Pale native: Memories of a Renegade reporter. Zebra Press.

Rotberg, Robert (1988). The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Enigma of Power. Oxford University Press.

Falkof, Nicky. The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2016.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-09-bruce-and-leonard-a-sad-african-immigrant-tale-of-injustice/

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/19/world/outjo-journal-un-namibia-team-makes-some-unlikely-friends.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20010429091808/http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/spec/aress14-1.htm

https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZASCA/1999/72.html

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/08/11/Gunmen-attacked-a-UN-peace-keeping-force-adminstrative-headquarters-and/6550618811200/

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-nexus-between-far-right-extremists-in-the-united-states-and-ukraine/

https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=ncitereportsresearch

https://web.archive.org/web/20181118212149/https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/the-day-wit-wolf-turned-pretoria-red-with-blood-18125595

https://www.jordanharbinger.com/bradley-steyn-undercover-with-mandelas-spies-part-one/

https://theafricancriminologyjournal.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/south-africa-the-strijdom-square-massacre/

https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/us-wit-wolf-slaughter-1873433

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/what-became-of-the-big-wit-wolf-424408

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White Guns for Hire

Original Air Date: 3.27.25

In 1994, a second group of mercenaries arrived at the airport in Johannesburg... but no one was there to pick them up. Their host had been arrested days earlier, after the last group of mercenaries she'd hosted got into a deadly shootout with the South African police. But how did all these Germans end up in South Africa in the first place?

Sources:

Simonelli, F. J. (1999). American Führer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. University of Illinois Press.

Krott, R. (2008). Save the last bullet for yourself: A soldier of fortune in the Balkans and Somalia. Casemate.

Eisenberg, D. (1967). The Reemergence of Fascism. Barnes.

https://balkans.aljazeera.net/news/balkan/2017/11/29/slobodan-praljak-umro-u-bolnici

Bartholomäus Grill: German right-wing radicals shoot in South Africa: License plate D. In: Die Zeit . No. 13 , 25 March 1994

Antifaschistisches Autorenkollektiv: Drahtzieher im braunen Netz : Ein aktueller Überblick über den Neonazi-Untergrund in Deutschland und Österreich. Konkret Literatur Verlag, 1996,

https://etd.library.emory.edu/concern/etds/jm214q33q?locale=it

https://js.emory.edu/news/news-stories-container/Using%20South%20African%20Archives%20to%20Study%20PostWorld%20War%20Two%20Antisemitism%20and%20White%20Supremacist%20Networks.html

https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/c7f1b03d-343d-4abf-bcb3-e508f43dbc90/content

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib99/dressed-kill

Searchlight Magazine, issues July, August, September 1996

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CZM Rewind: The White House Weighs in on White Genocide & Apartheid International

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

For the end of the year reruns, Weird Little Guys is revisiting the longest, strangest story of 2025 - the South Africa arc. Those eight episodes tell the strange story of how one little skinhead rally in California in 2012 connects to a vast international conspiracy to stop the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994.

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The White House Weighs in on White Genocide

Original Air Date: 2.27.25

In February of 2012, racist skinheads in California rallied at the capitol building in Sacramento. They were trying to raise awareness for an imaginary problem - an ongoing genocide against white South African farmers. In February of 2025, the President of the United States signed an executive order stripping foreign aid from South Africa as punishment for that same imaginary problem.

Sources:

Falkof, Nicky. (2022). Worrier state: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester University Press.

Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens. The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), 2018.

Holmes, Carolyn. Victimhood for an Audience: Portrayals of Extra-Lethal Violence and their Utility for Self-Identified Victims
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b6672f43c3a5320c2bec900/t/5c98fd14a4222fc0ef950ccd/1553530134194/Victimhood+for+an+Audience+-+March+2019.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/white-farmers-trump-south-africa-tucker-carlson-far-right-influence

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/23/trump-orders-close-study-of-south-africa-farmer-killings

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-staff-usaid-met-group-called-apartheid-so-called-injustice_n_5af5dcb6e4b00d7e4c1a6571

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/anti-genocide-protests-around-nation-were-organized-neo-nazis/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/campus-group-weighs-south-african-violence-targeting-whites/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/dangerous-myth-white-genocide-south-africa/

https://africasacountry.com/2018/02/searching-for-white-genocide-in-south-africa/

https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/far-right-racists-push-fake-south-africa-white-genocide-narrative/

https://goodauthority.org/news/misinformation-south-africa-new-land-act-trump-musk/

https://www.jurist.org/features/2025/02/11/explainer-understanding-the-south-africa-land-reform-law-that-provoked-trumps-ire/

https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-fearmongers-about-land-reform-south-africa

https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/trumps-south-africa-tweet-tucker-carlson-has-turned-white-nationalist-narrative

https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/Final-Report-Committee-of-Inquiry-Farm-Attacks-July-2003.pdf

https://africasacountry.com/2018/05/flight-of-the-boers

https://www.news24.com/News24/afriforums-own-farm-murder-stats-dont-support-their-claims-20180507

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-15/dutton-wants-australia-to-help-white-south-african-farmers/9550050

https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/analysis/donald-trumps-sa-tweet-how-he-got-the-message-20180823

https://theconversation.com/peter-duttons-fast-track-for-white-south-african-farmers-is-a-throwback-to-a-long-racist-history-93476

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/22/south-africa-risks-food-shortages-if-white-farmers-go-to-australia-nationals-mp-says

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/27/dutton-should-prioritise-refugees-on-nauru-not-white-south-africans-unhcr-says

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ramaphosa-hits-back-at-donald-trump-on-land-tweet/

https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Acts/2024/Act_13_of_2024_Expropriation_Act_2024.pdf

https://www.enca.com/videos/exclusive-interview-frontrunner-become-us-ambassador-sa

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Apartheid International

Original Air Date: 3.13.25

In the last episode, we looked at a strange series of rallies held in cities across the United States in 2012 - American neo-nazis were rallying in support of white South African Farmers. But how did they get that idea in their heads? The rallies were put on by a group called The South Africa Project, run by a woman I'd never heard of. Digging into this mysterious South African, I found a lot more than I bargained for - bombings and mercenaries and an international network of fascist terror.

Sources:

https://www.24sata.hr/news/hsp-as-prisegnuli-na-vjernost-domovini-i-donaldu-trumpu-513281#google_vignette

https://balkaninsight.com/2017/02/27/us-condemns-zagreb-neo-nazi-march-for-trump-02-27-2017/

https://www.icty.org/x/cases/naletilic_martinovic/cis/en/cis_naletilic_martinovic_en.pdf

https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/

https://time.com/3927339/dylann-roof-charleston-shooting-flags/

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,863800,00.html

https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/1981/0219/021960.html

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/anti-genocide-protests-around-nation-were-organized-neo-nazis/

Visser, Myda. 1999. University of Pretoria. DIE IDEOLOGIESE GRONDSLAE EN ONlWIKKELING VAN DIE BLANKE FASCISTIESE BEWEGINGS IN SUID-AFRIKA, 1945-1995

Hill, Ray, and Andrew Bell. The Other Face of Terror: Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network. Grafton, 1988.
https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/finalreport/volume%202.pdf

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/june-16-soweto-youth-uprising

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/apartheid-early-1980s

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Minisode: Reverse Q&A

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In this minisode, Molly highlights a couple of listener answers to questions raised on the show. Most importantly, we finally find out what Dan Burros was watching on TV on November 10, 1962.

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The Florida Bar v Invictus

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Augustus Invictus has finally been suspended by the Florida Bar for his felony conviction for participating in a nazi torch march in 2017. But when will he actually serve his jail sentence?

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The Insurrectionist: Tyler Dykes, Part Two

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +0000

In 2017, Tyler Dykes marched in Charlottesville. In 2021, he breached the capitol. In 2026, he hopes to win a congressional election.

Sources:

https://www.postandcourier.com/beaufort-county/politics/tyler-dykes-campaign-sc1-congress/article_c255115c-45cf-430e-b4a4-160a322631e1.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/givesendgo-crowdfunding-extremism/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67681795/united-states-v-dykes/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/racist-crowdfunding-campaigns-extremist

https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/far-right-figure-ann-vandersteel-hosts-online-forum-election-denier

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/06/jan-6-prisoners-supporters/

https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/base

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/12/31/fbi-reveals-items-seized-base-leaders-hate-camp-michigan/4071226001/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-leader-of-neo-nazi-terror-group-the-base-was-just-arrested-in-michigan/

https://icct.nl/publication/bordering-hate-strategic-implications-white-supremacist-extremist-travel-between-united

https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/fbi-neo-nazi-leader-sought-white-ethno-state-michigans-upper-peninsula/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/fbi-arrests-the-base-michigan.html

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CZM Rewind: Burning Hate: Tyler Dykes

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

This episode originally ran on October 17, 2024. There is a brief new introduction, but it's back at the top of your feed for listeners who didn't catch it the first time around. Today's regular episode picks up where this one left off.

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-supporters-who-stormed-us-capitol-begin-leave-prison-following-sweeping-2025-01-21/
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-high-water-mark-of-the-jan.-6-prosecutions

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Tyler Bradley Dykes entered a guilty plea last year on the charge of burning an object with the intent to intimidate for his participation in the 2017 nazi torch march in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was sentenced to just six months and was probably expecting to see his parents waiting for him outside the jail on his scheduled release date... but it was the FBI who picked him up.

Sources:

https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/04/19/inside-southern-sons-active-club-part-i/

https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/04/19/inside-southern-sons-active-club-part-ii/

https://sunlight161.noblogs.org/technology-king-lowcountry-ceo-tyler-dykes-bluffton-sc-marine-nazi/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67681795/united-states-v-dykes/

https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/burning-hate-bond-review/

https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/unite-the-right-marcher-pleads-guilty-to-j6-charges/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/white-nationalist-active-clubs-1234835015/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/charlottesville-tiki-torch-rioter-endorses-donald-trump-jan-6-sentenci-rcna162209

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Weird Little Guys 2025 Q&A

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Molly answers your weird little questions and shares her personal conspiracy theory about who tried and failed to assassinate a nazi in 1967.

