The Mother of All Rallies had participants like which far-right men's organization founded in 2016 by Vice Media co-founder and former commentator Gavin McInnes?
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Mother of All Rallies The Mother of All Rallies (M.O.A.R.) was a rally held on September 16, 2017, at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States, in support of President Donald Trump. The event was held on the same day as other demonstrations throughout the city, including the Juggalo March. Speakers included Marco Gutierrez and the leaders of Gays for Trump and Patriot Prayer, among others. Members of the 3 Percenters, American Guard, Oath Keepers, and Proud Boys were present, as were Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists. Crowd estimates ranged from several hundred to around 1,000 attendees, far less than organizers' original goal of 1 million participants and claims that thousands would attend. No Republican elected officials attended the rally.
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Proud Boys Proud Boys is a far-right men's organization founded in 2016 by Vice Media co-founder and former commentator Gavin McInnes. McInnes describes the organization as a "pro-Western fraternal organization" for men who "refuse to apologize for creating the modern world." The group has been referred to as alt-right or alt-lite.
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National Vanguard (American organization) National Vanguard is an American white nationalist organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded in 2005 by Kevin Alfred Strom and former members of the National Alliance.
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Web brigades The web brigades (Russian: Веб-бригады ), also known in English media as Russia's troll army, are state-sponsored anonymous Internet political commentators and trolls linked to the Russian government. Participants report that they are organized into teams and groups of commentators that participate in Russian and international political blogs and Internet forums using sockpuppets and large-scale orchestrated trolling and disinformation campaigns to promote pro-Putin and pro-Russian propaganda. It has also been found that Wikipedia articles were targeted by Russian internet propaganda activities.
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Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment (HOME) is an American anti-homosexuality organization founded by Wayne Lela and based in Downers Grove, Illinois. The organization's aim is "to use science, logic, and natural law to expose all the flaws in the arguments homosexuals (and bisexuals) use to try to justify homosexual activity". The organization has been designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center "based on their propagation of known falsehoods".
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Sweden Democrats Sweden Democrats or Swedish Democrats (Swedish: "Sverigedemokraterna" , SD) is a nationalist political party in Sweden that was founded in 1988. The party describes itself as social conservative with a nationalist foundation, however the party has been described as far-right, right-wing populist, national-conservative, and anti-immigration. The party had its roots in Swedish fascism and was a part of the white supremacy movement in the late-1980s; initially, it was characterized by right-wing extremism and activism. Among the founding party officials were several people that had formerly expressed strong support for the ideology of Nazism. SD's logo from the 1990s was a version of the torch used by the UK National Front, until it was changed to an Anemone hepatica flower in 2006 (Swedish: "blåsippa" ). Jimmie Åkesson has been party chairman since 2005.
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Greg Withrow Gregory Withrow (born May 1, 1961) is an American far-right White supremacy activist. He was described by the "Chicago Sun-Times" as being "widely acknowledged as the founder of the [white power] 'skinhead' movement in 1978". Withrow subsequently publicly abandoned his earlier political beliefs in the late 1980s and became a regular face on television speaking out against racism and the organisation of young people by the far-right. In later years Withrow repudiated his change of heart and returned to far-right activism.
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Vishnu Gupta Vishnu Gupta (born 10 August 1984) is an Indian right-wing Hindu nationalist from Sakit, Uttar Pradesh. He is the founder and president of the Hindu Sena. Among the Hindu Sena's activities were campaigning for Donald Trump in the U.S. Presidential election of 2016, allegedly vandalising the regional office of Pakistan International Airlines in New Delhi, attacking the office of the Aam Admi Party, and protesting the "anti-national" news coverage of "The Indian Express". On 25th December 2015 Gupta was arrested, two days after a PCR call by him alleging that beef was being served in the restaurant at Kerala House. The police stated they were contemplating action against Gupta under Section 182 of the Indian Penal Code (false information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person).
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Marco Gutierrez Marco Gutierrez is a Mexican-American political activist and the co-founder of Latinos for Trump, an online organization dedicated to promoting the candidacy of Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In July 2016, Gutierrez said that this group had 20,000 members. He gained significant media attention in September 2016 when he said on MSNBC that the spread of Latino culture in the United States, if it was not stopped, would lead to "taco trucks on every corner." Subsequently, the "New York Daily News" reported that he and his wife, Jennifer, had filed for personal bankruptcy fourteen times and had had his real estate license revoked. He has also argued that Trump's plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is both physical and symbolic, and has praised Trump's leadership abilities.
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Andrew Breitbart Andrew James Breitbart ( ; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American entrepreneur, conservative publisher, commentator for "The Washington Times", media critic, journalist, author, and television and radio personality on various news programs, who served as an editor for the "Drudge Report" website. He was a researcher for and close friend of Arianna Huffington, and he helped create an early version of "The Huffington Post".
