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Glossary of Extremism and Hate

This database provides an overview of many of the terms and individuals used by or associated with movements and groups that subscribe to and/or promote extremist or hateful ideologies.

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Harold "Hardy" Carro…

Harold "Hardy" Carroll Lloyd is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania- based white supremacist who leads "Church of Ben Klassen," a faction of the Creativity Movement. Lloyd has a long criminal history and has been incarcerated for a variety of... Read more

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Great Replacement / …

"The Great Replacement" conspiracy theory made significant headway into the mainstream in 2021. The theory alleges that people of color are "replacing" white people through immigration, birth rates and other economic, social and political means. While the... Read more

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E. Michael Jones

E. Michael Jones

E. Michael Jones is a longtime antisemite and traditionalist Catholic writer born in 1948. Jones promotes the idea that Jews are responsible for perpetrating attacks against the Catholic Church, as well as against moral standards, social stability... Read more

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Neo-Nazi

Neo-Nazis are one of the main segments of the white supremacist movement in the United States and many other countries. They revere Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany and sometimes try to adopt Nazi principles to their own... Read more

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Stew Peters

Stew Peters

Stew Peters is a Florida-based antisemitic conspiracy theorist, radio show host and self-proclaimed “Christian nationalist.” He also regularly promotes anti-LGBTQ+ and white supremacist beliefs on his show and social media, and he has engaged in Holocaust denial... Read more

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Goyim Defense League

The Goyim Defense League (GDL) is a loose network of individuals connected by their virulent antisemitism. GDL attracts a range of antisemites and white supremacists who are best known for their antisemitic stunts and schemes to troll... Read more

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The Blackshirts' logo, a fasces embedded in a stump, is meant to symbolize chopping “the tree of liberty back to its roots” to restore “order” and “unity.”

American Blackshirts

The American Blackshirts Movement is a white supremacist group active in the southern United States, primarily in Florida and Texas. Named after the paramilitary wing of the Italian fascist party of the 20th century, the group advocates... Read more

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The ANSWER Coalition logo

The Act Now to Stop …

The anti-Israel International Action Center, an anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist organization founded in 1992 by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, established the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition in 2001 to organize against... Read more

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Hamas Gaza bureau chief Yahya Sinwar on October 1, 2022

Yahya Sinwar

Yahya Sinwar, widely known as the architect of the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, was a key Hamas leader who served as the Gaza Political Bureau chief from 2017 until July 2024 and organization-wide Political Bureau... Read more

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National Socialist Front (NSF)

National Socialist F…

Founded in 2022, National Socialist Front (NSF), formerly known as NatSoc Florida, is a small, neo-Nazi group primarily based in northeast Florida. After rebranding as a national group in late 2023, NSF formed a new chapter on... Read more

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Resistance News Network (RNN)

Resistance News Netw…

Resistance News Network (RNN) is a radical antisemitic, anti-Zionist English-language Telegram channel that promotes violence against Israel and anti-normalization with “Zionists.” RNN first appeared on Telegram in October 2022. As of October 2023, RNN has claimed that... Read more

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