CZM Rewind: White Terror

already listened to in the relatively recent past. The episode I chose for this holiday rerun isn't exactly festive. It has nothing to do with Christmas at all, and to be honest, it's probably not great holiday listening. It's really depressing. But I picked it for a reason. Earlier this month,

there was a school shooting in Wisconsin. There are a lot of school shootings in America, more than two hundred of them in twenty twenty four alone, according to data from the gun violence prevention group every Town for Gun Safety. And as I'm writing this, just a few days after it happened and a week before you'll hear it, there's a lot we still don't know about the shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. A teacher

and a fourteen year old student were killed. Five more students and one teacher were injured. The shooter, a fifteen year old girl, took her own life a few minutes later. Maybe this will have changed by next week, but today we don't know for certain if the manifesto being circulated

online is authentic. Normally I wouldn't comment at all on a document of unknown origin, but a number of listeners have reached out to ask about a particular line, and regardless of whether this turns out to have been authored by the shooter herself, I was startled to see a familiar name, Arda kosukietin the document refers to him as the Ultimate Saint. It's chillingly specific language about a relatively obscure figure one I talk a little bit about in

the episode You're about to hear. In August of twenty twenty four, he stabbed several people outside of a mosque in Turkey. In his manifesto, he states quite clearly that he was motivated to carry out this attack by a group called the Terogram collective the subject of this episode, his name is almost entirely unknown outside of that very

small circle of online mass murder enthusiasts. I revisited a thread today about the attack that was posted on Turkish social media back when had happened just weeks after the incident. One poster lamented that in less than a month it was forgotten, but this week after the shooting in Wisconsin, that threat is active again, with Turkish posters writing even in Turkey he was forgotten and unknown overnight and asking how a child in Wisconsin would even come to know

his name, let alone idolize him. Another user wrote, I learned that a teenage school shooter in America took as an example someone we make fun of in Turkey whose name we don't even know, who attacks elderly people in a mosque. This person we call a loser in Turkey has become someone a teenager in America admires. The authenticity of this alleged manifesto is still uncertain, but if it is truly the work of a suicidal teenage girl who took two lives before ending her own, describing arda Kosukiya

team as a saint, sets off alarm bells. Two of the people behind the Terogram Collective may be behind bars now, but their propaganda can still kill. So with that in mind, here's an episode I recorded back in September. I'll be back next year with more weird little guys. It was a little after seven pm on a warm Wednesday evening in October of twenty twenty two. Urai Van Koulik and Matushorvath were sitting outside of Teplaren, a gay bar and

brought us lavas city center. Matusche was studying Chinese at a nearby university. You or I was a drag performer whose day job was designing the displays at a clothing store. They were enjoying the evening outside of one of the city's few dedicated queer spaces, and then they were dead. They were shot by a teenager who left behind a sixty five page neo Nazi manifesto before shooting himself in a nearby park. August twelfth, twenty twenty four, was a

sunny afternoon in the Turkish city of his Kishiher. A teenager wearing a skull mask and a bulletproof vest walked into the tea garden outside of a mosque and stabbed five men before being tackled to the ground. He too

left a manifesto glorifying mass murder. In July of twenty twenty four, a teenager in New Jersey who'd been planning to destroy power substations in New Brunswick was arrested at the Newer airport before he'd fly to Ukraine to join the Russian Volunteer Corps, where he hoped to learn the skills he'd need to carry out acts of terror here at home. These three teenagers never met, but they had something in common. A murderer in Slovakia, an attempted murderer

in Turkey. They were alone when they walked the familiar streets of their town, stalking their victims. They were alone when they shock, They were alone when they stabbed. They hunted human prey as lone wolves. But there are no lone wolves, not really. The wolf Pack is online now, baying for more blood.

I'm Molly Conger and this is weird, little guys. Yurai Krachik died by suicide sometime overnight after he murdered two people outside of a gay bar and brought us lava on October twelfth, twenty twenty two. His body was found in a nearby public park early the next morning, but he didn't shoot himself right away. After fleeing the scene, he got online. That was where he was most at home, after all, that was where he became the man he

was in the moment he fired those shots. A few hours before the attack, he tweeted out links to his manifesto. After fleeing the scene of the shooting, he went home. He told his parents what he had done. They argued, but no one called the police. He left a handwritten suicide note, retrieved a second gun from his father's safe, and left the house again. His parents were the last ones to see him alive. The city was crawling with

police that night. They were on high alert for the shooter, worried he would act again, but even now that he was armed with a fresh weapon, he didn't seek out more targets. Krazik walked to a local park and checked four chan on his phone. People were talking about him about his attack. He wanted to see what they were saying. Four Chan users quickly connected the shooting to his Twitter account. As he'd walked home after the attack, he tweeted hashtag

brought a Slava feeling no regrets? Isn't that funny? On four Chan, they were already discussing the manifesto he'd tweeted out. One poster asked why would a Slovakian write his manifesto in English? And this was the first post the shooter replied to He wrote, because I felt like it. If you're familiar with four chan, first of all, i'm sorry, but if you've spent any time on there, you know it's not a friendly place, and not just unfriendly to outside.

