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Author, 'Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us' (Prometheus, 2020). Staff writer @DailyKos. I block shitheads.

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    David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

    1) Gather ‘round, everyone, while I replay for you the tale of the Aryan Nations. This will be another ungodly long thread, but I promise: When we’re done, the “liberals are the real Nazis” fulminations of @DineshDSouza will thereafter just give you a big ol’ belly laugh.pic.twitter.com/9He7HqEsPO

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      2. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        2) The Aryan Nations was officially named the Church of Jesus Christ-Christian, which had its origins in 1940s Southern California and an ex-Methodist pastor named Wesley Swift. His ministry, based in Lancaster, founded the movement known as Christian Identity.pic.twitter.com/fGfRSxqrCw

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      3. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        3) Identity essentially preaches that white people are the “true children of Israel,” blessed by God, and that Jews are actually satanically-descended pretenders to the title. Nonwhites, they believe, are soulless “mud people,” the functional equivalent of animals.pic.twitter.com/vaDrmaCnjg

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      4. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        4) Swift had several close followers and associates, including Gerald L.K. Smith, a former leader in the fascist Silver Shirts, and William Potter Gale, who advocated for “Christian soldiers” and went on to found the Posse Comitatus movement.pic.twitter.com/jbErnFiOzp

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      5. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        5) One of Swift’s and Gale’s followers named Keith Gilbert, was arrested in 1965 with the makings for a bomb he intended to place under the stage at the Los Angeles Palladium when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke there. He spent 12 years in San Quentin.https://youtu.be/-apbu-ucbaY 

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      6. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        6) When Swift died in 1970, an aeronautics engineer named Richard Butler took over the reins, and soon decided to move the church out of California. He chose northern Idaho for a very specific reason.pic.twitter.com/lzlSsj8rij

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      7. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        7) This was a period when white-supremacist groups had been pushed so far to the fringes that many of them began cooperating and co-organizing with each other for survival. This included the Ku Klux Klan, William Pierce’s National Alliance, the Posse, and others.pic.twitter.com/K7JoxpHfYG

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      8. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        8) The leaders of these factions, particularly the Michigan Klan leader Robert Miles, came up then with the first iteration of the white-nationalist ethnostate. He wanted to create just such a state in the Pacific Northwest. This plan was called “the Northwest Imperative.”pic.twitter.com/15yGfLe5aF

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      9. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        9) Essentially the idea was to create an all-white homeland in the four northwestern states (Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana), chosen largely because there were so few minorities there already. The imperative called for all dedicated white supremacists to move there.pic.twitter.com/XpYn4hCHFY

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      10. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        10) This clip, BTW, is from the 1991 documentary “Blood in the Face,” which I recommend to anyone interested in seeing how white supremacists organized in this period. A young Michael Moore is the chief interviewer.https://g.co/kgs/AUGh8s 

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      11. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        11) Miles passed away in 1992, but his legacy lives on in many ways, especially among the young alt-right crowd. https://thelivingstonpost.com/death-of-a-klansman-25-years-later-how-the-sick-legacy-of-bob-miles-continues-to-haunt-howell/ …

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      12. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        12) It was Richard Butler who decided to put this plan into action. In the mid-1970s, he purchased a parcel of land in the Idaho Panhandle near Hayden Lake and in 1976 moved the Church of Jesus Christ-Christian there. They called the compound the Aryan Nations.pic.twitter.com/2TQyP4VyiO

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      13. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        13) In short order, Butler began organizing an annual gathering of all kinds of white-supremacist groups in Hayden Lake called the World Congress of Aryan Nations. Klansmen, National Alliance, skinheads and haters from all across America attended.pic.twitter.com/YmhckeQtZx

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      14. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        14) As it happened, I was at the time the 21-year-old editor of the little newspaper 20 miles north of Hayden in Sandpoint, the Daily Bee. At the time, the publisher and I sat down and made what we thought was the astute decision not to cover the Aryan Nations.pic.twitter.com/p622gK0MTD

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      15. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        15) The thinking was that they only wanted free publicity and we weren’t going to give it to them. It was a huge mistake. Within the next few years, the Panhandle became host to tons of criminals moving in, who then began committing hate crimes.pic.twitter.com/ftRzTzqoQO

