Showing posts with label Nazi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nazi. Show all posts

Sunday, November 2, 2025

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi | Vox

This is an epochal moment for American conservatism. In the past, the movement felt the need to hide bigotries — including antisemitism — behind a thin veil of plausible deniability. But with Fuentes, there's no hidden message: He just says, over and over again, that Jews are evil and the source of America's biggest problems. If someone like him can be considered one of Roberts's "friends on the right," then the movement's leadership is now conceding that overt antisemitism is a legitimate political position in the MAGA movement...

https://www.vox.com/politics/466905/the-gops-top-think-tank-just-defended-an-open-nazi 


 

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Weekly Roundup: “I Love Hitler” Group Chat Leaked + The Technocrats Who Want Monarchy + No Kings! (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad and Dan unpack a disturbing leaked group chat among young Republican leaders that reveals casual racism, homophobia, and even Nazi sympathies. They analyze how JD Vance publicly defended the individuals involved by dismissing their comments as “edgy jokes,” exposing a growing tolerance for extremism within parts of the GOP.

The discussion expands to examine the double standard in political outrage — why some are harshly punished for crossing lines while others face little consequence — and how in-group loyalty continues to erode moral accountability in American politics.

The conversation then moves into deeper territory, exploring the psychological and ideological forces driving this shift. The hosts dissect the narratives of victimhood and persecution that fuel right-wing identity politics, as well as the appeal of hierarchy and order for certain business and political leaders who see democracy as messy or unstable. They highlight the challenge of mobilizing citizens around democracy itself, arguing that the fight for freedom requires a new, inspiring story that unites people rather than divides them.

The episode concludes with a preview of the upcoming “No Kings” rallies — events centered on defending democracy through collective action — and a call for listeners to stay engaged in the struggle for a just and inclusive society.
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Friday, October 17, 2025

How Democrats Can Win Gen Z Men Back (Find Out podcast)

‪@0liviajulianna‬ has never been afraid to speak her mind — and it’s made her one of the most influential young activists in America. She joins us to talk about how Gen Z is organizing online and off, what it takes to stand up to right-wing hate in real time, and why she still believes in the power of digital activism to drive real change.

Also discussion of the recently disclosed text messages revealing white supremacist and nazi content among Republicans, young and adults.

This is a conversation about courage, strategy, and the next generation of leadership in America.
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Saturday, August 30, 2025

In Minneapolis shooting, an increasingly familiar pattern of violent extremism : NPR

But there are also numerous references to extremist movements on the right. Among the scrawls on the weaponry are mentions of Waco, a standoff in Texas between the federal government and a religious group that ended in the deaths of dozens of people, including children. Also referenced in the materials are the Weavers, the family at the center of the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho. Both of those events have long animated far-right antigovernment and militia sentiments.

The materials are filled with callbacks to neo-Nazi and violent white supremacist killers. Particularly influential, it seems, is a 2019 mass shooting in New Zealand, where a violent white supremacist and Islamophobe killed 51 people at two mosques. But also, in the notebook, the names of several 9/11 hijackers are listed along with other mass killers whom Westman apparently emulated...


Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The Deeper State (Conspirituality podcast #247)

This week we’re looking at how folks who associated themselves with the magical and morbid QAnon memes about the “coming storm” that would destroy the Deep State have become that storm, mainly by talking about it, and are now in the position to congeal an even Deeper State characterized by more repression and control. They’re doing it both as conspiracists and as conspiracy theorists would predict: as rich guys pretending to be oppressed.

This opens up the question of “Have we been here before in the US, and what happened?” The parallels are uncanny. In the late 1920s, Henry Ford had his car dealers stick copies of The Dearborn Independent newspaper in the glove compartments of new cars. That was the rag in which he published excerpts of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Today another auto baron, Elon Musk, busts out seigheils and posts Nazi memes whenever he likes. But only one of them got a White House office.
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Friday, February 14, 2025

Jesse Watters Accused Of 'Nazi-Level S**t' Over Rant About Palestinians | HuffPost Latest News

Watters was previously condemned in the weeks after Oct. 7, when he claimed Americans have "had it" with the "Muslim world" and pro-Palestinian protesters, which prompted former President Joe Biden's administration to demand an apology from Fox News...

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Trump invokes Nazi rhetoric during Mar-a-Lago event

Former President Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on Democrats at a private luncheon hosted at Mar-a-Lago, during which he referred to Democrats as “running a Gestapo administration” — equating President Joe Biden’s administration to Nazi Germany, according to three attendees

Inside the Global Fight for White Power (Reveal podcast)

White nationalists around the globe are working together to disrupt multicultural societies and Western democracies.

From Russia to Sweden and the United States, there’s a growing network of White nationalist groups that stretches around the world. The reporting team at Verified: The Next Threat investigates how these militant groups are helping each other create propaganda, recruit new members and share paramilitary skills.

We are updating this episode, which first aired in July 2022, to reflect recent activities by the Russian Imperial Movement and other White supremacist groups around the world.

We start with the Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM. Its members are taking up arms in Russia’s war against Ukraine, which they say is a battle in a much larger “holy war” for White power. Scripps News senior investigative reporter Mark Greenblatt interviews a leader of the group who says RIM’s goal is to unite White nationalists around the world. The group even runs training camps where White supremacists can learn paramilitary tactics.

Russia’s White nationalists are making connections with extremists in the United States. Greenblatt talks with a neo-Nazi named Matt Heimbach, who was a major promoter of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Soon after Charlottesville, Heimbach invited members of RIM to the U.S. and connected them to his network of American White power extremists.

We end with a visit by Greenblatt to the State Department in Washington, where he interviews two top counterterrorism officials. They say they’re aware of the growing international network of White supremacists, but explain that White power groups are now forming political parties, which makes it more difficult for the agency to use its most powerful counterterrorism tools.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Liz Cheney: Speaker Mike Johnson can’t be trusted to defend the constitution

She also spoke about the need to take Trump's blunt and public proclamations about how he would bring authoritarianism if he won a second term after his re-election run failed against Biden. 

Trump's allies have publicly said they would go after the media and prosecute political rivals if he returns to power. He has also described opponents as "vermin" in language that echoes Nazi rhetoric...

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Fascism is Our New Normal (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad zooms in on Biden’s trip to Arizona and Trump’s rhetoric about killing General Milley to analyze the normalization of fascist politics in the United States. He draws on work from Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld, a scholar of fascism and Nazi Germany, in order to draw together theoretical and historical threads.
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Friday, October 13, 2023

'Swingtime for Hitler' explores the Nazis use of jazz as a propaganda tool (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)

Hitler's Germany banned jazz, which was deemed degenerate music made by Jews and Black people. But NPR host Scott Simon says the Nazis repurposed jazz abroad to weaken British and American resolve.
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Monday, September 25, 2023

Nazi Germany had admirers among American religious leaders – and white supremacy fueled their support

Instead, what most strongly differentiated Hitler's sympathizers in this era was their belief in white supremacy vis-a-vis African Americans. These groups published literature claiming that African Americans were physically and mentally inferior, and one wrote positively of the Ku Klux Klan. A Southern Baptist bishop wrote, "The Negro is not like the white man … there are striking differences physical and mental," going on to claim, "the white race … assumes its superiority in strength and capacity."…







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