'Strength Through Joy'

<https://spartacus-educational.com/GERjoy.htm>

'Strength Through Joy (KdF) was established as a subsidiary of the
German Labour Front on 27th November, 1933. It was an attempt to
organize workers' leisure time rather than allow them to organize it for
themselves, and therefore enable leisure to serve the interests of the
government. Robert Ley claimed that "workers were to gain strength for
their work by experiencing joy in their leisure". (1) The scheme has
been described as "regimented leisure" and that Hitler deemed it
"necessary to control not only the working hours but the leisure hours
of the individual". (2)

The scheme had been heavily influenced by the theories of the Belgian
fascist, Henri de Man, who sought to fuse the theories of Karl Marx and
Sigmund Freud. It also took some of the ideas behind the Italian Fascist
Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro, the leisure and recreational organization,
concentrating on sports and other outings for adults, that had been
introduced by Benito Mussolini in 1925. (3)

Albert Speer was a great supporter of Ley's plan to persuade factory
owners to improve the workplace: "First we persuaded factory owners to
modernize their offices and to have some flowers about. But we did not
stop there. Lawn was to take the place of asphalt. What had been
wasteland was to be turned into little parks where the workers could sit
during breaks. We urged that window areas within factories be enlarged
and workers' canteen set up... We provided educational movies and a
counseling service to help businessmen on questions of illumination and
ventilation... One and all devoted themselves to the cause of making
some improvements in the workers' living conditions and moving closer to
the ideal of a classless People's Community." (4)

Sport and Cultural Activities
Since the late 19th century the Social Democrat Party (SDP) and the
German trade unions had built sports grounds and hiking hostels. These
were now taken over by the German Labour Front and used for its members.
With these resources it was able to offer discounted leisure activities
that were within the financial reach of many workers and their families.
By 1934-35, over three million people were taking part in its physical
education and gymnastics evenings, while many others took advantage of
the cheap coaching it offered in tennis, golf, skiing, sailing and other
upper-middle-class-sports. (5)

Adolf Hitler addresses the German people on radio on 31st January, 1933
National German Front poster (c. 1934)
Strength Through Joy promoted evening classes, amateur cultural
activities, recitals and travelling art exhibitions. Plays were
performed in factories and specially organized KdF concerts, featuring
important classical conductors and soloists, such as Carl Bohm, Eugen
Jochum and Wilhelm Furtwanger, played to German workers. (6) The KdF had
its own ninety-piece symphony orchestra which continually toured the
country and in 1938 over two and a half million people attended its
concerts. One observer pointed out that the KdF "made available at
bargain rates tickets to the theatre, the opera and concerts, thus
making available more highbrow entertainment to the labouring man." (7)

The success of the KdF brought Ley into conflict with Joseph Goebbels.
According to his biographer, Toby Thacker, Goebbels objected to the idea
that the professional associations of German artists should be part of
the Labour Front. (8) Goebbels held a meeting with Adolf Hitler and
eventually he agreed that he should be free to organize all persons
"belonging to the areas of activity under his jurisdiction". (9)

The German football team give the Nazi salute (4th December, 1935)
The German football team give the Nazi salute (4th December, 1935)
In December 1935, Strength Through Joy arranged for 10,000 Germans to
travel to London to watch their team play England at White Hart Lane. It
was a curious choice of venue because within football Spurs are known as
“the Jewish club” owing to support from Jewish communities in north
London. There were also Jews among the players. On the day of the match
a demonstration march converged on White Hart Lane. Leaflets printed in
German were handed out by demonstrators and there were some minor
scuffles with pro-Nazi sympathisers. Before the game the German players
gave the nazi salute and the swastika was flown over the ground. England
won the game 3-0. (10)

Subsidized Holidays
The most popular aspect of Strength Through Joy was the provision of
subsidized holidays. Large sections of the labour force were for the
first time given the opportunity of holidaying away from home. The
holidays ranged in price from a week in the Harz Mountains (28 marks),
one week at the North Sea coast (35 marks) and a fortnight at Lake
Constance (65 marks). As the average wage of an industrial worker was
about 30 marks, it enabled a third of all workers to go on holiday. (11)

