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How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness movement

How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness movement

Fostering ‘white wellbeing’ Kohne is a sandy-haired, well-groomed man in his early 40s. Hate movement watchers like Beirich consider him a key figure in the white nationalist streaming and podcasting ecosystem. He’s claimed on his shows that he’s been a “pro-white advocate” since he was a preteen in the early 1990s, but he seemingly started gaining recognition across the wider white nationalist world from 2017 to 2018 when he began livestreaming and uploading videos of himself monologuing, often while driving, to social media under the name NoWhiteGuilt. Eventually, he abandoned the car in favour of a home studio and started writing books as well. Little is known about his private life because, as he has explained in livestreams, he avoids sharing details to minimise his risk of being doxxed. But based on public records leaked by two disgruntled white nationalists, Barry and other researchers believe Kohne is a prison guard – or at least was at some point – and was briefly a co-defendant in a lawsuit over the 2006 asphyxiation death of an inmate. Kohne and other guards named as co-defendants with the prison were dropped from the suit on procedural and technical grounds. He claims he once corresponded with William Luther Pierce III, a physics professor turned neo-Nazi who in 1974 founded the National Alliance, which became the premier US white supremacist group but faded after Pierce’s death in 2002. Pierce also published The Turner Diaries in 1978, a story about white nationalists rising up against the supposedly Jewish-controlled US government through attacks that spiral into a world war, a white nationalist victory, the genocide of all nonwhite peoples and executions of white “race traitors”. Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, handed copies of the book out to friends. Elements of McVeigh’s attack directly mirrored the text. In 2019, Kohne praised Pierce’s contributions to white people and mused about “how tall will [his] statue be when we regain our destiny”. Kohne describes “antiwhitism” as the “greatest threat facing Western civilisation”. Antiwhite policies, according to him, include efforts to address historic racial injustices and embrace equity and diversity, which he sees as abandoning “excellence”; media coverage of violent white nationalist rallies, which he claims are staged by “antiwhite” interest groups to demonise white people and justify attacks against them; and depictions of interracial relationships, which he sees as promoting “miscegenation” and “white erasure”. But unlike more stereotypical white nationalists, Kohne usually avoids slinging slurs at other races or calling for violence. “No race is the enemy, and genetics don’t make you virtuous,” he argues. Members of other races can be “pro-white”, he adds, and thus allies, just as white people can promote “antiwhitism” and thus be foes. Instead, he argues, white people need to give up on mainstream institutions that supposedly fail or harm them and turn inward to foster what he calls “white wellbeing”. Nurturing a sense of “purpose, safety and happiness” within insular white communities, he believes, will create a wall of inner and communal strength that “antiwhite” forces cannot penetrate, helping white people reclaim the power he believes they’ve lost. Those ideas have an audience: Kohne has amassed tens of thousands of followers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Gab, Telegram, Spreaker and more niche right-wing platforms as well as several sites he operates. In 2018, he became a regular contributor to the weekly livestream show of Mark Collett, who founded PA, the prominent British far-right group, in 2019. Collett invited Kohne to speak at PA’s first major conference in 2020. Simi, who has followed Kohne’s career since about 2020 says “his approach to white nationalism is gaining salience” even if it’s unclear whether he is gaining prominence as a leader. By 2019, No White Guilt flyers, banners and signs began to crop up in towns and at protests across the US. In 2022, a community of “White Wellbeing” advocacy groups emerged on social media, amplifying Kohne’s rhetoric. In 2023, an independent game-development studio, Dynostorm, announced it was working on a game reportedly based on Kohne’s ideas. Previews suggest that it involves players killing atheists, journalists and furries to save Western civilisation. And in 2024, his followers created a Foundation for White Wellbeing to facilitate giving money to Kohne and his allies. Kohne’s rise coincided with a wave of backlash against traditional, aggressive, outward-looking white nationalist groups and figures after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, one of the largest white nationalist gatherings in recent US history. Members of a wide array of far-right groups, including open white nationalists, gathered in the city to protest against the planned removal of a Confederate statue and find ways to unify their movements. The rally descended into violent clashes with counterprotesters and reporters. The rally’s aftermath triggered a series of investigations into far-right groups, including RAM, and spurred social media platforms, online payment processors, web hosts and other services to ban far-right groups and individuals linked to them. These blows led white nationalists to re-evaluate how to organise and present themselves, explains Kurt Braddock, a professor at American University in Washington, DC, who studies white nationalist rhetoric. Some moved towards “accelerationism”, the idea that seemingly random acts of racial violence by decentralised cells that are unable to sell each other out if their members are arrested can trigger enough unrest to bring about a power vacuum for white nationalists to then fill. The Christchurch mosque shooter, who killed 51 people and injured more than 40 in New Zealand in 2019, referenced accelerationism in writings before the attacks. But many white nationalists turned inward, focusing on strengthening their own communities while making themselves seem innocuous, even acceptable, to outsiders. Kohne’s language exemplifies this trend, explains Barry, who’s monitored the far-right ideologue’s content for several years. Kohne has also made clear that he wants to appeal to an audience that has traditionally been sidelined within white nationalist movements by creating a way for them to “contribute”: women. Adblock test (Why?)

