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Today over 100 neo-Nazis with the group "Patriot Front," led by Thomas Rousseau of Texas, marched today in #DC. The event was not promoted online. Patriot Front grew out of the same neo-Nazi message board, Iron March, which spawned Atomwaffen. A thread.https://itsgoingdown.org/18-year-old-thomas-rousseau-rebranding-nazis-patriots/ …
Patriot Front is best known for being the post-Unite the Right rebrand of Vanguard America, the organization that Heather Heyer's killer, James Alex Fields, Jr, marched with in Charlottesville. Seen here with a VA shield, standing next to Patriot Front leader, Thomas Rousseau.pic.twitter.com/eO5ZSFojiY
But the group goes back further, to the neo-Nazi messageboard "Iron March." From this board, various fascist groups formed, most famous being the Atomwaffen Division, which is linked to several murders and attempted bomb attacks.https://itsgoingdown.org/how-cops-let-neo-nazi-leader-found-with-dirty-bomb-walk-away/ …
The neo-Nazi Iron March forum also made its way into the spotlight when antifascists released an archive of all of the posts from the website, tying it to people's personal emails and also releasing their private messages.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/07/neo-nazi-site-iron-march-materials-leak …
Along with Atomwaffen, another neo-Nazi group that grew out of Iron March was American Vanguard. Best known for tricking random people at bars into holding up its flag in an effort to boost its image online. Told people it was to "support veterans."https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/alt-right-group-pose-as-veterans-group-bar-says …
The group folded after one of it's leaders, "Ghoul," was exposed for offering to give IGD information in return for an article about him being taken off our website.https://itsgoingdown.org/loose-lips-american-vanguard-trs-show-us-just-weak-fractured-alt-right-really/ …
Some within the Alt-Right later accused Ghoul of pressuring young, underage white nationalist men into having sex with him at various far-Right events.https://itsgoingdown.org/alt-right-agrees-members-pizzagating-young-boys/ …
Thanks to Ghoul, American Vanguard soon folded, only to be re-booted as Vanguard America, which was led by Dillon Ulysses Hopper, a former marine corps recruiter.https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2017/08/15/white-supremacist-group-leader-is-former-marine-recruiter/ …
Around this same time, Vanguard America joined the "Nationalist Front," which included neo-Nazi skinhead gangs like Aryan Terror Brigade, neo-Nazi groups like the National Socialist Movement, KKK organizations, and neo-Confederate groups like League of the South.pic.twitter.com/TSzDdWVPHt
The Nationalist Front was headed by Matthew Heimbach of the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP). Heimbach's group would later implode after he was arrested for physically attacking his wife in front of his child, following his affair with his step-mother-in-law being revealed.pic.twitter.com/M4RR15a2lQ
Vanguard America participated in several large neo-Nazi rallies. One in Pikeville, Kentucky, saw the group openly giving neo-Nazi salutes.pic.twitter.com/RS5lot5w6c
Only months later, Vanguard America marched in Charlottesville. Among them was James Alex Fields, who was go on to murder Heather Heyer with his car.pic.twitter.com/romoU57mal
Also among them was Colton Fears, who would go on to be arrested for domestic abuse and also for attempting to murder several antifascist protesters in Florida waiting at a bus stop following a Richard Spencer speaking event.https://www.wuft.org/news/2019/03/19/colton-fears-receives-prison-sentence-in-shooting-incident-that-followed-richard-spencer-event/ …
Following Unite the Right, a then 18 year old Thomas Rousseau, won control over the group, and launched a re-branding of a re-branded neo-Nazi group, now called Patriot Front.pic.twitter.com/y25XfhHa3N
Unlike Vanguard America which embraced an optics of "national socialism," Patriot Front instead worked hard to appeal to the Patriot Movement and the Alt-Light; cloaking itself in flags and Trump like talking points.pic.twitter.com/oeT1AFdwmi
Since Unite the Right, Patriot Front has focused mainly on putting up stickers, posters and banners. Antifascists have worked hard to take this racist trash down as fast as the neo-Nazis put them up.https://itsgoingdown.org/north-carolina-antifa-patriot-front-banner-drop/ …
But Patriot Front has also focused on holding flash mod style rallies outside of anarchist bookstores, bookfairs, and events. In September of 2017, Patriot Front rallied outside of the Houston Anarchist Bookfair.https://itsgoingdown.org/htown-holds-security-defense-movement/ …
Many also suspect Patriot Front or similar neo-Nazi groups as behind vandalism and arson attacks of anarchist and autonomous spaces in Texas and California.https://itsgoingdown.org/campus-arson-attack-follows-months-of-alt-right-activity/ …
In 2018, the group also unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt an #AbolishICE protest encampment.https://itsgoingdown.org/occupyice-san-antonio-standing-strong-after-patriot-front-nazis-attack/ …
Patriot Front has also attempted to organize rank-n-file Trump supporters at Trump rallies by handing out Patriot Front promotional materials.https://dailyegyptian.com/88265/news/attendees-hand-out-patriot-front-flyers-at-trump-rally/ …
The main leadership of Patriot Front remains based in Texas, and is centered around Thomas Rousseau. https://itsgoingdown.org/getting-to-know-patriot-front-in-texas-and-its-leadership-structure/ …pic.twitter.com/ei0HhCmBUL
According to antifascists who infiltrated Patriot Front's online space, the group is "decreasing in size and racked with fears over doxxing...increasingly neurotic leadership of Rousseau, who forbids people from even hanging out with each other..."https://itsgoingdown.org/leaked-chats-reveal-neo-nazi-group-patriot-front-plans-on-flyering-over-100-college-campuses-this-weekend/ …
Leaks published by @UR_Ninja also helped to shine a light into Patriot Front. "Recorded conversations between members show an obsession with firearms, racist, sexist... language...Patriot Front members are also told that raping women is acceptable."https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/americans-fascists-inside-patriot-front/ …
Grassroots antifascist organizing has pushed Patriot Front to operate in the shadows; holding flash mobs + rallies in secret. As we have shown, this doesn't mean they aren't any less dangerous nor is the struggle against them anywhere from over.pic.twitter.com/IOABwEavTH
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