In the wake of Donald Trumps failure to immediately condemn the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis following the events in Charlottesville, VA by condemning violence on both sides, he repeated a long history of blaming others for acts of terror perpetrated by white supremacists. To put Charlottesville in context, lets review the history of white supremacist violence in the United States.

Although not the only white terrorist organizationthere are an estimated 917 hate groups currently active in the U.S.the Ku Klux Klan holds an iconic place in America. The Klan, formed immediately after the Civil War, began as a means to undermine former slaves freedom through acts of racial terror and intimidation. It declined during the late 19th century, but its ideas lingered on in the Jim Crow system of discrimination. The modern Klan re-emerged in 1915 at Stone Mountain, GA and grew into a national organization in the 1920s. During the Civil Rights Movement, the Klan bombed activists homes and churches and murdered those sympathetic to civil rights. Klan activity waned in the 1970s but the events in Charlottesville remind us that they have not gone away.

1. Fort Pillow Massacre, April 12, 1864

A statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis, Tennessee built in 1901 and still standing today despite a city counsel vote to remove it in 2016 (left). An 1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper (right).

In response to the Union Armys enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated.

Although far from the only atrocity against black troops during the war, it became a rallying cry for black soldiers to Remember Fort Pillow! After the war, General Forrest spent his remaining years denying that a massacre had occurredhe insisted that there had been no surrenderwhile also founding a soon-to-be well-known white terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan.

2. New Orleans Massacre, July 30, 1866

An 1866 illustration of the violence in New Orleans against the Louisiana Constitutional Conventions black delegates.

In 1866, at the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, ex-Confederates led by the Mayor of New Orleans opened fire on a parade of 130 black men celebrating the convention before attacking those in the convention hall. By the time they ran out of ammunition, 238 were dead, the majority of whom were black Union veterans or delegates. Federal troops arrived too late to stop the violence and although the mayor lost his office, no one faced charges for the massacre.

The attackers blamed black paraders for inciting the violence, but the mass shooting was a clear attempt to prevent expanding voting rights as the convention met to reverse the legislatures refusal to enfranchise black men. Coming just two months after a massacre in Memphis, TN, the violence backfired as it aided the Republican Party in Congressional elections that fall, which led to federal occupation of the South and measures to allow black voting rights.

3. Colfax Massacre, April 13, 1873

A historical plaque erected in 1950 calling the Colfax Massacre a riot and placing the blame on northerners (left). An 1873 depiction of the aftermath of the Colfax Massacre published in Harpers Weekly showing survivors gathering the dead and wounded (middle). The inscription of a memorial built in 1921 to honor the three white men who died fighting for white supremacy (right). Both the plaque and monument are still standing in Colfax.

After a contested election in Louisiana, armed, white Democrats and ex-Confederates overpowered black Republicans who were protecting a courthouse from Democratic seizure. Both sides were armed but the black defenders proved no match against the white attackers numbers and armaments. Waving white flags, the black defenders surrendered, but were nevertheless mowed down after laying down their weapons. An estimated 153 black men were killed. Far from a mere dispute over an election, one of the attacks leaders made the aim clear: Boys, this is a struggle for white supremacy.

While being one of the worst instances of racial violence during Reconstruction, its legal ramifications proved far more enduring. The federal government sought to punish the killers, but the resulting Supreme Court case, United States v. Cruikshank (1876), stripped its power to protect black Americans from racial violence as the court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to individuals actions, only state ones.

4. Wilmington Insurrection, November 10, 1898

Armed white vigilantes posing in front of the burned newspaper office of a black-owned paper, The Wilmington Daily Record, in 1898.

Before the violence started, black voters were a numerical majority in Wilmington, NC. By the end, they were a minority. In local elections two days before the violent coup dtat, biracial coalitions elected a white Republican mayor and a biracial city council while white Democrats won the rest of the state. Furious at the election results in Wilmington, a white supremacist and former Confederate, Alfred Moore Waddell, led 2,000 insurrectionists against the citys legitimately elected officials, attacked black homes and businesses, and installed himself as mayor.

