58 Articles from 2021
I SPENT A WEEKEND AT A FASCIST YOUTH CONFERENCE SO YOU WOULDN’T HAVE TO
ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | December 27, 2021
‘Twas the weekend before Christmas when Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA hosted a massive, sold-out 4-day conservative youth conference featuring 10,000 teens and young adults screaming for Dennis Prager, the Fox News lineup, January 6-plotting politicians, a dancing James O’Keefe, and former active shooter Kyle Rittenhouse in Phoenix, AZ. AmericaFest was located in the […]
WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH DROWNED OUT, OUTNUMBERED ALMOST 9 TO 1 IN DENVER
SYLVIE EVANS, COLORADO People’s PRESS | December 25, 2021
Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) came to Denver on Saturday, December 18th. It was a low turnout for them—only 8 members attended, while around 70 people countered. The infamous hate group was in town to protest Jared Polis Colorado’s openly gay Governor and his Jewish partner. “The people of Colorado have elevated a sodomite to be […]
“A PATHWAY…TO A MASS-CASUALTY EVENT”: NEW DETAILS IN CASE OF NAZI CAUGHT WITH SILENCER
JAMES STOUT | December 4, 2021
New documents in the case against Brandon Thibodeau uncover disturbing details about his neo-Nazism and plans for mass violence. At the time of his arrest back in May, which LCRW covered, some of the details about the extent of Thibodeau’s plans and preparations were unclear, but transcripts of his May 26th detention hearing, which still […]
“WE SHOULD NOOSE YOU COMMIES!” VEGAS ANTIVAXXERS ARE SHOWING UP TO OFFICIALS’ HOUSES NOW
ELI KNÉSÓL | December 1, 2021
“Come on, bitch!” a man with a long pole adorned with a yellow “Don’t tread on me” flag says to an off-camera group. The man with a pole is part of a group of thirty or so antivaxxers/anti-maskers/anti-CRT protesters or whatever the right wing rabble riled up by conspiracy theories and racist rhetoric wants to […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT II: FLORIDA MAN DEMANDS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER or I WAS A TEENAGE OATHKEEPER
MICHAEL BOORMAN | November 2, 2021
In our first installment on the Oath Keepers data dump, we met Ed Durfee Jr and Brett Wynkoop, respectively the membership director and system administrator for the Oath Keepers. When the organization was abruptly deplatformed in the wake of the Capitol riots on January 6, they worked night and day to get the website back […]
PDX PROUD BOYS SURROUND, INTIMIDATE PRESS OUTSIDE OF EUGENE TPUSA EVENT
JAMES CROXTON | October 29, 2021
On Oct. 27, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA’s long-planned stop in Eugene for his college campus Critical Racism Tour took place at the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell. With Proud Boys—seeming to act like security—present, Kirk’s 100-plus-minute speaking and Q&A event happened after several locations canceled their hosting. Previous locations had cited safety […]
REPORTER AND WITNESSES DESCRIBE VIOLENT OLYMPIA RALLY, SHOOTING
ALISSA AZAR | October 26, 2021
On September 4th, a group of antifascists met up in a park to counter continuing far-right demonstrations in downtown Olympia. Fascist groups like the Proud Boys had been regularly gathering every Saturday at the Washington State Capitol building under the guise of rallying against mask and vaccine mandates. As is typical with far-right groups, these […]
NETFLIX WALKOUT DEMONSTRATION UNIMPEDED BY TERFS AND OTHER LOCAL BIGOTS
ABNER HÄUGE | October 22, 2021
On Wednesday about 200 people gathered at one of Netflix’s offices near downtown Hollywood to support a walkout by employees. Netflix employees were protesting that company’s decision to pay comedian Dave Chapelle for yet another transphobic rant marketed as a comedy special and, among other things, firing a pregnant trans employee who warned Netflix about […]
