The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.
The spirited opposition that Gerald LK Smith-style "America First" fascism met with in Denver in August 1946 stands in stark contrast to what happened in Viroqua, WI that same month, when Smith delivered the keynote address at the town's centennial celebration. rightlandia.ghost.io/in-1946-a-wi...
Fascist Youth Group Denied Auditorium! Cly CiN We evertheat! cratic-minded citizen of Denver and surrounding towns is urged to be at 1:30 p. m. Sunday, August 25. This gathering will be held shortly before Gerald L. K. Smith, fuehrer of America's fascist move-ment, is scheduled to speak at the Revival tabernacle, West 9th avenue and Acoma street.. Smith will be picketed by members of veteran, labor, minority, and other citizens' organizations who have determined not to permit America's No. 1 hate-monger to go unchallenged in his attempt to invade Colorado. It was learned this week that Smith, and his "welcoming com-mittee," which includes Harvey Springer and Kennetli Goff Springer's co-worker in hate-mongering, had given up previous hopes that Smith might address a "youth rally" in the City audi-torium. MUM ... Though no statement was forthcoming from Mayor Stapleton, liberal groups and individuals were informed by city officials that no public auditorium would be rented to Smith, Goff, or any other pro-fascist. The occasion of Smith's visit to Denver is a "national youth con-vention" sponsored by "Christian" youth, including such anti-Semitic and anti-Negro organizations as the Christian Veterans of Amer-ica, Christian Youth for America, the America First Committee, and other wings of the "nationalist." movement. The convention is scheduled for August 23 to 25. No definite plans had been announced as CHALLENGE went to press. to picket the convention during its regular sessions, though it was believed that some picketing action would be taken. Organizations which have gon on record denouncing Smith (Continued on Page B)
Sundey Morning, August 25, 1946 Fascist Youth Group Denied Auditorium! （Conlineed from Fist Page） race-hate and Hitlerite doc-nes include the American Veterans committee, the Denver Unity Council, the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish War Veterans, the Denver Council of Applied Re-ligion, the Denver CIO, the Denver Trades and Labor assembly (AF- L), the Young Citizens Political Action committee, and others. A statement signed by leaders of these groups, churchmen and liberal leaders declares that "the program of Smith and his 'Christ-ian Youth' is of a niece with that of the Ku Klux Klan in that it arouses its followers by an appeal to hatred of religious and racial minorities. . .. Such a man, such an organization, such a program. deserve no voice in a democracy." The only way to prevent attacks on American democracy, the statement read, "is to curb the persons who make them. Gerald Smith must be given no audience in Den-ver." Eleanor Kramer wOn the Miss Pennsylvania title last week and now she looks ahead to the annual Atlantic City beauty contest. What BOULDER . .. do you think of her chances? FEDERATED MICTURES Pickets for Smith's meeting have also been pledged by Boulder Chapterso behe emerica veler lasting Nonaganda with an ever ans committee. Though Smith may be forced to On Monday evening. change his plans by the planned Coll and a dozen "Christian vet- picketing, the Greek theater, Civic erans," invaded a meetina spon- Center, which is within a few sored by the Boulder AVC. and blocks of the Revival tabernacle, five other Boulder organizations. has been set tentatively as a point attempting to create disorder and for picket mobilization. Civic Cen- break up the meeting. ter can be rebroad a street cans The Rev. Clarence Kemper, Dr. Fred Bramhall, and other speakers avenue. hele denounced smitmenila CIO Candidate Captures by Goff and his followers. Nevertheless, the AVC, Democratic Nomination the Boulder chapter of the Rocky MILWAUKEE (FP).-Franklin D. Roosevel…
In August 1946, a coalition of progressive groups in Denver organized to deny Goff and his fascist youth group access to the city auditorium.
FASCISM Springer Spreads Old Lies About the Jews • This is the fifth installment of a book-length feature on Harvey H Springer, self-stuled cowboy pastor of the Englewood, Colo., Baptist Tabernaele. BY THEODORE WILSON IN THE columns of The Western Voice, personalities are the rule, not the exception, especially where Jews are concerned. We saw last week the snide remark about Sidney Hillman. Here are some about Walter Winchell, a favorite target because of his exposure of fascist elements in America! "Walter Winchell, with his super-ra. of speech is struck down. No lengthy cial conscience and 'persecution complex, details of facts are needed. hey are which he evidently inherited, is doins already notorious; far more so than will more to awaken true Americans to the be wished ten years from now. stark reality of what's coming than any "Colorado knows that a broadcast of living American." (From "SENTENCE purely Gospel preaching was taken from SERMONS," by James Bryan, Novem the air, the speaker being insulted, ber 16, 1944.) harassed and abused. If this had been a Under the heading of "Walter Winch- mere outbreak of passion and prejudice ell, the Pop Gun Patriot," a blast is the baser maddened by made against the columnist in which he whiskey and hounded on by some wily is termed "character assassin," politician to serve some immediate pur- "phony patriot" and an "all-American -a mere exceptional affair, it might faleer." Included with the artiele io « be allowed to But the leadere ot photograph of an idiotic-looking youth this violation of free speech are gentle- with a silly smile, who says "Sure, I'm men. They were men who pride them-for Walter Winchell." selves upon their respect for law and TIRADE・…・ order. .. We hear two voices: one denouncing the Jews who were respon- The of February 23, 1943, sible for contained an this and another, 1len Under the heading deprecating and regretting that such a "Winchell's Chickens Come Home." Par: program was on the alr. When …
It's notable how frank some US newspapers were in the immediate post-war period to call out American fascists using the "f-word." The people they were describing called themselves "Christian patriots" and "anti-communists," but they were clearly American fascists and many papers called them that.
