Raising the cost of telling the truth about the far right

The 1959 death of fascist seditionist Robert Edmondson and the plight of the poor editor of the Bend Bulletin

This is a story about what happened after WWII to one of the people involved with the 1944 Sedition trial that Rachel Maddow discusses in her new book Prequel. Robert Edward Edmondson was one of the nation’s most virulently antisemitic propagandists in the 1930s and 40s. After the sedition case against him and his fellow defendants was dropped, he moved…