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We continue our exposé on the extremist far-right who openly operate and have thoroughly infiltrated the Miami GOP — Proud Boys, QAnons, Moms 4 Liberty & more.

On Friday 4/15 the GOP hosted a voter registration event featuring “special guest” Scott Presler. Let’s dive in! 🔥 Flyer and photos from the 4...
We will detail how nearly every single attendee was connected to the far-right. #ProudBoys #QAnon #Moms4Liberty

Buckle up. We have some new reveals that you will not want to miss — including a SPECIAL LIST at the end. 🔥🔥☕️☕️

Referenced articles + threads posted at the end. Group picture of participan...
Let’s start with “special guest” far-right provocateur and issue hoper Scott Presler — he got his start with the anti-Muslim hate group ACT for America, more recently a QAnon promoter and identified as a core Jan 6th Stop the Steal organizer. Top left: Scott Presler at ...
Event organizer was the pasty Miami GOP executive director, Brandon Diaz. We exposed his GF Barbara Balmaseda #PinkGaiterPBG as being inside the Capitol w the Proud Boys on Jan 6.

Barbara was listed as the Miami GOP Voter Registration officer but her name has since been wiped. Pictures showing Brandon Di...
Let’s introduce the Proud Boys attending this Miami GOP voter registration drive.

Meet Chris Barcenas. Proud Boy, failed realtor, Jan 6 insurrectionary (see #USAPB) and an “elected official for the Miami-Dade Republican Party.”

As we will reveal, he’s not the only one. ⏰ Left: Photo showing Miami P...
Next up we have a Proud Boy with a serious rap sheet, the “low libido” Nowell Salgueiro.

This wannabe gangster assaulted a journalist last year at a school board meeting and is linked to postings calling for “Right-Wing Death Squads.”

Perfect GOTV material! 🗳 Too left: Nowell with Miami...
Nowell even live-streamed from the event using the Floridians First Instagram account — a fake patriot front group run by South Florida Proud Boys.
Eulalia Jimenez is the Miami chapter leader of Moms for Liberty who openly works w the Miami Proud Boys. She’s even hooked up w 10 yrs younger Chris Barcenas.

We exposed her as a QAnon follower + linked her to multiple harassment campaigns, which earned her a restraining order. Eulalia Jimenez with Proud ...Eulalia Jimenez at a Moms f...
Now let’s introduce the M4L activists: realtor Lourdes Galban, @scoutandcellar sales rep Stephanie Gonzalez, @CityofMiami employee Katrina Tusitala and Nadia Decker.

They were also active until recently in a far-right/M4L front group called Florida Women Forward. Event photos.   All photos ...Top left: Nadia Decker, Lyn...
That was until things went south and Florida Women Forward president Marivi Betancourt filed on April 6 to remove Katrina, Nadia and Stephanie from the board.

This led to an acrimonious and messy spilt as M4L + Proud Boys denounced Marivi. (See thread with details at the end). Sunbiz filings for Florida ...Screen shots from M4L teleg...
Let’s further connect FWF and the extremist far-right.

Watch Miami QAnon influencer Isabella Rodriguez, who attended the voter registration event and is a former FWF board member, talk about supporting “patriot” candidates through FWF.

FWF Sunbiz: bit.ly/37M2Mpp
Let’s meet Isabella Rodriguez who works as a corporate recruiter under Secured Talent LLC. #RedPillBabe

A prolific QAnon personality, Isabella has been written on extensively and is a former admin of the main QAnon telegram channel We the Media.

(References at end of thread) Too left and right: Isabell...Top left: Story posting to ...
Isabella, who has had her accounts nuked many times for conspiracy content, attended Jan 6, the Red Pill Road Show and organized an Aug 2020 “Save the children” rally in Miami holding a pizzagate sign.

Flat earth, reptilians, child trafficking, anti-vaxx … 100% QAnon.
Next up is Linda Catalina Cuadros. #WakeUpWithLinda

Best buddies with Isabella, Linda is a podcaster + fascist social media grifter-personality we’ve documented extensively as well.

