CLINTON COUNTY — A billboard promoting a far-right extremist group has popped up just across the street from a high school here — prompting hundreds of online comments decrying the advertisement.

The billboard, surrounded by corn on private property just off Old U.S. Highway 50 across from Breese Central Community High School, is an advertisement for the Proud Boys, a group described by the Anti-Defamation League as "a far-right extremist group with a violent agenda."

The group was at the center of the U.S. Capitol insurrection Jan. 6, 2021, and the billboard, just outside Breese city limits, quotes President Trump during his first term amid a wave of racially-motivated violence during the summer of 2020.

“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” Trump said at the time.

The billboard come

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