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The hard right has zeroed in on attacking Black, Brown – and at an alarming rate in 2023 – LGBTQ+ communities.
The new Year in Hate & Extremism
#YIHE
report examines how they're attempting to cement hateful ideologies & prep for the Nov. elections.
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VICTORY! A federal court has ruled that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the U.S. Department of Education cannot divert desperately needed money away from public schools and into private schools!
Reporter: "Do you see white nationalism as a rising threat around the world?"
Trump: "I don't really."
We saw a nearly 50% increase in white nationalist hate groups between 2017 and 2018.
Proud Boys are a hate group that espouses white supremacy, antisemitism and misogyny. They've appeared alongside other hate groups at rallies across the country, often attempting to incite violence. Read our extremist profile on them here:
🚨NEW: Arrest warrants have been issued for five members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front.
They've also been added to a wanted list circulated by that Idaho county’s sheriff,
@Hatewatch
reports.
Pres. Trump employed 200 undocumented Polish workers in 1980. They worked 12-hour shifts without gloves, hard hats or masks and got paid $4 an hour—less than half the union wage—if they got paid at all.
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled today that
#Florida
’s pay-to-vote system is unconstitutional. If a person cannot afford to pay court fines or restitution, they CANNOT be banned from voting.
#JonesvDeSantis
Read the opinion:
"A kid’s worst nightmare is the boogeyman coming in the middle of the night and taking away their parents." Immigrant kids live with the fear that their family members will be deported.
Doctors say it's causing health problems that may linger for decades.
Members of neo-Nazi group Aryan Strikeforce met a man, who turned out to be an FBI informant, at a Cracker Barrel to arrange drug transport.
6 members are now facing charges for federal crimes — & the group lost its main source of income
#ConfrontingHate
We celebrate the life of Congressman John Lewis, who passes through Alabama one last time today, including crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on horse drawn carriage, where 55 years ago he and other voting rights advocates were beaten by Alabama State Troopers.
In 1915, Stone Mountain was the site of the cross-burning ceremony signalling the rebirth of the KKK. Its massive mountainside carving depicts Confederate leaders on horseback.
The park’s grand opening on 4/14/1965 was the 100th anniversary of Pres. Lincoln's assassination.
The Proud Boys are a hate group. Last night, according to reports and videos, approximately 30 members of the hate group attacked several people outside an event in New York City. This is not surprising. (h/t
@letsgomathias
)
Colin Kaepernick,
@Kaepernick7
, recently announced a new initiative to offer free and objective second autopsies to family members of anyone whose death is "police-related."
The initiative aims to eliminate any concerns from the originally given autopsy.
Today in Alabama, state offices are closed. Today is Confederate Memorial Day. This is one of three state holidays in AL that honor white supremacy. We are standing with
@faithinactional
to call for an end of these days honoring the confederacy.
Nearly 1,000 people incarcerated in South Carolina — and the staff who guard them — will not be evacuated for
#HurricaneFlorence
, despite Gov. Henry McMaster's evacuation orders. It is unacceptable for a state to gamble with the lives of those in its care.
We have never seen hate groups rise to the number they did in 2018. We just released our annual
#YearinHate
report, which found an all-time record high: 1,020 hate groups in the United States.
#RageAgainstChange
#YearInHate
Most Confederate monuments were erected during two major periods — when Jim Crow laws were being enacted, and during the Civil Rights movement.
Confederate symbols are about hate, not heritage.
#LoseTheLostCause
#WhoseHeritage
Four members of the racist and antisemitic “Rise Above Movement” were taken into custody today and face federal charges of traveling to Charlottesville with the intent of rioting at the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
Today we are releasing our 2017 hate count.
President Trump’s first year in office proved to be just as racially divisive as his campaign.
In 2017 we documented a rise in hate group numbers for a 3rd consecutive year.
#YearInHate
The SPLC joins the world in mourning Rosalynn Carter, who spent her life to helping the world. Her unwavering commitment to service and her tireless efforts by President Carter's side left an indelible mark.
Let us honor her memory by carrying forward her compassion and empathy.
In a
#RoshHashanah
sermon, Stephen Miller's childhood rabbi admonished him for Trump's ruthless immigration policy: “You’ve set back the Jewish contribution to making the world spiritually whole through your arbitrary division of these desperate people."
Jacob Scott Goodwin is a white supremacist. Last August in Charlottesville, he was caught on video wearing a military helmet and carrying a large shield during an attack on DeAndre Harris, a black man. Yesterday, he was found guilty of assault.
Proud Boys is now functioning as Roger Stone's security.
This is a group that promotes violence, most recently threatening Portland's mayor. The same one yelling "faggot" & "fucking foreigner" as they beat a protester in the street.
This is a hate group.
Eric Trump said Bob Woodward's book was "to make three extra shekels."
Shekels — not just Israeli currency, but a derogatory term used by white supremacists and neo-Nazis to tie into antisemitic tropes about Jewish people and money.
Eric Trump — the president's son.
White people who kill black people in “stand your ground” states are 354% more likely to be found justified than whites who kill other whites.
The odds of conviction for a black defendant against a white victim are nearly 100%.
At the bus stop where Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Alabamians protest an injustice of our time - the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy separating families all across America.
#EndFamilyDetention
#FamiliesBelongTogether
Law enforcement detained at least 35 demonstrators in Atlanta on Sunday, including an SPLC employee who was arrested while acting — and identifying — as a legal observer on behalf of
@NLGnews
#StopCopCity
In 1966 Gallup found Dr. King had a 63% negative rating. By 2011, his rating was 94% positive. "This vast swing in approval of King today isn’t rooted in his radical legacy — it's the product of generations of appropriation and a whitening of his effort."
David Duke is a longtime
#KKK
leader. He was at the deadly rally in
#Charlottesville
last summer.
Now he has to turn over all his communications about that rally. That's what a federal magistrate just ruled.
The so-called "alt-right" recruits and promotes on Twitter. That's why we've launched a Hate Tracker, which identifies trending topics among a network of far-right in near-real time.
No running water, electricity, sewage treatment or drainage. It's not just South Texas: it's also the Mississippi Delta, the Appalachian mountains, and too many other American communities.
It is unacceptable for such racist, dehumanizing language to now be repeated 10 times on the White House website in a document that speaks for America.
Three package bombs have struck Austin's Black and Latino neighborhoods, killing and injuring people whose families were prominent in their communities — and active in the fight for racial justice.
In 1950 Linda Brown was denied admissions at her local elementary school because of the color of her skin.
#OTD
in 1954 a historic Supreme Court decision was made ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional.
#TheMarchContinues
Our hearts are with the families of those targeted and killed in today’s racially motivated attack on the Black community in Jacksonville, Florida. No family, no community and no nation should be forced to experience this hate-fueled violence.
Today we remember
#HeatherHeyer
, who was killed protesting the 2017 white supremacist rally in
#Charlottesville
.
Hate may be alive in America, but there will always be those — like Heather — who stand up to it.
#CvilleSurvives
Everyone knows that Robert E. Lee fought to uphold a white supremacist system based on the belief that Africans were inferior & was contingent upon dehumanizing enslaved Africans exploited by white slave owners & is responsible for centuries of racial inequity.
#LoseTheLostCause