"They got what they wanted." Those were the words of Don Logan after a February 11, 2025 meeting of the Scottsdale, Arizona city council. Twenty-one years after Dennis Mahon tried to murder Logan with a package bomb, the city of Scottsdale finished what the klansman started: they closed the city's diversity office.

Sources: 

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/scottsdale-to-gut-diversity-office-trump-anti-dei-fervor-21197066

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-strip-club-owners-troubles-started-with-bad-loan-11311674

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/to-serve-and-humiliate-6422314 

https://www.scottsdale.org/city_news/new-council-whisperer-saddles-up-at-city-hall/article_06f75e0a-d12c-11ef-a528-b706d0d1dc9d.html

https://www.scottsdale.org/city_news/mayoral-candidates-face-final-exam/article_58c526d4-880e-11ef-a093-a77b3f945d6e.html 

https://www.scottsdale.org/city_news/protests-fly-as-scottsdale-defunds-dei/article_6a0be9a2-eb0d-11ef-8425-27ebca019701.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/politics/trump-fake-electors-emails.html 

https://www.newsweek.com/strip-club-sued-allegedly-drugging-patrons-stealing-credit-cards-1883758

https://www.azfamily.com/2025/02/12/scottsdale-city-council-votes-end-programs-involving-dei/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/01/29/costco-double-downed-on-dei-then-19-attorneys-general-warned-them-to-stop/

https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/IACIO/2025/01/27/file_attachments/3144563/FINAL%20Costco%20Lettet%20%281%29.pdf 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/costco-dei-policy-board-statement-shareholder-meeting-vote/ 

https://s201.q4cdn.com/287523651/files/doc_financials/2024/ar/FY24-Proxy-Statement.pdf 

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/04/11/the-shareholder-activism-of-anti-discrimination-proponents/ 

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/ebbd88bb-cc8f-4e1e-8d5e-a52f8f780b94.pdf 

https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/what-dei-executive-orders-mean-employee-resource-groups

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/bremerton-shipyard-worker-affinity-groups-end-after-trump-dei-orders/ 

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2025/02/12/scottsdale-scraps-dei-programs/78427835007/ 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-protesters-mistake-busload-of-ymca-campers-for-immigrant-children/ 

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/28/dershowitz-appeals-sanction/ 

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/article_32b14df8-edf0-5e98-b6fa-8875b1101624.html

https://www.kawc.org/elections-2020/2021-08-25/attorney-for-arizona-election-audit-firm-defends-concealing-records 

https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-mohave-county-hand-count-challenge/ 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/06/dei-gop-segregation 

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4871827/united-states-v-mahon/

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In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned out to be well known white supremacists.

Sources:

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/05/portland_suspect_in_2_slayings.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/portland-double-murder-white-supremacist-muslim-hate-speech

https://islamophobia.org/special-reports/the-hate-that-act-for-america-wrought/

https://islamophobia.org/islamophobic-organizations/act-for-america/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidnoriega/meet-the-charming-terrifying-face-of-the-anti-islam-lobby

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/americas-most-anti-muslim-activist-is-welcome-at-the-white-house/520323/

https://politicalresearch.org/2018/03/01/profile-on-the-right-act-for-america

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/us/08gabriel.html?pagewanted=all

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maher-season-premiere-inc_b_168972

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iobsessioni-stars-have-le_b_126693

https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/movie-to-marshal-support-for-college-israel-advocacy/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/ed-gillespie-declines-to-denounce-endorsement-from-anti-muslim-activist/2017/06/09/8a16a45c-4d28-11e7-bc1b-fddbd8359dee_story.html

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/gay-trumper-almost-got-hired-by-the-gop-but-it-got-called-off-what-happened/

https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-trimet-stabbing-trial-micah-fletcher-survivor-testifies/

https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-prosecutors-max-stabbing-trial-call-eyewitnesses-killings/

https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/2017/taliesin-namkai-meche-2016.html

https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-target-of-a-hate-crime-she-was-labeled-as-a-witness/

Isabelle Canaan, In Bad Faith: Anti-Sharia Laws, the Constitution, and the Limits of Religious Freedom, 21 U. Md. L.J. Race Relig. Gender & Class 248 (2021). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/rrgc/vol21/iss2/3

https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/is-act-for-america-really-a-grassroots-organization/

https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_mrpetehegseth.pdf

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-capitol-brawl-white-nationalist-sentenced-20190703-story.html

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/nathan-damigo-punching-woman-berkeley-white-nationalism/

https://unicornriot.ninja/2017/neo-nazi-william-planer-arrested-vandalizing-synagogue/

