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The three economists wrote:

Consistent with German experience, we find a link between right-wing political extremism and economic conditions, as captured by the change in G.D.P. Importantly, however, what mattered for right-wing anti-system party support was not just deterioration in economic conditions lasting a year or two, but economic conditions over the longer run.

Many of the U.S. counties that moved toward Trump in 2016 and 2020 experienced long-run adverse economic conditions that began with the 2000 entry of China into the World Trade Organization, setbacks that continue to plague those regions decades later.

Hanson and his co-authors, David Autor and David Dorn, economists at M.I.T. and the University of Zurich, found in their October 2021 paper On the Persistence of the China Shock:

Local labor markets more exposed to import competition from China suffered larger declines in manufacturing jobs, employment-population ratios, and personal income per capita. These effects persist for nearly two decades beyond the intensification of the trade shock after 2001, and almost a decade beyond the shock reaching peak intensity.

They go on:

Even using higher-end estimates of the consumer benefits of rising trade with China, a substantial fraction of commuting zones appears to have suffered absolute declines in average real incomes.

In their oft-cited 2020 paper, Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure, Autor, Dorn, Hanson and Kaveh Majlesi, an economist at Monash University, found that in majority-white regions, adverse economic developments resulting from trade imports produced a sharp shift to the right.

Autor and his co-authors describe an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. More specifically, trade-impacted commuting zones or districts saw an increasing market share for the Fox News Channel, stronger ideological polarization in campaign contributions and a relative rise in the likelihood of electing a Republican to Congress.

Counties with a majority-white population became more likely to elect a G.O.P. conservative, while trade-exposed counties with an initial majority-minority population became more likely to elect a liberal Democrat, Autor and his colleagues write.

They continue:

In presidential elections, counties with greater trade exposure shifted toward the Republican candidate. These results broadly support an emerging political economy literature that connects adverse economic shocks to sharp ideological realignments that cleave along racial and ethnic lines and induce discrete shifts in political preferences and economic policy.

The trade-induced shift to the right has deeper roots dating back to at least the early 1990s.

In Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA, Jiwon Choi and Ilyana Kuziemko, both of Princeton, Ebonya Washington of Yale and Gavin Wright of Stanford make the case that the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 played a crucial role in pushing working-class whites out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party:

We demonstrate that counties whose 1990 employment depended on industries vulnerable to NAFTA suffered large and persistent employment losses relative to other counties. These losses begin in the mid-1990s and are only modestly offset by transfer programs. While exposed counties historically voted Democratic, in the mid-1990s they turn away from the party of the president (Bill Clinton) who ushered in the agreement and by 2000 vote majority Republican in House elections.

The trade agreement with Mexico and Canada led to lasting, negative effects on Democratic identification among regions and demographic groups that were once loyal to the party, Choi and her co-authors write.

Before enactment, the Republican share of the vote in NAFTA-exposed counties was 38 percent, well below the national average, but by 1998, these once solidly Democratic counties voted as or more Republican in House elections as the rest of the country, according to Choi and her colleagues.

Before NAFTA, the authors write, Democratic Party support for protectionist policies had been the glue binding millions of white working-class voters to the party, overcoming the appeal of the Republican Party on racial and cultural issues. Democratic support for the free trade agreement effectively broke that bond: For many white Democrats in the 1980s, economic issues such as trade policy were key to their party loyalty because on social issues such as guns, affirmative action and abortion they sided with the G.O.P.

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The Rochester, New York rapper RXK Nephew released about 400 songs in 2021. Probably more than that, he says via Zoom. I was going crazy. Every day.

Nephs steady pace of projects, which are often free-flowing raps that straddle earnestness and provocation, share a creative framework with Lil B, an early adopter of the internets less polished and more high-volume sensibility. But the music he makes has as much a place in the real world as it does in niche corners of the web. His catalog, which takes the length of an average song to even scroll through, feels more like the type of productivity associated with Lil Wayne and Young Thug early in their careers, when a new flurry of new mixtapes could spell the demise of an upstart hip-hop blogs servers.

All of which is to say theres something new going on with RXK Nephew. He even has a hunch as to what it might be. Whats the poets that go up there on stage and they do their poem and everybody snaps their fingers at them? he asks. Im trying to do shit like that.

In a 1958 essay titled Essentials of Spontaneous Prose, Jack Kerouac advocated a practice of writing that involved no pause to think of proper word but the infantile pileup of scatological buildup words till satisfaction is gained. Its a great way to describe RXK Nephews approach to rapping. I record in the car, the house, outside, anywhere, he says. In fact, hes talking to me from a car right now. Neph points his phones camera to a pared-down mobile recording setup. I can charge my laptop right here, he says, showing me a rig connected to the cars console.

He cites tracks called Bipolar Trapper and Out of the Car as the highlights of his vehicular musings. Bipolar Trapper really means something to me because I was going through something and I had to pull over and record, Neph says. I had to record ASAP so I could listen to something. Like a stress reliever.

RXK Nephew was raised in Rochester by his grandmother, who was the source of his musical curiosity. A lot of gifts from my grandma was music shit, like a karaoke machine, a piano, or a guitar, he says. I actually liked it. It wasnt boring to me, so I learned how to play piano. I didnt go too crazy on guitar, but I learned. I know how to play by ear and make notes and shit.

At the start of this year, he put out a collection of tracks inspired by Quiet Storm R&B and the family that he grew up with. The blues and old school, thats what my people listen to. My auntie and my grandmas brothers and shit, he says. So I did beats from their favorite songs, so they can show up and they be happy and shit. It be a lot of other peoples favorite song, too.

Despite his productivity, music hasnt been a priority for Neph for all that long. A string of familiar hustles dotted his life until, after one arrest too many, he made an effort to find income the legit way. Using the internet as his sounding board, he started making music every single day. After a while, he noticed something peculiar.

