TERRORGRAM COLLECTIVE LEADER WAS A TUCKER CARLSON FANBOY AND FAILED YOUTUBER

On the 6^th of this month, federal authorities arrested a former dildo saleswoman in the suburbs of Sacramento and a Boise-area video editor who went by “DJ Couchplant.” What did they have in common? The two were key members of the Terrorgram Collective, a trans-national neo-Nazi network responsible for grooming racist spree killers and spreading bigoted terror manifestos and instructions on how to attack people and infrastructure. LCRW previously outed Dallas Humber, the aforementioned dildo saleswoman who spent most of her time trying to incite disaffected young men to firebomb sex shops and commit other acts of terror. But federal authorities also arrested Matthew Robert Allison, another key figure in the Terrorgram Collective, the same day.

“When Defendant Allison was arrested, he was wearing a backpack containing zip ties, duct tape, a gun, ammunition, a knife, lock-picking equipment, two phones and a thumb drive,” the detention motion for Allison reads.

In Allison’s apartment, authorities found, among other things, a rifle and more ammunition, an “Atomwaffen mask,” a “go bag” with $1500 cash, “baggies of pills,” a passport, an original birth certificate, sim cards and a black balaclava. When he was questioned, Allison waived his Miranda rights and confessed to being part of the Terrorgram Collective and engaging in the actions the DoJ is accusing him of.

“Using the Telegram platform, [Humber and Allison] advanced their heinous white supremacist ideology, solicited hate crimes, and provided guidance and instructions for terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure and assassinations of government officials,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a DoJ statement.

Telegram is a Russian social media platform long used by the U.S. far-right for organizing and disseminating propaganda. Its CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France late last month. The arrest came as French authorities began moving on the platform for its lack of moderation, which allows for massive amounts of unregulated, frequently illegal content like Terrorgram Collective’s oeuvre, to flourish. Incidentally, Terrorgram predates the Terrorgram Collective by years as a colloquial term for the neo-Nazi terrorist milieu on the Telegram platform.

DoJ officials claim Humber and Allison “conspired to provide material support [to terrorists] and solicited attacks on federal officials and critical government infrastructure, including federal buildings and energy facilities,” as well as soliciting “murders and hate crimes based on the race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity of others.” Charges against Allison and Humber include soliciting the murder of federal employees, soliciting hate crimes, “three counts of doxing federal officials,” and two counts of distributing bomb-making instructions.

The DoJ is tying the Terrorgram Collective to three terror plots, two of which had casualties. One was a planned infrastructure attack on energy facilities in New Jersey. The DoJ previously arrested Andrew Takhistov, alleging he recruited someone else in an attempt to attack an electrical substation in the name of advancing white supremacy. The most recent incident linked to the Terrorgram Collective was a knife attack at a mosque in Turkey last month. The attacker live-streamed himself stabbing at least five people and mentioned Terrorgram Collective-produced and distributed materials in his manifesto.

“He was 100% our guy,” Humber wrote online, “But he’s not White so I can’t give him an honorary title. We still celebrating his attack tho, he did it for Terrorgram.”

“We can’t add him to the Pantheon, but yeah, it’s a great development regardless, inspiring more attacks is the goal and anyone claiming to be an accelerationist should support them,” she added in another post.

Accelerationism is the brand of white nationalist terror that Humber, Allison and the Terrorgram Collective promote. The idea is to overwhelm governments through asymmetrical and guerrilla warfare-style attacks on civilians and infrastructure, eventually collapsing governments so that white nationalist groups can seize power where the government loses its grip.

The most infamous terror attack the Terrorgram Collective had a hand in was the Tepláreň shooting. On October 12^th, 2022, a white supremacist went on a killing spree that he’d planned for months. He shot and killed two people and wounded a third outside of Tepláreň, a popular gay bar in Bratislava. The shooter fled the scene, sent his manifesto to Allison, and then killed himself. He said in his manifesto that the Terrorgram Collective was “building the future of white revolution, one publication at a time.” Humber later declared him Terrorgram’s first “official Saint”—‘saint’ meaning someone who’d committed an act of terror worthy of being honored by Humber and her ilk.

None of the men Humber and Allison allegedly recruited and enabled were older than 19.

Humber was “the Narrator” within the Terrorgram milieu. Her main schtick was recording audiobooks of terror manifestos, how-to guides on causing infrastructure damage and white supremacist propaganda. She also managed the “Saint Calendar,” a list of the anniversaries of white supremacist terror attacks her ilk celebrates.

Allison was the Terrorgram Collective’s resident video editor in addition to managing the network’s channels and publishing its content. He networked and spammed his content constantly on every corner of Nazi Telegram, whether on channels he owned or managed with others, or in chats he joined. But Allison had a long history with the white nationalist movement before his time with the Terrorgram Collective, from his involvement with White Lives Matter to signing on to a failed “pro-white” business venture with a Nazi who got turned into a meme for being knocked out cold at a bus stop.