An editorial in the citys black-owned newspaper suggesting that some white women sought sexual relationships with black mena taboo topicsupposedly justified the attack. The insurrectionists torched the newspaper and killed roughly 60 black Wilmingtonians. Over 2,100 African-Americans left the city during the carnage and did not return. North Carolina subsequently disenfranchised its black population.

5. Red Summer, May 10-October 1, 1919

An inflammatory newspaper headline meant to justify the recent mass violence against African-Americans in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 by suggesting that the black population had planned an uprising (left). A white mob poses with the body of a lynched African-American in Omaha, Nebraska in September 1919 (right).

As America demobilized from World War I, whites frustrated by job and housing shortages rioted in over three dozen cities during the summer of 1919, killing hundreds and injuring thousands of African-Americans. White mobs initiated every attack, but the press blamed Bolshevist agitation while others faulted the attitude of returning black soldiers.

The worst violence occurred in Elaine, AR when black sharecroppers gathered to unionize. White planters tried to disperse the unionizers but were met by armed resistance. After exchanging fire, the sheriff died. Subsequently, hundreds of armed whites converged to attack and kill the black population indiscriminately. When federal troops arrived, they detained hundreds of black people until white employers vouched for them. In the end, 122 blacks and no whites were charged with crimes. Twelve black men were executed for murder (5 whites had been killed) while the murders of over 237 black men, women, and children went unpunished.

6. Tulsa Race Riot, May 31-June 1, 1921

Black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma were rounded up and imprisoned during the riot in 1921 (left). The black section of Tulsa, disparagingly nicknamed Little Africa but called Greenwood by its residents, ablaze during the riot (right). A panoramic photograph showing the extent of the damage to Greenwood after the riot (bottom).

For 14 hours in 1921, mass violence engulfed Tulsa, OK. White rioters killed around 300 black Tulsans, injured hundreds, and leveled the black section of townGreenwood. The riot began after thousands gathered to lynch a black teen suspected of assaulting a white teen. When a small contingent of armed black men tried to prevent the lynching, the white mob began looting and shooting wildly as rumors of a Negro uprising spread. The police and hastily deputized recruits rounded up thousands of black Tulsans into detention centers while white vigilantes set Greenwood ablazeeven using planes to bomb the area.

Afterwards, a grand jury faulted the black men who prevented the lynching for inciting the riot. Those wanting to rebuild the once-prosperous Greenwoodwhich had been nicknamed the Black Wall Streetwere unable as new fire codes made rebuilding all-but impossible. The next year, 1,700 Klansmen marched through Tulsa and won election to most local offices.

7. Ku Klux Klan KonKlave, August 9, 1925

The movie poster for D.W. Griffiths The Birth of a Nation (1915), a film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan and vilified African-Americans (left). An aerial view of the Ku Klux Klans 1925 march in Washington, D.C. (middle). The 1926 issue of The Good Citizen, an anti-Catholic magazine and staunch supporter of the Klan, depicting Klan members surrounded by the trappings of patriotism and Christianity while one member stomps a Catholic priest into the ground (right).

In 1925, 30,000 Klan members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Klan membership soared in the 1920s after the release of Birth of a Nation (1915) and amid immigration fears. Expanding its hate to Jews and Catholics, the 1920s Klan held a more prominent and national role than its earlier iteration. In marches like this, its brand of nativism, bigotry, intimidation, and extralegal violence were shrouded in patriotism. Women and children attended the march too, giving the event a picnic atmosphere.

Although no one died in the ostensibly peaceful demonstration, the march itself was a show of force with a clear message to the nations non-white, non-Protestant populationas was the 80-foot cross they lit that night. Marching confidently with hoods raised, Klan members acted with impunity. Despite hundreds of acts of violence annually, the Klan was a popular and respectable fraternal organization of white terrorists in the 1920s and beyond who scapegoated Catholics, Jews, and African-Americans.