OATH KEEPERS THEATRE ACT I: HYPE, LIES AND COMMS FAILURES
MICHAEL BOORMAN | October 19, 2021
In early October, journalistic nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets released a trove of data collected from the Oath Keepers website. LCRW has been studying the material since the release. It reveals an organization mired in dysfunction and distrust – its membership directionless and often paranoid, its administration slipshod and laughably insecure, and its leadership seemingly […]
VEGAS ANTIVAXX GROUP SPLITS WITH PROUD BOYS AFTER FAILED PUSH TO ALLY WITH BLM
ELI KNÉSÓL | October 17, 2021
An anti-vax group in Las Vegas is experiencing tension and in-fighting as leadership seeks support from leftist groups and hardline fascists push the group towards militant white supremacy. Freedom of Choice (FoC) is an anti-vaccine/mask-focused misinformation group based in Las Vegas headed up by Brandon Burns, a veteran who started the Facebook group after being […]
SWAMP CREATURES AT CPAC: INTRODUCING KERRY COSGRIFF, AKA SPECKZO
SARLACC ATTACK | October 4, 2021
One evening on a livestream during 2019, a 26-year-old-man named Kerry Cosgriff had a singular mission while playing the online video game Fortnite—not to win against other players, but to evangelize the gospel of white nationalism and Christian supremacy. A very young-sounding boy who claimed he was 14 then introduced himself in the live chatroom. […]
SDPD OFFICER TRIES TO FOLLOW PROTESTER HOME WITHOUT CAUSE
JOE ORELLANA | October 4, 2021
On September 30th, an SDPD officer with a history of racist commentary on social media attempted to tail a protester back to their home. At an anti-police brutality protest in front of SDPD Central Division Substation that evening, officer Adam Devor got into and escalated verbal disputes with protestors, then proceeded to try to follow […]
PROUD BOYS ASSAULT PEOPLE AT MODESTO STRAIGHT PRIDE, COLLABORATE WITH BLM ACTIVIST
LCRW STAFF | SIERRA FOOTHILLs STUMP STAFF | September 12, 2021
For the third year in a row, perennial fringe candidate Don Grundmann put on his “Straight Pride” event in front of a closed-for-the-day Planned Parenthood in Modesto, California on August 28th. The annual gatherings have become a defacto show of force for violent, hard-right paramilitary groups in the Central Valley and this year was no […]
CALIFORNIA RECALL BALLOT DOMINATED BY FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS
WATERSPIDER | DESERTBORDER | September 8, 2021
California governor Gavin Newsom, facing a recall election on September 14, often refers to the recall effort as a Republican power grab. He’s right—the recall got off the ground thanks to the tireless efforts of Proud Boys, QAnoners and Covid conspiracy theorists, and is heavily funded by MAGA money. But who are the actual candidates […]
DARK MONEY GROUP HARASSES SCHOOL BOARDS ACROSS CALIFORNIA
WATERSPIDER | DESERTBORDER | September 5, 2021
San Diego-based organization Let Them Breathe gained attention rallying and disrupting school board meetings up and down California since June of this year. The organization’s founder, Sharon McKeeman, allows far-right extremists to speak at her events and collects dark money from a GoFundMe page tied to her organization. As of today, she has raised over […]
EYEWITNESSES & VICTIM DESCRIBE SHOOTING & PROUD BOY VIOLENCE IN PORTLAND
ABNER HÄUGE | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL | August 27, 2021
All indications were that antifascists already won before the day even started. Richard, a beloved Portland local who shows up to nearly every damn protest, sat down next to me. I asked him how he’s been and he sat down on the bench next to me and started explaining, out of the blue, something I […]
