![]() Following Heyer’s murder, Spencer threatened to “come back here every f- weekend if I have to” in a slur-laden rant. Richard Spencer attended the event as a headline speaker, and he infamously helped lead a torchlit march through the University of Virginia campus on Friday, Aug. Once the face of rising white supremacist activism during the Trump era, the telegenic extremist’s celebrity peaked at Unite the Right. (Photo by Zack Wajsgras for The Washington Post) Richard Spencer exits the Charlottesville Federal Courthouse in Virginia on Nov. He said he could not respond due to a lawsuit he filed against the city of Charlottesville. Hatewatch reached out to Kessler by text message for his thoughts on the anniversary. Molly Conger, an antifascist researcher and activist, shared documents and screenshots to Twitter on July 21, 2022, identifying Kessler as the sole proprietor behind an Alexandria, Virginia-based moving company, Super Precision Movers LLC. “At some point they’re going to take something from someone with nothing left to lose … everyone has their breaking point, and a decapitated head is going to be all that’s left of the person who casually destroyed someone’s life online because they could,” Kessler posted to the messaging app Telegram on July 24, 2022, referring to what he described as “the Antifa people.” He has written with palpable bitterness about journalists and activists who cover the far right, paying particular interest to those who reported on the fallout of the doomed rally that made him infamous. He also sometimes blogs for the white nationalist website VDARE. Kessler continues to brand himself as a “white civil rights” activist. A jury finally ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on multiple claims in November 2021. Kessler on social media, raising concerns about his actions. The court ordered Kessler to stop posting about Sines v. Kessler lawsuit on behalf of nine plaintiffs alleging they were harmed by the rally, recalled to Hatewatch that Kessler lashed out at victims and co-defendants on social media during the trial for it. Integrity First for America, who brought the Sines v. Kessler’s sequel utterly flopped, attracting only a handful of extremists beyond its host. Some white nationalists even collaborated to sabotage Kessler by suggesting on social media that terroristic neo-Nazis would attend the rally. Many of the white nationalists who attended the first Unite the Right publicly distanced themselves Kessler in its runup. Kessler’s stature in the movement and in the broader culture collapsed in the years that followed, as other movement leaders blamed him for Unite the Right’s failures.Īfter initially withdrawing a lawsuit against the city of Charlottesville for rejecting his bid for another permit, Kessler traveled to Washington, D.C., in August 2018 for an event marking Unite the Right’s one-year anniversary. (Photo from Twitter)įormer Proud Boys recruit and Charlottesville resident Jason Kessler obtained the original permit for Unite the Right and briefly became a nationally recognized figure in its fallout. Molly Conger, an antifascist researcher and activist, shared documents and screenshots to Twitter on July 21, 2022, identifying Jason Kessler (pictured) as the sole proprietor behind an Alexandria, Virginia-based moving company, Super Precision Movers LLC.
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