#far-right-extremism

#far-right-extremism

Nick Fuentes, a 27-year-old white nationalist livestreamer, routinely uses his platform to deny the Holocaust, praise Adolf Hitler, denigrate women as "baby machines," and make wildly racist statements. Fuentes' abhorrent views have propelled him to far-right celebrity status, and he presides over a movement of "groypers"-young, highly online incels, neo-Nazis, and racist shitposters who follow him. Over the years, Fuentes has been crystal clear about his ultimate goal:

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss how President Trump reacted to the No Kings protests by embracing his own "cult of the ruler" in particularly dramatic fashion, whether the shutdown will eventually break enough government functions to force more urgency in negotiations, and why Young Republicans are fawning over Hitler in group chats. Here are some notes and references from this week's show:

But in the immediate aftermath of Kirk being fatally shot while speaking at a Turning Point USA event Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, these same groups were quick to frame the incident as an attack on one of their own, portraying Kirk's death as part of what they see as an ongoing war against white, Christian men.

After Russian drones were shot down over Poland this week, there are renewed calls to boost Germany's air defense. Meanwhile, Bayer Leverkusen are looking to reboot their Bundesliga season under a new coach. DW has more. The German army reportedly only has 18 Skyranger air defense turrets not enough, say politicians. What you need to know Politicians call for German air defense boost after Russian drones shot down over Poland

Aaron heads back up the mountains, unknowingly coming into contact with the so-called Justice Crusade, a group of far-right extremists led by "unstable former soldier Fairweather", played by What It Feels Like For A Girl star, Michael Socha. Justice Crusade are "united by their beliefs and their mutual need for belonging" but Fairweather's jaw-dropping plans for the mountains lead to fractures in the outcast group, "making them even more volatile and dangerous".

A far-right anti-immigration march escalated into a violent attack on a sacred Indigenous site in Melbourne last weekend, raising serious questions about police conduct and institutional responses to neo-Nazi groups in Australia. The march on Sunday, which saw members of the self-described neo-Nazi National Socialist Network (NSN) lead chants of Australia for the white man, culminated in a group of 50 men storming Camp Sovereignty the site of a historic Aboriginal burial ground in the city.

The text messages circulating around Sydney's Sutherland shire in early December 2005 explained precisely the purpose of the gathering. Just a reminder that Cronulla's 1st wog bashing day is still on this Sunday, one read. Chinks bashing day is on the 27th and the Jews are booked in for early January. On Sunday 11 December, more than 5,000 people, mostly young men, swarmed Cronulla beach. They wore Australian flags as capes, they had drawn the Eureka flag on their bodies.

Messages were posted on a social media platform on Saturday night in which threats of violence were specifically made against them. Investigators from the Special Detective Unit (SDU), which oversees threats to national security and violent political extremism, are pursuing the matter. Previous incidents included a bomb threat being called in to his family home, masked men gathering outside the property, and threats of violence being made against his wife and children.

Two hilly, wooded parcels of land in Llanafan Fawr were bought by the Woodlander Initiative (TWI), a land-buying scheme led by Simon Birkett, a far-right figure with links to Patriotic Alternative, the UK's largest fascist group. Critics say Wiltshire-based Birkett's aim is to create a racially exclusive settlement; he has cited Orania, a whites-only town in South Africa, as an inspiration for the project. TWI successfully bought the two small plots totalling a few acres from a local farmer late last year, after attempts in Cumbria and East Sussex fell through. Since launching in 2023, the group has raised 165,000 of a goal of 1m money Birkett plans to use to buy land or property in every county in Britain.

In conversation with Hasan, Black refused to condemn violence against police officers, claimed that the Los Angeles police department was directed by liberal Marxists, and described his own political position as being white nativist, adding that neocons, libertarians, all those mainstream people, [they] might as well be leftists to me.

Thomas Hoffmann remarked that Christopher Street Day had become increasingly commercialized and apolitical, stating, "But now it's time for us to be louder than ever and for people to come out in large numbers when we're losing rights for which we have fought for decades." This illustrates a call to action amid rising tensions surrounding LGBTQ+ rights.

Every summer, the neighborhood throws its own smaller-scale LGBTQ+ Pride event separate from the city's main annual parade taking place this weekend. It's just one of more than 200 Pride events taking place in Germany this year.

The Kremlin used the recent vote of no confidence against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to launch a narrative about the dysfunctions of European institutions, attempting to polarize and weaken the EU.

Over three-quarters of videos using extremist audio were still accessible four months after they were first captured, indicating TikTok's moderation struggles with audio-driven hate content.

Germany's previous government banned Compact magazine, with the then-Interior Minister describing it as a central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene, agitating against Jews and democracy.

The resisters that I researched, by contrast, were laser-focused on creating change, whether through satire in 1920s Germany or modern-day peace advocacy.

The growing ideology of the Reichsbürger movement, especially during the pandemic, has led to acts of terrorism, including a plot to attack Germany’s electricity grid.

Before the bombing, [the radical right] imagined this would involve an attack on federal judges... Didn’t he case the place? one acquaintance of McVeigh’s asked incredulously.