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Morning Briefing: Patriot Front Spreads White Nationalist Propaganda From Washington to New Hampshire

Morning Briefing: Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, has targeted communities around the country with White Nationalist propaganda. The group has also increasing used antisemitic messaging, in response to the Israel-Hamas war. The group claims that network of chapters are “rapidly expanding across the country,” and multiple network chapters hosted gatherings during the Thanksgiving holidays.

In addition to spreading propaganda in the former of placing stickers or spray-painting stencils in public areas, the group also conducted “training” sessions at undisclosed locations in Corona, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Grand Forks, North Dakota; and in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. These “trainings” are increasingly resembling the activities of the Active Club Network and the Rise Above Movement — signaling an increasing focus on extremist violence.

In recent weeks, members of Patriot Front distributed propaganda in several communities including Birmingham, Chelsea, Homewood, Mobile, and Trussville, Alabama; Norco, California; Denver, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Bay City, Midland, and South Lyon, Michigan; Crystal Springs, Meridian, and Starkville, Mississippi; Camdenton and St. Louis, Missouri; Londonderry and Manchester, New Hampshire; Asheville, North Carolina; Fargo, North Dakota; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Bountiful, Utah; Alexandria and Fredericksburg, Virginia; and Liberty Lake, and Yakima, Washington.

Patriot Front propaganda was recently reportedly found on the campus of Purdue University, and the “incident appears to be a part of a sporadic pattern of similar stickers going up around campus.” The group has strategically targeted college campuses for spreading propaganda and recruitment of new members, and members recently distributed flyers outside of an event sponsored by the right-wing group Turning Point USA on the campus of Missouri State University.

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Extremist Links: Far Right Violent Extremists Face Legal Consequences in Courtrooms

The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militia Movement, and Far Right Extremists

It looks like a regular video-streaming site. It's fundraising for white supremacists, report says [USA Today]

Ex-Marine pleads guilty to weapons charge after being indicted in Neo Nazi plot to attack power grid [Task & Purpose]

‘White Lives Matter’ Member Who Threw Molotov Cocktails at Church Hosting Drag Event Pleads Guilty to Arson Charges [The Messenger]

Man sentenced for federal hate crimes against Idaho LGBTQ+ community [Idaho Capital Sun]

North Texas man who idolized mass shooters sentenced to prison for possessing bomb [Dallas Morning News]

'Extremist' blogger indicted for assaulting Sheila Jackson Lee staffer [Houston Chronicle]

Man accused in protest shooting faces hate crime enhancement [Santa Fe New Mexican]

Neo-Nazi Soldier Jailed for Bomb Plot Stages Creepy Protest at Drag Story Hour [The Daily Beast]

Neo-Nazi found guilty after distributing antisemitic material in West Palm Beach [NBC News]

After latest dismissal, AG plans to appeal NSC-131 civil rights case to NH Supreme Court [NPR]

Worries remain after neo-Nazi sells Maine compound [Bangor Daily News]

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Morning Briefing: Patriot Front Spreads Propaganda While Facing Lawsuit

Morning Briefing: In Winsted, Connecticut, local law enforcement are “investigating after white supremacy signs were found posted in downtown,” and the signs were reportedly propaganda from Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group.

Patriot Front was also reportedly responsible for White Supremacists propaganda “posted outside two Black-owned businesses on Martha's Vineyard,” and the signs, “some of which read Strong Families, Strong Nations and America First, were initially found on utility poles.”

A pair of civil rights organizations recently filed a lawsuit against Patriot Front, “alleging that it committed racial intimidation by defacing businesses and public property around the city of Fargo with the group’s logo and other graffiti.”

Local law enforcement in multiple counties in Florida, including Volusia, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, Orange, and Brevard, are reportedly “investigating packets of antisemitic flyers that members of a hate group left in residential neighborhoods overnight.”

Robert Wilson, a neo-Nazi formerly based in San Diego County, has reportedly “been extradited to the Netherlands to face hate speech charges in connection with an antisemitic incident that took place at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam earlier this year.”

