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Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee Hearing on June 20, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Getty/Tom Brenner)

After a year, Border Patrol has little to say about agents’ misogynistic and racist Facebook group

A.C. Thompson
US Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents take part in a safety drill in the Anapra area in Sunland Park, New Mexico, United States on January 31, 2019. (Getty/Herika Martinez)

The FBI is investigating massive embezzlement of Border Patrol union funds

A.C. Thompson, Jeff Ernsthausen
This photo shows a US Border Patrol patch on a border agent's uniform in McAllen, Texas, on January 15, 2019. (Suzanne Cordeiro/Afp/getty Images)

A border agent’s hateful career and the crime that finally ended it

A.C. Thompson
Children and workers are seen at the Tornillo tent camp which houses immigrant children separated from their parents after they were caught entering the U.S. under the administration's zero tolerance policy. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Over 200 allegations of abuse of migrant children

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Members and supporters of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a rally. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

An Atomwaffen member sketched a map to take neo-Nazis down. What path officials took is a mystery

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(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

American hate group looks to make allies in Europe as Trump arrives

Ali Winston, A.C. Thompson
White nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber)

Charlottesville white extremist identified as UCLA student, Northrop Grumman employee

A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston
White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber)

U.S. Marine involved in Charlottesville attacks sentenced to jail

A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston
(AP/Steve Helber)

Ranks of notorious hate group include active-duty military

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Inside Atomwaffen as it celebrates a member for allegedly killing a gay Jewish college student

A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston, Jake Hanrahan
White nationalists walk into Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. (AP/Steve Helber)

Racist, violent, unpunished: A white hate group’s campaign of menace

A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston, Darwin BondGraham
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A new generation of white supremacists emerges in Charlottesville

A.C. Thompson, Karim Hajj
(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Police stood by as mayhem mounted in Charlottesville

A.C. Thompson, Robert Faturechi, Karim Hajj
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More than 100 federal agencies fail to report hate crimes to the FBI’s national database

A.C. Thompson, Ken Schwencke
FILE - In this June 24, 2015, file photo, St. Louis Parks workers clean a Confederate memorial in St. Louis after it was spray painted with the words, "Black lives matter." Confederate monuments in a half-dozen places this week have been defaced _ a telling sign of the racial tension that permeates post-Ferguson America. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File) MANDATORY CREDIT; EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT (AP)

A few things got left out of The Daily Caller’s report on the Confederate monument rally

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(AP/Mel Evans)

When the government really did fear a Bowling Green massacre — from a white supremacist

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Stephen Bannon (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

As a white nationalist, what do you do? A conversation with a scholar of America’s extreme right

A.C. Thompson
Protesters at an anti-Donald Trump rally listen to one of the speakers in Hemming Park, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, in downtown Jacksonville, Fla. Over a hundred protesters gathered for a rally against President-elect, Donald Trump, winning the presidential election. Tens of thousands of people marched in streets across the United States on Saturday, staging the fourth day of protests of Donald Trump's surprise victory as president. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP) (AP)

Yes, hate crimes are up — but the government isn’t keeping good track of them

Ken Schwencke, A.C. Thompson

California assisted living facilities face $1 million in unpaid fines

A.C. Thompson

When death is better than a nursing home

ProPublica, A.C. Thompson, Jonathan Jones

“They’re not treating mom well”

ProPublica, A.C. Thompson, Jonathan Jones