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/06/10/emotions-run-high-march-against-sharia/386607001/

https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2021/11/10/allison-richard-jack-peirce-iv/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/family-research-councils-anti-splc-campaign-promoting-anti-semitic-publication/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/neo-nazi-billy-roper-organizing-act-americas-march-against-sharia-arkansas/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/following-trump-appointments-anti-muslim-act-america-may-see-growing-influence/

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Molly talks to Spencer Sunshine about his book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Sunshine's book explores the history of Siege, the book that is today's nazi terrorist's bible.

https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife-of-James-Masons-Siege/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606

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In January of 2025, Matthew Huttle was one of nearly 1600 people to receive a pardon from Donald Trump for his participation in the January 6, 2021 riot. Less than a week later, he was dead - shot and killed in an altercation with a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop in Indiana. 

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories

https://www.shu.edu/news/a-demographic-and-legal-profile-of-january-6-prosecutions.html

https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/tzm3576zdg/1/files/12dd7a26-cc10-4844-b141-05ee077ea97f

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-high-water-mark-of-the-jan.-6-prosecutions

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/01/31/trump-pardon-jan-6-indiana-man-shot-matthew-huttle-pulled-over-speeding-jasper-county/78022270007/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q5nK0oUyXE&ab_channel=CBSChicago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/jan-6-rioter-shot-indiana-traffic-stop.html 

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1828.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66637875/united-states-v-huttle/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66637874/united-states-v-huttle/

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.
 

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In 2007, a white nationalist known for his addiction to causing drama claimed he saw Ron Paul at a nazi supper club. Ron Paul supporters, including those on nazi message boards, pushed back. The feud that ensued led to Curtis Maynard's fall from grace as a holocaust denial blogger - he'd been keeping a secret from his readers.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/politics/ron-paul-disowns-extremists-views-but-doesnt-disavow-the-support.html

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/ron-pauls-new-organization-reportedly-stacked-extremists/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jan/16/guiltbyassociation

https://web.archive.org/web/20071226150527/themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/the-ron-paul-vid-lash/

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/pageoneplus/corrections.html 

https://web.archive.org/web/20071221222229/

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28341_Neo-Nazis_Say-_Ron_Paul_is_One_of_Us&only

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2018/10/01/alleged-white-nationalist-peter-gemma-resigns-from-sarasota-gop-executive-committee/9732609007/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/04/07/for-holocaust-denier-theres-no-telling/057d4471-7668-4bf2-ba59-6e7f9666bb18/

http://new.wymaninstitute.org/2004/12/former-senior-aide-to-pat-buchanan-spoke-at-holocaust-deniers-meeting/

https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/white-nationalist-writer-peter-gemma-resigns-sarasota-gop-executive-committee

https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/conservativism-and-foreign-policy/182250

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/world/americas/21iht-hate.4.17140643.html 

 

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In 2010, a rising star in the small world of holocaust denial blogging murdered his ex-wife and then took his own life. This first chapter of his story follows his path from a troubled career as a registered nurse to his growing fame as a white supremacist blogger.

Sources:

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Lawyer-Lake-Jackson-murder-suicide-followed-1710794.php

http://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/americas-promise-ministries/

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/proclamation-5555-national-hungarian-freedom-fighters-day-1986

https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/Szittyakurt_USAHUN_1986/?pg=39&layout=s 

https://www.bocskairadio.org/en/an-interview-with-akos-l-nagy-president-of-the-american-hungarian-federation/

Katalin Hasulyó-Pintz. Doctoral dissertation, Identity Preservation and Diaspora Relations in the USA: the Hungarian Community of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 2020

https://collections.ushmm.org/oh_findingaids/RG-50.573.0005_tcn_en.pdf

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465015471074263044.html

https://www.yadvashem.org/docs/international-commission-on-romania-holocaust.html

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This is the end of Dennis Mahon's story. In 2012, he was convicted for building the bomb that went off in the hands of Scottsdale, Arizona's director of Diversity & Dialogue in 2004. In the eyes of the law, Dennis and Dennis alone is guilty in that case... but the investigation leaves a lot of unanswered questions about his co-conspirators.