She promotes Putin, rabid anti-LGBTQ content, Pinochet helicopter death threats + close w PBs. Top left and right: Linda C...Top left: Linda at a Stop t...
Linda also has a legal history including suing and losing vs Miami-Dade County on mask mandates + appears as a co-plaintiff on Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter — too bad she got banned again for threats against our account.

She’s also known for her trolling and unhinged rants.
Last we have Miami CCDF, County Citizens Defending Freedom, a far-right Christian nationalist group w links to QAnon and former Trump advisor Micheal Flynn.

Last Friday we exposed CCDF Miami staffer + QAnon Alan Chovel as a Jan 6 insurrectionist who was on stage w DeSantis. Top and bottom left, bottom...Top left: Alan Shovel at a ...Left: Alan in DC on Jan 5 p...Alan Shovel in DC for Jan 6...
As we documented, Alan Chovel has a close relationship with the Proud Boys and is active in the Miami GOP. A former fire fighter he currently owns Chovel Construction LLC.

In this pic we also have local CCDF executive director Alejandro “Alex” Serrano of Key Biscayne. All photos from public sour...
Miami CCDF executive director Alejandro “Alex” Serrano of Key Biscayne also has his kids at the anti-vax private school Centner Academy which charges $20-30k per year in tuition.

Here’s Alex speaking at a CCDF meeting held at Centner Academy.
Also good to note that Miami CCDF invited Christopher Monzon to become their “Hialeah Municipal Director.”

Known as the “Cuban Confederate” he attended the 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist march with League of the South and still posts pro-Confederate content on his fb. Top image: Posting from Chr...
As we showed, nearly every single person at this voter reg event organized by exec director Brandon Diaz had connections to extremist far-right politics. No wonder the Proud Boys thank him.

In fact, we hear Brandon is leaving his position early due to all the heat. 🔥🔥🔥 Image: Instagram post by Al...
But we’re not done yet. 👀

We’ve obtained a list of the currently elected 2021-2022 Republican Executive Committee. Look closely because you’ll see many of the same far-right extremists mentioned in this thread and others we’ve covered.

The best is yet to come! 🔥🔥 Public document showing ele...
Currently taking a cafecito break and will add all the references later tonight. ☕️

Be sure to follow us at @MIAagainstFash so you don’t our next exposé and the upcoming episode of Miami’s Most Fascist.
And now we start the references and links but first we need to repost content that Twitter is suppressing in our thread.
This is the tweet that Twitter is hiding on Isabella Oneida Rodriguez aka #RedPillBabe Image
Original image collages are included here as well.

As a co-host with Linda Caudros of the “Mostly Peaceful Latinas” podcast, together numerous publications mentioning her account and connection to QAnon, she’s absolutely qualifies as a public figure (see next tweet for links). ImageImage
References for writings on QAnon personality Isabella Rodriguez, aka #RedPillBabe.

Rolling Stone: bit.ly/3rRT9fT

Media Matters: bit.ly/3xSNABC

International Centre on Radicalization (ICSR) report, see page 41: bit.ly/3EP6SJE Image
Mostly Peaceful podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mos…

This screen shot on Mostly Peaceful podcast is from Isabella Rodriguez’s now deleted Instagram account. Second image from Media Matters of a previous Instagram account with the WWG1WGA hashtag. ImageImage
On Brandon Diaz and the Proud Boys openly working within the @MiamiDadeGOP see this thread.
Back in September we documented a far-right group APC Foundation (now defunct) celebrating Brandon Diaz’s appointment as “our APC people.”

The telegram chat for the group is full of QAnon and anti-vaccine conspiracy content.
Here’s one of the threads details detailing Brandon Diaz’s girlfriend Barbara Balmaseda #PinkGaiterPBG marching with the Miami Proud Boys and key leaders at Stop the Steal rallies and Jan 6 inside the Capitol.
This is ironic. Brandon Diaz organized this voter registration event but Barbara “Barby” Balmaseda was listed as the Voter Registration Chair on the Miami GOP website up until we exposed her.

Since then they’ve wiped her name and it’s blank.

Forgot to include this gem. 💎

Almost 20 people attended but only a measly 13 registrations were completed. One of them was a participant Stephanie Gonzalez changing her registration to Republican from Independant.

