The onslaught begins: Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church began its anti-gay crusade with pickets in 1991 at Gage Park in Topeka, Kan. Soon, the church was claiming that it carried out 40 pickets every week. GETTY IMAGES/TIM BOYLE
The Year in Hate & Extremism 2023
We tracked 1,430 hate and extremist groups in 2023. Hate has no place in our country.