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7 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
.@splcenter found that "Lancaster Patriot," a Pennsylvania politics blog amplified by FOX News, is connected to a Russian malware site.

It's also linked to the Pro-Putin website Russia Insider: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
Lancaster Patriot was secretly authored by Trey Garrison aka "Spectre." He's a Dallas-based white nationalist.

I ID'd Spectre in January 2019. I don't know why he is abruptly in Lancaster, PA now but he showed up in April: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
Charles Bausman of Russia Insider is spreading TRS content online, as we reported yesterday. "Spectre" has been affiliated with TRS for years.

And Lancaster Patriot makes at least four websites that combine Russian website infrastructure and TRS content:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
I spoke to Bausman at his home in Lancaster to ask what exactly was going on with this network of websites, which all drum up rage against BLM and antifa.

Someone took down this Russian mirror site oc.binaria.ru three days later: archive.li/xhIFx
One thing I also want to highlight here is not only did Lancaster Patriot's footage make it onto Greg Gutfeld's FOX News show, "Spectre" was immediately embraced by Pro-Trump social media performers.

Here's Ian Miles Cheong hyping it over and over again:
archive.li/sfv7j

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6 Oct
.@Hatewatch found the same Russian email ID buried in the source code of a small network of websites connected to the white nationalist group TRS.

The websites focus on civil unrest and rage against black lives matter: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
TRS helped make the Charlottesville rally a thing. And remember State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert?

His recent propaganda output is featured on one of these sites. (We don't know if Pompeo is still paying him btw): splcenter.org/gebert
The sites share a Google Analytics ID & the first to use it is Russia Insider.

Russia Insider is operated by Charles Bausman. Bausman has been linked to Pro-Putin oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, who has been sanctioned by the U.S. government: treasury.gov/press-center/p…
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30 Aug
NEW: Rittenhouse's militia contingent in Kenosha included a man named Ryan Balch.

Balch shared Nazi, white nationalist, boogaloo and Pro-Trump propaganda online: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
The growing far-right radicalization engine we have witnessed under Trump is now hitting our streets, armed. Balch's social diet:

-Richard Spencer
-Lauren Southern
-"Weird Mike" Cernovich
-Prison Planet
-Doomsday Prepping
-Pizzagate
-Boogaloo

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
Republicans and FOX News have circled the wagons to justify and normalize Rittenhouse’s crew.

As my pseudonymous friend notes, some of these guys are immersed in Hitlerism. Years of a negligent GOP and social media exploitation have brought us the summer of 2020:
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24 Aug
NEW: Trump Jr. appeared at one of Bannon's "We Build the Wall" events with neo-Nazi collaborator Jack Posobiec.

Posobiec described Trump Jr. as being "redpilled AF" in private messages, referring to him sharing a link from a Holocaust denier's website:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
One of the least sophisticated comments I see about far-right extremists is “but he’s just a grifter.”

The men pushing hate and fascism in this country are almost all grifters:
Donald Trump Jr. is headlining #RNC2020 tonight.

Beyond this “We Build the Wall” grift, he’s associated with far-right extremists like Posobiec.

Here’s neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin praising him as a sympathizer in 2016, courtesy of @lukeobrien:
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19 Aug
After a march in Warsaw that included neo-Nazi groups, Jack Posobiec met with Stefan Molyneux in a 5-star hotel.

Posobiec interviewed him. The men discussed white nationalism, per a source.

Read part 5 here: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
"White nationalism" was on Molyneux's brain during this trip.

@CaolanRob leaked this footage in which Molyneux referred to a speech he gave in a propaganda film as his "white nationalism speech."

Posobiec cannot possibly plead ignorance here. Watch it:
Here's the superstar of @OANN doing "journalism" with a Canadian race science pundit, immediately following a march in Warsaw that included numerous neo-Nazi and ultranationalist groups.

@realDonaldTrump hypes this network and Jack Posobiec regularly:
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23 Jul
.@OANN allowed Jack Posobiec to bring a virulently antisemitic, pro-Hitler "friend" on the air.

It's just one example of Posobiec serving as a bridge between the fringe, white supremacist web and a wider conservative audience:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
Posobiec linked his followers to the Gab feed of "Microchip" at least five times when he had him on @OANN.

Around the same time, Microchip's Gab feed praised Atomwaffen Division and terrorism.

Microchip called Posobiec his online "buddy" in a chat with me.
Ask any reporter who covers the far-right what 8chan pol was like in 2017, pre-Christchurch terror. Just rampant neo-Nazi murder memes.

Jack Posobiec linked his followers to that forum. He also alerted them to the dox of CNN employees.

Why was Posobiec reading 8chan pol?
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22 Jul
.@OANN's Jack Posobiec amplified a Polish fascist movement that once bombed Jewish homes.

He met with a leader of the antisemitic, extreme far-right party Ruch Narodowy while Trump gave his nativist speech in Warsaw.

Read Part 3 here: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
I must give immense credit to @StowNIGDYWIECEJ of Poland for helping on this story — white supremacy is a global menace, and we need to work across borders to tell the truth about what’s happening right now.
Posobiec trotted out a smattering of low-level MAGA types to defend him last time.

Who is defending National Radical Camp? I’d urge you to look them up. Image
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