June 20, 2008 David Dees, a Louisville, Kentucky-based graphic artist, has found a large audience for his anti-Semitic and conspiratorial art. This artwork has been circulated on extremist email groups, published on the Websites of 9/11 conspiracy theorists and turned into videos posted on YouTube and other Websites. A biography of Dees posted to his Website claims that his images are "an attempt to wake others up about the onslaught of the elite's power hungry world government plan of…

June 17, 2008 Authorities in Phoenix, Arizona, have charged a white supremacist inmate with the murder of another inmate at the Fourth Avenue Jail in Maricopa County. Pete Van Winkle, 26, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood racist prison gang, allegedly beat to death fellow prisoner Robert Leroy Cotton, 28, on May 1, 2008. It has been reported that Cotton was also once an Aryan Brotherhood member, but had recently renounced his affiliation. The men were in housing for dangerous inmates,…

June 13, 2008   A Maricopa County, Arizona, judge has sentenced the last of four racist skinhead defendants for their role in the attempted murder of one of their own gang members in 2006.  Kelly Ann Harkins, 29, received an 18-year sentence on June 3, 2008, after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree murder. In January 2006, four members of the Arizona Northern America Skinheads/SS Guardians, a loosely organized racist skinhead group, took Amanda Crow, a 19-year-old…

June 13, 2008 A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury convicted a racist skinhead of conspiracy to commit murder and firearms violations in the 1989 slaying of an African-American man, but acquitted him on a more serious charge. The jury handed down the verdict against Thomas Gibison, 37, of Newark, Delaware, on June 3, 2008, after three days of deliberations. On April 16, 1989, a 33-year-old African-American man was found dead from a single gunshot to the head in North Philadelphia…

June 06, 2008 On June 1, 2008, after a four-month hiatus, white supremacist James Edwards and his staff, claiming to be the "voice of the movement," resumed hosting the Political Cesspool, a Memphis, Tennessee-based AM and Internet radio show on which anti-Semites, white supremacists, and other right-wing extremists regularly appear to voice their views. Guests on the June 1 show included anti-Semitic professor Kevin MacDonald and white supremacist Virginia Abernethy. Show sponsors include the…

April 14, 2008 A wave of anti-Semitic and racist fliers and incidents of vandalism has plagued towns throughout Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in the first four months of 2008. The Keystone State Skinheads (KSS), a racist skinhead group based in Pennsylvania, have posted racist fliers throughout neighborhoods and hung a banner promoting their white supremacist ideology over a highway in early April. In a separate incident, a local 18-year-old girl faces charges for spray painting a synagogue and…

April 03, 2008 Police in Portland, Oregon, have arrested two men they believe are linked to the racist prison gang European Kindred for intimidating a robbery victim to prevent him from testifying against other gang members. Authorities arrested Daniel Davis, 46, in March 2008, charging him with two counts of attempted aggravated murder, four counts of first-degree arson, and two counts of tampering with a witness. Authorities also charged Davis's alleged accomplice, David Rainey, 58,…

April 03, 2008 Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists plan to host events in Florida, Missouri, North Carolina and elsewhere to commemorate the April 20 birthday of Adolf Hitler. This year's events include an "Adolf Hitler Celebration," a "Fuhrer's Birthday Party," and a celebration of "the Great One's 120th birthday." Groups are promoting the meetings and celebrations as "family friendly" in an effort to pass on their hateful ideology to children and continue Hitler's legacy for future…

March 24, 2008 The Laurens, South Carolina-based Redneck Shop, known for selling Klan robes and other white supremacist items and for hosting Klan and neo-Nazi meetings, is at the center of a new dispute. David Kennedy, an African American civil rights leader, claims to own the building that houses The Redneck Shop.  He is now questioning whether John Howard, a former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) grand dragon who claims the right to use the building for the rest of his life, is operating the…

January 03, 2008 Police in Corona, California, arrested a member of the racist skinhead gang Public Enemy Number One (PEN1) for attempted murder. Kory Shaw, 32, was arrested on November 20, 2007, on a Riverside County felony arrest warrant for attempted murder stemming from an alleged attempted homicide in July 2007.  According to court documents, Shaw allegedly conspired with two white supremacist co-defendants (who were incarcerated at the time) to murder another inmate in the…

