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Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche, left, speaks alongside FBI Director Kash Patel during a news conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington on April 21, 2026. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)
April 25, 2026, 11:47 am
US accuses Southern Poverty Law Center of defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants
Civil rights group defends its now-defunct program; charges come after FBI cut ties with organization for listing slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s group as extremist
By Collin Binkley, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Rebecca Boone
ILLUSTRATIVE -- In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
January 1, 2022, 10:00 am
US fails to stamp out far-right extremism in military despite decades of efforts
Racism still a concern with service members not barred from membership of groups such as KKK; Black, Hispanic service members disproportionately court-martialed
By Kat Stafford and JAMES LaPORTA
This image captured from the Daily Stormer website shows part of a February 21, 2021, post by Andrew Anglin with instructions on how to send him money via the cryptocurrency Monero. (AP Photo)
September 28, 2021, 2:01 pm
Far-right networks harder to track as they go underground with cryptocurrency
Lawyer for watchdog says it has grown more difficult to find and stamp out hate groups via the legal system now that they operate with online networks and use virtual money
By Erika Kinetz and Lori Hinnant
Andie Bond in her Wallace, Idaho, home, with her mezuzah. (Andie Bond via JTA)
February 9, 2021, 3:45 am
Meet a Jewish woman living in a former Aryan Nations stronghold
Most of the stereotypes she is subjected to are a result of ignorance, not prejudice or malice, says Andie Bond, one of only two Jews living in Wallace, Idaho
By Shira Feder
People march with those who claim they are members of the Proud Boys extremist group at a rally in support of US President Donald Trump in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
February 1, 2021, 3:11 pm
Right-wing hate groups harder to track as they migrate online, says US watchdog
Right-wing extremists grouping under loosely affiliated movement based on rejecting democratic institutions and multiculturalism; levels of hate in US have not diminished – report
By Aaron Morrison
A man standing with members of Patriot Prayer and other groups supporting gun rights wears a gun during a rally, Aug. 18, 2018, at City Hall in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
September 5, 2020, 10:45 am
Facebook removes accounts of far-right group Patriot Prayer
Group embroiled in recent Portland clashes with follower shot dead last week; organization rejects accusations it’s a white supremacist group
By AFP
White supremacists exchange insults with counter-protesters as they attempt to guard the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)
February 21, 2019, 12:29 am
Number of active hate groups in US at record high, civil rights watchdog says
Southern Poverty Law Center records rise in both white supremacist and black nationalist organizations, warns of future violence like Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
By Josefin Dolsten
Supporters of the National Council of Jewish Women and other Jewish organizations come together on the National Mall for the Women's March in Washington, DC, January 21, 2017. (Ron Sachs via JTA)
January 14, 2019, 9:10 pm
Southern Poverty Law Center, prominent NY synagogue leave Women’s March
SPLC has designated the Nation of Islam, backed by several March leaders, as a hate group, says ‘other projects a priority’
By Marcy Oster
A woman visits a makeshift memorial outside Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, to the 11 people killed there during worship services, seen here on October 31, 2018. (Gene J. Puskar/ AP)
November 1, 2018, 5:04 pm
Days after synagogue massacre, online hate is thriving
Victories are hard to come by for advocacy groups seeking to battle the proliferation of hate groups on the internet
By JAY REEVES
A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at the in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP)
October 30, 2018, 5:06 pm
Synagogue shooter’s obsession with HIAS mixed hatred of Jews, migrants
Far-right conspiracy theorists single out federal-funded Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, founded over 100 years ago, as seeking to destroy the ‘white race’ through immigration
By Michael Hill
The Stormer Book Clubs took credit for anti-Semitic fliers that appeared across the country last week. (Anti-Defamation League/JTA Collage)
October 19, 2018, 8:11 pm
The neo-Nazi group behind the fliers blaming Jews for the Kavanaugh allegations
Some white supremacists seek to be part of a ‘legitimate’ American far-right; Daily Stormer Book Clubs ‘not even trying to pretend to do that’
By Josefin Dolsten
Members of the Ku Klux Klan and others arriving for a rally calling for the protection of Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Virginia, July 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)
February 22, 2018, 5:05 am
​Trump’s first year sparks surge in hate groups — study
Survey shows rise in white supremacist and alt-right groups has spurred a parallel increase in hard-line black nationalist and African-American Nation of Islam affiliation
By AFP
A video monitor shows school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz (center) with public defender Melisa McNeille (right), making an appearance before Judge Kim Theresa Mollica in the Broward County Court, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday, February 15, 2018. (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
February 17, 2018, 4:06 am
White nationalist now appears to disavow connection with Florida shooter
Law enforcement says no evidence killer was linked to the fringe Republic of Florida group
By AP
Blaze Bernstein, center, with his parents, Jeanne Pepper and Gideon Bernstein. (Facebook via JTA)
January 29, 2018, 3:04 pm
Inside ‘Atomwaffen,’ where Blaze Bernstein’s alleged killer trained for race war
Before he was charged with the murder of his former classmate, Samuel Woodward participated in ‘doomsday camp’ with one of America’s ‘most extreme’ hate groups
By Matt Lebovic
August 28, 2017, 11:28 am
Oklahoma police chief resigns over alleged neo-Nazi ties
Bart Alsbrook denies connection to pair of white supremacist sites, which court documents show he owns
By ToI Staff
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