My DM would be flooded with a whole bunch of people saying they got beats. I appreciated it I was hyped that everybody would want to give me their beats but its too many people to work with at one time, he says. So I was thinking, Yo, if you pay me a couple dollars, Ill rap on your beat first. It would speed the process up.

Since he had this insight, business has been booming.I tell them one price and they pay me extra on top of that, he says. It became another source of income I dont got to do in the street.

The practice has also made RXK a reliable source of online entertainment, as producers sometimes get songs back where Neph insults them over their own creation. I be wondering what made the producers send me those kinds of beats. I be wondering if they really listen to me, if they know what kind of artist I am, and they just want to send me a crazy beat, he explains.

Slitherman Activated, released last summer on New York dance music label Towhead Recordings and featuring production work from a number of well-known dance music acts, presaged the genres post-PinkPantheress fixation on high-speed drum and bass production. It sounded great, never mind Nephs persistent and vocal frustration with the beats on the album.

Its like expanded creativity, trying different things, connecting with the people, he says. I did the EDM, Im doing pop, I remixed Taylor Swift. I just want to keep on going, theres no limit to the music at all.

When we talk on Zoom, hes preparing for a concert in New York that ends up being a packed-out affair replete with rap nerds, downtown kids, and everyone in between.

The crowd was probably there because of Nephews most famous single, American TTerroristt, released on the winter solstice of 2020, and stuffed with metaphysical anxiety. The nearly 10-minute treatise rolls seamlessly through a slate of inquiries, each with an escalating sense of urgency and absurdity: How the fuck all of yall awake? Neph ponders about Jehovahs Witnesses on the track.

He succeeds at achieving a vernacular for a culture with an abundance of reasons to feel suspicious of authority and received wisdom. Explain to me why the fuck Benjamin Franklin stood his ass up on the roof, he raps, thinking through the discovery of electricity. How he discover somethin out the sky?/If thats the case, T-Rex discovered it/If you ask me, this shit made up.

Musically, Neph provides gentle hypnosis. Despite the songs wandering flow, he treats the beat with intention, landing punchlines on unexpected downbeats, and in turn revealing new horizons of thought.

That was straight off the couch at the crib, he says. That was one of those open speech poems. Because there obviously wasnt no hook, I wasnt trying to make a song.

American TTerroristt is more than a song. Delivered in a monotonic, almost spooky deadpan, the track has the feeling of poetry or performance art. It inflicts a feeling of expansion, of understanding and perspective. I was just preaching and speaking from my point of view, Neph says. And then it happened to be a lot of people see it the same way I see it.

Part of the lore around the track is just how freely Neph lets his mind wander as he raps. Its a style that defies the prevailing uneasiness around controversial topics for fear of public embarrassment. On American TTerroristt, Neph utters the cancel-able with the type of abandon that has the power to reconfigure your mind. Hes not red-pilling in any alt-right or political sense, but it sure feels like witnessing a ripple in the Matrix.

Even when the song veers into more troubling territory a line about Chris Brown lands with an almost self-aware beat switch RXK finds new ground within the provocative. He anticipated listeners being more shocked than they were. Im not a domestic violence person, he clarifies. When theyre at first hearing it, they might be like, What the fuck. They might be like, This is crazy. But when they listen to the whole thing, they understand that Im just expressing whats going on in the world. That was just, like, an alter ego, somebody that expresses themselves through words..

Neph believes that just because he thinks something about the world doesnt mean he needs to push it onto others. You would be so selfish if you move like that, he says. Then that would turn into a cult. Still, with growing influence comes growing responsibility. Im realizing how much work I have. Its hard to accept. I never thought any of this would happen, he says. But Im just trying to enjoy it and stay alive and stay happy.

For now, hes got insane productivity goals for 2022. Im going to be more strategic this year, and I want to give them more projects that are really put together with good videos and invest into it, he says. But Im definitely going to drop a lot of projects, though. My album, Im going to have 40 out before the years over.

And, thankfully, he says we can expect to see American TTerroristt expanded into a full EP.

I feel like I could have kept going on that song, period. I swear I could have kept it going, he says. Theres a whole lot to say. The world is spinning every day.

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Theres No Limit to the Music: RXK Nephew Is Raps Beat Generation Poet - Rolling Stone

Loose group of white nationalist activists, provocateurs, and internet trolls

Political party

Groypers, sometimes called the Groyper Army, are a group of white nationalist and far-right activists, provocateurs, and internet trolls who are notable for their attempts to introduce far-right politics into mainstream conservatism in the United States, their participation in the 2021 United States Capitol attack and the protests leading up to that, and their extremist views. They are known for targeting other conservative groups and individuals whose agendas they view as too moderate and insufficiently nationalist.[3][4] The Groyper movement has been described as white nationalist, homophobic, nativist, fascist, sexist, antisemitic, and an attempt to rebrand the alt-right movement.[2][5][6][7]

While Groypers are a loosely defined group with no formal leadership structure, they are generally considered to be followers of Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist, far-right political commentator and podcaster.[8][2] Michelle Malkin, a conservative blogger and political commentator, has referred to herself as the "mommy" of the Groyper movement.[9][10]

In February 2021, the Groyper movement splintered between Nick Fuentes and Patrick Casey over fears of infiltration by federal informants and doxing at the 2021 America First Political Action Conference, held by Fuentes. Jaden McNeil of America First Students joined in support of Fuentes' conference and accused Casey of disloyalty to Fuentes.[11][12]

Groypers are extremely conservative and critical of more mainstream conservative organizations, which they believe to be insufficiently nationalist and pro-white. Groypers and their leaders have tried to position the group's ideology as being based around "Christian conservatism", "traditional values", and "American nationalism". Some Groypers downplay the extremism of their positions, and instruct others on how to engage in entryism and radicalization tactics such as slowly introducing their targets to increasingly extreme ideas. Despite attempts to brand themselves more moderately, the group is widely recognized as white nationalist, antisemitic, and homophobic.[1][15]

