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Patriot Front members believe themselves to be the ruling heirs to the continent by dint of their racial connection to its European colonizers and consider their racial identity essential to American identity more broadly. The torch of revolution has been lit.īiden’s getting a lot done, the Dems are finding their footing, and Joe Manchin is… The resurgence of the American Spirit will bring with it the death of tyranny. Democracy has failed this once great nation. The damage done to the nation will not be fixed with the approval of the dysfunctional system which remains American in name only. Patriot Front inherits both its style and its ideology from these figures and movements, and their manifesto states their goals unequivocally: They call for an active overthrow of the government. And while it’s tempting to compare every American fascist group to the Nazis, the United States has its own white supremacist and fascist tradition that ranges from the Second Klan to Father Coughlin to the original America First movement and Charles Lindbergh, who gave a speech on Septemthat blamed World War II on the Jews. Rousseau brought other members of the group along with him when he founded Patriot Front.Īs an offshoot of an older neo-Nazi group, Patriot Front locates itself in a long history of open neo-Nazism in America, from George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party of the ‘60s and ‘70s to the Aryan Nations of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Marching in their characteristic uniform of slacks and white polo shirts, Vanguard members made their neo-Nazi ideology unmissable with chants of “Blood and Soil.” Rousseau was among them, but broke off from Vanguard to escape negative associations following the murder of Heather Heyer by a Vanguard-adjacent rally participant. Vanguard might not be a familiar name, but images of their members were broadcast all over the world during coverage of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. Thirty-one Patriot Front members from across the country have been charged with conspiracy to riot including Thomas Rousseau, who founded the group in 2017 after breaking off from Vanguard America.

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Images of the men, kneeling and zip tied in a field next to their truck, spread quickly on social media:

Packed tightly into the back of a rented U-Haul truck with their flags and weapons, members of the accelerationist fascist group were en route to the Coeur d’Alene Pride rally when they were pulled over and arrested police made the stop on the basis of a tip from local residents. Their energies are now being focused on another goal: prosecuting a renewed culture war against sexual minorities. The arrest of dozens of members of extremist group Patriot Front over the weekend shines a light on the new agenda for the militant factions of the far right. In June 2022, however, their goals have shifted. 6, 2021, their goal was to overturn the results of the recent presidential election.

Days before the hearing, the Department of Justice indicted former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four other members of the group on charges of seditious conspiracy and other offenses, while members of the Oath Keepers, including leader Stewart Rhodes, were arrested on similar charges earlier in the year.Īs has been the case at other times in history when political instability has drawn extremist groups into open street-fighting-a Proud Boys calling card-these groups represent the sharp end of the ax that the far right is driving into American society.

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The 20 million people who tuned in to the prime-time January 6 Committee hearing last week saw proof that right-wing extremist groups played an essential role in planning and executing the attack-specifically, the Oath Keepers, who entered the Capitol in two “stacks” wearing full tactical gear, and the Proud Boys, whose preparations for violence were recorded by documentary filmmaker Nick Quested.

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