U.S. Nazi Network to Carry On For Hitler Nw man fat che spread of Nai proatanda wit will mean that the spread of Nazi propaganda will become the job of the American pro-fascist propaganda. DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH political and religious network already operating from coast to coast, declares Victor® Riesel, New York Post. reporter. with leaders of splinter anti-reli- Riesel likens this network to gious and crusading groups in an early National Socialist Party effort to merge them by July 4 techniques. into one Nationalist Party under "Hitler's early party was all the leadership of ex-Senator things to all men- and so is this Reynolds. loosely organized American pro- The network has infiltrated the Fascist machire," he writes. church, too-and now is provok- Riesel continues: ing such anti-Catholicism that in The network, for example, has some nationalist circles it is re-decided to seek labor support. So placing pre-war anti-Semitism. one of its "gauleiters," a Ken- SPRINGER FORMS neth Weber, set up an American YOUTH MOVEMENT Association of Labor. Weber, A string of nationalist minis- highly thought of in midwest ters operating in New York, De- Klan and Black Legion circles, troit, Minneapolis, Colorado, Los plans to organize small clubs in Angeles and points north and the country's big unions and then south, are preaching wild ser- seek power much the same as mons, distributing anti-religious the old Socialist and Communist literature and aligning them- cliques did during the last 25 selves with the America First- years. Nationalist Party movement. CARL MOTE WOOS The network overlooks little. PITCHFORK BRIGADE In Englewood, Colo., Rev. Harvey Weber is a new personality in Springer, gangling, sir-foot nationalist circles. Hollywood "Cowboy preacher," has organ- wouid call him "a terrific find" ized the Christian Youth Move- dynamic, a fiery speaker and 24 ment. Led by Kenneth Goff, an years old. ex-Communist, the CYM plans to Nor is the network ignoring launch an orga…
The Intermountain Jewish News picked up on the threat to US democracy posed by Ken Goff and his Christian Nationalist ilk. This article is from 5 April 1945.
"The threat is...that the machine... easily could be exploited by some strong man if he should happen along."
Youth for Christ was a right wing, hyper-nationalist, America First, Christian Nationalist organization that formed in 1943. The similarities to TPUSA are hard to miss. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Mentioned in that 1945 article is a young "Nationalist" preacher named Kenneth Goff. He preached the America First/Christian Nationalist gospel of Gerald LK Smith in the 40s, & then in the 60s he established a paramilitary training camp in Colorado for the Klan & neo-Nazis. bsky.app/profile/seth...
American Nationalists—No. 5 Nationalists' Youth Group Begun in Englewood Church Editor's Note: This is the fifth of sir articles on the growth of the Nationalist movement in the United States. The series describes the organizations, their leaders, methods and programs. By EUGENE SEGAL Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 20.-Adopting the pattern of political organization successfully followed in Germany, Italy and Russia, American Nationalists have created a youth movement. On Jan. 6, 1944, a convention the dissident groups of the coun was held at the Englewood Baptist i Certain other religious leaders Tabernacle, at Englewood, near have added their support to the Denver, Colo. This is the church of Rev. Harvey Springer, a rabble- Nationalist movement. The worst rouser in the Gerald L. K. Smith of these is the Rev. Gerald B. manner. Winrod of Wichita, Kan. He is Present at the meeting were 350 under indictment for sedition. Win- young people and pastors from "Jayhawk rod, widely characterized as the churches in seven Nazi," publishes the Midwestern "Defender." states. An organization was In 1935 Winrod and the Rev. formed with the "Christian Youth George D. Blomgren, another pro-for America" and national headquarters at 3170 S. Broadway, En- Nazi preacher, toured Germany. glewood. Winrod was granted interviews A call was issued to "all Chris- with Hitler and other top Ger-tian youth organizations in Amer- man leaders and, on his return to ica to join us in a united front this country, began a full-scale against the flood of Communism pro-Nazi campaign. in the land." Has Clerical Cousin in L. A. Goff Heads Youth Program Winrod is a cousin of Rev. Jon- A man prominent in Nationalist athan Perkins of Los Angeles, who formed a committee of California activities was named chairman of the youth movement. This was pastors to sponsor Gerald L. K. Kenneth Goff. Smith's San Francisco appearance Goff is a former Communist at the time of the United Na- who, in late…
It's July 21, 1945...the war has ended in Europe but in the US there are already concerns about fascism re-emerging here. "Adopting the pattern of political organization successfully followed in Germany, Italy and Russia, American Nationalists have created a youth movement." The name highlighted...
