Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazi Charged with Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material
A member of Nationalist Social Club, a neo-Nazi group which has targeted drag queen story hours, has been charged with possession of child sexual abuse material.
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Morning Briefing: A member of the Nationalist Social Club (NSC-131), a neo-Nazi White Supremacists group, known for disrupting drag queen story hours has reportedly “been charged with possessing child pornography.” Stephen Farrea became the target of investigation “after receiving credible information he may possess child pornography.”
Farrea, a former Martine who was “discharged after his online advocacy for white supremacy” was previously “charged in connection with posting white nationalist flyers in East Providence,” was released on $5,000 bail and is set to appear in court again for a hearing on June 4.
In Chattanooga, Tennessee, local law enforcement is reportedly “investigating graffiti that was left on the walls of Highway 27 near the Manufacturers Road exit,” and the graffiti was created by members of Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group.
An unnamed member of a White Supremacist group was reportedly arrested by local law enforcement “after swastikas and hate messages were spray painted on five Sylvan Park area homes in Nashville last year,” and “surveillance video from the vandalism showed two people in masks when the vandalism occurred.”
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Brandy Zadrozny writes that “more than 150 fake local news websites pushing Russian propaganda to U.S. audiences are connected to John Mark Dougan, an American former law enforcement officer living in Moscow, according to a research report published Wednesday by NewsGuard, a firm that monitors misinformation. The websites, with names like DC Weekly, New York News Daily and Boston Times, look similar to those of legitimate local news outlets and have already succeeded in spreading a number of false stories surrounding the war in Ukraine. Experts warn they could be used to launder disinformation about the 2024 election. In an interview over WhatsApp, Dougan denied involvement with the websites. ‘Never heard of them,’ he said. Dougan, a former Marine and police officer, fled his home in Florida in 2016 to evade criminal charges related to a massive doxxing campaign he was accused of launching against public officials and was given asylum by the Russian government. Most recently, Dougan has posed as a journalist in Ukraine’s Donbas region, testifying at Russian public hearings and making frequent appearances on Russian state TV.” [NBC News]
Khaya Himmelman writes that True the Vote “developed IV3 in the aftermath of the 2020 election, after it helped spread lies about ballot stuffing in that election. It is now being used by True the Vote ahead of 2024 to perpetuate the false narrative that non-citizens will cast ballots in November, the conspiracy theory du jour for those helping Donald Trump lay the groundwork for another election challenge if he loses in the fall. True the Vote, experts told TPM, is not merely trying to ‘work on the voter rolls’ — states already have systems in place to ensure accuracy. Rather the group is attempting to arm regular citizens who likely don’t have much familiarity with voter list maintenance, with a tool to patrol fellow voters and mount baseless challenges to election officials. True the Group, among other Big Lie conspiracy theory groups, are encouraging voters to participate in a ‘citizen-led effort’ to ‘to ensure the accuracy of our nation’s voter rolls’ using a technology that purports to identify ineligible voters. But the technology is flawed and is especially dangerous in that it encourages voters to file baseless voter eligibility complaints, flooding under resourced election offices with voter challenge.” [Talking Points Memo]
Robert Downen writes that at the Texas Republican Party convention “delegates adopted a series of new policies that would give the party unprecedented control over the electoral process and further infuse Christianity into public life. Delegates approved rules that ban Republican candidates — as well as judges — who are censured by the party from appearing on primary ballots for two years, a move that would give a small group of Republicans the ability to block people from running for office, should it survive expected legal challenges. The party’s proposed platform also included planks that would effectively lock Democrats out of statewide office by requiring candidates to win a majority of Texas’ 254 counties, many of which are dark-red but sparsely populated, and called for laws requiring the Bible to be taught in public schools. Those moves, delegates and leaders agreed, were necessary amid what they say is an existential fight with a host of perceived enemies, be it liberals trying to indoctrinate their children through ‘gender ideology’ and Critical Race Theory, or globalists waging a war on Christianity through migration. [Texas Tribune]
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