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Extremists Links: Neo-Nazi White Supremacists Fantasy of 'Ethnostate' in New England

The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

This New England neo-Nazi group is getting bigger and scarier, experts say. Most troubling: Military vets fill its ranks. [Boston.com]

These Nazis Want to Turn New England Into a White Ethnostate [Rolling Stone[

Lawmaker calls for crackdown on neo-Nazi training camp in northern Maine [Maine Beacon]

Neo-Nazi leader establishes training site in Maine [ABC News]

Extremist watchdog explains New England white supremacists galvanized by Trump [NPR]

The Synagogue Attack Stands Alone, but Experts Say Violent Rhetoric Is Spreading [The New York Times]

‘Begin to heal’: Pittsburgh reacts to the synagogue shooter’s death sentence [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

After USA TODAY investigation, watchdog report says military failed to screen extremist recruits [USA Today]

Recruiters skipped steps to screen out extremist enlistees, IG says [Army Times]

Watchdog Warns Recruits Are Not Being Properly Vetted for Extremism Ties [Military.com]

Pentagon watchdog finds lapses in screening of applicants connected to extremist groups [The Hill]

Texas extremist group Patriot Front sued over Boston attack of Black man [The Dallas Morning News]

Boston man files lawsuit seeking to bankrupt white supremacist group he says assaulted him [ABC News]

‘Patriot Front’ White Nationalists Sue Leftist Activist for IDing Them, Getting Them Fired [The Daily Beast]

Far-right Patriot Front members sue leftist activist for allegedly leaking their identities [The Daily Chronicle]

Patriot Front resurfaces in Birmingham [Alabama Political Reporter]

A new network of hate groups in the Pacific Northwest targets smaller Pride festivals [NPR]

Saratoga Springs public safety commissioner provides report on weekend Proud Boys march [The Daily Gazette]

New video believed to show Proud Boys in Saratoga Springs [NBC News]

White supremacist Robert Rundo extradited from Romania to US to face charges [The Guardian]

A new high tide of antisemitism in America [Axios]

Fatal stabbing of NYC gay man is being investigated as a possible hate crime [NBC News]

Teen suspect charged with hate crime murder of dancer at Brooklyn gas station [ABC News]

Oklahoma man given maximum sentence for Shawnee hate crime [NPR]

White supremacist banners appear in Louisiana’s capital city [Associated Press]

Banners promoting White nationalist group Patriot Front alarm Baton Rouge community [The Advocate]

White Supremacist Banners Removed in Predominately Black Baton Rouge [The Messenger]

White ex-officers in Mississippi plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid [CBS News]

'We're going to find you': Pensacola police and FBI investigating antisemitic vandalism [Pensacola News Journal]

Pensacola police arrest 4 teens in connection to string of antisemitic vandalism [Pensacola News Journal]

Neo-nazi recruitment flyers found outside Middletown homes. LGBTQ+ organization notified. [Newport Daily News]

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Morning Briefing: Buffalo Mass Shooter Plagiarized 'Manifesto,' Antisemitism Associated with 'Conspiracist View of the World'

Morning Briefing: The writings of the White Supremacist mass shooter behind the racist attack at the Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York were “derived from hate content he consumed online,” according to a study published by Montclair State University.

The study found that the at least 82% of so-called manifesto was plagiarized, and that “56% was taken from manifestos of other white nationalist attackers.”

Antisemitic attitudes are most strongly associated with a “conspiracist view of the world, a desire to overturn the social order, and a preference for authoritarian forms of government,” according to a study published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) published a report which “analyzes the rise in white supremacist recruitment and violence and the painful and profound impact that white supremacy has on targeted communities, especially on young people.”

In Montgomery County, Maryland, an electronic traffic sign in “construction zone was apparently hacked to display a racist message.” This is similar to another incident of hacking interstate sign in Alabama.

Canadian prosecutors recommended that Gabriel Sohier Chaput, an infamous neo-Nazi propagandist who was found guilty of willfully promoting hatred, should “serve three months of jail time with two years of probation,” however, Judge Manlio Del Negro responded that the sentencing recommendation “trivializes the crime.”

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Extremists Links: Far Right Groups Target LGBTIQ Events

The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militia Movement, and Far Right Extremists

Year in Review: Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate & Extremism Incidents, 2022 – 2023 [ADL]

“Hatred, plain and simple”: “Groomer” trope linked to nearly 200 anti-LGBTQ+ attacks in 11 months [Salon]

Germany saw 2,480 antisemitic incidents in 2022, monitoring group says [Associated Press]

Colorado LGBTQ+ nightclub shooting suspect pleads guilty to 5 counts of murder [ABC News]

Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ club mass killer gets life in prison, victim says ‘devil awaits’ defendant [Associated Press]

Queer artwork defaced in Bay Ridge, second anti-LGBTQIA+ incident since April [Brooklyn Paper]

