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Kris Goldsmith
@KrisGoldsmith85
CEO Sparverius @TeamTFButler @VetFightFascism. Research: disinfo+extremism among vets+military (https://t.co/c5awNBGxbT). Hunting + destroying fascist gangs
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Sep 1, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🧵on how to stop Nazis when they show up for this march. As ADL's alert says, Nazi gangs Blood Tribe + Goyim Defense League have spent most of this summer organizing a big march in Florida. Both have crossed a lot of lines lately that make them vulnerable, esp in FLA. 2/ For communities who want to hold Nazis accountable: @TeamTFButler published last year our Street Teams Guide. This guide provides a bunch of tips and tricks for average people on how they can gather useful intelligence. Visit our website for the PDF: taskforcebutler.org/streetteams
Jun 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: Each month Nazi groups around the US (and internationally) conspire to perform a series of flash-mobs all on the same day. Saturday, June 17 is next, falling at the peak of Pride Month and during Juneteenth weekend. How to hold them accountable: taskforcebutler.org/streetteams 2/ @TeamTFButler published the Street Teams guide to help people learn how to gather actionable intelligence on these Nazi groups as they show up in your city. Just because they're masked doesn't mean they can't be identified. Anyone with a phone can help.
taskforcebutler.org/streetteams
May 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
As tons of folks are asking aloud on cable news “how do we stop these neo-Nazis?” in the wake of the most recent shooting, I’d like to remind them that @TeamTFButler has got your answers. Just waiting on law enforcement to ***enforce existing laws.***

wgbh.org/news/national-… 2/ Task Force Butler’s 308-page PROJECT HUSKY report was issued to the FBI, states’ Attorneys General throughout New England, plus a bunch of local PDs two weeks ago today. We documented members of a neo-nazi gang posting online about their desire to commit genocide.
Dec 27, 2022 • 21 tweets • 12 min read
🧵Today Veterans at @TeamTFButler are publishing PROJECT DRAGOON, analyzing hundreds of @libsoftiktok tweets to find: “Does Online Hate Mongering Have Real Impact?"

Click the link here for the interactive map between LoTT tweets and real-world events.

TaskForceButler.org/Dragoon 2/ Libs Of Tik Tok is a prolific Twitter account run by Chaya Raichik. This account serves as one of the largest promoters of conspiracy theories and harassment against the LGBTQIA+ community since Pride Month in June of 2022.
TaskForceButler.org/Dragoon
Dec 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
.@elonmusk targeted Yoel Roth, his former Twitter employee with anti-LGBT conspiracy theories, and Roth had to flee his home due to deluge of threats.

Rather than report on this clear case of stochastic terrorism, @FoxNews targets me for talking about it.

Fox fans responses👇🏻 ImageImage 2/Fox and the rest of the far-right media ecosystem have trained their audience to call anything that they don’t like “communism.” Blurring the definition of this word creates a wide on-ramp for white supremacists to recruit by calling Jews “cultural Marxists.” Image
Dec 6, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
A few things:

-the Nazis who sued me and @TeamTFButler dropped their suit

-the fascist lawyer the Aryan Freedom Network hired, Jason Lee Van Dyke doesn’t deny being at the AFN conference

-JLVD hosted the Patriot Front gang at his home for Thanksgiving

texasobserver.org/patriot-front-… 2/

-Thomas Rousseau of the Patriot Front gang outed JLVD as their Thanksgiving host posting photos of the event on their social media channels. We just cross-referenced these with Google Maps.

-JLVD shares location for his firearms and law businesses on Google Maps.
Nov 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1/ You might be wondering why a white supremacist like Nick Fuentes is hanging out with a Black guy, Ye (formerly known as Kanye).

Before he deleted a whole lot of his Telegram timeline this week, failed candidate @SenMastriano’s racist consultant Andrew Torba told us why 👇🏻 2/ Setting aside Nick Fuentes’ long time Kanye cosplay for a moment (you can Google that) — it’s about finding themselves a new version of Trump.

Ye is just this cycle’s useful idiot that these racist proponents of genocide can use to mainstream anti-Semitic rhetoric.
Oct 23, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1/x Veterans with @TeamTFButler just completed an intelligence gathering mission on neo-nazi gangs Patriot Front and Aryan Freedom Network in TX.

THANK YOU to all the donors who made this possible!

Thanks also to neo-nazis for being idiots and making this easy.

New intel below 2/ We can confirm that both previously revealed Patriot Front headquarters locations, in Grapevine and Haslet, are now vacant.

Rousseau family — Chris and Thomas — apparently unpopular, so locals had a lot to say.

Rousseau owns, but abandoned decrepit Grapevine property.
Oct 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
After the last few days in Texas with @TeamTFButler tracking down + documenting neo-nazi groups, I’m pretty certain that “polarization” isn’t the right word to describe what’s happening here.

Trump-affiliate candidates are using the SAME eliminationist language as the neo-nazis. 2/ At this weekend’s neo-nazi conference, scores of white supremacists gathered from around the country to talk about their fight against diversity in America in apocalyptic, good vs. evil terms.
Aug 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 Just a short while ago the neo-nazi cult Patriot Front attempted to perform an in-person interview with a prospect in California at a @Starbucks in San Jose.