The KdF set about building its own model resort on the Baltic island of
Rügen. Construction began under the supervision of Albert Speer on 3rd
May 1936. "The resort spanned eight kilometres of the Baltic shore, with
six-story residence blocks interspersed with refectories and centred on
a huge communal hall designed to accommodate all 20,000 of the resort's
holidaymakers as they engaged in collective demonstration of enthusiasm
for the regime and its policies. It was consciously designed for
families, to make good the lack of facilities for them in other Strength
Through Joy enterprises, and it was intended to be cheap enough for the
ordinary worker to afford, at a price of no more than 20 Reichsmarks for
a week's stay." (12)

The better paid workers were able to go abroad. A tour of Italy cost 155
marks. Strength Through Joy commissioned the building of two 25,000-ton
purpose-built ships and chartered ten others to handle ocean cruises.
The Robert Ley could carry 1,600 passengers. It only had forty
lavatories and 100 showers but 156 loudspeakers that relayed on-board
propaganda. (13) The liner also included a gymnasium, a theatre and a
swimming pool to ensure that participants engaged in regular healthy
exercise and experienced serious cultural events. (14)

These cruise liners sailed as far as the Norwegian fjords, Madeira,
Libya, Finland, Bulgaria and Turkey. 180,000 Germans went on cruises in
1938 and the volume of tourism doubled. (15) In 1939 alone, 175,000
people went to Italy on organized trips, a good number of them
travelling on cruise liners. (16)

William L. Shirer, an American journalist went on a KdF cruise: "Though
life abroad was organized by Nazi leaders to a point of excruciation,
the German workers seemed to have a good time. And at bargain rates! A
cruise to Maderia, for instance, cost only $25, including rail fare to
and from the German port, and other jaunts were equally inexpensive...
In winter special skiing excursions to the Bavarian Alps were organized
at a cost of $11 a week, including car fare, room and board, rental of
skis and lessons from a ski instructor." (17)

The governments of other European countries took an interest in what the
KdF was doing. The British ambassador in Berlin, Sir Neville Henderson,
pointed out: "There are, in fact, many things in the Nazi organization
and ideology, which we might study and adapt to our own use with great
profit both to the health and happiness of our own nation and old
democracy." (18)

Volkswagen
While in prison in Adolf Hitler read a lot of books. Most of these dealt
with German history and political philosophy. Later he was to describe
his spell in prison as a "free education at the state's expense." One
writer who influenced Hitler while in prison was Henry Ford's
autobiography, My Life and Work (1922). It had been translated into
German by Curt and Marguerite Thesing. It was one of a small collection
of books that was found in his office after his death at Nazi
headquarters. (19)

Hitler also read an article entitled the Motorization of Germany. It was
during this time that Hitler developed the idea that he wanted to be
responsible for Germany's Model T. According to Richard Evans, the
author of The Third Reich in Power (2005), "by the early 1930s he was
drawing rough sketches of a small family vehicle that would sell for
less than a thousand Reichsmarks and so be within reach of the vast
majority of the population". (20)

Soon after he gained power in 1933 Adolf Hitler announced that the
"salvation of the German worker in an enormous and all-embracing attack
on unemployment". (21) At the time six million people were registered as
unemployed and three million more had disappeared from the employment
statistics altogether, many of them women. In 1929 over 20 million had
been in work, by the time Hitler took office, that number had fallen to
11.5 million. (22)

Hitler was aware that it was vital to reduce the number of people
unemployed if he was to retain power. One of his first decisions was to
order the construction of new highways under the direction of Fritz
Todt. His goal was a network of 7,300 miles of four-lane highways. Todt
calculated that building the motorways would provide employment for
600,000. By June 1935 there were over 125,000 men working on motorway
construction. Hitler announced that this road building achievement was
"an overture to peace" but was also undertaken to permit the rapid
movement of troops in war. Hitler was especially interested in east-west
highways in order to meet the demands of a two-front war. (23)

John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Subject: What Democrats and Nazis have in common.

How can you write that when their opponent is literally Hitler? The
Democrats are the Jesus-friendly party when they pick Tim Walz as VP.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

John Smyth wrote:
>

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-dinner-guest-says-perfidious-jews-should-be-executed/ar-AA1lp2z1
Trump Dinner Guest Says ‘Perfidious Jews' Should Be Executed

Nick Fuentes, the hate leader who dined at Mar-a-Lago
last year with Donald Trump and Kanye West, is calling
for a genocide of "perfidious Jews" and other non-Christians.
"When we take power," he said a Dec. 8 livestream, "they
need to be given the death penalty, straight up."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703

Former President Donald Trump sparked a backlash after
blaming "liberal Jews" for voting to "destroy America and
Israel" while wishing them a happy new year.

"Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy
America & Israel because you believed false narratives!"
Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday during Rosh
Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the start of the faith's
High Holy Days.

https://www.newsweek.com/three-quarters-jewish-voters-blame-donald-trump-rise-antisemitism-1758824
10/11/22

A dovish Middle East advocacy group has released poll
results showing that a vast majority of Jewish voters
attribute a recent rise in antisemitism to Donald
Trump and his allies in the Republican Party.

J Street on Thursday published the election night poll
finding that 76 percent of American Jews believe the
former president and his wing of the GOP are
responsible for an uptick in antisemitism and white
supremacy. The poll also found 74 percent believe
Trump and the MAGA movement are "a threat to Jews in
America." The poll follows reports of increasing
antisemitic incidents and as Trump is expected to
announce another bid for the presidency.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/15/facebook-post-jewish-junta-from-kentucky-county-gop-criticized/65374383007/

A Facebook post by the Bracken County Republican
Party attacking the new director of the U.S.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives as being part of the "Jewish junta"
drew criticism Friday from Jewish leaders in
Kentucky.

The post about new ATF director Steve Dettlebach
went up early Friday morning was deleted shortly
after a Courier Journal reporter contacted Bracken
County GOP chair Karin Kirkendol about it.

“A Jewish anti-gun activist, Steve Dettelbach, has
just been made director of the ATF," read the
Facebook post. "The Jewish junta is getting
stronger and more aggressive.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-38057104/hail-trump-white-nationalists-mark-trump-win-with-nazi-salute
Skip to the 40 second mark

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/gop-congresswoman-under-fire-for-claim-j
ewish-space-lasers-started-forest-fires-1.9493916

Among the many posts being unearthed amid
renewed scrutiny of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s
social media history is one in which the new
congresswoman implicated “Rothschild Inc” in
connection with a deadly forest fire that, she
wrote, was started using laser beams from space.

Greene has expressed overt and more subtle
antisemitic theories over time. In 2018 she
shared a video, also on Facebook, that lambasted
“Zionist supremacists” and advanced the “great
replacement” theory, which falsely alleges that
Jews are conspiring to undermine white-majority
countries by bringing in non-white immigrants.

Since 1936, blacks have voted overwhelmingly for
a democrat for president:

https://blackdemographics.com/culture/black-politics/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Although the phrase "Southern Strategy" is often
attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin
Phillips, he did not originate it but popularized
it. In an interview included in a 1970 New York
Times article, Phillips stated his analysis
based on studies of ethnic voting:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get
more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and
they don't need any more than that... but Republicans
would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement
of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who
register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the
Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become
Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without
that prodding from the blacks, the whites will
backslide into their old comfortable arrangement
with the local Democrats.

https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/307788/florida-pastor-calls-trump-impeachment-a-jew-coup/

Florida Pastor and founder of the TruNews YouTube
channel Rick Wiles called efforts to impeach
President Donald Trump part of a “Jew coup.”

In a Nov. 21 video, Wiles said, “That’s the way
the Jews work. They are deceivers. They plot. They
lie. They do whatever they’ve have to do to
accomplish their political agenda. This impeach
Trump movement is part of a Jew coup, and the
American people better wake up to it fast.”

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/-NY-Republican-Group-Removes-Facebook-Video-Warning-of-Hasidic-Jewish-Takeover-558726881.html

NY Republican Group Removes Facebook Video
Warning of Hasidic Jewish ‘Takeover’

The video posted Wednesday by the Rockland
County Republican Party warned that "our
families" and "our way of life" are at stake

The video posted Wednesday by the Rockland County
Republican Party interspersed news clips about
conflicts related to the county's growing
ultra-Orthodox Jewish population with warnings
that "our families" and "our way of life" are
at stake.

"If they win, we lose," the video said over
ominous-sounding music, adter leading the
video with a warning that "a storm is brewing."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/justice-department-immigration-judges-white-nationalist

An email sent from the Justice Department to
all immigration court employees this week
included a link to an article posted on a white
nationalist website that “directly attacks
sitting immigration judges with racial and
ethnically tinged slurs,” according to a
letter sent by an immigration judges union
and obtained by BuzzFeed News.

According to the National Association of
Immigration Judges, the Justice Department’s
Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
sent court employees a link to a blog post
from VDare, a white nationalist website, in
its morning news briefing earlier this week
that included anti-Semitic attacks on judges.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/many-white-nationalists-praise-controversial-trump-tweets

Andrew Anglin, founder of the popular
right-wing website The Daily Stormer, heaped
praise on Trump.

