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His show has featured a wide roster of white supremacists, anti-Semites and other extremists, such as the longtime Klan leader David Duke and Holocaust denier Willis Carto. Its mission statement says it 鈥渟tands for the Dispossessed Majority鈥� and is 鈥減ro-white.鈥�

In His Own Words:

鈥淎 lot of their motivation is that they hate Christianity. They hate what we call the WASP establishment 鈥� and they鈥檙e using pornography as a subversive tool against us. Jews are by and large dominant in the porn industry. 鈥� You know, connect the dots and look at the names of people controlling our media, and you find out what the common denominator is. 鈥� These Zionist Jews are more interested in subverting the dominant culture, which would be the European culture here in America, than they are in helping us and assimilating into our culture.鈥�
鈥� On 鈥淭he Political Cesspool,鈥澨鼺eb. 20, 2007

鈥淐rime and violence follow African-Americans wherever they go. And if you think that is racist, then spend some time on the mean streets of south Memphis.鈥�
鈥� On CNN, April 4, 2007

鈥淲hites are in for the fight of their lives. America is becoming balkanized. We are being robbed of having a future in the very nation our ancestry carved from the wilderness.鈥�
鈥� On CNN, April 4, 2007

鈥淭he reason why America was a First World nation was because we had a First World population, and as we continue to be inundated with people from Third World nations we are going to become a Third World nation. 鈥� America is on the verge of collapse, as is Europe, as is the rest of the First World. We have to answer the question of whether white Americans and Europeans are going to survive to see another generation. 鈥� Desperate situations call for rash action.鈥�
鈥� On 鈥淭he Political Cesspool,鈥� May 18, 2007

鈥淚 am firmly of the belief that race relations were better during Jim Crow, and even better in the antebellum south, than they are now.鈥�

--On 鈥淭he Political Cesspool,鈥� March 21, 2015

Background

James Edwards is the host of 鈥淭he Political Cesspool鈥� an overtly racist, anti-Semitic radio show. The three-hour weekly show can be heard on its flagship station, the Christian station WLRM-AM in Millington, Tenn., just outside of Memphis, on stations affiliated with the Liberty News Radio Network, and on the Internet. Among its sponsors is the crudely racist 听(CCC). The show has become the nexus for radio-based hate in the United States. Edwards is a national board member of the CCC and a principal member of the white nationalist听听(formerly the American Third Position).

Edwards鈥� has hosted an all-star cast of extremists on his show, including CCC leaders听 补苍诲听; Holocaust denier听; Canadian white supremacist Paul Fromm; 听别诲颈迟辞谤听; neo-Nazi activist听;听听飞别产尘补蝉迟别谤 ;听听笔谤别蝉颈诲别苍迟听; sometimes Klan lawyer Sam Dickson; Holocaust denier and anti-Semitic publisher听; British National Party leader Nick Griffin; militant anti-abortion activist听; anti-Semitic attorney听, and Klan leader听.

鈥淭he Political Cesspool,鈥� which is tailored for a Southern, neo-Confederate, white nationalist audience, was founded by Edwards in 2005. Its mission statement says it 鈥渟tands for the Dispossessed Majority鈥� and is 鈥減ro-white.鈥� It says the show rejects 鈥渉omosexuality, vulgarity, loveless sex, and masochism鈥� and believes 鈥渟ecession is a right of all people and individuals.鈥� It add: 鈥榃e wish to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races.鈥� Its website also boasts that 鈥渨e鈥檙e the only voice that our People have on the mainstream AM airwaves.鈥澨�

On April 4, 2007, CNN鈥檚 Paula Zahn hosted an hour-long panel on 鈥渟elf-segregation鈥� that featured Edwards, billed disingenuously as simply a radio talk show host. He earned the ire of regular CNN contributor and fellow panel member Roland Martin, who said, 鈥淚t is offensive to project this level of ignorance on national television.鈥� Martin was referring to a statement about 鈥渢he failed civil rights movement鈥� and that 鈥淸f]orced integration is not a path听to equality, it鈥檚 a march towards totalitarianism.鈥�

On Feb. 15, 2008, two weeks after he announced that his show would be syndicated through Dixie Broadcasting, an Internet radio outfit run by the chairman of Georgia鈥檚 League of the South chapter, Edwards informed supporters that the show would be shut down. In an E-mail with the subject line 鈥淎ll Good Things Come To An End,鈥� the host explained that his father鈥檚 illness, as well as strain on his marriage, led him to the decision. Edwards made good on his farewell promise that, 鈥淚n no way, shape or form have you heard the last from James Edwards as a European-American activist. Similar to the Great White, I鈥檇 die if I were not contributing to the survival of our race.鈥� He brought the show back a mere four months later, again on WLRM-AM.

