When Sen. Eric Schmitt gave the keynote address at the 2025 National Conservatism Conference, he hung on America a discredited sign once found on all public bathrooms in the South, “Whites Only.” In his speech, titled “What is an American?”…
A field guide to ‘accelerationism’: White supremacist groups using violence to spur race war and create social chaos
In my research on right-wing extremism over 30 years, a disturbing pattern has emerged: White supremacists and white nationalists are increasingly willing to use violence targeting critical infrastructure in an effort to destabilize society.
Let’s get this one thing clear
When I talk with conservative friends about immigration in America, the line I most often hear justifying President Donald Trump’s deportation bonanza is that all these people are criminals by virtue of being here without authorization. This reminds me of…
Why don’t white evangelicals listen to Black Christians?
As a Black Christian man, I have engaged white evangelicals in numerous discussions about the existence of racism within America and Christianity. These conversations have continued throughout my entire adult life. I have observed that many white evangelicals only listen…
‘We are on the side of God,’ Stephen Miller says
Enemies of the MAGA movement “have nothing,” Stephen Miller said at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service Sunday morning. But conservatives, on the other hand, “are on the side of God.” Miller, who has been called the mastermind behind the most controversial…
Mississippi’s ‘strange fruit’ harvested again
Apparently strange fruit is still being harvested. That’s the chilling metaphor of Black bodies hanging from trees in the American South. Mississippi long has been the epicenter of America’s most brutal racial domestic terrorisms, lynchings. Between 1877 and 1950, according…
Active Clubs are white supremacy’s new, dangerous frontier
Small local organizations called Active Clubs have spread widely across the U.S. and internationally, using fitness as a cover for a much more alarming mission. These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and…
How Trump’s dehumanizing language promotes white supremacy
“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” President Donald Trump declared this week while surrounded by six members of his administration. “This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re…
‘Great white Christian freakout’ shifted America, Jones says
The U.S. was just beginning to come to terms with the effects of racial injustice when the “great white Christian freakout” ushered in the era of Donald Trump and empowered religious nationalism, said Robert P. Jones, president of Public Religion…
A field guide to ‘accelerationism’: White supremacist groups using violence to spur race war and create social chaos
A man named Regan Prater was charged with arson for the burning of Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee, on May 7, 2025. The nonprofit has a long history of involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. The FBI stated in a…
The irony of white supremacy
We have no record of Jesus ever interacting with someone who looks like me. He and all those around him were people of color. But I come from Northern European heritage. By racial identification, I am classified as white/Caucasian. In…
Shirtless J6er spews white supremacist lies about Texas teen’s killing
White supremacists are attempting to make the tragic murder of a North Texas teenager about Black-on-white crime, and the grieving father of the white victim isn’t playing along. What began as a bizarre tragedy that made headlines all across the…