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''The Daily Stormer'' is an American
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,
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,
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antisemitic Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...
, and
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commentary and
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website that advocates for a
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of
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. It is part of the
alt-right The alt-right, an abbreviation of alternative right, is a far-right, white nationalist movement. A largely online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in the United States during the late 2000s before increasing in popularity during the mid-2 ...
movement. Its editor,
Andrew Anglin Andrew Barret Anglin (born July 27, 1984) is an American neo-Nazi and conspiracy theorist, and editor of the website ''The Daily Stormer''. Through this website, Anglin uses elements of Nazism combined with Internet memes originating from 4cha ...
, founded the outlet on July 4, 2013, as a faster-paced replacement for his previous website ''Total Fascism'', which had focused on his own long-form essays on fascism, race, and antisemitic conspiracy theories. In contrast, ''The Daily Stormer'' relies heavily on quoted material with exaggerated headlines. The site is known for its use of
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s, which have been likened to the imageboard 4chan and cited as attractions for a younger and more ideologically diverse audience. While some
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authors have praised ''The Daily Stormer''s reach, others have taken issue with its content and tone, accusing Anglin of being an
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, used to discredit true white nationalism. ''The Daily Stormer'' orchestrates what it calls the "Troll Army", which is involved in
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ing of figures with whom Anglin disagrees politically. In August 2017, after causing outrage by insulting the victim of a car-ramming homicide at the far-right
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, the website was rejected by several
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s. In August 2019, the site went offline temporarily when their service provider, BitMitigate, was cut off by their cloud infrastructure provider; the site found another provider. In June 2019, a federal judge ordered Anglin to pay $4.1 million to comedian
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, whom Anglin had falsely accused of orchestrating the
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. In July 2019, a federal magistrate recommended that Anglin pay $14 million to Tanya Gersh, a woman from
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against whom Anglin had organized a targeted
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campaign.


Management


Founder

Andrew Anglin Andrew Barret Anglin (born July 27, 1984) is an American neo-Nazi and conspiracy theorist, and editor of the website ''The Daily Stormer''. Through this website, Anglin uses elements of Nazism combined with Internet memes originating from 4cha ...
was born in 1984, and grew up near
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. According to both Anglin and his childhood classmates, he was
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as a youth. He attended the
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and the
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from 1999 to 2003, where he was remembered as a
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ed
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. His friends in high school report that his behavior changed during his sophomore year at Linworth, where he exhibited self-harming behavior, and began to promote conspiracy theories. After high school, Anglin took classes at
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in 2003, and studied English at
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for one semester in 2004. In 2006, Anglin launched a
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website, ''Outlaw Journalism'', which was modeled after the works of
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and Hunter S. Thompson, whom Anglin admired. In 2008, after posting on ''Outlaw Journalism'' that the only way for humanity to survive was to return to a
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lifestyle, Anglin began traveling around
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, eventually ending up in
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, in the
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. In 2011, he spent several weeks with a Tboli village in southern
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, where he initially intended to stay permanently, selling some of his possessions to raise money for a dowry to marry two local
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women. In 2012, Anglin wrote that he found the locals to be "a civilized, non-aggressive and industrious people" but he eventually came to consider them too "primitive", became lonely and only wanted to associate with members of his own
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, and "By the Grace of God, I found Adolf Hitler." In 2012, Anglin launched another website, ''Adventure Quest 2012'', which discussed conspiracy theories such as the existence of
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s. He described the aim of the site as seeking to "mend the wounds produced by modern society ... and elpthe reader transcend these physical bonds and reach total ascendancy. To mend these wounds, the world must learn to embrace diversity and color." In 2014, he stated that although he agreed with the central tenets of
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, he had reservations over reintroducing all aspects of Hitler's regime. A self-proclaimed "troll", Anglin stated that he was introduced to Nazism on the online imageboard 4chan. Later in 2012, he launched his first neo-Nazi website, ''Total Fascism''. Feeling that ''Total Fascism'' was not appealing to a younger demographic and had articles that were too long, Anglin launched ''The Daily Stormer'' on July 4, 2013, with shorter articles and a more provocative style. Anglin said in March 2014 he spends 70 hours a week writing for the website. Anglin's location is not known. An investigative article by ''
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'' in November 2016 analyzed his social media and FBI sources, and concluded that he was living in Germany. Rumors have also claimed that he is residing in Russia. In July 2017, Anglin told
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he was residing in
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, Nigeria. The
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(SPLC) lists the site as being headquartered in
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, with activity in several other states. The website is registered in the name of Anglin's father Greg, who runs a Christian-inspired counseling service in Worthington.


