Tracking the Growth of Active Clubs

A couple of days ago, NPR ran a piece on the recent growth in the U.S. of Active Clubs, “a strand of the white nationalist movement that emphasize[s] mixed martial arts training to ready their members for violence against their perceived enemies.” We can see this growth in Crowd Counting Consortium’s (CCC) data on U.S.Continue reading “Tracking the Growth of Active Clubs”

Review of Right-Wing U.S. Protest Activity in 2022

In 2022, Crowd Counting Consortium recorded more than 5,700 right-wing protests, counter-protests, rallies, demonstrations, and direct actions across nearly 1,650 different U.S. cities and towns, where “right-wing” includes everything from Republican partisan rallies to demonstrations by alt-right and far-right extremists. This post summarizes a number of patterns and trends we gleaned from those events. Overall,Continue reading “Review of Right-Wing U.S. Protest Activity in 2022”