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"Right wing nuts" for Reagan: A conversation between Thomas Zimmer, me, and Ben Bradford, the maker of the "Landslide" podcast
NPR recently released an excellent podcast series on the politics of the 1970s called Landslide. If you haven’t listened to it yet, I highly recommend…
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In 1946 a Wisconsin Town Invited a Fascist to Deliver the Keynote Address at their Centennial Celebration
Few people in Viroqua, Wisconsin WANTED Gerald LK Smith, the head of the America First Party, to speak, but when they ALLOWED it, they fanned the…
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March 2024

It's funny until it's not; why I've stopped finding absurd right wing conspiracy theories so hilarious
What is there to do, really, other than laugh at stuff like this? Candace Owens investigates…lol. Candace’s grim look is the icing on the cake—putting…
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"Silver Shirts for Reagan!": Walter Huss and the American "conservative" tradition with roots in 1930s-era fascism
The political world view of Walter Huss (1918-2006) was formed by the pro-Hitler, fascist organizations that flourished in late 1930s Portland...here's…
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February 2024

Speaking at Reed College in 1965, a Portland Nazi floated the idea of building a barbed-wire topped wall along the entire Mexican border…
Sometimes history does more than just rhyme
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When did the conspiracy-obsessed, fascist-friendly far right first get a foothold in the Oregon Republican Party? Would you believe me if I…
A story about that time in 1962 when a group of former Silver Shirts and present white nationalists and Christian supremacists came close to taking over…
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An Oregon Republican Legislator said that Christians are uniquely suited for elected office. When OR GOP chair Walter Huss said that in…
On the fuzzy line between hard and soft Christian Nationalism
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January 2024

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it
And some news and announcements
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On this MLK Day, we should remember the people who in 1989 wanted to take MLK's name off a Portland street, but for totally not-racist…
On Walter Huss's lifelong hatred of MLK, the many "totally not racist" Oregonians who enabled it, and the small group of antifascist activists and…
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The FBI thought OR GOP chair Walter Huss was involved with the Nazi Party. Today I found some evidence that they might have been right
A state GOP chairman who was possibly a Nazi? Seems bad.
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Some archival gems from an amazing but largely unknown archive
A day in the "Charlie White Americanism" collection at Portland State
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December 2023

An update on the Substackers Against Nazis campaign
According to Substack's owners, true free speech lovers ban images of consensual sex and platform Nazis. Mkay.
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