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  • In 1992, a small business owner in Oregon had to shut down his gun store. But he had to do something with all his remaining inventory….

    Sources:

    https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-21-ariel-sharon-apartheid-south-africa-and-mutual-military-interests/#.Vc4WVige5lk:

    Moore, Matthew. “Arming the Embargoed: A Supply-Side Understanding of Arms Embargo Violations.” The Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 54, no. 4, 2010, pp. 593–615.

    United Nations General Assembly. Special Report Of The Special Committee Against Apartheid. Implementation Of The Arms Embargo Against South Africa. United Nations General Assembly, 1986. Princeton University, Firestone Library

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1979/11/18/tripping-up-a-s-african-gunrunner/74a6f74b-18d3-4850-9ab6-8a206c1a0bac/

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  • Hi, Weird Little Guys Fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. 

    About the show: Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society.  We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter. Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years embedded in places he’s not meant to be. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed.

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  • Arrested Democracy, Part 1

    In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have the President indicted. And when none of that worked, some of them took matters into their own hands and tried to arrest the county court employees they thought were standing in their way. In the first half of this story, Walter Fitzpatrick unsuccessfully storms the courtroom in Madisonville, Tennessee. The outcry over his arrest would motivate Oath Keeper Darren Huff to rally supporters for a second attempt.

    Original air date: 11/14/24

    Arrested Democracy, Part 2

    When Oath Keeper Darren Huff returned to Madisonville, Tennessee on April 20, 2010, he was planning to take control of the courthouse. It didn't quite work out that way. He didn't even see the inside of a courthouse until his own arrest a week later.

    Original air date: 11/21/24

    Part 1 Sources:

    Jardina A, Traugott M. The Genesis of the Birther Rumor: Partisanship, Racial Attitudes, and Political Knowledge. The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 2019;4(1):60-80. doi:10.1017/rep.2018.25

    Josh Pasek, Tobias H. Stark, Jon A. Krosnick, Trevor Tompson,
    What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes, Electoral Studies, Volume 40, 2015

    Hughey, M.W. Show Me Your Papers! Obama’s Birth and the Whiteness of Belonging. Qual Sociol 35, 163–181 (2012).

    https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/birther-movement-founder-trump-clinton-228304


    https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33388485


    https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/us/12alabama.html


    https://www.newsherald.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/19/vigilante-group-oath-keepers-arrested-in-mexico-beach-following-hurricane-michael/9509280007/


    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oath-keepers-poll-watching_n_58122566e4b0990edc2f8178


    https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/hate-group-expert-daniel-levitas-discusses-posse-comitatus-christian-identity-movement-and


    https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2009mc00346/137380/2/0.pdf


    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/25/judge-lamberth-jan-6-trump-00137960


    https://www.tncourts.gov/rules/rules-criminal-procedure/6


    Part 2 Sources:

    https://www.politico.com/story/2010/04/army-birther-under-investigation-035823


    https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/army-birther-lakin-released-from-leavenworth/


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/04/26/gordon-liddy-on-shooting-from-the-lip/75754676-030f-4191-a9e3-a421855aea1f/


    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-six-g-gordon-liddy-the-126130442/


    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/08/roger-stone-kristin-davis-robert-mueller/


    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-party-accuses-republicans-voter-intimidation-federal-court


    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/attorney-for-birther-army-doc-is-former-gop-staffer-and-anti-gay-crusader


    https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/gan/press/2011/11-01-11.html


    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-than-1-of-defendants-in-federal-criminal-cases-were-acquitted-in-2022/


    https://time.com/archive/6597707/the-secret-world-of-extreme-militias/


    https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxxers-charge-followers-to-join-fake-anthony-fauci-grand-jury/


    https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4382623/fitzpatrick-v-bivins/


    https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5092131/united-states-v-huff-tv1/


    https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69341723/united-states-v-darren-huff/

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  • A bite-sized look at the NYPD officer who sued the city for firing him over anonymously mailing racist pamphlets to charitable organizations

    Sources:

    ​​https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/17/nyregion/officer-admits-to-racist-mail-and-is-offered-deal-to-retire.html

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sotomayors-defense-of-whi_n_210795


    https://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/335/2016/09/Sotomayor_2002Opinion_Pappas.pdf


    https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2358084/pappas-v-giuliani/

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  • The Devil's Chat Room: Ethan Melzer, Part 1

    In June of 2020, US Army Private Ethan Melzer was arrested for leaking information about his unit's deployment to Turkey with the intention of causing a mass casualty incident. The plot was hatched in a Telegram chat room for a group calling itself Rapewaffen, an Atomwaffen splinter cell that was committed to the beliefs of a neonazi satanic cult called the Order of Nine Angles. This episode follows the rise of satanism within Atomwaffen and the chaos that influence caused.

