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J.T. Ready Takes the Cover of Southern Poverty Law Center's "Year in Hate and Extremism"

If you're looking for the face of "The Year in Hate and Extremism," it's the face of neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, at least, according to the cover of the Southern Poverty Law Center's latest report.Ready's spot on the front is well deserved, after he murdered a man, two women, and a child before killing him ... More >>

Arizona's "Nativist Extremist" Groups Nearing Extinction, According to Report

The nativist movement is in its "death throes," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.The organization's new report has documented three such groups in Arizona, which is a low number, considering 21 were documented in 2009.

Joe Arpaio's Top Ten Reasons for Wanting to Be a Neo-Confederate

Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks it's an honor to be called KKK, remember? So why is anyone surprised that in 2011 he accepted the Sons of Confederate Veterans' J. Edgar Hoover Law and Order Award, apparently for all that hard work he did in ignoring hundreds of sex crimes cases around the county. See a ... More >>

David Horowitz Has Made Taunting College Students a Spectator Sport

Should Jan Brewer Bail on Her Speaking Engagement at the Values Voter Summit?

See also: Jan Brewer Asked to Ditch Family Research Council Event Over Its Anti-Gay ObsessionThe Southern Poverty Law Center asked Governor Jan Brewer and others to skip out on an event hosted by the Family Research Council because of the group's persistent "demonization" of lesbian, gay, bisexual, ... More >>

Jan Brewer Asked to Ditch Family Research Council Event Over Its Anti-Gay Obsession (She's Still Going)

The Southern Poverty Law Center has asked Governor Jan Brewer and others to skip out on an event hosted by the Family Research Council because of the group's persistent "demonization" of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.Brewer's office says that's not happening.

Tempe Pastor Who Thinks Government Should Put Homosexuals to Death Now Concerned About "Nazi" Border Patrol

It's been about a year and a half since Tempe pastor Steven Anderson told New Times he believed "the government should put [homosexuals] to death," but now he's got a new cause -- driving to Border Patrol checkpoints and letting the agents know they're pretty much Nazis.

Glenn Spencer's Lawyer John Munger Calls Me a "Wacko" as He Mainstreams a Racist Anti-Semite

You'd think a practicing lawyer, former president of the Arizona Board of Regents, and erstwhile GOP gubernatorial candidate would possess a lick of sense. But Tucson attorney John Munger is proof positive that possession of a swell resume is no guarantee of intelligence.Munger is the fella who rece ... More >>

Glenn Spencer, Nativist Anti-Semite, Repped By John Munger, Ex-Gubernatorial Candidate

Right-wing attempts to legitimize nativist border wacko Glenn Spencer persist in the strangest fashion.Today, the conservative website Right Side News reported on a letter from former GOP gubernatorial candidate John Munger to Luis Heredia, Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party, de ... More >>

Andy Biggs, Other Politicos Tied to Gilbert Religious Group Labeled as Anti-Gay "Hate Group" by Southern Poverty Law Center

​The Southern Poverty Law Center rolled out with its new round of "hate group" labels, adding the Arizona chapter of the charity/religious advocacy group United Families International to the list for being "anti-gay."Republican state Representative Andy Biggs is the former policy adviser to the gr ... More >>

Justin Bieber Compared to "Sissified, Effeminate Twinkie" by Homophobic Lunatic "Pastor" Steven Anderson

www.treacheryisafoot.comAnd Faithful Word Baptist Church Pastor Steven Anderson might be next...​We may have found the cure for "Bieber fever": twerpy Tempe "Pastor" Steven Anderson, who recently compared teen heart throb Justin Bieber to a "sissified, effeminate twinkie" in one of his sermons.And ... More >>

ADL's Jared Loughner Report: Mental Illness, Not Ideology Likely Led To Tragedy

Mental illness, rather than Tea Baggery's likely to blame for Loughner's rampage, says the ADLSince Saturday's massacre in Tucson, both the left and the right have parsed alleged killer Jared Lee Loughner's YouTube videos, the statements of his supposed school chums, his favorite books (everything f ... More >>

