EXCLUSIVE: I’ve got a big story for you about a national network of neo-Nazi teenagers engaged in a multi-state campaign to terrorize Jews, Black people and LGBTQ+ folks.

Meet 2119, also known as Blood and Soil Crew. @RawStory /1 rawstory.com/raw-investigat… Blood and Soil Crew first came across my radar while combing Terrorgram channels where users celebrated the electrical substation attack in Moore County, NC.

At the time, harassment of drag shows by an array of far-right actors was mounting. /2

REVEALED: @RawStory has identified the Nazi wearing a shirt celebrating the Einsatzgruppen death squad outside a drag story hour in NC last month.

He's Jarrett Smith, who served a prison sentence for distributing bomb-making instructions online. /1
rawstory.com/raw-investigat…
Smith coordinated on Telegram to meet up with five other men active in neo-Nazi organizing, most of whom wore matching skull masks, before marching to the protest outside a yoga center in Sanford, NC on Oct. 15. /2

EXCLUSIVE: Court docs reviewed by @RawStory show the government saying investigators found "what appeared to be classified material" on a hard drive owned by Marine Corps veteran Jordan Duncan, who was allegedly involved in a neo-Nazi terror plot. /1 rawstory.com/raw-investigat… Duncan has been jailed since October 2020 on a host of charges in which the government alleges that he and 4 codefendants conspired "to attack the power grid" to provide cover for an assassination campaign against BLM founders and Democratic pols. /2 rawstory.com/power-grid/

EXCLUSIVE: Police pulled over a carload of neo-Nazis following a protest against a drag show in Cookeville, TN, but let them go w/out charging a man w/ a pistol strapped to his hip who threw admitted to throwing a stink bomb at counter-protesters /1 rawstory.com/raw-investigat… The driver of the vehicle, Sean Kauffmann, is a notorious white supremacist who has promoted mass shootings, advocated for rape & communicated w/ convicted terrorist Jarrett William Smith (H/T @gwensnyderPHL). But the lead officer concluded that Kauffmann didn't want violence. /2

NEW: I went to DC on 12/12/20 to track the Proud Boys, but the most interesting & complicated person I found was Ali Alexander.

He built the infrastructure for protest movement that brought hundreds of thousands of rage-filled Trump supporters to DC. /1
rawstory.com/raw-investigat… Alexander has hedged some of his provocative rhetoric by saying that he's "prone to hyperbole, exaggeration and victory laps."

But he's on record as saying, "I started a riot for the sitting president of the United States." /2

#Exclusive from @RawStory:

Brian Gamble, QAnon promoter & Michael Flynn associate, showed up early at the barricades outside the Capitol on #Jan6th. He & friend Tim Hart were on the front lines of the group that pushed through the first police line /1 rawstory.com/brian-gamble/ Hart, who currently faces 2 felonies for his role in the Capitol attack, reported back to the Patriot Soapbox after he & Gamble returned to their hotel room on #Jan6th.

"They weren't very prepared, were they? We were like, 'Man, that looks like a weak spot there.'" /2

I was monitoring Proud Boy leader Jeremy Bertino's Parler account on Jan. 6. Today, he pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, & is set to serve as the star witness in the government's prosecution /1

From @BobBrigham and myself at @RawStory
rawstory.com/proud-boys-sed… Bertino was among the most militant of the Proud Boys cohort that planned the attack on the Capitol. In December 2020, he posted on Parler: "We will form the greatest greatest army of patriots the world has ever seen." /2

From the Oath Keepers' pretrial conference. Judge Amit Mehta shoots down Stewart Rhodes' claim that he hasn't had access to discovery. "That is flat-out a false statement. #OathKeepers #January6thInsurrection Judge Mehta also rejects Rhodes' request for a special master to oversee discovery.

"The idea that you would want to inject a special master a week before the trial is mystifying. You told me last week that you were here in good faith. I'm beginning to question that."

First in a three-part series from @RawStory:

Staci Burk was drawn into a conspiracy theory revolving around ballots and planes after the 2020 election. Her effort to get answers propelled her into the orbit of Michael Flynn & Sidney Powell. rawstory.com/staci-burk-265… After Staci Burk passed along a tip about a FedEx supervisor's claim about illegal ballots to AZ politicians, her home security system was breached. State Rep. Kelly Townsend introduced Burk to 3%er Marko Trickovic. rawstory.com/staci-burk-265…

#Exclusive: 1/ Audio obtained by @RawStory captures a social media strategist who mobilized Trump supporters to go to DC on Jan. 6 signaling he was aware of plans by militia groups during a conference call a week before the siege of the Capitol.

rawstory.com/in-pre-jan-6-c… 2/ “There’s dates floating around for some of the people in the militia, okay?” Jason Sullivan said during the Dec. 30, 2020 conference call. “They will not allow Biden to go into the White House." rawstory.com/in-pre-jan-6-c…

