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Pages in category "Right-wing militia organizations in the United States" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The SPLC began an annual census of hate groups in 1990, releasing this census as part of its annual Year in Hate & Extremism report. [1] [2] [4] [5] The SPLC listed 1,020 hate groups and hate-group chapters on its 2018 list—an all-time high fueled primarily by an increase in radical right groups. [2]
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. It identified 276 in 2015, up from 202 in 2014. [1] In 2016, the SPLC identified a total of 165 armed militia groups within the United States. [2] [3]
Right-wing militia organizations in the United States (7 C, 59 P) W. White supremacist groups in the United States (7 C, 37 P)
Right-wing extremist offenses in Germany rose sharply in 2015 and 2016. [174] Figures from the German government tallied 316 violent xenophobic offences in 2014 and 612 such offenses in 2015. [174] In August 2014, a group of four Germans founded a Munich-based far-right terrorist group, the Oldschool Society.
The far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, fascist-right and are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. The terms are often used to imply that someone is an extremist. The terms have been used by different scholars in somewhat conflicting ways. [1]
Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are typically marked by radical conservatism, authoritarianism, ultra-nationalism, and nativism. [1] This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the right, distinguished from more mainstream right-wing ideologies by its opposition to ...
However, as new right-wing groups emerged with no connection to historical fascism, the use of the term "right-wing extremism" came to be more widely used. [34] Jeffrey Kaplan and Leonard Weinberg argued that the radical right in the U.S. and right-wing populism in Europe were the same phenomenon that existed throughout the Western world.