Since the election of President Joe Biden, a number of state legislators have proposed so-called 鈥淪econd Amendment sanctuary鈥� legislation to declare their states immune from federal gun-safety laws they consider unconstitutional. Such resolutions are legally problematic and threaten to override the very democratic systems upon which the country was built.
Following the release of the Biden administration鈥檚 immigration plans and priorities, former senior Trump officials such as Stephen Miller and Mark Morgan, who both maintain ties to anti-immigrant hate groups, reentered the public sphere determined to preserve the nativist status quo they left behind. Additionally, the Republican Party has greeted these individuals and their nativist worldviews with open arms.
A white nationalist propagandist who met with billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been deeply embedded in the movement for well over a decade, and has provided an ideological bridge between suit-and-tie white nationalism and its more violent fringe, according to leaked emails and texts shared with Hatewatch.
Less than two months after calling for insurrectionists to 鈥渂reak down the barriers and disregard the police鈥� outside the U.S. Capitol building, white nationalists and other far-right extremists gathered in Florida for a conference featuring current and former U.S. congressmen.
Before multimillionaire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones riled up Donald Trump鈥檚 fans with lies about a stolen election, he privately expressed revulsion over the 45th president, a video leaked to Hatewatch reveals.
Republican Bill Hagerty, who began representing Tennessee as a senator this year, quietly brought in an adviser named Julia Hahn, a former Trump official known for her racist writings and connections to the white nationalist movement.
Since its founding, the antigovernment group Oath Keepers has steeped itself in conspiracy theories and trained for a revolution against the state.
Twitter personality Jack Posobiec worked alongside other American far-right extremists in amplifying the fruits of an apparent Russian military intelligence (GRU) hack intended to disrupt the outcome of the French elections in May 2017.
Among the most visible ideological adherents at state capitol protests after Jan. 6 and in Richmond, Virginia, on Jan. 18 for pro-Second Amendment rallies were people involved with the boogaloo movement, easily recognizable in most cases because of Hawaiian-themed shirts and masks along with their weapons, signatures of boogaloo followers. The shirts are a reference to 鈥渂ig luau,鈥� which is an adaptation of the word 鈥渂oogaloo.鈥�
Researchers studying the far right have sounded the alarm over the threat posed by the rapid proliferation of conspiracy theories, disinformation and misinformation for years, noting that shifts in the extreme right鈥檚 mobilization tactics could present new challenges to stemming a tide of violence.