According to the Anti-Defamation League, Groypers blame the mainstream conservative movement as well as the political left for what they view as "destroying white America". They oppose immigration and globalism. Groypers support "traditional" values and Christianity and oppose feminism and LGBTQ rights.[1]

Describing the relationship between Groypers and the Republican Party, Nick Fuentes has stated, "We are the right-wing flank of the Republican Party." He summarized his political ambitions by stating, "We have got to be on the right, dragging [moderate Republicans] kicking and screaming into the future. Into a truly reactionary party."[16]

Groypers are named after a cartoon amphibian named "Groyper", which is a variant of the Internet meme Pepe the Frog. Groyper is depicted as a rotund, green, frog-like creature, often in a sitting position with its chin resting on interlocked fingers.[17][18] There is some disagreement around the specifics of Groyper: it is alternatively said to be a depiction of the Pepe character,[5] a different character from Pepe but of the same species,[19] or a toad.[17] The Groyper meme was used as early as 2015, and became popular in 2017.[20]

In 2018, a group of computer scientists studying hateful speech on Twitter observed the Groyper image being used frequently in account avatars among the accounts identified as "hateful" in their dataset. The researchers observed that the profiles tended to be anonymous and collectively tweeted primarily about politics, race, and religion. Similarly, they detected that the users were not "lone wolves" and the individuals could be identified as a community with a high network centrality.[21] The same year, Right Wing Watch reported that Massachusetts congressional hopeful Shiva Ayyadurai had created a campaign pin featuring a variation of the Groyper image, which RWW described as an attempt to appeal to the far-right activists on 4chan, Gab, and Twitter who had adopted the meme.[22]

Followers of Nick Fuentes began to be known as Groypers beginning in 2019. Fuentes' followers are also sometimes called "Nickers".[2][23] In September 2019, Ashley St. Clair, a "brand ambassador" for the conservative student group Turning Point USA, was photographed at an event featuring several allegedly white nationalist and alt-right figures, including Fuentes, Jacob Wohl, and Anthime Gionet, better known as "Baked Alaska". After Right Wing Watch brought the photographs to Turning Point USA's attention, the organization issued a statement declaring that it had severed ties with St. Clair, and condemning white nationalism as "abhorrent and un-American".[24][25] At the 2019 Politicon convention, Fuentes tried to access several of the Turning Point USA events featuring its founder Charlie Kirk, including a line to take photos with Kirk and Kirk's debate with Kyle Kulinski of The Young Turks. Security repeatedly barred him from being allowed anywhere near Kirk, with Fuentes accusing Kirk of deliberately suppressing him in order to avoid a confrontation, as Fuentes had grown critical of Kirk's positions, which he believes are too weak.[18]

In the fall of 2019, Kirk launched a college speaking tour with Turning Point USA titled "Culture War," featuring himself alongside such guests as Senator Rand Paul, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump, and Congressman Dan Crenshaw.[1] In retaliation for the firing of St. Clair and the Politicon incident, Fuentes subsequently began organizing a social media campaign asking his followers to go to Kirk's events and ask provocative and controversial leading questions regarding his stances on immigration, Israel, and LGBT rights during the question-and-answer sessions, for the purpose of exposing Kirk as a "fake conservative". At a Culture War event hosted by Ohio State University on October 29, eleven out of fourteen questions during the Q&A section were asked by Groypers.[26] Groypers asked questions including, "Can you prove that our white European ideals will be maintained if the country is no longer made up of white European descendants?" and "How does anal sex help us win the culture war?"[27] Fuentes' social media campaign against Kirk became known as the "Groyper Wars".[5][17] Kirk and others at Turning Point USA, including Benny Johnson and spokesman Rob Smitha gay black veteran of the Iraq War, and Kirk's co-host at the Ohio State speaking eventbegan labeling the questioners as white supremacists and anti-Semites.[18][28]

Another Turning Point USA event targeted by the Groypers was a promotional event for Donald Trump Jr.'s book Triggered, featuring Trump, Kirk, and Guilfoyle at the University of California, Los Angeles in November 2019. Anticipating further questions from Fuentes' followers, it was announced that the originally planned Q&A portion of the event would be canceled, which led to heckling and boos from the mostly pro-Trump audience.[29] The disruptions eventually forced them to cut the event short after 30 minutes, when it was originally scheduled to last for two hours.[30][31][8]

Groypers' targets for heckling quickly expanded beyond Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA.[17] Groypers began targeting other mainstream conservative groups and individuals, which they sometimes collectively call "Conservative Inc.", including events hosted by Young America's Foundation and their student outreach branch Young Americans for Freedom, which included such speakers as Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire, and Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch.[3] Questions posed to their opponents often focus on topics including United StatesIsrael relations, immigration policy, affirmative action, and LGTBQ conservatives.[4][5] They regularly use anti-Semitic dogwhistles in their confrontations with other conservatives, including numerous questions about the USS Liberty incident, and references to the "dancing Israelis" conspiracy theory alleging Israeli involvement in the September 11 attacks.[35][1]

In December 2019, Fuentes announced and held the Groyper Leadership Summit in Florida. A small group attended the event in person, and attendees also joined via livestream. The event was held at the same time and in the same city as Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit (SAS); Groypers argued with SAS attendees outside of their venue, and Fuentes, Patrick Casey, and some Groypers were removed from the SAS venue after attempting to enter. At the Groyper Leadership Summit, Fuentes, Casey, and former InfoWars contributor Jake Lloyd spoke about the Groypers' strategy and ideology. While outside the venue where Turning Point's event was being held, Fuentes eventually crossed paths with Ben Shapiro, who was on his way to the event with his pregnant wife and two children. Fuentes confronted Shapiro over his Stanford speech, while Shapiro refused to acknowledge him.[37] Fuentes faced widespread condemnation from politicians and various punditsincluding Nikki Haley, Meghan McCain, Sebastian Gorka, Megyn Kelly, and Michael Avenattifor confronting Shapiro while he was with his family.[38]

