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- On Jan 10th, 2018, [19-year-old Brandon Griesemer made 22 death threat phone calls to CNN's Atlanta headquarters:](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/23/michigan-man-accused-of-threatening-to-attack-cnn-identified-with-hitler-former-classmate-says/?utm_term=.2829a1ddec97) “Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down,” he told a CNN operator. According to the Washington Post, a high school classmate of Griesemer described him as a Trump supporter who “came in after the election and was very happy.” The classmate, reported the Post, “compared Griesemer’s reaction to that of a fan whose team had won a big game.”
- On October 20th, 2017, after a Richard Spencer rally in Gainesville FL, 3 white supremacists from Texas drove around in a pickup truck, shouting pro-hitler slogans, and then [opened fire on a crowd of protesters](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/attempted-homicide-richard-spencer-speech-gainesville-florida_us_59ea766ae4b0958c468228ff). They drove off, and were arrested. One of them, in an interview with HuffPost, laid out the grievances that had brought him to town. "Basically, I’m just fed up with the fact that I’m cis-gendered, I’m a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side," wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. "And I get demonized if I don’t accept certain things."<sup>[1](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/attempted-homicide-richard-spencer-speech-gainesville-florida_us_59ea766ae4b0958c468228ff)</sup>
- On August 14th, 2017, at the [Unite the Right rally](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally) in Charlottesville VA, 20-year old Neo-nazi James Alex Fields Jr., [drove his car into a crowd of antifascist counterprotestors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide), wounding 19, and killing Heather Heyer, a paralegal from Charlottesville. Heyer's mother said she wanted Heather's name to become "a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion." <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide)</sup>
- On August 12, 2017, [DeAndre Harris was assaulted by six white men in an attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_of_DeAndre_Harris) in a parking garage next to the police headquarters during the [Unite the Right rally](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally) in [Charlottesville, Virginia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia), United States. Images and video of the assault captured by photojournalist Zach Roberts went viral and became a symbol of the enmity underlying the protest.
- On August 5, 2017, three members of a far-right militia [bombed the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/us/minnesota-mosque-explosion.html) McWhorter is alleged to have told an FBI agent that the attack was an attempt “to scare” Muslims “out of the country.” Luckily no one was killed. Back in 2017, one of the bombers, Hari, who owns a security company, [submitted a $10 billion proposal](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/14/he-wanted-to-build-trumps-border-wall-he-was-just-charged-in-the-bombing-of-a-minnesota-mosque/?utm_term=.f9c1d8da2fe1) to build Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. “We would look at the wall as not just a physical barrier to immigration but also as a symbol of the American determination to defend our culture, our language, our heritage, from any outsiders,” Hari said.
- On July 14th, 2017, alt-right activist, anti-feminist, and former intern of Milo Yiannapoulous, Lane Davis, [murdered his father for calling him a nazi](https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi).
- On July 18, 2017, A NASA researcher of South Asian descent has her [car windshield shattered by a rock thrown through it by an assailant screaming “go back to your country!” She’s injured in the attack.](https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/nasa-ames-researcher-targeted-in-apparent-hate-crime-in-central/article_a4692f40-6c23-11e7-bf61-df6e9cd0ff23.html)
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- https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/9r45is/new_history_whats_dat/e8eo670/
- https://theintercept.com/2018/10/27/here-is-a-list-of-far-right-attackers-trump-inspired-cesar-sayoc-wasnt-the-first-and-wont-be-the-last/