Shawn Vestal: Racist groups ramped up a 'barrage of propaganda' in 2020

When a neo-Nazi spray-painted Spokane’s Temple Beth Shalom with swastikas and other hateful graffiti, he said he was trying to recruit more people to his cause.

He’s far from the only one. The past year has seen a resurgent “barrage of propaganda” by white supremacists around the region, state and country, deploying graffiti, fliers, posters, banners and stickers at a far greater pace than in the past, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual report.

The number of such incidents almost doubled in 2020, the report says, growing from 2,724 in 2019 to 5,125 last year. Washington was among the states with the most activity, with 345 reported incidents, and

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