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However, as new right-wing groups emerged with no connection to historical fascism, the use of the term "right-wing extremism" came to be more widely used. [34] Jeffrey Kaplan and Leonard Weinberg argued that the radical right in the U.S. and right-wing populism in Europe were the same phenomenon that existed throughout the Western world.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. It identified 276 in 2015, up from 202 in 2014. [1] In 2016, the SPLC identified a total of 165 armed militia groups within the United States. [2] [3]
The right-wing groups largely retreated from downtown by 2:30 p.m. and an unlawful assembly was declared at 2:50 p.m.; the counter-protesters returned to Terry Schrunk Plaza, though the plaza was cleared and arrests were made after another unlawful assembly was declared by federal officials. Federal buildings had been closed that weekend due to ...
On January 2, 2016, an armed group of Right-wing militants [26] seized and occupied the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, [27] and continued to occupy it until law enforcement made a final arrest on February 11, 2016. [28]
[1] [2] [4] [5] The SPLC listed 1,020 hate groups and hate-group chapters on its 2018 list—an all-time high fueled primarily by an increase in radical right groups. [2] The number of SPLC-designated active hate groups and hate-group chapters subsequently declined to 838 in 2020, and 733 in 2021.
On August 29, 2020, Aaron Danielson, an American supporter of the far-right group Patriot Prayer, [1] [2] was shot and killed by a far-left activist after participating in a caravan which drove through Portland, Oregon, displaying banners and signs supporting President Donald Trump, [3] and clashing with participants in the local George Floyd protests.
[6] [7] The group's name derives from the erroneous [8] [9] claim that "the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists" during the American Revolution. [10] The group is based in the U.S. and has a presence in Canada. It has been described as the "most dangerous" extremist group in ...
The far-right Spanish party Vox initially introduced the Madrid Charter project, a planned group to denounce left-wing groups in Ibero-America, to the government of United States president Donald Trump while visiting the United States in February 2019, with Santiago Abascal and Rafael Bardají using their good relations with the administration ...