LIVELaura Flanders & Friends - Doxxed, Stalked & Swatted: When The Far Right Goes After Journalists
Today's guests have paid a price for their reporting on far Right extremists. But if journalists don't do this critical work, then who will? The Trump administration is deprioritizing domestic terrorism to serve a political agenda, scaling back investigations of far-Right extremism while redirecting DHS agents to immigration crackdowns. As programs tracking domestic extremism are dismantled and January 6 rioters are recast as "patriots," journalists find themselves on the frontlines -- and their attackers are now people in power. Jordan Green is an investigative reporter for Raw Story whose coverage on far-Right extremism has spanned from Charlottesville to January 6. He is currently working on a book about militant accelerationism. Green also reported on a story we've covered extensively on the show: the attack on two power stations in Moore County, North Carolina. A correspondent for the Texas Observer, investigative journalist Steven Monacelli has been tracking extremism, disinformation, social movements, and the influence of dark money in politics. He received the The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award for revealing the identities of far-Right extremists, including government employees. Freelance journalist Amanda Moore embedded with the far Right in 2020 and has faced backlash from far-Right groups for her reporting. Her reporting at present focuses on ICE and Border Control, and her work has appeared in the Nation, Politico, and the Intercept. Join us for this chilling conversation on threats against journalists and the implications for democracy, plus a commentary from Laura. "I don't think we should hide the fact that there is a toll, that neo-Nazis in particular and authoritarians more generally want to silence journalists. We as a society need to be aware of that. We need to speak up as journalists who've experienced this so our peers don't feel alone when they face similar challenges." - Jordan Green. "Mainstream institutions often ignore these issues until it's maybe too late or they are fully developed. There's not a lot of interest right now in developing stories. Maybe one of the histories that will be told is of the sort of independent muckraker types that we heard all about a hundred years ago, stepping into a role that larger institutions were unwilling to fill." - Steven Monacelli. "The people who are backlashing against me have changed. It's no longer a livestreamer like Nick Fuentes ranting about me for five minutes straight. It's the former campaign manager for Trump 2024, calling me and threatening me with a lawsuit. It's worse because the people are more powerful." - Amanda Moore. Guests: Jordan Green: Investigative Journalist, Raw Story; Steven Monacelli: Freelance Investigative Journalist; Correspondent, The Texas Observer; Amanda Moore: Freelance Investigative Journalist.
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