Politico reported in August 2025 that over a dozen high-ranking officials across multiple federal agencies were forced to leave their jobs or had nominations derailed after being flagged as ‘disloyal’ by far-right extremist Laura Loomer, with hundreds more terminations planned. Loomer …
Laura LoomerDonald TrumpNational Security AgencyDepartment of JusticeNational Security Council+1 moreinstitutional-captureloyalty-purgesauthoritarianismextremism
Nick Fuentes launched the inaugural America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) in Washington, D.C., deliberately scheduled to coincide with the mainstream Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a far-right alternative. The conference featured prominent white nationalist and …
Nick FuentesMichelle MalkinWhite NationalismConservative MovementExtremism
Nick Fuentes and his “Groyper Army” followers disrupted a Turning Point USA promotional event for Donald Trump Jr.’s book “Triggered” at UCLA, forcing the event to end after just 30 minutes instead of the planned two hours. The event, featuring Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk, …
Nick FuentesDonald Trump Jr.Charlie KirkWhite NationalismExtremismConservative Movement
James Alex Fields Jr., the white supremacist who murdered Heather Heyer at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, received a federal life sentence on June 28, 2019 for hate crimes, followed by a second life sentence plus 419 years from Virginia state courts on July 15, …
James Alex Fields Jr.Heather HeyerSusan BroWhite NationalismExtremismDomestic Terrorismhate-crimesAlt-Right
Three days after a white supremacist murdered Heather Heyer at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, President Trump held a press conference that shocked the nation by equating neo-Nazis with anti-racism protesters and defending Confederate statue defenders as “very fine …
Donald TrumpHeather HeyerJames Alex Fields Jr.White NationalismExtremismDomestic TerrorismAlt-Rightpresidential-misconduct
The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia brought together neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and far-right extremists to protest the removal of a Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee. The rally descended into violence, culminating in a deadly terror attack when James Alex …
James Alex Fields Jr.Heather HeyerDonald TrumpWhite NationalismExtremismDomestic TerrorismAlt-Righthate-crimes
White nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes attended the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, just days before beginning his freshman year at Boston University. Fuentes later spoke positively about “a tidal wave of white identity” and defended the rally in Facebook …
By 2016, YouTube’s recommendation algorithm had become what researchers characterized as a “radicalization engine”—systematically amplifying extremist content and pushing users down rabbit holes of increasingly radical videos because extreme content generated more watch time, which …
YouTubeGoogleGuillaume Chaslot (former YouTube engineer/whistleblower)Zeynep Tufekci (researcher)youtubealgorithm-harmradicalizationextremismmisinformation+3 more