Washington state lawmakers propose requiring speed limiting devices in cars of drivers with speeding history

Washington state lawmakers propose requiring speed limiting devices in cars of drivers with speeding history

A bill introduced in the Washington state legislature would require drivers with a history of speeding to have a speed limiting device placed on their cars. House Bill 1596 was proposed after supporters say an increase in fatal accidents was caused by speeding. The bill was heard in the House Transportation Committee on Thursday and would require an “intelligent speed assistance device” to be installed in the cars of certain drivers, according to Fox 13. The device limits the speed of the car using GPS technology to follow the speed limit where the vehicle is being driven. These drivers could exceed the speed limit up to three times a month. A driver would have the device on their car if they have a new restricted license established by the bill. This is similar to how ignition interlock devices are used for people with a history of drunk driving. BLUE CITY JUDGE SLAMMED FOR RELEASING VIOLENT SUSPECT ARRESTED AGAIN FOR VICIOUS ATTACK ON TEEN Drivers would also receive the device during the probation period after their license was suspended for racing or “excessive speeding,” which is defined as driving at least 20 miles per hour over the speed limit. Drivers could also be ordered by a court to have a speed-limiting device on their car. “We’re losing Washingtonians and family members are losing loved ones unnecessarily, tragically and preventably,” Democrat state Rep. Mari Leavitt, a prime sponsor of the bill, said. “These aren’t accidents,” she added. “They’re intentionally folks choosing behavior that is harming and often killing folks.” According to data in 2023 from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, one in three fatal crashes in the state involved a speeding driver. The total number of fatal crashes and the number involving speeding has been trending upward since 2019. “Between 2019 and 2024, tickets to speeding drivers in excess of 50 miles an hour over the speed limit increased by 200%,” the commission’s Shelly Baldwin testified. “So we know that this is an increasing problem that we’ve been dealing with.” Republican state Rep. Gloria Mendoza questioned how the bill helps keep people safe by allowing speeders to continue driving. “So we’re trying to help them get back their license by giving them this tool,” Mendoza said. “So how is this helping save lives?” SEATTLE POLICE OFFICER FIRED FOR FATALLY HITTING GRADUATE STUDENT WITH CAR CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Leavitt responded: “We want to find a way for them to be able to drive lawfully, but safely. And having them on the road in a safe manner is going to save lives, because they’re driving anyway, and they’re driving fast. And this device, these speed limiters, are going to ensure that they can’t.” The bill has not yet been scheduled for a vote out of committee.

House GOP elections chair reveals which voter blocs Republicans are targeting ahead of 2026

House GOP elections chair reveals which voter blocs Republicans are targeting ahead of 2026

