David Neiwert

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Investigative journalist based in the Pacific Northwest, senior staff writer for Daily Kos, SPLC veteran, author of 10 books, including 'The Age of Insurrection: The Ongoing War on American Democracy,' out in June 2023 (Melville).
David NeiwertJan 6, 2023

One of the reasons we are awash in far-right extremism is that the public is often deliberately ignorant about the subject. This is understandable: it’s an ugly topic that deals with the worst of humanity. But it makes us all vulnerable to their predatory tactics.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/5/2145598/-Neofascist-skinheads-deceiving-facility-owners-with-hate-festivals-disguised-as-MMA-tourneys

As rueful Pasco event officials discovered, neo-Nazi skinheads use MMA tourneys as hate festivals

As far as the overseers of a publicly owned events center in Pasco, Washington, could tell, the men who approached them about hosting a mixed-martial arts tournament last month were just ordinary boxing promoters looking for a facility. So the event...

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David NeiwertJan 4, 2023

The foundation of stochastic terrorism is always eliminationist rhetoric of the kind Chaya Raichik wields with abandon.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/3/2145218/-When-hatemongers-like-LibsofTikTok-s-Raichik-spread-anti-LGBTQ-smears-real-violence-happens

When hatemongers like LibsofTikTok’s Raichik spread anti-LGBTQ smears, real violence happens

When Chaiya Raichik, the former Brooklyn real-estate agent behind the stochastic-terroism-promoting LibsofTikTok account on Twitter, appeared publicly for the first time on Tucker Carlson’s daytime Fox Nation show last week, she claimed she was...

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David NeiwertJan 4, 2023
#TodaysBeauty is a pair of Steller sea lions poking their heads up near the haulout at Spieden Island on Saturday.
David NeiwertJan 4, 2023
We lost one of the great ones recently.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/2/2142799/-Ken-Balcomb-s-considerable-scientific-legacy-outweighed-by-movement-to-save-SRKWs-he-created
Ken Balcomb’s considerable scientific legacy outweighed by movement he created to save SRKWs

Everyone who knew Ken Balcomb—the great whale scientist who died this week at age 82 after a long struggle with cancer—has stories to tell about him, often many of them. My favorite is one that he liked to tell sometimes, but that other people I know...

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David NeiwertDec 30, 2022

My year-end report on the Southern Residents.

dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/26/2142812/-Southern-Resident-report-for-2022-Orcas-return-to-Salish-Sea-in-summer-but-worries-remain

David NeiwertDec 24, 2022
#TodaysBeauty is one of the angels (specifically, the Angel With the Sudarium) on Bernini's Bridge of Angels in Rome. With a companion. Taken December 2019.
David NeiwertDec 23, 2022
Greg SargentDec 23, 2022

Tucker Carlson's repulsive attack on Zelensky claimed he "humiliated" the US by addressing Congress in a sweatshirt. But his speech was more humiliating to Tucker and the Putinists than to anyone else.

I tallied up the things Tucker got wrong this year in this new piece:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/23/tucker-carlson-zelensky-speech-congress-2022-elections/

Tucker Carlson’s rage at Zelensky caps a year of getting things wrong

Carlson's worldview is getting repudiated on one front after another.

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Show threadDavid NeiwertDec 23, 2022

As a fourth-generation Idahoan who has watched this happening in slow motion since the Aryan Nations' arrival in the late '70s, all I can do is shine a light on them and hope the exposure helps send them scattering.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/3/2114308/-Tide-of-far-right-newcomers-is-realizing-Richard-Butler-s-vision-of-a-white-homeland-in-Idaho

Idaho nears the fulfillment of Aryan Nations leader’s vision for creating a white-nationalist haven

Part one of a two-part series. Part two here. Back in the 1970s and ‘80s—a period when white supremacists and far-right nationalists had been largely relegated to the fringes of American politics—the remnants of the movement devised a strategy for...

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Show threadDavid NeiwertDec 23, 2022

And as Chris Mathias showed in his piece about Idaho's descent into the radicalization abyss, guys like Foxx are quite explicit about their intentions.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/far-right-idaho_n_628277e2e4b0c84db7282bd6

Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho

A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty. Some wonder: Is it time to leave?

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Show threadDavid NeiwertDec 23, 2022

Foxx's presence in Idaho -- along with his 'Red Ice' cohorts, and white nationalist political operative Dave Reilly -- reflects the radicalism of the political bloc of Republicans who empower and enable them: Brett Regan's Kootenai County Republican Central Committee and his powerful Idaho Freedom Foundation. Every one of them is an out-of-state transplant.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/4/2114565/-Regan-s-IFF-and-GOP-organizations-have-laid-out-welcome-mat-for-extremists-to-move-to-Idaho

Regan’s IFF and GOP organizations have laid out welcome mat for extremists to move to Idaho

Second of two parts. Part One here. Generally speaking, Idaho voters statewide have served as something of a bulwark against the spread of far-right extremism within the ranks of the Republican Party. When the state’s militia-loving lieutenant...

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