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The Death Rattle of White Supremacy

Americans need to stand together against the forces of hate.
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Will America finally confront the violent death rattle of white supremacy? Or will it fail to inflict the coup de grâce, allowing the ideology of hate to revive itself into a global movement, with radicalized young men engaged in what they believe is a zero-sum war for survival?

Last year, those opening lines might have been dismissed as alarmist rhetoric and hyperbole. We no longer have that luxury.

In the past week alone, three American cities have experienced three mass shootings, with gunmen killing at least 32 people. Yesterday, police say that Patrick Crusius, 21, walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a border

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