Big money donors pumped *$4.3 million* into the white nationalist non-profit VDARE in 2019.

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Michael Edison Hayden
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Big money donors pumped *$4.3 million* into the white nationalist non-profit VDARE in 2019.

If you want signs of how the conservative movement has changed after Trump, read this.

Me with @alexkotch:

Donors Pumped Millions into White Nationalist Group
Donors gave the prominent white nationalist hate group VDARE $4.3 million in 2019, over eight times more than the year before, according to tax records the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)
splcenter.org
8:06 AM · Jun 17, 2021

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/06/17/donors-pumped-millions-white-nationalist-group

In an era when white nationalists increasingly embrace decentralized online activism, VDARE stands out for its organizational prowess and links to power. Hatewatch connected former Trump administration officials Stephen Miller and Julia Hahn to its founder, Peter Brimelow, in a series of stories. (Miller invited Brimelow to speak at Duke University when he studied there, and Brimelow referred to a writers workshop Hahn attended with him in private emails leaked to Hatewatch.) Celebrity anti-immigrant columnist Ann Coulter contributes to the group’s online publication. Fox News pundit Laura Ingraham retweeted a VDARE post blaming non-white workers for a COVID-19 outbreak last year.

Even with such visible ties to the mainstream right, VDARE embraces an agenda that directly or indirectly cultivates a radical far-right world view in its sympathizers. Brimelow’s group published apologia about both a terrorist’s manifesto in 2019 and the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on its third anniversary. The group promotes the white genocide conspiracy theory, which many view as having inspired far-right terror attacks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; El Paso, Texas; and Christchurch, New Zealand, in recent years. Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler published a post on VDARE’s website titled “Yes, Virginia (Dare), There Is Such A Thing As White Genocide,” less than two months before a neo-Nazi murdered antiracist demonstrator Heather Heyer at his event. VDARE has also written in romantic terms about the insurrection waged on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

“The Dissident Right is an intellectual movement. Our ideas are considered dangerous by [mainstream media] Cultural Marxists, but we’re actually quite few. What you saw on the Mall and even in the Capitol was not an intellectual movement – it was the American people,” Brimelow wrote of the Capitol insurrection in a post published to his website on Jan. 14.

Hatewatch and the CMD reached out to Brimelow for a comment on this story.

“Donations are increasing because patriots are increasingly angry about communists like you,” he wrote in his email response.

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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Brimelow's salary: $345k. "Non-profit" only in the technical sense

He's profiting greatly from his hatemongering.

"Giant DAF sponsors including Fidelity Charitable – the largest charity in the U.S. – Vanguard Charitable and Schwab Charitable have all given to VDARE and other hate groups" - this is outrageous. Those are related to big, public-facing firms, who should be pressured into cutting such white supremacist links.