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A former Proud Boys leader faces decades behind bars for his role in the U.S. Capitol riots. According to the Associated Press, Enrique Tarrio was convicted Thursday of co-orchestrating a plot to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Prosecutors say the Florida man and members of his far-right extremist group had exchanged a series of […]
The founder of the Hawaii chapter of Proud Boys and another person were sentenced to four years in prison for their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. According to a news release from the Department of Justice, Nicholas Ochs, a 36-year-old Proud Boys leader from Honolulu, and Nicholas DeCarlo, a 32-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas, were sentenced […]
Another Proud Boys member has decided to flip. Charles Donohoe, a leader of the far-right group’s North Carolina chapter, pleaded guilty Friday to his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol. The Department of Justice announced the 34-year-old defendant faces up to 28 years in prison on charges of conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting […]
The Proud Boys of Utah gathered to celebrate Kyle Rittenhouse on Saturday. Dubbed the ‘Kyle Rittenhouse Appreciation Rally,’ the event took place on Saturday afternoon at Washington Square Park in Salt Lake City, between 12 and 2 p.m. Judging by a Facebook flyer, it appears as if attendees were encouraged to arrive armed, though it’s […]
A federal lawsuit accusing Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Proud Boys, and Oath Keepers of conspiring to incite a violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 has been filed by the NAACP and the civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll. The suit, backed by Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson and other members of […]
While Donald Trump is banned from Twitter, it appears that he’s welcome on Ja Rule’s new app, Iconn. However, Ja has laid down some guidelines for his celebrity booking app—namely, the Proud Boys are not permitted to join, TMZ reports. In addition to being banned from Twitter for inciting the U.S. Capitol riot, Trump has […]
The Capitol riots were made up of a wide swath of conservative and far-right true believers. As more and more names of those involved have come out, we’ve seen Donald Trump die-hards, QAnon zealots, small business conservatives, and anti-government militiamen. The people storming the Capitol ranged from zip-tie carrying coup larpers looking to take hostages to […]
Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, is calling for the Liberal government to list the far-right, neo-fascist organization Proud Boys as a terrorist organization following the siege of the U.S. Capitol earlier this week. And in an attempt to get their attention, he’s asking Canadians to sign a petition saying that they agree. “Today, […]
Apparent members of the so-called Proud Boys, designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, were among those who showed up on Wednesday to make a commotion about a Staten Island bar whose pattern of COVID-19 violations had forced a closure. The total number of largely maskless people who decided to risk it all […]
A police chief in rural Arkansas has been forced to resign after spewing a hateful threat to political opponents. Police Chief Lang Holland swore to protect and serve the citizens of Marshall, Arkansas, but has called for violence against people that don’t share his extremist political views. Holland took to Parler—a website described as a “free […]
