It’s tedious to keep posting these — I’m tweeting about 10% — but, more than a month after Tucker Carlson attacked me by name & photo, they keep coming. Many to my mailbox. All with threats.
Somewhat astoundingly there’s a Seattle return address on the envelope.

And there are email addresses, Twitter & Instagram handles, Facebook accts, & all kinds of digital signatures associated w this campaign. Should someone in law enforcement see this treasure trove of hate?
I appreciate the suggestion that I go to employers. A few weeks ago I sent some signed threats I received to the Manhattan Institute, where the harasser had once worked, and his name—Bill McGowan—was swiftly removed from their site.
That said, these campaigns are so coordinated & so redundant that I don't want to have to keep working out these DIY resolutions. This is an FBI matter.
Letters like these are not personal campaigns, like being stalked by an ex. They're part of broader hybrid domestic terror project of the far right.
I don't care abt the ad hominem attacks anymore, misogyny, licking my psychological wounds. Right now I want to be of service to my damn country — and just turn this all over to an agency that watches far-right hate extremists—the ones with connex to Manhattan Inst & Fox.
My local police have been great. They have secured my house against the specific, physical threats to my family. But they treat this stuff like stalking.

They don't have the resources or inclination to track coordination w/Reddit, Parler, Gateway Pundit, Ben Shapiro, Fox, etc.
But people who've endured these campaigns have given up on law enforcement & often—for good reason—see police as on the side of rightwing trolls & terrorists. Esp when Fox is amplifying their message.
So targets of these campaigns snitch, dox, expose, complain, "condemn," and the rightwing in response bellows about cancel culture & gets more violent.
Jawdropping quote from a Proud Boy on Telegram: “We need to stomp them. We need to ruin their lives physically like they have ruined ours financially with doxxing. We need to rack up their hospital bills. We need to use special operations tactics and lightning strike them.”
Online showdowns become real-life violence.

And this Proud Boy was calling on the POLICE to use POLICE OPS to "ruin lives physically" — because the police too had this grudge about doxing.

thedailybeast.com/new-proud-boys…
To recap: A campaign of harassment begins w/Gateway Pundit, Fox, Megyn Kelly, fmr Manhattan Institute employees.

Becomes death threats by trolls.

I'm told: Don't go to police, b/c they're IN ON IT. Also told: the only remedy is to dox & snitch. "Ruin their lives financially."
This can't be what's happening.
Need clear @FBI protocols.
For me, the reference point is the 2007 death-threat campaign I got from Ron Paul supporters. It was captained in part by Ron Paul aide Stewart Rhodes.

Rhodes started the Oath Keepers a year later.

On Jan 6, 2021, the Oath Keepers lay siege to the U.S. Capitol.

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George Floyd, detained for a negligible petty crime, got killed by police.

Robert Aaron Long, who confessed to multiple murders, got their sympathy.
Putting aside even the white supremacy: Maybe police are just terrible at their jobs.

They’re clearly hopeless at threat assessment.
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I’m no Dr. Seuss. But if the right is worried about censorship they should speak out about the ceaseless campaigns against journalists that start at Fox News.

Like this one. Image
Sidebar: Not including this person’s IG handle because the last time I screenshot the whole thing, the guy —who signed his trolling white-power email with his phone #—called my employer in hysterics & said he was the victim because he’d been doxed. Then he called the cops on me.
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We’re in a new phase of this disease. This is not last spring when we needed to be exceedingly sparing with masks & tests.

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