Finances

''The Daily Stormer'' is primarily funded through donations which Anglin solicits regularly from site visitors. His father was protested against by
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for receiving donations from the site's readers to pass on to his son. In February 2017, the website announced a corporate sponsor—Smerff Electrical, owned by Simon Hickey of
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, Australia, whose website contains images of alt-right meme
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. Anglin told ''Mother Jones'' that he received donations from
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, and that
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was the largest source of traffic to his website. The site is believed to have received over $200,000 in
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contributions since it began accepting the cryptocurrency in 2014. As of 2021, Anglin has received approximately $481,000 in Bitcoin. Money entering and being spent by the accounts is publicly tracked by a Twitter bot. A Twitter account supportive of the ''Stormer'' announced that
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was deleting accounts of persons attempting to send Bitcoin to them; Coinbase stated in general terms that it "prohibits use of an account which would abuse, harass, threaten, or promote violence against others". On August 20, 2017, for example, Anglin received a donation of 14.88 bitcoin, the number being a reference to
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, and to Adolf Hitler (H is the eighth letter, so "88" = "HH" = "Heil Hitler"). At the time, it was worth $60,000, but had Anglin kept the entire amount, it would have been worth about $235,000 by the end of the year. ''The Daily Stormer'' is run through a company called Moonbase Holdings, with Anglin saying that he chose the name so that donors could avoid scrutiny from their credit card companies. The company made $3,400 per month on the alt-right crowdfunding website Hatreon, which ceased operations in February 2017. In his defamation lawsuit against Anglin, Muslim American radio personality
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requested that Moonbase Holdings be scrutinized to find any other individuals with connections to the company.


Content and reception

''The Daily Stormer'' takes its name from the
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's tabloid newspaper ''
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'', known for its virulently
antisemitic Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...
caricatures of Jews and semi-pornography involving Jews raping young Aryan girls. Its publisher,
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, was executed after the Second World War for
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. The
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described the site as "the newest up and comer in the heated competition to rule the hate web", which "has in the last six months p to March 2015often topped the oldest and largest hate site on the web, Stormfront, in terms of reach and
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s, based on
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data". Anglin claimed in May 2016 that the website's traffic had doubled over the last six months, peaking at 120,000 daily visitors. The website is part of the
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movement, and it calls itself "The World’s Most Visited Alt-Right Website". As the movement made headlines in mid-2016, "bolstered in part by the unexpected rise of
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and Britain's decision to leave the European Union", Anglin declared: "We won the meme war; now we've taken over the
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, and we did this very, very quickly." Unlike other figures such as
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, Anglin does not play down the extremist elements in the alt-right, stating that: "The goal is to ethnically cleanse White nations of non-Whites and establish an authoritarian government. Many people also believe that the Jews should be exterminated". Andrew Anglin uses ''The Daily Stormer'' as a platform to promote
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conspiracy theories, claiming that politically active " ite women across the Western world" are pushing for liberal immigration policies "to ensure an endless supply of Black and Arab men to satisfy their depraved sexual desires." In July 2018, Anglin summarized his misogynistic views, writing: "Look, I hate women. I think they deserve to be beaten, raped and locked in cages."


