Morning Briefing: White Nationalists Spread Propaganda from Texas to Alaska
Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, has been spreading White Supremacist propaganda from Texas to Alaska.
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Morning Briefing: In Haines, Alaska, there were reportedly “multiple stickers with the name and slogans of a white supremacist group were found posted around downtown,” and they are the latest examples of the spread of racist propaganda being distributed by Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group.
In the weeks after the catastrophic flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country, Patriot Front claimed to be providing relief efforts in the areas of state affected by the flash floods — prioritizing giving supplies to their “people.”
In recent weeks, members of Patriot Front have distributed White Supremacist propaganda in Brea, Pasadena, Tustin, and Valencia, California; Arvada, Fort Morgan, and Lakewood, Colorado; Chelmsford and Concord, Massachusetts; Saint Paul, Minnesota; Omaha, Nebraska; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Richmond, Virginia.
Patriot Front propaganda has also recently been reported in Loomis, California; Quincy, Massachusetts; and Ogden, Utah.
In San Diego, California, local law enforcement is reportedly “investigating a possible hate crime after a rainbow-painted fence at a Scripps Ranch home was vandalized with a homophobic slur,” and “past incidents have included flags being torn down and slurs spray-painted on the fence.”
Domagoj Patkovic was sentenced to “60 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to make threats and conveying false information about explosives,” as Patkovic was previously convicted for “hoax bomb threat phone calls to historically Jewish hospitals and care centers in New York City and on Long Island,” according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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OMG! Ogden Utah is my hometown! I hope the good Christian Mormans rise up and "convert" these thugs! 😡