Even people who share similar ideologies are at each other's throats, hurling insults, and engaging in an eternal competition to be the nastiest person with an Internet connection. Posters mocked the shooter for killing only two people and asked why he'd chosen such low value targets. Even as they celebrated the deaths of his victims. They bullied the shooter for not doing more, for not doing it better, for not doing

it differently. They were Monday Morning quarterbacking murder Life is just a first person shooter game for the keyboard Warrior mass shooting enthusiast. To these comments, Krazil replied that he'd wanted to shoot the Slovakian Prime Minister at Ward Hager, writing wish I could have gone higher, but whatever wanted to bag the Prime Minister, but I didn't get lucky

with his car arriving later. News reports do in fact confirm that he was seen that evening on security camera footage outside the Prime Minister's home an hour before the shooting. The same news report maps out his walk home after the shooting, a route that took him through a largely Jewish neighborhood. Rejik lamented on four Chan that night that he had wanted to shoot the Kabbad house too, but he'd run out of ammunition, writing wish I could pull

off more got nearly no amm o bro. Posters on four Chan were skeptical that the man replying to them was truly the shooter himself, and demanded that he post some kind of proof. A little after eleven thirty p m. Four hours after fleeing the scene of the shooting, he did. It's dark wherever he was. You can't see anything in the background. The flash illuminates only the subject of the selfie. He's completely expressionless. There's no smile, no bravado, no fear

even there's just nothing. He's looking straight at the camera, holding his phone with one hand and making a finger gun that points directly at the viewer with the other. Have a last selfie, he says. Most of his posts on the four Chan thread that night are in English, it is the lingua franca of the site, after all, but one user responds to this selfie in Slovak translated. The comment reads, what happened boy? Why don't you smile anymore? Reality set in? Did you fall for the meme stupid right.

The shooter replied to that comment in Slovak, saying, speak for yourself. In attaching a second selfie, he's smiling this time, kind of. It's hard to say you feel any sorrow for a man who just murdered two people in cold blood and then logged onto four chan to take credit

for it. And I don't, not really, not for this murderer, But he was just a boy once, a boy whose fake smile shows the still slightly rounded cheeks of a kid who won't live to see the last adolescent chaining to his face his forced smile, a smile that doesn't reach the eyes in that selfie taken in the dark, somewhere in the trees on the edge of town, will

probably stay with me for a while. He engages with the four chan thread for nearly an hour, answering questions and repeatedly acquiescing to demands for proof that it's really him. He posts a picture of a handwritten note with the time and date, posts another selfie, this time with his shoe on top of his head. This is a common form of proof demanded on four Chan to determine if you are really interacting with someone who is who they

say they are, and in real time. I guess the idea is that most people have a shoe nearby, but most people don't have old photos of themselves online with a shoe on their head. So if you can produce such a photo on request, you probably are the person in the photo and not just someone using photos of a stranger that you found online. Another user asked him to spell out the N word and leaves on the

ground and post a picture of that. He says it would take too long to spell out the whole word and posts a blurry photo of leaves arranged in the shape of the letter N. Another user asks him what's going through your mind right now, and he says, sad for my family, happy with my own life. Nothing for the two f slurs soon a bit of lead. Another user asks if he plans to spend decades in prison or if he'll kill himself. He replies with two words and hero, which is memespeak for dying by suicide. His

last four Chan post was shortly before midnight. Four Chen users are perpetually caught in between their desire for and celebration of acts like this and their frustration that this kind of thing makes them all look bad, you know, it makes them look like exactly what they are, the kind of people goading a teenage murderer into killing himself. One poster writes, you have made everyone on this board look like a terrorist? Is that what you wanted? Also