‘WORLDWIDE’ ANTI-QUARANTINE RALLIES DEVOLVE INTO RIVAL CAMPS
MICHAEL BOORMAN | August 25, 2021
Following accusations by anti-vaccine protest organizers Telegram channel had been hacked, a rival faction is now denouncing the ‘Worldwide USA’ organizers and declaring all protests scheduled to take place across the US this weekend to be invalid. LCRW previously reported on an outbreak of confusion last weekend, when national organizers disconnected their California Telegram channel […]
‘WORLDWIDE’ ANTI-QUARANTINE TELEGRAM INFIGHTING BREAKS INTO THE OPEN
MICHAEL BOORMAN | August 25, 2021
The organizational chaos around the ‘Worldwide USA’ anti-lockdown protests has taken a bizarre new turn. Following the recent delisting of state and regional groups from the national umbrella group, organizers are now attempting to right the ship, while accusing their co-admins of sabotage. In a statement posted to the Worldwide USA group on Telegram earlier […]
‘WORLDWIDE’ CALIFORNIA ANTI-LOCKDOWN RALLIES COLLAPSE IN CONFUSION
MICHAEL BOORMAN | August 21, 2021
Multiple ‘freedom rallies’ scheduled to take place August 29 in California have been abandoned by national organizers. The events, originally scheduled to take place in San Francisco, Berkeley, Santa Monica, and San Diego, are in limbo after national organizers severed ties with their California chapter with no explanation. The Worldwide California group has descended into […]
AUDIO ANALYSIS SUGGESTS FORMER 8CHAN OPERATOR ACCOMPANIED MESA COUNTY CLERK IN BREACHING VOTING MACHINE DATA
ABNER HÄUGE | August 20, 2021
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters went into a secure room with a currently unknown man who took photos and video of voting machine passwords. Peters then handed the information to conspiracy theory promoter and former 8Chan/8Kun operator Ron Watkins. Watkins used video of the machines to promote Trump’s claims the 2020 election was stolen from […]
HUGE LA ANTIVAXX RALLY DEVOLVES INTO VIOLENCE AS COPS TURN A BLIND EYE TO PROUD BOYS
DESERTBORDER | August 16, 2021
Hundreds of antivaxxers, Proud Boys, Capitol rioters and other neo-fascists rallied in Los Angeles Saturday, attacking journalists and counterprotesters while LAPD looked on. Police failed to intervene to curb the right-wing violence despite the fact the event took place directly in front of their downtown headquarters. Antivaxx-related violence has been steadily increasing in Los Angeles, […]
MAN SMASHES METAL CLUB OVER JOURNALIST’S HEAD, CALIFORNIA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE DRIVES GETAWAY CAR
WATERSPIDER | August 14, 2021
Republican candidate for California governor Sarah Stephens wants to “Make America Gold Again.” Her campaign website states that she will “bring the PROSPERITY back to California on EVERY LEVEL! Just like the GOLD RUSH times.” The “on every level” part is unsettling because Stephens advocates the ideals of her associates including Qanon scammers, violent Trump […]
PORTLAND FASCISTS TERRORIZE DOWNTOWN UNDER GUISE OF ‘PROTECTING’ COVID-SPREADING PREACHER
CHIP NOOO | August 13, 2021
The weather was pristine on Sunday as I walked down Jefferson Street towards Tom McCall Water Front Park in downtown Portland. The sun was out and it couldn’t have been more than 75 degrees. Even though it was only 6 o’clock, I could already hear the familiar sound of gospel music drifting through the city. […]
BERKELEY POLICE HIT CIVILIAN WITH PATROL CAR
MARK MISOSHNIK | July 30, 2021
On July 14, 2021, Officer Tyler Moore with the Berkeley PD hit a pedestrian in his SUV. I happened to be driving down Sacramento Street, a main thoroughfare, when I noticed it was being blocked off by a patrol car. As we made the turn for the detour, my partner, an EMT, noticed that there […]
OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT MANUFACTURES SHOUTING MATCH BETWEEN PRO-COP PROTESTERS & ABOLITIONISTS
ABNER HÄUGE | July 11, 2021
Oakland Police Department sponsored a rally Saturday with the hashtag “#safeOakland.” The headline speaker was OPD’s police chief LeRonne Armstrong with “invited guests” speaking as well. OPD’s event was to start at 12pm, presumably in response to the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), which had previously scheduled an event at Lake Merritt for 1pm that day. […]
PATRIOT FRONT NAZIS CHASED INTO MOVING TRUCKS IN PHILADEPLHIA
JORDAN HOPKINS | July 5, 2021
Approximately fifty members of the SPLC-designated hate group Patriot Front were briefly detained by Philadelphia police early this morning, following a flash rally that saw members of the group igniting gas grenades and fighting with bystanders in the shadow of City Hall. Carrying PF-branded flags and shields, the group marched in formation down the Ben […]
JOURNALIST THREATENED WITH DEATH AT SPRINGFIELD, OR ANTIVAXXER MARCH
JAMES CROXTON | June 26, 2021
I got to the plaza in front of Springfield Library/City Hall right around 4 p.m. on Wednesday when the anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-critical race theory event hosted by Rob Davis and local real estate agent Amanda Crosswhite was supposed to start. Davis has been a constant presence throughout Eugene, Springfield, and Salem, Oregon, mostly organizing pro-Trump […]
PEOPLE IN THIS WEALTHY CALIFORNIA TOWN WANTED TO PRETEND THEY WERE SLAVES FOR JUNETEENTH
ABNER HÄUGE | June 16, 2021
A Monterey County nonprofit is calling off an event where people do unpaid labor in a field to somehow commemorate Juneteenth, the newly-recognized Federal Holiday celebrating the emancipation of slaves at the end of the Civil War. The aptly–named (or maybe not) Juneteenth Coalition’s event, “Anguish of the Elders” (archive,) was to be held in […]
CHICAGO COP & GOP COMMITTEEPERSON INVESTIGATED FOR HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTS, DIRECTED HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN AGAINST “ANTIFA” TEACHER
Raven Geary | June 11, 2021
A police Sergeant and GOP committeeperson suspected of trying to help cover up a bizarre politically-motivated car attack on Chicago’s northwest side is under fire for her homophobic comments made on Facebook this week. In screenshots taken from the Facebook profile of Sgt Amelia (Ammie) Kessem, she accused a library worker of trying to “indoctrinate” […]
COVID-DENIALIST SAN JOSE CHURCH TO HOST KLAN-LINKED HATE GROUP LEADER SUNDAY
ABNER HÄUGE | June 4, 2021
On Sunday Calvary Chapel San Jose is hosting Tony Perkins, head of the Christian Nationalist Family Research Council. The FRC is a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group that, according to the SPLC, lobbies in Washington against LGBTQ+ rights and hate crime laws and conducts “outreach to pastors” in order to “transform the culture.” Perkins […]
ONE NAZI PLANNED A MASS SHOOTING IN TEXAS, ANOTHER’S IN SAN JOSE
ABNER HÄUGE | June 4, 2021
As of May 26th, there were at least 232 mass shootings in the United States this year. On May 27th, Coleman Thomas Blevins, age 28, told an online message board he’d go to a Walmart and commit yet another. Kerr County Sherriff’s Office in Texas arrested him last Friday “on a warrant for a Terroristic […]
PROUD BOY ARRESTED FOR ROLE IN CAPITOL STORMING PREVIOUSLY CHARGED WITH RAPING MINOR
ABNER HÄUGE | May 29, 2021
Sean Michael McHugh, 34, a Proud Boy from Auburn, California was charged this week in federal court for his role in the January 6th Capitol storming. He’s accused of “assault on law enforcement with a deadly or dangerous weapon; obstruction of justice; and physical violence on Capitol grounds, among other charges.” According to the charging […]
