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Facts

Also Known As	alternative right
Date	c. 2010 - present
Context	Gamergate

Photos

Men holding lit torches shout in a crowd at night during a rally at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Crowd of white nationalists and neo-Nazis march with Confederate and extremist flags on East Market Street in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the 2017 Unite the Right rally.

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Topics

white supremacy neo-Nazism Luddite American civil rights movement Boston Tea Party progressivism Sons of Liberty militia movement Chartism Black Power Movement Noncooperation movement women’s rights movement

Key People

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Nick Fuentes

American white supremacist and political commentator