THREAD: Yesterday we released a massive data leak from inside Patriot Front, currently believed to be the largest and most active neo-nazi organization in the USA. unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-f…
Here's some of what we learned:
Patriot Front has around 220-230 members according to leader Thomas Rousseau, who is "absolutely desperate for new people": discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/rocket-chat/ro…
PF's roster includes teens in HS as well as former members of other nazi groups like Identity Evropa & Traditionalist Worker Party.
The main information of public concern in the leak surrounds PF's leadership organizing nationwide defacement of murals and monuments to social justice and civil rights - acts deliberately planned to psychologically intimidate and unsettle racially diverse communities.
A prime example of this is a pro-tolerance mural in Olympia, WA that Patriot Front members vandalized at the direction of regional Network Director Colton Brown aka 'John WA.' The group was pleased when city officials responded by taking this mural down. vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontle…
PF members documented their racist vandalism in HD photo and video to prove their participation in the defacement. They did so because acts like these count towards weekly 'activism' quotas that 'Network Directors' pressure them to meet.
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Colton Brown (Patriot Front's pacific northwest 'Director') repeatedly instructed others to vandalize pro-diversity murals, often telling them what exact implements to use:
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Brown later privately told Thomas Rousseau he was worried himself and others in Patriot Front could catch criminal charges stemming from the Olympia mural, and discussed hiding related materials in case police visited him:
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Colton Brown aka 'ND - John WA' in Patriot Front's RocketChat server (discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/rocket-chat/us…) was previously named in a report by a Joint Terrorism Task Force detective investigating PF activity: unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/upl…
Patriot Front is particularly keen on destroying art that advocates for Black people.
Last month members discussed using various methods to deface a Black Lives Mural on the side of an ice cream shop in Brockton, Mass.:
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PF then made an official document outlining their leadership-approved plan to damage the BLM mural in Brockton. The doc includes GPS coordinates, a list of the aliases of members involved, and instructions for lookouts: unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/upl…
On December 12, Patriot Front carried out their plan to target the mural, covering it over with white paint before putting up the group's official stencil designs. They took photo and video of themselves doing it: vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontle…
A Patriot Front member in Michigan going by 'Alan' asked Thomas Rousseau for guidance about how to best vandalize historic civil rights murals on Detroit's "8 Mile Wall."
He also sent Rousseau scouting photos he took in preparation for defacing the site: vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontle…
In November, an Indiana member 'Michael IN' asked for (and received) Rousseau's approval for using "roofing tar" and/or "cement" to cover over a George Floyd mural in Lafayette, IN that PF had damaged several times before:
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Local news outlet @WLWT had previously reported in September that Lafayette's George Floyd mural had been defaced at least four times: msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Some descriptions by eyewitnesses seem to match accounts given by local Patriot Front members in leaked RocketChat logs.
Another leaked media archive from October 2021 shows Patriot Front members spraying over a mural in Boyertown, PA that read "Boyertown Has No Place For Hate": vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontle…
Another leaked video dated October 12 shows Patriot Front members at the ‘Harriet Tubman – Journey to Freedom’ statue in Jackson County, North Carolina. The group discusses sabotaging security cameras onsite in order to get away with damaging the statue: vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontle…
Patriot Front members in multiple states also coordinated to target FBI "report hate crimes" billboards as part of a December 18 "day of activism" called for by Rousseau:
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In addition to placing banners over the anti-hate crime billboards, Patriot Front's leaked messages indicate they planned to "bring bolt cutters" to cut thru fences and intended to "cut" "down" the original message from one board.
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Leaked photo and video from inside Patriot Front shows members making a banner with the fascist 'fasces' symbol on it to place over a "report hate crimes" billboard before accessing one board to drape the banner over it: vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontle…
Another leaked 90 minute video indicates that Patriot Front members somewhere in Texas filmed themselves throughout the process of accessing and covering one of the FBI hate crime billboards: vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontle…
Direct download & .torrent file for the Patriot Front leak of media files can be accessed here: vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontle…
RocketChat logs from their BloodandSoil .org domain (kept from PF's predecessor org Vanguard America) can be browsed/searched here: discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/rocket-chat/se…
A huge thanks to all our supporters who make it possible for us to invest the time and resources required to undertake data investigations like this! unicornriot.ninja/donate
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