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SWAMP CREATURES AT CPAC: INTRODUCING KERRY COSGRIFF, AKA SPECKZO
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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
by 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 […]