A trio of violent white supremacists belonging to the Rise Above Movement (RAM) learned their prison fates on Friday in a U.S. District Court in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ben Daley, Thomas Gillen and Michael Miselis previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to riot following the group’s violent antics at the “Unite the Right” rally as well as at other California rallies, including a #MAGA march in Huntington Beach that turned into a melee two years ago. Read more

Tyler Laube faced the prospects of serving five years in prison after entering a guilty plea in November to a federal conspiracy to riot charge. The Redondo Beach man admitted to associating with the Rise Above Movement, a neo-Nazi group that debuted at a Mar. 25, 2017 #MAGA march-turned-melee in Huntington Beach. That’s where footage of the violence that broke out showed Laube throwing a trio of punches at Frank John Tristan, a Weekly reporter covering the rally. Read more o

Thomas Gillen, a white supremacist Rise Above Movement member, pleaded guilty on Monday to a conspiracy to riot charge following his actions at the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia two summers ago. Trained for street combat at political protests, Gillen, 25, also attended the so-called “Battle of Bolsa Chica” in Huntington Beach where a pro-Trump #MAGA rally on Mar. 25, 2017 turned into a melee when fellow RAM members became violent, including assa

President Donald Trump has tweeted and retweeted more than a few attacks on media outlets and individual journalists this year. His most short-lived proved to be a deleted RT of a Corona del Mar woman's meme of the Trump train running over a CNN reporter just days after a white nationalist plowed through and killed protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville. Down from the tweets into the streets, journalists covering protests are being attacked with more than just words in al