Two arrested during brawl between Proud Boys, nationalists protesting Oregon City Pride, police and witness say [The Oregonian]

J6ers and Proud Boys Among Anti-LGBT Crowd Outside Glendale School Board Meeting [Daily Beast]

Taunton synagogue and private home targeted with antisemitic, racist graffiti, police chief says [The Boston Globe]

Neo-Nazis disrupt a drag story hour in New Hampshire [NBC News]

Community Confronts Neo-Nazis And Proud Boys Disrupting Kid’s Pride Event In Sacramento, CA. [It’s Going Down]

White supremacist Patriot Front blocked by counter protesters at Prattville’s first-ever Pride picnic [AL.com]

White supremacist group Patriot Front protests Prattville pride picnic [Alabama Political Reporter]

DOJ called to assist in investigation of Pride flag thefts in Carnation [CBS News]

Middletown police chief: Supremacy propaganda, 'symbolism of hate' will be taken 'very seriously' [The Middletown Press]

Suburban man facing hate crime after Pride flag torn down at College of Lake County [WGN]

Sacramento County residents ‘don’t want to back down to hate’ after vandals burn Pride flags [The Sacramento Bee]

Neo-Nazi Group Leader Jon Minadeo Jr. Arrested For Disorderly Conduct in Georgia [The Daily Beast]

Antisemitic demonstrations across Georgia spur calls for state law and renew First Amendment debate [Georgia Recorder]

Georgia officials outraged over Neo-Nazi gathering outside Cobb synagogue [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

'Not going to let them win': Anti-Semitic protesters demonstrate at Macon synagogue, fliers appear in Warner Robins neighborhoods [CBS News]

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp denounces neo-Nazi demonstrations that occurred outside synagogues [Associated Press]

East Cobb synagogue target of Nazi flags anti-Semitic signs [East Cobb News]

Antisemitic incidents in Macon and Warner Robins, People urged to report hate crimes [CBS News]

Anti-Semitic Flyers Found In Lavon, Texas Neighborhoods [Local Profile]

Hate incidents, groups grow in Indiana as far-right rhetoric takes root [News and Tribune]

Residents report hateful flyers being distributed in Baltimore City and County [Baltimore Banner]

North Baltimore residents find racist, anti-LGBTQ+ flyers; hateful literature being investigated in city, county [The Baltimore Sun]

Police investigating white supremacist propaganda spread in Delaware County town [ABC News]

White supremacist banners and signs from Patriot Front appear up and down Berkshire County [The Berkshire Eagle]

String of antisemitic statements flood Walnut Creek council meetings during virtual public comment [ABC News]

“White Lives Matter” propaganda litters Enumclaw yards [The Courier-Herald]

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Morning Briefing: Far Right Prepares for Trump's Appearance at Miami Courthouse

Morning Briefing: Supporters of former president Donald Trump are planning mass protests at the Wilkie D. Ferguson U.S. Courthouse in Miami, Florida, and researchers have reportedly “identified individual users who are threatening violence against Trump’s perceived enemies and at least one who has explicitly said they are planning on attending with guns.”

At least two GOP members of Congress “used alarmingly warlike rhetoric in response to the federal charges filed against Donald Trump,” including Rep. Clay Higgins and Rep. Andy Biggs.

The calls to action and threats have been “amplified on right-wing media sites and have been met by supportive responses from social media users and cheers from crowds, who have become conditioned over several years by Mr. Trump and his allies to see any efforts to hold him accountable as assaults against him.”

Data from social media platforms reveal that “references to ‘civil war’ more than doubled on alternative social media platforms frequented by the American far right the very day that Trump posted on Truth Social about the indictment,” according to an analysis by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE).

During the past few days, prominent and influential members of the far right and right-wing media have called for mass protests at the federal courthouse in Miami in support of the former president.

Wayne Allyn Root, the far right pundit and conspiracy theorist, wrote at World Net Daily that the “Democrats in power and the people who run our government are evil. Demonic. Satanic,” and add that “this is war. This is life or death. This is the end of America if we don't fight fire with fire.”

Ali Alexander, the far right activist, wrote on Telegram that “if we don't have LAW, we shouldn't give them ORDER.” Alexander also wrote that if “Republicans do not do something unprecedent, we’ll all hang,” and added that “everyone should see Members of Congress sweating in the heat with ordinary supporters.”

