Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Episode 8: The National Socialist Movement

In this episode, Daniel tells Jack all about the present-day American Nazis, in the forms of the Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP), the National Socialist Movement (NSM), and related people and organisations, especially the Nationalist Front.  We pay special attention to the best known representative of this nauseating subculture, Matthew Heimbach, and touch on the internal debacle which became known as 'The Night of the Wrong Wives'.

Warnings apply - as always.

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Show Notes

Christopher Hasson - Lt. in the Coast Guard, planning fascist domestic terrorism - arrested

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Book: Everything You Love Will Burn by Vegas Tenold

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National Socialist Movement website

Black Civil Rights Advocate Takes Control of the NSM

TWP Website (Archived)

Nationalist Front

Vice Documentary "White Student Union" 2013

Matt Heimbach American Freedom Party 2013

Heimbach assaults woman at Trump Rally

The Neo-Nazi Has No Clothes

Article about Tony Hovater "A Voice of Hate in America's Heartland."

The Night of Wrong Wives

Heimbach becomes community outreach director for NSM

Heimbach removed from NSM

White Right: Meeting the Enemy (available on Netflix)

SPLC file on Matthew Heimbach

SPLC file on TWP

SPLC file on Jeff Schoep

SPLC file on NSM

League of the South secedes from the Nationalist Front

Matt Heimbach on the Radical Agenda

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Wrong With Authority episode on Mississippi Burning

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Episode 5: Christopher Cantwell, Part 1

In this episode, Daniel and Jack make their first assault on the mountain of bullshit, bile, and batshittery that is Christopher 'the Crying Nazi' Cantwell, and take a swing at the 'libertarian-to-fascist' pipeline.

As ever, warnings apply.

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Show Notes:

Cantwell's website

Radical Agenda

Outlaw Conservative

Random Cantwell audio clips

Cantwell stuff from A Voice For Men

Cantwell's warning to Kricket Slick's future boyfriends

Cantwell OkCupid profile, circa 2015

Ethan Glover on Cantwell's long history

The Free State Project

Daily Beast on the Libertarian to Alt-Right Pipeline

Reason repudiates the libertarian to alt-right pipeline


Jack's article on libertarianism as the 'gateway drug' to the alt-right


Jack's article on the Koch Brothers and their funding of right-wing academia

Cantwell on "Free-er Talk Live, Jan 17 2019."

Charlottesville Race and Terror



Vice checks in on Cantwell a year later

Cantwell arrest

Cantwell drunk in public

Cantwell pleads

Elmer Woodard, lawyer to Cantwell and the alt-right

Chris Cantwell pulls his gun, May 2015

Crying Nazi Raw Video

"The Free Keene Squad" on the Colbert Report

"Looking for Trouble With Strangers"

Local news story on the above

Right Wing Watch on Outlaw Conservative

Jack's reference to Disraeli in context (from Richard Seymour's The Liberal Defence of Murder):



Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Episode 4: Unite the Right, the Aftermath

In this episode, Daniel tells Jack about the aftermath of the disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville 2017.  They also get a tad more theoretical about some of the reasons for some of the behaviour of the so-called 'alt-right', and chat about some related issues such as the recent controversy concerning the Covington MAGA kids.

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NOTES

Jason Kessler disrupted by his father.

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Covington Catholic Students confrontation full video (confrontation starts at ~1:13:00)

Robby Soave at Reason on Covington Catholic Kids

Jason Wilson at the Guardian on Covington Catholic Kids

Laura Wagner at Deadspin on Covington Catholic Kids

GQ "Scared White Supremacist Takes Off His Uniform."

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Assault of Deandre Harris

League of the South signs consent decree, will not return to Charlottesville. March 2018.
"The decree specifically names the League of the South, its directors, officers, members and agents, national League of the South chairman Michael Tubbs and Kentucky chapter chairman Spencer Borum. These parties are blocked from “returning to Charlottesville, Virginia, as part of a unit of two or more persons acting in concert while armed with a firearm, weapon, shield, or any item whose purpose is to inflict bodily harm to any demonstration, rally, protest, or march,” on threat of court-ordered punishment."

Jacob Goodwin and Alex Ramos sentenced for attack on Deandre Harris.