NORTH TEXAS NAZIS DO GRAFFITI TO COPE
ABNER HÄUGE | MICHAEL BOORMAN | May 24, 2021
There’s a graffiti war going on in North Texas right now between Nazis and antifascists. Most of it, according to Dallas-area antifascists LCRW spoke to is just Patriot Front, the spinoff of Unite the Right marchers Vanguard America. The group is well known for putting up stickers and not doing much else these days. The […]
THIS WEST PALM BEACH HOTEL HOSTED A WHITE NATIONALIST AND A VOTER SUPPRESSION BILL’S SIGNING
SARLACC ATTACK | May 15, 2021
THE HOTEL IN WEST PALM BEACH On May 6th, 2021 Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill (SB 90) designed to discourage mail-in voting and to render the administration of vote-by-mail much costlier for individual localities. The signing ceremony for the bill took place at the Majestic Ballroom at the West Palm Beach […]
NAZI ASSOCIATE OF “THE HAMMER” WAS AN ARKANSAS JAILER
ABNER HÄUGE | May 13, 2021
Antifascists announced on Twitter Tuesday that they’d identified Joshua Logan Barham of Searcy, Arkansas, as a member of Christopher Polhaus’s neo-Nazi “The Hammer” network. According to the antifascist research collective “Garfield but Antifascist” or “Garf” for short, Barham is a close friend of Polhaus and part of his ‘inner circle’ and has been since his […]
ALBUQUERQUE: DISCREDITED DOCTOR AND CAPITOL STORMER PUSHES C19 CONSPIRACY THEORIES AT INFAMOUS MEGACHURCH
ANDREW GUNN | May 13, 2021
New Mexico, one of the most effective states in the country at combating the COVID-19 pandemic, played host to a different, more insidious strain of virus this week. “Dr.” Simone Gold, a widely discredited physician, COVID truther and Capitol insurrectionist facing federal charges and currently out on bond, came to Albuquerque on May 11 for […]
FEDS NAB IMPERIAL COUNTY NAZI FOR ORDERING A SILENCER ONLINE
JAMES STOUT | May 13, 2021
If you enjoyed reading about Gray Zamudio last week, you’ll already know just how much white nationalists love making their own suppressors. Zamudio did it, his co-ideologue Griggers did it, and several members of The Base did it. Making a suppressor is actually fairly simple. I wrote about it on my Patreon if you would […]
COPS KNEW THIS NEONAZI PREYED ON A CHILD FOR OVER 18 MONTHS BEFORE THE FBI ARRESTED HIM
ABNER HÄUGE | May 5, 2021
ANDREW HAZELTON On October 2nd, 2019, a mother used her ten-year-old daughter’s Instagram to message a neo-Nazi. She told him, “You fucking pedo do not contact my daughter again kill yourself.” The same day, Penobscot County Sheriffs got a complaint from the mother. According to an FBI affidavit requesting a search warrant, she found her […]
HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BOMB-PLOTTING RACISTS AT “SHADOW MOSES”
JAMES STOUT | May 1, 2021
In late July 2020, activists in San Diego were planning a BLM march in La Mesa. There hadn’t been a large action there since banks burned and the cops shot a grandmother’s eye out (within policy apparently) in late May. After those banks burned, a group of anti-BLM locals had sprung up under the name […]
QANONERS ARE RALLYING SATURDAY IN HOLLYWOOD. LAST TIME THEY BEAT A BYSTANDER AND THREATENED A JOURNALIST
WATERSPIDER | DESERTBORDER | April 22, 2021
HOLLYWOOD RALLY, MARCH 27TH After a series of batshit rallies in Hollywood last summer, SoCal QAnoners briefly quieted down–the Capitol riot and their widespread ban from social media had been disastrous for the movement. Unfortunately, it didn’t take them long to crawl back out of the woodwork. Around 200 QAnoners led by Fresno-area rapper Thaddis […]
ALBUQUERQUE: “WHITE LIVES MATTER” RALLY DRAWS ONE ARMED MAN AND HUNDREDS OF COUNTER-PROTESTERS
BELLA DAVIS | April 14, 2021