Laura Loomer, the far right conspiracy theories and failed Florida Congressional candidate, promoted the protest at the federal courthouse on the InfoWars program War Room with Owen Shroyer, and Kari Lake, the 2020 election denier and failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate, promoted her plans to attend the protest on Steve Bannon’s War Room.

While it has been reported that the Proud Boys, the far right violent extremist street gang, publicly displayed “apathy towards Trump’s legal woes sets them apart from the wider far-right extremism world,” the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys promoted the Loomer’s protest in their Telegram channel.

The violent rhetoric of the far right is “echoing among some Donald Trump sympathizers ahead of the former president’s appearance in a Miami court,” and both federal and local law enforcement “assigned to domestic terrorism squads are actively working to identify any possible threats.”

Advisors of the former president are reportedly “quietly expressing some concern that the pro-Trump protesters already assembling in front of the courthouse aren’t helping the former president’s case,” and one advisor predicted there is “going to be a disaster” and there will be people who “don’t want to be peaceful.”

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Extremists Links: LGBTIQ Community Celebrates Pride Month Despite Threats of Far Right Extremist Violence

The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militia Movement, and Far Right Extremists

Communities Continue To Mobilize Against Anti-LGBTQ Attacks As New Fascist Formations Emerge [It’s Going Down]

Pride organizers promise safety at festivities amid anti-LGBTQ rhetoric [ABC News]

Utah Pride Festival security cost $300k this year — up five-fold due to anti-LGBTQ+ hate. [The Salt Lake Tribune]

Police welcome at Motor City Pride [Axios]

Pride Month Begins, as Attacks on LGBTQ+ Rights and Women’s Rights Escalate [Ms. Magazine]

‘Resilience of the community’: Coeur d’Alene’s Pride in the Park stays peaceful after Patriot Front arrests last year [The Spokesman-Review]

‘Reject the hate’: A look at North Idaho’s LGBTQ+ community after Patriot Front arrests [Idaho Capital Sun]

Tennessee pride celebrations showcase queer joy amid neo-Nazi threats and legal attacks [Raw Story]

'Fear and hostility': DeSantis legislation prompts Florida cities to cancel, restrict Pride events [USA Today]

Fight erupts at anti-Pride Day protest outside L.A. school where trans teacher’s flag was burned [Los Angeles Times]

Parents and LGBTQ+ advocates clash at Saticoy Elementary School Pride protest [San Bernardino Sun]

Hate Crime Probe Launched After LGBTQ+ Flag Torched at Elementary School [The Daily Beast]

Anti-drag & Pride protest in suburban Virginia just outside of D.C. [Los Angeles Blade]

Pride Day banner vandalized in Bolton over the weekend; hate crime investigation ensues [MassLive.com]

'It's horrifying,' Individual fires pellet gun toward line of people outside LGBTQ+ bar in Westport [ABC News]

Pro LGBTQ+ Brands Braces for a Right-Wing War on Pride Month [Insider]

More Than 530 Anti-LGBTQ Bills Have Been Proposed Across the Country in 2023 [TruthOut]

Russia Moves to Ban Trans Health Care [Human Rights Watch]

Incel-inspired Toronto massage parlour murder was act of terror, judge rules [CBC]

Prominent figure in German far-right party charged over alleged Nazi slogan [Associated Press]

Report: Even as Militias Disbanded, Anti-Government Groups Surged in US [VOA]

Moms for Liberty listed as ‘anti-government’ group by extremism watchdog [The Guardian]

You might not have heard of a far-right site called Poast. A hack reveals what's happening [USA Today]

The case of an armed far-right operative arrested in Genesee County [The Buffalo News]

Judge dismisses civil rights case against NSC-131, a blow to prosecutors seeking to rein in white supremacist group [NPR]

Utah Patriot Front Homophobe Sentenced for Child Pornography [Advocate]

Chesterfield teen threatened family and warned of death penalty, investigators say [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

Failed Republican candidate charged in shooting spree aimed at New Mexico Democrats [Reuters]

Failed New Mexico GOP candidate indicted by federal grand jury in alleged shooting spree targeting Democratic officials’ homes [CNN]

AZ GOP senator proudly flies flag adopted by ‘fringe’ far-right extremists [Arizona Mirror]

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Morning Briefing: Proud Boys Planning Disruptive Protest During Pride Month

The Proud Boys, the far right violent extremist street gang, are planning disruptive protests during the 'target rich environment' of Pride month celebrations.

Morning Briefing: The Proud Boys, the far right violent extremist street gang, “are now more active than ever, and are busy planning disruptive protests at Pride month celebrations across the country in June.”