In January 2020, Groyper and former leader of Kansas State University's Turning Point USA chapter Jaden McNeil formed the Kansas State University organization America First Students. The group, which shares a name with Fuentes' America First podcast, was conceived at the Groyper Leadership Summit, and Groyper leaders have helped promote the group. The America First Students organization, which states it was formed "in defense of Christian values, strong families, closed borders, and the American worker," is considered to push the Groyper movement.[6][7]

In February 2020, Fuentes spoke at several events that were held as rival events to the Conservative Political Action Conference. One such event, hosted by the online publication National File, featured Fuentes, Alex Jones of InfoWars, and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.[39][40] Fuentes hosted the first annual America First Political Action Conference, which included such speakers as Patrick Casey, former Daily Caller author Scott Greer, and Malkin.[41]

Groypers are very active online, particularly on Twitter, and have engaged in targeted harassment against opponents.[26] Financial Times reported that many Groypers use "deceptively anodyne" Twitter biographies, describing themselves in terms that downplay their extremism, like "Christian conservative".[42] In April 2020, The Daily Dot reported that Fuentes and other Groypers had begun to move to the video sharing platform TikTok, where they streamed live and used the "duet" feature to respond to Trump supporters. Groypers particularly targeted one left-wing teenage girl for harassment, which began on TikTok but spread across platforms.[42][43] Fuentes and some other Groyper accounts were banned from TikTok shortly after the Daily Dot article was published.[44]

The Groyper Wars earned widespread media attention after the UCLA incident with Donald Trump Jr. Chadwick Moore of Spectator USA commented that the ordeal revealed deep divisions within the American right among young voters, particularly with regards to the political beliefs of Generation Z, or "Zoomers". This divide, Moore claims, is due to the Groypers viewing Charlie Kirk and others in the mainstream conservative movement as "snatching the baton and appointing themselves the guardians of 2016's spoils", despite holding beliefs that Fuentes and his followers believe to be in conflict with then-President Trump's "Make America Great Again" agenda.[45] Another Spectator author, Ben Sixsmith, claimed that Turning Point's unwillingness to respond to controversial questions, and subsequent use of insults to dismiss their critics, revealed the organization's hypocrisy after having "promoted themselves as the debate guys".[46]

Several mainstream conservative commentators also weighed in on the matter. Addressing the increase in attention towards the far-right due to the aggressive questioning of Kirk, Ben Shapiro gave a speech at Stanford University in which he attacked Fuentes (without naming him) and his followers as essentially being a rebranded version of the alt-right.[47][48][49] Representative Dan Crenshaw similarly referred to the questioners as "alt-right 2.0" while American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp said that "there is no place in our conservative movement for those interested in fomenting hate, mob violence, or racist propaganda."[50] Conversely, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin wrote an article for American Greatness attacking Kirk for his immigration policies, and particularly his stance that green cards should be awarded to immigrants who graduate from American universities.[51] After defending Fuentes and his followers, Malkin was fired as a speaker for Young America's Foundation, a rival organization to Turning Point whose events had also been targeted by Groypers.[52] Malkin later would refer to herself as a mother figure among and a leader of the Groypers.[53]

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To get an idea of who these people are, you should take a look at their Wiki entry, wherein they are explicitly described as:

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MOST TERRORISTS IN THE U.S. ARE RIGHT WING, NOT MUSLIM: REPORT.

Alt Right talking points debunked: Race and Crime.

A Dark and Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States.

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The newcomers are an iteration of a growing, US-influenced protest movement in Australia that is trying to legitimise its various agendas by co-opting Indigenous people and issues through a process activists and academics have termed Blackfishing.

They first turned up at the Tent Embassy in early December and, according to Ngunnawal elder Matilda House-Williams, speaking to The Canberra Times, theres a whole tonne of them.

When police forcibly moved them they responded with QAnon-style phrases, such as youre non-player characters and paedophile protectors.

Video posts by some of the groups adherents and influencers as well as its alt-right supporters reveal how gaining control of the Tent Embassy is only a stepping stone in a more ambitious scheme. They want to take the chair of Old Parliament House itself.

And despite a number of arrests after the disastrous smoking ceremony, it appears they are there to stay.

Daily call outs are now being made for freedom supporters to converge on the nations capital to join them.

At the head of the new protest group is Murrawiri and Budjiti environmental activist Bruce Shillingsworth, whose prominent activism around water shortages and related issues in the Murray Darling Basin have been nationally lauded. Around him are several Indigenous men and women already prominently involved in the alt-right freedom movement rallies in Sydney and Melbourne. None would speak to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Shillingsworth was closely associated with respected Yuin elder and cultural lore man Uncle Max Harrison, who was allied with the vaccine-sceptical Informed Medical Options Party and the broader freedom movement, before his sudden COVID-related death in early December. Uncle Max addressed the millions march rally in Sydney two weeks before he died in a COVID ward at the Sutherland Hospital.

Shillingsworth and his group, black and white, have called via social media videos for the broader sovereign citizens movement as well as Indigenous Original Sovereigns groups around the country to converge on Canberra in convoys.

When police moved them away from the portrait gallery on Thursday, they responded with QAnon-style phrases, such as youre non-player characters and paedophile protectors. Indigenous members of the group demanded the police prove their jurisdiction over the area with deeds and titles, and Shillingsworth repeatedly demanded that $100 trillion in taxpayer gold be transferred to his personal bank account for breaches of a pseudo-legal contract he attempted to serve on senior officers.

A series of virtual meetings between prominent Indigenous group members and non-Indigenous alt-right activists suggest a plot to effectively copy the US Capitol Hill insurrection. For the Australian version, the target is Old Parliament House.

