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The white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend has been roundly condemned by American politicians and public figures from across the ideological spectrum, but many of its participants didn’t view it as a defeat.

On Saturday, white nationalist leader Richard Spencer posted a video online in which he expressed plans to return to the city and told followers, "Our movement is about our identity and our future, and we are not gonna give up."

Spencer is just one movement leader among many. Extremist groups including neo-Nazis, identitarians and the Klu Klux Klan were just some of those present at Saturday’s rally.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been documenting hate groups in the U.S. for decades. From 2015 to 2016 they saw a rise in the number of those groups operating in the U.S. And while current totals are not the largest they’ve ever seen, the group has called them “high by historic standards.”

Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, which tracks far right groups in the U.S., joins The Takeaway to break down the state of white supremacist groups in America.

This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.