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CHAPTER 4. KIGGY
bigger and to no longer “feel invisible.”: British Council, “The European Study of Youth Mobilisation,” British Council Active Citizens Programme, March 2011, https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/1838/British_Council_ESYM_Report_March_2011_.pdf ?sequence=1.
Shiloh and that they lived in Hell: David M. Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1965).
descended into terror and brutality: “Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868,” University at Albany, SUNY, accessed July 31, 2017, www.albany.edu/faculty/gz580/His316/kkk.html.
their seats to the Klan’s endorsement: Chalmers, Hooded Americanism.
in an unprecedented show of force: Joshua Rothman, “When Bigotry Paraded Through the Streets,” Atlantic, December 4, 2016, www.theatlantic .com/politics/archive/2016/12/second-klan/509468.
CHAPTER 5. THE NSM TURNS FORTY
wanted to please his aloof father: William H. Schmaltz, For Race and Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party (Stillwater, MN: River’s Bend Press, 2013).
left-wing and communist propaganda.”: George Rockwell, This Time the World (Kindle Edition), 35.
a “sophisticated and smart people.”: Ibid., 25.
even by sending him to Brown.”: Ibid., 52.
never sees: the world of the Jews.”: Ibid., 117.
short-sightedness and racial degeneration.”: Ibid., 130.
treason against their nations or humanity.”: Hans Toch, The Social Psychology of Social Movements (New York: Routledge, 2014), 24.
the article—victims that I invented!”: “Interview: George Lincoln Rockwell,” Playboy, April 1966, http://newspaperdeathwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Alex_Haley_interviews_George_Lincoln_Rockwell.pdf.
duration of the hour they were there: A. M. Rosenthal and Arthur Gelb, One More Victim: The Life and Death of a Jewish Nazi (New York: New American Library, 1967).
time in my life, the Jewish question.”: Dr. William L. Pierce, “The Radicalizing of an American,” National Vanguard, no. 61 (1978), http://williamlutherpierce.flawlesslogic.com/the-radicalizing-of-an-american.
idealism in the face of public outrage: Rosemary Pennington, “On George Lincoln Rockwell,” National Vanguard, September 13, 2015, http://nationalvanguard.org/2015/09/on-george-lincoln-rockwell.
leader with “the guts of Malcolm X.”: “Interview: George Lincoln Rockwell,” Playboy.
dying in a swirl of laundry detergent: Fred P. Graham, “Rockwell, U.S. Nazi, Slain; Ex-Aide is Held as Sniper,” New York Times, August 26, 1967, 1, 14.
German solution but an American one: Leonard Zeskind, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).
fraction of one percent will respond.”: “Prospectus for a National Front,” The Legacy of Dr. William Pierce, August 21, 1970, http://williamlutherpierce.flawlesslogic.com/prospectus-for-a-national-front.
with only a few modernizing flourishes: “25 Points of American National Socialism,” National Socialist Movement, www.nsm88.org/25points /25pointsengl.html, accessed July 26, 2017; “Program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party,” The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/nsdappro.asp, accessed July 26, 2017.
$10 to a failed campaign in Tennessee: “88 PAC: Contributions to Federal Candidates, 2006 Cycle,” OpenSecrets.org, www.opensecrets.org/pacs /pacgot.php?cmte=C00410571&cycle=2006.
no other groups could claim to be bigger: “National Socialist Movement,” Southern Poverty Law Center, www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/national-socialist-movement, accessed August 10, 2017.
CHAPTER 6. THE SOLDIERS OF THE EARL TURNER
United States and we won’t shoot you.”: Richard A. Serrano, “Witness: Nichols Wanted Government Overthrown,” Los Angeles Times, November 6, 1997, http://articles.latimes.com/1997/nov/06/news/mn-50864.
with the global eradication of all Jews: Andrew Macdonald, The Turner Diaries (Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 1996).
death threats against prominent politicians: Federal Bureau of Investigation, “William Luther Pierce,” https://archive.org/details/WilliamL.Pierce.
nature of the radical right in America: Zeskind, Blood and Politics, 20.
theory than on hardheaded political thinking: “Prospectus for a National Front,” Legacy of Dr. William Pierce.