It didn't go well for them.

PF and Tommy Rousseau watch their mentions, so my operator asked me to pass a message: 2/ My operator was sitting down with neo-nazi cult Network Director "Chris CA" inside the Starbucks as several PF members cased the place from outside.

Though not in PF uniforms, they stood out. They didn't notice my team.

And "we definitely did not gather actionable evidence."
Aug 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, @USArmy Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard filling in for white nationalist @TuckerCarlson tonight on Fox.

Tonight she’s on taking about how “we the people” need to stand up against the “intelligence community and security state.” 2/ Tulsi’s teaser before the break — nonsense fear-mongering aimed at your crazy uncle about how Joe Biden’s sanctions against Russia is going to lead to widespread blackouts in the USA.
Aug 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
This should be no surprise to anyone, but Ricky Shiffer, the attempted FBI shooter, was another @MrAndyNgo reply-guy.

How many mass-shooters or attempted mass shooters is that now who love Andy? The attempted FBI shooter Ricky Shiffer also had some notable replies to:

@DineshDSouza - shooter was motivated by "Groomer" slur against LGBTQ+ community

@RepMTG - shooter motivated by Election Lie

@DonaldJTrumpJr - motivated to use social media by Trump Sr.
Jun 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 Just after the #January6thHearings...

TODAY Philly DA is announcing new charges against Joshua Macias of Vets for Trump:

-Attempted Interference with Primaries and Elections
-Hindering the Performance of a Duty
-Criminal Conspiracy
-Violations of the Uniform Firearms Act. 2/ I've been tracking Macias since 2019, when I found him to have attempted to conspire with foreign elements to interfere in the 2020 election.

washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
Jun 11, 2022 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
Hey look, Tommy Rousseau’s neo-nazi cult has a new uniform item! Matching bracelets! And no more masks allowed for Patriot Front members! Take off them hoods, boys!

AND WELCOME TO MY DATABASE!
Jun 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Ah yes, the privilege of spending my entire adult life suffering the effects of burn pit illness for spending the end of my teenage years in a warzone. Thank you for your service, Bethany. Fwiw, @bethanyshondark, my cousin died of a super rare brain cancer after coming home from Iraq. Same rare cancer that killed Sgt Vela, who I deployed with in 2005, and lived in the plume of a burnpit with for the whole year. I’ve had three surgeries to repair my sinuses.
Mar 8, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Two people in this article’s photo have been charged with Conspiracy related to Jan 6 attack on Capitol:

1. Elmer Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers

2. Henry Enrique Tarrio of Proud Boys

Not charged:

Man facing away, Joshua Macias, founder of Vets for Trump
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/… 2/x NOTE: Sorry, I had to delete prior thread to correct "conspiracy" charge. I wrote "seditious conspiracy" the first time, which was not accurate.
Jan 21, 2022 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
🧵 According to leaked audio obtained by anonymous anti-fascist activists who infiltrated Patriot Front, the violent extremist gang may show up at today's #MarchforLife2022 event.

If you're in DC, you can help show they're unwelcome. Tips in this thread:

dailydot.com/debug/patriot-… 2/ At the recent Chicago M4L event, Patriot Front and their leader Tommy Rousseau showed up and were rejected and heckled by right-wing participants in the march for being racists.

Trump-friendly media has also convinced a lot of them Patriot Front are a "Fed Op."
Dec 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A school board meeting in Florida was evacuated last night after a Proud Boy attacked someone.

This particular PB has a rap sheet which includes carrying a concealed unlicensed firearm and trying to fight cops.

But don’t worry, Gov @RonDeSantisFL is helping… sue teachers? Clarification: Wednesday night - Dec 15. I didn't take "Miami time" + my insomnia into account.
Dec 4, 2021 • 31 tweets • 12 min read
If you’re in the DC area and see Penske, UHaul, or similar trucks that aren’t filled with freight, take out your camera and start filming. That’s how the Patriot Front typically gets in and out of the city. They’re likely staying at a private residence in nearby rural/suburbs. Moving trucks will be noticeable because they’ll be staged together or traveling in a convoy. The trucks, if moving, are likely to have dozens of men inside at the moment. If @DCPoliceDept pulls them over — unmask to identify members of the nation’s most active hate group.
Dec 2, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: Last night nazis of Charlottesville-riot-infamy instructed thousands of followers to mass-report accounts of 48 journalists, anti-racist activists, + anti-fascist researchers for retroactive "violations" of @TwitterSafety's new "Private Information Policy." Some down already Check @chadloder's thread here for a list of accounts impacted by the nazi-led harassment campaign. It's pretty telling that even tweets in that very thread have been taking down for violating Twitter's new rules:

Nov 11, 2021 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
My childhood dream of Army service became a living nightmare. At 19, my job was to document torture, death. Mutilated human faces stuck in my mind's eye. It left me incredibly vulnerable in so many ways.

I've been lucky to find other ways to serve, heal.

washingtonpost.com/national-secur… 2/ For years after I got out of the Army I had frequent, incredibly vivid nightmares of my friends getting hurt or killed. It quickly reached a point where I couldn't remember which of my friends were casualties in real life.