Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazi White Supremacists Terror Network 'Rebuilding Its Global and Stateside Ranks'
The Base, the neo-Nazi White Supremacist terrorist network, is reportedly reorganizing and 'appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right.'
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Morning Briefing: The Base, the neo-Nazi White Supremacists terrorists group, is reportedly “quickly rebuilding its global and stateside ranks, according to information obtained by The Guardian,” and in recorded audio the new leader of The Base “preached covert action and quiet preparations for armed cells throughout the US rather than flashy activism.”
Members of Patriot Front, the neo-fascists White Nationalist group, this weekend reportedly “rallied near the Massachusetts State House,” and a video posted online “showed around a dozen of the masked individuals, wearing khakis, navy shirts, and baseball caps, carrying flags and walking down Cambridge Street.”
In Dayton, Ohio, residents of a Vandalia neighborhood reportedly found “flyers from the KKK distributed along the street,” and several flyers apparently “advertise a specific chapter of the hate group, the Trinity White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, with groups in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.”
An independent consulting firm will reportedly be “reviewing the actions of a police agency that responded to the neo-Nazi demonstration near Cincinnati earlier this month,” and the firm will also be tasked with "provide insights and recommendations on best practice law enforcement in today’s ever-changing political and social landscape."
In Bremerton, Washington, there were multiple reports of racists propaganda in several neighborhoods that were apparently distributed by White Lives Matter, a network of White Nationalists groups, and several stickers included “either a QR code or URL link at the bottom, directing individuals to join their channel on Telegram.”
In San Leandro, California, community members are reportedly “rallying behind a woman who may have been the subject of a hate crime,” as Sonia Reed “reported a racist phrase spray-painted on her fence last week.”
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Stephen Starr writes that “Recently, long-dormant white supremacist activity has ramped up in northern Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. A gathering of KKK members at a ‘Klan grounds’ in northern Indiana was organized last Saturday, according to flyers distributed across Kentucky last month by the Trinity White Knights faction. An hour’s drive north-west of Maysville, in Ludlow, Kentucky, flyers depicting an ‘Uncle Sam’ figure kicking a Muslim family and the words ‘Leave now. Avoid deportation’ and calling for people to ‘track and monitor’ immigrants were found on the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration last month. Flyers have also been distributed by the Trinity White Knights group in Indiana and east Tennessee in recent weeks. A call to a phone number printed on the flyers was answered by recorded voicemail that describes a way for people to join the group and said: ‘Come stand with us and help fight illegal immigration, homosexuality, and every other form of wickedness and lawlessness,’ among other racist troupes. While the extremists’ messaging is protected under first amendment rights, their actions have not been without consequence for cities and communities. A May 2019 rally held in Dayton, Ohio, and attended by nine KKK members from Indiana cost the city $650,000 in police pay. This month, the Republican mayor of Springfield, a town 30 minutes from Dayton where a growing Haitian community has been targeted by Trump and extremist groups, announced that the city is suing Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi hate group, for ‘engaging in, and inciting, a campaign of harassment and intimidation, motivated by ethnic and racial hatred, against those who supported Springfield’s Haitian community’.” [The Guardian]
Zeeshan Aleem writes that Steven Bannon’s Nazi salute “serves as a signaling device to attract the most noxious, militant and overtly fascistic elements of the American far right to support the president. In his speech, Bannon addressed his audience as ‘the tip of the tip of the spear of the populist nationalist movement,’ celebrated the release of Jan. 6 prisoners and said, ‘We want Trump in ’28.’ Put it all together and Bannon is inviting extremists to mobilize on behalf of Trump’s authoritarian project on a level previously unseen. Even if we were to understand Bannon’s gesture as ‘trolling,’ it is still an insidious strategy that carnivalizes Nazism. Even as a winking reference to Musk’s odd, disturbing gesture (whose darkest implications Musk refused to fully repudiate), it still radiates an ease and playfulness toward Nazi iconography. Why choose this specific gesture, a clear reference to the most universally acknowledged symbol of Nazism other than the swastika, as a ‘joke’ to ‘troll the media’ or ‘own the libs’? It still has the effect of making fascism and white supremacy look less ominous and less taboo, and maybe for some on the right, a little more intriguing than before… Bannon’s gesture doesn’t mean he is a Nazi nor does it signify a wholesale defense of Nazi ideals. But it does mean he is willing to play around with the aura and symbology of Nazism to achieve his political goals. At any level of interpretation, Bannon’s gesture is abhorrent, and it speaks volumes about his political movement if he retains power within it.” [MSNBC]
Kiera Butler writes that “Earlier this month, Kristan Hawkins, head of the influential anti-abortion group Students for Life of America, told her 85,000 followers on X that a particularly militant faction of anti-abortion activists worried her more than pro-choice protesters. ‘The sad thing is the people I fear getting shot by, most of the time, aren’t crazy Leftists (most of them don’t have guns or how to use them, lol)…but ‘abolitionists,’’ she posted. ‘Think about that.’ The post appeared to be in response to allegations that Hawkins and other pro-life leaders had thwarted a recent bill in North Dakota that would have criminalized abortion. Those accusations came from the group that Hawkins mentioned in her tweet: ‘abolitionists,’ or activists who believe that abortion should be completely illegal with no exceptions. Since the Supreme Court ended federal protection for abortion access with its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022, abolitionists have been pushing to criminalize abortion, with some of the most zealous arguing that the termination of a pregnancy should be considered a homicide and punished with the full force of the law.” [Mother Jones]
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Why is it that all the tough big boy Nazis hide their faces? It’s like they are worried that we would recognize them and call them out. Or that we’d knock the shit out of them? Ironically we’d do both and they know it.
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Everyone. BE AWARE and SHARE!!
Patel is not going to tell you this!!!!