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1) @MassGovernor Charlie Baker has been in the news lately for supporting @DiehlForSenate.
Did you know Diehl follows @Resist_Marxism spokesman @_LilMike93_ (Michael Moura) with his official account?
He only follows fraction of his followers.
Let's talk about Moura. (Thread)pic.twitter.com/75koD6LCOR
2) I covered @_LilMike93_ previously.
In this photo, he's part of a masked @Boston_FS group disrupting a pro-immigrant rally. Lots more in the thread!
It's consistent with @DiehlForSenate's anti-immigrant views but how does @MassGovernor feel about it? https://bit.ly/2QY4c2e
3) It's not the only time @_LilMike93_ has tried to disrupt a pro-immigrant demonstration.
Here he is (US flag) with a group that showed up at May Day.pic.twitter.com/xdlFBP6FAk
4) The two jabronis kneeling and flashing "ok" signs, by the way, are Patriot Front member Matt Smaller and male supremacist/@MarxWatch goon Trevor Carey, who I've threaded on in the past: https://twitter.com/AntiFashGordon/status/1043135860869410816 …pic.twitter.com/RisB7rpYmW
5) On 7/7, he went to this small @Resist_Marxism rally in NYC to hobnob with people like Proud Boy Jovi Val, Unite the Right 2 organizers Kat Snyder and Al Stankard, Anticom/Resist Marxism/211 Bootboys associate Gabriel Brown. https://twitter.com/stopthenextutr/status/1015706925625995264 …
6) On August 18 he was in the "blue bloc" standing shoulder to shoulder with American Guard Connecticut vice-president Jason Muscara - that's him on the left.pic.twitter.com/id8DrGX6dt
7) A reminder of what American Guard is:https://www.adl.org/blog/behind-the-american-guard-hardcore-white-supremacists …
8) Here's Michael Moura on 10/6 in Providence, again right next to American Guard Connecticut vice-president Jason Muscara. Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson is the left, and the racist viking in-between is Rhode Island American Guard President George Avery.pic.twitter.com/oyODtxwM1c
9) I documented the neo-Nazi ties of George, the Rhode Island American Guard, and the New Hampshire American Guard here: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1048190868283375616 … Michael Moura still rallied with them on 10/6.
10) He's also friends with Holocaust denier Augustus Invictus, one of the speakers at the first Unite the Rally in Charlottesville.pic.twitter.com/EOIWsuDHMK
11) Mainstream GOP candidates say that they're not affiliated with the far-right, but there's a whole class of connectors who serve to bridge the gap mainstream conservatives with white supremacist groups like the American Guard. Michael Moura is one of those people.
12) @beccalew wrote about this phenomenon in the alt-right media sphere in an incredible report for @datasociety report.
This is a map she made of those connections.
If you haven't, go read the whole thing now: https://datasociety.net/output/alternative-influence/ …pic.twitter.com/2KYQBqbfev
13) People like Michael Moura are the connection between mainstream GOP politicians like @MassGovernor Charlie Baker, further-right candidates like @DiehlForSenate, and documented white supremacist groups like the American Guard.
14) Once you start noticing these connections, they're impossible to ignore.
Journalist @_grendan just documented the rise of the Proud Boys as "the militant wing of the Republican party":https://thebaffler.com/latest/boys-to-men-oconnor …
15) The Miami Proud Boys, alongside the Chairman of the Miami GOP, just led what the media called a "mob-style protest" of Nancy Pelosi:https://splinternews.com/miami-gop-chairman-and-proud-boys-led-mob-style-protest-1829886046 …
16) This isn't because fascists and conservatives are the same thing. Historically, this has been because conservatives have sought to use fascists, but then been overwhelmed by Brownshirt gangs. But the end result of conservative hubris has always been the same-- fascism.
17) Don't fall for that shit. You hang with fascists, you're a fascist. You hang with white supremacists, you're a white supremacist. It's as easy as that. </thread>
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