A former Marine and prosecutor who monitors TFG's base online worries confrontations over race and
gender education could endanger school-board members
Ron Filipkowski, a criminal-defense attorney in Sarasota, Florida, wasn't surprised by the violence at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection.
By then, he had tracked enough social-media posts from right-wing extremists in his spare time to see trouble ahead. He shared warnings on Twitter from the Proud Boys and one of the Oath Keepers who talked of "blood lust" on that day. The activity had picked up, he said, after President Donald Trump urged supporters on Twitter to be there.
"This is their Super Bowl," he tweeted about the Proud Boys on December 30, 2020.
Filipkowski, a former longtime Republican, began tracking extremists on social media before the 2020 election to help persuade moderates to vote for then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden over President Donald Trump.
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