8. 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, September 15, 1963

The damage to the 16th Street Baptist Church by a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963 (left). The four young girls killed in the bombing were in the churchs basement changing into choir robes. Clockwise from top left: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNair (right).

Two weeks after Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech, Klan members bombed an Alabama church with 200 worshipers inside. Killing 4 children and injuring 22 others, the bomb was the fourth in Birmingham in as many weeks in a city nicknamed Bombingham. Fed up, black residents protested that night, but were met only with violence.

The police shot one black teenager in the back while two white youths leaving an anti-integration rally killed another black teen.

Neither the police nor the two white youths faced consequences. The history of framing white supremacist violence as justifiable acts of self-defense set the stage for excusing these killings. No one was charged in the attack until 1977 when one Klansman was convicted for the bombing. Two others were convicted in 2001 and 2002, while the fourth perpetrator died without ever being charged.

9. Greensboro Massacre, November 3, 1979

A flyer advertising the Death to the Klan march in November 1979 (left). A March for Justice following the Greensboro Massacre (right).

A 1979 anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, NC turned violent when 40 members of the Klan and American Nazi Party arrived with guns and fired into the crowd after the anti-Klan protestors pelted their vehicles with rocks. Klansmen killed 5 and wounded nearly a dozen others. The organizers of the anti-Klan march had openly called for the Klan to be beaten and chased out of town as this is the only language they understand, but were unprepared for the ensuing violence.

Despite being filmed by a local TV news crew, the 5 Klansmen charged with murder were acquitted by an all-white jury with the claim of self-defense. In 2009, the Greensboro City Council passed a resolution of regret for the murders and acknowledged its culpability in it as a police officer had given the Klan a map of the march route and was one of the 40 Klan members present.

10. Overland Park Jewish Community Center Shooting, April 13, 2014

Frazier Glenn Miller, a former Ku Klux Klan member convicted of murdering three people in 2014, published a racist tirade against Jews and Negroes in 1999 (left). The Overland Park Jewish Community Center the year before Millers 2014 shooting spree (right).

Klan members and other hate groups have long disparaged Jewish Americans, but the 2014 shooting at a Jewish community center in Kansas by an elderly former Army Green Beret, Klansman, and neo-Nazi shocked the nation. Frazier Glenn Miller killed three people, including a 14-year-old boy, in an attempt to kill as many Jews as he could. Miller failed, however, as his three victims were Christians. Miller had a long history of anti-Semitism, insisting that white people needed protection from Jews. Unlike many other white supremacist killings, Miller received a death sentence for his crimes. Upon conviction, he yelled Sieg Heil and gave the Nazi salute.

Had he been held accountable for earlier white supremacist activities, however, he might not have been able to carry out his shooting spree. A member of the National Socialist Party of America, Miller attended the Greensboro Massacre thirty-five years earlier.

This list is far from inclusive or even a ranking of the largest casualties from white supremacist violence but instead merely a sampling of some of the many instances of violence.

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About 100 members of Patriot Front snaked through the city on Saturday afternoon. Dressed in khaki pants, navy T-shirts, sunglasses and baseball caps, and wearing white neck gaiters covering most of their faces, they were videotaped in well-known spots along the Freedom Trail.

The demonstration turned violent when members of the group allegedly assaulted Charles Murrell III as they marched. Murrell, who uses any pronouns, was taken by ambulance to Tufts Medical Center for injuries to their right ring finger, head, and left eyebrow, according to a police report.

On the way to the hospital, Murrell told police that while walking on Dartmouth Street, they were shoved around and in the middle of the group of individuals with shields and masks, the report said. The report said Murrell eventually shoved back and then was knocked to the ground and faced hits and kicks from a larger majority of the group.

