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The marchers were dressed in khakis, matching dark blue jackets with flag patches on the left sleeve, with hats, full white face masks, and dark sunglasses, and carried various modified versions of the American flag with the Patriot Front logo of a fasces in a circle of 13 stars replacing the normal 50 stars and differing numbers of red and white stripes. On Saturday, February 8, 2020, about 100 members of Patriot Front marched in Washington, D.C., along the National Mall from the Lincoln Memorial to the US Capitol grounds, and then headed north to a Walmart near Washington Union Station. A lawyer for one of the men stated that this was an incident of "youthful stupidity" and he also stated that the three men met while playing on Xbox.
One was found to have a spring-loaded 5-inch (13 cm) knife and another was found to have a wood-handled trowel and brass knuckles.
Two days later on February 15, three Patriot Front members were arrested for putting up the flyers and one of the men slapped a police officer's hand when the officer was reaching for his identification via wallet. The flyers said "Keep America American", "Better Dead Than Red", and "Will Your Speech Be Hate Speech?" The flyers were denounced by Marty Walsh, the mayor of Boston. On February 13, 2019, Patriot Front flyers were spotted in the East Boston section of Boston, Massachusetts. The ADL found that the volume of messages in 2020 was more than twice the level of 2019. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) estimated the group generated 80% of the racist, antisemitic and other hateful propaganda messages tracked by the ADL in the U.S. Patriot Front's activities, such as distributing propaganda organizing demonstrations, or "doing miscellaneous acts of public service", have been seen in at least 25 states. Activities Ī sticker from the Patriot Front on a road sign in Portland, Connecticut The SPLC said Patriot Front was by far the most active white nationalist group in distributing flyers. As of 2021, Patriot Front had 42 chapters and was arguably the leading white supremacist group in the country, according to Cassie Miller of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Ī 2019 report by ProPublica estimated the group had about 300 members. While the group focuses on distributing propaganda and condemning violence, experts on white supremacy point out that the core beliefs of the group undoubtedly promote violence. The group's members comprise 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:
The group uses a combination of patriotic and historic imagery, such as a fasces surrounded by thirteen stars, and attention-grabbing techniques such as setting off smoke bombs during demonstrations and protests. Īs with Vanguard America, Patriot Front supports a version of white-centered ideology compatible with the views of fascists across America, including themes such as closed borders, personal fitness, and authoritarian government. Rousseau has repeatedly been arrested for posting flyers and stickers which promote the group. He used the group's domain name to form Patriot Front as an ostensibly new group, and recruit rally participants, although most of Patriot Front's members were former Vanguard members. Following the bad press arising from the rally, Rousseau left Vanguard. Rousseau had taken control of Vanguard America's web server and Discord channel several weeks prior to the Unite the Right rally, which Rousseau had participated in as the leader of Vanguard America's contingent. Patriot Front is led by Thomas Ryan Rousseau, who was a teenager at the time he founded the group.