Once again "the death of the West" meant "the death of my secret bank account."
In case you’ve forgotten this great moment in American conservative literary life. defector.com/american-con...
If there’s some left wing benefactor who wants to pay me to write columns, I promise not to mention the penises of my former schoolmates, unlike our man Rod.
VANITY FAIR SUBSCRIBE MENU = MEDIA How Rod Dreher's Blog Got a Little "Too Weird" for The American Conservative The right-wing commentator's columns, which were unedited and bankrolled by a single donor, will be shuttered Friday after a 12-year run. Sources say it was ultimately a diatribe on circumcision that was a bridge too far. BY CALEB ECARMA MARCH 10, 2023
But one particular reader, upon reading the last of said posts, determined the blog had simply gotten too weird, according to two sources familiar with the publication. That disgruntled reader was Howard Ahmanson Ji., the heir to a California banking fortune and the sole benefactor of Dreher's six-figure salary at TAC, which is published bv American Ideas Institute, a nonprofit. This unique funding arrangement—a single donor choosing to cover one writer's entire salary—was paired with an even more unusual editorial arrangement: Dreher was allowed to publish directly on TAC's site without any revisions or legal oversight, according to the two sources.
One can’t help but admire Rod’s entrepreneurial pluck. After his long time right wing sugar daddy in the US dropped him in 2023, he quickly found a Hungarian sugar daddy to pick up the slack. Gotta love that free market in ideas!
Chavez-DeRemer has stepped down so that her family can spend more time creeping on her former staffers.
Keep this in mind next time Dreher opines on welfare, the state, and minorities.
If Norway or Denmark want to pay me six figures to live there and write positive things about their countries, I would totally take that deal. Something tells me those countries don’t feel the need to pay for American propaganda shills, however.
Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...
"6 ... it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. This does not mean, of course, that there is no impulse to conservatism or to reaction. Such impulses are certainly very strong, perhaps even stronger than most of us know. But the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas." - Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
American conservatives have long criticized Lionel Trilling for saying this, and yet every day they keep saying and doing things that confirm his point.
16 years ago, Newt Gingrich convinced the Tea Party era GOP that they should double down in their fight against the (entirely imaginary) efforts to impose Sharia Law on the US.
I’m with you in Rockland
where your condition has become serious and is reported on the radio...
I’m with you in Rockland where we hug and kiss the United States under our bedsheets
the United States that coughs all night and won’t let us sleep
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/...
BLM blocked streets of shuddering cloud and lightning in the mind leaping toward poles of Venezuela & Peterson, illuminating all the globalist world of Time between,
Ketamine solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, White Claw drunkenness over the rooftops,
who ate horse paste medicine at Trump hotel or drank bleach on Huntington Beach, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night
with dreams, with Rogan supplements, with Proud Boy nightmares, alcohol and cuck and endless cereal,
who got busted in their pubic beards returning from Walgreens with a belt of Oxycontin for Limbaugh…
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing conspiratorial odes on the book of face,
who cowered in Libertarian clubs in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to Ron Paul speeches through the wall, 4/x
who bared their brains to Bannon under the steeple and saw Mohammedan devils staggering on school roofs illuminated,
who passed through Hillsdale with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Michael Flynn-glory among the scholars of war, 3/x
The Qanon shaman
Antler-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the Lockean dynamo in the machinery of night,
who pick-up-trucked & rhinestone-jeaned & ring-light-eyed & high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of McMansions floating across the tops of cities contemplating Jason Aldean
Maga-Howl, with apologies to Allen Ginsberg.
I saw the most median minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical red-hatted,
dragging themselves through the DC streets at dawn looking for an election fix, (1/x)
Many of the people who voted for this man who behaved so scandalously inappropriately at a gathering of pre-adolescent boys...were also obsessed with the idea that utterly vanilla people like Hillary Clinton and John Podesta were murdering hundreds of children in order to harvest their adrenochrome.
July 2017. Trump gives a wildly inappropriate and incoherent speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree. Somehow we as a nation decided to give nuclear weapons to a guy you wouldn’t even trust to feed your cat when you go out of town for the weekend.
youtu.be/clZ2GoiYMQ8?...
Gerda Lerner to Florence Howe (founder of the Feminist Press) about marriage: "My husband and I fell in love with other people now and then, but we talked about it to each other, and we never acted on it." ("He's immature," Lerner added about Howe's soon-to-be-ex-husband). Academic marriages file
Nothing says that a man honors women's dignity and right to self-determination more loudly than using the possessive "our" before the noun "women."