    Original air date: 10/31/24

    A Deal With the Devil: Ethan Melzer, Part 2

    In 2022, Ethan Melzer pleaded guilty to plotting to help al Qaeda ambush and kill his entire unit while on a sensitive mission in Turkey. But Melzer's co-conspirators turned out to be a Canadian teenager and a government informant, not members of al Qaeda. And the satanic cult that drew him down this nazi rabbit hole turned out to have been run by a man on the FBI payroll.

    Original air date: 11/7/24

    Part 1 Sources:

    https://unicornriot.ninja/2020/national-guard-soldier-who-deployed-to-dc-identified-as-neo-nazi/


    https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/ohio-national-guard-member-sent-home-for-white-supremacist-views-is-likely-a-fascist-youtuber


    https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/ohio-national-guard-soldier-pulled-from-mission-in-d-c-appears-on-neo-fascist-podcast-says-hes-being-discharged


    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/05/fbi-national-guardsman-expressed-white-supremacist-ideology-303924


    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/


    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280


    https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-06-02/military-begins-staging-around-washington-to-quell-george-floyd-protests


    https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/06/23/the-rapewaffen-telegram-channel/


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/soldiers-cases-highlight-reach-of-white-extremism-into-us-military/2020/06/25/0203532e-b582-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html


    https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/atomwaffen-division


    https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/sites/default/files/2022-06/REDACTED%20CTEC__TAT%20Accelerationism%20Report%20.pdf


    https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors


    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-56044179


    https://gnet-research.org/2023/09/25/the-significance-of-dark-foreigners-arrest/


    Ariel Koch (2024) The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 47:10, 1172-1199, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.2024944

    Mathieu Colin (01 Jul 2024): “And the Devil Marches with Us”: Aesthetics and Accelerationism in the Order of Nine Angles, Terrorism and Political Violence, DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2024.2365749

    Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Emelie Chace-Donahue (07 Mar 2023): The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2186737

    Shanon Shah, Jane Cooper & Suzanne Newcombe (19 Apr 2023): Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2195065

    Part 2 Sources:

    https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17286246/united-states-v-melzer


    https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69307006/united-states-of-america-v-melzer/


    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/


    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280


    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jack-teixiera-case-military-extremism-1234724461


    https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-extremist-fbi-informant/


    https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/ona-fascism-nazis-folk-horror-underground-occult/

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  • The guy who took a shot at Trump last summer wasn't the first person to shoot a presidential candidate without a clear political motive. In 1972, Arthur Bremer failed to assassinate Richard Nixon and settled on one of Nixon's opponents instead.

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  • At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee status under Trump's executive order.

    Sources:

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration

    https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563

    https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2022/May/diplomatic-expulsions

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465

    https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

    https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/

    https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025

    https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-after-air-force-one-arrival-february-2-2025/#15

    https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/

    https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/

    https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity

    https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/

    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-africa-whites-only-town-orania-is-booming

    https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/

    https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary

    https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-03-17-eff-condemns-us-ambassador-expulsion-vows-to-block-white-supremacist-appointment/

    https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak

    https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-30-new-us-envoy-might-be-even-more-conservative-than-me-joel-pollak/

    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html

    https://mistra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MISTRA-Statement-webinar-Implications-of-changes-in-US-administration-for-South-Africa-and-Africa.pdf

    https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/

    https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-south-africa-actively-opposed-fight-to-end-apartheid

    https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2025-02-19-ernst-roets-leaves-solidarity-movement-to-live-out-his-calling/

    https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html

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  • In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God.

    Sources:

    Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986.
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    5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011
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    Stephney, Inez Mary. “Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990’s, with particular reference to South Africa”
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    Schönteich, Martin, and Henri Boshoff. “Volk”, Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right. Institute for Security Studies, 2003.

    Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. “Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of ‘Blood River’ and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.” History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052.

    http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe 

    https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi 

    https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage 

    https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222024000200001 

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552 

    https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838 

    https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf 

    https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/


    https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c 

    https://www.news24.com/news24/five-boeremag-members-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-murder-madiba-20150430 

    https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/ 

    Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999.

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  • This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.

    Sources:

    Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.

    Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.

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    https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/

    https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/

    https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/

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    https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme

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  • In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century:

    Sources:
    https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/

    https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/

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    Death of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.

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  • In 1994, a second group of mercenaries arrived at the airport in Johannesburg... but no one was there to pick them up. Their host had been arrested days earlier, after the last group of mercenaries she'd hosted got into a deadly shootout with the South African police. But how did all these Germans end up in South Africa in the first place?

    https://www.propublica.org/article/vasilios-pistolis-imprisoned-marine-hate-groups

    Sources:
    Simonelli, F. J. (1999). American Führer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. University of Illinois Press.

    Krott, R. (2008). Save the last bullet for yourself: A soldier of fortune in the Balkans and Somalia. Casemate.

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    https://js.emory.edu/news/news-stories-container/Using%20South%20African%20Archives%20to%20Study%20PostWorld%20War%20Two%20Antisemitism%20and%20White%20Supremacist%20Networks.html

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    Searchlight Magazine, issues July, August, September 1996

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  • In 1989, four Afrikaner nationalists and one German mercenary killed a security guard at a United Nations outpost in Namibia. After escaping from custody, they fled home to South Africa. A possibly non-existent group called The White Wolves took credit for the wave of bombings that followed. 

    Sources:

    Du Preez, M. (2010). Pale native: Memories of a Renegade reporter. Zebra Press. 

    Rotberg, Robert (1988). The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Enigma of Power. Oxford University Press. 

    Falkof, Nicky. The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2016.

    https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-09-bruce-and-leonard-a-sad-african-immigrant-tale-of-injustice/

    https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/19/world/outjo-journal-un-namibia-team-makes-some-unlikely-friends.html

    https://web.archive.org/web/20010429091808/http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/spec/aress14-1.htm 

    https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZASCA/1999/72.html 

    https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/08/11/Gunmen-attacked-a-UN-peace-keeping-force-adminstrative-headquarters-and/6550618811200/ 

    https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-nexus-between-far-right-extremists-in-the-united-states-and-ukraine/

    https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=ncitereportsresearch

    https://web.archive.org/web/20181118212149/

    https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/the-day-wit-wolf-turned-pretoria-red-with-blood-18125595 

    https://www.jordanharbinger.com/bradley-steyn-undercover-with-mandelas-spies-part-one/ 

    https://theafricancriminologyjournal.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/south-africa-the-strijdom-square-massacre/ 

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/us-wit-wolf-slaughter-1873433 

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/what-became-of-the-big-wit-wolf-424408 

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  • In the last episode, we looked at a strange series of rallies held in cities across the United States in 2012 - American neo-nazis were rallying in support of white South African Farmers. But how did they get that idea in their heads? The rallies were put on by a group called The South Africa Project, run by a woman I'd never heard of. Digging into this mysterious South African, I found a lot more than I bargained for - bombings and mercenaries and an international network of fascist terror.

    Sources:

    https://www.24sata.hr/news/hsp-as-prisegnuli-na-vjernost-domovini-i-donaldu-trumpu-513281#google_vignette

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    https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/apartheid-early-1980s

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  • This is a rerun of the episode that originally ran on February 6, 2025 with a newly recorded introduction with new information about the traffic stop that led to Matthew Huttle's death.

    Sources:

    https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/02/27/body-cam-footage-jan-6-defendants-traffic-stop-shooting-death-released-matthew-huttle-jasper-county/80731312007/

    https://www.in.gov/sheriffs/jasper/files/Jasper-County-OIS-Final-Report.pdf

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  • In February of 2012, racist skinheads in California rallied at the capitol building in Sacramento. They were trying to raise awareness for an imaginary problem - an ongoing genocide against white South African farmers. In February of 2025, the President of the United States signed an executive order stripping foreign aid from South Africa as punishment for that same imaginary problem.