Alabama governor George Wallace: Debbie Elliott, “Wallace in the Schoolhouse Door: Marking the 40th Anniversary of Alabama’s Civil Rights Standoff,” Morning Edition, NPR, June 11, 2003, www.npr.org/2003/06/11/1294680/wallace-in-the-schoolhouse-door.
weak-willed members in droves: Dr. William L. Pierce, “From Attack! to National Vanguard,” National Alliance Bulletin, February–March 1978, republished by Rosemary Pennington, National Vanguard, March 15, 2015, https://nationalvanguard.org/2015/03/from-attack-to-national-vanguard.
you’re too damn dumb to bother with.”: Daniel Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right (St. Martin’s Press, Kindle Edition), 77–79; “FCC Probes Supremist [sic] Broadcasts,” Levitas, Terrorist Next Door, 90–91.
law enforcement officer in the country: Ibid., 218.
payment for their manifesto, The Blue Book: Kevin Flynn, The Silent Brotherhood: The Chilling Inside Story of America’s Violent, Anti-Government Militia Movement (Signet, 1989, Kindle Edition).
so than the collection of income tax: Ibid.
cutting his own throat,” Simpson railed: William Gayle Simpson, Which Way Western Man (Hillsboro, WV: National Vanguard Books, 1978).
is but for what his ancestors were: Ibid., 603.
Aryan homeland in the Pacific Northwest: Evelyn A. Schlatter, Aryan Cowboys: White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, 1970–2000 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006).
a total of 190 years in prison: “2 White Racists Convicted in Killing of Radio Host,” New York Times, November 18, 1987, www.nytimes.com /1987/11/18/us/2-white-racists-convicted-in-killing-of-radio-host.html.
terrorist attacks against Americans: Presidential Decision Directive 39, PDD/NSC 39, United States, White House Office, June 21, 1995, www.hsdl.org/?view&did=462942.
insurgent fighter and independent: Travis Morris, Dark Ideas: How Neo-Nazi and Violent Jihadi Ideologues Shaped Modern Terrorism (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017).
this is exactly what is desired: Louis Beam, “Leaderless Resistance,” Seditionist 12, February 1992, www-personal.umich.edu/~satran/Ford%2006/Wk%202-1%20Terrorism%20Networks%20leaderless-resistance.pdf.
“We’re starting the Turner Diaries early.”: James Gunter, “Affidavit of Probable Cause,” State of Texas, County of Jasper, June 9, 1998, archived by the Smoking Gun, www.thesmokinggun.com/file/texas-dragging-death-0, accessed August 6, 2017.
The Order with a specific movement: J. M Berger, “Alt History: How a Self-Published, Racist Novel Changed White Nationalism and Inspired Decades of Violence,” Atlantic, September 16, 2016, www.the atlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/how-the-turner-diaries-changed-white-nationalism/500039.
CHAPTER 7. NATIONAL KILL-A-WHITE-PERSON DAY
against those who tried to kill them: “Farrakhan Calls for 10,000 FEARLESS Who Are ABOUT THAT LIFE!!!!,” Ahmad770, YouTube, August 3, 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaPsvNBTgY.
black, gay, and Jewish people to join: Jenny Awford, “The Ku Klux Klan Opens Its Door to Jews, Homosexuals and Black People in Bizarre Recruitment Drive,” Daily Mail, November 10, 2014, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2828425/The-Ku-Klux-Klan-opens-door-Jews-black-people-homosexuals-new-recruits-wear-white-robes-hats.html.
was killed, allegedly by his own wife: Eric Killelea, “KKK Leader Allegedly Killed by Wife and Stepson: What We Know,” Rolling Stone, February 15, 2017, www.rollingstone.com/culture/kkk-leader-allegedly-killed-by-family-what-we-know-w466965.
favored “keeping the Negro in his place.”: Chalmers, Hooded Americanism.
“a classy order of the highest class.”: Michael Newton, White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2014).
CHAPTER 8. THE ANA
to accomplish real political power: Helena Smith, “Golden Dawn Ditches Boots for Suits in European Election Makeover,” Guardian, May 23, 2014, www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/23/golden-dawn-greece-european-election.
13 percent of the vote in their election: Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, “Hungary: Parliamentary Elections, 6 April 2014,” OSCE, Warsaw, July 11, 2014, www.osce.org/odihr/elections/hungary/121098?download=true; “Val till riksdagen—Röster,” 2014, www .val.se/val/val2014/slutresultat/R/rike.
protest of immigration and Islam: Anthony Faiola and Griff Witte, “Far Right in Europe Sees Opportunity after Wave of Terror in France,” Washington Post, January 12, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/far-right-in-europe-sees-opportunity-after-wave-of-terror-in-france/2015/01/12/94cb5fdc-99e3-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html; Linn K. Yttervik and Erlend Ofte Arntsen, “Pegida-demonstrasjon ga rekordoppmøte,” VG, January 13, 2015, www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/pegida-demonstrasjon-ga-rekordoppmoete/a/23373295; “‘Anti-Islamisation’ Group Pegida UK Holds Newcastle March,” BBC News, February 28, 2015, www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-31657167; “Italy Anti-Immigration Rally Draws Thousands in Rome,” BBC News, February 28, 2015, www .bbc.com/news/world-europe-31674709.