Sources:

Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, 'Mass Communication and Parasocial Interaction:
Observations on Intimacy at a Distance', Psychiatry 19: 215-29, 1956
https://www.participations.org/03-01-04-horton.pdf

Nadora, Mikhaela, "Parasocial Relationships with Podcast Hosts" (2019). University Honors Theses. Paper 771.
https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.789

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CZM Rewind: Magic Beans

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Original Air Date: 7.31.25

Sources:

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional/ajc-watchdog-north-man-arrested-for-ricin-radicalized-online/wdxws9G7zMmaUDmm22njYK/

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-perfect-poison-ricin-used-in-3-recent-cases/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17023504/united-states-v-jordan/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6378803/united-states-v-siers-hill/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6293428/united-states-v-gibbs/

Melissa Abbes, Marc Montana, Christophe Curti, Patrice Vanelle. Ricin poisoning: A review on contamination source, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and reporting of ricin poisoning. Toxicon, Volume 195, 2021

Tucker, Jonathan B. “Dilemmas of a Dual-Use Technology: Toxins in Medicine and Warfare.” Politics and the Life Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1, 1994, pp. 51–62

Bergen, Peter, et al. “Key Trends in Terrorism.” Terrorism in America 18 Years After 9/11, New America, 2019, pp. 45–50

Leo J. Schep, Wayne A. Temple, Grant A. Butt, Michael D. Beasley. Ricin as a weapon of mass terror — Separating fact from fiction. Environment International, Volume 35, Issue 8, 2009

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https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/uscode

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/744

https://thebulletin.org/2013/06/barely-lethal/

https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6020875&page=1

https://slate.com/technology/2012/01/white-powder-hoaxes-a-trend-in-fake-terrorism.html

https://www.justice.gov/archive/tax/usaopress/2002/txdv02091.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-49434687

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/22/woman-poison-plot-mother-breaking-bad-court

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/breaking-bad-inspired-georgetown-student-charged-ricin

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34288380

USAMRIID’s MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CASUALTIES HANDBOOK, Ninth Edition
https://usamriid.health.mil/assets/docs/training/USAMRIIDs_Blue_Book_9th_edition_PDF_format.pdf

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The Lost Episode: Nazis for Ron Paul: Curtis Maynard, Pt. 2

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In 2007, a white nationalist known for his addiction to causing drama claimed he saw Ron Paul at a nazi supper club. Ron Paul supporters, including those on nazi message boards, pushed back. The feud that ensued led to Curtis Maynard's fall from grace as a holocaust denial blogger - he'd been keeping a secret from his readers.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/politics/ron-paul-disowns-extremists-views-but-doesnt-disavow-the-support.html

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/ron-pauls-new-organization-reportedly-stacked-extremists/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jan/16/guiltbyassociation

https://web.archive.org/web/20071226150527/themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/the-ron-paul-vid-lash/

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/pageoneplus/corrections.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20071221222229/http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28341_Neo-Nazis_Say-_Ron_Paul_is_One_of_Us&only

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2018/10/01/alleged-white-nationalist-peter-gemma-resigns-from-sarasota-gop-executive-committee/9732609007/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/04/07/for-holocaust-denier-theres-no-telling/057d4471-7668-4bf2-ba59-6e7f9666bb18/

http://new.wymaninstitute.org/2004/12/former-senior-aide-to-pat-buchanan-spoke-at-holocaust-deniers-meeting/

https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/white-nationalist-writer-peter-gemma-resigns-sarasota-gop-executive-committee

https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/conservativism-and-foreign-policy/182250

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/world/americas/21iht-hate.4.17140643.html

https://roanoke.com/news/local/nazi-leader-bill-white----in-his-own-words/article_7e5c7e03-bdcf-5542-a6be-0433ba2d7aee.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/assault-gets-even-ugliercontroversy-escalates-over-sexual-violence-campus/

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CZM Rewind: Revisionist History Riverboat Cruise: Curtis Maynard, Pt. 1

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

This episode originally ran on January 23, 2025. The second half of the story had to be taken down a few weeks later. That episode has now been rewritten and re-recorded. Before you listen to the newly released version of the lost episode, here's the original part one to refresh your memory.

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In 2010, a rising star in the small world of holocaust denial blogging murdered his ex-wife and then took his own life. This first chapter of his story follows his path from a troubled career as a registered nurse to his growing fame as a white supremacist blogger.

Sources:

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Lawyer-Lake-Jackson-murder-suicide-followed-1710794.php

http://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/americas-promise-ministries/

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/proclamation-5555-national-hungarian-freedom-fighters-day-1986

https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/Szittyakurt_USAHUN_1986/?pg=39&layout=s

https://www.bocskairadio.org/en/an-interview-with-akos-l-nagy-president-of-the-american-hungarian-federation/

Katalin Hasulyó-Pintz. Doctoral dissertation, Identity Preservation and Diaspora Relations in the USA: the Hungarian Community of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 2020

https://collections.ushmm.org/oh_findingaids/RG-50.573.0005_tcn_en.pdf

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465015471074263044.html

https://www.yadvashem.org/docs/international-commission-on-romania-holocaust.html

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CZM Rewind: An Accidental Nazi Rally

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned out to be well known white supremacists.

Original Air Date: 2.13.25

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Disorganized Crime, Pt. 4

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In the final chapter of his life, Frank Smith really did start the whites only church he first proposed to George Lincoln Rockwell.

Sources:

https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/christian-identitys-new-role-extreme-right

https://gnet-research.org/2023/05/10/the-revitalisation-of-christian-identity-content-on-youtube-twitter-and-tiktok/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/01/31/Ex-Rhode-Island-mayor-sentenced-for-racketeering/5824696834000/

https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F2/975/975.F2d.17.92-1180.html

https://law.justia.com/cases/nebraska/supreme-court/1989/946-0.html

https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/news/legacy-of-the-commander/article_c5ebf480-2fef-536c-aee8-11a2925441a0.html

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2016/08/12/from-malinowski-archives-sarault-linked-financially-to-pair-with-mob-nazi-ties/26059574007/

Sunshine, Spencer. (2024). Neo-Nazi terrorism and countercultural fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Taylor & Francis.

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Disorganized Crime, Pt. 3

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1965, Frank Smith was laying low in Maine after a failed mob hit nearly killed him. He reappeared a few months later in Virginia, acting as a body guard for his new best friend, the commander of the American Nazi Party.

Sources:

Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press

Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Rosenthal, A. M.; Gelb, Arthur (1967). One More Victim: The Life and Death of an American-Jewish Nazi. New York: New American Library

https://omim.org/entry/253300

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/us/ex-fbi-agent-is-charged-in-a-1981-gangland-killing.html

https://fbistudies.com/2016/06/14/the-paul-rico-case/

https://www.congress.gov/event/107th-congress/house-event/LC16939/text

https://www.congress.gov/committee-report/108th-congress/house-report/414/1

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-charged-in-mob-hit/

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The Other Rockwell

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

George Lincoln Rockwell was a nazi. Norman Rockwell was a painter. They didn't have much in common at all, but people can't seem to stop mixing them up.

Sources:

https://library.washu.edu/news/norman-rockwell-and-race-complicating-rockwells-legacy/

https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal66-1301767

https://www.nytimes.com/1966/10/06/archives/us-aide-attacks-bill-to-curb-riots-doar-in-house-testimony-doubts.html

https://www.smh.com.au/national/spy-or-nazi-20120331-1w52i.html

Berger, Alan L. Review of American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party, and: Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 17 no. 1, 2003, p. 180-185

Gallagher, V., & Zagacki, K. S. (2005). Visibility and Rhetoric: The Power of Visual Images in Norman Rockwell’s Depictions of Civil Rights. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91(2), 175–200.

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Disorganized Crime, Pt. 2

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:26:49 +0000

When Frank Smith got out of prison in 1964, he went right back to working for the New England mafia. He also joined the American Nazi Party. And he had a dream that the two organizations could work together.

Sources:
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-boston-irish-gang-wars-terrify-a-city/

https://www.nytimes.com/1965/11/04/archives/the-boston-gang-war-a-deadly-web-of-revenge.html

https://mattofboston.com/boston-gang-wars-the-first-irish-gang-war-mclaughlin-v-mclean-introduction/

https://golocal24.com/golocal-launches-the-patriarca-papers-the-fbi-files-on-the-man-that-led-the-new-england-crime-family-for-nearly-50-years/

https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/pdfs-docs/origins/ms-littest55.pdf

https://idahopotato.com/dr-potato/length-and-circumference-of-a-potato

https://utia.tennessee.edu/cpa/wp-content/uploads/sites/106/2020/10/CPA-222.pdf

Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press

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Disorganized Crime, Pt. 1

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Before he joined the American Nazi Party in 1965, Frank Smith was already a career criminal working for the New England mafia.

Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/1952/05/06/archives/friend-of-sutton-seized-as-suspect-in-schuster-death-armed-burglar.html

https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/news/legacy-of-the-commander/article_c5ebf480-2fef-536c-aee8-11a2925441a0.html

Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/1961/342-mass-180-2.html

https://time.com/archive/6618452/people-visions/

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George Lincoln Rockwell's Coffin Flop

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When the commander of the American Nazi Party died, he left instructions with his successor. He wanted the military funeral he was entitled to as an American veteran. It didn't go well.

Sources:

https://snccdigital.org/events/protests-danville-virginia/

https://www.thejc.com/life/lawyer-who-helped-a-loving-couple-nn57y8ct

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article120224913.html

https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/philip_hirschkop_peta_social_justice

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/

Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press

Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

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Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3.5

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1976, the recently paroled assassin went back to prison after being arrested in Charlottesville. He was acquitted on the charge of being naked in a stranger's living room, but he'd violated his parole. He's tried to stay out of the spotlight ever since. Decades later, his son wrote that he was a changed man. His comments after the 2017 Unite the Right rally say otherwise.

Sources:

Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press

Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/12/15/the-accounting/22c75ac3-d752-4339-bccb-dcce7e3a999f/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/07/18/man-found-guilty-in-15-year-old-murder/95c86fe6-2f03-4043-a7f3-5d49c89c2b13/

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Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the third episode of the story of George Lincoln Rockwell's assassin, Rockwell finally dies and his assassin goes on trial.

Sources:

Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press

Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/25/shocking-neo-nazis-fly-swastika-salute-at-shopping-center-where-leader-was-killed/

https://www.fcnp.com/2017/08/25/nazis-swoop-arlington-mark-50th-anniversary-rockwell-shooting/

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Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 2

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the year leading up to George Lincoln Rockwell's assassination, he was trying to take the American Nazi Party in a new direction. Not everyone within the party was on board with the changes.

Sources:

Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's

Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press

Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.

https://time.com/5096937/martin-luther-king-jr-picture-chicago/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323670005_An_order_of_crime_the_criminal_law_of_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia_NDH_1941-1945

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Death of a Demagogue

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sometimes when a weird little guy gets shot, the guy who killed him is just a weirder little guy.

Sources:

Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's

Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press

Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Lee, Martin A. (1997). The Beast Reawakens. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

Rosenthal, A. M.; Gelb, Arthur (1967). One More Victim: The Life and Death of an American-Jewish Nazi. New York: New American Library

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American Fart Party

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The American Freedom Party and the American Fart party have a couple things in common - the acronym, for one thing. They've also both filed paperwork with the federal election commission claiming to be a national political party. One is a silly little joke about farts, the other is a group of white nationalists who don't know how to do paperwork.

Sources:

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/american-freedom-party/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/identity-evropaamerican-identity-movement/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/kyle-bristow/

https://idavox.com/index.php/2015/10/15/national-youth-front-forced-to-change-name-angelo-john-gage-is-out-as-chairman-the-new-guy-is-an-ex-con-with-a-hell-of-a-story/

https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/white-nationalists-seeking-to-rent-msu-facilities,1820

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/03/01/richard-spencer-alt-right-lawyer-kyle-bristow/376172002/

https://sunlight161.noblogs.org/nicholas-jonathan-gregory-north-carolina-neo-nazi-podcaster-behind-night-nation-review-night-nation-ick/

https://www.antihate.ca/neo_nazi_hate_group_distribute_flyers_outside_canadian_university

https://globalextremism.org/post/white-supremacist-diagolon-movement-now-calling-for-deportation-of-all-indians/

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/airman-white-supremacist-group-discharge/

https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/30/gordon-kahl/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/forrest-gump-fake-presidential-candidates-days-numbered/story

https://azmirror.com/briefs/nbc-reported-about-neo-nazis-at-cpac-at-least-two-of-them-are-from-arizona/

https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00917005/

https://www.tn.gov/revenue/news/2022/5/12/polk-county-resident-pleads-guilty-to-theft-and-tax-evasion.html

https://www.newsweek.com/university-tennessee-protest-white-nationalist-rick-tyler-1437527

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/robert-whitaker-mantra-fame-announced-afp-vice-presidential-candidate/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-american-freedom-party-emails_n_5702b470e4b0a06d580659c7

https://www.thedailybeast.com/unite-the-right-2-speaker-is-disbarred-ex-lawyer-accused-of-stealing-from-clients/

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Recalled, Replaced

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 2017, Judd Blevins marched in Charlottesville with men chanting 'you will not replace us.' In 2024, voters in Enid, Oklahoma replaced him - a recall election removed him from office as a city commissioner. During his short time in office, members of the American Freedom Party rallied to support him.

