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North American neo-fascist organization led by Enrique Tarrio
There is no definitive, publicly documented evidence that Proud Boys members have been formally hired en masse by ICE, but multiple outlets and watchdogs report clear links of affinity, recruitment ov...
A social-media meme that pairs an image of an unmasked ICE agent with the claim that he is a Proud Boys member is not supported by available evidence: the circulated images were created or altered wit...
Donald Trump’s political operation and allied Republican committees funneled into the Jan. 6, 2021 rally and related organizers through campaign and PAC payments, fundraising efforts, and payments to ...
There is no verified, publicly available count of how many members of the Proud Boys currently work as ICE agents; a widely shared purported “leak” that named roughly 4,500 ICE personnel has been seiz...
Two distinct findings emerge from the record assembled here: contemporaneous 2021 reporting established at least one FBI confidential human source (CHS) was present inside the January 6 crowd, while l...
Comparisons between Donald Trump’s presidency and Nazi Germany focus on shared rhetorical techniques, demagogic scapegoating, and efforts to weaken democratic guardrails, but historians and scholars w...
The evidence shows that recent ICE and broader DHS recruitment content has repeatedly used language, images and music that experts and watchdogs say overlap with white nationalist symbolism and slogan...
Available reporting shows Enrique Tarrio’s name appears on a widely circulated leaked ICE database and on the ICE List site, but Tarrio has publicly denied being an ICE employee and multiple fact-chec...
Federal prosecutors charged 18 people in connection with the Jan. 6 attack with the rarely used Civil War–era count of seditious conspiracy; according to reporting aggregated in these sources, 14 of t...
The claim that ; multiple statements from the FBI and testimony to Congress found no indication of Antifa involvement and identified far-right groups and supporters of then-President Trump as the prim...
The available evidence shows the Proud Boys have been widely associated with , and countries such as Canada and New Zealand have legally designated them as terrorist organizations, but the United Stat...
There is no publicly documented, verifiable evidence in the provided reporting that members of the Proud Boys have been formally identified and confirmed as new ICE agents, but multiple outlets and la...
Christian nationalist ideology in the United States frequently overlaps with white supremacist ideas: scholars and surveys link Christian nationalist beliefs to white identity, anti-Black and anti-imm...
Since 2020, multiple analyses show that , while other categories such as left-wing actors and anarchists/antis have been involved in a smaller share of incidents. Government threat assessments and ind...
Multiple contemporary news accounts and eyewitness reporting establish that supporters of then-President Trump at the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” erected a makeshift gal...
The Proud Boys present themselves as defenders of “Western chauvinism,” free speech and nationalism, but researchers and watchdogs say the group’s core ideology centers on misogyny, anti-immigrant sen...
Available reporting does not show the CIA orchestrated or incited the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; however, multiple records and media reports show CIA personnel and leadership were in...
Claims that Gavin McInnes inserted a sex toy on live video appear widely circulated in social and niche press; multiple pieces of entertainment and LGBT outlets describe footage of McInnes displaying ...
Multiple news outlets and analyses list specific Trump statements that critics say encouraged or condoned violence: most prominently his Jan. 6, 2021 rally line “if you don’t fight like hell you’re no...
Federal prosecutors have charged Donald Trump under the Espionage Act (primarily 18 U.S.C. §793(e)) in the classified-documents case — the indictments include dozens of counts tied to unlawful retenti...