Activist Bruce Shillingsworth at a protest in April.Credit:Brook Mitchell

They believe the quasi-mystical locus of power in Australia is vested in the seat of the Old Parliament because that is the address listed on the ABN registrations of the Commonwealths economy and trade departments.

The new Parliament House, the seat of federal government since 1988, is pretend, they say, and the governments jurisdiction fiction.

Over the past fortnight, Shillingsworth has identified himself as an Original Sovereign a local variation of the international Freemen on the Land movement.

Many of the planning meetings tied to the new protest group involved Indigenous man David Cole, also known as Lurnpa, a leading figure in the Original Sovereign Tribal Federation (OSTF) which was established by non-indigenous man Mark McMurtrie aka Gunham Badi Jakamara after he was impressed in 2009 by the pseudo-legal counsel of David Wynn Millar, an American retired tool and die welder and self-appointed king of Hawaii.

Scenes to fire the imagination: what some Australian alt-right protesters would like to see at Old Parliament House.Credit:AP

Last year The Age and Herald revealed the collaboration between the Original Sovereign Tribal Federation and former One Nation senator Rod Culleton who, at the time, was trying to establish a right-wing political party in a formal alliance with the Indigenous sovereign citizen movement.

In the United States, sovereign citizens are regarded by the Justice Department as a domestic terrorism threat after several armed actions in which law enforcement officers and civilian men, women and children have been killed. They do not have the same label in Australia.

On December 30, video posted to social media accounts run by members of a Sovereign Citizens group showed demonstrators banging on the doors of Old Parliament House, which is now run as a museum. Shillingsworths son, known as Buddy, and Bundjalung woman Cindy Roberts (aka Widjabul Dubay) were among them.

Police made five arrests in the days after the fire. One who was arrested, released on bail, arrested again and released again was Nicholas Reed, who is accused of carrying numerous armfuls of kindling and several coolamon loads of hot coals to the front of Old Parliament House. An ACT court was told he had been shown in posts on social media stoking the fire.

Nicholas Malcolm Reed leaves the ACT courts this week.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

Reed, a white man who also goes by a tribal name, allegedly has a separate pending legal matter in Victoria, and is crowdfunding online for the Djab Wurrung Sovereign Tribal Government Fund, a campaign purportedly to benefit the Djab Wurrung people located in Victorias Western District. The most recent campaign has raised $3759.

The Australian has reported that Reeds bail rules included that he live at an address which, according to property records, is owned by Business Council of Australia president Tim Reed and his wife, Karola Brent, a former Lane Cove councillor on Sydneys north shore. Tim Reed declined to comment.

Among others in attendance at the fire, though not arrested, was Roberts, who in a video interview with Tartaria Australia on December 10 said she saw herself as Moses on the forecourt of Old Parliament House before revealing that she intended to knock the locks off the doors, enter and reclaim what was rightfully hers.

Cindy Roberts.Credit:Rhett Wyman

This week police made two more arrests in the area known as the parliamentary triangle. One was of Buddy Shillingsworth for outstanding warrants related to past driving offences. The other was a white man named Dylan Didge Wilson from the NSW Northern Rivers, a self-described land lore marshal recognised by a circle of Elders across this continent. Both were later released.

But the arrests and charges are not the end of it.

On Sunday, a strong cohort is expected to arrive from Victoria, many motivated by ongoing opposition to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, whose government succeeded in changing the states pandemic response legislation late in the year after weeks of protest by anti-vax and anti-lockdown groups on the steps of Spring Street. Among the props taken to protests were an apparently operational gallows.

Several posts to social media among this group have expressed anger at a decision by a court in Myrtleford, Victoria, in which the protesters had invested high hopes that Andrews would be found guilty of treason. These posts encourage supporters to head to Canberra.

When Senator Thorpe tweeted on the day of the fire: Seems like the colonial system is burning down. Happy New Year everyone, it seemed like the action might have broader significance in the Aboriginal protest community than it did. Thorpe later removed the tweet and this week told The Age and Herald: I stand in solidarity with the Tent Embassy. The people responsible for the fire have disrespected Ngunnawal Traditional Owners. There is no place for anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists in the struggle for First Nations sovereignty.

Back at the Tent Embassy, some key representatives are too nervous of the newcomers to speak on the record. But Ngunnawal and Ngambi traditional owners and senior figures from the earliest Tent Embassy protest cohorts of 1972 -73 have spoken out about the failure of the new group of protesters to observe cultural protocol and obtain consent to conduct their ceremonies on the site.

Meanwhile, as the federal government announced it would establish a $316.5 million Indigenous cultural centre within the parliamentary triangle nearby the area where the embassy stands, they are trying to prepare for the demonstrations and cultural ceremonies which will mark the golden anniversary. The work, they told The Age and Herald, was an assertion of commitment to the legacy of the embassy.

Prominent First Nations activist group Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) is clear, though, on the question of sovereignty, and the attempt by the Original Sovereign movement to co-opt the First Nations Sovereignty rights movement, according to a spokesperson, Gamilaraay and Kooma woman Ruby Wharton.

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The biggest difference between First Nations sovereignty and that being claimed by the sovereign citizen movement was simple, she said: Sovereignty is our birthright.

Its our birthright to occupy our traditional homelands, its our birthright to speak language, its our birthright to practise our traditional laws and protect our Country. The sovereignty these other people talk of is sovereignty away from the Crown, which is totally delusional because the only way these white people have sovereignty in this country is through the Crown.

Its delusional for any kind of comparison to be drawn here. Its absolutely not the same and never will be.

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WASHINGTON President Biden will endorse changing Senate rules to pass new voting rights protections during a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, the most significant step he will have taken to pressure lawmakers to act on an issue he has called the biggest test of Americas democracy since the Civil War.