repent hell is real? His reply his final post reads only not my problem. On Twitter, his final post was a little after midnight in Slovak, he wrote, see you on the other side. A Slovak language news report says that two days before the attack, he had called a mental health crisis hotline. He said, I have to die, but I am very afraid, and then he hung up. But in his final hours he didn't call back. He didn't call that hotline. He didn't turn himself in or

seek help. He sought reassurance and support from the place least likely to provide it. He logged onto four Chan, hoping to see his acts hailed as heroic, but they just laughed at him. He was dead before terogram canonized him, placing him in the pantheon of terror. He worshiped. Authorities in Slovakia weren't able to ping his cell phone location until five am. The cell phone provider didn't have any employees working overnight. His body was found in the park

around seven am. It's not clear exactly when he died, but if I had to put money on it, I'd guess he died in real life shortly after he logged off. He posted right up through the end, and that's all we really knew. In October of twenty twenty two, the manifesto was online for all to see. In the manifesto, he includes the Terogram Collective in his list of special thanks at the end, writing you know who you are.

Thank you for your incredible writing and art, for your political texts, for your practical guides building the future of the White Revolution one publication at a time. In the section of the manifesto under the header recommended reading, he lists many of the usual suspects. He was inspired by the christ Church Mosque shooting and recommends that shooter's manifesto.

He praises the terrorist's bible, William Luther Pierce's novel The Turner Diaries, and even recommends the prequel, an even sloppier novel called Hunter, But he also recommends two other lesser known publications. Two of the four publications authored by the Terrogram Collective. He lists these two Militant Accelerationism and the Hard Reset, last, writing, if the other books give a theoretical and fictional base for our resistance, these two provide

the practical means for it. They also go into a deeper dive into some issues, concepts, and things. Anyone who seeks to fight Zog should know. These two may be harder to find than the other books I listed, but you can find them if you look in the right places. The link between the Broadus Lava Shooting and the Teogram Collective was never a secret. It was right there all along. He said it himself. He recommended their propaganda and thanked them in the acknowledgments. But when he was posting on

Fortune that night, he lied about something earlier. In this Murderer's Q and a session, someone asked him, have you been talking to some other people over telegram, discord or signal? And he replies, made my own decision to do this. I had barely any dms with people on telegram or wherever. And he later followed up with their channel owners. Hence

the Annan part. Don't know their names. They produced good content, though Craigich was trying to backtrack on his initial post that he'd exchanged direct messages with anyone in the lead up to the attack. The truth, as it turns out, is that he wasn't just reading the material produced by the teogram Collis, he was in active communication with its leaders. This teenage murderer in Slovakia hadn't just posted his manifesto online before the attack. He'd also sent it directly to

someone immediately after. He wanted to be certain that his message got out, so he sent it to someone he knew would spread it, someone who had helped him craft it. He sent the manifesto to Matthew Allison, a man in

his thirties living in Boise, Idaho, earlier this month. In September of twenty twenty four, Matthew Allison of Boise and Dallas Humber of Elk Grove, California, were arrested in charge in a fifteen count indictment with soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, interstate threats, distributing information relating to explosives, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

The pair are alleged to be the ringleaders of the Terragram Collective, that association of pseudonymous posters on Telegram that produce neo Nazi accelerationist propaganda, and now, according to the Department of Justice, the Teogram Collective can also be called a transnational terrorist group. According to the allegations in the indictment, Krajik was an active member of the group's chat for

a year leading up to the shooting. And I guess I should back up a little bit and explain a little more about what's going on in these chats, as much as I would really rather not. There are plenty of Nazi chat rooms. There is no shortage of places online where a racial slur enthusiast can log on and share ideas with other guys who hate black people and Jewish people, and gay people and immigrants and women and whatever. Pick your flavor. It's out there in abundance. This is

something much darker. These are accelerationists, people who believe their goals can only be achieved by driving society over the brink and into total collapse. They believe that acts of mass murder, terrorism, and destruction are the necessary course of action to create the chaos required to allow a new world to be born, a world built by and four white men alone, and they aren't just talking about it. The Terogram Collective has produced a series of what would

you call them, manuals, manifestos, zines, terrorism handbooks. They've put out four written publications in one short documentary, all directed at providing both inspiration and explicit instruction on how their followers can commit acts of unspeakable violence. In the online spaces, past acts are celebrated. One of the core elements of the group's shared language is this pantheon of saints. It's not the saints you're thinking of. This is a gruesome hagiography.

They've canonized mass shooters. They celebrate the Saint Day of each shooter on the day of their atrocity. Robert Bowers, Unders, Bravic Dylan Rue, Brenton Terran, Patrick Crusius, Anton London Peterson, murderers from infamous to obscure, murderers from all over the world. The criteria for sainthood are fivefold, race, motive, intent, score, and worldview. The prospective saint must, of course, be white.