Murrell took part in the press conference on the library steps Monday. As throngs of people wearing red, white, and blue for the Fourth of July ambled through the square, the sorrowful notes of the African American spiritual Another Man Done Gone rang through the air.

He had a long chain on, had a long chain on, sang Murrell. They killed another man, killed another man. Another man done gone.

Boston police had not made any arrests Monday. Sergeant Detective John Boyle, the departments head spokesperson, said detectives and the civil rights unit continue to investigate the incident. The department has not yet determined whether the white supremacists are from Massachusetts or out of state.

Thats all part of the investigation, Boyle said.

Police spokesperson Andre Watson said the group did not pull any permits for Saturdays march, which he said is not uncommon for protests.

Mawakana Onifade, an adviser for Murrell, said there should be more accountability for elected officials and the police.

To look at this incident as a one-off [event] is an atrocity and a crime, Onifade said. This is the old age that needs to be dismantled.

The Rev. Miniard Culpepper of Pleasant Hill Missionary Church, whos running for the 2nd Suffolk state Senate seat, called for policy changes at the state level. He said state leaders should create a racism, reconciliation, and restoration commission.

We need to look at the data at how often these incidents take place, the size of these organizations, and organizations that are spewing similar hatred, he said. The state can look and begin to collect data.

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Patriot Front as a Texas-based white nationalist hate group that split from the fascist organization, Vanguard America, following the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.

In June, police in Idaho arrested 31 men associated with the Patriot Front who were packed into a U-Haul truck, allegedly en route to cause a violent disruption at a Pride celebration. Authorities charged them with misdemeanor conspiracy to riot.

Between November 2017 and December, the Anti-Defamation League documented more than 600 incidents in Massachusetts involving Patriot Front. The incidents included the distribution of Patriot Front propaganda and acts of vandalism, ADL records show.

In the ADLs latest report about the distribution of white supremacist propaganda, the organization said last year Patriot Front was responsible for more than 82 percent of incidents nationwide. Its propaganda efforts were most active, the ADL said, in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas, and Maryland.

Patriot Front activities in 2021 included destroying Black Live Matters statues and murals, stealing and burning yard signs and flags celebrating diversity and the LGBTQ community, and distributing propaganda at Jewish institutions, the ADL said.

At a Fourth of July speech at Faneuil Hall Monday morning, Mayor Wu condemned the white supremacist group, saying, We wont let any bigots intimidate us in our work to build a city for everyone.

Wu celebrated the citys pivotal role in the nations founding and referenced hopes for Bostons future.

Boston has always been a city of the future, she said, pointing to its status as a leader in the fights for the abolition of slavery and, a century and a half later, for marriage equality.

She added that freedom is an ongoing mission, saying that it is not anything that we have, but a thing that we do.

Boston City Council president Ed Flynn said he was outraged when he learned about the white supremacist march through the district he represents. Flynn wants to see members of the group charged for civil rights violations.

They are intentionally coming to Boston looking to divide the city, looking to exploit the city for their own political cause, and people say that theyre entitled to their free speech, but I would draw the line when that free speech is hate speech and that hate speech turns quickly to violence, he said.

Boston Globe Correspondent Anjali Huynh contributed to this report. Material from previous Globe stories was used in this report.

Tiana Woodard is a Report for America corps member covering Black neighborhoods. She can be reached at tiana.woodard@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter at @tianarochon. Taylor Dolven can be reached at taylor.dolven@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @taydolven.

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Nicholas Fuentes hosting his weekly livestream "America First with Nicholas Fuentes"

1. Nicholas Fuentes is a white supremacist leader and organizer and podcaster who seeks to forge a white nationalist alternative to the mainstream GOP.