"This is the kind of WHITE NATIONALISM we elected
him for," Anglin wrote on his website.

Anglin, who like many within the white nationalist
movement has vacillated in his support for Trump,
suggested that the president's tweets were aimed
at solidifying support from his base ahead of the
2020 presidential election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/16/andrew-anglin-daily-stormer-tanya-gersh-million-verdict/

The call to arms appeared on the Daily Stormer, a
well-known neo-Nazi website, in December 2016.

“Are y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm?”
wrote publisher Andrew Anglin. “Because AYO — it’s
that time, fam.”

With that, Tanya Gersh, a real estate agent in the
picturesque resort community of Whitefish, Mont.,
saw her life upended. Gersh, her husband and their
12-year-old son were flooded with vile phone calls,
text messages, emails, and social media posts,
many of which contained death threats and
anti-Semitic slurs. Gersh, who is Jewish,
was told that she should have perished in the
Holocaust, and received chilling voice mails
with the sound of a gun firing again and again.

https://www.thenation.com/article/after-stunning-democratic-win-north-dakota-republicans-suppressed-the-native-american-vote/

Officially, these voters lost out at the polls
four years ago, because they failed to show
identification, as required by a new state law
at the time. But that was not the only thing
the would-be voters have in common: Each is
Native American, and each hails from one of the
most heavily Democratic counties in this
deep-red state.

Over the last six years, Republicans in North
Dakota adopted a flurry of legislation that
effectively revoked the right to vote for
thousands of Native Americans and other
Democratic voters, according to an
investigation of court records, internal
emails among state officials, as well as
interviews with voters and lawmakers on
both sides of the issue.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/08/31/andrew-gillum-racist-robocalls-tied-neo-nazis-target-florida-gubernatorial-candidate/1162133002/

Robocalls against Democratic gubernatorial
nominee Andrew Gillum that say they were paid
for by a neo-Nazi group in Idaho are going out
to voters in Tallahassee.

The automated calls are narrated by someone
pretending to be Gillum and using an
exaggerated minstrel dialect with jungle
noises in the background. The calls end with
a disclaimer that they were funded by The
Road to Power, an anti-Semitic, white
supremacist website and podcast linked to
Scott Rhodes of Sandpoint, Idaho.