There is occasionally some debate in the Nazi community about whether they should offer their begrudging respect for non white mass murderers who nevertheless kill large numbers of people they deem worthy targets, but the answer is generally no. So while they would celebrate something like the Pulse night club shooting, which killed nearly fifty people, most of whom were both Latino and members of the queer community, that perpetrator cannot

be celebrated as a saint because he fails the first test. He isn't white. Intent, motive, and worldview all feel like they kind of describe the same thing. So I'm not sure why there are five criteria when they probably could have condensed it down to three. But the attack must be deliberate, that's intent, committed in the spirit of our struggle, that's motive, and be motivated by a white nationalist ideology.

Though they are willing to make some exceptions. There's a little wiggle room here for attacks that are right wing but not explicitly neo Nazi. And score means exactly what you probably think it means. They're keeping score, they're counting bodies. Sometimes if you log into the worst kind of place during an active attack or in the immediate aftermath of one, you'll see eager speculation that someone could be getting a new high score like it's some kind of video game,

and there are no exceptions to this requirement. You cannot become a terrogram saint with a score of zero. Someone has to die. These ideas didn't originate with Matthew Allison and Dallas Humber. Both of them have been members of this online community for years since at least twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty two, after the arrest of one of the community's most prolific posters, they became the group's leaders.

A user who posted as Slovak Bro, Pavel Benedikue, was arrested in Slovakia in early twenty twenty two and eventually sentenced to six years in prison for his support of terrorism, and Slovak Bro isn't the the only Tarogram author to land himself in prison. Brandon Russell, the Adam Woffin founder, currently awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to blow up the power grid in Baltimore, was in close communication with

members of the group before and after his arrest. He appears to have participated in the creation of at least some of the group's work. Two men in Canada were arrested last fall with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police press release alleging that they too had participated in the creation

of Tarogram manifestos. Their cases are ongoing and subject to a publication ban in Canada, so the extent of their involvement and the possibility that revelations in those cases had some bearing on the investigation here in the US is unknown right now, as the leaders of the Tarogram collective, Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison, are alleged to have directly

contributed to acts of terrorism all over the world. Their publications provided detailed instructions on how to make bombs, how to make napalm at home with materials you can by at the hardware store, the most efficient way to destroy an electrical substation with rifle fire, and how to identify the most valuable targets in your area, targets that could be infrastructure or human. They maintained a document called the List,

a list of high value assassination targets. For each name on the list, there was a little graphic like a trading card. The target's name, home address, and photograph were always featured, along with the reasons why they were considered an enemy of the cause. Those reasons, as you might expect, tended to be related to the target's identity. They're Jewish, they're gay, they're an immigrant, or some other kind of

undesirable in their eyes. The names on the list include senators, judges, a former federal prosecutor, state and local government officials, and nonprofit employees. In their chats, they posted the list off and would sometimes post individual members of the list alongside encouragement to take action. In one exchange described in the indictment, a member of the group chat asked if there were

any members of the list located in his area. The administrator of the group responded with a trading card image for a target in a city in the posters area. The user replied, we already have this one, and asked the channel administrator to tag him if any new names were added to the list in his area. A user the government alleges is Dallas. Humber replied, we'll do. A week later, she tagged that same user with a new name in the same city. He replied, very good, I'll

check in with my guys now. And it wasn't just members of the list who were in danger. Humber and Allison would routinely remind members of the group of the kinds of targets they should be seeking out. In June of twenty twenty three, Humber posted numerous exhortations to followers that they should be targeting Gay Pride Month events, writing in one post.

You've got the means an opportunity. All you need is the will. Don't breathe a word of what you're planning to anyone, and make it count.

of modern fascist terrorism. Read Siege was such a constant directive in so many Nazi chats for so long that it's more of a meme than an actual instruction. At this point. Mason wrote the Siege Newsletter throughout the early to mid eighties. The essays were collected and published in book form in the early nineties, but the text languished in relative obscurity until it was rediscovered by users of the Nazi forum Iron March in the early twenty tens.

