Earlier this year, Andrew Anglin shut down his Daily Stormer blogsite, doing so after about 13 years of operation.
Here’s what I wrote soon afterward:
For more than a dozen years, Andrew Anglin’s Daily Stormer website had been the most popular Alt-Right publication anywhere on the Internet, probably having more readership than all the others combined.
This remarkable achievement came despite the absolutely unprecedented campaign of harassment, suppression, and deplatforming that he faced. His bitter enemies not only had him banned from virtually all standard Internet services but even arranged for the repeated confiscation of his website domains, something that previously would have seemed unimaginable.
Along the way, he also became one of the very first individuals ever banned from Twitter. After Elon Musk bought that company and proclaimed a new free speech policy, Anglin was briefly allowed back. But despite his careful avoidance of controversial topics, he was soon banned again.
All of this reasonably earned him the title of the world’s most censored writer. That was the moniker we provided him when he declared that anyone could freely republish his pieces and we began doing so, including well over 2,000 of his posts and articles during the last five years.
As might be expected, the enormous human and financial strain of maintaining a website under such very difficult conditions eventually became too much for him, and last month he finally abandoned that effort, publishing a post entitled “The End of the Daily Stormer.”
https://www.unz.com/announcement/andrew-anglin-archives/
More than 2,000 of posts had already been republished on our own website, but that was still just a small fraction of the enormous quantity of content he had produced over the many years. But fortunately, one or more of his fans produced a backup file of all his material and posted it on the Internet, hoping that someone would make it available in more convenient form.
I’ve now had this done, and a rudimentary website providing all his many, many thousands of posts is now available.
https://www.anglinarchive.com/
Consider Anglin’s enormous role in the early Alt-Right movement of 2016 and the online energy those activists provided to the Donald Trump presidential campaign of that year. Given the very close results of that election, Anglin arguably played a significant role in changing the history of our country and the entire world, whether for good or for ill.
Indeed, the peak of Anglin’s public notoriety probably came the following year when his profile graced the cover of The Atlantic, a singular honor extended to just a tiny number of Americans over the course of the last one hundred years.
Therefore, I would think that resource might provide be very useful for political scientists and other academic researchers.
