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Michael Edison Hayden reports on politics for Newsweek, where he covers the far-right. As a crime reporter, he wrote features about serial killers, gang violence, corruption and police shootings for VICE .
Jul 5, 2015 · Michael Edison Hayden is an American writer based out of Mumbai. He has contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America, Financial Times, Slate, and The Times of London, among others. PROJECTS & STORIES. English. India's Ancient Transgender Community. Multiple Authors. April 19, 2016. English.
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There are two stories of the radicalization of the pro-Trump wing of the Republican Party. One is slower moving and arguably starts during the 1990s, around the launch of Fox News. The other story begins on Sept. 7, 2020, when polling made it apparent that Trump’s path to reelection faced significant challenges. Far-right influencers such as Jack P...
Pro-Trump Republicans who seek to limit democracy also appear more willing to ally themselves with hateful ideologues or give voice to bigoted views after Jan. 6. Extreme far-right activists such as Andrew Anglin of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer or Stop the Steal’s Nick Fuenteshave long sought to radicalize those in power to their views or wor...
When Trump still served as president, the Republican party condemned white nationalist congressperson Steve King in near universal terms. Congress stripped King of his committee positions in January 2019, and Republicans supported the measure. In 2021, the list of comments from elected Republican leaders embracing hate or hard-right, authoritarian ...
The ideologies supported by America’s two political parties have evolved in remarkable ways since the Civil War, and the Trump movement’s alignment with hate and extremism threatens to reshape the Republicans for generations. As an example of historical shifts, Grover Cleveland once led a now-unrecognizable Democratic Party branded around its adher...
To read SPLC's complete coverage of the January 6 insurrection, visit The Long Path to Insurrection.
Jan 28, 2021 · Michael Edison Hayden, Senior Investigative Reporter and Spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose organization tracks hate groups, says extremists have increasingly been...
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Mar 13, 2023 · Hatewatch. 'Alt-Right' Disinformation King Faces Trial. March 13, 2023. Michael Edison Hayden. Jury selection started today in the trial of 33-year-old Douglass Mackey, a man who prolifically spread hate and politically charged disinformation under the pseudonym “Ricky Vaughn” during Donald Trump’s political rise.
Michael Edison Hayden is a journalist and researcher who covers hate and extremism for the SPLC. He has written about the anti-democracy hard right, the far-right YouTube subculture, and the hate connections of Trump officials.
Michael Edison Hayden. Politics. Prior to joining Newsweek as a politics writer, Michael wrote crime features for VICE , served as a special correspondent during the Nepal earthquake for...
