Morning Briefing: Patriot Front Spreads White Nationalist Propaganda From Washington to New Hampshire
Morning Briefing: Patriot Front Spreads White Nationalist Propaganda From Washington to New Hampshire
Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, has targeted communities around the country with White Nationalist propaganda — increasing using antisemitic messaging.
Morning Briefing: Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, has targeted communities around the country with White Nationalist propaganda. The group has also increasing used antisemitic messaging, in response to the Israel-Hamas war. The group claims that network of chapters are “rapidly expanding across the country,” and multiple network chapters hosted gatherings during the Thanksgiving holidays.
In addition to spreading propaganda in the former of placing stickers or spray-painting stencils in public areas, the group also conducted “training” sessions at undisclosed locations in Corona, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Grand Forks, North Dakota; and in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. These “trainings” are increasingly resembling the activities of the Active Club Network and the Rise Above Movement — signaling an increasing focus on extremist violence.
In recent weeks, members of Patriot Front distributed propaganda in several communities including Birmingham, Chelsea, Homewood, Mobile, and Trussville, Alabama; Norco, California; Denver, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Bay City, Midland, and South Lyon, Michigan; Crystal Springs, Meridian, and Starkville, Mississippi; Camdenton and St. Louis, Missouri; Londonderry and Manchester, New Hampshire; Asheville, North Carolina; Fargo, North Dakota; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Bountiful, Utah; Alexandria and Fredericksburg, Virginia; and Liberty Lake, and Yakima, Washington.
Patriot Front propaganda was recently reportedly found on the campus of Purdue University, and the “incident appears to be a part of a sporadic pattern of similar stickers going up around campus.” The group has strategically targeted college campuses for spreading propaganda and recruitment of new members, and members recently distributed flyers outside of an event sponsored by the right-wing group Turning Point USA on the campus of Missouri State University.
The names of at least two police officers on the Bayside Police Department and one police officer on the Milwaukee Police Department are reportedly on the “leaked membership list for the far-right, anti-government group the Oath Keepers.”
Nathan Pelham, a member of the far right violent extremist street gang the Proud Boys, was reportedly sentenced to two years in prison for taking part in the Capitol Riot and for shooting at a “law enforcement officers this year after the FBI asked him to surrender.”
Federal prosecutors are reportedly “seeking a 12-year, seven-month prison sentence” for Alan Hostetter, a former police chief who participated in the Capitol Riot. Law enforcement reportedly arrested David Daniel for taking part in the Capitol Riot, and has been “charged with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers along with civil disorder.”
Students at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School reportedly staged a protest of Professor Amy Wax, in opposition to the professor’s “invitation of white nationalist Jared Taylor as a guest speaker.”
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