In 1968, the Arizona Republic ran an incredible, 8-part series on the danger of far right extremism in Arizona. This was notable because that newspaper was a VERY CONSERVATIVE paper. The first Democrat it ever endorsed was Hillary in 2016.
This is the passage that most stood out to me. Can you imagine a conservative Republican media outlet today publishing an 8-part series on the anti-democratic threat posed by far right extremists?
FWIW, the guy I'm studying, Walter Huss (who became the chair of the OR GOP in 1978) had several pieces of literature from The Minutemen and other groups mentioned in this series. These folks were fringe, but they also had a huge mailing list and thousands of interested readers.