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January 6 marks the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol and failed insurrection in the United States. Kelvin Pierce saw eerie parallels between the events of that day and an ultraviolent race-war novel written by his neo-Nazi father that the FBI dubbed "the bible of the racist right." This RFE/RL documentary, Healing Hate, tells the story of how Pierce overcame his father's hateful ideology through his journeys across the South Caucasus nation of Georgia. By help...

Latest news relating to the issue of far-right extremism, also referred to as far-right politics, or the extreme right.

Despite outbreaks, some church leaders in Alberta have continued to downplay the severity of COVID-19. Choosing to double down on pandemic skepticism.

Credit Canton Repository via FBI filing A Stark County man has been arrested in connection with the violent January riots at the U.S. Capitol. John Douglas Wright was taken into custody Monday morning on numerous federal charges. According to a 15-page criminal complaint, Wright was identified by four witnesses as well as videos posted to his social media accounts. He initially denied being involved in the insurrection, but was reportedly caught on security footage inside of the building. Wrig...

After rioters outside the US Capitol sang Bob Marley’s 'Three Little Birds', here are more global instances when history has sounded a little out of tune.

Mall Closes After Pro-Trump Extremist Group Confuses It With Courthouse Targeted for Protest On 1/12/21 at 1:39 PM EST Extremist right-wing groups in support of President Donald Trump mistakenly called for an armed rally at an Alaska shopping center—and not at the similarly named courthouse by the state Capitol building nearly 900 miles away. The far-right Tree of Liberty and Boogaloo Boys websites scheduled protests for the upcoming weekend to challenge President-elect Joe Bidens election vi...

In the wake of the attack on the US Capitol, there has been a lot of discussion of the role of the 35-year-old US Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, who was one of the five people killed during the violence that day. Right-wing posters on social media platforms took little time to transform the woman from part of a group that the president-elect Joe Biden called “domestic terrorists” to a symbol of American patriotism, a woman who had spent half her life defending her country and was now stan...

The defining image of the storming of the US Capitol on January 6 was undoubtedly that of a bare-chested man posing resplendent in a horned fur hat and face paint. Images of him in his weird costume have been shared across the globe – he seems to perfectly encapsulate the absurdity of the mob takeover of America’s sacred seat of power. The individual in question has since been identified in the media as a far-right activist from Arizona by the name of Jacob Chansley (also known as Jake Ang...