All the work and now heartache for only 13 potential votes! 😂 Image
Pics of Linda Cuadros #WakeUpWithLinda, Moms for Liberty and Isabella Rodriguez #RedPillBabe posting about the event and their participation. ImageImage
Receipts on Chris Barcenas, Miami Proud Boy and Jan 6 rioter.

His involvement has been very public since he was named early on we got him fired from his realtor job. Look for Chris in this video on the steps wearing a white hat.
If you need help picking out the hat Chris Barcenas was wearing at Jan 6, it’s the same one he’s wearing here with his M4L lady Eulalia Jimenez.

That’s how he got the #USAPB hashtag. Image
Moving to the “low libido” Proud Boy Nowell Salgueiro, here’s our original expose on him and his criminal record.

He’s a wannabe gangster who sits on the Miami Republican Executive Board too.
Nowell was also linked to the harassment campaigns and calls for “Right-Wing Death Squads” in this thread.

He was outed by former M4L activist Alixandra Caballero after a falling out/break up between them.
This thread details the falling out between Marivi Bentancourt of Florida Women Forward and Alixandra Caballero with the Proud Boys and M4L. Lots of juicy details here.
More on Isabella and her QAnon connections. Second tweet has more personal details on her.
More video on Isabella #RedPillBabe discussing QANon with Seth Caro a former pastry chef and 2010 Top Chef Just Desserts contestant who famously quit — now he’s a QAnon surfer reggae artist under the name “Venice Beach Dub Club.”
Moving to Linda Catalina Cuadros, here’s the details on her getting banned from Twitter a SECOND time for threats against our account and appearing on Trump’s lawsuit.

The judge will have a good laugh when he sees this. 😂
More on Linda’s unhinged Pinochet death threats after we exposed her and the far-right school board activists.
Forgot to include Isabella #RedPillBabe and her promotion of white nationalist “It’s okay to be white” content.
Linda #WakeUpWithLinda and her fan base are no strangers to fascism. Just take a look at her telegram comments and the memes promoting Spain’s fascist dictator Franco. Image
This “reject degeneracy, embrace tradition” content is right out of the white supremacist playbook, usually referred to as “traditionalism.”

Ironic as Colombian immigrant who came to the US at 13 years old.
Moving to CCDF, watch the full interview of Alex Serrano and Alan Chovel here.

Check out this Media Matters piece looking at CCDF’s role in book banning in Polk County, FL.

mediamatters.org/alliance-defen…
Learn all about CCDF’s Hialeah Municipal Director Christopher Monzon, also known as the guy arrested and serving time for attacking protesters in Hollywood, FL with a confederate flag.

Video of the incident is in the thread.
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Adding another reference on Linda Catalina Caudros #WakeUpWithLinda and her now deleted anti-vaccine content.

Her and Bella #RedPillBabe are trying to reinvent themselves by scrubbing their old content but we won’t let them get away with it. The internet is forever.

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Next week Miami Young Republicans will host an event opposing #Florida’s Amendment 4 pro-choice ballot measure.

Among the “most influential voices” is antisemitic & pro-Putin podcaster Linda Catalina Cuadros — but that’s just the beginning with @MiamiYRs.

Let’s dive in! 🧵 1/ Left: Miami Young Republicans event flyer.   Top right: Dec 2022 post in Linda Cuadros’ telegram channel “wakeupwithlinda,” which is the name of her Instagram account.  The post contains an image of a tweet referencing Jews from Andrew Anglin, the notorious neo-Nazi who runs the site The Daily Stormer. Linda’s text reads “5% of the population wants to make decisions for 95% of us.”   All images from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
Miami based influence grifter Linda Cuadros got her start w anti-vaccine & pro-MAGA content but quickly expanded into far-right anti-LGBTQ themes on “globohomo” & support 4 Kanye West.

We also documented her sharing notorious neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin in her Telegram channel.

