INTELWIRE Resources on Right-Wing and Racist Extremism

The Turner Diaries, the infamous racist dystopian novel by neo-Nazi William Luther Pierce, has inspired more than 200 murders since its publication in 1978. This paper documents the books that directly and indirectly inspired Turner and examines the extensive violence that the novel has inspired.

Nazis vs. ISIS on Twitter
White nationalists are thriving on Twitter and outperforming the Islamic State, which has been notorious for its success using social media, in both recruitment and messaging. A comparitive study of metrics and messaging. 

Members of the sovereign citizen movement are increasingly in the news for their violent confrontations with law enforcement, but their confusing ideology can be difficult to understand. This paper explains in simple language what sovereigns believe, and where those beliefs originated.

Who Matters Online: Metrics for Monitoring Extremism Online

A 2012 study of white nationalist use of Twitter, and the introduction of new methods for measuing influence and in-groupness. 

PATCON: The FBI’s Secret War Against the ‘Patriot’ Movement,and How Infiltration Tactics Relate to Radicalizing Influences

A look at government infiltration of antigovernment movements during the 1990s, and some of the troubling dimensions of these operations. 

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How Donald Trump Won the White Nationalist Vote
Donald Trump wasn't an obvious choice to champion white nationalism in national politics. How he convinced skeptical racists that he was their candidate for president.

The Turner Diaries and the Alt Right
Before there was an alt-right, there was The Turner Diaries. First published nearly 40 years ago, the infamous dystopian novel depicts a fictional white nationalist revolution culminating in global genocide. The book has inspired both violence and ideological change among white supremacists in its decades of history.

Blog Posts on Racist Dystopian Fiction:

• The John Franklin Letters, the book that inspired The Turner Diaries. 
• Jack London's racist dystopian short story The Unparalleled Invasion.
• Racism and Radiophones: Two weird entries in the racist dystopia subgenre
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door, a black nationalist analogue to Turner

Previously:

• The Awakening: White Nationalist See Opportunity After the 2012 Election
• Patriot Games: FBI Undercover Operations And Timothy McVeigh
• Newtown and the Doomsday Preppers
• How the Recession Helps Extremists
• Recalculating the SPLC's Hate List
• New York Times: Has threat from hate groups been overlooked?
• Did You Hear The One About U.S. Internment Camps?
• Unplaying the Race Card in the Patriot Movement
• The Evolution of Race in the Patriot Movement
• Mongol Hordes Take Manhattan
• Sex as a Weapon: The FBI's Informant Problem

Buy the new book ISIS: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger.

Buy J.M. Berger's seminal book on American jihadists, Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam