For over a decade, neo-Nazis and Klansmen were hand-delivering VHS tapes of a California-based public access TV show to local television stations in cities across the country. The stations had no choice but to run the show on local public access channels. The show's host, Tom Metzger, received a gift of $300,000 in 1984 that gave him the financial freedom to pursue his dream of delivering his racist message to as many Americans as possible, right through their television screens. 

Sources: 

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018. 

Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.

Hamm, Mark S., and Cécile Van de Voorde. “Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups: Theory, Research, and Prevention.” Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 9, no. 2, 2005

 National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, Bigotry and Cable TV: Legal Issues and Community Responses (Institute Report No.3), Baltimore, Maryland: The Institute, 1988.

Bradley J. Howard, Pulling the Plug: Controversial Programming on Public Access Television and the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 399 (1995)

Rendahl, Stephen E.. "White Aryan Resistance: A Radical Communication System." North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre, vol. 4, no. 1, 1 Sep. 1991, pp. 44 - 52.

Rendahl, Stephen (1990). Media access and the radical right: Public access to "race and reason." Unpublished paper presented to the Central States Communication Association, Detroit, MI.

Spring/Summer 1989 issue of “No KKK No Fascist USA,” Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC37_scans/37.nokkk.spr89.pdf

December 1985 issue of Searchlight magazine https://ia600700.us.archive.org/4/items/searchlight_126/searchlight_126.pdf

https://casetext.com/case/us-v-mahon-19

https://idavox.com/index.php/2020/12/10/american-strasser/

https://northernstar.info/16419/news/city/crusade-adds-fuel-to-flame-of-tensions/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-10-ca-99-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-13-me-23281-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/us/bill-wassmuth-61-an-ex-priest-who-fought-white-supremacists.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-me-11091-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/us/klan-wins-a-battle-for-cable-tv.html

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2001/tim-and-sarah-gayman-discuss-growing-anti-semitic-christian-identity-movement?page=0%2C1

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/20/us/racist-aryan-nations-group-inducts-new-disciples.html

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-hobson-bruce-augustyniak-bruce-kala

https://memorial.bellsystem.com/pdf/1988ATTar_Complete.pdf

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/04/22/white-supremacist-richard-barrett-murdered-mississippi-home

For over a decade, neo-Nazis and Klansmen were hand-delivering VHS tapes of a California-based public access TV show to local television stations in cities across the country. The stations had no choice but to run the show on local public access channels. The show's host, Tom Metzger, received a gift of $300,000 in 1984 that gave him the financial freedom to pursue his dream of delivering his racist message to as many Americans as possible, right through their television screens. 
Sources: 
Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018. 
Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.
Hamm, Mark S., and Cécile Van de Voorde. “Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups: Theory, Research, and Prevention.” Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 9, no. 2, 2005
 National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, Bigotry and Cable TV: Legal Issues and Community Responses (Institute Report No.3), Baltimore, Maryland: The Institute, 1988.
Bradley J. Howard, Pulling the Plug: Controversial Programming on Public Access Television and the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 399 (1995)
Rendahl, Stephen E.. "White Aryan Resistance: A Radical Communication System." North Dakota Journal of Speech &amp; Theatre, vol. 4, no. 1, 1 Sep. 1991, pp. 44 - 52.
Rendahl, Stephen (1990). Media access and the radical right: Public access to "race and reason." Unpublished paper presented to the Central States Communication Association, Detroit, MI.
Spring/Summer 1989 issue of “No KKK No Fascist USA,” Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee <a href="https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC37_scans/37.nokkk.spr89.pdf">https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC37_scans/37.nokkk.spr89.pdf</a>
December 1985 issue of Searchlight magazine <a href="https://ia600700.us.archive.org/4/items/searchlight_126/searchlight_126.pdf">https://ia600700.us.archive.org/4/items/searchlight_126/searchlight_126.pdf</a>
<a href="https://casetext.com/case/us-v-mahon-19">https://casetext.com/case/us-v-mahon-19</a>
<a href="https://idavox.com/index.php/2020/12/10/american-strasser/">https://idavox.com/index.php/2020/12/10/american-strasser/</a>
<a href="https://northernstar.info/16419/news/city/crusade-adds-fuel-to-flame-of-tensions/">https://northernstar.info/16419/news/city/crusade-adds-fuel-to-flame-of-tensions/</a>
 <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-10-ca-99-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-10-ca-99-story.html</a>
 <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-13-me-23281-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-13-me-23281-story.html</a>
 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/us/bill-wassmuth-61-an-ex-priest-who-fought-white-supremacists.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/us/bill-wassmuth-61-an-ex-priest-who-fought-white-supremacists.html</a>
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-me-11091-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-me-11091-story.html</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/us/klan-wins-a-battle-for-cable-tv.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/us/klan-wins-a-battle-for-cable-tv.html</a>
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2001/tim-and-sarah-gayman-discuss-growing-anti-semitic-christian-identity-movement?page=0%2C1">https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2001/tim-and-sarah-gayman-discuss-growing-anti-semitic-christian-identity-movement?page=0%2C1</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/20/us/racist-aryan-nations-group-inducts-new-disciples.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/20/us/racist-aryan-nations-group-inducts-new-disciples.html</a>
<a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-hobson-bruce-augustyniak-bruce-kala">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-hobson-bruce-augustyniak-bruce-kala</a>
<a href="https://memorial.bellsystem.com/pdf/1988ATTar_Complete.pdf">https://memorial.bellsystem.com/pdf/1988ATTar_Complete.pdf</a>
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/04/22/white-supremacist-richard-barrett-murdered-mississippi-home">https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/04/22/white-supremacist-richard-barrett-murdered-mississippi-home</a>

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