The Ohio chapter of the group has reported called the upcoming month of LGBTIQ events a “target rich environment.”

The Countering Extremism Working Group was formed to combat extremism within the ranks of the U.S. military, however, two years since the establishment of the working group “the effort has vanished virtually without a trace.”

Shane Lamond, a Lieutenant and the head of an intelligence unit within the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., “faces criminal charges after allegedly warning the leader of the far-right Proud Boys group about an arrest warrant and leaking other law enforcement information.”

The New Hampshire attorney general’s office met with Task Force Butler, an organization of military veterans that recent published a report on the activities of a neo-Nazi group throughout New England, and “state officials encouraged the veterans group and others to report hate crimes to their office.”

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Extremists Links: Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Terrorism Attacks in Texas and Serbia

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White Supremacists, Militia Movement, and Far Right Extremists

Texas Gunman’s Online Posts Steeped in Violence, Nazism and Other Forms of Extremism [GPAHE]

Allen, Texas, Killer Posted Neo-Nazi, Incel Content Online [SPLC]

Allen Gunman’s Writings Reveal a Disturbed, Hateful Man—But No Clear Motive [ADL]

Investigators examine Texas gunman’s white-supremacist views after 8 killed [The Washington Post]

Source: Investigators examine ideology of Texas gunman [Associated Press]

Texas gunman fantasized over race wars on social media before mass killing [The Washington Post]

Gunman in Allen mall shooting may have had right-wing extremist beliefs [Texas Tribune]

Texas mall shooter ranted against Jews, women and racial minorities on apparent social media page [NBC News]

American extremists linked to Russian sites [Axios]

Man in ‘Right Wing Death Squad’ Patch Kills 8 at Texas Mall [Vice News]

The Texas Shooter Reportedly Wore A Patch Popular With Far-Right Groups [Huffington Post]

‘RWDS’: What the Patch Found on the Texas Gunman’s Chest Stands For [Daily Beast]

Allen mall shooting alarms Asian Texans as authorities search for gunman’s motive [Texas Tribune]

Man with neo-Nazi symbols kills 8 in second Serbia mass shooting [Reuters]

Serbia president promises to "disarm" country after back-to-back mass shootings [Axios]

German Neo-Nazi Jailed For Plotting Racist Attacks [Agence France Presse]

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Morning Briefing: White Supremacists Neo-Nazi Mass Shooter Fantasized About 'Noble War'

The White Supremacist Neo-Nazi who killed 8 people in Allen, Texas left an online footprint full of evidence of extremist ideological beliefs including White Supremacy, antisemitism, and xenophobia.

Morning Briefing: A White Supremacist neo-Nazi allegedly shot and killed 8 people at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, and the shooter, who was reportedly shot and killed by local law enforcement, had “multiple weapons on him and five additional guns in his car nearby.”

Analysis of the shooter’s online activities and extremist ideological views, including White Supremacy, antisemitism, xenophobia, misogyny, and anti-LBGTIQ rhetoric, “played a role in his decision to carry out this horrific mass attack.”

In social media posts online, the shooter made “to reference ‘the noble war,’ a phrase that many white supremacists use to describe their belief in an impending race war.”

Details about the shooter continue to be reported, including that he reportedly joined the U.S. Army in 2008 before being discharged for an “unspecified mental health issue.”

The shooter reportedly “maintained a profile on the Russian social networking platform OK.ru, including posts referring to extremist online forums, such as 4chan, and content from white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes, an antisemitic white nationalist provocateur.”

This is not the “first American to use Russian social media sites or obscure online platforms to connect with fellow extremists around pro-Russia narratives.”

Prior to the deadly attack, the shooter reportedly “posted photographs of the shopping center three weeks before the attack on a social media account where he fantasized about race wars and the collapse of society.”

The shooter reportedly wore a tactical vest with a “RWDS” patch on it, which “stands for ‘Right Wing Death Squad,’ is a popular insignia among white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and paramilitarists.”

The patch worn by the shooter appears to be identical to a patch sold by Anime Tobacco & Firearms, an online store that sold various types of sticker and patches associate with far right memes. The online store is currently offline, and associated Twitter and Facebook account have been deleted.

An anti-fascist researcher has apparently identified the individual behind the online store, and documented their online activities and promotion of White Supremacy and neo-Nazi content. Radical Reports has not independently confirmed the identity of the owner of the online store.

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