#Patriot front software#

Members frequently use slurs and brag about IRL racist harassment. ДЄfter the 2018 disclosures, internal chats were moderated more strictly, but the groupвЂ™s prospective member intake process, exposed in the current leak, most clearly highlights the membersвЂ™ ardent beliefs in national socialism and adulation towards historic Nazi figures.Дespite Patriot FrontвЂ™s strict measures to avoid overt Nazism in their public rhetoric, the groupвЂ™s racist, antisemitic and misogynistic nature shines through quite clearly in their more recently leaked chats. In 2018, with further Discord leaks data we examined how Patriot Front developed its style of stickering and how they show up as a security force for touring speakers like Spencer and other вЂalt-rightвЂ™ events, while enthusiastically promoting sexual assault and training for further violence. Unicorn Riot reported in 2017 how Vanguard AmericaвЂ™s вЂњSouthern FrontвЂќ server on Discord was used to celebrate FieldsвЂ™ vehicle attack, as well as exposing the groupвЂ™s links to Robert Ray (aka вЂAzzmadorвЂ™) of the Daily Stormer, Richard Spencer and other figures in the white supremacist movement. Members of Patriot Front consider themselves a part of вЂњ the greatest nationalist activist organization in the world.вЂќ As the leaks reveal, they are micromanaged by their Texas-based director who oversees every detail of the organization from its persistent campaign of racially motivated vandalism to the minutiae of clothes members may wear in public. Rousseau was deposed during the lawsuit and asked extensively about his role in planning the Charlottesville rally and encouraging his followers to participate in street violence there. KesslerвЂ™ concluded last November with multiple findings of civil liability against Vanguard America and other white supremacist defendants for their participation in the deadly Unite the Right event. Most of the materials come from the latter half of 2021, including a rally in Washington, D.C. Chat messages contained dozens of links to unlocked, public mega.nz cloud storage directories, which hosted more than 400 gigabytes of raw videos and photos of Patriot Front events, gatherings, scouting for vandalizing Black monuments, and much more. Sources provided Unicorn Riot with screenshots, audio recordings of meetings (self-hosted on another system called Mumble), extracted texts of group chats and even the private direct message system. Information security in this centralized communications project failed almost entirely.

#Patriot front software#

Vanguard AmericaвЂ™s вЂвЂ™ domain was reconfigured to support Patriot FrontвЂ™s main internal communications system: a self-hosted instance of RocketChat, an open-source chat server software similar to Slack and Discord messaging platforms with multiple channels. After James Alex Fields, seen sporting a Vanguard America shield during the march, murdered Heather Heyer, Rousseau moved to split with Vanguard America, taking with it most of the members as well as the website domain name вЂњ.вЂќ Rousseau gained power within the groupвЂ™s predecessor organization, Vanguard America, in the fallout from the nationally orchestrated event. Patriot Front, known for its disconcerting masked вЂflash ralliesвЂ™ and racist sticker campaigns, was organized by Thomas Rousseau in the immediate aftermath of 2017вЂ™s Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, VA. Our Far-right Investigations Desk page.Chat records on our DiscordLeaks platform.(See BitTorrent info below)ДЄdditional resources: Recordings & Transcripts of 22 Leaked Patriot Front Meetings

Volunteers upgraded Unicorn RiotвЂ™s DiscordLeaks platform to host 55,249 RocketChat messages and file attachments, allowing the public to search the cache and inspect how fascists try to operate discreetly at their most inner levels.

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