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White nationalists praise El Paso attack and mock the dead
White nationalists, who have employed terroristic rhetoric with increased enthusiasm in recent months, expressed solidarity with the man who police say killed at least 22 people in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. These white nationalists also mocked the dead.
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El Paso massacre galvanizes accelerationists
The domestic terror incident this past weekend in El Paso, Texas, has energized the growing “accelerationist” bloc of the white power movement, which argues violence is the only way to achieve its goal of creating a white, non-Jewish ethnostate.
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Mississippi immigration raids detained more than 600 people
ICE officials raided several food-processing plants in Mississippi on Wednesday and arrested more than 600 individuals – raids that are part of an ongoing war against immigrant families and the communities in which they live. “It is especially sickening that days after immigrants were targeted by a gunman in El Paso, Texas, workers at plants across Mississippi witnessed armed agents descending on their workplace,” said SPLC Attorney Julia Solórzano.
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Internet sites blamed for helping incite racist violence, but there’s no plan to rein them in (CNN)
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Mass shootings and misogyny: The violent ideology we can’t ignore (USA Today)
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