Proud Boys, other fringe groups find refuge - and money - on Christian fundraising website
Amy Brittain and David Willman, The Washington Post
Jan. 18, 2021
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Henry Enrique Tarrio had already publicized his plans to participate in the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally. The 36-year-old Miami resident and national chairman of the Proud Boys posted on social media that he would direct small teams of his far-right group with a history of violence to wear black and fan out across Washington.
But when he arrived in D.C. on Jan. 4 ahead of the scheduled demonstrations, he said, 15 cop cars swarmed his Honda Crosstour soon after he passed through the Third Street Tunnel. Tarrio was wanted on a misdemeanor charge from December accusing him of setting fire to a historic Black church s Black Lives Matter banner.
D.C. officials try to strike balance between First Amendment and securing inauguration
Marissa J. Lang, The Washington Post
Jan. 17, 2021
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WASHINGTON - There will be no tourists dotting the sprawling green grass of the Capitol lawn as Joe Biden is inaugurated the 46th president of the United States. There will be no cheering crowds, no vendors hawking merchandise. The monuments named in honor of former presidents - Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson - will be closed.
But there will be protests - exactly two, with fewer than 100 demonstrators at each, tucked away near the National Archives and the Canadian Embassy inside a secure perimeter, along a largely vacant Pennsylvania Avenue.
Joel Perez prays during the Evangelicals for Trump campaign event held at the King Jesus International Ministry as they await the arrival of President Donald Trump on January 03, 2020 in Miami, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Preliminary 2020 election exit polls released Wednesday suggest that President Donald Trump lost about 4 percentage points in white evangelical support compared to the 2016 election, but gained support in key demographics such as Catholics, Protestants, blacks and Latinos.
Early exit polling data conducted for The Washington Post and other media outlets indicates that Trump, the Republican incumbent, garnered 76% of the white evangelical vote, while former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden picked up 23% of the white evangelical vote.
Matthew Gaines statue set to be erected on Texas A&M campus by end of year
Student organization has commissioned sculptors
SOURCE: The Matthew Gaines Initiative website
SOURCE: The Matthew Gaines Initiative website
and last updated 2021-01-19 19:08:25-05
COLLEGE STATION, Texas â Texas A&M students have long been advocating for a memorial of Texas Senator Matthew Gaines, an African American politician who advocated for racial justice in the 1800s, and who was instrumental in securing the land grant for what would become the Texas A&M campus in College Station.
âIt wasnât until, I think, 2017 that the Student Government Association, along with other entities, passed resolutions in support of creating an organization which would work on [creating a statue]; and having the university work on this as well, said Erica Pauls, Texas A&M student and president of the Matthew Gaines Society. The Matthew Gaines Initiative â now the Matthew Gaines Society â was cr