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A Secret Third Thing

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the 2012 election, the American Third Position Party rebranded. Not because their candidate lost, they expected that. But probably because their candidate didn't know what the party's name meant.

Sources:

https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf

https://politicalresearch.org/2016/12/19/what-third-position

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/neofascism-european-style/

https://www.alternet.org/2008/07/surviving_a_weekend_with_americas_premiere_pro-white_activist_group#

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2016/10/18/former-mpd-chief-drue-lackey-dead-90/92349168/

Winkler, Martin M. Arminius the Liberator: Myth and Ideology. Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Third Position

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 2012, a newly formed white nationalist political party tried to get their candidate on the ballot. The American Third Position Party wanted Americans to vote for Merlin Miller, but how did the party end up picking him?

Sources:

https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf#page=11

https://irehr.org/2018/06/14/what-is-the-american-freedom-party/

https://www.ocregister.com/2009/09/04/two-time-felon-runs-pro-white-political-group/

https://rosecityantifa.org/articles/meet-the-oregon-chapter-of-the-american-freedom-party-part-one/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/will-la-elect-a-ron-paul_b_104053

https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2013/08/two-american-freedom-party-leaders-speak-out-about-their-party/

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19/d284

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/middle-east/six-day-war-liberty.html

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In Minecraft

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After Devon Arthurs murdered his roommates, he claimed he'd only done it to prevent the loss of innocent lives. The man he said was planning a terrorist attack was arrested with a car full of guns, but not charged with any of the things Arthurs claimed their nazi terror cell had been working on.

Sources:

https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/three-murder-suspects-linked-to-atomwaffen-where-their-cases-stand/

https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article156282099.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicholas-giampa-neo-nazi-teenager-murder-girlfriends-parents-virginia_n_5a4d0797e4b0b0e5a7aa4780

https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-4

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/transcript/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjEBXDfuBDE&ab_channel=COURTTV

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The Roommates

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 2017, police investigating a double homicide found more than just bodies in a Tampa condo. The founder of a neonazi group was making bombs in the garage.

Sources:

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-threat-is-the-network-the-multi-node-structure-of-neo-fascist-accelerationism/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/visions-chaos-weighing-violent-legacy-iron-march/

https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2019/11/15/meet-lauren-paul-mit-alumni-and-neo-nazi-atomwaffen-division-propagandist/

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2016/police-release-video-of-suspect-in-hate-poster-distribution/

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/all-american-nazis-628023/

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Magic Beans

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 2017, a man showed up at the emergency room and confessed that he'd accidentally poisoned himself with homemade ricin. He was federally charged with possessing a biological agent, but his case was dismissed on almost unbelievable technicality. But he's not the only man who thinks he can create the perfect weapon from nothing but a handful of beans.

Sources:

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional/ajc-watchdog-north-man-arrested-for-ricin-radicalized-online/wdxws9G7zMmaUDmm22njYK/

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-perfect-poison-ricin-used-in-3-recent-cases/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17023504/united-states-v-jordan/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6378803/united-states-v-siers-hill/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6293428/united-states-v-gibbs/

Melissa Abbes, Marc Montana, Christophe Curti, Patrice Vanelle. Ricin poisoning: A review on contamination source, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and reporting of ricin poisoning. Toxicon, Volume 195, 2021

Tucker, Jonathan B. “Dilemmas of a Dual-Use Technology: Toxins in Medicine and Warfare.” Politics and the Life Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1, 1994, pp. 51–62

Bergen, Peter, et al. “Key Trends in Terrorism.” Terrorism in America 18 Years After 9/11, New America, 2019, pp. 45–50

Leo J. Schep, Wayne A. Temple, Grant A. Butt, Michael D. Beasley. Ricin as a weapon of mass terror — Separating fact from fiction. Environment International, Volume 35, Issue 8, 2009

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/us/ricin-terrorism-plot-sentencing.html

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https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/uscode

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/744

https://thebulletin.org/2013/06/barely-lethal/

https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6020875&page=1

https://slate.com/technology/2012/01/white-powder-hoaxes-a-trend-in-fake-terrorism.html

https://www.justice.gov/archive/tax/usaopress/2002/txdv02091.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-49434687

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/22/woman-poison-plot-mother-breaking-bad-court

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/breaking-bad-inspired-georgetown-student-charged-ricin

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34288380

USAMRIID’s MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CASUALTIES HANDBOOK, Ninth Edition
https://usamriid.health.mil/assets/docs/training/USAMRIIDs_Blue_Book_9th_edition_PDF_format.pdf

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Slow Decline

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 2016, Nicholas Young became the first American police officer to be arrested and charged with a federal terrorism offense. At trial, jurors were shown mountains of evidence about his collection of nazi memorabilia. But what does that have to do with the gift cards he texted to an FBI informant he thought was a member of ISIS?

Sources:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4559133/united-states-v-young

Helen Taylor (2019): Domestic terrorism and hate crimes: legal definitions and media framing of mass shootings in the United States, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
https://www.academia.edu/81063064/Domestic_terrorism_and_hate_crimes_legal_definitions_and_media_framing_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/11/19/official-allegedly-hinted-at-saudi-torture-of-va-man/d2a5ab07-28dd-4390-a245-c937083178f4/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091302275.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20210924060335/https://www.nysun.com/national/a-prosecutor-is-called-relentless/82727/

https://harpers.org/2009/03/more-prosecutorial-misconduct-in-the-al-arian-case/

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/17/julian-assange-extradition-gordon-kromberg/

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/16/prosecutors-allege-dubious-isis-nazi-connection-in-terror-sting-case/

https://www.cair.com/cair_in_the_news/va-terror-prosecutor-accused-of-anti-muslim-bias/

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/prosecutor_accused_of_personal_animus_in_muslim_terrorism_cases

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/08/foundation_for_the_defense_of_democracies_inside_the_small_pro_israel_think.single.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20150818165301/http://www.thenation.com/article/washingtons-sketchy-pro-israelanti-iran-camp/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/opinion/conservative-think-tanks-bannon.html

Human Rights Watch & Human Rights Institute, Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecutions, (2014).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/human_rights_institute/44

T. Ward Frampton, Predisposition and Positivism: The Forgotten Foundations of the Entrapment Doctrine, 103 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 111 (2013).
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/jclc/vol103/iss1/3

Dru Stevenson, Entrapment By Numbers, 16 J. LAW & PUB. POL’Y 1 (2005)
https://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=5903&context=expresso

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Madeleine Blackman, 2022. "Fluidity of the Fringes: Prior Extremist Involvement as a Radicalization Pathway," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(7)

German, Mike and Beth Zasloff. Policing White Supremacy. The New Press, 2025.
Hoffman, Bruce, and Jacob Ware. God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America. Columbia University Press, 2024.

Marc‑André Argentino, Shiraz Maher, Charlie Winter, 2021. Violent Extremist Innovation:
A Cross‑Ideological Analysis, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ICSR-Report-Violent-Extremist-Innovation-A-Cross%E2%80%91Ideological-Analysis.pdf

Marc‑André Argentino, Amarnath Amarasingam, Emmi Conley, 2022. “One Struggle”:
Examining Narrative Syncretism between Accelerationists and Salafi‑Jihadists. International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ICSR-Report-One-Struggle-Examining-Narrative-Syncretism-between-Accelerationists-and-Salafi%E2%80%91Jihadists.pdf

Connecting the Fringes: Neo-Nazi Glorification of Salafi-Jihadi Representations Online, Julien Bellaiche
https://gnet-research.org/2021/08/24/connecting-the-fringes-neo-nazi-glorification-of-salafi-jihadi-representations-online/

Meleagrou-Hitchens, Alexander; Ayad, Moustafa; Program on Extremism, George Washington University; and National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center, "The Age of Incoherence? Understanding Mixed and Unclear Ideology Extremism" (2023). Reports, Projects, and Research.
https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/2023-06/the-age-of-incoherence-final.pdf

Martin Laryš (2024) “White Jihad” and “White Sharia”: Jihadism as an Instrument of Intra-Extremist Outbidding among Right-Wing Extremists, Terrorism and Political Violence, 36:7, 853-870, DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2023.2214240

Ariel Koch, Karine Nahon & Assaf Moghadam (2024) White Jihad: How White Supremacists Adopt Jihadi Narratives, Aesthetics, and Tactics, Terrorism and Political Violence, 36:7, 919-943, DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2023.2223694

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Red Flag

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When FBI agents started combing through the digital footprint of a dead school shooter, they found more than the usual missed warning signs.

Sources:

https://www.maargentino.com/narrative-examination-of-the-antioch-high-school-shooters-manifesto-and-diary/

https://www.maargentino.com/digital-dystopia-the-dark-nexus-of-violent-extremism-and-sexual-exploitation-a-case-study/

https://www.maargentino.com/examining-the-soyjak-attacker-video-fandom-part-i/

https://www.propublica.org/article/madison-nashville-school-shooters-online-extremism

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-assassionation-plot-nikita-casap-terrorgram-wisconsin-propublica/

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/solomon-henderson-natalie-rupnow/

https://www.accresearch.org/accreports/inside-terrorgram-a-strategic-look-at-the-collectives-history

https://gnet-research.org/2024/08/16/dead-society-tracing-the-online-dimension-of-a-militant-accelerationist-inspired-attack-in-turkey/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders/

https://www.wsmv.com/2025/05/02/antioch-school-shooter-signed-paperwork-not-have-gun-morning-shooting-juvenile-criminal-records-show/

https://wpln.org/post/first-came-the-warning-signs-then-a-teen-opened-fire-on-a-nashville-school/

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/court-bars-carlsbad-man-linked-to-wisconsin-school-shooter-from-obtaining-firearms/

https://therighting.com/original/meet-the-radical-feminists-who-stoked-the-biggest-olympics-gender-controversy/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/the-baron-nsclrp

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CZM Rewind: The Civil War False Flag

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When someone left a bomb at a Civil War reenactment event in 2017, it looked like antifascist activists were out for revenge after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. A mysterious letter writer claiming to be an antifascist collective took credit for the bomb and threatened even more violence to come if Civil War reenactments weren't called off. But the bomber wasn't antifa - it was a spurned Confederate re-enactor.

