One summer night in 2019, Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe met with a stranger in a city park. Ryan was wracked with nerves: he had gone undercover, pretending that he was interested in ‘saving the white race,’ and hoping to join a secretive group calling itself The Base. Soon, Ryan uncovered that the man in Whittier Park was Patrik Mathews, a Canadian Armed Forces reservist who was trying to establish a neo-Nazi extremist cell in the Manitoban capital, and had formed sinister plans for violence and destruction abroad.

This series follows the extraordinary case of Mathews through Ryan’s first-hand experience and perspective as an infiltrator - while host Michelle Shephard, veteran national security reporter, explores the rise of white supremacist accelerationism: the racist and ultra-violent ideology that drives believers to seize control, after creating chaos.

Along with THE FLAMETHROWERS and BOYS LIKE ME, WHITE HOT HATE is part of the 'Red, White and Blue' series, an investigative trilogy exploring three different strands of the radical right in North America and around the world.