“The Proud Boys and other white supremacist groups should never be given the space to feel comfortable openly displaying hatred in Albuquerque,” Zoey Craft, co-founder of the student activist organization Fight For Our Lives, said. A “White Lives Matter” rally that was expected to take place in downtown Albuquerque on Sunday and be attended by […]
HE WENT TO THE CAPITOL RIOT THEN PLOTTED TO BLOW UP AMAZON SERVERS
MICHAEL BOORMAN | April 13, 2021
A Texas man was arrested by the FBI last Thursday for plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia. Following a sting operation, Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, of Wichita Falls, Texas was indicted Friday morning on explosives charges and faces up to 20 years in prison. Formerly an amateur bodybuilder and personal trainer […]
PATRIOT PRAYER AND COPS NW ASSOCIATE CHARGED WITH PEDOPHILIA-RELATED CRIMES
LCRW STAFF | April 6, 2021
Well-known Clark County resident Timothy Clayton Ryerson appeared in Superior Court Monday by video from the County jail. He was arrested April 2, 2021 for inappropriately filming a minor with whom he resided and is charged with two counts of 2nd-degree voyeurism. Allegations against Ryerson include that he filmed his roommate’s 5-year-old daughter without her […]
NEW JERSEY NEONAZIS PLAN MARCH THROUGH PHILLY
JORDAN HOPKINS | April 2, 2021
An April “White Lives Matter” rally planned to take place in Philadelphia is being organized primarily by members of the New Jersey European Heritage Association, or NJEHA. An SLPC-designated hate group, NJEHA was formed in 2018 and has a wide presence in the Northeast United States. The Telegram group “White Lives Matter Philadelphia” is operated […]
SALEM: ANTIFASCISTS DISRUPT FAR RIGHT CARAVAN, CAR ATTACKS AND GUNS BRANDISHED
| March 31, 2021
GRIFFIN MALONE A “freedom rally Caravan” was announced early in March and antifascists began planning a counter-demonstration. Right wing protests in Salem, especially during the nation-wide wave of “Stop the Steal” rallies between the election and inauguration. The number of protestors forced the cops to block the right wing caravan going to the capitol but […]
PROUD BOYS ARE EATING THE PATRIOT PARTY ALIVE
| March 21, 2021
JORDAN HOPKINS In the harried days following the J6 Capitol riots, mainstream media boiled about the collapse of the Republican party. Donald Trump raged at “RINO”s (Republicans-In-Name-Only) who had betrayed him and refused to back his attempted coup. Trump loyalists spoke openly of leaving the party entirely and forming a new coalition, separate from the […]
SPRINGFIELD, MO MASS SHOOTER GROOMED GAMERS TO ACCEPT HIS NAZI WORSHIP
| March 15, 2021
ABNER HÄUGE THE SHOOTING On the Ides of March last year, 31-year-old Springfield, Missouri resident Joaquin Roman got in his car, got on the highway and started shooting at people. Casey Parish was driving home on Highway 65. She told the Springfield News-Leader she thought the popping noise was a blown-out tire. She looked at […]
GROUNDHOG DAY IN PORTLAND: PEACE POLICE, LEAFBLOWERS, BLACK UNITY AND A WHOLE LOT OF STANDING AROUND
| March 15, 2021
GRIFFIN MALONE A busy day in Portland was seemingly going to end in broken windows, graffiti, and a tear gas fight with the feds. A confusing night unfolded with Black Unity showing up, Peace Police, and whole lot of infighting. The one year anniversary of the police Killing Breonna Taylor brought calls to action and […]
AMERICA’S NAZI YOUTH MOVEMENT CONTROLS COLLEGE REPUBLICAN SPACES
| February 27, 2021
HARVEY EISNER, ABNER HÄUGE CASEY BURNS BRIDGES WITH GROYPERS Patrick Casey sat in his suit against a green screen backdrop of a generic stock image cityscape. His viewers commented things like “pee pee poo poo” and “anyone else have no audio?” Casey’s drowsy-looking, almost-unblinking face rarely changed expressions as he spoke. “I’m 100% certain Nick […]
GROYPER PROPAGANDIST USES OAKLAND’S ANTI-ASIAN ATTACKS TO PUSH HATRED OF BLACK PEOPLE