Content and style

Anglin asserts that the purpose of ''The Daily Stormer'' is to provide "a means to propagandize people ... to get them to look at the world in a certain way". Headlines include "All Intelligent People in History Disliked Jews", and "Adolf Hitler: The Most Lied About Man of All Time". The site bills itself as "America's #1 Most-Trusted Republican News Source". According to ''
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'', ''The Daily Stormer'' "posts hundreds of racist articles targeting
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,
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and Jews". The website offers pro-
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coverage of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, which Anglin considers "the correct moral position". The site promotes the conspiracy theory that Jews are shape shifting reptilians who rule the Earth, which Anglin had previously discussed on his web site ''Adventure Quest 2012.'' The SPLC stated that ''The Daily Stormer'' owed its success to the online
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4chan becoming popular among racists, as both websites use similar
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and rhetorical styles. One meme the website has used is to overlay photographs of
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with anti-Semitic quotations, including comments made by Hitler. The website puts
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around the names of Jews, a far-right meme created by fellow website The Right Stuff. Jacob Siegel of ''
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'' wrote that the website was growing in popularity amongst a younger audience due to its use of humor, and was attracting activists of other anti-
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ideologies—such as Gamergaters,
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and opponents of
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s—who would not usually identify with fascism. The SPLC has also documented Anglin's involvement in and encouragement of
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by making hyperbolic statements in fake online accounts as women and minorities. He has also said that "ridiculous" statements such as "gas the
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s", if repeated in media coverage, can work to desensitize the public to
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. He also believes that his extreme right-wing rhetoric can normalize less extreme right-wingers such as Trump. In December 2017, ''The Huffington Post'' leaked Anglin's 17-page style guide for the website, which included the guideline that articles must be so extremely hyperbolic that readers would be unsure whether the content is parody. The
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and
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known as "
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" (Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer) wrote an article on the website after his release from prison in October 2014, espousing his conversion to Neo-Nazism and his opposition to Jews who had built "an empire of wickedness the likes the world has never seen".
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, founder of the online community
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, wrote an article on ''The Daily Stormer'' encouraging
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, based on his own experiences of having
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. Florida-based Jewish troll Joshua Ryne Goldberg, who encouraged a 2015 attack on a free speech exhibition in
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, under the alias of a Muslim extremist, wrote white supremacist articles for ''The Daily Stormer'' under the pseudonym Michael Slay. ''The Daily Stormer'' accepts freelance work and pays $14.88 (a reference to David Lane's
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and the Nazi slogan "
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") per article. The second-most prolific writer on the website goes by the pseudonym "Zeiger" and was unmasked in 2018 by the ''
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'' as Gabriel Sohier Chaput, an IT consultant from
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, Quebec. Gabriel Sohier-Chaput was also a member of the now-defunct neo-Nazi online forum
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and was a supporter of the terrorist organization
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writing articles promoting the group. Another notable prolific writer was Robert Warren "Azzmador" Ray, an
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-based neo-Nazi who gained national prominence from an appearance on a
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documentary by
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about the Charlottesville riots where he complained that
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was run by "
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and criminal
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s". Ray is also the creator of ''The Krypto Report,'' the main podcast show of the Daily Stormer. A more recently-known associate/member of The Daily Stormer was Daniel Kenneth Jeffries from
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who goes by the nickname of "Grandpa Lampshade" (a reference to the
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rumour that the Nazis made lampshades out of executed Holocaust prisoners) and hosts the "Thoughts on the Day" segment on the
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-based neo-Nazi radio network Radio Aryan founded by Steve "Sven Longshanks" Stone, Laurence "Max Musson" Nunn, and Jeremiah "Jez" Bedford-Turner of which the radio is prominently featured on ''The Daily Stormer''. Some of Jeffries/Lampshade's posts were also shared by Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter and
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. ''The Daily Stormer'' attracted media coverage when the SPLC stated that white supremacist spree killer
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—who on June 17, 2015, shot nine
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to death in the
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—may have made several comments on the site. The SPLC found similarities between one user's comments and Roof's manifesto. ''The Daily Beast'' stated that Anglin "repudiated Roof's crime and publicly disavowed violence, while endorsing many of Roof's views". In October of that year, Anglin gave a positive reaction to an attempted assassination on
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, a pro-immigration candidate to be mayor of the German city of
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, decrying her as a "feminist hag". In May 2017, "weev" set up the first non-English version of ''The Daily Stormer'', ''El Daily Stormer'' in Spanish. It focused on news related to white nationalism in
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and
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. ''El Daily Stormer'' was one of the sites where the identity of the victim of La Manada was spread. In December 2018, three admins of the site were arrested by the national police of Spain and a fourth member has been identified.