Public records show Allison grew up in Southern California, moving between Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties before his parents separated and moved to Utah in the mid-2000s. Allison has lived in Boise since around 2008. There’s no record of him holding a steady job.  The motion for detention the DoJ filed stated that Allison worked “an unsalaried job” and described finding a lockpicking kit and other burglary-related items on his person. The motion also references a 2022 incident where Allison and another person “entered onto the property of a closed business wearing a mask, gloves, and a backpack.”

Allison spent years trying to make it as an online content creator before pivoting to Nazi propaganda. But it seems that even with his status among fringe Nazis, he still couldn’t shake the itch to get recognition. In May 2023, Allison had launched a new venture: he’d “founded” VIBE Entertainment (which he sometimes referred to as VIBE Boise) and was marketing himself as a music producer and video editor called “DJ Couchplant.” To date, he’s played a single event. Corporate filings show that Allison wasn’t the registered owner of VIBE Entertainment. Instead, VIBE Entertainment and its parent company were registered to a man who is, at the very least, part of “DJ Couchplant’s” social media network. The registration for both companies was changed to inactive just three weeks before Allison’s arrest. Due to the nature of the charges against Allison, LCRW has chosen to not print the name of his business partner as it’s not known if he was aware of Allison’s main gig: inspiring acts of terror. Still, it’s worth noting that both VIBE Entertainment and its parent company were registered to the same Downton Boise apartment building where Allison was arrested.

LCRW analysts tracked Allison’s online footprint back to 2018 and discovered that he’d previously tried a more mainstream tact for viral fame: the conservative culture war grift. It’s notable that Allison virtually stopped appearing on his family’s social media around the time he started trying to make it as a right-wing YouTuber.

Allison’s first major attempt at making a brand for himself was Ban This Channel. His first video was in December 2018. The channel was the usual fodder of right-wing content mills: whining about the “Fake News” media, anger at immigrants, anger at women, and homosexual agenda conspiracy theories. In each video, he tried to cobble together footage from news clips and other such sources into a coherent “story” about a specific issue. But Allison wasn’t much of a storyteller or a skilled video editor, so his content wasn’t very good. Ban This Channel was, indeed, banned multiple times, sometimes for hateful conduct, other times for copyright infringement for the clips he stole. The Ban This Channel name likely didn’t come from his war with YouTube moderators—it was probably a branding exercise in imitation of Alex Jones, who had a platform called “Banned Video” after Infowars was blocked by major websites like YouTube.

In addition to Ban This Channel, Allison hosted two fan channels on YouTube dedicated to Tucker Carlson, the then-most popular host on Fox News. Carlson, always known for soft-pedaling white nationalist talking points, was recently in hot water for hosting a pro-Hitler historian on his online show. Allison touted Liberty Channel as “The ONE & ONLY – FREE Tucker Carlson Tonight Archive”. For the past six years, he’s diligently pirated and restreamed every episode of Carlson’s show. Tucker DESTROYS was one of the many Trump-era content mills with video titles like “so-and-so DESTROYS college student with FACTS and LOGIC.” Allison’s videos always included links soliciting donations for his work.

Allison tried to make Ban This Channel stick by creating 40 videos over the course of a year, but his content never gained traction. Then he fell into a Nazi grift. In early 2020, he joined White American Media (WAM), a then-new project that specifically sought out content creators who were banned on more popular media sites, promising they’d “get remoralized, remonetized and replatformed.”  WAM was the media arm of a larger venture called the White Positive Network (W+P.) Allison took the moniker “unBanned” under WAM’s aegis. As WAM’s first “partnered creator” he marketed himself as a white working class man by day and a struggling “political screenwriter” and “early-career video producer” by night. He produced another 40 videos under WAM, now more polished, more racist and more violent than before.

Allison wasn’t the only person making content for WAM, but he was the only one the co-founders of WAM directly tried to urge their supporters (if those even existed) to donate to. Among the other members of WAM were Mark Nuttycombe and George Pickard, formerly of the Nazi podcast network The Right Stuff, some artists from the White Art Collective and musicians called Eternal Reich and CyberNazi. Donations for all these content creators were supposed to be funneled through the White Positive Network by way of an anonymous LLC and a 504c nonprofit to anonymize Nazi supporters and nonprofit managers.

The people behind these big promises went by “NeoAnglo,” a U.K. resident who hasn’t been identified, and “The White Shadow,” whose identity LCRW can reveal for the first time: Shane Patric Taylor of Orange County, CA. Taylor was a former member of the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Workers Party who was kicked out and left stranded on the side of the road in Tennessee after he apparently tried to kiss one of the group’s underaged members at an event. He’s also a frequent meme in anti-fascist internet spaces because a video of him wearing a swastika armband and getting clocked in the face at a Seattle bus stop went viral.

The White Positive Network was short-lived. Nine months after its creation, its websites and Telegram channel were abandoned. But Taylor and Allison weren’t done working with each other. In October 2021, they launched “White + Strike” through a network of Telegram channels and chats. The pitch was to convince people to boycott supposedly anti-white businesses. The project appears to have been a flash in the pan—one documentary-style episode where Allison got a special thanks in the credits is all they managed to do.

Allison spent his time after WAM  determined to make himself Nazi Telegram’s go-to video editor and propagandist. He was constantly evading bans from mainstream social media sites and even started getting banned from alternative sites whose main clientele were racists and conspiracy theorists.

“Brighteon.com and Mike Adams HATE white people. DEATH TO TRAITORS. DEATH TO BRIGHTEON,” Allison said in the caption of a video on Liberty Channel titled “OPERATION DESTROY BRIGHTEON.”

Mike Adams is, among other things, the founder of quack health conspiracy websites like Natural News.

While working with WAM and other projects, Allison began to establish a presence on Telegram. He ran dozens of unBanned and Ban This Channel channels, and always made a point to announce the number of times they had been banned.

“BanThisChannel has just reached 50 channels banned on Telegram,” he wrote on BanThisChannel Forever in December 2021. “It’s an honor for the enemy to fear my work and my message so greatly. The ripples of my actions here will be 1,000 Saints. Hail Holy Terror. We are INEVITABLE.”

His personal account, also called “BanThisChannel”, was banned in 2022. His next account, “BowlTurdsCoin Investing”, quickly caught a ban. But his last Telegram account, “BigTittyChica”, is still active.

Along the way, Allison maintained countless accounts, channels and chats for his schemes. Some were just throwaway IDs he used to raid channels and chats he didn’t like and spam them with gore and racist porn. Others were channels and chats he either owned, admined or co-opted— either by getting them to share his content or by posting about them in ways that implied the channels were affiliated.

Most of the channels run by Allison were dedicated to posting Terrorgram-related content. But others were part of a covert effort to radicalize channel subscribers. Some were news aggregators, others revolved around posting content from well-known far-right figures, and one was specifically made to appeal to “MAGA boomers”—50s-and-older Trump supporters. A few of those channels were created in the immediate aftermath of January 6^th to try to recruit disillusioned Trump supporters. Those channels often used names intentionally similar to established pro-Trump media, like calling a channel Right Side News after Right Side Broadcasting Network. Others were clones of popular channels. One clone was titled Steve Bannon’s War Room Pandemic and outpaced the actual Steve Bannon’s War Room Telegram channel in terms of viewership.

Allison was also involved in early White Lives Matter propaganda efforts in 2021. White Lives Matter (WLM) is a networked initiative to have neo-Nazi groups do monthly propaganda work, be it littering stickers on public property or dropping banners on highway overpasses. The premise was to promote controlled and restrained messaging that was “positive” about white people—asserting “white lives matter” instead of saying something awful about Jewish people or immigrants. The first official WLM promotional video is nearly identical to two versions of the same video Allison had created at least a year earlier as “UnBanned”. An analysis of other early WLM videos showed two were videos that he’d posted on his YouTube accounts the year before, and others that had his distinct style of video editing. Leaked messages between WLM state leads with WLM central operation had included two Telegram channels Allison managed on the short list of “optical channels” that each chapter was encouraged to share posts from. It’s safe to assume Allison was heavily involved with WLM’s centralized propaganda efforts, at least in the early stages. LCRW is aware of other ties between WLM and Terrorgram Collective members, but we will not reveal them at this time so as to not compromise ongoing antifascist researchers’ investigations.

Allison’s last Nazi propaganda project, oddly also consisting of 40 videos, was called DEVIVED. The videos in DEVIVED show his technique has improved with time and practice. The videos have a distinct style—one whose fingerprint is visible in his work as Boise-area video editor “DJ Couchplant.”

Allison failed at monetizing his content, but as part of the Terrorgram Collective, he found he could do something else with it: radicalize disaffected young men and turn them into murder-craving accelerationists. But his greatest successes, like his collaborator Humber’s, were failures by even neo-Nazi standards—young men goaded into terror plots whose results were a handful of deaths and maimings, a blip on the radar in popular consciousness and the ruined lives of a few forgettable bigots. For that, these forgettable young bigots were promised “Sainthood.” Instead, they became memes relegated to the darkest corners of the internet where they’ll sink into obscurity like rotting plankton on the ocean floor. As for Allison, his and Humber’s charges add up to a potential maximum of 220 years behind bars.