David Neiwert

David Neiwert is an investigative journalist based in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. He is a correspondent for the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as the author of numerous books, including Alt America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump (Verso Press, 2017).

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Political Research Associates

Insurgent Supremacists

Author Q&A with Matthew N. Lyons

This September, Lyons spoke to David Neiwert, researcher and author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, about his new book.

David Neiwert

December 5, 2018

Q&A

Confrontation at the stairs leading into Emancipation Park during the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” Rally.

Public Eye

Birth of the Alt Right

The Internet, with its easy anonymity and wanton disregard of the rules of evidence and factuality, by the early 2000s had already become host to a swamp of conspiracy theories, false smears, and wild speculation.

David Neiwert

March 22, 2017

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Public Eye

Trump and Right-Wing Populism

A Long Time Coming

Almost as suddenly as Trump himself emerged as a major player in the race, so too did an array of White Nationalists and supremacists, conspiracists and xenophobes, and even Klansmen and skinheads.

David Neiwert

June 21, 2016

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