It's no coincidence that Adam Wafflin was born on the pages of that forum, in the bubbling ideological soup, where young men were exchanging their favorite passages of Siege. It's a messy, sprawling six or so pages, depending on the addition you've bootlegged from some terrorism chat room, and it's mostly useless ramblings. There's a lot of repetitive content. It

wasn't written to be a book. To be fair, the line Make It Count comes from the end of the August nineteen eighty two newsletter in a missive titled Biting the Bullet. Like much of the Device in Siege, this essay is about taking action, about choosing the time, the target, and the circumstances of your attack on the system, because you may only get one chance to strike. The essay concludes, quote in revolution, the price of failure generally is death.

So whatever you do, and whatever course you choose, don't sell yourself cheap. Make it count. Make it Count. The Collective's Terrorism Guide by the same name and The Hard Reset both contain diagrams of electrical transformers and instruction for damaging them, released around the same time, both in June of twenty twenty two. Make It Count as a light

fourteen pages, it's more propaganda than manual. The page titled Blackout is dominated by a large graphic of a rifle with a scope and big neon text that reads in all caps, locate substation, range, find shoot transformers, flee undetected, which I guess are technically instructions, they're just not very good ones. The Hard Reset, on the other hand, is a nearly three hundred page compilation of essays, graphics manuals, and just a nightmarish collection of fonts and colors that

would make a graphic designer weep Around. Halfway through, there's a section containing incredibly detailed instructions, complete with diagrams, for sabotaging all manner of infrastructure. How to derail a train, how to damage a cell phone tower, things to consider when bombing a truck depot, ways you might contaminate a municipal water treatment plant, And of course, four pages of advice on sabotaging the power grid. Alongside mass shootings, attacks

on the power grid are the group's favorite fixation. We talked a little bit about the concept in another episode a few weeks ago, Lights Out about the Nazi paramilitary marines who hoped to knock out power in the Pacific Northwest. They thought it would provide cover for a planned series of assassinations. Those guys never got a chance to read the Terragram collective manuals on the subject, they were arrested

before they were written. But as I said in that episode, this idea has been popular in right wing circles for decades. Take out the power, chaos ensues something something Step three, then race war. The middle part never really gets fleshed out, but they all seem very convinced that something happens right after it gets dark that causes a race war. I'm not really sold on that logic, but they are bound

and determined to put holes in a substation. Nevertheless, the indictment lists numerous occasions on which Dallas Humber encourages her followers to take the advice provided in the manuals and

attack the grid. In December of twenty twenty two, after these still unsolved attacks on electrical infrastructure in Jones County, North Carolina on November eleventh, and Moore County on December third, Humber posted encouragement for anyone planning a similar grid attack, advising them not to let second thoughts or fear of failure or fear of getting caught demotivate them. Do not let this big mistake happen to you, she wrote in all caps, reminding them to have a plan, carry it out,

and keep their mouths shut. A few days later, she.

and maybe she doesn't. We don't actually know whether these attacks were committed by someone inspired by the Terrogram Collective at all, even if they were ideologically motivated. She didn't invent the idea, and a similar attack out in Washington State during the same time period was actually committed by a pair of would be thieves who thought they could

get cash out of ATMs during a power outage. So maybe it wasn't a terrorist at all, but if it was, it is entirely possible that an attacker inspired by her work was operating based off of a one directional relationship, that this person consumed the content and acted on it

without ever actually having a conversation with the author. We didn't learn until much later, though, that this wasn't the case with the shooting in Broadislava, and we do you know that at least one would be grid attacker was definitely in that chat and definitely in communication with the Tterogram collective. Andrew Takestov was arrested in July of twenty

twenty four at the Newark Airport. He was on his way to Ukraine to join the Russian Volunteer Corps, a neo Nazi paramilitary group of Russian citizens inside Ukraine who opposed the Putin government. Takeistov had been a member of the Tarogram collective chat since at least January of twenty twenty four. And in January of twenty twenty four, he

made a new friend online. It isn't stated outright in his charging documents or in the cases against Humber and Allison, but it sounds like he made this friend in the Tarogram chat, and this friend turned out to be an

undercover FBI agent around this same time. In January of twenty twenty four, Takestov asks in the Terogram chat for recommendations for quote documentaries about our guys made by our guys, and he asks if anyone has more content like White Terror, which is the twenty four minute documentary the Collective put out in October of twenty twenty two. The video is a compilation of descriptions of over one hundred white supremacist attacks carried out between nineteen sixty eight and twenty twenty two.