Orignal Air Date: 8.15.24

Sources:

https://qz.com/1800988/antifa-falsely-accused-of-threatening-civil-war-group https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/02/12/civil-war-reenactor-antifa-threats/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/civil-war-reenactment-in-virginia-canceled-amid-worries-over-violence/2017/08/18/633b71d8-844a-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-civil-war-reenactors-receive-threat-of-bodily-harm/29951/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-wanted-to-send-a-message-reenactors-stage-civil-war-battle-despite-threat/2017/10/15/77dd0348-b1c4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html https://www.winchesterstar.com/news/frederick_county/increased-security-planned-for-battle-of-cedar-creek-event/article_aec48f2e-c708-5b7d-8679-1ca677e96f3d.html https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65406287/united-states-v-drake/

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There Is A Spectre Haunting New York City

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The right wing media is buzzing with accusations that the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City is a communist. They're calling for his removal from not only the ballot... but the also the country. This anticommunist panic isn't new.

Sources:

Drabble, John. “To Ensure Domestic Tranquility: The FBI, Cointelpro-White Hate and Political Discourse, 1964-1971.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2004, pp. 297–328. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27557518.

Horowitz, David Alan. “White Southerners’ Alienation and Civil Rights: The Response to Corporate Liberalism, 1956-1965.” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 54, no. 2, 1988, pp. 173–200. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2209398.

Katagiri, Yasuhiro. Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism In the Jim Crow South. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.

Lewis, George. The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965. University Press of Florida, 2004.

Kovel, Joel. Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America. 2nd ed. London: Cassel, 1997.

https://politicalresearch.org/2022/01/04/blue-lives-matter-and-us-counter-subversive-tradition

Shanahan, J., & Wall, T. (2021). ‘Fight the reds, support the blue’: Blue Lives Matter and the US counter-subversive tradition. Race & Class, 63(1), 70-90.

Brenner, Samuel Lawrence (May 2009). Shouting at the Rain: The Voices and Ideas of Right-Wing Anti-Communist Americanists in the Era of Modern American Conservatism, 1950-1974 (Thesis). Brown University.

Schrecker, Ellen. “Immigration and Internal Security: Political Deportations during the McCarthy Era.” Science & Society, vol. 60, no. 4, 1996, pp. 393–426.

Schrecker, Ellen. “Archival Sources for the Study of McCarthyism.” The Journal of American History, vol. 75, no. 1, 1988, pp. 197–208

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https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2021/01/08/gov-kristi-noem-says-georgia-elected-communists-serve-u-s-senate/6605474002/

https://www.warscapes.com/conversations/conversation-mahmood-mamdani

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A Brief History of Vehicular Violence

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Last week, we talked about one particular incident of vehicular violence on protesters. But where does the tactic come from? Who is doing it? And why?

Sources:
Miller, Vincent, and Keith J. Hayward. “‘I DID MY BIT’: TERRORISM, TARDE AND THE VEHICLE RAMMING ATTACK AS AN IMITATIVE EVENT.” The British Journal of Criminology, vol. 59, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1–23. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26780645. Accessed 16 June 2025.

Brian Michael Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth, Smashing into Crowds: An Analysis of Vehicle Ramming Attacks. San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute, 2019
https://transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/default/files/SP-1119-Vehicle-Ramming-Attacks.pdf

Brian Michael Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth, Metal Against Marchers. San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute, 2020
https://transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/default/files/SP1020-Metal-Against-Marchers.pdf

Gabriel Nowacki & Cezary Krysiuk & Damian Szafranek, 2025. "Vehicle Ramming as a Form of Terrorist Attack Threatening Public Safety," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(1), pages 707-722.

Simon Perry, Badi Hasisi & Gali Perry (2018) Who is the Lone Terrorist? A Study of Vehicle-Borne Attackers in Israel and the West Bank, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism,
41:11, 899-913, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2017.1348101

Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020

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https://www.al.com/news/2025/06/stand-your-ground-on-steroids-debate-emerges-over-drivers-hitting-protesters-in-alabama.html

https://local21news.com/news/local/adams-county-community-reacts-to-sheriffs-controversial-facebook-post-about-protestors

https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/detail/pedestrians

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331

https://cwa-union.org/news/strike-line-remembering-gerry-horgan

https://sfist.com/2025/03/10/truck-seems-to-drive-into-striking-vta-workers-on-picket-line-one-hospitalized/

https://komonews.com/amp/news/local/king-county-detective-on-leave-after-alleged-all-lives-splatter-facebook-post

https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/flint-man-who-hit-striking-uaw-members-pleads-guilty/article_b007099a-bf9a-11ee-9de4-0bfd68db8786.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1929/06/16/archives/federal-arms-barred-secretary-good-warns-governor-on-use-of.html

https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/media/daily-caller-fox-news-video-car-crashing-liberal-protesters/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/world/europe/uk-van-attack-london-mosque.html

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/alek-minassian-toronto-van-attack-incels-891678/

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-17/man-arrested-hit-and-run-no-kings-protester-riverside

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14915697/united-states-v-henry/

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Murder on Fourth Street

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

With vehicular attacks on protests on the rise and elected officials encouraging the tactic, old conspiracy theories about one vehicular attack in particular are circulating once again. This is the story of what actually happened on Fourth Street in downtown Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/08/us/la-immigration-protests-photos-map.html

https://files.integrityfirstforamerica.org/14228/1641845853-dillon-hopper-deposition-as-played-at-trial.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/florida-desantis-protests-warning.html

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6168921/sines-v-kessler/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7299259/united-states-v-fields/

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Stand Back and Stand By

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Last week, five Proud Boys announced a $100 million lawsuit against the government over their treatment during the January 6th prosecutions.

Sources:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70474277/tarrio-v-united-states-of-america/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ex-soldiers-acceptance-trump-pardon-didnt-constitute-confession-guilt-court-2021-09-23/

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/proud-boys-leaders-sue-u-s-over-jan-6-prosecutions-90f9f4ce

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/jury-convicts-four-leaders-proud-boys-seditious-conspiracy-related-us-capitol-breach

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/enrique-tarrio-prison-sentencing-proud-boys-00114104

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/proud-boys-leaders-sentenced-prison-roles-jan-6-capitol-breach

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y93jgdvqjo

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-prosecutors-decline-to-charge-ex-proud-boys-leader-after-us-capitol-arrest/3872280/

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/15/how-did-a-proud-boys-leader-with-a-felony-record-get-into-the-white-house/

https://apnews.com/article/ashli-babbitt-wrongful-death-settlement-capitol-riot-9f2e60f9dce01237a1e78271cff82f6a

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/trump-tarrio-proud-boys-pardon.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20170423005743/http://officialproudboys.com/news/the-kids-are-alt-knights/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/new-fight-club-ready-street-violence/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/fraternal-order-alt-knights-foak/

https://www.flmd.uscourts.gov/local-rules/rule-204-discipline-

https://www-media.floridabar.org/uploads/2025/05/2025_11-MAY-Chapter-3-RRTFB-5-29-2025.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions

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Disney's Villain

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After losing his job, an ex-Disney employee tried to get his former employer's attention by hacking in and making strange updates to company files.

Sources:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69534211/united-states-v-scheuer/
https://www.eeoc.gov/what-you-can-expect-after-you-file-charge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/disney-worker-prison-hacking.html

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State Created Danger

Thu, 29 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In April 2025, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case filed by a pair of white supremacists who felt the police had violated their civil rights by refusing to help them put on a rally in Charlottesville in August of 2017. Their lawsuit was a joke, but unfortunately for all of us, the punchline is that the police don't actually have to help anyone.

Sources:
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/neo-nazi-lawyer-represents-baltimore-suit-over-wrongful-arrest-and-19-year-imprisonment/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/leaked-emails-name-shadow-lawyer-charlottesville-case/

https://www.hunton.com/media/publication/34613_final-report-ada-compliant-ready.pdf

https://www.courthousenews.com/attorney-accused-of-neo-nazi-ties-argues-for-new-shot-at-libel-case/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21-5952.html

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-1241.html

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24-891.html

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/03/city-council-members-call-to-remove-robert-e-lee-statue

https://legacylis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0752

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title15.2/chapter18/section15.2-1812/

https://www.danielshular.com/charlottesville

https://angrywhitemen.org/2021/12/22/neo-nazi-activist-wants-to-desensitize-white-people-to-hitler-and-holocaust-denial/#more-54777

https://valawyersweekly.com/2023/05/11/unite-the-right-attendees-suit-vs-officials-dismissed/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/white-nationalist-organization-forms-racist-antisemitic-political-party/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/students-horrified-about-coach-with-white-nationalist-ties-school-says/2018/01/10/81617f88-f5a4-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html

http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/fcas/fcas_docs/2013JUL/3001010882012002SCIV.pdf

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2004/04-278

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-4th-circuit/1709128.html

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-4th-circuit/1336802.html
Julia Steiner, Beware of the Dangers of the State-Created Danger Doctrine: A Look at the Ninth Circuit's Approach, 79 U. Mia. L. Rev. 573 (2025)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67454526/warren-balogh-v-commonwealth-of-virginia/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16058534/conte-v-commonwealth-of-virginia/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/9471/robert-turner-v-al-thomas-jr/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16044736/kessler-v-city-of-charlottesville/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66692843/jason-kessler-v-city-of-charlottesville/

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Small Time Arms Dealer

Thu, 22 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1992, a small business owner in Oregon had to shut down his gun store. But he had to do something with all his remaining inventory….

Sources:

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-21-ariel-sharon-apartheid-south-africa-and-mutual-military-interests/#.Vc4WVige5lk:

Moore, Matthew. “Arming the Embargoed: A Supply-Side Understanding of Arms Embargo Violations.” The Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 54, no. 4, 2010, pp. 593–615.

United Nations General Assembly. Special Report Of The Special Committee Against Apartheid. Implementation Of The Arms Embargo Against South Africa. United Nations General Assembly, 1986. Princeton University, Firestone Library

Klare, Michael T. “EVADING THE EMBARGO: ILLICIT U.S. ARMS TRANSFERS TO SOUTH AFRICA.” Journal of International Affairs, vol. 35, no. 1, 1981, pp. 15–28.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1979/11/18/tripping-up-a-s-african-gunrunner/74a6f74b-18d3-4850-9ab6-8a206c1a0bac/

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CZM Rewind: Arrested Democracy

Thu, 15 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Arrested Democracy, Part 1

In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have the President indicted. And when none of that worked, some of them took matters into their own hands and tried to arrest the county court employees they thought were standing in their way. In the first half of this story, Walter Fitzpatrick unsuccessfully storms the courtroom in Madisonville, Tennessee. The outcry over his arrest would motivate Oath Keeper Darren Huff to rally supporters for a second attempt.

Original air date: 11/14/24

Arrested Democracy, Part 2

When Oath Keeper Darren Huff returned to Madisonville, Tennessee on April 20, 2010, he was planning to take control of the courthouse. It didn't quite work out that way. He didn't even see the inside of a courthouse until his own arrest a week later.

Original air date: 11/21/24

Part 1 Sources:

Jardina A, Traugott M. The Genesis of the Birther Rumor: Partisanship, Racial Attitudes, and Political Knowledge. The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 2019;4(1):60-80. doi:10.1017/rep.2018.25

Josh Pasek, Tobias H. Stark, Jon A. Krosnick, Trevor Tompson,
What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes, Electoral Studies, Volume 40, 2015

Hughey, M.W. Show Me Your Papers! Obama’s Birth and the Whiteness of Belonging. Qual Sociol 35, 163–181 (2012).

