Benjamin Smith was a white supremacist who committed a racially motivated shooting spree in Indiana and Illinois in 1999. He killed two people and seriously injured eight others, including six Jews leaving synagogue services. He was a... Read more

In 2017, a 4chan trolling campaign falsely claimed that the okay hand gesture had been appropriated by white supremacists as a symbol meaning "white power." The campaign succeeded in convincing many people that it was, leading to... Read more

On April 19, 1995, anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to retaliate against the federal government for its handling of the Branch Davidian standoff... Read more

Operation Homeland was an organization formed in December 2017 by Elliot Kline and Richard Spencer, who described it as a core "professional" group of alt right leaders and activists poised to lead the movement as a whole... Read more

The optics debate refers to a debate among white supremacists about whether it is better to promote their white supremacist ideology via overtly National Socialist symbolism (swastikas, for example), or with less overtly racist imagery (including American... Read more

"Paper terrorism" is a term given to a range of tactics developed by the sovereign citizen movement to use against their perceived enemies. These tactics typically involve the filing of bogus legal documents or the misuse of... Read more

The Parkland shooting refers to a deadly February 14, 2018 shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, perpetrated by Nikolas Cruz. 17 people and 17 others were injured during the shooting. Cruz was... Read more