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Rally.org Rally.org is an American social online fundraising platform for use by a wide range of individuals and organizations. It allows users to set up their own fundraising page, through which supporters can find information about their campaigns and make donations through Rally.org's proprietary payment system. The platform is best known for its use by causes including the Make A Wish Foundation and Jon Bon Jovi's Hurricane Sandy relief effort, filmmakers including the director of "Buzkashi Boys", and political campaigns in the United States 2012 election cycle. In May 2012, Rally.org closed the largest Series A round of venture capital ever raised online. The company was founded in Austin, Texas, as Piryx, in 2009 by Tom Serres, Brian Upton, Jonas Lamis and Naveed Lalani.
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Mo Elleithee Mo Elleithee (c. 1972) is an American political campaign strategist. A Democrat, he has served as spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, and other Democratic elected officials and organizations. He is currently executive director of the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown University. In 2016, he became a Fox News political contributor.
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Stephen McNallen Stephen Anthony McNallen (born October 15, 1948) is an American proponent of the modern Pagan new religious movement of Heathenry. He founded the Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA), which he led from 1994 until 2016, having previously been the founder of the Viking Brotherhood and the Asatrú Free Assembly.
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Antifa (United States) Antifa ( ) is a militant political movement of autonomous, self-styled anti-fascist groups. The salient feature of Antifa is its opposition to fascism by direct action. Antifa groups are known for their militant protest tactics, including property damage and physical violence. They tend to be anti-government and anti-capitalist, and they are predominantly far left and militant left, including anarchists, communists and socialists. They focus on fighting far-right and white supremacist ideologies directly, rather than on encouraging pro-left policy.
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2017 Women's March The Women's March was a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017, to advocate legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues, including women's rights, immigration reform, healthcare reform, reproductive rights, the natural environment, LGBTQ rights, racial equality, freedom of religion, and workers' rights. Most of the rallies were aimed at Donald Trump, immediately following his inauguration as President of the United States, largely due to statements that he had made and positions that he had taken which were regarded by many as anti-women or otherwise offensive. It was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history.
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Bobby Gore Bobby Gore (born Frederick Douglas Gore; May 11, 1936 – February 12, 2013) was an American gang leader and activist from Chicago, Illinois. Gore was the co–founder and former leader of the "Conservative Vice Lords" (CVL), which are historically one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in Chicago. Gore collaborated in the shift of the organizations criminal affiliations, in which the gang became a non-profit, pro-social community organization.
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Christian Picciolini Christian Picciolini (born November 3, 1973) is the co-founder of the nonprofit peace advocacy organization, Life After Hate, and penned a memoir, "Romantic Violence: Memoirs Of An American Skinhead", that was released in 2015 and details his time as a leader of the American white power movement. He has been profiled in publications like "Vice" and Noisey, and has appeared on nationally broadcast television programs like "Anderson Cooper 360°," "The Blaze" and the "CBS Evening News".
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Unite the Right rally The Unite the Right rally (also known as the Charlottesville rally) was a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, from August 11–12, 2017. Its stated goal was to oppose the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park, which itself had been renamed by City Council from <nowiki>"Lee Park"</nowiki> two months earlier. Protesters included white supremacists, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, and various militias. Some of the marchers chanted racist and antisemitic slogans, carried semi-automatic rifles, swastikas, Confederate battle flags, anti-Muslim and antisemitic banners, and "Trump/Pence" signs.
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The Political Cesspool The Political Cesspool is a weekly far-right talk radio show founded by Tennessean political activist James Edwards and syndicated by the organizations Liberty News Radio Network and Accent Radio Network in the United States. First broadcast in October 2004 twice a week from radio station WMQM, per Edwards it has been simulcast on Stormfront Radio, a service of the white nationalist Stormfront website and as of 2011 is broadcast on Saturday nights on WLRM, a Christian radio station in Millington, Tennessee. Its sponsors include the white separatist Council of Conservative Citizens and the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust denial group.
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Eric Bolling Eric Thomas Bolling (born March 2, 1963) is an American television personality, conservative political commentator, author, and financial commentator. He has occupied numerous roles as a commentator on financial issues for television, most notably for Fox News. Bolling took over as host of the Fox Business Channel news program "Cashin' In" in 2013. He was a co-host of Fox News Channel's "The Five" at its inception, until leaving to co-host "Fox News Specialists" in May 2017. In 2016, Bolling published his first book, "Wake Up America", which became a "New York Times" best seller. In 2017 he wrote another book, "The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It". On August 5, 2017, "HuffPost" reported that he had sent unsolicited lewd photographs and text messages to three female colleagues several years previously. Fox News conducted an independent investigation and mutually agreed to part ways with Bolling the following month.
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The Triggering The Triggering: Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far? was an event hosted by the College Republicans Club of the University of Massachusetts Amherst on April 25, 2016, featuring former philosophy professor and host of The Factual Feminist YouTube series Christina Hoff Sommers, political commentator Steven Crowder and former Breitbart senior technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos. The topic of discussion was the effect of political correctness on free speech, and whether political correctness culture has grown to be detrimental. Additional topics included social justice, feminism, trigger warnings, and microaggressions. Some students attending began protesting mid-event, accusing the panelists of hate speech and demanding that they leave campus.
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2016 Donald Trump Chicago rally protest On March 11, 2016, the Donald Trump presidential campaign cancelled a planned rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), in Chicago, Illinois, citing "growing safety concerns" due to the presence of thousands of protesters in and outside of his rally.