a profound birth defect in Jeff’s baby: “Historic Alliance Formed by U.S. White Nationalists,” National Socialist Movement, April 26, 2016, www .nsm88.org/press/NSM_PressRelease_HistoricAllianceformedbyUSWhite Nationalists_april_2016_.htm.
imaginary weapon of mass destruction: Nate Thayer, “How a Disgraced KKK Leader Became a Key FBI Operative in a Bizarre Radioactive Ray Gun Case,” Vice, August 21, 2015, www.vice.com/en_us/article/kkk-leader-fbi-ray-gun-821.
Mexican immigrants of being rapists: Staff, “Full Text: Donald Trump Announces a Presidential Bid,” Washington Post,” June 16, 2015, www .washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/16/full-text-donald-trump-announces-a-presidential-bid/?utm_term=.518fbdf5d619.
mantra conceived by David Lane: Caroline Simon, “5 Times Donald Trump Has Engaged with Alt-Right Racists on Twitter,” Business Insider, July 9, 2016, www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-alt-right-2016-7.
right reaches of the political spectrum: Sarah Posner, “How Donald Trump’s New Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists,” Mother Jones, August 22, 2016, www.motherjones.com /politics/2016/08/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-alt-right-breitbart-news.
misery and used heroin needles.”: Kevin D. Williamson, “Chaos in the Family, Chaos in the State: The White Working Class’s Dysfunction,” National Review, March 17, 2016, www.nationalreview.com/article/432876 /donald-trump-white-working-class-dysfunction-real-opportunity-needed-not-trump.
took off with her and her kids: Liz Lohuis, “Candidate for Congress May Be Connected to Missing Children Case,” 4WSMV.com, July 18, 2016, www.wsmv.com/story/32474330/candidate-for-congress-may-be-connected-to-missing-children-case.
New Orleans’ Survey Research Center: “Statewide Survey of Louisiana Likely Voters on David Duke,” University of New Orleans’ Survey Research Center (SRC), conducted July 27–28, 2016, www.uno.edu/cola/political-science/documents/duke-poll.pdf.
CHAPTER 9. HAMMERSKINS
than wanting to “shoot the nigger.”: Brosky v. State, 915 S.W.2d 120 (1996), www.leagle.com/decision/19961035915SW2d120_11016.xml/BROSKY %20v.%20STATE.
to death in Birmingham, Alabama: Oddo v. State, 675 So. 2d 58 (1995), http://law.justia.com/cases/alabama/court-of-appeals-criminal/1995/cr-94-1013-0.html.
the unruly skinheads to their causes: Michael Reynolds, “Hammerskin Nation Emerges from Small Dallas Group,” Southern Poverty Law Center, December 15, 1999, www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1999/hammerskin-nation-emerges-small-dallas-group.
hairstyles for closely shaved heads: Timothy S. Brown, “Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and ‘Nazi Rock’ in England and Germany,” Journal of Social History 38, no. 1 (2004): 157–178.
poor, white areas of south Chicago: Christian Picciolini, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead (Chicago: Goldmill Group, 2015).
a swastika in Strickland’s blood: Matt O’Connor, “Skinhead Gets 11 Years in Beating,” Chicago Tribune, June 22, 1989, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-06-22/news/8902110551_1_neo-nazi-skinheads-sentenced.
America found themselves unemployed: Lois M. Plunkert, “The 1980’s: A Decade of Job Growth and Industry Shifts,” Monthly Labor Review 113, no. 9 (September 1990): 3–16.
heavily armed compound in Idaho: Wayne King, “Links of Anti-Semitic Band Provoke 6-State Parley,” New York Times, December 27, 1984, www .nytimes.com/1984/12/27/us/links-of-anti-semitic-band-provoke-6-state-parley.html?pagewanted=all.
had created a deep sense of loss: Zeskind, Blood and Politics, xvii.
only six affiliated with the Hammerskins: David Holthouse, “Motley Crews: With Decline of Hammerskins, Independent Skinhead Groups Grow,” Southern Poverty Law Center, October 19, 2006, www.splcenter .org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2006/motley-crews-decline-hammerskins-independent-skinhead-groups-grow.