It is, in their words, their litany of the Saints. Humber narrates the video herself. She is the voice of Terogram, but she's not very skilled voice actor, and that's not just my opinion. The website Militant Wire, a publication that writes about political violence all over the world, wrote of her narration.

cutting of racial slurs and homophobic pejoratives. It is one thing to see edgy young men describe mass murderer Dylan Rufe as Saint Rufe on a message board, for example, and quite another to hear a young woman say it aloud and without traceable irony.

reading of an ominous message. The list is always growing, and you could join it.

had with many manifestos before it. Her audio recording of the Broados Lava Shooters Manifesto was released to the chat within a week of that attack, just as she'd promised Kragik it would be before he died a few months later. In April of twenty twenty four, Talkistov posted again thanking Humber for links to videos providing instructions on attacking energy facilities.

One video in particular had instructions for using my lar balloons to damage power lines their conductive metal surface can start a fire when it comes into contact with electrical infrastructure. Takistanv was so pleased with this advice, it seems that he thought he might like to try it. Later that summer, he met up with his new friend from the chat room, though one he didn't know was an undercover FBI agent. Together,

they drove around New Jersey looking at substations. Takistov proudly shared the instructions for how to carry out the attack, directing his friend to use mylar balloons to short circuit the transformer. He followed up by sending his friend a copy of the hard Reset, telling him quote, it's really the only thing you need. It has ideology, it has how to guides, It has ideas for funny things. It goes into how you should plan it. It really goes

into the thought process. Takstov told the agent his new friend that his plan was to fly to Ukraine and volunteer with the Russian Volunteer Corps. He'd chosen that group in particular because, according to the indictment quote, the group was openly national socialist and more importantly, specialized in assassinations attacks on power grids and other infrastructure. Sabotage, so he hoped to go over there, get some training, do a little fighting, and then return home with new skills he

could use here. He instructed his new friend not to be idle in his absence, that while Takistov was gone, he expected his new friend to carry out at least one attack, perhaps the attack on the substation they'd been discussing. He also recommended getting a rifle and a cheap burner phone. The burner phone wasn't for communication, though, it was to be used to determine if a cell tower had been sufficiently damaged by rifle rounds that it no longer transmitted

a signal. So you take the phone out, you start shooting at the tower, and if the phone still has bars, keep shooting. In July, just a few days before he would board the plane to Ukraine, Takistov met up with his new friend one last time. This time they drove out to a warehouse full of trucking equipment. Takistov explained to the undercover agent how he should access the facility to damage equipment with a Molotov cocktail. He also suggested

some strategies for derailing trains. He essentially talked through almost all of the infrastructure related attacks suggested by the Terogram Collective publication that he'd already shared with the agent, and then he tried to get on a plane. Takistov did not make his flight. On July tenth, he was arrested at the airport. He's not due back in court until October, but he is the attacker two listed in the indictment

against Alice Humber and Matthew Allison. That indictment lists three individuals that the government is confident they can prove were incited to action directly by the Terogram Collective. Attacker one is the Broadislava shooter. Attacker three is the teenager who stabbed five men outside of a mosque in Turkey last month. He was taken into custody alive, and as far as reporting I can find, all of his victims are expected

to survive. The teenager, identified by Turkish press only by his first name and last initial, arda K, was acknowledged by the Terogram Collective but not canonized as a saint. He failed, although his intent, ideology, and worldview are consistent with the kind of murderer they're looking for. The teenager failed to take any lives, and more importantly, he isn't white.

After the attack, Dallas Humber wrote in the chat, he included the Tarogram books and other Saint manifestos in his file, Dump, gives shout outs to the other Saints in his manifesto and references several hard Reset passages. He was one hundred percent our guy, but he's not white, so I can't give him an honorary title. We can still celebrate his attack, though he did it for Tarogram. She followed up later on writing we can hail him anyway. We just can't

add him to the pantheon. But yeah, it's a great development regardless. Inspiring more attacks is the goal, and anyone claiming to be an accelerationist should support them. It isn't specified in the court documents whether our Decae had ever directly participated in the Tarogram collective chats, but he certainly read their work. He wasn't just inspired by some shared ideology.

He cites them directly in this manifesto. Manifesto, however, is written in Turkish, which you'd expect because there's something a little strange about the manifesto Urikrazik left behind. It's in English. That's not entirely extraordinary. He spoke English, though he'd never spent any time in an English speaking country. He probably would have learned it in school. He watched American television

shows and movies. He had access to American music. He participated in online spaces where English is the primary language. But the manifesto is in perfect English. And I don't mean perfect English like from a textbook, something you could achieve through study. It's native English. It has idioms and terms of phrase and even mistakes that only a native English speaker would really use. And that's not my opinion.