| February 13, 2021
MICHELLE SNIDER White nationalist media propagandist Vincent James of Red Elephants took notice of Oakland, CA after recent reports of attacks on Asian residents in Chinatown. James, an associate neo-Nazi fight club the Rise Above Movement and holocaust denier Nick Fuentes’s America First movement, has spent the last two weeks working to create division among […]
PHOTOS: PACIFIC BEACH RALLY TO RECALL NEWSOM AND I GUESS SUPPORT TRUMP
| February 9, 2021
JOE ORELLANA “Just because your team loses, it doesn’t mean you stop rooting for them.” I overheard this while checking the traffic on my phone last Saturday. I looked up across the boardwalk and saw a passerby in a tense discussion with a Recall Newsom demonstrator. They meandered from one topic to the next, eventually […]
ANALYSIS: THE PROUD BOYS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
| February 3, 2021
SARLACC ATTACK Late into the morning on January 6, 2021, about 300 men from the far-right fraternity known as the Proud Boys assembled on the eastern side of the Capitol Building across the street from the Supreme Court. They traveled from as far as Washington State to stop the Democrats from “stealing” the presidential election […]
HERE’S THE CALIFORNIANS WE IDENTIFIED AT THE CAPITOL STORMING
| January 19, 2021
DESERTBORDER, WATERSPIDER, JAMES STOUT After four years of amping up his followers on racism and conspiracy theories, Donald Trump brought followers to the Washington, DC, Wednesday, January the 6th. They marched on the Capitol building as Congress was voting to ratify the results of the election Trump lost and pretended was stolen from him. Trump […]
CITIZEN’S LIBERTY ORGANIZATION: ONE OF THE BOOGALOO MOVEMENT’S BIGGEST DISCORD CHATS
| January 16, 2021
HARVEY EISNER, MICHAEL BOORMAN, ABNER HÄUGE Last year the Boogaloo movement provided an ominous taste of one possible future for America. As it struggled to find its identity, new social communities formed online. One of them, Citizen’s Liberty Organization (CLO), contained over 2000 members–all dedicated in varying degrees to the idea of overthrowing the federal […]
RACIST UTAH COP HAS LONG HISTORY OF TRAINING ALPHABET AGENCIES
LCRW STAFF | January 14, 2021
In May of 2014 Dan Watson of Kanab, Utah posted a photograph on his personal Facebook page of a line of armed men silhouetted against a sunset. The man at the far right of the photo holds the leash of a dog – probably a German Shepherd. Overlaid on the photo are the words “There […]
SAN DIEGO COPS HUG CAPITOL BUILDING STORMER, LET NAZI BRANDISH KNIFE IN PACIFIC BEACH
JAMES STOUT | January 14, 2021
There are plenty of reasons to visit San Diego: surf, sand, and the set of groundbreaking teen film-noir classic Veronica Mars. But it turns out the systemic bias and corruption in policing outlined in the series is not as far from the truth as one would hope, and perhaps that is what pulled about 100 […]
HERE’S THE NAZIS WHO TOPPLED THAT MONOLITH
HARVEY EISNER | January 8, 2021
THE MONOLITH “Christ is king in this country. We don’t want illegal aliens from Mexico or outer space!” Ryan Sanchez shouted to his viewers online. He gestured with a smirk to a tall metallic box he called an ‘oh-ball-eqsque,’ probably meaning to say ‘obelisk.’ Streamed to the white supremacist friendly, Twitch alternative DLive a group […]
PRO-PLAGUE CULTISTS RECEIVE WARM WELCOME FROM LA COPS AND MAYOR
DESERTBORDER | WATERSPIDER | January 2, 2021
Far-right cult leader Sean Feucht sent his acolytes to spread Covid on purpose to unhoused communities in LA. The police and the city cheered them on. The contrast was stunning: as 50 or so black-clad protesters marched past LA’s Twin Towers jail on New Year’s Eve, dozens of LAPD cruisers surrounded the march, with some […]