Nicholas Fuentes first gained widespread notoriety in 2017 when he left Boston University after he reported receiving threats tied to his attendance at the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

He has since become a prominent white supremacist pundit and organizer who has united disparate groups within what was until recently known as the alt right. In 2017, Fuentes began hosting his livestream show America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes, which attracted a cult-like following. Fuentes refers to these supporters as Groypers or the Groyper Army, who see their bigoted views as necessary to preserve white, European-American identity and culture. They believe that the mainstream conservative movement is just as responsible as liberals and the left for destroying white America, and that Groypers are the true future of the conservative movement.

Fuentes seeks to carve out a space that deliberately and publicly challenges the mainstream conservative movement while doubling down on themes central to the white supremacist movement. Fuentes and his America First adherents vocally support the closure of the U.S. borders to immigrants, while opposing liberal values such as feminism and LGBTQ+ rights. Fuentes views these societal changes as the bastardized Jewish subversion of the American creed. The Founders never intended for America to be a refugee camp for nonwhite people. He often uses his platform to further conspiracy theories about the impending destruction of the white race, also known as white genocide. In one Tweet, Fuentes stated, Our civilization is being dismantled, our people are being genocided, and conservatives cant think past what will play well with liberal media in the next election.

His podcast, titled America First, was initially inspired by the speeches and platform of former President Donald Trump. However, Fuentes later adopted the term for his own purposes after distancing himself from the GOP platform to attract young conservatives. Fuentes and his followers angrily objected to the Trump administrations embrace of Israel, as well as mainstream conservatives support for globalism, (a right-wing slur/theory about a cabal of elites who are controlling the world), endless wars and other issues they felt ran counter to a truly America First agenda.

In an effort to further distance himself from the mainstream GOP, Fuentes founded the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) in 2020. AFPAC ostensibly serves as a counterweight to the annual CPAC event held at the same time, which is largely attended by mainstream conservative activists and elected officials. In 2021, AFPAC included a variety of right-wing pundits, including Michelle Malkin and Steve King, along with white supremacists like Vincent James Foxx of the Red Elephant. Speakers expressed contempt for the Republican Party, describing members as sell-outs willing to betray their constituents.

2) Nicholas Fuentes believes that he is working to defend against leftist cultural changes that are destroying the true America: a white, Christian nation.

While Fuentes promotes white supremacist beliefs, he adamantly claims not to be a white supremacist, calling the term an anti-white slur. Rather, Fuentes positions himself as Christian conservative who opposes societal shifts on immigration, abortion and more -- as nefarious efforts, led by the left, to fundamentally erode Americas Christian values. This cloaking of ideology is a ploy to attract mainstream support and distract from the groups fundamentally white supremacist ideology.

Fuentes often pulls on themes prevalent in the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory, or what Fuentes calls Great Replacement REALITY. This idea focuses on the belief that native white Europeans are being replaced in their own countries by non-white immigrants from Africa and the Middle East, with the end result being the extinction of the white race. Fuentes tweeted in June, If you are a White male zoomer, remember that the people in power hate you and your unborn children and they will try to genocide you in your lifetime. Fuentes attempts to streamline his extreme ideology by aligning himself with Christianity and traditional values. During his AFPAC keynote speech, Fuentes asserted that even though adherents of the America First movement are sheep among the wolves and the snakes, they will ultimately prevail as they have the protection of God and Jesus.

Fuentes rejects the mainstream Republican Party, claiming that many Groypers, including himself, were once strong Trump supporters but are now angry that the Republican Party is not doing enough to deal with demographic and cultural changes that affect the white population in the U.S. According to Fuentes, the new Republican Party is the party of climate change, universal health care and black lives matter. Fuentes and his followers often dress in suits and ties to project a mainstream conservative image, highlighting the Groypers central goal of disrupting and replacing the established GOP. Fuentes says his vision is to redefine the right-wing by solidifying the political realignment that Donald Trump initiated in 2016 under the banner, slogan and principles of America First.

