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Jilly_in_VA

(14,007 posts)
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 07:35 PM 6 hrs ago

Inside The Secretive Operation To Stop Fascism In Its Tracks

At a diner next to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, five men took turns loudly saying a racial slur to prove they are bona fide members of Patriot Front, a white nationalist organization.

Sometime later, one of them returned, alone, with a $300 tip and a message for their server, a woman of color: “Those guys aren’t my friends.”

The man, “Vincent,” was one of several “antifa” spies around the country who had gone undercover in fascist groups. Over several months, he worked out, hiked and camped with a group of committed white nationalists. He joined them as they dropped propaganda banners and vandalized public artwork depicting people of color.

Months later, in the middle of a nationwide Patriot Front video call, Vincent started playing a recording of “Bella Ciao,” the Italian anti-fascist anthem. “You guys really forgot to remove the antifa spy’s access?” he taunted them.

While embedded with Patriot Front, Vincent expropriated reams of previously unknown membership data and logistical information that allowed other anti-fascists, in anonymous collectives around the country, to “dox,” or publicly identify, the group’s members. These collectives vandalized extremists’ vehicles, alerted their neighbors and employers — and, step by step, worked to shrink their influence in American public life. Similar infiltrations have hit several neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups around the country over the years.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/to-catch-a-fascist-christopher-mathias-book_n_697b92ece4b0b14e6786b71a?origin=home-zone-d-unit

Anti-fascists just quietly doing their job

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Inside The Secretive Operation To Stop Fascism In Its Tracks (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA 6 hrs ago OP
The unsung heroes! biophile 5 hrs ago #1
Mahalo for this, Jilly! Sorry wrong place! Cha 3 hrs ago #8
Inside The (formerly) Secretive Operation To Stop Fascism In Its Tracks Wonder Why 5 hrs ago #2
Amazing story, but I can't imagine what they have to go through FakeNoose 5 hrs ago #3
Wow Holy Shit! NBachers 4 hrs ago #4
Man oh, man, DANGEROUS. Joinfortmill 4 hrs ago #5
dig what this guy is saing but...... not a texan 3 hrs ago #6
Powerful, talk about living dangerously. mysteryowl 3 hrs ago #7
Thanks for the post canetoad 3 hrs ago #9

Cha

(317,572 posts)
8. Mahalo for this, Jilly! Sorry wrong place!
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 10:27 PM
3 hrs ago

Very Encouraging to know

They are NOT "patriots".. they're Gaslit Nazis.

FakeNoose

(40,594 posts)
3. Amazing story, but I can't imagine what they have to go through
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 09:04 PM
5 hrs ago

... having to infiltrate these groups and pretend to be one of them.
Cringe! Barf! WTF?!

not a texan

(84 posts)
6. dig what this guy is saing but......
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 10:14 PM
3 hrs ago

I looked at the background, there are people cleaning up for the night. They are picking up coffee cups and trash like the lights are going out very soon. Brave words but said at a time when no one is looking. Not blaming him. If the Dems want some money this year from me they better use it to buy some balls.

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