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Oh look, white nationalist ‘Patriot Front’ tried to crash a Pride event in Idaho today using their patented U-Haul box truck transport system and got busted. Sad.

Talia Jane @taliaotg wrote: Holy shit a cop in Coeur D’Alene straight up said they have informants inside Patriot Front who told them they were loading up in the back of a UHaul with weapons, and they’re being arrested on conspiracy to riot.

Masked and uniformed members of a right-wing group were arrested in Coeur d’Alene on Saturday afternoon, the same day as Pride in the Park was scheduled, police said.

Coeur d’Alene police said 31 people from all over the country who were inside a U-Haul were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to riot. Only one was from Idaho, police said, with others from Washington, Arkansas, Texas and Wyoming.

The people arrested were from a group called the Patriot Front, police said.

Patriot Front is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a white nationalist hate group” that broke off from a similar far-right group after the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

“Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country,” the Southern Poverty Law Center said of the group.

The group has a manifesto that calls for the formation of a white ethnostate in the United States, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Their brand of activism often consists of posting flyers and other advertisements in public places that promote an extremist brand of patriotism, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.

Edit: Bets that Fox won't cover this since the lads are all white nationalists? Now if they'd been black or brown, that would be a different story

Six years into the grass-roots movement unleashed by Donald Trump in his first presidential campaign, Angela Rubino is a case study in what that movement is becoming. Suspicious of almost everything, trusting of almost nothing, believing in almost no one other than those who share her unease, she has in many ways become a citizen of a parallel America — not just red America, but another America entirely, one she believes to be awash in domestic enemies, stolen elections, immigrant invaders, sexual predators, the machinations of a global elite and other fresh nightmares revealed by the minute on her social media scrolls. She is known online as “Burnitdown.”

She is also among the people across the country willing to do whatever they can to ensure that the imagined enemies of the United States are defeated in the 2022 midterm elections and beyond. From school boards to state houses to Congress, their goal is to take political territory, and for evidence that this is possible, they look to northwest Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose first-time candidacy two years ago defined the fringe of the Republican Party and who is now running for reelection as one of its standard bearers.

THOMAS ROUSSEAU
Thomas Ryan Rousseau began revealing adherence to white supremacy as a member of his high school newspaper. This aided in his rapid ascension into leadership on the racist right, first with Vanguard America and later with his founding of Patriot Front.

Here is the full video of the 31 Patriot Front members being taken out of the U-Haul truck in Downtown Coeur d'Alene 1 block from the Pride in the Park event, as first reported on our FB page.
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UPDATE: ‘Little army’ of 31 masked Patriot Front members arrested in Coeur d’Alene near Pride in the Park
UPDATED: Sat., June 11, 2022

Police were tipped off by a citizen who said they saw a large group of people wearing masks and donning shields “like a little army” jump into a U-Haul truck Saturday afternoon at a hotel parking lot, White said.

About 10 minutes later, police pulled over the truck as it traveled toward downtown on Northwest Boulevard. Police also seized a smoke grenade and what White described as riot gear from the truck.

“I don’t think this would have been as successful had we not had one extremely astute citizen who saw something that looked very concerning to them and reported it to us,” White said.