A white separatist group is openly planning a network of whites-only settlements across rural America that aim to withstand legal challenges by operating essentially as private clubs. Why it matters: The communities are launching in the Ozarks, Appalachia and the South as the Trump administration has backed off prosecuting many civil rights cases. - They're also surfacing at a time when the nation is becoming increasingly diverse , and as the racist "great replacement theory" has become a staple of far-right politics in recent years. The big picture: For nearly three years, state and federal authorities have largely watched from the sidelines as the separatist group Return to the Land (RTTL) unveiled plans and took applications for…
A Reuters photograph captured on a Washington Metro train on July 4 turned a 33-year-old woman into an overnight icon of racial courage. Within days, social media users had compared the image to scenes from the 1960s civil rights movement. Then someone pulled her court records. The photograph, taken by freelance photographer Cheney Orr, showed […] The post A viral photo made her a civil rights symbol — then Virginia court records told a different story appeared first on American Almanac .
A Reuters photograph captured on a Washington Metro train on July 4 turned a 33-year-old woman into an overnight icon of racial courage. Within days, social media users had compared the image to scenes from the 1960s civil rights movement. Then someone pulled her court records. The photograph, taken by freelance photographer Cheney Orr, showed a Black woman seated alone on a Metro car while hundreds of masked Patriot Front members, wearing khaki pants, blue shirts, and white face coverings and carrying American and Confederate flags, crowded around her. The image spread fast across social media, drawing comparisons to sit-ins and Freedom Rides. Commentators used it to frame a broader argument about racism in America today. But the woman…Open
True liberalism is a right-wing ideology. The post MAGA’s Dead. What’s Next? appeared first on The American Conservative .
The Iran War MAGA’s Dead. What’s Next? True liberalism is a right-wing ideology. Credit: Abraham Bosse MAGA died, the Iran war killed it, and a resurrection isn’t likely. So argues Christopher Caldwell, a titan of intellectual conservatism, in a recent piece on Donald Trump for the Spectator. “The attack on Iran is so wildly inconsistent with the wishes of his own base, so diametrically opposed to their reading of the national interest, that it is likely to mark the end of Trumpism as a project,” Caldwell writes. I’ve argued much the same in The American Conservative. Replying to such critiques, the…Open
A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right.
AI:Posts from several Trump administration agencies, including the White House, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Homeland Security, have reportedly utilized imagery, slogans, and music associated with white nationalist movements.Open