Like many other right-wing extremists, Fuentes often blankets his bigoted beliefs in sarcasm and ironic humor; he uses cartoonish memes and just joking banter, all while spreading white supremacist propaganda. During an April taping of his show, Fuentes responded to an audience members question about how to respond to his wife getting out of line, saying, Why dont you give her a vicious and forceful backhanded slap with your knuckles right across her face disrespectfully and make it hurt?...Just kidding of coursejust a jokeI would never lay a hand on a women, unless she had it coming. Fuentes often uses terms like culture as substitutes for more divisive terms such as race, and promotes American values as a code for white culture and identity. Fuentes largely avoids blatant white supremacist language, and instead focuses on anti-establishment thinking targeting the GOP, mainstream media and leftists. This strategy, along with adoption of mainstream meme culture like Pepe the Frog, allows the America First movement to attract younger, mainstream conservatives, who are then exposed to the groups extremist ideology.

3) Fuentes has used his platforms to make numerous antisemitic and racist comments.

Fuentes has made a number of racist and antisemitic comments under the guise of being provocative and ironic. For example, he has referred to Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh as shabbos goy race traitor because he works for Jews (Ben Shapiro, a Jewish conservative, runs the Daily Wire). On a livestream episode, Fuentes jokingly denied the Holocaust and compared Jews burnt in concentration camps to cookies in an oven. On May 24, 2021, Fuentes participated in a debate on right-wing conspiracist Alex Jones InfoWars with Robert Barnes, a man described as a constitutional lawyer who has legally defended both Jones and Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. During the debate, Fuentes made numerous antisemitic remarks, including, "I dont see Jews as Europeans and I dont see them as part of Western civilization, particularly because they are not Christians. In April, Fuentes appeared to urge mainstream Republicans to champion an antisemitic focus on Jewish control, tweeting, The next big frontier for populist and conservative inc [sic; this is the America First term for establishment GOPers] to coopt [sic] is discussing Jewish Power. Somehow I dont think theyll broach that one!

Fuentes asserts that whites are under attack and that minorities are changing the texture of life in America. Fuentes often speaks about the white supremacist ideas of race realism, a belief that ones race governs traits such as behavior and intelligence with non-whites being inferior to whites. For example, Fuentes tweeted, Any serious person thinking about globalization and demographic changes should actually care a lot about racial differences in intelligence. But this subject doesnt interest you because its not convenient for your trojan horse brand of kosher nationalism.

Recently, Fuentes used the aftermath of the Derek Chauvin verdict as proof that minorities are being put at the top of a racial caste system. During the 2021 AFPAC, Fuentes remarked further on the rising civil rights movement championed by Black Lives Matter, stating White people founded this country. This country wouldnt exist without white peoplepeople are done being bullied. Fuentes has also made racist comments asserting that segregation and policies in the pre-civil rights-era American South was better for them, its better for us, its better in general.

Fuentes has repeatedly been suspended from a number of social media and video and audio sharing platforms, including YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, Spotify, Venmo, Stripe, Clubhouse as well as numerous others, for violating terms of policy with his hateful, bigoted rhetoric and imagery. Most recently, he was banned from his podcast streaming service, DLive, following his attendance at the pro-Trump rally on January 6, and now hosts his show on Alex Jones platform, Banned.Video. This move to a more fringe platform service may prompt Fuentes to produce even more extreme content.

4) Fuentes promoted election fraud narratives and encouraged his adherents to participate in nationwide Stop the Steal protests.

Fuentes served as an organizer and speaker at many Stop the Steal protests leading up to the January 6 attack on the Capitol including protests in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Washington, DC. Fuentes attended the Million MAGA March in November alongside fellow Groypers, where he addressed a crowd of American Firsters, stating, We are not going to live as captives. This is our Republican Party. This is our country. USA! In the days leading up to January 6, Fuentes continued to promote the myth of election fraud. On January 4, Fuentes posted a video on DLive tacitly urging followers to kill state legislators, before he seemed to backpedal: What can you and I do to state legislators besides kill them? Although, Im not advising that, but I mean, what else are you going to do? In the lead up to January 6, Fuentes received an estimated $250,000 (13.5 bitcoins) in donations, supporting his attendance at the rally in Washington, DC.