Mr. Biden will not go so far as to call for full-scale elimination of the filibuster, a Senate tradition that allows the minority party to kill legislation that fails to garner 60 votes, according to a senior administration official who previewed the speech. But Mr. Biden will say he supports a filibuster carve-out in the case of voting rights, the official said. Either endeavor has slim chances of winning support from all 50 Senate Democrats, who are already facing threats of retaliation from Republicans in the chamber.

Mr. Biden, citing repeated obstruction by Republicans, will endorse changing the Senate rules and contend that the filibuster has protected extreme attacks on the most basic constitutional right.

This is one of those defining moments, Mr. Biden told reporters on Tuesday, before departing for Georgia. People are going to be judged, where were they before and where were they after the vote. History is going to judge this. And so the risk is making sure people understand just how important this is.

Mr. Bidens visit to Georgia is intended to invigorate a Democratic-led effort to pass new voting rights protections in the 50-50 Senate in the coming days, although chances are slim that he will be able to rally the necessary votes. Yet even with his new call for a filibuster carve-out, changing the Senate rules would require the support of all 50 Democrats and the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris to break a tie. Senators Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, both Democrats, have expressed strong public opposition to changing filibuster rules.

The president is taking a gamble by elevating an issue that he may not be able to deliver on. But having exhausted his political capital on other efforts, including a bipartisan infrastructure deal and a stalled social spending plan, he faces mounting frustration from allies who say he has not done enough as restrictive voting measures pass through Republican-led statehouses around the country. Mr. Bidens advisers have promised that he will be forceful about his support for two voting rights bills that could beat back those efforts.

One bill introduced by Democrats, the Freedom to Vote Act, would, among other provisions, take the teeth out of state-led efforts to restrict mail-in or absentee voting, make Election Day a holiday, and stop state legislators from redrawing districts in a way that advocates say denies representation to minority voters. Another, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, would restore crucial anti-discrimination components of the Voting Rights Act that were stripped away by the Supreme Court in 2013.

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, acknowledged that expectations around the speech were high: He wouldnt be going to Georgia tomorrow if he wasnt ready and prepared to elevate this issue and continue to fight for it, she told reporters on Monday.

But the presidents advisers have been far less specific about what solutions he might offer, and a bipartisan path forward is all but impossible. Mr. Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate and sees himself as a consensus builder, has faced resistance from Republicans on voting rights legislation.

Last week, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, said Republicans could have until Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to drop their opposition to debate and votes on the issue, or face the prospect of overhauling filibuster rules.

Many Democrats say such a carve-out would apply only to issues grounded in constitutional rights such as voting. But Republicans and others say it would inevitably be extended to other legislation, diminishing the overall power of the filibuster.

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, promised a scorched-earth response should Democrats go that route: Since Senator Schumer is hellbent on trying to break the Senate, Republicans will show how this reckless action would have immediate consequences, Mr. McConnell said in a statement on Monday.

Republicans have argued that Democrats are using the voting rights legislation to try to gain partisan advantage by seeking to impose their preferred rules on states that have long regulated their own elections. But activists say that critique ignores glaring examples of voter suppression. Voting rights groups in Georgia have already filed a federal lawsuit that accuses legislators of redrawing a congressional district to benefit Republican candidates and deny representation to Black voters.

On Tuesday, Mr. Biden will lean on the power of symbolism when he travels to Georgia. He and Ms. Harris will visit the crypt of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King. They will visit the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where both Dr. King and Mr. Lewis, the Georgia congressman and civil rights icon for whom the legislation is named, were eulogized. Senator Raphael Warnock, the states first Black senator and a Democrat who is seeking a full term this year after a runoff victory, is a senior pastor there.

In the afternoon, Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris will speak at theAtlanta University Center Consortium, a consortium of four historically Black colleges and universities. On Monday evening, the vice presidents office said that Ms. Harris, whom Mr. Biden had asked to lead on voting rights, will reaffirm that securing the right to vote is essential to safeguarding and strengthening our democracy in her remarks.

Georgia, a state Mr. Biden won by only 11,779 votes, has also seen some of the most sweeping attempts by Republicans to assert partisan power in elections, particularly through restricting mail-in, absentee or early voting. Critics say similar laws have spread around the country in response to false claims by former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election was rigged. Last week, observing the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Mr. Biden denounced those theories: You cant be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.

Some prominent activists are offering tempered support before the presidents speech, angered by what they said was a lack of attention as state-level restrictions go into effect.

Representative Terri A. Sewell, Democrat of Alabama, who in August introduced the bill named for Mr. Lewis, said that she was pretty clear what her expectations were before she agreed to travel to Atlanta with Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris. She said she had been assured that the president would not only talk about the need for voting rights, but outline a plan for getting it done that would embrace a change of Senate rules.

It was Georgia voters that gave him the presidency and gave us the slim majority that we have in the Senate, Ms. Sewell said. I know that he knows that we may have to walk this alone.

Others are declining to attend. Stacey Abrams, the voting rights advocate and Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia, will not be able to attend the speech because of a conflict, an aide to Ms. Abrams said. The person declined to elaborate on the conflict.

One prominent family will attend. Martin Luther King III, the oldest living son of the civil rights leader, and his wife, Arndrea Waters King, will meet with Mr. Biden in Atlanta. Mr. King said that he would meet with the president and tell him that his visit to Georgia could not be just a formality.

Weve seen whats possible when President Biden uses the full weight of his office to deliver for bridges, Mr. King said in a statement. And now we need to see him do the same for voting rights.

Nick Corasaniti contributed reporting from New York.