2/ Right: TikTok posting by Linda Cuadros on Florida legislation on antisemitism. Text: “hate speech = free speech”   All images from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
Linda’s open antisemitism & Putin simp content naturally attracted attention in June when she did a sit down interview w Miami mayor Francis Suarez, earning her local media coverage. #WakeUpWithLinda

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Tweets and news coverage on Linda Cuadros.   All images from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
Top left & right, bottom left: Pro-Putin Instagram content from Linda Cuadros’ wakeupwithlinda account.   Bottom right: Pro-Putin Telegram post by Linda Cuadros.   All images from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
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One of Florida’s worst creations, white MAGA rapper “Forgiato Blow” aka Kurt Jantz, has just posted that all his YouTube videos were just taken down. 1/ Image
Forgiato Blow, aka Kurt Jantz, attended Jan 6 and appeared multiple times alongside now imprisoned former Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio. 2/

Details here: floridapolitics.com/archives/49509…
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We’ve also documented Forgiato Blow in Miami for a small anti-LGBTQ hate rally directed at Target in June 2023 alongside a Miami Proud Boy & QAnon flat earth singer Jimmy Levy who he collaborated with for his ‘Boycott Target’ track. 3/
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Jun 13
Meet the man currently nominated for a Florida State GOP Committeeman seat by the Miami GOP @MiamiDadeGOP.

Former Proud Boy & January 6th rioter Chris Barcenas. #USAPB

1/🧵 Top: Screen shot posted by former Miami Proud Boy Chris Barcenas. Search his hashtag #USAPB for our extensive reporting on him.   Left: Barcenas in front of the Capitol building on J6. Additional photos place him on the steps of the building & he provided testimony to the Jan 6 Committee.   Right; Barcenas at a Proud Boy rally in New York, circa 2021.    All images and content from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
Following the scandal caused by NYT coverage of the Proud Boys & allies holding seats on the Miami GOP Republican Executive Committee (REC) in 2022 — many remain active, including Barcenas.

This is also why the Miami GOP keeps membership a secret. 2/

nytimes.com/2022/06/02/us/…
Left: Social media posting by REC member & FIU student Cristen Lameira of the REC meeting in September 2023.   Top right: Zooming in Chris Barcenas can be seen sitting in the front row.   All images and content from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
Keep in mind two Proud Boys, Gabriel Garcia & Gilbert Fonticoba, were sitting Miami GOP REC members when indicted for J6 charges. Both since convicted.

A third REC member, Barbara Balmaseda #PinkGaiterPBG, was indicted in Dec 2023 for being inside the Capitol on J6 w Garcia. 3/ Left: Together at a late 2020 “stop the steal” rally in Washington, DC are former REC member and one time GOP candidate Proud Boy Gabriel Garcia pictured with Barbara Balmaseda. She is a past REC member who served as chair of voter registration, a former Marco Rubio intern & past Miami Young Republican board member. She was indicted in December 2023 for Jan 6 charges and marched alongside the Proud Boy and was inside the Capitol with Gabriel Garcia. See her hashtag #PinkGaiterPBG for more background.   Gabriel Garcia was convicted in November 2023 but awaits sentencing for his Jan 6 charges...
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Last week we introduced Miami Proud Boy & III% militia supporter Ralph Verde. Today we reveal more.

Let’s dive deeper into Rafael Antonio Verde of Cutler Bay, FL — the brokest real estate, insurance & financing hustler we’ve ever come across! 🤑🧵 1/
Main image: LinkedIn profile of Rafael Verde.   Right image: Rafael Verde at a Proud Boy rally in Washington, DC.   All content and images from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
Rafael Verde, b. Dec 1968, is behind a string of short lived real estate & investment LLCs & currently “Ice Mountain LLC.”

Public records show a mountain of personal debts — his house went into foreclosure this month & he’s facing two credit card lender lawsuits for $27k. 2/ Top: Currently pending credit card lending lawsuits against Rafael Verde.   Bottom: Rafael Verde at a Proud Boy rally in Washington, DC.   All content and images from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
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Miami Proud Boy leader Alejandro “Alex” Reyes has been a fixture at rallies + events & we know he’s the president because his telegram profile tells us: VCPB = Vice City Proud Boys.

In 2022 he was one of several Proud Boys who signed on as local poll workers w @MDCElections 3/ All images and content obtained from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
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