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:20:04 -0600, Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Isn't Trump the same guy who said he didn't understand why Jews didn't vote for
him after he moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem?
>
>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-dinner-guest-says-perfidious-jews-should-be-executed/ar-AA1lp2z1
>Trump Dinner Guest Says ‘Perfidious Jews' Should Be Executed
>
>Nick Fuentes, the hate leader who dined at Mar-a-Lago
>last year with Donald Trump and Kanye West, is calling
>for a genocide of "perfidious Jews" and other non-Christians.
>"When we take power," he said a Dec. 8 livestream, "they
>need to be given the death penalty, straight up."
>
>
>
>https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703
>
>Former President Donald Trump sparked a backlash after
>blaming "liberal Jews" for voting to "destroy America and
>Israel" while wishing them a happy new year.
>
>"Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy
>America & Israel because you believed false narratives!"
>Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday during Rosh
>Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the start of the faith's
>High Holy Days.
>
>
>https://www.newsweek.com/three-quarters-jewish-voters-blame-donald-trump-rise-antisemitism-1758824
>10/11/22
>
>
>A dovish Middle East advocacy group has released poll
>results showing that a vast majority of Jewish voters
>attribute a recent rise in antisemitism to Donald
>Trump and his allies in the Republican Party.
>
>J Street on Thursday published the election night poll
>finding that 76 percent of American Jews believe the
>former president and his wing of the GOP are
>responsible for an uptick in antisemitism and white
>supremacy. The poll also found 74 percent believe
>Trump and the MAGA movement are "a threat to Jews in
>America." The poll follows reports of increasing
>antisemitic incidents and as Trump is expected to
>announce another bid for the presidency.
>
>
>
>https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/15/facebook-post-jewish-junta-from-kentucky-county-gop-criticized/65374383007/
>
>A Facebook post by the Bracken County Republican
>Party attacking the new director of the U.S.
>Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
>Explosives as being part of the "Jewish junta"
>drew criticism Friday from Jewish leaders in
>Kentucky.
>
>The post about new ATF director Steve Dettlebach
>went up early Friday morning was deleted shortly
>after a Courier Journal reporter contacted Bracken
>County GOP chair Karin Kirkendol about it.
>
>“A Jewish anti-gun activist, Steve Dettelbach, has
>just been made director of the ATF," read the
>Facebook post. "The Jewish junta is getting
>stronger and more aggressive.”
>
>
>
>https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-38057104/hail-trump-white-nationalists-mark-trump-win-with-nazi-salute
>Skip to the 40 second mark
>
>
>https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/gop-congresswoman-under-fire-for-claim-j
>ewish-space-lasers-started-forest-fires-1.9493916
>
>Among the many posts being unearthed amid
>renewed scrutiny of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s
>social media history is one in which the new
>congresswoman implicated “Rothschild Inc” in
>connection with a deadly forest fire that, she
>wrote, was started using laser beams from space.
>
>Greene has expressed overt and more subtle
>antisemitic theories over time. In 2018 she
>shared a video, also on Facebook, that lambasted
>“Zionist supremacists” and advanced the “great
>replacement” theory, which falsely alleges that
>Jews are conspiring to undermine white-majority
>countries by bringing in non-white immigrants.
>
>
>
>Since 1936, blacks have voted overwhelmingly for
>a democrat for president:
>
>https://blackdemographics.com/culture/black-politics/
>
>
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
>
>Although the phrase "Southern Strategy" is often
>attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin
>Phillips, he did not originate it but popularized
>it. In an interview included in a 1970 New York
>Times article, Phillips stated his analysis
>based on studies of ethnic voting:
>
> From now on, the Republicans are never going to get
>more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and
>they don't need any more than that... but Republicans
>would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement
>of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who
>register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the
>Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become
>Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without
>that prodding from the blacks, the whites will
>backslide into their old comfortable arrangement
>with the local Democrats.
>
>
>https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/307788/florida-pastor-calls-trump-impeachment-a-jew-coup/
>
>Florida Pastor and founder of the TruNews YouTube
>channel Rick Wiles called efforts to impeach
>President Donald Trump part of a “Jew coup.”
>
>In a Nov. 21 video, Wiles said, “That’s the way
>the Jews work. They are deceivers. They plot. They
>lie. They do whatever they’ve have to do to
>accomplish their political agenda. This impeach
>Trump movement is part of a Jew coup, and the
>American people better wake up to it fast.”
>
>
>
>
>
>https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/-NY-Republican-Group-Removes-Facebook-Video-Warning-of-Hasidic-Jewish-Takeover-558726881.html