Support for Donald Trump

Anglin officially endorsed
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for president in 2015. Anglin encouraged the website's readers to "vote for the first time in our lives for the one man who actually represents our interests". The website also received national and international coverage for its endorsement of Trump's proposal of a temporary moratorium on admitting foreign Muslims into the country; it proclaimed "Heil Donald Trump – ''The Ultimate Savior''". According to the SPLC, white supremacist endorsement of Trump is unprecedented, as the movement is generally skeptical of all politicians. In July 2016, Andrew Anglin and ''The Daily Stormer'' were mentioned by
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, Democratic Representative from Missouri, as he asked in a congressional hearing whether
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director
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was aware of Trump sharing Twitter posts by white supremacists. Anglin wrote in July 2016 that he believed that Trump was a pragmatic anti-Semite who praised Israel to win votes from evangelical Christians, while dropping subtle hints about purported Jewish domination of rival
Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...
's campaign. ''
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'' journalist Jessica Schulberg compared how white nationalists like Anglin and former Ku Klux Klan leader
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believed Trump to be representative of their ethnic interests, while at the same time several Jews believed him to be representative of theirs. In ''
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'', Trump supporter Crystal Wright wrote that the candidate needed to separate himself from white nationalists such as ''The Daily Stormer'', who were endorsing him ahead of other politicians they deemed "
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s" for holding more liberal positions. Writing for ''
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'', Conor Friedersdorf theorized that modern academia's focus on race rather than "
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" individualism was causing divisions and allowing white nationalist sites such as ''The Daily Stormer'' to gain an audience, and therefore become a "tiny but nevertheless alarming portion" of Trump's support.
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writer Malcolm Harris analyzed the endorsement and predicted that a Trump presidency would strengthen organized racist groups and lead to civil war. After Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Anglin called on the site's readers to use non-violent intimidation to make "
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" feel unwelcome in America, and to
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disappointed supporters of Clinton into committing
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. In response to the bombing of the Syrian government's Shayrat Airbase in 2017, ''The Daily Stormer'' was one of several alt-right outlets that criticized Trump. While Anglin alleged the president could be under control of a purportedly Jewish deep state, ''Daily Stormer'' associate "weev" said in a video on the website that he retained faith in Trump from his past actions.


Reaction from white nationalists

White nationalist websites such as Stormfront and Counter-Currents have taken issue with what they see as lowbrow coverage on ''The Daily Stormer'', as well as Anglin's defense of Christianity and denunciation of the white supremacist group
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. Kyle Rogers of the
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has also criticized the website for reprinting its material. Anglin has also been criticized for his relationships with
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, and for his insults towards white women on his website. Colin Liddell of AlternativeRight.com has criticized Anglin's beliefs and tone. Liddell, who believes that stopping migration and encouraging higher birthrates is more important for preserving the
white race White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view. Description of populations as " ...
, condemned Anglin for writing that it was impossible for the race to survive without adopting his views on Jews, Hitler and the Holocaust. Liddell considered that Anglin was attracting
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s with his provocative online persona in the same manner as
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and
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, writing that "it is hard not to conclude that Anglin is a paid
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and
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, whose purpose is simply to infest and discredit White nationalism".
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of ''American Renaissance'' criticized ''The Daily Stormer'' "extremely harsh, dismissive and insulting tone toward blacks", which he called unhelpful. Others, such as the
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, have praised ''The Daily Stormer'' for its reach and influence. Anglin's extreme tone has led some white nationalists to suspect that he is an undercover Jew, an accusation he finds analogous to believing that Jewish
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activist
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was an undercover Nazi.


Support for China

Anglin has endorsed
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, praising China's action to promote virility among men and censoring feminists and LGBT accounts from the Internet, and condemned several American conservatives for shilling a war against China in his article "What About China, Then?" published October 5, 2021. In other articles, according to ''
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'' magazine, Anglin's ''Daily Stormer'' articles have regularly praised China for its actions against Uighur Muslims.


2022 Buffalo shooting

Payton S. Gendron, the suspect in the 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, cited ''The Daily Stormer'' as having inspired the attack, in addition to 4chan and the writings of New Zealand mass shooter
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.