DORAL, Fla. — The lawmaker in charge of House Republicans’ elections arm is feeling confident that the GOP can buck historical precedent and hold onto their majority for the entirety of President Donald Trump’s term. The 2024 elections saw Republicans make significant inroads with Hispanic and Black voters. National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Richard Hudson, R-N.C., said progress would continue heading into the 2026 midterm elections. BLACK CAUCUS CHAIR ACCUSES TRUMP OF ‘PURGE’ OF ‘MINORITY’ FEDERAL WORKERS “We’ve done well with African Americans, comparatively,” Hudson told Fox News Digital, referring to years prior. “We’ve put a lot more effort in reaching out to that community as well and letting them know that we want your votes, and we want to represent you, and we care about the issues that matter to you and your family.” “I think we can do better, and we’ll continue to attempt to do better. But, look, our message, our values, our principles are all universal.” He said Republicans’ values also lined up with Hispanic and Latino voters, 42% of whom supported Trump, according to the Associated Press. “We are focused on the issues you care about,” Hudson said the pitch was. “It’s crime in your neighborhoods. It’s education for your children. It’s securing the borders. It’s the price of things for your family. I mean, these are all things we campaigned on. But we deliberately went out into the Hispanic community and said, ‘We want your vote.’ And they responded.” Earlier in the interview, he credited Trump with delivering on those values in 2024, and argued that Trump’s policies would get Republicans over the line again next year. Historically, the first midterm after a new presidential term serves as a rebuke of the party in power. Democrats won the House of Representatives in a “blue wave” in 2018 during Trump’s first term. Four years later, Republicans wrestled it back under former President Joe Biden. But the circumstances are somewhat different this time, something Hudson noted. “We’re in a unique time in history, where you had a president serve four years with all his policies, and then he was replaced by another president who had completely different policies. . . . And then the two ran against each other,” Hudson said. “So the American people sort of had a referendum on which president they wanted, which policies they chose, and they overwhelmingly selected Donald Trump.” NONCITIZEN VOTER CRACKDOWN LED BY HOUSE GOP AHEAD OF 2026 MIDTERMS Trump is in his second term, and Hudson argued that the 2024 presidential race was a referendum between two clear White House records. “He has a mandate that I think is unique in history. And so this isn’t a first-term president going into his first midterm. I mean, this is someone the American people know, and they’ve chosen,” Hudson said. Hudson also pointed out that Democrats will be defending 13 lawmakers whose districts Trump won, while Republicans only had to hold onto three seats that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. “The battlefield out there for us going into 2026 favors Republicans,” Hudson said.  He spoke with Fox News Digital at Trump National Doral golf course and resort in South Florida, where Republicans held their three-day retreat to strategize their agenda. Hudson was one of the senior Republicans who gave a presentation to fellow lawmakers during the event, where his message was: “We’re on offense this cycle.” “We’re going to lean in. We have a lot of opportunity in those Donald Trump seats,” Hudson said he told colleagues. “We’re going to hold Democrats accountable for their voting against the policies the American people want.”

‘New sheriff in town’: Parents ‘overjoyed’ with Trump’s DEI crackdown, education group says

‘New sheriff in town’: Parents ‘overjoyed’ with Trump’s DEI crackdown, education group says

Parents are “overjoyed” with the trajectory of the education system under President Donald Trump after years of pushing back on so-called woke practices in schools, a parents’ rights education group told Fox News Digital. During his first two weeks in office, Trump signed several education-related executive orders on school funding and antisemitism, and launched a federal review of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices in federally funded institutions. Additionally, the Trump administration launched an investigation into a Colorado school district for allegedly “discriminating against its female students” after a girls’ restroom was reportedly converted into an “all-gender” facility, while the boys’ restroom remained for males only.  Nicole Neily, the founder and president of Parents Defending Education, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that the investigation will “open the floodgates” of the Trump administration’s expected crackdown on similar policies in schools across the country. TRUMP PUTS HIGHER EDUCATION ON NOTICE FOR ‘DANGEROUS, DEMEANING, AND IMMORAL’ DEI TEACHINGS “I think what it is intended to do is to send a signal to families that obviously there’s a new sheriff in town. This is a priority. This administration, as the executive orders have made clear, actually views the difference in the sexes to be significant,” Neily told Fox News Digital. On Tuesday, the Department of Education sent a letter to the superintendent of Denver Public Schools to sound the alarm over reports that East High School in Denver was in violation of Title IX after opening up a female-only restroom to all genders.  “For this to be a very clear signal to families, to students, that if your school has engaged in something similar, this is something that the department is interested in looking into and adjudicating,” Neily said, adding that the investigation is something “families are going to be really encouraged by.”  Neily said that in recent years, parents “have been gaslit by our states, by our local school districts, by the federal government” all because “we want our children to have a colorblind education,” but that the educational system is already undergoing “sorely overdue” change under Trump. TRUMP’S WRITTEN A DEI GOVERNMENT DEATH SENTENCE. SCHOOL POLICIES SHOULD BE NEXT During his first week in office, the president launched a federal review of DEI teachings and practices in educational institutions receiving federal funding, in an effort to restore “merit-based opportunity,” according to the White House. Trump, prior to being sworn in, said he was open to considering abolishing the Department of Education in order to give states more individual control over their schools. Asked about the idea, Neily said she believes that states “know their communities, their needs, their values better than anybody in Washington ever can or would.” “I think there’s a real opportunity to make sure that the department is focusing on the things it should be, which is educating children, restoring trust in the system and not doing things like giving out the billion dollars in DEI-focused grants,” she said.