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/birther-movement-founder-trump-clinton-228304

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33388485

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/us/12alabama.html

https://www.newsherald.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/19/vigilante-group-oath-keepers-arrested-in-mexico-beach-following-hurricane-michael/9509280007/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oath-keepers-poll-watching_n_58122566e4b0990edc2f8178

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/hate-group-expert-daniel-levitas-discusses-posse-comitatus-christian-identity-movement-and

https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2009mc00346/137380/2/0.pdf

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/25/judge-lamberth-jan-6-trump-00137960

https://www.tncourts.gov/rules/rules-criminal-procedure/6

Part 2 Sources:

https://www.politico.com/story/2010/04/army-birther-under-investigation-035823

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/army-birther-lakin-released-from-leavenworth/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/04/26/gordon-liddy-on-shooting-from-the-lip/75754676-030f-4191-a9e3-a421855aea1f/

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-six-g-gordon-liddy-the-126130442/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/08/roger-stone-kristin-davis-robert-mueller/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-party-accuses-republicans-voter-intimidation-federal-court

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/attorney-for-birther-army-doc-is-former-gop-staffer-and-anti-gay-crusader

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/gan/press/2011/11-01-11.html

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-than-1-of-defendants-in-federal-criminal-cases-were-acquitted-in-2022/

https://time.com/archive/6597707/the-secret-world-of-extreme-militias/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxxers-charge-followers-to-join-fake-anthony-fauci-grand-jury/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4382623/fitzpatrick-v-bivins/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5092131/united-states-v-huff-tv1/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69341723/united-states-v-darren-huff/

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Minisode: Pappas v Giuliani

Tue, 13 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A bite-sized look at the NYPD officer who sued the city for firing him over anonymously mailing racist pamphlets to charitable organizations

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/17/nyregion/officer-admits-to-racist-mail-and-is-offered-deal-to-retire.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sotomayors-defense-of-whi_n_210795

https://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/335/2016/09/Sotomayor_2002Opinion_Pappas.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2358084/pappas-v-giuliani/

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CZM Rewind: The Devil's Chatroom

Thu, 08 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Devil's Chat Room: Ethan Melzer, Part 1

In June of 2020, US Army Private Ethan Melzer was arrested for leaking information about his unit's deployment to Turkey with the intention of causing a mass casualty incident. The plot was hatched in a Telegram chat room for a group calling itself Rapewaffen, an Atomwaffen splinter cell that was committed to the beliefs of a neonazi satanic cult called the Order of Nine Angles. This episode follows the rise of satanism within Atomwaffen and the chaos that influence caused.

Original air date: 10/31/24

A Deal With the Devil: Ethan Melzer, Part 2

In 2022, Ethan Melzer pleaded guilty to plotting to help al Qaeda ambush and kill his entire unit while on a sensitive mission in Turkey. But Melzer's co-conspirators turned out to be a Canadian teenager and a government informant, not members of al Qaeda. And the satanic cult that drew him down this nazi rabbit hole turned out to have been run by a man on the FBI payroll.

Original air date: 11/7/24

Part 1 Sources:

https://unicornriot.ninja/2020/national-guard-soldier-who-deployed-to-dc-identified-as-neo-nazi/

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/ohio-national-guard-member-sent-home-for-white-supremacist-views-is-likely-a-fascist-youtuber

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/ohio-national-guard-soldier-pulled-from-mission-in-d-c-appears-on-neo-fascist-podcast-says-hes-being-discharged

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/05/fbi-national-guardsman-expressed-white-supremacist-ideology-303924

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-06-02/military-begins-staging-around-washington-to-quell-george-floyd-protests

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/06/23/the-rapewaffen-telegram-channel/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/soldiers-cases-highlight-reach-of-white-extremism-into-us-military/2020/06/25/0203532e-b582-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/atomwaffen-division

https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/sites/default/files/2022-06/REDACTED%20CTEC__TAT%20Accelerationism%20Report%20.pdf

https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-56044179

https://gnet-research.org/2023/09/25/the-significance-of-dark-foreigners-arrest/

Ariel Koch (2024) The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 47:10, 1172-1199, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.2024944

Mathieu Colin (01 Jul 2024): “And the Devil Marches with Us”: Aesthetics and Accelerationism in the Order of Nine Angles, Terrorism and Political Violence, DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2024.2365749

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Emelie Chace-Donahue (07 Mar 2023): The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2186737

Shanon Shah, Jane Cooper & Suzanne Newcombe (19 Apr 2023): Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2195065

Part 2 Sources:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17286246/united-states-v-melzer

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69307006/united-states-of-america-v-melzer/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jack-teixiera-case-military-extremism-1234724461

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-extremist-fbi-informant/

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/ona-fascism-nazis-folk-horror-underground-occult/

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Shooter Without A Cause

Tue, 06 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The guy who took a shot at Trump last summer wasn't the first person to shoot a presidential candidate without a clear political motive. In 1972, Arthur Bremer failed to assassinate Richard Nixon and settled on one of Nixon's opponents instead.

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Mission South Africa

Thu, 01 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee status under Trump's executive order.

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration

https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2022/May/diplomatic-expulsions

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-after-air-force-one-arrival-february-2-2025/#15

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/

https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-africa-whites-only-town-orania-is-booming

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/

https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary

https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-03-17-eff-condemns-us-ambassador-expulsion-vows-to-block-white-supremacist-appointment/

https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-30-new-us-envoy-might-be-even-more-conservative-than-me-joel-pollak/

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html

https://mistra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MISTRA-Statement-webinar-Implications-of-changes-in-US-administration-for-South-Africa-and-Africa.pdf

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/

https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-south-africa-actively-opposed-fight-to-end-apartheid

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2025-02-19-ernst-roets-leaves-solidarity-movement-to-live-out-his-calling/

https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html

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Listener Q&A

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Molly answers questions submitted by listeners.

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Blood River

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God.

Sources:

Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986.
FA Mouton (1995) F A van Jaarsveld (1922–1995) — a flawed genius?, , 27:1,
5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00232089585310011

Stephney, Inez Mary. “Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990’s, with particular reference to South Africa”
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Schönteich, Martin, and Henri Boshoff. “Volk”, Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right. Institute for Security Studies, 2003.

Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. “Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of ‘Blood River’ and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.” History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052.

http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage

https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222024000200001

https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838

https://web.archive.org/web/20071220164018/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-617.html#_ftn13

https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf

https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/

https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c

https://www.news24.com/news24/five-boeremag-members-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-murder-madiba-20150430

https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/

Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999.

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The Jamboree in Jamba

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.

Sources:

Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.

Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.

Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Ivon, David. “Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.” Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.

Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.

Cachalia, Firoz and Mervyn Shear. WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era. Wits University Press, 2022.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/

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https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.html

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https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/

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https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html

https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress

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The Whites' Last Stand

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century:

Sources:
https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/

https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong

Guelke, Adrian. “Political Violence and the South African Transition.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/

http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm

Death of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.

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White Guns for Hire

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 04:00:00 +0000

https://www.propublica.org/article/vasilios-pistolis-imprisoned-marine-hate-groups

Sources:
Simonelli, F. J. (1999). American Führer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. University of Illinois Press.

Krott, R. (2008). Save the last bullet for yourself: A soldier of fortune in the Balkans and Somalia. Casemate.

Eisenberg, D. (1967). The Reemergence of Fascism. Barnes.

https://balkans.aljazeera.net/news/balkan/2017/11/29/slobodan-praljak-umro-u-bolnici

Bartholomäus Grill: German right-wing radicals shoot in South Africa: License plate D. In: Die Zeit . No. 13 , 25 March 1994

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https://etd.library.emory.edu/concern/etds/jm214q33q?locale=it

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https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib99/dressed-kill

Searchlight Magazine, issues July, August, September 1996

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The White Wolf

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sources:

Du Preez, M. (2010). Pale native: Memories of a Renegade reporter. Zebra Press.

Rotberg, Robert (1988). The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Enigma of Power. Oxford University Press.

Falkof, Nicky. The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2016.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-09-bruce-and-leonard-a-sad-african-immigrant-tale-of-injustice/

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https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/us-wit-wolf-slaughter-1873433

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/what-became-of-the-big-wit-wolf-424408

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Apartheid International

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the last episode, we looked at a strange series of rallies held in cities across the United States in 2012 - American neo-nazis were rallying in support of white South African Farmers. But how did they get that idea in their heads? The rallies were put on by a group called The South Africa Project, run by a woman I'd never heard of. Digging into this mysterious South African, I found a lot more than I bargained for - bombings and mercenaries and an international network of fascist terror.

Sources:

https://www.24sata.hr/news/hsp-as-prisegnuli-na-vjernost-domovini-i-donaldu-trumpu-513281#google_vignette

https://balkaninsight.com/2017/02/27/us-condemns-zagreb-neo-nazi-march-for-trump-02-27-2017/

https://www.icty.org/x/cases/naletilic_martinovic/cis/en/cis_naletilic_martinovic_en.pdf

https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/

https://time.com/3927339/dylann-roof-charleston-shooting-flags/

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,863800,00.html

https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/1981/0219/021960.html

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/anti-genocide-protests-around-nation-were-organized-neo-nazis/

Visser, Myda. 1999. University of Pretoria. DIE IDEOLOGIESE GRONDSLAE EN ONlWIKKELING VAN DIE BLANKE FASCISTIESE BEWEGINGS IN SUID-AFRIKA, 1945-1995

Hill, Ray, and Andrew Bell. The Other Face of Terror: Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network. Grafton, 1988.
https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/finalreport/volume%202.pdf

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/june-16-soweto-youth-uprising

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/apartheid-early-1980s

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Update On: A Short-Lived Pardon

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:00:00 +0000

This is a rerun of the episode that originally ran on February 6, 2025 with a newly recorded introduction with new information about the traffic stop that led to Matthew Huttle's death.

Sources:

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/02/27/body-cam-footage-jan-6-defendants-traffic-stop-shooting-death-released-matthew-huttle-jasper-county/80731312007/

https://www.in.gov/sheriffs/jasper/files/Jasper-County-OIS-Final-Report.pdf

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The White House Weighs in on White Genocide

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In February of 2012, racist skinheads in California rallied at the capitol building in Sacramento. They were trying to raise awareness for an imaginary problem - an ongoing genocide against white South African farmers. In February of 2025, the President of the United States signed an executive order stripping foreign aid from South Africa as punishment for that same imaginary problem.

Sources:

Falkof, Nicky. (2022). Worrier state: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester University Press.

Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens. The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), 2018.