Activities


Harassment by the "Troll Army"


Luciana Berger

''The Daily Stormer'' orchestrates what it calls a "Troll Army", involved in
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ing. It came to attention in October 2014 in a campaign against British
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politician
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, a Jewish Member of Parliament. A member of neo-Nazi group National Action had been sent to prison for sending her abusive messages over Twitter, and ''The Daily Stormer'' encouraged its readers to send her antisemitic messages, as long as they did not promote violence. It also gave out guidelines on how to limit traceability and create anonymous e-mail and Twitter accounts. Berger said she received 400 abusive messages in one week. The abuse was brought up in the British Parliament, where Speaker
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deemed it "beneath contempt".


Mariam Veiszadeh

The Troll Army launched a campaign in February 2015 against
Mariam Veiszadeh Mariam Veiszadeh is an Afghan-born Australian lawyer and writer known for her anti-racism campaigns. Early life and education Veiszadeh was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1984. In 1988, when Veiszadeh was four years old, her family fled Afghanis ...
, an
Afghan Australian Afghan Australians ( prs, استرالیایی های افغان‌تبار ''Ostorâliyâi-hāye Afghān tabar'', ps, د اسټرالیا افغانان ''Da Asṭrālyā Afghanan'') are Australians tied to Afghanistan either by birth or by ...
Muslim activist who demanded that a T-shirt bearing the
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reading "If you don't love it, leave" be withdrawn from sale at Woolworths. A woman was arrested for sending her abusive messages, and Anglin interpreted Veiszadeh's actions as curbing
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, which he believed "should be responded to with the most ridiculous conceivable hateful speech".


Alex Jones and ''Breitbart''

The "Troll Army" has also attacked right-wing conspiracy theorist
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for having a Jewish wife. In November 2015, they took part in "Operation: Kikebart", targeting far-right news website ''
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'' for opening an office in Israel. The aim was to post so much anti-Semitic content in the comments section that it would be unfeasible to moderate. Disqus, the comment platform used by websites including ''Breitbart'', ended its service to ''The Daily Stormer'' as a result.


Alison Rapp

In 2016, ''The Daily Stormer'' took part in a Gamergate-related attempt to have
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marketing officer Alison Rapp fired; Nintendo dismissed her and stated that it was unrelated to the controversy.


Julia Ioffe

Later in 2016, the site encouraged racially abusing
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, a Russian-Jewish journalist who had written a piece on Trump's wife,
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, in '' GQ'' magazine. Ioffe said that the abuse was unparalleled in her lifetime since leaving Russia to escape such prejudices 26 years earlier.


Erin Schrode

In June 2016, users of the website revealed the personal details of Erin Schrode, a Jewish woman running for Congress in California, and sent her Holocaust-related messages.


Tanya Gersh

The
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filed a lawsuit in April 2017 on behalf of Montana Jewish resident Tanya Gersh, against Anglin and ''The Daily Stormer,'' alleging they had invaded her privacy and caused "intentional infliction of emotional distress" upon Gersh, and also violated Montana's Anti-Intimidation Act. The website initiated a "troll storm" in response to Gersh's alleged extortion of property belonging to the mother of white nationalist
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. Gersh denies the allegations. The site crowdfunded $152,000 in legal fees from around 2,000 contributors and hired First Amendment lawyer
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, whose previous clients include 8chan and right-wing author
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. The suit ran into difficulties because of Anglin's secrecy over his location. In November, a federal judge ruled that Gersh was not a public figure, that Anglin had intentionally incited his readers to
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Gersh, and that such harassment was not protected as free speech. Gersh testified in the lawsuit, as did her therapist, to describe the effects on her of the continued harassment of the "troll army". Anglin did not appear at a hearing, despite being ordered to do so by the trial judge, saying that he feared for his safety; he is presumed to be outside of the United States. By not appearing, he forfeited his legal right to defend his actions.Simon, Mallory and Sidner, Sara (July 12, 2019
"Jewish woman tells court how followers of a neo-Nazi targeted her"
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On July 15, 2019, the federal magistrate overseeing the trial recommended that Gersh receive a default judgment of $14 million, $4 million in compensatory damages, and $10 million in punitive damages. The magistrate also recommended that Anglin be forced to remove the posts encouraging the harassment of Gersh from ''The Daily Stormer'' website. On August 8, the magistrate's recommendations were approved by a U.S. District Court judge. David Dinielli, the deputy legal director of the SPLC, said that the organization would "go to the ends of the earth to collect the judgment on behalf of our client, Tanya Gersh, whether it's cash, assets or intellectual property. ... We will employ various procedures to obtain any assets that can be seized, if Anglin does not pay the full $14 million judgment. And if his monetary and other hard assets are insufficient, we will go after his intangible property." According to Anglin's lawyer at the time, who no longer represents him, Anglin is not currently a U.S. resident.