Fuentes and other members of America First were present at the Capitol on January 6, about which Fuentes said, This is awesome...we have been beat up and betrayed and spit on and stepped on for decades. And to see the tables turned for once was a little bit refreshing. Fuentes was seen that day giving a speech near the Capitol encouraging his followers to keep moving towards the Capitol it appears we are taking the Capitol back! While Fuentes does not appear to have physically entered the Capitol building, individuals wearing America First merchandise appeared in videos and images inside the building.

Since the attack on the Capitol, Fuentes claims that his bank account has been frozen, he has been placed on the federal no-fly list, and has been banned from Airbnb, Facebook and Instagram. Fuentes described these actions as overt political persecution. Due to this alleged ban, Fuentes was unable to attend the Big Tech Press Conference in Florida, an event he organized with a variety of right-wing pundit speakers including Michele Malkin and Laura Loomer. Although Fuentes links his no-fly status to the Capitol riot, Fuentes reportedly had an altercation on a December flight over the issue of mask mandates.

5) Fuentes has been embraced and praised by a spectrum of far right-wing fringe conservatives, providing him a larger platform for elevating the America First movement.

Fuentes has been embraced by a variety of figures on the far-right, from fringe GOP figures to dedicated white supremacists. His success in attracting a sizeable attendanceas well as right wing-influencers and elected officialsto his events, like AFPAC and the Big Tech Conference in Florida, show the rallying effect of Fuentes and the America First movement. Right-wing pundit Michelle Malkin, who has recently embraced white supremacist rhetoric, has aligned herself with the America First movement, praising their shared mission to end mass migration, restore law and order, and conserve and uphold actual conservative values.

Fuentes has attracted the attention of elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizonas 4th congressional district. Fuentes claimed to be hosting a fundraiser and roundtable event in honor of Rep. Paul Gosar on July 2nd in Phoenix, Arizona. While Gosar has in the past participated in America First events, including the 2021 AFPAC, Gosar at this time claims to have had no prior knowledge of this fundraiser. Gosar has routinely appealed to the America First movement, tweeting in response to the outrage regarding his own appearance at the 2021 AFPAC, Not sure why anyone is freaking out. Ill say this: there are millions of Gen Z, Y and X conservatives. They believe in America First. They will not agree 100% on every issue. No group does. We will not let the left dictate our strategy, alliances and efforts. Ignore the left. The upcoming event between Fuentes and Paul Gosar is part of Fuentes White Boy Summer road trip.

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Boston community and faith leaders gathered for a press conference Monday morning calling for action by city leaders after a demonstration by dozens of apparent white supremacists who marched through the city's streets and an alleged attack on a Black man on Saturday.

The Boston Police Department said it learned around 12:30 p.m. that about 100 protesters had gathered on Congress Street near City Hall Plaza Saturday.

Photos and videos posted to social media appeared to show throngs of protesters marching under the banner of the Patriot Front, characterized by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white supremacist group.

Patriot Front has recently made appearances across the country. More than two dozen members were arrested last month in Idaho when they allegedly targeted a Pride festival.

"It's a shame. It's just a shame that in 2022 that we've regressed to this point in our country," said Rod Webber, a local filmmaker working to expose the group. "They're a bunch of Nazis and I said, 'go home, cowards.' And we literally chased them down the street."

Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that investigators are looking into a confrontation that broke out during the march near Back Bay station, though no charges have been filed at this time. A photo captured by a Boston Herald photographer appears to show marchers clashing with a Black man.

"Investigations are still ongoing, particularly the civil rights investigation around the brief confrontation that happened right outside the police station as this group was departing,"Wu told reporters Monday.