Holmes, Carolyn. Victimhood for an Audience: Portrayals of Extra-Lethal Violence and their Utility for Self-Identified Victims
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b6672f43c3a5320c2bec900/t/5c98fd14a4222fc0ef950ccd/1553530134194/Victimhood+for+an+Audience+-+March+2019.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/white-farmers-trump-south-africa-tucker-carlson-far-right-influence

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/23/trump-orders-close-study-of-south-africa-farmer-killings

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-staff-usaid-met-group-called-apartheid-so-called-injustice_n_5af5dcb6e4b00d7e4c1a6571

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/anti-genocide-protests-around-nation-were-organized-neo-nazis/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/campus-group-weighs-south-african-violence-targeting-whites/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/dangerous-myth-white-genocide-south-africa/

https://africasacountry.com/2018/02/searching-for-white-genocide-in-south-africa/

https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/far-right-racists-push-fake-south-africa-white-genocide-narrative/

https://goodauthority.org/news/misinformation-south-africa-new-land-act-trump-musk/

https://www.jurist.org/features/2025/02/11/explainer-understanding-the-south-africa-land-reform-law-that-provoked-trumps-ire/

https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-fearmongers-about-land-reform-south-africa

https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/trumps-south-africa-tweet-tucker-carlson-has-turned-white-nationalist-narrative

https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/Final-Report-Committee-of-Inquiry-Farm-Attacks-July-2003.pdf

https://africasacountry.com/2018/05/flight-of-the-boers

https://www.news24.com/News24/afriforums-own-farm-murder-stats-dont-support-their-claims-20180507

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-15/dutton-wants-australia-to-help-white-south-african-farmers/9550050

https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/analysis/donald-trumps-sa-tweet-how-he-got-the-message-20180823

https://theconversation.com/peter-duttons-fast-track-for-white-south-african-farmers-is-a-throwback-to-a-long-racist-history-93476

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/22/south-africa-risks-food-shortages-if-white-farmers-go-to-australia-nationals-mp-says

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/27/dutton-should-prioritise-refugees-on-nauru-not-white-south-africans-unhcr-says

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ramaphosa-hits-back-at-donald-trump-on-land-tweet/

https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Acts/2024/Act_13_of_2024_Expropriation_Act_2024.pdf

https://www.enca.com/videos/exclusive-interview-frontrunner-become-us-ambassador-sa

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They Got What They Wanted

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000

"They got what they wanted." Those were the words of Don Logan after a February 11, 2025 meeting of the Scottsdale, Arizona city council. Twenty-one years after Dennis Mahon tried to murder Logan with a package bomb, the city of Scottsdale finished what the klansman started: they closed the city's diversity office.

Sources:

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/scottsdale-to-gut-diversity-office-trump-anti-dei-fervor-21197066

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-strip-club-owners-troubles-started-with-bad-loan-11311674

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/to-serve-and-humiliate-6422314

https://www.scottsdale.org/city_news/new-council-whisperer-saddles-up-at-city-hall/article_06f75e0a-d12c-11ef-a528-b706d0d1dc9d.html

https://www.scottsdale.org/city_news/mayoral-candidates-face-final-exam/article_58c526d4-880e-11ef-a093-a77b3f945d6e.html

https://www.scottsdale.org/city_news/protests-fly-as-scottsdale-defunds-dei/article_6a0be9a2-eb0d-11ef-8425-27ebca019701.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/politics/trump-fake-electors-emails.html

https://www.newsweek.com/strip-club-sued-allegedly-drugging-patrons-stealing-credit-cards-1883758

https://www.azfamily.com/2025/02/12/scottsdale-city-council-votes-end-programs-involving-dei/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/01/29/costco-double-downed-on-dei-then-19-attorneys-general-warned-them-to-stop/

https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/IACIO/2025/01/27/file_attachments/3144563/FINAL%20Costco%20Lettet%20%281%29.pdf

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/costco-dei-policy-board-statement-shareholder-meeting-vote/

https://s201.q4cdn.com/287523651/files/doc_financials/2024/ar/FY24-Proxy-Statement.pdf

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/04/11/the-shareholder-activism-of-anti-discrimination-proponents/

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/ebbd88bb-cc8f-4e1e-8d5e-a52f8f780b94.pdf

https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/what-dei-executive-orders-mean-employee-resource-groups

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/bremerton-shipyard-worker-affinity-groups-end-after-trump-dei-orders/

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2025/02/12/scottsdale-scraps-dei-programs/78427835007/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-protesters-mistake-busload-of-ymca-campers-for-immigrant-children/

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/28/dershowitz-appeals-sanction/

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/article_32b14df8-edf0-5e98-b6fa-8875b1101624.html

https://www.kawc.org/elections-2020/2021-08-25/attorney-for-arizona-election-audit-firm-defends-concealing-records

https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-mohave-county-hand-count-challenge/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/06/dei-gop-segregation

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4871827/united-states-v-mahon/

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An Accidental Nazi Rally

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned out to be well known white supremacists.

Sources:

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/05/portland_suspect_in_2_slayings.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/portland-double-murder-white-supremacist-muslim-hate-speech

https://islamophobia.org/special-reports/the-hate-that-act-for-america-wrought/

https://islamophobia.org/islamophobic-organizations/act-for-america/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidnoriega/meet-the-charming-terrifying-face-of-the-anti-islam-lobby

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/americas-most-anti-muslim-activist-is-welcome-at-the-white-house/520323/

https://politicalresearch.org/2018/03/01/profile-on-the-right-act-for-america

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/us/08gabriel.html?pagewanted=all

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maher-season-premiere-inc_b_168972

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iobsessioni-stars-have-le_b_126693

https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/movie-to-marshal-support-for-college-israel-advocacy/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/ed-gillespie-declines-to-denounce-endorsement-from-anti-muslim-activist/2017/06/09/8a16a45c-4d28-11e7-bc1b-fddbd8359dee_story.html

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/gay-trumper-almost-got-hired-by-the-gop-but-it-got-called-off-what-happened/

https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-trimet-stabbing-trial-micah-fletcher-survivor-testifies/

https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-prosecutors-max-stabbing-trial-call-eyewitnesses-killings/

https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/2017/taliesin-namkai-meche-2016.html

https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-target-of-a-hate-crime-she-was-labeled-as-a-witness/

Isabelle Canaan, In Bad Faith: Anti-Sharia Laws, the Constitution, and the Limits of Religious Freedom, 21 U. Md. L.J. Race Relig. Gender & Class 248 (2021). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/rrgc/vol21/iss2/3

https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/is-act-for-america-really-a-grassroots-organization/

https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_mrpetehegseth.pdf

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-capitol-brawl-white-nationalist-sentenced-20190703-story.html

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/nathan-damigo-punching-woman-berkeley-white-nationalism/

https://unicornriot.ninja/2017/neo-nazi-william-planer-arrested-vandalizing-synagogue/

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/06/10/emotions-run-high-march-against-sharia/386607001/

https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2021/11/10/allison-richard-jack-peirce-iv/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/family-research-councils-anti-splc-campaign-promoting-anti-semitic-publication/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/neo-nazi-billy-roper-organizing-act-americas-march-against-sharia-arkansas/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/following-trump-appointments-anti-muslim-act-america-may-see-growing-influence/

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(Maybe Don't) Read Siege - (It Could Happen Here Bonus)

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Molly talks to Spencer Sunshine about his book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Sunshine's book explores the history of Siege, the book that is today's nazi terrorist's bible.

https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife-of-James-Masons-Siege/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606

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A Short-Lived Pardon

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In January of 2025, Matthew Huttle was one of nearly 1600 people to receive a pardon from Donald Trump for his participation in the January 6, 2021 riot. Less than a week later, he was dead - shot and killed in an altercation with a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop in Indiana.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories

https://www.shu.edu/news/a-demographic-and-legal-profile-of-january-6-prosecutions.html

https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/tzm3576zdg/1/files/12dd7a26-cc10-4844-b141-05ee077ea97f

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-high-water-mark-of-the-jan.-6-prosecutions

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/01/31/trump-pardon-jan-6-indiana-man-shot-matthew-huttle-pulled-over-speeding-jasper-county/78022270007/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q5nK0oUyXE&ab_channel=CBSChicago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/jan-6-rioter-shot-indiana-traffic-stop.html

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1828.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66637875/united-states-v-huttle/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66637874/united-states-v-huttle/

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.

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Revisionist History Riverboat Cruise: Curtis Maynard, Pt .1

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In 2010, a rising star in the small world of holocaust denial blogging murdered his ex-wife and then took his own life. This first chapter of his story follows his path from a troubled career as a registered nurse to his growing fame as a white supremacist blogger.

Sources:

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Lawyer-Lake-Jackson-murder-suicide-followed-1710794.php

http://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/americas-promise-ministries/

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/proclamation-5555-national-hungarian-freedom-fighters-day-1986

https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/Szittyakurt_USAHUN_1986/?pg=39&layout=s

https://www.bocskairadio.org/en/an-interview-with-akos-l-nagy-president-of-the-american-hungarian-federation/

https://collections.ushmm.org/oh_findingaids/RG-50.573.0005_tcn_en.pdf

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465015471074263044.html

https://www.yadvashem.org/docs/international-commission-on-romania-holocaust.html

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The Co-Conspirators: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 5

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000

This is the end of Dennis Mahon's story. In 2012, he was convicted for building the bomb that went off in the hands of Scottsdale, Arizona's director of Diversity & Dialogue in 2004. In the eyes of the law, Dennis and Dennis alone is guilty in that case... but the investigation leaves a lot of unanswered questions about his co-conspirators.

Sources:

https://jeffmaysh.substack.com/p/how-an-undercover-exotic-dancer-captured

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/08/31/Charges-against-Geraldo-Rivera-dropped/1010715233600/

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/05/20/chaos-compound

https://journaltimes.com/news/national/police-chief-blames-rivera-for-fracas/article_8fadd613-527c-5c88-aa56-d4098045a0bd.html

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/mow/news2010/joos.conv.htm

https://www.aol.com/suspect-still-wanted-30-years-090827741.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20130323064622/http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20090626/LOCAL/306269980/1002/LOCAL

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/30527442/united-states-v-joos/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/01/Coeur-dAlene-bombing-suspects-arraigned/1813560059200

https://buffalonews.com/article_168a62c8-b04b-580e-b169-48333e56a23b.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/11/archives/2-in-nationalist-party-seized-in-plot-to-bomb-an-elementary-school.html

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13838089/gerhardt-v-lazaroff/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4871827/united-states-v-mahon/

Gumbel, Andrew and Charles, Roger. Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed and Why it Still Matters. William Morrow, 2012

Ronson, Jon. “The Debutante.” Audible Originals, 2023

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The Debutante at Elohim City: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 4

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In 1994, a former debutante named Carol Howe became an informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. For six months, she and Dennis Mahon made weekend trips to a white supremacist compound called Elohim City. Carol reported back to the government that Dennis Mahon was stockpiling weapons and talking about blowing up federal buildings. In April of 1995, someone did blow up a federal building. Had her handlers ignored credible information about the plot?

Sources:

Jones, Steven. Others Unknown: The Oklahoma City Case and Conspiracy. Public Affairs, 1998

Hammer, David Paul. Deadly Secrets: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Authorhouse, 2010.

Painting, Wendy. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real. Trine Day, 2012

Newton, Michael. White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866. McFarland and Company, Inc, 2014.

Lee, Martin. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. Little, Brown and Company, 1997.