Dean Obeidallah

In August 2017, Muslim American radio presenter
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sued ''The Daily Stormer'' in an Ohio federal court. Anglin had published fake images which purported to show Obeidallah celebrating the 2017
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. The lawsuits cleared a longstanding hurdle in March 2018, when U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch declared that there was sufficient evidence of Anglin being domiciled in Ohio despite living abroad. In July, the court found in Obeidallah's favor, with neither Anglin nor his representatives present in court.


Taylor Dumpson

Taylor Dumpson, the first black student body president at
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, sued Anglin in May 2018 for organizing a racist and sexist trolling campaign against her. She alleges that Anglin had posted her name and picture, as well as links to her Facebook page and the Twitter account of the university's student government, and urged his readers to "troll storm" her, which resulted in many hate-filled and racist online messages directed at her. Although Dumpson and Anglin have not reached a settlement, she settled in December 2018 with one of the people who harassed her, a man from
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named Evan McCarty who was a neo-Nazi musician and former theatre actor known as "Byron de la Vandal" (named after Byron De La Beckwith, the assassin of
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) who served as a member of the fascist
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and affiliated with the Daily Stormer. McCarty was required to apologize, to renounce white supremacy, to stop trolling and
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online, and to provide information to and cooperate with authorities in the prosecution of white supremacists. The lawsuit that was brought on her behalf was led by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law which continues to use litigation as a tool to fight extremism and to slow the efforts of white supremacists. On August 9, 2019, a Federal judge awarded Dumpson a judgment of over $725,000, to be paid by Andrew Anglin, Brian Andrew Ade, and the shell company which owns ''The Daily Stormer''. The defendants did not show up to contest the lawsuit, so a default judgment was entered against them, consisting of $101,429.28 in compensatory damages, punitive damages of $500,000 and attorney's fees and costs of $124,022.10. A restraining order was also handed down, as was an injunction not to publish anything more about Dumpson. The judgement came only a day after Tanya Gersh was awarded a $14 million default judgment against Anglin.


Distribution of propaganda

In 2016, ''The Daily Stormer'' and the hacker "weev" jointly took credit for sending copies of a racist, anti-Semitic flier to thousands of publicly accessible,
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-connected printers throughout the country, many of them at universities. The flier urged the reader to visit the website and accompany it "in the struggle for global white supremacy". Anglin credited "weev" for the printer exploit, while one of ''The Daily Stormer'' crew composed the flier's text. On April 20 that year, the anniversary of
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's birth, university printers in Germany were hacked to publish Nazi propaganda tracts including the website's name. That same year, ''The Daily Stormer'' expanded its activities to establish 31 "clubs". ''The Daily Stormer'' capitalized on the popularity of the
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video game ''
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'' in mid-2016 to distribute racist flyers to children congregating in public to play the game, with Anglin explaining that "I have long thought that we needed to get pre-teens involved in the movement. At that age, you can really brainwash someone easily. Anyone who accepts Nazism at the age of 10 or 11 is going to be a Nazi for life." On May 3, 2017, one day after a deadly stabbing attack at the
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, racist flyers were posted across campus with the website address for ''The Daily Stormer'', a caricature of a black person, and the line "... around blacks ... never relax!".


