According to leaked chats made public in January 2022, Patriot Front members are required to deface racial justice murals in their areas. The ADL estimated that Patriot Front generated 82% of reported incidents of distributing racist, antisemitic and other hateful propaganda in the U.S. Patriot Front's demonstrations, literature, and sometimes acts of service are "tightly choreographed and scripted to maximize propaganda value", according to the SPLC. Activities and eventsĪ sticker from the Patriot Front on a road sign in Portland, Connecticut According to ProPublica, Rousseau and others in the group "delight in seeing their actions reflected in the SPLC’s nationwide map recording acts of hate and in the media". According to the SPLC, as of 2021, Patriot Front had 42 chapters and was arguably the leading white supremacist group in the country, and the most active in using flyers for recruitment. They are promoting violence by their goals." Ī 2019 investigation by ProPublica estimated the group had about 300 members in leaked chats at the end of 2021, Rousseau complained about a "220's to 230's membership rut". When they say they are not violent, this is a lie. It is part of their strategy to avoid liability, while simultaneously promoting hate.
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The group avoids talking about guns or violence online as a policy, but as Pete Simi, an expert on white supremacy, explained to Pro Publica, "It is very common for the leadership of these groups to disqualify violence, while doing things that are encouraging violence. The group's members consist of eight regional networks, and its recruitment is primarily done online. Democracy has failed in this once great nation. Even those born in America may yet be foreign.Nationhood cannot be bestowed upon those who are not of the founding stock of our people, and those who do not share the common spirit that permeates our greater civilization, and the European diaspora.In order to survive as a culture, a heritage, and a way of being, our nation must learn that its collective interests are fighting against its collective threats of replacement and enslavement.The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system.
Membership within the American nation is inherited through blood, not ink. Those of foreign birth may occupy civil status within the lands occupied by the state, and they may even be dutiful citizens, yet they may not be American. The group published a manifesto which contained passages including: According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country." It uses attention-grabbing techniques like detonating smoke bombs during demonstrations and protests. The group uses patriotic imagery to broaden its appeal, while adding symbols like the fasces, the symbol of fascism. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), "Patriot Front is a white supremacist group whose members maintain that their ancestors conquered America and bequeathed it to them, and no one else." Īs with Vanguard America, Patriot Front supports a version of white-centered ideology compatible with the views of fascists across America, such as closed borders and authoritarian government. Rousseau has been arrested repeatedly in the group's activities.
He used the group's domain name to form Patriot Front as a new group and recruit rally participants, though most of Patriot Front's members were former Vanguard members. Following the bad press arising from the rally, Rousseau left Vanguard. In 2017, Rousseau took control of Vanguard America's web and Discord server several weeks before the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which he participated as the leader of Vanguard America's contingent. Patriot Front is led by Thomas Ryan Rousseau, who was a teenager when he founded the group.
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