>
>NY Republican Group Removes Facebook Video
>Warning of Hasidic Jewish ‘Takeover’
>
>The video posted Wednesday by the Rockland
>County Republican Party warned that "our
>families" and "our way of life" are at stake
>
>The video posted Wednesday by the Rockland County
>Republican Party interspersed news clips about
>conflicts related to the county's growing
>ultra-Orthodox Jewish population with warnings
>that "our families" and "our way of life" are
>at stake.
>
>"If they win, we lose," the video said over
>ominous-sounding music, adter leading the
>video with a warning that "a storm is brewing."
>
>
>
>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/justice-department-immigration-judges-white-nationalist
>
>An email sent from the Justice Department to
>all immigration court employees this week
>included a link to an article posted on a white
>nationalist website that “directly attacks
>sitting immigration judges with racial and
>ethnically tinged slurs,” according to a
>letter sent by an immigration judges union
>and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
>
>According to the National Association of
>Immigration Judges, the Justice Department’s
>Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
>sent court employees a link to a blog post
>from VDare, a white nationalist website, in
>its morning news briefing earlier this week
>that included anti-Semitic attacks on judges.
>
>
>
>https://www.voanews.com/usa/many-white-nationalists-praise-controversial-trump-tweets
>
>Andrew Anglin, founder of the popular
>right-wing website The Daily Stormer, heaped
>praise on Trump.
>
>"This is the kind of WHITE NATIONALISM we elected
>him for," Anglin wrote on his website.
>
>Anglin, who like many within the white nationalist
>movement has vacillated in his support for Trump,
>suggested that the president's tweets were aimed
>at solidifying support from his base ahead of the
>2020 presidential election.
>
>
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/16/andrew-anglin-daily-stormer-tanya-gersh-million-verdict/
>
>The call to arms appeared on the Daily Stormer, a
>well-known neo-Nazi website, in December 2016.
>
>“Are y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm?”
>wrote publisher Andrew Anglin. “Because AYO — it’s
>that time, fam.”
>
>With that, Tanya Gersh, a real estate agent in the
>picturesque resort community of Whitefish, Mont.,
>saw her life upended. Gersh, her husband and their
>12-year-old son were flooded with vile phone calls,
>text messages, emails, and social media posts,
>many of which contained death threats and
>anti-Semitic slurs. Gersh, who is Jewish,
>was told that she should have perished in the
>Holocaust, and received chilling voice mails
>with the sound of a gun firing again and again.
>
>
>
>https://www.thenation.com/article/after-stunning-democratic-win-north-dakota-republicans-suppressed-the-native-american-vote/
>
>Officially, these voters lost out at the polls
>four years ago, because they failed to show
>identification, as required by a new state law
>at the time. But that was not the only thing
>the would-be voters have in common: Each is
>Native American, and each hails from one of the
>most heavily Democratic counties in this
>deep-red state.
>
>Over the last six years, Republicans in North
>Dakota adopted a flurry of legislation that
>effectively revoked the right to vote for
>thousands of Native Americans and other
>Democratic voters, according to an
>investigation of court records, internal
>emails among state officials, as well as
>interviews with voters and lawmakers on
>both sides of the issue.
>
>
>
>
>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/08/31/andrew-gillum-racist-robocalls-tied-neo-nazis-target-florida-gubernatorial-candidate/1162133002/
>
>Robocalls against Democratic gubernatorial
>nominee Andrew Gillum that say they were paid
>for by a neo-Nazi group in Idaho are going out
>to voters in Tallahassee.
>
>The automated calls are narrated by someone
>pretending to be Gillum and using an
>exaggerated minstrel dialect with jungle
>noises in the background. The calls end with
>a disclaimer that they were funded by The
>Road to Power, an anti-Semitic, white
>supremacist website and podcast linked to
>Scott Rhodes of Sandpoint, Idaho.
>
>
>
>
>https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article216387050.html
>
>On his Monday morning radio show, Steve West
>promotes fanatical conspiracies about
>“Jewish cabals” that are “harvesting baby
>parts” through Planned Parenthood, that
>torture and molest children and that run the
>Republican Party.
>
>On Tuesday he won the Republican primary for a
>Clay County seat in the Missouri House by
>nearly 25 points.
>
>“Looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler
>was right about what was taking place in Germany.
>And who was behind it,” West said on a show on
>KCXL radio on Jan. 23, 2017.
>
>
>
>https://apnews.com/cc98ddc92a22ef050a9dac7c4ee9ce77
>Sep. 16, 1997
>
>One questioner asked whether blacks would feel
>comfortable in a party in which David Duke, the
>former Ku Klux Klan leader who made unsuccessful
>runs for the U.S. Senate and governor, has been
>elected chairman of the Republican Executive
>Committee in a Louisiana parish.
>
>"We’re a party of inclusion,? Gingrich replied.
>
>And Nicholson said: "We welcome people to this
>party as long as they are willing to adopt our
>agenda and not their own.?
>
>
>
>
>http://www.fox5ny.com/news/216901098-story
>
>The Ku Klux Klan has announced it plans to
>hold a rally in North Carolina in response
