Tag Archives: militias

FBI: Militia Sniper Plotted To Shoot Migrants And Feds

CBS News reports: A Tennessee militia member who told an undercover federal agent that the U.S. is “being invaded” by migrants was planning to travel to the southern border with a stockpile of weapons and commit acts of violence against federal border agents, according to a criminal complaint. Paul Faye, of Cunningham, was arrested in Tennessee on Monday by the …

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Militia Leader Gets Four Years On Felony Riot Charges

The Associated Press reports: A Michigan man described by prosecutors as a self-professed militia leader was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison for attacking law enforcement officers with a stolen police baton during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Matthew Thomas Krol, 65, of Linden, Michigan, assaulted at least three officers, injuring one …

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Recruits Quit DeSantis’s Private Army: “It’s A Militia”

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Over 30 days in June, teenagers out of high school and retired military veterans came to Camp Blanding, the National Guard base near Jacksonville. Many were told they would volunteer for a revived State Guard with a nonmilitary mission: help Floridians in times of need or disaster. Instead, the state’s National Guard trained the volunteers for …

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Oath Keepers Members List Show Hundreds Of Cops

The Associated Press reports: The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that’s accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday. The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over …

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MI Gov And McConnell Also On WI Killer’s Hit List

The Daily Beast reports: Former Wisconsin judge John Roemer was named as the victim killed in a Friday attack by a man with a hit list reportedly “related to the judicial system.” Law enforcement officials confirmed to The Daily Beast that Roemer, 68, was found zip-tied to a chair and fatally shot at his home in New Lisbon, Wisconsin. The …

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Idaho Extremists Doxx Judge In Child Welfare Case

The Idaho Press reports: An alert sent out to a far-right extremist group on Friday encouraged members to seek out the presiding judge in a local child welfare case at her residence. People’s Rights, a far-right extremist group in the Treasure Valley, received an audio alert Friday morning from group leaders. It encouraged members to protest at an Ada County …

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Man In Michigan Gov Kidnap Plot Wanted To Tie Her On A Table And Then Take Photos “Like It Was A Drug Bust”

The Associated Press reports: A key figure in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told an undercover FBI agent that he wanted to restrain the “tyrant” on a table then pose for a photo “like we just made the biggest drug bust,” according to a secret recording played for jurors Thursday. Agent Mark Schweers told the jury …

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Canada Classifies Pro-Trump Militia As Terrorist Group

The CBC reports: The federal government has added the Three Percenters movement to its list of terrorist entities, an anti-government group linked to a recent bomb plot in the U.S. with a known presence in Canada. The Three Percenters, named after a debunked theory that only three per cent of Americans took up arms and served in George Washington’s Colonial …

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Six Militia Members Indicted On Conspiracy Charges

Politico reports: Federal prosecutors have obtained a conspiracy indictment against six men allegedly affiliated with a “California Patriots” group for plotting to obstruct the electoral vote count on Jan. 6. The indictment, returned by a grand jury in Washington on Wednesday and made public on Thursday, says the effort by the six grew out of the American Phoenix Project — …

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Montana Church Recruits Militia To Stop “Mask Fascism”

Montana’s Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church is reportedly circulating flyers promoting a group calling itself “Tactical Civics.” From their website: This republic of sovereign States, founded in the Name of Jesus Christ and blessed for centuries, is now under Communist occupation by D.C., Beijing, and many state palaces. The massive fraud in the 2020 election, combined with the criminal COVID-19 …

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FBI Collars Two Members Of “Boogaloo Bois” Militia

Via press release from the Justice Department: John Subleski, age 32, of Louisville, Kentucky, and Adam Turner, age 35, also of Louisville, Kentucky, were arrested by the Louisville Division of Federal Bureau of Investigation today, announced Acting United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett. Subleski was charged in a criminal complaint with a violation of 18 United States Code, Section 2101, …

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DOJ: Militia Leader Believed She Followed Trump’s Call

CNN reports: The Justice Department is now making clear that a leader among the Oath Keepers paramilitary group — who planned and led others in the US Capitol siege to attempt to stop the Biden presidency — believed she was responding to the call from then-President Donald Trump himself. “As the inauguration grew nearer, [Jessica] Watkins indicated that she was …

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Feds: Militias Began Plotting DC Assault In November

The Washington Post reports: Three self-styled militia members charged in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol began soliciting recruits for potential violence within days of the 2020 presidential election, later training in Ohio and North Carolina and organizing travel to Washington with a busload of comrades and a truck of weapons, U.S. authorities alleged Wednesday. A four-count indictment …

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QAnon Rep Accepts Gift Gun From Militia Leader

Salon reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., received this weekend a custom-printed Glock 22 handgun with the congressional seal on the grip as an apparent gift from members of a group called “Boots on the Ground Bikers for Trump.” Boebert now says she does not currently have possession of the gun, perhaps because it’s a violation of House ethics rules for …

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As Teen Journalist, Hawley Defended Anti-Govt Militias

The Kansas City Star reports: Josh Hawley was a precocious 15-year-old in 1995, writing a regular column for his hometown paper, The Lexington News, when he was still in high school. He used the early platform to opine on politics, culture and those he believed had been unfairly maligned by the media — among them anti-government militias and Los Angeles …

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Feds Say Jailed Militia Leader Was Plotting “Literal War”

The Daily Beast reports: A member of the far-right paramilitary group the Oath Keepers who’s been charged with conspiring to storm the Capitol was ready “for violence” during the deadly riot and had plans for a “further insurrection,” federal prosecutors said Friday. “The plan was never for peaceful protest,” a Virginia prosecutor said during a detention hearing for Donovan Crowl, …

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Two National Guard Members Removed For Militia Ties

The Associated Press reports: Two U.S. Army National Guard members are being removed from the security mission to secure Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration. A U.S. Army official and a senior U.S. intelligence official say the two National Guard members have been found to have ties to fringe right group militias. No plot against Biden was found. The Army official and …

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Feds Charge Militia Leader With Conspiracy In DC Riots

The Washington Post reports: U.S. authorities have leveled the first conspiracy charge against an apparent leader of an extremist group in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, arresting an alleged Oath Keeper who is accused of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and proposing further assaults on state capitols. Thomas Edward Caldwell, …

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FBI: Rioter Threatened To Kill His Kids For Snitching

Reuters reports: A man associated with a self-styled militia group that helped break into the Capitol on Jan. 6 threatened to kill his children if they cooperated with police, according to federal authorities. In an affidavit submitted in D.C. federal court, an FBI agent wrote that Guy Reffitt was identified through video taken at the Capitol and cellphone tracking data. …

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Militia Members Used Walkie-Talkie App In Riots

The Guardian reports: Audio and chat logs reveal that at least two insurrectionists who broke into the Capitol on 6 January used Zello, a social media walkie-talkie app that critics say has largely ignored a growing far-right user base. “We are in the main dome right now,” said a female militia member, speaking on Zello, her voice competing with the …

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