The FBI charged Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez Thursday for making a credible threat against Turning Point USA, a right-wing youth organizing group founded by Charlie Kirk.
Both far-Right online grifters, street-based fascist groups, and the GOP have continued to push for attacks on reproductive freedom and the LGBTQ+ community, leading to continued harassment and occasional violence.
I spoke with Willingham-Jaggers from my home in Boston, from the same desk where I spend much of my time monitoring the leaders, communities, and rhetoric of anti-LGBTQ+ policy.
On Friday, July 22, “a boisterous crowd assembled in a conference hall in Tampa for the launch event of American Virtue, the group for Gen Z right-wing nationalists that launched in 2021 as American Populist Union (APU).”
Congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini spoke Friday at a Tampa gathering of nationalists. “God bless the nationalist populist movement,” he said during his remarks.
On June 15, The New York Times Magazine published “The battle over Gender Therapy,” since its publication, transgender-rights advocates, medical experts, and other journalists have condemned the article.
A coalition of rightwing “constitutional sheriffs,” who claim legal power in their jurisdictions that exceeds U.S. federal and state authorities, has a new calling.
The nation’s Christian right movement prospered with recent high court’s rulings, including the overturning of the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision that provided federal protection for women’s access to abortion.