“is totally in the hands of the Zionists. The Zionists control the American government, lock, stock, and barrel.”
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David Duke
David Ernest Duke is an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, former politician and grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. His politics and writings are largely devoted to promoting conspiracy theories about Jews, such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia, the press…
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2026· 8 entries
“This conference has an incredible impact on Holocaust studies all over the world”
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“surprised how excellent [the paper] is. It is quite satisfying to see a body in the premier American university essentially come out and validate every major point I have been making since even before the war [in Iraq] even started. ...The task before us is to wrest control of America”
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“Alan Colmes that the signatories”
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“reason should tell us that even if Israeli agents were not the actual provocateurs behind the operation [on 9/11], at the very least they had prior knowledge. ...Zionists caused the attack America endured just as surely as if they themselves had piloted those planes. It was caused by the Jewish control of the American media and Congress.”
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“the publicity went to Buchanan”
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Public attention spiked: 5,443 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 1,650, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 5,510 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 1,650, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 3 entries
The Jerusalem Post: Ex-KKK head David Duke endorses US Green Party candidate Jill Stein for president
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Campaign: 2024 United States presidential election endorsement.
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Duke praised anti-Israel activists in a video uploaded on social media
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2020· 3 entries
For repeatedly violating its policies against hate speech, along with Richard Spencer and Stefan Molyneux
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Campaign: 2020 United States presidential election endorsement.
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For violating the company's rules on hateful conduct
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2019· 2 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says President Donald Trump hasn’t condemned David Duke and Richard Spencer.” Mostly False.
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First-term Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, referring to the state of Israel, stated that she: "wanted to talk “about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a f
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2018· 1 entry
Over a year after his participation in the Unite the Right rally
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2017· 2 entries
Accused Anthony Bourdain of promoting white genocide; in response, Bourdain offered to "rearrange" Duke's kneecaps
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Leading to boycotts, lost business, and one restaurant to close entirely
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2016· 5 entries
Election lost: 2016 election for U.S. Senate.
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Showed Duke receiving support from 5
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National Public Radio (NPR) aired an interview of Duke by Steve Inskeep in which Duke claimed that there is widespread racism against European Americans, that they have been subject to vicious attacks in the media, and t
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Duke announced that he was planning to run for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate seat in Louisiana being vacated by Republican David Vitter
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Campaign: 2016 election for U.S. Senate.
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2015· 3 entries
“s radical speech is both a positive and a negative. In February 2016, Duke urged his listeners to vote for Trump, saying that voting for anyone but Trump”
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It was reported by the media that Duke endorsed then presidential nominee Donald Trump
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After 47 Senate Republicans warned Iran that agreements made with the U
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2013· 2 entries
An Italian court ruled in favor of expelling Duke from Italy
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The Anti-Defamation League called Duke "perhaps America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite"
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2012· 3 entries
Duke said: "There are Israeli fingerprints all over the whole 9/11 aspect
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“There are Israeli fingerprints all over the whole 9/11 aspect. ...Israel has a long record of terrorism against America... there are a lot of reasons that Israel wanted 9/11 to happen. Of the Iraq War, Duke said,”
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And that he was seriously considering entering the Republican Party primaries
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2005· 2 entries
Co-chaired a conference named "Zionism As the Biggest Threat to Modern Civilization" sponsored by MAUP and attended by several Ukrainian public figures and politicians and Israel Shamir, described by the ADL as an ant
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Studied at Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Doctor of Philosophy (2005).
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2004· 2 entries
Include Duke, Don Black, Paul Fromm, Willis Carto (whose Holocaust-denying The Barnes Review helped sponsor the event), Kevin Alfred Strom, and John Tyndall (signing as an individual, not on behalf of the British Nationa
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Duke's bodyguard, roommate, and longtime associate Roy Armstrong ran for the U
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2002· 2 entries
Duke pleaded guilty to the felony charge of filing a false tax return under 26 U
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Duke attended a Holocaust Revisionist conference in Moscow where he took a picture alongside Ahmed Rami, the founder of Radio Islam
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2001· 1 entry
Duke promoted his book Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question in Russia
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2000· 1 entry
Nick Griffin (then leader of the British National Party in the United Kingdom) met with Duke at a seminar with the American Friends of the British National Party
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1999· 2 entries
Campaign: 1999 election for U.S. House.
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Duke rented an apartment in Moscow beginning around 1999.
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1998· 1 entry
Duke self-published the autobiographical My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding
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1996· 1 entry
Campaign: 1996 election for U.S. Senate.
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1995· 1 entry
Don Black and Chloê Hardin, Duke's ex-wife, began a bulletin board system (BBS) called Stormfront
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1991· 2 entries
Received significant attention when journalist Norman Robinson questioned Duke
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Campaign: 1991 election for governor of Louisiana.
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1990· 3 entries
But national GOP officials in October, just days before the primary election, concluded that Bagert could not win
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Campaign: 1990 election for U.S. Senate.
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“What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking— you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation….”
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1989· 3 entries
When he attempted to deny seating to Duke on the grounds that the incoming representative had resided outside his district at the time of his election
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Campaign: 1989: Successful run in special election for Louisiana House seat.
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Called Duke's senatorial platform "garbage
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1988· 3 entries
Republican state representative Chuck Cusimano of Metairie resigned his District 81 seat to become a 24th Judicial District Court judge, and a special election was called early in 1989 to select a successor
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Duke ran initially in the Democratic presidential primaries
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Campaign: 1988 presidential election.
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1987· 1 entry
Using the identity and mailing-list of the Georgia Forsyth County Defense League without permission
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1984· 1 entry
And Chloê moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, in order to be near her parents
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1980· 2 entries
After he was accused of trying to sell the organization's mailing list for $35,000
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Because he disliked its associations with violence and could not stop members of other Klan chapters from doing "stupid or violent things"
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1979· 1 entry
Pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace when he led 70 to 100 Klansmen to surround police vehicles in a Metairie hotel parking lot in September 1976, and was fined $100 and given a three-month suspended sentence
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1977· 1 entry
But the Louisiana Supreme Court had reversed the ruling because the state had introduced inadmissible evidence
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1976· 1 entry
Duke (using the double pseudonym James Konrad and Dorothy Vanderbilt) wrote a self-help book for women, Finders-Keepers: Finding and Keeping the Man You Want
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1974· 1 entry
Duke founded the Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKKK), shortly after graduating from LSU
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1972· 1 entry
Duke was charged with soliciting campaign funds for presidential candidate George Wallace and keeping the proceeds
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1970· 1 entry
Formed a white student group called the White Youth Alliance that was affiliated with the National Socialist White People's Party
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1968· 1 entry
Duke enrolled at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge
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1966· 1 entry
For Laos taking a job with United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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1964· 1 entry
Duke began his involvement in radical right politics after attending a Citizens' Councils (CCA) meeting and reading Carleton Putnam's pro-segregation books, later citing Race and Reason: A Yankee View as responsible for
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1950· 2 entries
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Maxine (née Crick) and David Hedger Duke, the younger of two children
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Born 1950-07-01.
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