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Author: Messengers of the Right. Scholar: Editor: , WaPo Columnist: & Host: & A12

Charlottesville, VA
Joined April 2010

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    Humbled and thrilled that The Guardian has named A12 one of its favorite podcasts of 2018. Deep gratitude to the activists, scholars, and leaders whose stories made it possible.

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  2. Given that a purported manifesto is circulating, I strongly recommend this smart piece by that underscores the propaganda function of manifestos:

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  3. You can hear their stories on A12, especially episodes 4 and 6: I also wrote about Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, and rising antisemitic terrorism here: 2/2

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  4. Reading about another synagogue shooting, I keep thinking back to my conversations with Jewish Charlottesvillians, and how poignantly they described to me the way their sense of safety was stripped away during the summer of 2017. /1

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    "The detention of immigrants by militias at the border is a strategy that has come up over several decades, one honed by Klansmen in the 1970s and mercenaries in the 1980s" says Bring the War Home author :

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  7. As they leave, they chant “AIM,” the acronym for American Identity Movement, which is how Identity Evropa rebranded itself last month. I gave a paper last week on why the narrative that the alt-right collapsed post- was wrong. This is one more data point.

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  8. Also, just to be very clear, no part of his hypothetical aligns with what actually happened before and during the Unite the Right rally.

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  9. "normally I would not lend my support to neo-Nazis but if I left now I'd be out twenty bucks"

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  10. Reader Todd K. would like me to know that “very fine people” sometimes *have* to march with neo-Nazis because of sunk-costs.

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    "There is no more need to debate whether support for racism is a feature of the Trump administration; the question is how much longer Americans will tolerate it."

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  12. Apr 26

    White supremacists chose Charlottesville as a place to try to mainstream their views — and Donald Trump continues to help them out. My latest for :

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    Apr 26

    By blocking the marketing of thalidomide, Dr. Frances Kelsey saved literally thousands of babies in the United States from being born with birth defects. This is how the New York Times ended a profile of her in 1962:

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  14. Apr 26

    So curious about this mythical "very fine person" who attended the Unite the Right rally with no knowledge of the organizers or speakers, no awareness of the violent torchlight march the night before, and no problem with the Nazi flags or armed groups in the park that day.

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  15. Apr 26

    Hello, trolls! Some quick fact-checks: The UTR rally was organized by white supremacists and neo-Nazis; the rally featured plenty of Nazi flags, so no one was confused about the context; and the Civil War was about slavery, not tariffs.

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  16. Apr 26

    (Also Lee was a traitor who led a rebellion against the U.S. government to defend the enslavement of millions.)

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  17. Apr 26

    Because it can’t be said enough: the organizers and speakers for the Unite the Right rally were neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and avowed white supremacists, and they engaged in an act of planned political violence the night before. “Very fine people” don’t attend neo-Nazi rallies.

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    Apr 25

    This is what the right-wing "Twitter is biased!" campaign has been working towards. This is what "working the refs" looks like.

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  19. Apr 24

    Great thread on how conservative media helps, in both rhetorical and structural ways, to safeguard Trump from impeachment.

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  20. Apr 24

    I think about this scene every time I write about contemporary U.S. politics.

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    Apr 24

    On this week, Prof , + discuss the fire at Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral, President Trump’s attacks against Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and the history of liberal think tanks.

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