After right-wing propagandist Jerome Corsi, author of the inflammatory and factually inaccurate听The Obama Nation, backed out of his scheduled appearance on Edwards鈥� show on Aug. 17, 2008, the host became uncharacteristically defensive, issuing the claim, 鈥淲e鈥檙e a mainstream voice for European-Americans. 鈥� We鈥檙e the show of record for the paleo-conservative right,鈥� not a bunch of 鈥渒nuckle-dragging Neanderthals.鈥� The previous week, 鈥淭he Political Cesspool鈥� had come under fire as racist and anti-Semitic.

Unlike many of his guests, Edwards has always been careful to avoid evoking racial epithets and crudely derogatory language on his show and in public. Like his steadfast supporter David Duke鈥檚 famous plea for Klan members to 鈥済et out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms,鈥� Edwards aims to lend a veneer of credibility to his hate-riddled ideology. (Duke has appeared on 鈥淭he Political Cesspool鈥� a handful of times. Edwards also spoke at Duke鈥檚 2004听听conference in New Orleans that produced the 鈥淣ew Orleans Protocol鈥� 鈥� a solidarity pledge and code of conduct among hate groups of different ideologies.)

Guests on Edwards鈥� show have also included more mainstream figures such as Pat Buchanan. Edwards served as a volunteer for Buchanan鈥檚 2000 presidential campaign. After Buchanan鈥檚 Oct. 22, 2008, appearance, Edwards and his followers gloated. In an E-mail to his followers, the host told his constituency to listen closely and 鈥渉ear their [liberal media鈥檚] howls, as we are currently under a vicious and hateful attack from the supposed advocates of 鈥榯olerance鈥� and 鈥榙iversity.鈥欌�� In a separate E-mail to Edwards鈥� fans, longtime white supremacist Winston Smith declared that 鈥渨hen the likes of Pat Buchanan agrees to be on your program, he does so only after his people have researched the program and decided it鈥檚 in their interest.鈥�

In 2009, Edwards self-published a book titled听Racism, Schmacism: How Liberals Use the 鈥淩鈥� Word to Push the Obama Agenda. The core argument is that liberals have defined the term 鈥渞acist鈥� to mean 鈥渁ny conservative white person鈥� 鈥� rendering the tag inescapable. The solution, according to Edwards, is for conservatives to embrace race consciousness.

In 2010, following Phil Mickelson鈥檚 victory at the Masters Golf Tournament, Edwards celebrated the golfer for not being black like Tiger Woods and for preserving 鈥渃ivilization鈥� through his win. 鈥淕olf is the ultimate European sport,鈥� he said, and the Masters 鈥渋s the closest picture we have of what the modern world might be like had the old South survived.鈥� He went on to call the tournament 鈥渃ivilized鈥� and at risk of being trampled by Jews and liberals. Edwards referred to Woods, who has won the tournament four times, as a 鈥渕ixed-race Negro with the skills to break down the last sport of white refuge, golf, and its citadel, Augusta National. 鈥� He was the black messiah of sports. The long-awaited one who would tear down the last remnants of segregation.鈥� The outburst was particularly telling of Edwards, who typically hides his racist beliefs behind a veneer of legitimacy.

In 2012, U.S. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) appeared on 鈥淭he Political Cesspool鈥� to discuss legislation he co-authored accusing Obama of committing impeachable offenses in Libya. Jones later claimed to have not understood the ideological leanings of the show despite a mission statement that reads, 鈥淲e represent a philosophy that is pro-white.鈥�

听On July 16, 2013, in the wake of a jury verdict finding George Zimmerman innocent in the controversial killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, Edwards published a piece on 鈥淭he Political Cesspool鈥� website entitled, 鈥淗ow the media incites violence and racism in the Zimmerman case.鈥� In the post, he commended David Duke鈥檚 recent video that 鈥渞eveals the real and violent racism that pervades our society.鈥� According to Duke, it is the 鈥淶io-Hollywood moguls鈥� who are responsible for 鈥渕edia that promotes violence, drugs, alcohol abuse, sexual degeneracy and disrespect of women,鈥� resulting in violent racism and, according to Edwards, the fact that 鈥淎frican Americans kill ten times more of each other than the number of victims killed by other races.鈥�

Four days later, on July 20, 2013, Edwards hosted a show with program mainstays 鈥� Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank, 听Jared Taylor,听, Sam Dickson, 补苍诲听听of the Council of Conservative Citizens 鈥� to discuss the Zimmerman verdict and the implications of media coverage of the case.听听

听鈥淭he Political Cesspool鈥� celebrated its 10^th anniversary in October 2014 at an invitation-only conference and celebration in Memphis, Tenn. The event reportedly had over 90 attendees including well-known movement figures such as Sam Dickson, Matthew Heimbach, Brad Griffin, and Renee Baum. It concluded with a salute to the Civil War general and first grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, whose legacy Edwards compares to that of a mythological god.