Sources:

https://jeffmaysh.substack.com/p/how-an-undercover-exotic-dancer-captured 

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/08/31/Charges-against-Geraldo-Rivera-dropped/1010715233600/

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/05/20/chaos-compound 

https://journaltimes.com/news/national/police-chief-blames-rivera-for-fracas/article_8fadd613-527c-5c88-aa56-d4098045a0bd.html 

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/mow/news2010/joos.conv.htm

https://www.aol.com/suspect-still-wanted-30-years-090827741.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20130323064622/http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20090626/LOCAL/306269980/1002/LOCAL

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/30527442/united-states-v-joos/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/01/Coeur-dAlene-bombing-suspects-arraigned/1813560059200

https://buffalonews.com/article_168a62c8-b04b-580e-b169-48333e56a23b.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/11/archives/2-in-nationalist-party-seized-in-plot-to-bomb-an-elementary-school.html

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13838089/gerhardt-v-lazaroff/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4871827/united-states-v-mahon/ ​​

Gumbel, Andrew and Charles, Roger. Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed and Why it Still Matters. William Morrow, 2012

Ronson, Jon. “The Debutante.” Audible Originals, 2023

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In 1994, a former debutante named Carol Howe became an informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. For six months, she and Dennis Mahon made weekend trips to a white supremacist compound called Elohim City. Carol reported back to the government that Dennis Mahon was stockpiling weapons and talking about blowing up federal buildings. In April of 1995, someone did blow up a federal building. Had her handlers ignored credible information about the plot? 

Sources:

Jones, Steven. Others Unknown: The Oklahoma City Case and Conspiracy. Public Affairs, 1998

Hammer, David Paul. Deadly Secrets: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Authorhouse, 2010.

Painting, Wendy. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real. Trine Day, 2012

Newton, Michael. White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866. McFarland and Company, Inc, 2014.

Lee, Martin. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. Little,  Brown and Company, 1997.

Ronson, Jon. “The Debutante.” Audible Originals, 2023

Gumbel, Andrew and Charles, Roger. Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed and Why it Still Matters. William Morrow, 2012

Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.

https://politicalresearch.org/2006/08/01/white-power-cyberculture

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/racist-skinheads-klan-groups-2002

https://rogues.wiki/index.php/Wendy_Iwanow 

https://www.villagevoice.com/beyond-mcveigh/

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/barbecue-nations-6405901

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1997/07/15/sighting-accounts-differ-grand-jury-witnesses-put-bomber-in-2-places/62308562007/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220211005304/https://www.oklahoman.com/article/2451569/elohim-city-residents-enjoy-separate-lifestyle-religion  

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/20/us/oklahoma-city-building-was-target-of-plot-as-early-as-83-official-says.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

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Before we finish the story of Dennis Mahon, let's take a little side quest to learn about his identical twin brother, Daniel. In 1999, Daniel Mahon was fired from his job as an aircraft mechanic at American Airlines. The company felt he was creating a racially hostile work environment. According to the lawsuit he filed, Daniel Mahon felt it was anti-white racism. His deposition in that case gives us an unreliable narrator's view of his brother's life.

Sources:

Ellis, Charles. Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2006

Kennard, Matt. Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror. London: Verso. 2012

Cullick, Jonathan. The Literary Offenses of a Neo-Nazi: Narrative Voice in "The Turner Diaries"
Studies in Popular Culture, APRIL 2002, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 87-99
Published by: Popular Culture Association in the South

https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4489 

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/07/19/roberta-abbott-buckle-rochester-riots/12855941/ 

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/07/19/rochester-riots-timeline/12885229/ 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/eaux-claires-2017-bon-iver-justin-vernon-dad-wisconsin-secret-jazz-scene/ 

https://nmb.gov/NMB_Application/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/vernon-gil_res.pdf 

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/11292236/mahon-v-american-airlines/ 

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A teenager who murdered two people outside of a gay bar in Slovakia, a teenager who stabbed five men at a mosque in Turkey, and a teenager who planned to destroy infrastructure in New Jersey had one thing in common: they'd all been reading terrorism manuals produced by a group of neonazi propagandists. A new indictment alleges two Americans are responsible for inciting acts of white supremacist terror all over the world.

Original Air Date: 9.19.24

Sources:

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/heres-the-gore-artist-turning-terrorgram-manuals-manifestos-into-audiobooks

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/terrorgram-collective-leader-was-a-tucker-carlson-fanboy-and-failed-youtuber/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/21/slovakian-gay-bar-attack-great-replacement-conspiracy-theoryfast-spreading-racist-ideology

https://www.wired.com/story/terrorgram-collective-indictments/

https://www.antihate.ca/uk_first_add_terrorgram_collective_proscribed_groups

https://vsquare.org/bratislava-terrorist-radicalized-on-terrorgram-its-members-take-credit/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/canada-terrorism-far-right.html

https://www.antihate.ca/terrorgram_neo_nazi_collective_heart_international_arrests

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/terrorgram-collective-now-proscribed-as-terrorist-organisation

https://www.postoj.sk/145241/pachatelom-bol-definitivne-juraj-k-jeho-primarnym-cielom-bol-eduard-heger

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6193e52959704a0c3b5b4b0c/t/6421ecf5721fc579c2799737/1679944949837/ARC_Terrorgrams+First+Saint_Bratislava.pdf 

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