Gregory Bovino and Jared Taylor flew in to support activists once deemed too toxic even by European far-right parties. The United States’ former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino was a VIP guest at the tightly controlled event that also included elected officials from Spain's Vox and Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD). | Marion Solletty/POLITICO PORTO, Portugal — European far-right activists who advocate the mass deportation of immigrants and their descendants are getti

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel next to him, at the Department of Justice in Washington, April 21, 2026. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced a bombshell 11-count fraud indictment accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of secretly funding leaders and organizers of white supremacist, racist and other hate groups that the civil rights group claimed to be battling

Plessy’s act of civil disobedience led to court decision that legalized ‘separate but equal’ doctrine and ushered in Jim Crow era The Homer Plessy community school in New Orleans. Plessy bought a ticket for a whites-only train cabin and was arrested for violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act. Photograph: Barry Lewis/Getty Images In front of the old New Orleans train station where, in 1892, Homer Plessy engaged in a trailblazing act of civil disobedience that led to the landm