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

"Open borders for Israel" is a belief common among white supremacists that American Jews are hypocritically demanding a pure Jewish ethnostate in Israel. They claim that American Jews are manipulating US immigration policy in order to undermine... 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

Patrick Casey was Identity Evropa's chief of staff when he replaced Elliot Klien as the group's leader in November 2017. In March 2019, Casey rebranded Identity Evropa as the American Identity Movement (AIM) which he led until... Read more