    Sources:

    Falkof, Nicky. (2022). Worrier state: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester University Press.

    Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens. The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), 2018.

    Holmes, Carolyn. Victimhood for an Audience: Portrayals of Extra-Lethal Violence and their Utility for Self-Identified Victims
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    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/white-farmers-trump-south-africa-tucker-carlson-far-right-influence

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/23/trump-orders-close-study-of-south-africa-farmer-killings

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-staff-usaid-met-group-called-apartheid-so-called-injustice_n_5af5dcb6e4b00d7e4c1a6571

    https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/anti-genocide-protests-around-nation-were-organized-neo-nazis/

    https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/campus-group-weighs-south-african-violence-targeting-whites/

    https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/dangerous-myth-white-genocide-south-africa/

    https://africasacountry.com/2018/02/searching-for-white-genocide-in-south-africa/

    https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/far-right-racists-push-fake-south-africa-white-genocide-narrative/

    https://goodauthority.org/news/misinformation-south-africa-new-land-act-trump-musk/

    https://www.jurist.org/features/2025/02/11/explainer-understanding-the-south-africa-land-reform-law-that-provoked-trumps-ire/

    https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-fearmongers-about-land-reform-south-africa

    https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/trumps-south-africa-tweet-tucker-carlson-has-turned-white-nationalist-narrative

    https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/Final-Report-Committee-of-Inquiry-Farm-Attacks-July-2003.pdf

    https://africasacountry.com/2018/05/flight-of-the-boers

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    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-15/dutton-wants-australia-to-help-white-south-african-farmers/9550050

    https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/analysis/donald-trumps-sa-tweet-how-he-got-the-message-20180823

    https://theconversation.com/peter-duttons-fast-track-for-white-south-african-farmers-is-a-throwback-to-a-long-racist-history-93476

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    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/27/dutton-should-prioritise-refugees-on-nauru-not-white-south-africans-unhcr-says

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    https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Acts/2024/Act_13_of_2024_Expropriation_Act_2024.pdf

    https://www.enca.com/videos/exclusive-interview-frontrunner-become-us-ambassador-sa

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  • "They got what they wanted." Those were the words of Don Logan after a February 11, 2025 meeting of the Scottsdale, Arizona city council. Twenty-one years after Dennis Mahon tried to murder Logan with a package bomb, the city of Scottsdale finished what the klansman started: they closed the city's diversity office.

    Sources: 

    https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/scottsdale-to-gut-diversity-office-trump-anti-dei-fervor-21197066

    https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-strip-club-owners-troubles-started-with-bad-loan-11311674

    https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/to-serve-and-humiliate-6422314 

    https://www.scottsdale.org/city_news/new-council-whisperer-saddles-up-at-city-hall/article_06f75e0a-d12c-11ef-a528-b706d0d1dc9d.html

    https://www.scottsdale.org/city_news/mayoral-candidates-face-final-exam/article_58c526d4-880e-11ef-a093-a77b3f945d6e.html 

    https://www.scottsdale.org/city_news/protests-fly-as-scottsdale-defunds-dei/article_6a0be9a2-eb0d-11ef-8425-27ebca019701.html 

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/politics/trump-fake-electors-emails.html 

    https://www.newsweek.com/strip-club-sued-allegedly-drugging-patrons-stealing-credit-cards-1883758

    https://www.azfamily.com/2025/02/12/scottsdale-city-council-votes-end-programs-involving-dei/

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/01/29/costco-double-downed-on-dei-then-19-attorneys-general-warned-them-to-stop/

    https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/IACIO/2025/01/27/file_attachments/3144563/FINAL%20Costco%20Lettet%20%281%29.pdf 

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/costco-dei-policy-board-statement-shareholder-meeting-vote/ 

    https://s201.q4cdn.com/287523651/files/doc_financials/2024/ar/FY24-Proxy-Statement.pdf 

    https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/04/11/the-shareholder-activism-of-anti-discrimination-proponents/ 

    https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/ebbd88bb-cc8f-4e1e-8d5e-a52f8f780b94.pdf 

    https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/what-dei-executive-orders-mean-employee-resource-groups

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/bremerton-shipyard-worker-affinity-groups-end-after-trump-dei-orders/ 

