Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
Southern Baptist 'Leader' Listed as Speaker for Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant Conference www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/southern-b...
Southern Baptist 'Leader' Listed as Speaker for Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant ConferenceWilliam Wolfe heads the Center for Baptist Leadership. This is the controversial company he's keeping at an upcoming conference in Texas.www.hatecomestomainstreet.comWho's funding TV ads by outside groups in Tennessee governor's race, and what do they want? www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Who's funding TV ads by outside groups in Tennessee governor's race, and what do they want?As Tennessee's Republican candidates for governor battle for their party's nomination, they are getting a little help from their friends.www.newschannel5.comLooks like the neo-Nazi crowd is triggered by my latest reporting! 🤷♂️
Phil WilliamsThe Active Club founder has described such organized fights a “tip-off point for a fascist cultural revolution.” He added, “Every victorious nationalist movement was forged by hardened men who already tasted real danger.” www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/inside-the...
The Active Club founder has described such organized fights a “tip-off point for a fascist cultural revolution.” He added, “Every victorious nationalist movement was forged by hardened men who already tasted real danger.” www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/inside-the...
‘Neo-Nazi Militia’: Inside the Fascist Fight Clubs Preparing Men for Battle“Every victorious nationalist movement was forged by hardened men who already tasted real danger," says avowed fascist Robert Rundo.www.hatecomestomainstreet.comTentacles of fascist fight club reach into Tennessee, critics call Active Clubs a 'neo-Nazi militia' www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Tentacles of fascist fight club reach into Tennessee, critics call Active Clubs a 'neo-Nazi militia'The Active Club founder has called organized fights like the ones in which Rettke participates as a "tip-off point for a fascist cultural revolution."www.newschannel5.comHIGHLY RECOMMEND! While documenting a dark period in American history, A Fever in the Heartland also tells a story of resistance, of people who refused to cave when it might have appeared that the Klan was unstoppable on its march toward the White House. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/what-im-re...
What I'm Reading: 'A Fever in the Heartland' - and the Americans Who Confronted HateTimothy Egan’s 'A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them' provides a window into our own times.www.hatecomestomainstreet.comExtremists are quietly working, sometimes together, podcast by podcast, to convince their fellow Americans that their views are patriotic, even godly. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/deport-cla...
Deport Clarence Thomas? 'I Don't Find It To Be Obscene,' Christian Nationalist Pastor SaysPastor Joel Webbon sat down with Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau, a white nationalist, insisting diversity should wait until heaven.www.hatecomestomainstreet.comCrowdsourcing a research project: Help me find links to mainstream news reports about corruption within the second Trump administration where the president, his family, his Cabinet, their families, or close allies have profited from his power. I’ll start: www.reuters.com/business/med...
Trump Media pitched $100,000 monthly fee for fastest feed of US president's posts, sources sayPaying would give traders and investors faster access to his posts, sources say.www.reuters.comWhat a week it has been! Over the past few days, Maya Angelou’s famous admonition has constantly come to mind. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/lessons-fr...
Lessons From the Week: 'When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them'What a week it has been! Over the past few days, Maya Angelou’s famous admonition has constantly come to mind.www.hatecomestomainstreet.comTrump admin lawyer faces backlash over tweets seen as defense of Tate brothers www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
Trump admin lawyer denies backing Tate brothers via 'politically driven prosecutions' postA Trump administration official with a history of advocating for Andrew and Tristan Tate is backing away from his association with the social media influencer brothers facing criminal charges for sex ...www.rawstory.comEXCLUSIVE: Was there pressure inside Marsha Blackburn's U.S. Senate office to break the law? That's the question raised by new recordings just obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates as Tennessee's senior senator asks voters to put her in the governor's office. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Recordings from inside U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn's office allege pressure to 'break the law'Was there pressure inside Marsha Blackburn's U.S. Senate office to break the law? That's the provocative question raised by new recordings just obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates.www.newschannel5.comBREAKING: Tenn. ag commissioner accused of pressuring Farm Bureau to back Marsha Blackburn for governor www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Tenn. agriculture commissioner accused of pressuring Farm Bureau to back Marsha Blackburn for governorAgriculture Commissioner Andy Holt faces accusations of trying to use his position to try to pressure the powerful lobbying organization for the state's farmers to endorse Marsha Blackburn.www.newschannel5.comHighly recommend! Strange People on the Hill, by @michaelehayden.bsky.social, describes how the “somewhat queer-friendly” resort town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, was torn apart by the arrival of the leaders of an SPLC-designated hate group. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/what-im-re...
What I'm Reading: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American TownJournalist Michael Edison Hayden embedded with a community fighting a hate that threatened to divide it. What does Berkeley Springs say about the hope for America?www.hatecomestomainstreet.com