April 9, 2018
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Canadian History X
As a teen, Elisa Hategan joined Canada's most notorious and well-organized white supremacist group, the Heritage Front. What can we learn from the past about how white supremacists operate today? And what do we do about all these Nazis?
Kevin Sexton
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As a teen, Elisa Hategan joined Canada’s most notorious and well-organized white supremacist group, the Heritage Front. She later turned on the group and helped to take them down. What can we learn from the past about how white supremacists operate today? And what do we do about all these Nazis?

Elisa’s book about her time in the Heritage Front is called Race Traitor.

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