>to Donald Trump's election as president.
>
>The Loyal White Knights, based in Pelham, NC,
>says on its website that its victory parade,
>referred to as "Victory Klavalkade Parade"
>will be held on December 3, 2016. It does not
>specify where.
>
>Below the event details is an announcement in
>all-caps that states, "Trump's race united my
>people."
>
>
>http://uproxx.com/news/david-duke-donald-trump-taking-over-gop/
>08.21.16
>
>Late last week, Duke and his co-host, Don Advo,
>discussed the Donald Trump campaign’s hiring of
>Stephen Bannon, the former executive chairman of
>Breitbart, a right-wing publication, as campaign
>CEO. Advo remarked that “We appear to have taken
>over the Republican Party,” where “we” refers to
>the white supremacist movements active on the
>American right.
>
>
>
>https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/david-duke-urges-his-supporters-to-volunteer-and-vote-for-tr
>Posted on February 25, 2016
>
>David Duke, a white nationalist and former Ku
>Klux Klan grand wizard, is urging the listeners
>of his radio program to volunteer and vote for
>Donald Trump.
>
>"Voting for these people, voting against Donald
>Trump at this point is really treason to your
>heritage," Duke said on the David Duke Radio
>Program Wednesday, referring to Ted Cruz and
>Marco Rubio. "I'm not saying I endorse
>everything about Trump, in fact I haven't
>formally endorsed him. But I do support his
>candidacy, and I support voting for him as a
>strategic action. I hope he does everything
>we hope he will do."
>
>Duke then urged his followers to call Trump's
>campaign headquarters to volunteer.
>
>
>
>https://www.yahoo.com/news/david-duke-says-donald-trump-120005026.html
>
>Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke is running
>for Senate in Louisiana, and he says Donald
>Trump’s popularity is helping him in the race.
>
>“I love it,” Duke told the LA Times. “The fact
>that Donald Trump’s doing so well, it proves
>that I’m winning. I am winning.”
>
>Duke also told the LA Times that Trump’s
>proposed policies, like building a wall along
>the border with Mexico and banning Muslims from
>entering the country, show the country is open to
>a white power message. “He’s talking about it in
>a visceral way,” Duke said. “Donald Trump is
>talking implicitly. I’m talking explicitly.”
>
>
>
>http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/305912-kkk-american-nazi-party-praise-trumps-hiring-of-bannon
>
>President-elect Donald Trump is drawing praise
>from the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other white
>nationalist groups for appointing former Breitbart
>executive Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist.
>
>“Perhaps The Donald is for real,” Rocky Suhayda,
>chairman of the American Nazi Party, told CNN in an
>segment that included interviews with several white
>nationalists.
>
>Trump’s hiring of Bannon has drawn bitter criticism
>from Democrats, but white nationalists believe it’s
>evidence the president-elect intends to live up to
>his campaign promises to deport illegal immigrants
>and build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
>
>David Duke, a former KKK leader who lost his Senate
>bid last week in Louisiana, called Bannon’s hiring
>an “excellent” decision.
>
>Bannon will “push Trump in the right direction,”
>suggested Richard Spencer, president of the white
>nationalist National Policy Institute. “That would
>be a wonderful thing.”
>
>“It makes sense to me,” added Brad Griffin, author
>of the white nationalist website Occidental Dissent.
>
>
>
>
>http://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/
>
>Donald Trump on Sunday refused to condemn the Ku
>Klux Klan or disavow his recent endorsement by
>former Klansman David Duke.
>
>The Republican front runner said he didn’t know
>enough about Duke to publicly denounce the former
>KKK leader, who told his followers earlier this
>week that voting for anyone but Trump would be
>“treason to your heritage.”
>
>“Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything
>about David Duke, OK? I don’t know anything about
>what you’re even talking about with white supremacy
>or white supremacists,” Trump said on CNN’s State of
>the Union. “I know nothing about David Duke. I know
>nothing about white supremacists.”
>
>
>
>
>
>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/arthur-jones-nazi-
>illinois-republicans-686875
>
>Illinois Republicans botched four opportunities
>to stop an avowed Nazi from representing their
>party in a Chicago-area congressional district.
>Now they’re paying the price.
>
>Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier who will appear
>on the November ballot as the GOP candidate
>against Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski, has become
>campaign fodder for Democrats as they seek to
>defeat Gov. Bruce Rauner. And some Republicans
>even fear the taint from Jones‘ extremist views
>poses a threat to the party up and down the ticket.
>
>
>
>
>http://www.newsweek.com/republican-senate-candidate-free-jews-904652
>
>REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE, WHO HAS CALLED
>FOR COUNTRY "FREE FROM JEWS"
>4/28/18
>
>Little has said he believes Jews should have no say
>over white non-Jews and wants to see them removed
>from the country altogether. On Gab, a social media
>site with large swaths of extremist users, he argues
>that the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, whose
>proprietors praise Adolf Hitler and have appeared to
>call for acts of violence against Jewish people, is
