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Hate and extremist groups emboldened across Pa. last year
Updated Feb 22, 2021;
Posted Feb 22, 2021
The National Socialist Movement, one of the largest and most prominent neo-Nazi groups in the United States, was one of 36 hate groups active in Pennsylvania last year. Members of the group last summer gathered at a downtown Williamsport park.
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Last summer, a band of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest and most prominent neo-Nazi groups in the United States, gathered at a downtown Williamsport park - swastika flags in hand- to spew profanity and white nationalist ideology over a battery-powered bullhorn.
Weeks later, the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan targeted several Erie County communities with two-page typed letters containing racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic language. The same group distributed more notes a few days later, urging residents to “Pray for white Americans in 2020,” directing them t ....

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