According to an analysis by forensic linguist Julia Kupper published by the Accelerationism Research Consortium, the manifesto was almost certainly written by a native English speaker who grew up in the United States, probably someone with a good education, and someone a bit older than Crachick, someone maybe in their forties. The obvious answer then, is, well, he plagiarized it, right. It's copy paste, and that's surprisingly common.

the night of the shooting. She concluded that a second author was involved in both the manifesto and some of the tweets, but that the four Chan posts and the suicide note were written by him alone. According to covers analysis, there are some telltale signs of two writers at work.

When Krajik posted a photo on four Chan that night to prove he was who he said he was, he showed a handwritten note with a date on it, and we know he wrote this himself, and in European fashion he wrote the date day month year, not month day year as Americans would do. The manifesto, though uses an American date format. In his tweets, there are style shifts that seem to indicate two people may have had access

to the account. Changes in tone and vocabulary and the way that punctuation is used, shifting between the European style and the American style of where commas and periods go

on either side of a quotation or parentheses. The American English style of formatting began appearing in the tweets in May of twenty twenty two, the month he claims he began working on the manifesto and the plan in Earnest Cupper's report was published in early twenty twenty three, just six months after the attack and more than a year before the extent of Crojick's involvement with the terrogram chat administrators came to light after their arrests. It raises some

questions we may not get answers to. Perhaps the criminal proceedings against Alison and Humber will result in Twitter producing some records that could show more than one person logging into the account, but maybe not. There may be no satisfying conclusion to this mystery. But if an older, educated, native English speaking American author wrote most of that manifesto, it certainly confers some responsibility onto that author for the

attack that accompanied it. The co author of the manifesto didn't pull the trigger, but they may as well have if Humber and Allison are being prosecuted for their contributions to this attack. In particular, whether or not they had fore knowledge. Whether or not they participated in the crafting of this manifesto would be a significant factor in the prosecution. But who are these people? Who is Matthew Allison? Who

is Dallas Humber? How did they end up running a transnational terrorist organization that goads young men into committing acts of terrorism. Matthew Allison wasn't revealed as a Terrogram collective administrator until this indictment was unsealed. We didn't know his name until he was arrested, but Dallas Humber was unmasked a year and a half ago. Researchers at Left Coast Right Watch and independent investigative journalism outlet covering politics and

extremism identified Humber in March of twenty twenty three. The story was confirmed and re reported by Huffington Post soon after. Dallas Humber was miss Gorehound, the voice of Terrogram. The story is a truly bizarre one. I'll link it in the show notes and I highly recommend checking out this story in particular and Left Coast Right Watch in general.

They were able to locate the earliest days of Humber's journey to becoming the voice of White Terror when she was just thirteen, She was active on sites like deviant Art and live journal, where she described herself as a hopeless fangirl for serial killers. Their digital archaeology shows that Humber has been making fan art for murderers for over twenty years. She was describing herself as a National Socialist in her online journal as early as two thousand and four,

when she was just fourteen. By twenty fourteen, she was using one of the monikers she carried through to the present, little Miss Gorehound. Quoting from lcrw's twenty twenty three write up on Humber quote, her earliest interest in gurro art had become a full blown gore fetish. In its purest form, gurro is meant to simultaneously evoke a sense of eroticism and grotesqueness. It's meant to make the viewer uncomfortable. At its worst, it can only be described as hen Tai snuff.

Nearly all of her art from this period features abused women. LCRW has chosen not to share the images as they depict scenes of torture, dismemberment, and explicit sexual violence. For the most part, the only women that aren't being subjected to violence and brutality are perpetuating it against other women. The men, however, are portrayed as strong, powerful, and heroic, and by twenty nineteen, Humber had found her new online

home terrogram. Her now nearly twenty year old hobby of creating gore art was right at home in an online community devoted to celebrating mass murder, and now she wasn't just drawing pictures of killers, she was drawing pictures for them. She posted photos on Telegram of her correspondence with convicted

mass murderer Dylan Rufe. Several outlets have reported on these letters, and they do point out that they were unable to confirm with prison officials how often Humber was corresponding with Rufe, but the images she posted matched the handwriting and style of known samples of Roofe's letters. In one letter she posted, Rufe requests a drawing from her. He asks for quote a wizard with mean slash, unfriendly eyebrows, or a dragon or an unfriendly eyebrowed wizard writing a dragon. End quote.