Daniel Borden sentenced for attack on Deandre Harris

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Jason Kessler tweets about Heather Heyer
""Heather Heyer was a fat, disgusting Communist," stated the tweet on an account belonging to Jason Kessler. "Communists have killed 94 million. Looks like it was payback time." "

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Cloudflare boots Daily Stormer August 16, 2017

Twitter bans Nazis December 18, 2017.

Major sites ban Alex Jones and Infowars September 2018.

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Sines V. Kessler

"Rise Above Movement" (RAM) members arrested. October 2018.

Tom Brokaw "Brown Grandbabies."
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Also, here's the famous Vice documentary 'Charlottesville: Race and Terror', which we refer to.

Right Wing Watch

Angry White Men blog

@EyesOnTheRight

Jared Holt

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Algorithm 2

More nightmarish examples from the hellscape of Daniel's YouTube recommendations.

This garbage just goes on and on and on and on and on.










Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Episode 3: Unite the Right, Charlottesville 2017

In this episode, which runs a bit longer than the first two, and which goes to some very dark places, Daniel tells Jack all about the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, 2017.

The episode features discussions of violence, and we try to signpost when we're getting into the painful details.  But warnings definitely apply from the start.  We're discussing virulent racism and bigotry.

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Of necessity, we're only glancing at this incredibly big and complex subject, so we're going to be coming back to many of the issues, organisations, and persons mentioned.

And here are some notes, sources, and references.

(Oh, P.S. Fun fact... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped into Hbomberguy's Donkey Kong charity Twitch stream as we recorded this.)

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NOTES

Firstly, everyone interested in this should follow and support Emily Gorcenski and Molly (Socialist Dog Mom) on Twitter. 

Here's Emily's livestream of the tiki torch rally

Here's Molly's podcast The Trial of James Alex Fields

First Vigil - tracking fascist violence


Texts between Jason Kessler (UtR organiser), Richard Spencer, other UtR participants:
SPLC/Hatewatch
Document at DocumentCloud

Unite the Right poster

Enoch and The Right Stuff crew photo with Taylor Wilson and James Alex Fields (tweet from Sandi Bachom):

Jason Kessler tweets about Heather Heyer after Charlottesville

Hunter Wallace (Brad Griffin) smears Heather Heyer.

White Boner's conspiracy theory video

Alex McNabb, the 'Nazi EMT'

Daniel has curated a selection of clips relating to the subjects touched on in this episode.  Beware, some of these clips feature people like Jason Kessler and Mike Enoch being vile.  Here.

David Futrelle's blog We Hunted the Mammoth, is a good source for lots of information about the far-right in its many forms.  The blog originally tracked the 'Manosphere' (i.e. MRAs, Incels, etc) but has increasingly tracked online hate more generally as the Manosphere joined up with and fed into the so-called 'alt-right', Trumpism, etc.

Here's his post on nazis mocking the murder of Heather Heyer in their memes...

...and here's his post on the Daily Caller's call for people to run over protestors

And here is the video we refer to in the episode, 'Charlottesville: The True Alt-Right' by Shaun - excellent stuff.

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Timeline of Rallies 2017:

Feb. 1: Berkeley. Milo rally cancelled.

April 15: Berkeley. "Free Speech Event," Nathan Damigo punches "Moldylocks."

April 27: Berkeley. Ann Coulter speech cancelled, "Based Stickman," Lauren Southern, et al.

April 29: Pikeville, KY. TWP/NSM rally. Village Voice article.

May 13: Cville. Richard Spencer torch rally. Charlottesville 1.0.

-----June 2017---- UtR announced.

July 8. Cville. Ku Klux Klan rally.

-----July 11------ Kessler appears at town hall in Cville, publicizing UtR and distancing from Klan.

August 11. Cville. UVA torch march, "Jews Will Not Replace Us," assault on Emily Gorcenski and Kristopher Goad. Emily Livestream.

August 12. Cville. Unite the Right.

State of Emergency declared at 11:00AM. Rally planned to start at 12:00PM.

James Alex Fields Attack at 1:45PM.

Oct. 28. Shelbyville. NSM/Brad Griffin/TWP/Klan "Hard Right" Rally.