#Exclusive from @RawStory:

1. Here's the as-yet untold story of how Robert Caron of JTG MAGA connected the "ShadowGate" conspiracy theorists to journalist Lara Logan, and how they wound up in DC to assist in the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
rawstory.com/lara-logan-cap… 2. "They knew Nov. 3 was going to happen, let alone Jan. 6. They were setting all these scams up. It sure seems like they were putting these things in place at least three months ahead of time to be able to prepare for Trump's loss." — Patrick Bergy, "ShadowGate" whistleblower

1/ H/T @kyledcheney — DOJ revealed in a filing last night that "it may seek to charge several additional defendants and/or seek to add new charges" in the Proud Boys conspiracy case. 2/ As DOJ's filing notes, any new charges would be "based in part on evidence seized on March 8, 2022." As previously reported by @RawStory, the feds raided the home of Proud Boy Jeremy Bertino on that day. rawstory.com/jeremy-bertino/

#Thread

I’m at the Hagerstown Speedway for the #TruckersConvoy rally. Hard to say how many people are here but it’s definitely hundreds. 2/ Organizer Brian Brase is vague about what will happen tomorrow. “What that is, is yet to be determined. Bear with us.”

Big news from the trucker convoy:

1/ The People's Convoy (the largest organization) has officially "cut ties" with Leigh Dundas, an anti-vax lawyer who was involved with the Jan. 6 insurrection. 2/ For background on Dundas' involvement, the People's Convoy joined forces with her in early February, & they met on Zoom to iron out logistics. Here's Dundas on 2/4: "US convoy coming soon.... I'm working with a lot of different trucking factions over the next 48 hours here."

#BreakingNews — exclusive from @RawStory

The "state lead" for the Peoples Maryland/Virginia Convoy Telegram channel is a Proud Boy who attended the Jan. 23 anti-vax rally. He describes a "military operation" to supply the convoy once it reaches DC. rawstory.com/proud-boys-265… "Ghost" is a member of the Maryland DC Proud Boys, one of three chapters with accelerationist tendencies that our three-part series is examining. Here's the second installment, which ran this morning.

https://twitter.com/jordangreennc/status/1493945236397215744

20 reflections on Darryl Hunt:

1/ The wrongful conviction of Darryl Hunt, a Black man falsely accused of murdering a white woman, and the 19 years he spent in prison, is an emblem of the deeply entrenched racism that has disfigured Winston-Salem, NC. (photo via @JournalNow) 2/ In its own way, the Darryl Hunt saga is an equivalent trauma to what the Greensboro Massacre inflicted on its neighbor 30 miles to the east.

Whoa! Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and nine other Oath Keepers members charged with seditious conspiracy justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/lea… Correction: Rhodes and 10 other Oath Keepers charged w/ seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 assault. Also newly charged is Edward Vallejo of Phoenix

Just now learning about the passing of Signe Waller Foxworth, a survivor of the Greensboro Massacre. Her son, Alex, said I could share the news on Twitter. She will be missed by many. #restinpower /1 Jim Waller, Signe's husband, was one of five people killed by the Klan and Nazis in 1979. Signe to continued to struggle for tikkun olam, racial justice and climate justice, alongside her new husband Bob Foxworth in Greensboro. /2

Catching up on the news from two days ago that Frank Scavo, a Jan. 6 defendant from NE Pennsylvania, has cut a plea deal w/ the govt.

As part of his plea, Scavo agrees to cooperate w/ law enforcement. /1 Noting for posterity that Frank Scavo spoke at a 12/29 rally at Tommy Gun Warehouse w/ Rod of Iron Ministries leader Sean Moon & Vets for Trump officer Teddy Daniels. Steve Bannon was also a featured speaker. /2 rawstory.com/rod-of-iron-mi…

#January6th update: In a filing opposing defendant Edward Lang's motion for release, the govt alleges that Lang repeatedly kicked an officer identified as "Sgt. JM" as he was stuck against the door inside the Lower West Terrace tunnel. Here's a still from a video that, according to the govt, shows Edward Lang kicking Sgt. JM. "Around 2:57 p.m., Lang and another rioter violently pushed a door against an officer's head and Lang simultaneously kicked at that officer." #January6th

THREAD: The feds have taken note of Capitol rioter Jeffrey Grace's involvement in clashes w/ antifascists in Portland, OR this past weekend, & are requesting that his conditions of release be modified to prohibit "possession of firearms, weapons or destructive devices." /1 The government's motion notes that during his initial interview w/ the FBI, Grace "denied membership with other organizations, including the Proud Boys," & then goes on to say "the investigation also revealed that Grace was an active member of the Proud Boys." /2