Friend,
Exclusive new reporting
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released today by the SPLC's?Hatewatch
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?details the evolution of the key personalities and groups that
staged the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in
Charlottesville five years ago this week.
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"We don't use the term 'alt-right' anymore, and the statue these
racists came to defend is gone. By the measures they set for
themselves, they lost," said Senior Investigative Reporter
Michael Edison Hayden. "And yet the threat posed by the radical
right has never been more dire in my lifetime. The so-called 'great
replacement' rhetoric these men espoused has become commonplace.
That's why it's so critical to look deeper at what happened in
Charlottesville that August. It helps explain how we got here."
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Since before the deadly Unite the Right rally, Hatewatch has monitored
and tracked many of the key players involved that day. This new report
provides a summary of where they are as of August 2022.
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Five years after white supremacists descended on Charlottesville,
Virginia, the statue they came to protect is gone, and the
"alt-right" coalition they embodied has imploded. At the
same time, the existential threat that far-right extremism poses to
the U.S. has arguably never been more severe.
Such is the complex fallout of Unite the Right, where hundreds of
extremists immersed a college town in violent conflict, generating
shocking images that news organizations continue to broadcast as
symbols of the nation's struggle with hate and authoritarianism.
They also helped bring the "great replacement" conspiracy
theory into mainstream right-wing discourse by chanting, "Jews
will not replace us" in viral videos staged on the eve of Unite
the Right.
Hatewatch has continued to monitor the personalities and groups who
staged Unite the Right, even after street-level activism,
investigative reporting and legal battles blocked the rise of those
figures, forcing the radical right movement to shuffle beyond
them.
The report includes detailed updates on notable key players
including Richard Spencer
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, Timothy "Baked Alaska" Gionet, David Duke
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, the Daily Stormer
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, Nicholas J. Fuentes
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, the Proud Boys
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and many more.
READ THE FULL REPORT
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