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    Eastern Washington struggles to shake far-right extremism

    by Richard Read, Los Angeles Times Dec 24, 2019 5 minutes

    SEATTLE - Residents of eastern Washington and northern Idaho have long tried to rid the region of its reputation as a haven for white supremacists, dating from the Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992 and the breakup of the Aryan Nations in the early 2000s.

    A foundation converted the site of Richard Butler's Aryan Nations headquarters north of Hayden, Idaho, into a "peace park." Around Spokane, Wash., religious leaders organize monthly vigils to oppose white supremacy and Christian dominionism, an ideology that seeks to impose biblical law.

    But now the deeply conservative region's ugly reputation has reared back into view, with the Dec. 19 release of an investigative report on Matt Shea, a far-right Washington lawmaker with ties to white supremacist groups. The four-month investigation, commissioned by the state House, found that Shea had engaged in "domestic terrorism" as an organizer of the 2016 armed takeover

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