By the Numbers in The Nation Magazine

I. Homegrown Terrorism
Angry white men have committed more acts of terrorism on US soil than any other group since 9/11.

3 people wee murdered at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs by Robert Lewis Dear on November 27.

48 people have been killed by right-wing attacks since 9.11, according to a report by the New America Foundation.

9 people died in the largest of these attacks -- the Charleston church shooting by Dylann Roof in June.

26 people have been killed by those professing some sort of sympathy for Islamic extremists.

352 mass shootings (defined as attacks in which four or more people were killed or injured by gunfire) took place in the  United States this year, these shootings by a community on Reddit. (The Nation, December 21/28, 2015).

II. George Orwell in "Notes on Nationalism"
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them....Whether such details were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection."

"It's as though Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Camp Breadbasket, and the CIA torture report never happened. The nationalist can't understand why people look at the West's record of destruction over the last 15 years and conclude that its humanitarian claims cannot be taken at face value. It does hateful things and then is shocked that people hate it." (Gary Younge, "Bombs Over Brains," The Nation, December 21/28, 2015).

III. Watchlist
680K - People in the government's Terrorist Screening Database of "known or suspected terrorists."

280K - People on the watchlist with no recognized terrorist affiliation.

900 -  Records added to the Terrorist Screening Database per day.

89% - People identified in NSA-intercepted conversations leaked by Edward Snowden who were not the targets of surveillance. (The Nation, December 14, 2015).

IV. Voter Tally
90% - Percentage of elected leaders in US history who were white.

127 - Total number of African-Americans who have been elected to the House of Representatives in US history.

2.1M - Voting-age Texans not registered to vote.

1.2M - Eligible Texas voters adversely affected by strict photo-ID laws.

17% - Amount by which Latino voter registration in Texas lags behind Anglo voter registration. (The Nation, December 14, 2015).

V. ISIS Funding
$1B - Amount collected annually by ISIS in taxes, fines, traffic tolls, and utility bills.

$50M - ISIS's monthly revenue from oil sold on the the Turkish black market.

$200 = The toll collected by ISIS from each truck traveling through northern Iraq.

7 - Months that the GOP has stalled Obama's nominee for undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, whose portfolio includes ISIS's financing. (The Nation, December 21/2 8, 2015).

VI. William F. Buckley's "National Review" Views
"National Review" was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955 as the house organ of a new conservative movement. This year, celebrate some of Buckley's early insights into nationalism and race.

1957 - On Spanish military director Francisco Franco: "An authentic national hero."

1961 - On South African apartheid: " 'Black Africans' when left to their own devices, 'tend to revert to savagery.' "

1965 - On ending segregation: "[A] suddenly enfranchised violently embittered Negro population...will take the vote and wield it as a instrument of vengeance, shaking down the walls of Jericho even to their foundations, and reawakening the terrible genocidal antagonisms that scarred the Southern psyche during the days of Reconstruction." (The Nation, December 21/28, 2015).