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and to Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans

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Tempe Church Labeled Hate Group; Pastor Tells New Times Government Should Put Homosexuals to Death

www.faithfulwordbaptist.comManiacal man of God, Steven Anderson.​A Tempe church has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and after speaking with the church's pastor this morning, we have a pretty good idea why.Pastor Steven Anderson, the leader of the Faithful Word Baptist ... More >>

The Career Criminal Squad Scores Again, Putting the Boot to Phoenix's Contingent of the Vinlanders Social Club

Vinlanders Vanquished: Phoenix PD's Career Criminal Squad Crushes White Supremacist Gang in Arizona

The Vinlanders Social Club, out of business in AZ because of the Career Criminal SquadAccording to records on file with the Maricopa County Superior Court, the investigators of the Phoenix Police Department's elite Career Criminal Squad, with the assistance of the local Anti-Defamation League,& ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, J.D. Hayworth, Shawna Forde and the Tea Party on Glenn Spencer's Ranch

walkingthelinefilm.comGlenn Spencer, host of the nativist Tea Party rally happening Sunday, August 15Although the United We Stand for Americans Web site announcing its Tea Party rally on the U.S.-Mexico Border this Sunday August 15 includes the address of the event and maps leading there, it careful ... More >>

Jan Brewer's 1070 Defense Fund: White Power "American Third Position" Party Claims Donation

William Johnson, Chairman of A3P, the group claiming to have donated to Brewer's 1070 defense fundBack in May, I warned that a new racist, white nationalist organization out of California known as the American Third Position, or A3P, was attempting to gain a political toehold in Arizona with a quixo ... More >>

Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report Features Arizona "Patriots" on Cover

SPLCCan you spot the Sand Landers in this cover art?Arizona has made the cover of the Summer 2010 issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report magazine, but for all the wrong reasons, as you might expect.The issue is devoted to the resurgent "patriot" movement, a conspiratorial gra ... More >>

June 9 In Blogs: Anal 101, Jack White, La Bocca, J.D. Hayworth, and Joe Arpaio

​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Jan Brewer, Dean Martin Now (Former) Facebook "Friends" of Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready

FacebookA screenshot of JT Ready's Facebook page as of May 5, 2010Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready's been getting around lately, earning play in the local media by calling Cinco de Mayo "Report an Illegal Day" on behalf of his beloved National Socialist Movement, or showing up to support Sheriff Joe Arpaio' ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 15

Joe Arpaio's New Counsel Kris Kobach, and His Disingenuous Statements to Fox 10

Kris Kobach, defensive and dodgy in this Fox 10 interviewFox 10 News has posted a 13 minute interview that reporter Steve Krafft recently did with nativist law prof Kris Kobach, the guy who'll be "training" all 881 of Sheriff Joe's gendarmes on immigration law. It's an interesting watch, if only to ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Partners with Nativist Extremist Kris Kobach, Arizona ADL Blasts Both

Far-right lawyer Kris Kobach: One sign Arpaio's given up on success in MelendresAs disturbing as the prospect is of a nativist extremist lawyer like Kris Kobach training all 881 of Sheriff Joe's beigeshirts in immigration law, I have to wonder if it's a sign that Arpaio's throwing in the towel ... More >>

Neo-Nazi NSM Scum at the Arizona Capitol: Should Sane People Give Them the Time of Day?