to recruit new skinheads for the cause: Keegan Hankes, “Music, Money & Hate,” Southern Poverty Law Center, November 20, 2014, www.spl center.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2014/music-money-hate-0.
ban white power music from their servers: Marc Hogan, “Is White Power Music Finally Getting Booted from the Internet?,” Pitchfork, August 17, 2017, http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/is-white-power-music-finally-getting-booted-from-the-internet.
been reduced to the “Hammerskin Hamlet.”: Holthouse, “Motley Crews.”
putting a bullet in his own head: Erica Goods and Serge F. Kovaleski, “Wisconsin Killer Fed and Was Fueled by Hate-Driven Music,” New York Times, August 6, 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/us/army-veteran-identified-as-suspect-in-wisconsin-shooting.html.
CHAPTER 10. HARRISBURG
pseudo-science to their anti-Semitism: “About the Holocaust Denial on Trial Project,” Holocaust Denial on Trial, www.hdot.org/about.
race anyway—came fully armed: Madison Pauly, “A New Wave of Left-Wing Militants Is Ready to Rumble in Portland—and Beyond,” Mother Jones, May–June 2017, www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/antifa-movement-anti-trump-politics-nazi.
elaborate direction and fabricated scenes: Nate Thayer, “KKK Leaders Allege Producers Paid Them to Fake Scenes in Canceled A&E Documentary,” Variety, December 30, 2016, http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/kkk-leaders-allege-producers-paid-them-to-fake-scenes-in-canceled-ae-documentary-exclusive-1201950078.
now Donald Trump’s campaign chief: Posner, “How Donald Trump’s New Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists.”
CHAPTER 11. THE SUITS
against a wall to see what would stick: Glenn Kessler, “Trump’s Outrageous Claim That ‘Thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims Celebrated the 9/11 Attacks,” Washington Post, November 22, 2015, www.washingtonpost .com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/11/22/donald-trumps-outrageous-claim-that-thousands-of-new-jersey-muslims-celebrated-the-911-attacks; Philip Rucker, “Trump Says Fox’s Megyn Kelly Had ‘Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever,’” Washington Post, August 8, 2015, www.washingtonpost .com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/07/trump-says-foxs-megyn-kelly-had-blood-coming-out-of-her-wherever; “The 155 Craziest Things Trump Said This Election,” Politico, November 5, 2016, www.politico.com/magazine /story/2016/11/the-155-craziest-things-trump-said-this-cycle-214420.
and other things that concern them: www.radixjournal.com/books the-chosen-people-a-study-of-jewish-intelligence-and-achievement (now defunct); Charles Lyon, “The Intolerant Politics of Reality,” James Edwards, January 31, 2017, www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/the-intolerant-politics-of-reality; F. Roger Devlin, “‘Cultural Enrichment’ and Sexual Competition,” Before It’s News, December 20, 2016, http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2016/12/cultural-enrichment-and-sexual-competition-3226748.html; www.radixjournal.com/altright-archive/altright-archive/main/the-magazine/superpowers (now defunct).
a ‘fashy’ (as in fascism) haircut.”: Josh Harkinson, “Meet the White Nationalist Trying to Ride the Trump Train to Lasting Power,” Mother Jones, October 27, 2016, www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist.
weapon against the legacy of Jim Crow: Valerie Strauss, “Why We Still Need Affirmative Action for African Americans in College Admissions,” Washington Post, July 3, 2014, www.washingtonpost.com/news /answer-sheet/wp/2014/07/03/why-we-still-need-affirmative-action-for-african-americans-in-college-admissions.
clamp down on freedom of speech: “The Shuttening: Social Media Companies Form Cartel to Censor ‘Extremism’” (originally on Daily Stormer), VNN Forum, December 6, 2016, https://vnnforum.com/showthread.php ?t=486123.
spread of extremism and fake news: “Google Search Changes Tackle Fake News and Hate Speech,” BBC News, April 25, 2017, www.bbc.com/news/technology-39707642.
address hate speech on their sites: Julia Fioretti, “EU States Approve Plans to Make Social Media Firms Tackle Hate Speech,” Reuters, May 23, 2017, www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-hatespeech-socialmedia-idUSKBN18J25C.
between the alt-right and the “alt-lite.”: Gideon Resnick, “Nazis vs. Trumpkins: The Prom Tearing Apart the Alt-Right,” Daily Beast, December 27, 2016, www.thedailybeast.com/nazis-vs-trumpkins-the-prom-tearing-apart-the-alt-right?via=twitter_page.
