The Biden-Harris Justice Department says that a man and a woman are in charge of an anti-government terror group on Telegram that spreads violent ideas and “white nationalism” to start a race war in the US and other countries against immigrants, gay people, black people, and Jews.
The charge came out soon after Vice President-elect Kamala Harris said she would “save our democracy” by cracking down on “damaging” comments on social media if she wins in November.
It looks like the FBI has been keeping an eye on these people for a while. In fact, the Huffington Post released an exclusive story about them in May 2023.
Texas On September 9, two people from California and Idaho, Erin Humber and Matthew Robert Allison, were charged with running the “Terrorgram Collective,” a group of channels on the private social media platform. The charges were made public in a federal indictment that had been sealed earlier. In her online life, Humber goes by the name “Miss Gorehound.” She calls herself a neo-Nazi graphic artist and a former dildo saleswoman.
Prosecutors said the two people they said were extremists were planning to kill “high value” targets, such as leaders and government workers, and damage government buildings. At a press conference yesterday with Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said, “The defendant’s goal was to start a race war, speed up the fall of what they saw as an irreparably corrupted government, and create a white ethno state.” Clarke is in charge of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. It says in the accusation that the suspects post messages on the internet app Telegram that support their white supremacist views.
In an interview, the two Biden DOJ officials said that “white supremacist extremism” was the “single most lethal” threat in the United States right now. They also said that federal law enforcement is changing to deal with groups planning terrorist attacks on social media sites. “Being a white nationalist is the deadliest form of domestic violent extremism we are seeing in the country right now,” Olson said. “The fear of domestic terrorism is on the rise in the United States.”
Feds in the Eastern District of California said that the two of them took over the Terrorgram network from the boss who was arrested for terrorism charges in the summer of 2022.
Allison and Humber were each charged with fifteen criminal counts, including encouraging hate crimes, planning to give terrorists material support, trying to find people to kill and leak information about alleged enemies like politicians, judges, and federal officials, and making threats across state lines. According to the accusation, Allison and Humber also made a white supremacy propaganda movie that praised every racist event in the U.S. since 1968.
“These aren’t just words,” Olson said. “Terrorgram users have planned or carried out acts after reading Terrorgram materials and watching instructional films.”
