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The violence in Charlottesville last weekend served as a stark reminder that hate groups are on the rise in the U.S. That includes Oregon, which has seen a significant spike in bias-related crimes since President Donald Trump's election last November.

“Trump’s run for office electrified the radical right, which saw in him a champion of the idea that America is fundamentally a white man’s country,” the civil-rights organization the Southern Poverty Law Center concluded in a February report.

White nationalists may feel emboldened right now, but there are other kinds of hate groups as well. The SPLC has identified 917 hate-based organizations in the country. About 10 of them are active in Oregon, according to the SPLC. We take a look at the Beaver State’s hate outfits here.

It should be noted that not everyone agrees with the Southern Poverty Law Center about what constitutes a hate group. Some of the organizations on the list, for starters, take issue with being defined in such negative terms. The SPLC describes a hate group as one whose “beliefs or practices ... attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.”

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American Front

Oregon neo-Nazi Jimmy Marr scored attention last fall when he drove up and down Interstate 5 in his Toyota Tacoma, which had a swastika and various hateful messages painted on the sides. Those messages included "Jew Lies Matter" and "Trump: Do The White Thing." Marr, whose Twitter handle is @GenocideJimmy, has been associated with the American Front, Buzzfeed reports. The American Front is a skinhead outfit that started in California in the 1980s. It shouldn't be confused with the Northwest Front, led by alt-right novelist Harold Covington. Covington told Politico in 2015 that he'd like to see Oregon, Washington state, Idaho and part of Montana become its own country, "kind of like the white version of Israel. I don't see why the Jews are the only people on Earth that get their own country and everyone else has to be diverse."

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Black Riders Liberation Party

The organization is also known as "New Generation Black Panther Party for Self-Defense." It uses the same rhetorical style and message that the defunct Black Panther Party offered up in the 1960s and early '70s. Talking about police violence in a 2015 interview with Vice, the Black Riders' General TACO (an acronym for Taking All Capitalists Out) said: "By the pigs exposing their hand, they're revealing to the public the things that have been going on in the black community since we were dragged here on slave ships from Africa. They're using the same repressive, violent measures to colonize us into the position that we're in right now." He called President Barack Obama "the ultimate neocolonial puppet." He added: "The racist U.S. government and its system were never designed for our people; it was designed to enslave, massacre, and genocide our people out of this country. We look at Obama as pushing the same kind of line. He's the grand house Negro."

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Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge

Like the Black Riders, the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge is a black separatist group, says the Southern Poverty Law Center. Founded on the East Coast in 1969 and now with an active Portland chapter, the ISUPK "teach that the Biblical Hebrew Israelites today are so-called Blacks, Hispanics and Native Indians, according to the Bible." The group espouses "brotherhood," stating that it is "the solution to end crime in our communities." Offered ISUPK Commanding General Yahanna in a YouTube video: "Brotherhood is a weapon."

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Israel United in Christ

Israel United in Christ

“Our history is the greatest holocaust,” the IUC’s website states. “Why were we chosen into slavery? Why were our children taken from us? Why were our mothers raped? Why were our sisters sold for wine? ... Knowing the past according to the Lord will help alleviate many things that trouble our minds.” The Southern Poverty Law Center characterizes Israel United in Christ as a black separatist group. Says broadcaster Ian Boyne in a YouTube video embedded on the IUC site: “The Israelites are not the people in the Middle East. The Israelites are not the Jews. It is us black people ... who are the true Israelites.”

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Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ

The Hebrew Israelite movement is a "black nationalist theology dating back to the 19th century," the Southern Poverty Law Center reports. Last November, New York offices of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, which the SPLC considers a hate group and lists as being active in Oregon, was raided by the FBI "in relation to an investigation into financial irregularities."

