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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Robert Spencer

Robert Spencer is a leading anti-Muslim bigot and conspiracy theorist who heads the organization Stop Islamization of America, and runs the conspiratorial Islamophobic website Jihad Watch. Spencer claims that Muslims want to impose Sharia Law (Muslim religious... Read more

People Single-issue

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Rodney Coronado

Rodney Coronado is a longtime spokesperson for the extremist environmental and animal rights movements in the United States. Coronado was involved in the firebombing of an animal research laboratory at Michigan State University (MSU) in 1992 and... Read more

People Single-issue

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Black Swan Event

A black swan event refers to an unforeseen event that results in severe and widespread negative consequences that seems avoidable in hindsight. The term is commonly used in the finance world and was popularized by former Wall... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Non-extremist

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Roger Elvick

Roger Elvick was a prominent sovereign citizen guru from the 1980s through the 2000s. In 1999, he popularized "redemption theory," a set of sovereign citizen theories that are still popular today. Elvick had a long criminal history... Read more

People Anti-government

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Ronald Watkins

Ronald Watkins is a conspiracy theorist and QAnon influencer who, along with his father Jim Watkins, owned and operated 8chan, an imageboard website from 2016 to 2020.

People Right-wing

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Roy Den Hollander

Roy Den Hollander is a self-described "anti-feminist lawyer" and Men's Rights Activist who carried out a fatal shooting at a New Jersey federal judge"s home before killing himself.

People Single-issue

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Sacco Vandal

Sacco Vandal, formerly known as Scott Wurgler, hosts an alt-right radio show. He also created a website and wrote a book with his twin brother, Vanzetti Vandal, to promote white supremacist militant nationalism.

People White supremacist

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Samir Khan

Samir Khan is a Pakistani-American extremist. He was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in New York before moving to Yemen to join Al Qaeda. He was the editor and publisher of Al Qaeda in the... Read more

People Islamist

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Samuel Francis

Samuel Francis was an influential intellectual white supremacist. He was also a writer and former columnist for the Washington Times. After being fired from the publication for racist remarks he made at an American Renaissance conference in... Read more

People White supremacist

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Save the/our Children

"Save the children" is a QAnon rallying cry often used as a hashtag on social media. QAnon borrowed this hashtag from a legitimate human-trafficking campaign to spread the baseless claim that pedophiles are kidnapping children off the... Read more

Slogans / Code words Right-wing