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The Turner Diaries

William Luther Pierce

1978

National Alliance

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

A detail from the Turner Diaries cover, featuring a man and a woman wielding guns.

It's Time to Stop Talking About a 'National Divorce'

The right's eagerness for a "peaceful separation" of the nation echoes pieces of race war fiction.

by Christian Vanderbrouk via The Bulwark on March 21, 2019

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Aftermath of Oklahoma City bombing.

American Carnage

A new book about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing traces the path from Ronald Reagan’s antigovernment ideology to today’s radicalized right.

by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on July 25, 2023

Illustration of a soldier in a tank battering through a fiery wooden structure.

A Fire Started in Waco. Thirty Years Later, It’s Still Burning.

Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on May 1, 2023

Timothy McVeigh in a prison jumpsuit surrounded by law enforcement agents.

Extremism in America: The Oklahoma City Bombing

Neo-Nazi propaganda, military deployment and the F.B.I. raid in Waco, Texas, radicalized Timothy McVeigh and led to the Oklahoma City attack.

via Retro Report on April 26, 2022

Police officer aims a gun at a handcuffed man on the ground.

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.

by Peter Keating, Shaun Assael via Politico Magazine on November 3, 2019

Klan members carry a combination US and Confederate flag.

Declaration of War

The violent rise of white supremacy after the Vietnam War.

by Patrick Blanchfield via The Nation on June 20, 2018

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