December 04, 2007   A self-proclaimed white supremacist has been charged with the murders of two men in Oklahoma. Darrell Lynn Madden, 37, of McClain County, was charged in November 2007 with both the October 2007 murder of a 62-year-old gay man and the murder a month later of a man suspected to be Madden's accomplice in the October killing. According to authorities, both Madden and his 26-year-old alleged accomplice, Bradley Qualls, were linked to a white supremacist group…

November 06, 2007 A much circulated e-mail message claims that the University of Kentucky has "removed the Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offended' the Muslim population." There is absolutely no truth to this rumor. This rumor is nearly identical to an earlier e-mail rumor about schools in the U.K. It appears someone substituted the words "University of Kentucky" for "U.K." and recirculated the message.

September 18, 2007 A federal judge in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California, sentenced two high ranking members of the racist prison gang Aryan Brotherhood to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The September 10, 2007, sentencing follows the January 9, 2007, conviction of Robert Lee "Blinky" Griffin, 59, and John William “Youngster” Stinson, 52, on federal racketeering charges stemming from six murders and three attempted assassinations under the RICO …

September 07, 2007   Following a two year investigation, police in Hingham, Massachusetts, arrested two alleged white supremacists for the April 2005 murders and mutilation of two homeless men. Eric Jeremy Snow, 25, and James Scott Winquist, 23, were arrested on August 31, 2007, and charged with murder after law enforcement listened to recorded phone conversations between the two men allegedly discussing the killings. The two men reportedly met while inmates in 2003.  Two…

August 22, 2007 Hillsborough County Sheriff's Sergeant Ronald Harrison was killed in the early morning hours of August 15, 2007, in Brandon, Florida, by a lone white supremacist in what investigators are calling a random attack. The shooter, Michael Allen Phillips, 24, was shot and killed by SWAT members a few hours later, after a stand-off with police in which he fired numerous shots at officers surrounding his mother’s house, where he lived. According to law enforcement, during…

August 14, 2007   Two detectives from the Bastrop, Louisiana, Police Department were killed in a shootout at a motel while trying to apprehend a fugitive—who turned out to be a member of the Aryan Circle, a violent racist prison gang -- on the run from a double murder in Texas. The Aryan Circle member, Dennis Leighton Clem, also died in the August 10, 2007, motel shootout.  A female associate, Tonya Smith, allegedly fled the scene, but was captured two days later in…

August 10, 2007 A federal court in Binghamton, New York, has permanently barred tax protester Robert Schulz and his two organizations, We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education Inc., and We the People Congress Inc., from promoting a tax fraud scheme. Schulz is one of the most prominent leaders of the anti-government tax protest movement in the United States. Schulz allegedly used the two entities to promote a nationwide tax fraud scheme called the "Tax Termination Package"…

July 27, 2007 “Operation Blue and White” is the name of a lengthy undercover investigation into alleged firearms and drug trafficking violations by members of the Peckerwoods, a white supremacist outlaw motorcycle gang. The Los Angeles Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the San Diego County Sheriff's Department initiated the investigation in 2006. The investigation recently resulted in the seizure of  24 firearms, including…

July 27, 2007   A Superior Court Judge in Pima County, Arizona, sentenced Blake Joseph Edwards, 32, to 11 years in prison for the racially motivated aggravated assault of an African-American man inside of a restaurant last year.   Edwards, who has the words “pecker” and “wood” tattooed on his knees, was also ordered to pay $75,000 in restitution, with the possibility of more compensation ordered in the future. The term Peckerwood is commonly…

July 23, 2007 An unsigned e-mail message, which has been widely forwarded, claims that the actress Angelina Jolie has made unflattering statements "both verbally and in writing" about America and Israel. This rumor surfaced around the time of the June 2007 premiere of "A Mighty Heart," in which Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl, the wife of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was killed by Islamic extremists in Pakistan. The e-mail claims that Jolie "hates The American Fascist…