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The victim of that attack was identified by community leaders as Charles Murrell, an artist and peace advocate in the Boston area.

Murrell, whose hand was bandaged Monday, did not want to speak of specific details of his attack.

According to a police report, Murrell was walking down the street when he was in the middle of a group of men with masks who shoved and pushed him. He fought back, and then more men went after him, knocking him to the ground. He received stitches to his hand and had cuts to his head.

Murrell has called for peace and invited those listening to a peace and reconciliation concert on July 14 at 7 p.m. at Copley Square, an event he said would serve as a call to action.

I am appalled that even as a healer I have to get my cup poured into in this incident, but in this incident I will continue to pour into other people's cup as a way to pour into my own cup, Murrell said.

Local activists believe it's time for city leaders to stand up, calling for accountability and saying the mayor and police need to do more to stop racism.

Rev. Kevin C. Peterson of the New Democracy Coalition, who said he is acting as a supporter and advisor for Murrell, said Saturday's events did not come as a surprise to him, but that he and others who work with him on civic engagement and racial justice issues are hopeful it could lead to progress.

"Specifically we ask that the mayor immediately convene a race commission that will allow some of the thought leaders in this city and outside of this city to make a historical assessment about where we are as a city with regard to race and racism and then begin to institutionalize policies that will begin a process of racial repair and racial reconciliation," Peterson said.

The assembled group went on to explain that they are looking for a way to have conversations on race but also to collect data on racial inequities in the city to determine how something like Saturday's march could happen, the groups and people involved, and use that type of information to figure out how to heal what they called the "fractured relationships" between racial groups.

Peterson said the safety of Boston's residents, particularly its Black residents, was at the top of mind.

"What is the call to action? Where is the accountability?" asked Mawakana Onifade.

Massachusetts State Police said there was no indication that Patriot Front will be a problem for the city's July 4 events and that they are prepared to respond to any issues. The mayor noted that they are in touch with city, state and federal law enforcement to monitor any potential disruption and that the city "will not be intimidated" by Saturday's display.

City leaders did speak out about the march when the news first broke on Saturday.

"To the white supremacists who ran through downtown today: When we march, we don't hide our faces. Your hate is as cowardly as it is disgusting, and it goes against all that Boston stands for," Wu wrote on Twitter.

"We do not welcome that here. We condemn them," Wu added in comments made Monday morning. "It is insulting to the city of Boston, especially in a moment when we lift up our role for fighting for equality and liberty for every single person and the parts of that fight that we are still leading the way on today."

The city says it had no prior knowledge of the demonstration.

"I'm outraged and disgusted at the white supremacist group protesting today," added City Council President Ed Flynn in a tweet.

In a longer statement, Flynn referred to the Patriot Front's actions last month at a Pride event in Idaho, where 31 members of the hate group were arrested on charges of conspiracy to riot. Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White said he and his department subsequently received death threats from anonymous callers.

"It is incumbent upon all of us to acknowledge, call out, and disavow the growing extremism and creeping hate in our country wherever we see it," Flynn wrote. "We must always stand with the Jewish community and our communities of color, educate our children about the horrors of the past so that history does not repeat itself, and make clear to all neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups that they are not welcome and will never represent our values."

Revolutionary Spaces, which operates the Old State House, slammed the group for protesting outside the historic site.

"No place was more central to the birth of our most fundamental democratic ideals than the Old State House," Revolutionary Spaces President and CEO Nathaniel Sheidley said in a statement. "The presence in its shadow of those who would reject these ideals is an important reminder that democracy is fragile and the work of building a society rooted in liberty and justice for all is not finished."

City Councilor At-Large Ruthzee Louijeune said the protesters are "Cowards, all of them. No place for what they're selling in our city."

"This is disgusting. Hate groups have no place in our society," City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo said in a tweet. "Boston is for everyone, recognizes the gift that is our diversity, and will never cower or capitulate to hate."

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