Combined archive search across FBI Vault, SPLC, PHMPT, ACIP, NIH grants, the Federal Writers' Project, and other collections we've ingested.
Intelligence Report California Racists Claim They’re Anarchists 2009 Summer Issue May 29, 2009 Casey Sanchez / Illustration Peter Horvath A California group claims it espouses a new, more vital form of anarchism. But it's really just another white nationalist project
Intelligence Report Canadian Polygamist Leaders Arrested 2009 Summer Issue May 29, 2009 Canadian authorities in Bountiful, British Columbia, arrested two leaders of a racist, polygamist cult that also has a major U.S. presence this January.
Intelligence Report California Racists Claim They’re Anarchists 2009 Summer Issue May 29, 2009 Casey Sanchez / Illustration Peter Horvath A California group claims it espouses a new, more vital form of anarchism. But it's really just another white nationalist project
Intelligence Report Russian Neo-Nazis Publish 'Death List' 2009 Summer Issue May 29, 2009 Neo-Nazis publish 'death list,' vow to assassinate enemies
Intelligence Report 670 Days 2016 Summer Issue August 03, 2016 Ryan Lenz The Bundys of Nevada orchestrated two armed standoffs with the government. After almost two years, they finally face justice.
Way back in 2010, the FBI labeled “sovereign citizens” — conspiracy-minded people who believe that most laws and tax requirements don’t apply to them — as a “domestic terrorist” movement. This June, there was another reminder of why.
Intelligence Report Editorial: A Year of Living Dangerously 2016 Spring Issue February 17, 2016 Mark Potok Anyone who read the newspapers last year knows that 2015 saw some horrific political violence.
The number of “nativist extremist” groups — organizations that go beyond mere advocacy to personally confront suspected undocumented immigrants or those who hire or help them — dropped again last year, falling from 19 to just 17.
After a months-long campaign by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and others, Reddit, a huge online bulletin board, finally decided in August that some of its most racist, hate-filled Web forums violated its standards and were making Reddit “worse for everyone else.”
Intelligence Report ‘Religious Freedom’ Cited to Defend Public Discrimination 2015 Winter Issue October 27, 2015 In the name of “religious freedom,” Jim Crow-style signs of bigotry and intolerance have been popping up across the country in recent months.
Intelligence Report Hate Goes to Washington Meet the members of Congress who traffic in hate and extremism. February 20, 2019
Intelligence Report The X-Ray Files 2015 Winter Issue October 27, 2015 Ryan Lenz Two men, one a Klan member, tried to build a weapon to irradiate Muslims and others. They came closer than you might think.
Intelligence Report Geller, Ritzheimer Lead Provocative Islam-Bashing Events 2015 Winter Issue October 27, 2015 When it comes to spreading prejudice and Islamophobia across the land, Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, is the heavyweight champion.
When Cliven Bundy took to a stage this April near where armed militiamen a year before backed down agents from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), it seemed that his “Battle of Bunkerville” had truly been won. A year had passed and Bundy was still free, his cattle were still grazing on government lands, and his radical defenders remained unscathed.
Intelligence Report Fed-Up Judges Scold ‘Sovereign’ Defendants in Three States 2015 Summer Issue June 10, 2015 Judges overseeing cases involving so-called “sovereign citizens” put up with a lot of guff.
Intelligence Report Police and Trans People: A Fraught Relationship 2015 Summer Issue June 09, 2015 Don Terry A transgender woman calls 911. She’s terrified. Her boyfriend has just beaten her up and he’s still menacing her in their apartment.
Intelligence Report Right-Wingers Depict Ebola Virus as Obama Conspiracy 2015 Spring Issue March 10, 2015 Americans were badly shaken this fall when missteps by the Texas hospital that handled one of the first cases of Ebola virus on American soil led to a minor outbreak in the U.S.
Intelligence Report 'Nativist Extremist' Groups Continue to Fall 2015 Spring Issue February 13, 2015 Heidi Beirich The number of “nativist extremist” groups dropped from 33 to 19 in 2014, continuing a long fall from a peak of 319 such groups in 2010.
A Southern Poverty Law Center study of “lone wolf” and “leaderless resistance” political violence finds that 90% of domestic attacks or planned attacks in the last six years were carried out by just one or two people. These incidents occurred, on average, once every 34 days — a stark reminder of the domestic terrorist threat.
Intelligence Report A Mother's Sorrow A mother is trying to understand how the sensitive child she raised has become a hateful neo-Nazi.