Will Phoenix ignore the Nazi goon squad November 7?Let's not mince labels, here: The neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement members who'll be rallying at the state Capitol this coming Saturday afternoon are lowlife degenerates. And I don't just mean that their anti-Semitism, outright racism and adorat ... More >>

Minuteman Chris Simcox's 2007 Female Trouble

from Simcox for SenateDespite his good looks, the "Little Prince" has not always had luck with women...In doing research on Chris Simcox -- the minuteman posterboy currently waging a quixotic campaign for the 2010 GOP U.S. Senate primary nod against the ancient, lizard-skinned Senator John McCain -- ... More >>

Arpaio Visits Houston and the Bigots at Westboro Baptist Church Have a New Target: Jews

Phoenix's "Elements of Hate" Panel Discussion, What Was Good and What Was Missing

www.PhotosByJoseMunoz.com Wednesday's Elements of Hate panel discussion​Mayor Phil Gordon is to be congratulated for the Elements of Hate panel discussion his office organized, which took place Wednesday at the newly-renovated AE England Building at Civic Space Park in Downtown Phoenix. The ... More >>

Our Michael Jackson Spoof Is Outed, Plus Connecting the Dots Between Shawna Forde and Her Ideological Confederates

How a Teen Prostitute and Beautician Morphed Into a Minuteman American Defense Leader and Alleged Killer

Phil Gordon Demands Joe Arpaio Distance Himself from Neo-Nazis after Holocaust Museum Shooting

Arpaio's neo-Nazi problem was documented at length in this recent New Times cover storyIn a response to the tragedy today at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum where 88-year-old white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly opened fire killing a security guard before being severely wounded himself, Ph ... More >>

Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor Called Racist by the Racists

Sonia Sotomayor, a racist? Riiiiiight.... You know it's taken a turn for the surreal when an obnoxious lout like William Gheen is calling you a racist. Gheen is a nasty piece of work, the founder of the extremist nativist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which is headquartered in Rale ... More >>

Pride vs. Power

Caucasian hip-hoppers are celebraters, not haters

White-Supremacist Activity Is on the Rise in Sand Land, and One Latino-American Family Is the Victim of a Vicious Hate Crime in North Phoenix

On Root-Based Contraception, Gold Teeth, and an Argument That Has Nothing to Do with Culture

Arpaio and the 287(g) Hearings, Direct from D.C.

U.S. House 287(g) Hearings: Mesa Police Chief George Gascon Says 287(g) in Some Cases Sets "the Police Profession Back to the 1950s"

MCSO paramilitary-style raid on Mesa's public library that George Gascon cited to the Judiciary Committee.After the second panel of witnesses was seated and introduced, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren cited the Southern Poverty Law Center letter about witness Kris Kobach mentioned in my firs ... More >>

U.S. House 287(g) Hearings: Judiciary Committee Chairman Says in Opening Remarks That "Immigrant Bashing" is a "Pretty Popular Sport" in Some Places

Things are just getting under way here in Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building for the House Judiciary Committe's 287(g) hearings. There's a packed house, with plenty of representation from Arizona, including Mesa Police Chief George Gascon, civil rights activist Salvador Reza, and la ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Rubs Shoulders with Minuteman Chris Simcox, and Alleged Trespasser Anna Gaines

Joe and the nativists, the love that never dies... You judge a man, sometimes, by the company he keeps. So what does it say of Sheriff Joe that he recently spoke at the Arizona American Italian Club to a group of notorious nativists, including minuteman honcho Chris Simcox, and alleged criminal tre ... More >>

On Anchor Babies and Mexican Penis Sizes

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Easter ethnic cleansing.

Rogues gallery: Southern Poverty Law Center blasts AZ nativists, profiles Sean Gaines, and interviews Nazi memorabilia dealer Dieter Bueschgen of Glendale.

Latest issue of SPLC's Intelligence Report outs PHX "Odin," slams FAIR, and details alleged, attempted murder of Amanda Crow by fellow skins.

Burn, Baby, Burn!

Butch-lesbian nativist Laine Lawless loves incinerating Mexico's flag. Is she a dangerous wacko or a proud patriot?

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Letters from the week of July 3, 2003

Rage from the Cage

Phoenix Zoo director refutes allegations of animal abuse