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@HamptonStall
Jan 6, 2021 • 23 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
Separate thread for non-DC militia spottings below here:
From @HadiNili -- III%ers arrive at Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta, GA a bit after 12 PM ET:
Aaaaaand @TwitrHagen records here former KKK leader and Neo-Nazi Chester Doles of American Patriots USA speaking in Atlanta, GA around 12:45 PM ET:
Also from @TwitrHagen, just a few feet from Doles - III% Security Force head Chris Hill is present, unarmed and without his usual outfit. Also at Atlanta, GA Capitol Building just before 1PM ET:
No militias spotted here yet but footage from a smaller gathering recorded by @LauraJedeed outside the Capitol in Salem, Oregon just after 1PM ET (10 AM PT):
No militias spotted here yet but some photos shared by @travis_view from the California State Capitol building in Sacramento, California (photos from before 12:30 PM ET (9:30 AM PT):
As @LauraJedeed reports, a really normal one happening at the ongoing rally outside the State Capitol Building in Salem, Oregon, this quote around 2:30 PM ET (11:30 AM PT):
Update on the Atlanta protests via @afainatl screencap of the @ajc: group tried to enter the Georgia State Capitol Building, time unknown, potentially around 2:00 or 3:00 PM ET
In Kansas, as cited here in the thread by @AntiFashGordon, protesters breached the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas, around 2:40 PM ET (1:40 PM CT)
As mentioned here by @dburghart, another rally in Carson City, Nevada. No indication from article or photo that militias were involved:
Another update from @LauraJedeed at the Oregon State Capitol Building in Salem, Oregon, where Proud Boys are now outside, pro-Trump protesters saying "let the police do the dirty work", around 4:45 PM ET (1:45 PM PT):
Right wingers now shooting paintballs and beating with batons a counterprotester nearby. Proud Boys highly involved in the violence in Salem, Oregon, reports @LauraJedeed around 5:00 PM ET (2:00 PM PT):
Another QT of @dburghart of protesters at the governor's house in Olympia Washington. Several from the stream clearly armed, even as right-wing demonstrators force their way through the gates of Jay Inslee's home:
Cross-country experience: GA last month, WA this month - dudes armed with long rifles on the lawn of the governor because the election didn't go the way they wanted:
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Olympia, Washington sees a literal Nazi shouting "one bullet for every fucking Boomer - Day of the Pillow, motherfucker!" at a livestreamer before yelling at random other MAGA activists at the gathering in front of the governor's home:
This is an incomplete list as of now but I'll update it soon with more militia activity from today (and beyond). Data from these events will be available as part of @ACLEDINFO's US project at data release next week (keep an eye out if you want to use it!)
The Salt Lake City Capitol rally seems to have had some pretty tense moments. Here from @tstevensmedia, heavily armed Proud Boys chase a man out of the plaza, threatening him and press on the scene as they go:
In a KRGC 13 broadcast from the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, an "America First" flag is visible among dozens of Trump flags at the 6 January "stop the steal" rally there.
facebook.com/krcgtv/videos/… Image
In an azcentral broadcast from Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, an attendee showed with an American Constitutional Elite (A.C.E.) III% hat (group largely defunct), and other militia folks showed for the 6 January "stop the steal" rally there.
facebook.com/azcentral/vide… ImageImage
Okay finishing up this thread! Here's some Proud Boys and Q folks at the Columbia SC gathering, filmed and photographed by @adammintzer. Reproducing two of his images to show the local PB uniform documented and Q proof:
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Proud Boys photographed at 6 January gathering at the state capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. Included in an article by @TDOnline:
tallahassee.com/story/news/202… Image
No photos for this one but screenshotting from a story documented in @highlandcopress that details Proud Boy and armed presence at Columbus, Ohio Statehouse protest on 6 January, too:
highlandcountypress.com/Content/In-The… Image
As mentioned before, the above events (with actors involved) are included as data in this week's @ACLEDINFO data release, which updates from the end of the year through last Friday for all of the US.

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Oct 25, 2021
Here's my recent on the “Let’s Go Brandon” meme, how it’s been spread, and how it intersects with some cultural worlds I’ve been following for a while. Linked here and short thread below.
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Jan 13, 2021
Sharing my first piece in the @guardian, co-authored with @onthemedia's @MicahLoewinger. It covers Capitol stormers’ use of @Zello’s free walkie-talkie application, which boasts over 150 Million users:
theguardian.com/us-news/2021/j…
Much to cover in this story but first some background. In Sept, @MicahLoewinger and I did some joint work on the app and how it was used by militia groups in Georgia around BLM protests. Here’s the @onthemedia piece:
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…
With this joint project on Zello, we also worked on developing a social network of the high-authority users (owners, admins, mods) of the far-right channels we were looking at. This analysis was then visualized and published on @MilitiaWatch, here: militia.watch/read/zello-ope…
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Jan 6, 2021
Hmm, wonder what some of the militia chats are up to today.... Oh. ImageImageImage
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"Defense" <> "PURGE"

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Jan 6, 2021
Going to do my best to QT and share "militia" presence in DC today (many are likely aiming more for 20 January, when another event is planned). Firearms are banned in DC so it's going to look a bit different than, say, Richmond or Atlanta.
Spotted by @ZTPetrizzo, some folks wearing camo and chest rigs, hanging out on a pillar outside of the White House around 11 AM ET on 6 January:
A printout handed to @EggerDC by an "ominous dude in camo" called for a "national militia" to join a 'muster' west of the Capitol, wear silver armbands to identify themselves as "lawful combatants". Handout near Capitol around 11 AM ET on 6 January:
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Jan 4, 2021
Been a minute since a full piece has been up on the blog, but here's one I was working on for a while, cut into a first chunk available now ahead of the final day of GA voting (tomorrow):
militia.watch/read/georgia-s…
The article, like a previous one on @MilitiaWatch, relies pretty heavily on social network analysis (via @kumupowered), which allows for the creation and analysis of this pretty dense network of actors and organizations
militia.watch/read/georgia-s… Image
KL was, of course, the starting point for this network, which was based on photos together, events together, endorsements, public friendships, group affiliation etc. Here's her first-degree connections per this methodology that we all know by now:
militia.watch/read/georgia-s… Image
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Apr 18, 2019
Daily Mail ran a story yesterday about a 'border militia' forcing the surrender of 300 asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border, that I wanted to provide a few comments on:
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
I wrote on this militia, the "United Constitutional Patriots" on @MilitiaWatch. I'm drawing a couple bits from there, but adding as well (I think it's a good place to start for learning more about them regardless) : medium.com/militiawatch/m…
The DM article discusses the armed group stopping around 300 asylum-seekers, an action they have been increasingly engaged in for a few months now. Here are some shots from March included in my piece of this exact threatening act:
medium.com/militiawatch/m…
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