>too Jewish.
>
>"I propose a government that makes counter-semitism
>central to all aims of the state," he wrote on that
>website, referring to a white nationalist euphemism
>for a hatred of Jews. He argued for forbidding "all
>immigration except of biological kin, where no person
>of Jewish origin may live, vacation or traverse."
>
>
>
>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/03/neo-nazi-california-senate/579612002/
>
>A Holocaust denier who praises Adolf Hitler and
>aims to "remove the Jews from power" is running
>as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat out of
>California — and a recent poll found him in
>second place trailing only incumbent Democratic
>Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
>
>
>
>
>https://www.vox.com/2018/7/9/17525860/nazis-russell-walker-arthur-jones-
>republicans-illinois-north-carolina-virginia
>
>In at least five state and national races across
>the country, the Republican Party is dealing
>with an uncomfortable problem. Their party’s
>candidates are either a card-carrying Nazi, a
>Holocaust denier, a proud white supremacist, or
>all of the above.
>
>In North Carolina, for example, GOP officials
>are stuck with Russell Walker, a white
>supremacist running for the state House of
>Representatives. According to his personal
>website (littered with the n-word), he believes
>that “the jews are NOT semitic they are satanic
>as they all descend from Satan.”
>
>In Illinois, meanwhile, the Republican Party
>shrugged off Arthur Jones, a candidate for the
>state’s 3rd Congressional district who boasted of
>his membership in the American Nazi Party. But
>Jones won the GOP primary, and now party
>officials, including ones who called Jones
>“morally reprehensible” and “a complete
>nutcase,” are scrambling to launch a write-in
>campaign. Jones’s campaign website features a
>section called “Holocaust?” in which he argues
>that the “idea that six million Jews, were
>killed by the National Socialist government of
>Germany, in World War II, is the biggest,
>blackest lie in history.”
>
>
>
>https://forward.com/fast-forward/405235/jews-must-be-stopped-california-
>gop-congressional-candidate-robocall/
>
>Robocalls in support of California congressional
>candidate John Fitzgerald assert that Jews are
>taking over the world and ‘must be stopped.’
>
>Robert Gammon, business development director for
>Telegraph Media, tweeted Tuesday that he received
>one of the calls from Fitzgerald, the GOP
>candidate for the 11th district. He said it was
>“easily the most racist political ad I’ve ever
>come across in the Bay Area.”
>
>Fitzgerald openly denies the Holocaust. His
>campaign website includes false claims that 9%
>of U.S. government officials are dual citizens
>of Israel and that Jews played a “prominent role”
>in the African slave trade, and celebrates a
>“courageous” elderly German woman who was
>sentenced to two years in prison for denying the
>Holocaust.
>
>“Why is the holocaust the ONLY historical issue
>that cannot be questioned without fear of fines
>and/or imprisonment in eighteen countries – and
>counting – throughout the world?” Fitzgerald
>wrote on May 16.
>
>
>
>https://www.greensboro.com/news/north_carolina/god-is-racist-candidate-for-n-c-house-seat-says/article_00928625-a831-5c88-9c84-c4a7605c5b34.html
>
>A website tied to a candidate for the North
>Carolina General Assembly says God is a racist
>white supremacist and that Jews are descended
>from Satan.
>
>“What is wrong with being a white supremacist?
>God is a racist and a white supremacist,” the
>website connected to Walker says.
>
>“Someone or group has to be supreme and that
>group is the whites of the world ... someone
>or something has to be inferior ... In all
>history in sub-Saharan Africa, no two-story
>building or a waterproof boat was ever made.”
>
>The website Walker says is his features
>racism, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience,
>including:
>
>“God made the races and he is the greatest
>racist ever.”
>“What is wrong with being a white supremacist?”
>“The Jews are not Semitic they are Satanic as
>they all descend from Satan.”
>
>
>https://www.narf.org/nd-voting-rights/
>EIGHTH CIRCUIT ALLOWS NORTH DAKOTA TO CONTINUE USING DISCRIMINATORY
>VOTER ID LAW
>July 31, 2019
>
>On July 31, 2019, a divided panel of judges
>from the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth
>Circuit vacated a lower court’s injunction,
>which was put in place to protect Native
>American and other voters in North Dakota.
>The lower court had barred the enforcement
>of North Dakota’s voter ID law because it
>found it was discriminatory and
>unconstitutional. The Eighth Circuit
>acknowledged that Native American voters may
>be disenfranchised but found that the lower
>court’s injunction was too broad.
>Disappointingly, this week’s order from the
>Eighth Circuit again allows North Dakota to
>continue using the discriminatory new law,
>providing no relief to disenfranchised
>Native voters.
>
>NARF Staff Attorney Matthew Campbell stated
>“We must protect the integrity of our voting
>system and ensure that all eligible voters
>(regardless of income, housing, or place of
>residence) have the freedom to vote. Every
>person’s voice must be heard. We will fight
>to ensure the voices of Americans—and
>specifically first Americans—are counted even
>if they do not have the luxury of a permanent
>home. Rules that inhibit an individual’s
>freedom to vote are a threat to our democratic
>ideals. We will continue to stand strong
>against these anti-democratic attacks.”
>