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DOJ attorneys blast Portland for hiding 2018 police-training slideshow with Proud Boys meme

The friendly relations between police forces in Portland, Oregon, and the far-right extremists who have made a career over the past five years of invading the city with bused-in Proud Boys, …

Where’s ‘Tiny’? Notorious Proud Boy Toese in Washington jail awaiting charges in Portland violence

The mystery surrounding the arrest of Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, the 26-year-old Samoan street brawler who has been a central player in far-right Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys violence in the Pacific …

DOJ appears to be working its way up Jan. 6 chain of command to include Trump’s inner circle

Last week’s indictment of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes for seditionist conspiracy revealed more than simply the mountain of evidence that the Justice Department has acquired in the prosecutions …

While FBI offers up flimsy reasons for being unprepared on Jan. 6, its record tells the real story

The details of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection are gradually emerging into view, thanks to evidence released in the indictments against key players such as Stewart Rhodes and his Oath Keepers. But …

Infamous Proud Boys leaders Chapman, Toese behind bars for assault cases in Idaho, Washington

Two of the nation’s most notorious Proud Boys figures—Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman and Tusitala “Tiny” Toese—are currently under arrest, facing felony assault charges in two separate incidents in …

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Kos and Kerry are back with The Brief podcast, talking insurrectionists and the 2022 outlook

Look at me, referring to myself in the third person in the headline. Feels weird, but hey, it’s the truth—we’re back in the new year, ready to cover the unfolding 2022 election and the political …

Seattle cops heightened 2020 protest tensions with fake reports of imminent Proud Boys attack

The latest police scandal in Seattle provides a crystalline example of how local law enforcement authorities have become toxic entities in modern urban areas—largely because it demonstrates, once …

In the year since Jan. 6, America’s radical right has hardened into an anti-democratic insurgency

With the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection upon us, researchers and experts in monitoring right-wing extremism have been busy compiling and analyzing the data and other information …

Yet another ‘Patriot’ paramilitary group may have played a key ‘insider’ role in Jan. 6 insurrection

We’ve known from early on in the investigation into the events of Jan. 6 that two “Patriot” movement paramilitary groups, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, played major roles in the attack on the …

Proud Boys’ hopes to have Jan. 6 charges dismissed before trial crushed by wave of rulings

A number of the defendants in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection prosecutions have been hedging their bets on having the charges against them dismissed summarily on constitutional grounds, claiming …

For mainstream liberals in rural America, daily life involves dealing with far-right intimidation

Here’s a suggestion for assignment editors at the large national media outlets who have provided us with an endless stream of stories about Trump voters in rural diners over the past half-decade: Try …

New lawsuit against Proud Boys and Oath Keepers could bankrupt them and unveil their funders

Could the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers be about to follow in the footsteps of the Nazis recently hit with a $26 million verdict for their role in the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” violence? …

Jan. 6 prosecutions get a boost from judge’s ruling that ‘obstructing Congress’ charges are OK

The wheels of justice turn slowly enough as it is, and when it comes to complex cases like the Jan. 6 insurrectionist prosecutions, the pace can be positively glacial, especially because evidence is …

Proud Boy leader can't cope with poor conditions at jail, asks for early release

A ringleader of the violent neofascist and racist group, the Proud Boys, asked for release from a D.C. jail on Monday, begging the court to let him serve out the remainder of his five-month sentence …

Tucker Carlson has created a very special pack of lies, all about defending white supremacists

Tucker Carlson is, of course, a jackass. But he’s not just any jackass. Carlson is an authoritarian propagandist who is just a quarter-inch of upper lip hair away from going full Führer at any given …

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Violent seditionists are being arrested by SWAT teams and it's making them very upset

It turns out that when arresting some of the participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection, police departments have been using SWAT teams and similarly heavily armed teams to do the actual arresting part. …

Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyers claim hunting laws allowed him to carry an AR-15 assault rifle to protest

How do we begin to unpack the sheer caucasity of arguing that the little vigilante and darling of the far-right, Kyle Rittenhouse—who is charged with fatally shooting two men and injuring another—was …

Portland jury convicts Texas-based Proud Boy of coming to city and whipping up street violence

A jury in Portland, Oregon, sent a message this week to the far-right out-of-town thugs—calling themselves Proud Boys and “Patriots” and “Three Percenters”—who descend on their city with great …

Presence of Trump-friendly DOJ prosecutor on Proud Boys insurrection case raises red flags

The federal government’s prosecution of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists continues to roll along with hardly any change in direction or pace: Participants in the attack continue to be arrested as …

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How warped are Trump-loving, white supremacist Christian nationalists? Enough to idolize the Taliban

In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks—launched by a group of Islamist terrorists (al-Qaida) given safe haven and protection in Afghanistan by the Taliban—most Americans did not harbor positive …