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But the vicious cycle intensified. The more Garrison fought the defamation, the more the trollsspearheaded by 4chan, 8chan, and an army of extremists commanded by neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, founder of hate site The Daily Stormersmeared his reputation. In their capable hands, the then-unknown Garrison transformed into the most vicious man on the internet, with a long list of nicknames. The most popular of these was Zyklon Ben (after zyklon b, the gas used in Nazi concentration camps), but the web is still littered with threads calling him Ben "One Man Klan" Garrison or Ben "Not White? Shoot On Sight" Garrison and other bits of jingly hate speech. The trolls even got a Fox News affiliate to talk about the fictional Nazi version of Garrison by flooding the comments section during the Baltimore riots. "The meme was more successful than I was," Garrison says. "If you typed my name into Google, you'd only see posts about how I was racist, and a photoshopped picture of me in a Nazi uniform." Which is what that gallery owner saw before she cut ties with Garrison.

Garrison's employment troubles didn't end with just one gallery. According to him, the trolling campaign was so successful he spent the next five years with no income. He became obsessed with stamping out the defamation, but trolls are difficult and expensive to sue, and Garrison worried that his efforts to report those harassing him had gone too far. "I became an SJW myself," he said. "A libertarian against free speech! So I talked to my wife and we decided the best thing to do was to share the real cartoons enough to outspread the fake ones." So he busted out his sketchbook, and Garrison's wife, Tina, became his full-time social media manager.

It worked. Garrison's Twitter account has more than 80,000 followers, many rabidly pro-Trump and eager for Garrison to provide the triumphant portraits of their leader the mainstream media denies them. His cartoons constantly trend on alt-right social media platforms like Gab. Through Patreon, he's even become a modest financial success, though he's quick to point out that the platform doesn't reward his worldview as much as others'. "Pro-tranny cartoons get 15 to 20 grand a month, but conservatives, we dont get that kind of break."

Still, thanks in part to the support of alt-right figureheads like Mike Cernovich, Garrison's income continues to swell. "I commissioned a lot of work at above market rates and promoted him heavily," Cernovich says. "He's a great-hearted person who deserves to succeed. His work is both family-friendly and politically audacious. That's a hard style to pull off." Garrison has a similarly warm relationship with pro-Trump YouTube personality and alleged cult leader Stefan Molyneux, and frequently includes prominent "alt-light" figures like Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson and Yiannopoulos in his cartoons.

For a trolling victim to promote arch-troll Yiannopoulos seems illogical, but Garrison doesn't see it that way. "When Milo got shut down on Twitter, I did a cartoon about it because it's the same thing that happened to me: He lost his voice," Garrison says. That he was using his voice to stir up a racist trolling campaign against actress Leslie Jones doesn't phase Garrison, and he doesn't even see it as real trolling. "He does a little trolling, maybe, but with a twinkle in his eye," he says. "But I'd rather him stick to arguments than that flaming stuff." (That "flaming stuff" he's referring to is being openly homosexual on Real Time with Bill Maher.)

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Joseph created his YouTube channel on December 28, 2015, but rose to prominence during 2016 after his series of videos specifically criticizing Islam. He gained a substantial amount of viewership after MrRepzion, a fellow YouTuber mirrored his video attacking Islamic YouTuber Karim Metwalys response on the Orlando gay nightclub bar shooting. Throughout 2016, Joseph made more videos against SJWs, Islam, and other topics. He managed to gain subscribers and viewership as time went on. Joseph began building ties with other skeptics such as Sargon of Akkad, MundaneMatt, amongst others.

In 2017, Joseph managed to gain over 100,000 subscribers. Joseph began to his attention away from those mainline topics and focus on tackling the alt-right, which only attracted more controversy. He then stepped out of YouTube for a brief period of time, returning in early 2018, and by mid-2019 had stopped making anti-alt-right and commentary videos in favor of animated educational countryball videos, with the countryball video format chosen primarily because Brain4breakfast had just died recently, and he wanted to pay his respects. He still continues making animated educational videos, and has stated on his second channel that he will not return to making political commentary. [1]

On 2017 June 29 Kraut made a tweet to the Twitter account that in was in RageAfterStorm's Twitter bio[2] saying "@kippercentral you might to look into the views of one of your contributors @RageAfterStorm". 20 minutes later Kraut deleted the Tweet saying it was a stupid thing to do.

RageAfterStorm was a race-realist YouTuber who frequently made Alt-Right leaning and race realist content, and Kipper Central is a blog where unpaid contributors can write on UKIP related topics. Rage wrote for this blog as a hobby.

Shorty after the tweet was made to them they let Rage go because they didn't wanted to be associated with Rage's views. Although, they noted that others too have pointed out to them Rage's views before and they were already in the process of letting her go. It wasn't that difficult for them to find out about her views considering she had them tagged in the Twitter bio[2] of the same Twitter where she spouted her views publicly.

Weeks later on 2017 July 20th RageAfterStorm made antisemitic tweets mocking the lead vocalist of Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, after his suicide.[3][4][5] As a result she got dogpiled by a bunch of Linkin Park fans and due to this left the internet.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Shortly after a Half-Arab white nationalist YouTuber by the name of BravingRuin (aka EdgySphinx) and his friends brought up the incident of Kraut making a tweet at the Kipper Central blog in order to generate drama (which they successfully achieved), blaming Kraut for Rage leaving the internet. Some people even accused Kraut of doxing Rage, which doesn't even makes sense considering Kraut has never published Rage's real name or address. Kraut responded to the drama on 2017 July 26 with a video titled "Artificial Outrage".

In around Mid-2017 Kraut, having reservations about an increasingly-right-accepting Skeptic community, decided to re-focus on opposing the Alt-Right. Seeking to challenge the Alt-Right's claims about breeding patterns and race realism on a more academic level, Kraut created a Discord server with the intent of connecting audience-having Skeptics with knowledgeable academics to discredit Alt-Right assertions. Quite a few moderately prominent Skeptics got involved with the server. Kraut would make several videos sourced from this server, but some were riddled with translation errors and some poorly-chosen metaphors, most infamously "Pregnant Trout".

