DAVID NEIWERT is a freelance journalist and author based in Seattle. A veteran reporter and editor, he began working for MSNBC.com in 1996 as a writer-producer and remained there until 2000. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, MSNBC.com, Salon.com, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, Seattle magazine, and numerous regional publications. His reportage on domestic terrorism for MSNBC won a National Press Club Award for distinguished online journalism. He is also the author and editor of the award-winning weblog Orcinus.
Neiwert is the author of The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy (2023), Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us (2020), Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump (2017), Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us (2015), And Hell Followed With Her (2013), co-author of Over the Cliff: How Obama’s Election Drove the American Right Insane (2010), and author of The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right (Polipoint), Strawberry Days: The Rise and Fall of the Bellevue Japanese-American Community (2005), Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America (2004) and In God’s Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest (1999).
