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‘Submission is empowering’: Erika Kirk’s TPUSA demands fewer choices for women
In June, over 2,000 women gathered in San Antonio, Texas, for Turning Point USA’s annual Women’s Leadership Summit. Throughout the weekend, prominent hard-right women extolled biblical gender roles and women’s submission, fearmongered about transgender people, promoted Christian nationalism, spread health disinformation and warned about the dangers of feminism, while encouraging women to take a leading…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Anti-immigrant groups’ agenda advanced by DOJ challenging in-state tuition
More than a decade ago, the anti-immigrant movement began modeling litigation to take away undocumented students’ access to in-state tuition. This year, President Donald Trump’s administration has tried to make those group’s objectives a reality. In recent months, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed lawsuits against 17 states that grant in-state tuition to undocumented…
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August 2026 Intelligence Project Dispatch: Trends and incidents of the hard right
Brothers Tristan and Andrew Tate were arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in Miami, Florida. The brothers were awaiting extradition to the U.K., where they face several criminal charges related to rape and human trafficking, involving at least seven alleged victims.
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Anti-LGBTQ+ hate group’s ‘dark money’ helped finance Georgia Supreme Court race
Frontline Policy Action (FPA), an organization with a history of working to advance anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion policies in Georgia, funneled more than $100,000 from a so-called “dark money” organization to a Georgia political action committee (PAC) to support the election of their preferred judge, a Hatewatch investigation has revealed. FPA is the tax-exempt political arm…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Former Border Patrol chief embraces hard right, headlines anti-immigrant events
Since leaving President Donald Trump’s administration, Gregory Bovino, former commander at large for the U.S. Border Patrol, is embracing a new audience of hard-right extremist groups in the U.S. and Europe to further his mass deportation agenda. No longer tethered to the U.S. government, Bovino is using rhetoric that aligns with the hard-right movements he…
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July 2026 Intelligence Project Dispatch: Trends and incidents of the hard right
Transphobic conspiracy propagandist Candace Owens, male supremacist Andrew Tate and British anti-Muslim figure Tommy Robinson all converged on Russia for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The forum has been described as “Russia’s premier economic and business event.”
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Beyond Name and Shame: SPLC Offers a Guide to Reporting on Hard-Right Hate and Extremist Movements
The Southern Poverty Law Center has documented hate groups, antigovernment figures, conspiracy propagandists and various hard-right extremists in the United States. Publicly available reporting and publications have informed communities, policymakers, law enforcement, litigators, educators, victims, survivors and media. A new SPLC guide seeks to help researchers, journalists and other writers navigate this complex subject. While…
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Hard right uses economic woes to cultivate distrust between communities of color
This summer, local activists are gearing up to again oppose municipal cooperation with federal anti-immigrant deportation and harassment actions. To succeed, these activists will need to hold together a coalition consisting of immigrants, white citizen allies, budget-conscious local officials and African American police accountability advocates. The strength of this coalition brought nationwide public accountability and…
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Far right coming for women’s autonomy; birth control on chopping block
These far-right influencers and commentators are ultimately pushing toward a world in which women lack control over their own reproductive choices, and where they accept a narrative that tells them this is what is best for them.
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Moms for Liberty sees resignations, controversies and a shifting mission
In April, a news investigation revealed Moms for Liberty is paying its local chapters to attend Zoom calls with the group’s national leadership.1 This comes amid internal strife within the hard-right anti-student inclusion group, leading to chapters closing, leaders resigning, legal scandals and accusations of shifting priorities. Moms for Liberty rapidly rose to prominence because…