    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2025/02/12/scottsdale-scraps-dei-programs/78427835007/ 

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-protesters-mistake-busload-of-ymca-campers-for-immigrant-children/ 

    https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/28/dershowitz-appeals-sanction/ 

    https://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/article_32b14df8-edf0-5e98-b6fa-8875b1101624.html

    https://www.kawc.org/elections-2020/2021-08-25/attorney-for-arizona-election-audit-firm-defends-concealing-records 

    https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-mohave-county-hand-count-challenge/ 

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/06/dei-gop-segregation 

    https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4871827/united-states-v-mahon/

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  • In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned out to be well known white supremacists.

    Sources:

    https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/05/portland_suspect_in_2_slayings.html

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/portland-double-murder-white-supremacist-muslim-hate-speech

    https://islamophobia.org/special-reports/the-hate-that-act-for-america-wrought/

    https://islamophobia.org/islamophobic-organizations/act-for-america/

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidnoriega/meet-the-charming-terrifying-face-of-the-anti-islam-lobby

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/americas-most-anti-muslim-activist-is-welcome-at-the-white-house/520323/

    https://politicalresearch.org/2018/03/01/profile-on-the-right-act-for-america

    https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/us/08gabriel.html?pagewanted=all

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maher-season-premiere-inc_b_168972

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iobsessioni-stars-have-le_b_126693

    https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/movie-to-marshal-support-for-college-israel-advocacy/

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/ed-gillespie-declines-to-denounce-endorsement-from-anti-muslim-activist/2017/06/09/8a16a45c-4d28-11e7-bc1b-fddbd8359dee_story.html

    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/gay-trumper-almost-got-hired-by-the-gop-but-it-got-called-off-what-happened/

    https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-trimet-stabbing-trial-micah-fletcher-survivor-testifies/

    https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-prosecutors-max-stabbing-trial-call-eyewitnesses-killings/

    https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/2017/taliesin-namkai-meche-2016.html

    https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-target-of-a-hate-crime-she-was-labeled-as-a-witness/

    Isabelle Canaan, In Bad Faith: Anti-Sharia Laws, the Constitution, and the Limits of Religious Freedom, 21 U. Md. L.J. Race Relig. Gender & Class 248 (2021). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/rrgc/vol21/iss2/3

    https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/is-act-for-america-really-a-grassroots-organization/

    https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_mrpetehegseth.pdf

    https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-capitol-brawl-white-nationalist-sentenced-20190703-story.html

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/nathan-damigo-punching-woman-berkeley-white-nationalism/

    https://unicornriot.ninja/2017/neo-nazi-william-planer-arrested-vandalizing-synagogue/

    https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/06/10/emotions-run-high-march-against-sharia/386607001/

    https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2021/11/10/allison-richard-jack-peirce-iv/

    https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/family-research-councils-anti-splc-campaign-promoting-anti-semitic-publication/

    https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/neo-nazi-billy-roper-organizing-act-americas-march-against-sharia-arkansas/

    https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/following-trump-appointments-anti-muslim-act-america-may-see-growing-influence/

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  • Molly talks to Spencer Sunshine about his book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Sunshine's book explores the history of Siege, the book that is today's nazi terrorist's bible.

    https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife-of-James-Masons-Siege/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606

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  • In January of 2025, Matthew Huttle was one of nearly 1600 people to receive a pardon from Donald Trump for his participation in the January 6, 2021 riot. Less than a week later, he was dead - shot and killed in an altercation with a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop in Indiana. 

    Sources:

    https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories

    https://www.shu.edu/news/a-demographic-and-legal-profile-of-january-6-prosecutions.html

    https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/tzm3576zdg/1/files/12dd7a26-cc10-4844-b141-05ee077ea97f

    https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-high-water-mark-of-the-jan.-6-prosecutions

    https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/01/31/trump-pardon-jan-6-indiana-man-shot-matthew-huttle-pulled-over-speeding-jasper-county/78022270007/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q5nK0oUyXE&ab_channel=CBSChicago

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/jan-6-rioter-shot-indiana-traffic-stop.html 

    https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1828.pdf

    https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66637875/united-states-v-huttle/

    https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66637874/united-states-v-huttle/

    Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.
     

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