Ronson, Jon. “The Debutante.” Audible Originals, 2023

Gumbel, Andrew and Charles, Roger. Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed and Why it Still Matters. William Morrow, 2012

Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.

https://politicalresearch.org/2006/08/01/white-power-cyberculture

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/racist-skinheads-klan-groups-2002

https://rogues.wiki/index.php/Wendy_Iwanow

https://www.villagevoice.com/beyond-mcveigh/

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/barbecue-nations-6405901

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1997/07/15/sighting-accounts-differ-grand-jury-witnesses-put-bomber-in-2-places/62308562007/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220211005304/https://www.oklahoman.com/article/2451569/elohim-city-residents-enjoy-separate-lifestyle-religion

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/20/us/oklahoma-city-building-was-target-of-plot-as-early-as-83-official-says.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

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The Klansman's Twin: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 3

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Before we finish the story of Dennis Mahon, let's take a little side quest to learn about his identical twin brother, Daniel. In 1999, Daniel Mahon was fired from his job as an aircraft mechanic at American Airlines. The company felt he was creating a racially hostile work environment. According to the lawsuit he filed, Daniel Mahon felt it was anti-white racism. His deposition in that case gives us an unreliable narrator's view of his brother's life.

Sources:

Ellis, Charles. Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2006

Kennard, Matt. Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror. London: Verso. 2012

Cullick, Jonathan. The Literary Offenses of a Neo-Nazi: Narrative Voice in "The Turner Diaries"
Studies in Popular Culture, APRIL 2002, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 87-99
Published by: Popular Culture Association in the South

https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4489

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/07/19/roberta-abbott-buckle-rochester-riots/12855941/

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/07/19/rochester-riots-timeline/12885229/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/eaux-claires-2017-bon-iver-justin-vernon-dad-wisconsin-secret-jazz-scene/

https://nmb.gov/NMB_Application/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/vernon-gil_res.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/11292236/mahon-v-american-airlines/

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CZM Rewind: White Terror

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000

A teenager who murdered two people outside of a gay bar in Slovakia, a teenager who stabbed five men at a mosque in Turkey, and a teenager who planned to destroy infrastructure in New Jersey had one thing in common: they'd all been reading terrorism manuals produced by a group of neonazi propagandists. A new indictment alleges two Americans are responsible for inciting acts of white supremacist terror all over the world.

Original Air Date: 9.19.24

Sources:

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/heres-the-gore-artist-turning-terrorgram-manuals-manifestos-into-audiobooks

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/terrorgram-collective-leader-was-a-tucker-carlson-fanboy-and-failed-youtuber/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/21/slovakian-gay-bar-attack-great-replacement-conspiracy-theoryfast-spreading-racist-ideology

https://www.wired.com/story/terrorgram-collective-indictments/

https://www.antihate.ca/uk_first_add_terrorgram_collective_proscribed_groups

https://vsquare.org/bratislava-terrorist-radicalized-on-terrorgram-its-members-take-credit/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/canada-terrorism-far-right.html

https://www.antihate.ca/terrorgram_neo_nazi_collective_heart_international_arrests

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/terrorgram-collective-now-proscribed-as-terrorist-organisation

https://www.postoj.sk/145241/pachatelom-bol-definitivne-juraj-k-jeho-primarnym-cielom-bol-eduard-heger

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6193e52959704a0c3b5b4b0c/t/6421ecf5721fc579c2799737/1679944949837/ARC_Terrorgrams+First+Saint_Bratislava.pdf

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A Klansman in Berlin: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 2

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000

After winning his battle with a Kansas City cable company over the right to air his Klan public access television show, Dennis Mahon never made a second episode of Klansas City Kable. He was too busy organizing nazi punks in Tulsa and getting Klan chapters started in Germany.

Sources:

Ronson, Jon. “The Debutante.” Audible Originals, 2023

Ronson, Jon. Them: Adventures with Extremists. Picador, 2001

Forbes, Robert and Stampton, Eddie. The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement 1979-1993. Feral House, 2015

Moore, Jack. Skinheads Shaved for Battle: A Cultural History of American Skinheads. Popular Press, 1993

Travis, Tiffini. Skinheads: A Guide to an American Subculture. Greenwood, 2012

Kushner, Jacob. Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants. Grand Central Publishing, 2024

Newton, Michael. White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866. McFarland and Company 2014

Lee, Martin. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. Little, Brown and Company, 1997.

Ketter, Pia. "Zwischen Mord und Kreuzverbrennung. Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016.

Rink, Nina. "Anleitung zum »Rassenhass«" Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016

Charles, Roger. “Prior Warning.” Soldier of Fortune Magazine, November 1997

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/us/3-to-stop-racist-talks-in-mister-rogers-tone.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/12/us/klan-is-told-to-stop-imitating-mister-rogers-on-the-phone.html

https://tulsaworld.com/archive/2-victims-speak-out-on-beatings-harassment/article_7376c33f-036b-516f-b004-08e1c7ce3fa2.html

https://tulsaworld.com/archive/admitted-skinhead-wont-flee-friends-family-say/article_e986329a-b86a-52ca-b6ea-1f9d4954fd3d.html

https://tulsaworld.com/archive/kkk-head-offers-aid-in-trial/article_992ae2e8-0a99-5922-8c54-c8b19e4a511f.html

https://okmag.com/blog/a-punk-music-history/

https://flatlandkc.org/news-issues/changed-elohim-city-including-beliefs-residents/

https://www.texasobserver.org/906-editorial-the-phones-were-ringing/

https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1997_03_28_issue.pdf

https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1997_03_14_issue.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/world/klan-seizes-on-germany-s-wave-of-racist-violence.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/01/world/a-wave-of-attacks-on-foreigners-stirs-shock-in-germany.html

https://jeffmaysh.substack.com/p/how-an-undercover-exotic-dancer-captured

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Klansas City Kable: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 1

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000

In 1990, a single episode of a public access show called "Klansas City Kable" aired in Kansas City, Missouri. The klansman who fought city council for his right to produce it was never prosecuted for the bombing campaign he claims to have carried out in the decade prior, but his long career as a professional racist took him all over the world before a years-long undercover operation finally put him away.

Sources:

Kennard, Matt. Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror. London: Verso. 2012

Newton, Michael. White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866. McFarland and Company 2014

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/vorwaerts-fuer-die-arische-rasse-a-14649b2e-0002-0001-0000-000013491440

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/world/klan-seizes-on-germany-s-wave-of-racist-violence.html

Ketter, Pia. "Zwischen Mord und Kreuzverbrennung. Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016.

Rink, Nina. "Anleitung zum »Rassenhass«" Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016

Norton, Bill. "The Cop and the Klan." Star Magazine, October 9, 1988

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Ku Klux Kable Access TV

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000

For over a decade, neo-Nazis and Klansmen were hand-delivering VHS tapes of a California-based public access TV show to local television stations in cities across the country. The stations had no choice but to run the show on local public access channels. The show's host, Tom Metzger, received a gift of $300,000 in 1984 that gave him the financial freedom to pursue his dream of delivering his racist message to as many Americans as possible, right through their television screens.

Sources:

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.

Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.

Hamm, Mark S., and Cécile Van de Voorde. “Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups: Theory, Research, and Prevention.” Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 9, no. 2, 2005

National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, Bigotry and Cable TV: Legal Issues and Community Responses (Institute Report No.3), Baltimore, Maryland: The Institute, 1988.

Bradley J. Howard, Pulling the Plug: Controversial Programming on Public Access Television and the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 399 (1995)

Rendahl, Stephen E.. "White Aryan Resistance: A Radical Communication System." North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre, vol. 4, no. 1, 1 Sep. 1991, pp. 44 - 52.

Rendahl, Stephen (1990). Media access and the radical right: Public access to "race and reason." Unpublished paper presented to the Central States Communication Association, Detroit, MI.

Spring/Summer 1989 issue of “No KKK No Fascist USA,” Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC37_scans/37.nokkk.spr89.pdf

December 1985 issue of Searchlight magazine https://ia600700.us.archive.org/4/items/searchlight_126/searchlight_126.pdf

https://casetext.com/case/us-v-mahon-19

https://idavox.com/index.php/2020/12/10/american-strasser/

https://northernstar.info/16419/news/city/crusade-adds-fuel-to-flame-of-tensions/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-10-ca-99-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-13-me-23281-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/us/bill-wassmuth-61-an-ex-priest-who-fought-white-supremacists.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-me-11091-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/us/klan-wins-a-battle-for-cable-tv.html

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2001/tim-and-sarah-gayman-discuss-growing-anti-semitic-christian-identity-movement?page=0%2C1

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/20/us/racist-aryan-nations-group-inducts-new-disciples.html

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-hobson-bruce-augustyniak-bruce-kala

https://memorial.bellsystem.com/pdf/1988ATTar_Complete.pdf

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/04/22/white-supremacist-richard-barrett-murdered-mississippi-home

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CZM Rewind: Barry Black Pt. 1 & 2

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:00:00 +0000

The Fire Will Not Consume Us: Barry Black, Part 1

In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the mere act of burning a cross, absent evidence of specific intent to intimidate, is protected by the first amendment. But who was the klansman who got his case all the way to the highest court in the land? This is the first half of the story of Barry Black, a Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan leader who won two write-in campaigns for constable, waged war on a rural gay bar, and spent decades fighting for his right to intimidate.

Original Air Date: 10.3.24

Freedom to Burn: Barry Black, Part 2

In part two of the story of Barry Black, we finally get to the landmark supreme court case that won the klansman the right to burn crosses. Barry's Keystone Knights faded into relative obscurity after the high profile case and Virginia passed a new law aimed to prevent men like Barry from using fire as a tool of intimidation.

Original Air Date: 10.10.24

Sources - Pt. 1:

https://www.salon.com/2009/07/24/liddy/

https://www.fec.gov/resources/legal-resources/litigation/berg_ac_berg_emerg_mot_proh_cert.pdf https://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/PROJECTS/Obama/Evidence/AFFIDAVIT-Bishop.pdf

https://barthsnotes.com/2009/08/25/meet-ron-mcrae-the-birther-bishop/ https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/278475/dykudrama/ https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A266739/datastream/OCR/view https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/367cf04d6456e9b3c311296a806863cd.pdf https://youtu.be/o4o0tZPETAc

https://archive.org/details/BarryE.Black/mode/2up

Heibel, Todd (2004). Blame It on the Casa Nova?: “Good Scenery and Sodomy” in Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania. In Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A. Routledge.

Sources - Pt. 2:

https://law.duke.edu/voices/virginia https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/01-1107 https://unprecedented.substack.com/p/transcript-bodily-harm-is-coming https://time.com/archive/6615465/south-carolina-backfire/ https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/us/georgia-kkk-adopt-a-highway-lawsuit/index.html https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/former-kkk-headquarters-terrorized-town-years-now-will-become-diversit-rcna20865

https://www.kait8.com/story/3384156/prison-officer-fired-for-kkk-membership-sues-arkansas-correction-department/

Unite the Right audio from videos by photojournalist Zach D Roberts & publicly available video recorded by the marchers themselves

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Arrested Democracy, Pt. 2

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:00:00 +0000

When Oath Keeper Darren Huff returned to Madisonville, Tennessee on April 20, 2010, he was planning to take control of the courthouse. It didn't quite work out that way. He didn't even see the inside of a courthouse until his own arrest a week later.

