For the full hour, Ernie converses with Amy Spitalnick, Executive Director for Integrity First for America, who led the lawsuit against the white supremacists that planned the violent attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. This interview took place on October 25, 2022, at Holocaust Museum Houston.

“It sends a very important message that the sort of rampant antisemitism we’re seeing is unacceptable and that the highest office in the country is doing something about it,” Spitalnick said.

Most Americans knew it was “beyond the pale” when torch-toting white supremacists marched through the University of Virginia's campus on the eve of the 2017 rally, said Amy Spitalnick. “What’s even more dangerous than Nazis with torches chanting, ‘Jews will not replace us,’ is when we have political leaders and others espousing those same conspiracy theories in increasingly normalized ways,” she said.

“Of course Kanye should be held to account,” said Amy Spitalnick. But unless we also hold to account the officials and institutions that “have mainstreamed antisemitism and white supremacy, we are only allowing it to fester and grow.”

Amy joined CBS News to reflect on the Unite the Right violence five years later, IFA’s landmark victory, and the fights ahead.

Amy talked to Katie Couric on the fifth anniversary of the Charlottesville attack about the progress we’ve made and the fights ahead.

Amy joined Josh Malina and Rabbi Shira Stutman to discuss the fifth anniversary of the Charlottesville violence and the broader fight against white supremacy and extremism at this crucial moment for democracy.

Amy Spitalnick joined Democracy Now! to discuss the Buffalo attack and strategies for breaking the cycle of white supremacist violence.

Amy joined CNN following the Buffalo attack to discuss Replacement Theory and how the attack fits into a broader cycle of white supremacist violence.

“These conspiracies are at the core of the Republican Party right now and I don’t think it’s partisan to say that,” said Amy Spitalnick, the executive director of Integrity First for America, which won a lawsuit against the organizers of the 2017 Charlottesville rally.

The event took place on Yom HaShaoh (Holocaust Remembrance Day), and featured guest speakers Amy Spitalnick, a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors who is the executive director of Integrity First for America, which recently won its groundbreaking lawsuit against the hate groups responsible for the Unite the Right violence, securing multi-million dollar judgments on behalf of the Charlottesville community members… Rositta E. Kenigsberg, HDEC’s president, described Spitalnick as someone who is “an incredible example of making a difference in our world today.”

A federal lawsuit filed last month seeking monetary damages from two far-right groups, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, and their senior members linked to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was designed with an ambitious goal in mind: to impinge on their financial earnings and snuff out their operations. The legal strategy behind it was used as recently as last November in the civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia, against organizers of the far-right rally that erupted in deadly violence in 2017.

Organizers of the “Unite the Right” demonstration suffered a damaging legal defeat this week. But four years after the rally, their message has seeped closer to the conservative mainstream.