The far-right Proud Boys group, whom Donald Trump refused to denounce
this week, have beenlinked
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/proud-boys-white-supremacist-group-law-enforcement-agencies>to
assaults on protesters, white supremacist organizing, the spread of
Covid misinformation and other threats against Americans.
Emily Gorcenski has been tracking them every step of the way.
Since 2018, the 38-year-old data scientist has been exposing members of
the far right and cataloguing white supremacist violence across the US
through her site,First Vigil <https://first-vigil.com/>. The project
grew out of the attack on her Charlottesville, Virginia, community the
year prior – thedeadly Unite the Right rally
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/01/heather-heyers-mother-on-hate-in-the-us-were-not-going-to-hug-it-out-but-we-can-listen-to-each-other>,
which brought Gorcenski face to facewith neo-Nazis
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/15/mr-trump-were-not-same-neo-nazis-charlottesville>bearing
torches and swastikas, shouting racist and transphobic vitriol at her.
One of her attackers was laterrevealed
<https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-hate-group-active-duty-military>to
be an active US marine.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/01/white-supremacist-protest-activism-emily-gorcenski
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