Wired reports:
Years after being accused of swinging a baseball bat at police officers during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, Edward “Jake” Lang is now using encrypted messaging channels to create a nationwide network of armed militias in all 50 states.
Though he has been in prison for over 1,200 days, Lang is working with a network of election deniers and conspiracists to promote the North American Patriot and Liberty Militia, or Napalm for short. The group officially launched last week with 50 state-specific militia groups on Telegram.
Lang claims that the Telegram groups already have 20,000 members, including pastors, farmers, former military personnel, and currently serving sheriffs. However, multiple experts who reviewed the channels tell WIRED that figure was wildly overestimated, and that the real figure was closer to 2,500 members. But a group this size, they warn, is still large enough to cause a serious threat.
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Lang has raised over $235,000 on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. He last appeared here in March 2024 when he was brutally roasted for whining about conditions in his federal prison. Lang is organizing his militia in partnership with pro-Hitler podcaster Stew Peters.
Years after being accused of swinging a bat at police officers during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, Edward “Jake” Lang is now using encrypted messaging channels to create a nationwide network of armed militias.
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— WIRED (@WIRED) June 12, 2024
2 photos of Jake Lang/Edward Jacob Lang/#GasMaskBatman for people to use… one is a less-seen one where he’s actually attacking with the bat.
H/t @jan6attack pic.twitter.com/XYqVHdNKPO— Opal Katz (@DianthaSol) January 5, 2024