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Musician Billy Joel performs during his 100th lifetime performance at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, July 18, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Billy Joel says he wore Holocaust symbol to protest Trump’s remarks after Charlottesville riots

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2018, file photo, Jason Kessler walks through a crowd of protesters in front of the Charlottesville Circuit Courthouse ahead of a decision regarding the covered Confederate statues, during a rally in Charlottesville, Va. Kessler, a white nationalist, is seeking a court order that would allow him to stage an event marking the anniversary of last year's rally in Charlottesville. U.S. District Judge Norman Moon scheduled a hearing Tuesday, July 24, on Kessler's request for a preliminary injunction that would compel the city of Charlottesville to issue him a rally permit for August. (Zack Wajsgras/The Daily Progress via AP, File)

Focus shifts to DC as Charlottesville anniversary approaches

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and SARAH RANKIN - Associated Press

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee still stands in Lee park in Charlottesville, Va., Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. The removal of the statue is in litigation and is at the center of the racial tensions and demonstrations in the town. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Charlottesville votes again to rename parks previously named for Confederate generals

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, white nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Charlottesville braces for worst weeks ahead of ‘Unite the Right’ anniversary

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 27, 2018, file photo, Jason Kessler walks through a crowd of protesters in front of the Charlottesville Circuit Courthouse ahead of a decision regarding the covered Confederate statues, during a rally in Charlottesville, Va. (Zack Wajsgras/The Daily Progress via AP, File)

Charlottesville rally organizer vows no weapons or shields at potential repeat event

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

A white nationalist demonstrator with a helmet and shield walks into Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Charlottesville cites circuit court ruling in support of banning proposed ‘Unite the Right 2’ rally

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 27, 2018 file photo, Jason Kessler walks through a crowd of protesters in front of the Charlottesville Circuit Courthouse ahead of a decision regarding the covered Confederate statues, during a rally in Charlottesville, Va. (Zack Wajsgras/The Daily Progress via AP, File)

Charlottesville court sets hearing to consider white nationalist rally on deadly event’s anniversary

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, people fly into the air as a vehicle is driven into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Federal hate crime charges have been filed against James Alex Fields Jr., accused of driving the car. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP, File)

Hate crime charges leveled after Charlottesville attack

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows James Alex Fields Jr., accused of plowing a car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., killing a woman and injuring dozens more, has been charged with federal hate crimes. The Department of Justice announced that Fields was charged in an indicted returned Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via AP, File)

Suspect in Charlottesville attack charged with hate crimes

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

In this Aug. 12, 2017, photo by Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress, people fly into the air as a car drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. (Ryan Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP)

Judge urged to let white nationalists rally in Charlottesville on anniversary of deadly protest

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

New Charlottesville police chief sworn in

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White nationalist demonstrators use shields as they clash with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12. (Associated Press)

Feds charge man with threatening to kill alt-right members after Charlottesville

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

- In this Aug. 12, 2017 file photo, white nationalist demonstrators use shields as they guard the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Charlottesville urges court to keep armed demonstrators out of city as rally anniversary approaches

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 photo, DeAndre Harris, bottom is assaulted in a parking garage beside the Charlottesville police station after a white nationalist rally was disbursed by police, in Charlottesville, Va. (Zach D. Roberts via AP)

Third person convicted in group assault of black man beaten during Charlottesville far-right rally

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the UVA campus in Charlottesville, Va. Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday after violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP) ** FILE **

White supremacist groups cite First Amendment rights in battling against Charlottesville lawsuit

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this July 22, 2016, photo, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke talks to the media at the Louisiana Secretary of State's office in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

David Duke, ex-Klan leader, ordered to turn over records related to deadly Charlottesville rally

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In an Aug. 12, 2017 file photo, David Duke arrives to give remarks after a white nationalist protest was declared an unlawful assembly, in Charlottesville, Va. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke must turn over his emails, social media messages and other communications about the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly last summer, a federal magistrate ruled Thursday, May 17, 2018. (Shaban Athuman/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP, File)

David Duke ordered to turn over Charlottesville messages

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, at the introduction of the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite personal devices, in Santa Monica, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Southern Poverty Law Center-tech industry alliance against ‘hate’ alarms conservatives

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Seeing Through the Rhetoric of the Alt-Right

By DAVE MISTICH - Associated Press

In this frame from video, Jason Kessler, a blogger based in Charlottesville, Va., speaks to the media on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017. (AP Photo)

Jason Kessler, Charlottesville rally organizer, banned from University of Virginia campus

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times