By the end of 2017 the Alt-Right had found out about the server and managed to place a spy into it, trying to dig up dirt on Kraut. Around this same time Kraut, while researching an Alt-Right youtuber by the name of Coach Red Pill found his real name (Gonzalo Lira) as a signature at the end of his videos and subsequently discovered serious accusations of fraud made by Australian economist Steve Keen towards him.[12] Kraut revealed this information to his friends on the Discord server and was looking to try and bring this information to popular "point-and-laugh" YouTuber Mister "Jim" Metokur.

Coach Red Pill's eventual response to this was to try to frame Kraut for rape.[13]

But before Kraut really had a chance to act on this information, things blew up. Several Alt-Righters (most prominently the earlier mentioned Half-Arab white nationalist EdgySphinx/Braving Ruin) accused Kraut of running a doxxing operation on the server. Several opportunistic YouTubers (Metokur, Tonkasaw, Andy Warski) jumped on this scandal as a way to promote themselves and where joined by more Alt-Right leaning "Skeptics" (most prominently Aydin Paladin - who was eventually caught flat-out making things up[14]). Kraut alternated between denying everything and trying to blame the top mod of the server Zeph Aurelion (Who was trying to blame Kraut). The rest of the Skeptics involved with the server where reluctant to speak in Kraut's defense, still being somewhat embarrassed by the "Pregnant Trout" debacle and the simple fact that Kraut could be very hard to work with.

Eventually, by early 2018, Kraut and several of his most prominent defenders had their families doxxed and harassed and several quit the internet for a time or gave up on the Skeptic community in general. This also sparked off the brief Genre known as "Internet Blood Sports".

It should be noted that none of the accusations of Doxxing going on on the server where ever proven, and most of the accusers where either discredited (Coach Red Pill, Braving Ruin, Andy Warski) withdrew their accusations (Tokasaw, Aydin Paladin - who claimed Kraut was falsely accusing her of accusing him of doxxing her) or just flat-out admitted that they didn't particularly care what was true (Metokur).

Kraut would eventually return to YouTube by the end of 2018, released a few videos asserting his innocence, and settled into making content about history and geopolitics (For example multi-hour multi-part documentaries on the histories of nations, such as Turkey). To date he retains a justified hatred for the Alt-Right, is still somewhat wary of leftists, and has cut ties with the shattered Skeptic community and he's yet to forgive them for failing to apply a sufficient degree of skepticism to the claims against him and sees many of them as grifters now.

As of June 2021, Kraut drastically changed his video-style after becoming disillusioned with the Political Commentary community.[15] He now no longer makes political commentary videos, and instead makes videos discussing the histories of countries, and famously made two three-part series on Turkey and Mexico, which took him one and a half year to complete. Joseph claims that he, along with two others, are building a new community separate from the Political Commentary community, as a way to avoid the Culture War.[16]

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A dinner party at Marina Abramovis TriBeCa apartment caused a satanic panic over the weekend, after a leaked email forwarded from the artist to Hillary Clintons campaign chairman John Podesta made the rounds on a number of conservative news sites.

Last June, the artist sent an email invitation to Johns brother Tony Podesta, a lobbyist and long-time collector of Abramovis work, to a gathering in honor of significant donors to a kickstarter campaign.

Thosewho pledged over $10,000 in support of theMarina Abramovi Institute were invited to Spirit Cooking with Marina Abramovi, anevent whose description advertised A dinner night with Marina during which she will teach you and other backers at this level how to cook a series of traditional soups, which you will all enjoy together. The night will end with the making of a golden ball, a recipe given to Marina in a Tibetan monastery.

Spirit Cooking, Abramovi told Artnews on Friday, was just a funny name for a normal dinner with about 10 guests, including Tony Podesta. His Clinton-affiliated brother, however, did not make an appearanceand neither did blood, semen, nor breast milk as suggested by alt-right conspiracy theorists.

The title, which right-wing media has read as asex cult or abizarre occult ritual, refers to a series of performances from the 1990s, in which Abramovi used pigs blood to write phrases like Fresh morning urine sprinkle over nightmare dreams, or with a sharp knife cut deeply into the middle finger of your left hand eat the pain, on the walls of museums. In 1996, she also created an aphrodisiac cookbook of the same name.

A YouTube video of the performance taking place at the Zerynthia Associazione per Larte Contemporanea in Paliano, Italy was hit with a slew of confused commenters over the weekend. Conspiracy theorist and media analyst Mark Dice wrote, illuminati psychos. Podesta and Hillary, what else do you expect?

Defending herself, Abramovi maintains the truth about her work, which deals more with an aesthetically-provocative spirituality than with satan-worshipping cults, can be found in her memoirs.

Im outraged, because this is taken completely out of my context, she said. Anybody who wants can read my memoirs and find out that [my work] is far away from Satanism.

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Conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol insurrection continue to flood private messaging groups, social networks and even major news outlets one year later.

Why it matters: The lasting echo chamber of misinformation shows the long-term impact the event will have on future elections.

The big picture: The Capitol siege was a central part of the right-wing narrative around the "Big Lie" the collection of falsehoods alleging the 2020 election was stolen through voting fraud. The "Big Lie"is now being used to rally conservatives ahead of the 2022 midterms.

Driving the news:Although many individuals and groups werekicked off mainstream platformsin the wake of the Capitol siege which Holt says helped prevent any major follow-up events right-wing extremists have found plenty of alternative options for convening online.

How it works: Bad actors and conspiracy theorists seed falsehoods on private messaging apps or conservative social apps. That misinformation is tested and iterated before making it to bigger web platforms.

Be smart: Far-right and conspiratorial positions are increasingly being wedged into "culture war" debates, often echoed by Fox News, other conservative outlets and members of Congress which pushes them into the mainstream.

The bottom line: Theres such division within this country politically and ideologically that people do not want to consume information that does not come from their life and their worldview, said Rachel Moran, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washingtons Information School.

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