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      16. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        16) One of these thugs was none other than Keith Gilbert, who moved to nearby Post Falls after getting out of prison. Gilbert owned a Volkswagen Thing he festooned with swastikas, and was notorious not just for threatening kids but also for handing out these fliers.pic.twitter.com/a4lLskL9Al

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      17. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        17) Yes, those same targets make an appearance in “BlackkKlansman.” They were in fact very popular with the Nazi/Klan set.pic.twitter.com/ZIsZtV0FKb

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      18. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        18) This criminality reached its apex in 1984, after one of the angry young transplants who attended AN gatherings regularly – a man named Robert Mathews, who had moved to Metaline Falls, WA, from Arizona – organized an action group he called “The Order”.pic.twitter.com/c4iN9l9e12

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      19. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        19) I used to get letters to the editor from Robbie Mathews at the Daily Bee. They were memorable because he wrote them in all caps. Also they were thick with racism and antisemitism. I talked to him once to explain why we wouldn’t run them.pic.twitter.com/xWl9wbw5KV

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      20. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        20) The Order eventually included about 15 men in the group, but the main action group was comprised of about six men, including Mathews. Over the course of the year, they robbed about 25 banks and armored cars, including a record $3.8 million haul in Ukiah, CA.pic.twitter.com/L3y6liiwM1

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      21. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        21) Their most infamous crime, though, was the June 1984 assassination of radio talk show host Alan Berg in the driveway of his Denver home. A couple of fictionalized films have been made about this incident. The killing was both revenge and propaganda.pic.twitter.com/xBrTsKfCyJ

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      22. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        22) Mathews and his gang were all brought to ground in short order by the FBI. Most of them were arrested. Mathews was cornered in a house on Whidbey Island, WA, and refused to come out. The FBI lobbed a flare in, the house caught on fire, and it burned down around him.pic.twitter.com/hR0gJIuos1

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      23. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        23) I covered one of the World Aryan Congresses in 1983, and of course we journalists in the region had multiple dealings with a variety of members of the AN over the years in the Panhandle. We interviewed many of the ordinary footsoldiers as well as their leaders.pic.twitter.com/EBWOW9O7lG

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      24. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        24) There was nothing even remotely “leftist” about any of these folks in their political orientation. Indeed, much of their ideology seemed to me to be actually predicated on a deep, visceral loathing of all things leftist or liberal.

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      25. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        25) It was starkly clear that the term “right-wing extremist” – while, unhappily, a somewhat malleable and unclear generic phrase – really does apply to neo-Nazis. Every belief they hold, every position they take, is essentially a right-wing position taken to its most extreme.

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      26. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        26) Civil rights: Not only do they, like most conservatives, oppose civil-rights advances for nonwhites (including voting rights, affirmative action, equal protection, etc.) but they actively work to prevent them obtaining those rights through violence.pic.twitter.com/GhOI3Bicgm

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      27. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        27) LGBT rights: Not only do they, like most conservatives, oppose gay rights generally, they actually believe that homosexuality is a sin whose punishment is death, and they are prepared to deliver that sentence.pic.twitter.com/XYjsmRhTvq

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      28. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        28) Similarly, they not only oppose Communism and socialism generally, as conservatives, but they believe that such people should be rounded up, incarcerated, and either deported or executed summarily. They’re happy to cut out the process too.pic.twitter.com/RYb4sqYd59

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      29. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        29) Education: They not only oppose federal involvement in the education system, they oppose public schooling altogether and favor instead either private home schooling or a system of church schools.pic.twitter.com/0TEllBV5Fs

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      30. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        30) Immigration: They not only oppose immigration generally, they demand all nonwhite immigration cease, and that all nonwhite immigrants already in the USA be deported. This used to be an extreme position, at least at the time. Nowadays not so much.pic.twitter.com/ZjQc5K5cp6

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      31. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Dec 2018

        31) Women’s rights: Not only do they resist equal rights for women, as conservatives generally do, these extremists actively oppose it and demand that women submit themselves to the rule of men as weaker inferiors. They’re profound misogynists.pic.twitter.com/A3dQEtBfTM

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