The Proud Boys are one of the leading SPLC-designated domestic hate and terror organizations who proudly took part in the 1/6 insurrection. So they said. Then they scurried for cover when the FBI got hold of their social media posts, live videos from the day, and various communications before and after. Dozens of them at every level of the organization have been arrested and indicted, including a major conspiracy case with 15 Proud Boy suspects.
We in the Truth Brigade prefer not to name the malefactors who spread disinformation, fear, and hatred in our responses, in order not to amplify their message. So we address them indirectly.
Genuine patriotism, such as devotion to that Republic with Liberty and Justice for All, is one of the great civic virtues. Faux patriotism, notably devotion to Liberty and Justice for Me but not for Thee, is a bitter scourge.
#TruthBrigade No room for hate
with MLK’s call to action, on the Fierce Urgency of Now.
The New Proud Boys Strategy
We have stories of alliances with the Oathkeepers and III Percenters, who will have their own Truth Brigade Diaries in coming days, and with overt White Supremacists and Nazis.
There are rumors of some grand conflagration to come, leading to a supposed Second Civil War, but that is just garden-variety Cognitive Dissonance of the kind that follows any major string of failed prophecies, like those surrounding the supposed Once and Future Ganef.
Some Proud Boys think they can come back to attack our Republic through alliances with other domestic terror groups, and participation in confrontations with school boards and hospitals and election officials.
Our Response
In brief, the Truth Brigade says of these issues
- Telling the truth about enslavement and systemic racism
- Covid mask, distancing, and especially mandates for either vaccines or frequent testing
- The Big Lie, with voter suppression, gerrymandering, and overtly stealing elections under color of law.
Various states have passed laws purporting to enable legislatures to overturn the actual election returns and substitute their own will. In particular, they pretend that they can violate their own election laws by holding a Presidential election and then, if they. don’t like the results, send their own slate of Electors.
Unplug the Rage Machine: Exposing the Right’s Critical Race Theory dog whistle strategy
Indivisible #TruthBrigade: Mandating Truth: Mean Freedom
Indivisible #TruthBrigade: Starve the #BigLie; Feed Democracy in America
More Stories on the Proud Boys
Here is a Proud Boy at an anti-vaxxer event.
Anti-vaxxers rally outside residence of [Ohio] House Health Chairman
In a Facebook livestream of the event, a man can be seen with a pistol holstered to his leg. Another person in the crowd is seen in clothing with insignia associated with the Proud Boys, a far-right political organization with a reputation for street violence that has been accused of conspiring to execute the Jan. 6 raid on the U.S. Capitol.
We are still learning much more about their part in 1/6.
Philadelphia Chapter and Jan 6 conspirator Zach Rehl in sent a text message at 2:29pm on Jan 6, saying,"Civil War started"
CNN
The House GOP's campaign arm announced Tuesday that an Arizona Republican candidate who praised the Proud Boys in a September speech has...
The Boston Globe
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The business of local and state government in New Hampshire is under increasing strain as antigovernment activists have turned traditionally...
Miami New Times.
.Miami City Manager Art Noriega included an aggressive exchange between Art Acevedo and the far-right Proud Boys in a list of the now...
WSOC TV
LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C.
— A group of people wearing clothing associated with the Proud Boys showed up to Tuesday's Lincoln County school board...
Truthout
Republican Arizona State Rep. Walt Blackman on Wednesday backed off his past statements openly praising the far-right Proud Boys gang.
Raw Story
City of Miami commissioners voted unanimously last night to fire the top cop of the Miami Police Department, Art Acevedo.
Law & Crime
Aaron Whallon Wolkind's lawyer believes the raid was part of the FBI's efforts to build a case against Proud Boys president Zach Rehl,...
Prosecutors called Swinney a "vigilante cowboy." Swinney testified he was acting in self-defense. A jury found him guilty on 11 of 12...
For Further Reading or Listening
The Proud Boys
- Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination, by Alexandra Minna Stern
There are Proud Boy and Antifa romance novels, gay and straight, and also gay Proud boy swag because there is always pointing and laughing, amirite?
White Ethno-Nationalism in Their Own Words
- Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race
- Renaud Camus, The Great Replacement
- Arthur Kemp, The Complete History of the White Race
- Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy
Don’t marinate yourself too deeply in this dreck. As Nietzsche put it
He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.