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Violence in doing violence to jewish people and black people and black people of color. they exchanged fantasies in plans about driving vehicles into protesters, which is of course exactly what happened, it's white extremists expert and cal stages told nbc news about this case. we have to tolerate bigotry in the marketplace of ideas, because of the first amendment. but when that bigotry turns into conspiratorial violence. there is redress. well the redress that is being sought here, is by nine plaintiffs, who were harmed by what happened in charlottesville, including a minister who was assault...

That is a racially motivated violent conspiracy and that's not anything that is protected by the first amendment or by any other sort of right that people have. >> reporter: the defendants are men who made themselves white power brands. richard spencer, chris cantwell, jeff scoop, matt heinbach, jason kessler, and more. they've argued they were simply engaging in their first amendment right to speech and pro protest. and that the violence is the fault of the police for senator not separating them from the counter protestors but what made the alt right grow so quickly, the internet, has been it...

That there was a conspiracy to commit racially-motivated violence. >> reporter: the discovery process has turned up documents that, beyond what they might mean for this lawsuit, revealed to the public how this movement worked. the exhibit list contains text messages that show extensive planning among leaders who have tried to distance themselves from each other since 2017. they show an embrace of violence and they show they weren't just jokes. is there like one comment that stands out at you? >> the image that -- um -- has stuck with me ever since the beginning of the case was one of the disco...

Fault of the police for senator not separating them from the counterprotestors but what made the alt right grow so quickly, the internet, has been its undoing in this case because the defendants left behind an enormous paper trail of what they say were jokes about racial violence. >> with an event like charlottesville that was national news, people may have seen the torch march. they might have seen the car attack on the news but if you look beneath the surface, there is just so much more. and what that evidence shows is that there was a conspiracy to commit racially-motivated violence. >> rep...

Out at you? >> the image that has stuck with me ever since the beginning of the case was one of the discord post pictures. it shows a tractor running people over, and it's call the protester digester. there's many, many posts in this case about running over people with cars prior to the car attack on august 12th. but that one to me was, like i can't get it out of my head. >> hundreds of fascists on all sides. >> reporter: if you're saying organized violence on the one hand is not protected by the first amendment but speech that does talk about violence is protected, there's obviously going to ...