Site hosting issues after the 2017 Unite the Right rally

''The Daily Stormer'' promoted readers' participation in the
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, a far-right rally in
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on August 11 and 12, 2017, in which a counter-protester, Heather Heyer, was killed in a vehicular ramming attack. "Weev" called for readers of ''The Daily Stormer'' to locate and attend Heyer's funeral, calling her a "fat skank". Both Anglin and "weev" denied that Heyer died from vehicular impact, claiming instead that she was killed by a weight-related heart attack. On August 13, the website was informed by its
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that it had violated the terms of service by mocking Heyer in an article by Anglin. He was given 24 hours to locate a new registrar for the site. The next day it moved to
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which almost immediately cancelled its registration for violation of terms, also terminating the website's
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account. The following day, the website registered with
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, who canceled it hours later for regularly inciting violence. On August 15, it was announced by "weev" that the site had moved to the
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, and that it was now only accessible via
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, while
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banned links to the site and
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banned its server. On August 16,
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, the
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provider and proxy service used to protect ''The Daily Stormer,'' also terminated their service. Cloudflare had previously refused to terminate sites based on their content, but CEO Matthew Prince made an exception, posting a public announcement and explanation on the company's blog. ''The Daily Stormer'' now receives DDoS protection from a
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set up in March 2017, BitMitigate. The company's founder, Nick Lim, said that he found ''The Daily Stormer'' to be "stupid" but believed in freedom of expression. Several
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accounts connected with ''The Daily Stormer'' were also suspended. On August 17, after a relocation to dailystormer
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, the Russian media watchdog
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requested a shutdown of the domain. ''The Daily Stormer'' briefly returned to the clearnet with a
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, dailystormer.lol, administered by
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, but after two days, Namecheap canceled the domain. The company's CEO Richard Kirkendall stated that "the quality and context of the material, paired with the support for violent groups and causes passes from protected free speech into incitement", specifically quoting one published statement from ''The Daily Stormer'': "It doesn't take a Ph.D. in mathematics to understand that White men + pride + organization = Jews being stuffed into ovens." The site returned to the web as punishedstormer.com on August 24, hosted by
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, whose other clients include the far-right National Vanguard and the Northwest Front.
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s from Anonymous caused intermittent outages for all of DreamHost's sites, including those unconnected to white supremacist ideology. Within hours of the attack, DreamHost canceled the site's accounts for violating its terms of service, saying the host had already been kicked off the site years previously and was exploiting an automated sign-up process. Days later, ''The Daily Stormer'' was available under an Albanian
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, dailystormer.al. Within four days, it was removed by registrar Host.al for breaking their content rules. In September, ''The Daily Stormer'' was briefly registered with a
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address from Austria, but this was removed by registrar nic.at when local politicians complained. Later that month, it reappeared on a
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domain from Iceland, a country known for its freedom of speech; Anglin said that the recent collapse of the Nordic island's government meant that politicians would be distracted from affairs related to his website. Before the end of September, ISNIC pulled ''The Daily Stormer'' because Anglin refused its standard condition of disclosing his address, fearing that the information would be passed to law agencies. From September 21 to October 6, ''The Daily Stormer'' was hosted on a
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domain, exclusively reserved for websites promoting Catalan language and culture. It exploited weakened filters after the Spanish government raided the offices of registrar Fundació puntCAT amidst a political crisis, and published several pieces in support of Catalan independence. In November 2017, ''The Daily Stormer'' was registered with a
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domain from Hong Kong, which was revoked before the end of the month. On November 29, 2017, the site returned to the clear web yet again with a new
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domain name, registered through GKG.net. The domain kept the website online until it was seized by the registrar. Hours after the domain was seized, the site was registered on a new .top website, through the same registrar they has previously used for .red. The
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domain lasted just until February 2, 2018, when it was taken offline by the registrar. In February 2018, ''The Daily Stormer'' registered a new domain under the
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TLD with the
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-based Internet company Eranet International Limited.


Reaction

The domain blocking by Internet providers has raised questions regarding the implications of domain registrants policing the Internet. The August 21 cancellation of
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's registration on 24 hours' notice was compared to that of ''The Daily Stormer'', as both had provided coverage sympathetic to Charlottesville protesters. The
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acknowledged that the companies were within their legal rights to terminate their contracts with ''The Daily Stormer'', but said that the move set a dangerous precedent in which other political views, including left-wing ones, could be denied legal protection. Several news outlets also published editorials discussing the free speech implications of the move. As of August 17, ''The Daily Stormer'' had returned to the dark web on the
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. This prompted an announcement from the Tor project team that they were "disgusted" by the website, but that they were powerless to intervene.


References


External links


Official website
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