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Claude Pike, right, and his sons in 1980. (The Oregonian)

National Prayer Network

The vintage-airplane-loving Rev. Claude Pike earned attention in the early 1970s for his work with the Big Sky Youth Ranch, which was described as "a heavenly hideaway for scores of young refugees from Portland's urban stress." The Oregonian wrote: "The secret of success of the Pike family mission ... is tender, loving care." But the love soon curdled. In the 1980s, the People for the American Way denounced Claude and his son Ted as "blatantly and repugnantly anti-Semitic." The Clackamas-based National Prayer Network, now run by Ted, aggressively opposes hate-crime laws. Its website includes a mock Smokey the Bear poster with the message: "Only You Can Save Free Speech By Preventing Hate Crimes Laws." The Southern Poverty Law Center categorizes the National Prayer Network as a "general hate" group.

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National Socialist Movement

The Detroit-based neo-Nazi outfit calls itself "America's Premier White Civil Rights Organization." The organization participated in the violent Unite the Right! event in Charlottesville, according to its website. "National Socialism looks at things as they really are," the group states. "For this reason National Socialists do not buy into the big lie that all people and races are equal and the same. Common sense tells us that there are obvious real physical differences and history shows us there are fundamental differences between the races that drive the White Race to be the most advanced and progress producing race on earth." Oregon's "authorized unit" of the National Socialist Movement is located in Salem.

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Northwest Hammerskins

The Hammerskin Nation has chapters across the U.S. and in many other countries, including Germany, Italy and Hungary. Offers its website: "The Hammerskin Nation is a leaderless group of men and women who have adopted the White Power Skinhead lifestyle. We are blue collar workers, white collar professionals, college students, entrepreneurs, fathers and mothers. The Hammerskin brotherhood is a way of achieving goals which we have all set for ourselves. These goals are many but can be summed up with one phrase consisting of 14 words: 'We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.'" Oregon's chapter of the racist skinhead movement is known as the Northwest Hammerskins.

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Rense Radio Network

The Oregon-based radio network and website hosts shows by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and other racists while pushing various "BioSuperfood" and immune-system products. Here's how the network describes its programming: "What you see is what you get. Essential values: Kindness and Accountability, Responsibility, Integrity and Intelligent Discourse, Exploring by Thought, Learning by Listening, and Helping those who seek to know... and grow." Writes the Southern Poverty Law Center: "Jeff Rense is building a shady alternative-health product empire while promoting Adolf Hitler and blaming and bashing the Jews."

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Soleilmoon Recordings

The small record label operates out of Northeast Portland. Label owner Charles Powne calls Soleilmoon's product "dark industrial ambient." The Southern Poverty Law Center calls it "hate music." Powne told Willamette Week he was "mystified" by the SPLC's categorization of his company. The law center says the main reason Soleilmoon made its listing is because the label's top-selling artist is Douglas Pearce, who records under the name Death in June. Pearce has been described as a "neo-fascist" and a "punk fascist." Powne, for his part, doesn't believe Death in June is racist or that there's anything wrong with Soleilmoon being Pearce's music distributor. "It's just music and it's just money," he said in February. "I just go where the customers need me."

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Wolves of Vinland

This neo-pagan, white-supremacist "tribe" is headquartered in Virginia and run by brothers Paul and Matthias Waggener. The Daily Beast reports that "the members -- often heavily tattooed -- gather in the Virginia woods for heathen ceremonies where they drink mead, spread mud and blood on themselves, dance around fires, and hold rituals in caves." They also like to fight a lot, have been connected to the burning of an African-American church and have branched out to the Pacific Northwest and other parts of the country. One of the group's prominent members is well-known white nationalist Jack Donovan, who in 2015 posted online a photo of himself horsing around with iconic Portland author Chuck Palahniuk. (Palahniuk has denied any connection with the organization.) Donovan disputes the label white nationalist. In an essay "Why I am not a White Nationalist," he says he no longer considers himself "alt-right" in any way. "What is done is done, but I will not allow White Nationalists to publish or use my work in the future," he posted Aug. 19.

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More

Go to the Southern Poverty Law Center website to scroll through all of the organizations on its list of hate groups.

And check out The Oregonian's "Documenting Hate" project, which tracks hate crimes and bias incidents in Oregon.