Sources:

https://www.politico.com/story/2010/04/army-birther-under-investigation-035823

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/army-birther-lakin-released-from-leavenworth/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/04/26/gordon-liddy-on-shooting-from-the-lip/75754676-030f-4191-a9e3-a421855aea1f/

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-six-g-gordon-liddy-the-126130442/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/08/roger-stone-kristin-davis-robert-mueller/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-party-accuses-republicans-voter-intimidation-federal-court

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/attorney-for-birther-army-doc-is-former-gop-staffer-and-anti-gay-crusader

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/gan/press/2011/11-01-11.html

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-than-1-of-defendants-in-federal-criminal-cases-were-acquitted-in-2022/

https://time.com/archive/6597707/the-secret-world-of-extreme-militias/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxxers-charge-followers-to-join-fake-anthony-fauci-grand-jury/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4382623/fitzpatrick-v-bivins/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5092131/united-states-v-huff-tv1/

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Arrested Democracy, Pt .1

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:00:00 +0000

In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have the President indicted. And when none of that worked, some of them took matters into their own hands and tried to arrest the county court employees they thought were standing in their way. In the first half of this story, Walter Fitzpatrick unsuccessfully storms the courtroom in Madisonville, Tennessee. The outcry over his arrest would motivate Oath Keeper Darren Huff to rally supporters for a second attempt.

Sources:

Jardina A, Traugott M. The Genesis of the Birther Rumor: Partisanship, Racial Attitudes, and Political Knowledge. The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 2019;4(1):60-80. doi:10.1017/rep.2018.25

Josh Pasek, Tobias H. Stark, Jon A. Krosnick, Trevor Tompson, What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes, Electoral Studies, Volume 40, 2015

Hughey, M.W. Show Me Your Papers! Obama’s Birth and the Whiteness of Belonging. Qual Sociol 35, 163–181 (2012).

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/birther-movement-founder-trump-clinton-228304

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33388485

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/us/12alabama.html

https://www.newsherald.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/19/vigilante-group-oath-keepers-arrested-in-mexico-beach-following-hurricane-michael/9509280007/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oath-keepers-poll-watching_n_58122566e4b0990edc2f8178

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/hate-group-expert-daniel-levitas-discusses-posse-comitatus-christian-identity-movement-and

https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2009mc00346/137380/2/0.pdf

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/25/judge-lamberth-jan-6-trump-00137960

https://www.tncourts.gov/rules/rules-criminal-procedure/6

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A Deal With the Devil: Ethan Melzer, Pt. 2

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 05:00:00 +0000

In 2022, Ethan Melzer pleaded guilty to plotting to help al Qaeda ambush and kill his entire unit while on a sensitive mission in Turkey. But Melzer's co-conspirators turned out to be a Canadian teenager and a government informant, not members of al Qaeda. And the satanic cult that drew him down this nazi rabbit hole turned out to have been run by a man on the FBI payroll.

Sources

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17286246/united-states-v-melzer

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69307006/united-states-of-america-v-melzer/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jack-teixiera-case-military-extremism-1234724461

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-extremist-fbi-informant/

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/ona-fascism-nazis-folk-horror-underground-occult/

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The Devil's Chat Room: Ethan Melzer, Pt. 1

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:00:00 +0000

In June of 2020, US Army Private Ethan Melzer was arrested for leaking information about his unit's deployment to Turkey with the intention of causing a mass casualty incident. The plot was hatched in a Telegram chat room for a group calling itself Rapewaffen, an Atomwaffen splinter cell that was committed to the beliefs of a neonazi satanic cult called the Order of Nine Angles. This episode follows the rise of satanism within Atomwaffen and the chaos that influence caused.

Sources:

https://unicornriot.ninja/2020/national-guard-soldier-who-deployed-to-dc-identified-as-neo-nazi/

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/ohio-national-guard-member-sent-home-for-white-supremacist-views-is-likely-a-fascist-youtuber

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/ohio-national-guard-soldier-pulled-from-mission-in-d-c-appears-on-neo-fascist-podcast-says-hes-being-discharged

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/05/fbi-national-guardsman-expressed-white-supremacist-ideology-303924

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-06-02/military-begins-staging-around-washington-to-quell-george-floyd-protests

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/06/23/the-rapewaffen-telegram-channel/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/soldiers-cases-highlight-reach-of-white-extremism-into-us-military/2020/06/25/0203532e-b582-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html

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Weird Little Check-in

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 04:00:00 +0000

There's no new weird little guy this week, but I wanted to check in with you about how the show is going so far and squeeze in a few weird little facts that got left on the cutting room floor of past episodes.

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Burning Hate: Tyler Dykes

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Tyler Bradley Dykes entered a guilty plea last year on the charge of burning an object with the intent to intimidate for his participation in the 2017 Nazi torch march in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was sentenced to just six months and was probably expecting to see his parents waiting for him outside the jail on his scheduled release date... but it was the FBI who picked him up.

Sources:

https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/04/19/inside-southern-sons-active-club-part-i/ https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/04/19/inside-southern-sons-active-club-part-ii/ https://sunlight161.noblogs.org/technology-king-lowcountry-ceo-tyler-dykes-bluffton-sc-marine-nazi/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67681795/united-states-v-dykes/

https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/burning-hate-bond-review/

https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/unite-the-right-marcher-pleads-guilty-to-j6-charges/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/white-nationalist-active-clubs-1234835015/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/charlottesville-tiki-torch-rioter-endorses-donald-trump-jan-6-sentenci-rcna162209

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Freedom to Burn: Barry Black, Pt. 2

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Sources:

https://www.kait8.com/story/3384156/prison-officer-fired-for-kkk-membership-sues-arkansas-correction-department/

Unite the Right audio from videos by photojournalist Zach D Roberts & publicly available video recorded by the marchers themselves

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The Fire Will Not Consume Us: Barry Black, Pt. 1

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Sources:

https://www.salon.com/2009/07/24/liddy/

https://www.fec.gov/resources/legal-resources/litigation/berg_ac_berg_emerg_mot_proh_cert.pdf https://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/PROJECTS/Obama/Evidence/AFFIDAVIT-Bishop.pdf

https://archive.org/details/BarryE.Black/mode/2up

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An Officer and A Skinhead

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:00:00 +0000

In 2019, the FBI arrested a coast guard lieutenant who'd been buying pain pills online, but it wasn't just Tramadol they found in his apartment: he'd spent years stockpiling weapons and studying mass shooter manifestos. The investigation revealed an obsession with sniper rifles, a kill list, and his secret skinhead past.

Sources:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/christopher-hasson-sentenced-more-13-years-federal-prison-federal-charges-illegal

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/02/22/sentence-upheld-for-former-coast-guard-officer-tied-to-terror-plot/ https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/02/21/coast-guard-lt-christopher-hasson-wrote-notorious-neo-nazi-harold-covington https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/05/14/nazis-showing-in-nc-race-embarrasses-gop/84295cd5-37c3-449c-b8b6-cea599978b14/ https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/base https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/07/25/harold-covington-founder-white-separatist-group-dies-64 https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/resources/5422 https://www.wbay.com/2024/08/12/uncle-fester-aka-stephen-preisler-returns-court-new-drug-charge/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14581072/united-states-v-hasson/

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White Terror

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Sources:

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/heres-the-gore-artist-turning-terrorgram-manuals-manifestos-into-audiobooks

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/terrorgram-collective-leader-was-a-tucker-carlson-fanboy-and-failed-youtuber/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/21/slovakian-gay-bar-attack-great-replacement-conspiracy-theoryfast-spreading-racist-ideology

https://www.wired.com/story/terrorgram-collective-indictments/

https://www.antihate.ca/uk_first_add_terrorgram_collective_proscribed_groups

https://vsquare.org/bratislava-terrorist-radicalized-on-terrorgram-its-members-take-credit/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/canada-terrorism-far-right.html

https://www.antihate.ca/terrorgram_neo_nazi_collective_heart_international_arrests

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/terrorgram-collective-now-proscribed-as-terrorist-organisation

https://www.postoj.sk/145241/pachatelom-bol-definitivne-juraj-k-jeho-primarnym-cielom-bol-eduard-heger

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6193e52959704a0c3b5b4b0c/t/6421ecf5721fc579c2799737/1679944949837/ARC_Terrorgrams+First+Saint_Bratislava.pdf

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Liar, Liar

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 04:00:00 +0000

A soldier was arrested last month on charges that included lying about his membership in a hate group on his application for a security clearance. But with so many white supremacists in the military, why is it so rare to see this particular charge brought against service members? Molly explores some of the possible reasons the charge isn't used more often and talks about a handful of cases where it's been successful.

Sources:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/infiltrating-the-far-right

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/08/19/we-will-fight-soldier-waging-war-against-america-fort-liberty

https://www.rawstory.com/kai-liam-nix-arrested-extremism/

https://jweekly.com/2020/10/23/judge-rules-that-nazi-obsessed-east-bay-man-must-face-trial/

https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/06/30/california-man-who-threatened-antisemitic-mass-shooting-attack-seeks-to-get-his-gun-back/

https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/leaked-violent-racists-use-facebook-chat-to-plan-unite-the-right-2/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/military-extremism-nazi-arrest-justice-department-1234586141/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/us/north-carolina-soldier-arrested-guns-trafficking.html

https://www.rawstory.com/hunted-by-nazis-how-extremists-stalked-me-while-i-reported-on-their-violence/

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Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney, Pt. 2

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 04:00:00 +0000

In part two of the life of the Forrest Gump of fascism, Frank Sweeney leads the CIA on an international goose chase, befriends and then betrays a serial killer, and just can't stop committing crimes by mail.

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Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney, Pt. 1

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Frank Abbott Sweeney Jr may be the Forrest Gump of American white supremacy in the 20th century. Starting with a failed bank robbery for the American Nazi Party in the 60s, Frank stumbled his way into being an inconsequential side character in major historical events for decades.

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Lights Out

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:00:00 +0000

An investigation into illegal gun sales at Camp Lejeune uncovers a neonazi paramilitary group plotting to cause a blackout in the Pacific Northwest, assassinate the governor of Oregon, terrorize Black Lives Matter activists, and start a race war.

Sources:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/10/25/marine-kicked-out-of-corps-and-indicted-alleged-neo-nazi-infrastructure-attack-plot-pleads-guilty.html https://www.newsweek.com/active-duty-marine-neo-nazi-website-white-supremacist-identified-1470487

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The Civil War False Flag

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Sources:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-civil-war-reenactors-receive-threat-of-bodily-harm/29951/

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A Brief Reflection on 'Charlottesville'

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 04:00:00 +0000

This week marks seven years since the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is a brief minisode to mark the anniversary and remind myself why I can't stop looking for these weird little guys.

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Do We Really Need to Talk About Kevin?

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:01:00 +0000

Why do people keep posting that fake Voltaire quote and who is the pedophile who actually said it? Molly takes you back to the 90s, inside the Nazi compound where Kevin Strom started broadcasting a weekly antisemitic radio show.

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The Weird Little Guys Trying to Ruin Our Lives

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Join host Molly Conger each week for a story about one of the aspiring little Führers of the suburbs, men whose actions altered the course of the lives of their victims, their families, and their communities… but whose stories are ultimately lost in the shuffle of too many middle American Hitlers.

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Introducing: Weird Little Guys

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Weird Little Guys is a weekly show that gives you an uncomfortably close look at the worst people you’ve never heard of. Molly Conger takes a closer look at the far right extremists trying to unravel the fabric of our society. It turns out, they’re all just some weird guy.

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