I hope that's the only time I ever have to quote Dylan Rufe. The Little Miss Gorehound account posted a photo of the finished drawing of the unfriendly looking wizard, with the caption finished Dylan's Wizard hashtag Saint Mail. She also claimed to have written cards to Brenton Tarrant, imprisoned in New Zealand for the murders of fifty one worshippers at mosques in christ Church, and to Anders Bravic, imprisoned in Norway for the murder of seventy seven people, most

of whom were children. It's unclear what, if anything, Humber does for a day job these days, but LCRWS write up uncovered that for many years she made a living as a dildo saleswoman using the pseudonym techs Hunter. But after that article was published, nothing happened, nothing changed. We knew who she was, but nobody made a move to intervene,

and she carried on as she always had. Shannon Foley Martinez told Huffington Post back in March of twenty twenty three that quote, it is an absolute given that terrogram

will inspire more shootings if left unchecked. In the heartbreaking position of knowing exactly what she's talking about, Shannon was radicalized by a boyfriend as a teenager, but quickly left the movement and has since dedicated decades of her life to the ugly work of trying to keep other people's children from falling prey to the recruiters who target vulnerable teens. But the government waited and waited. They watched too. I'm sure we know they had undercover agents in the group.

But they waited over a year. They waited until more attacks took place. They waited until an eighty seven year old man was stabbed outside of his mosque. They waited while more and more young men were fed heaping servings of rotten propaganda. They waited until September of twenty twenty four, a few weeks after that stabbing in Turkey. In a piece published in Wire a few days after the indictment, investigative journalist Ali Winston offers an intriguing explanation for the timing.

While most of the charges in the indictment could have been brought at any time, things like soliciting the murder of a federal official, disseminating information about explosives, threatening communications, and so on, they've been doing that for years. The final charge of this fifteen count indictment is a violation of Chapter eighteen, Section two three, three nine a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, and this is the most serious charge on the indictment. This is the one

that could put them away forever. And this charge was only made possible by a decision earlier this year by the Government of the United Kingdom. In April of twenty twenty four, the UK formally added the Terogram Collective to its list of proscribed terrorist entities. A Home Office announcement in April.

a fine. In addition, Section fifty eight makes it a criminal offense for a person to collect or possess information which is likely to be useful to a person committing or repairing for acts of terrorism, including where an individual views or accesses documents or records containing information of that kind. The Telegram Collective has now been added to the list of prescribed organizations in the UK alongside eighty other organizations.

to how it has treated Islamist terrorist organizations. Terrorism researcher Seamus Hughes told Winston, quote, I would think of this case more like an old school terrorism investigation, where you have a leadership cell that pushed info to followers and radicalized them into action. Cases involving this particular charge are typically those involving groups like ISIS or al Qaida. I don't think we've seen this used before against white nationalist

domestic terror organizations. Using this legal framework against a group like the Terrogram collective may signal a shift in the DOJ's strategy for targeting white nationalist terrorism in the United States. It's a big swing, as Hughes said, quote, it shows that either the FEDS are trying to make a point or they were very concerned about these particular actors, and

maybe it's both right. It was long past time to do something, anything, anything at all about the most significant network of neo Nazi terrorist propaganda on the English speaking Internet. People have already died. There's every reason to believe the undercover agents they had in the group knew that more people would die if something didn't disrupt the organization. And maybe the Justice Department is just feeling a little more willing to use the tools they have to do something

about right wing extremism more generally. This is obviously a much more seismic shift in policy. But we were just talking last week about the false statements charges against a soldier who allegedly lied about his extremist activities, and those charges were unusual and perhaps indicative of a shift in policy and strategy. I suppose it doesn't behoove me to make wilder speculations than the experts are willing to make, so we'll stick with what Seamus Hughes told Ally Winston.

A case like this had to get sign off at the highest levels. Somebody in the DOJ wanted this network shut down. When the pair were arrested earlier this month, authorities searched their homes. Dallas Humber had three D printed guns, high capacity magazines, a short barreled rifle, unregistered firearms, a lot of Nazi propaganda, her own manifestos, and a notebook listing the white supremacist attackers with whom she corresponds, including

Dylan Roof. When Matthew Allison was arrested, he was quote wearing a backpack containing zip ties, duct tape, a gun, ammunition, a knife, lockpicking equipment, two phones, and a thumb drive. After his arrest, Allison was advised of his rights, but waived them and quickly confessed in a recorded interview to

engaging in the acts alleged in the indictment. The pair are currently held without bond, with the government citing their own statements about their willingness to die in a shootout rather than be arrested, about Allison's go bag, which indicates a desire to flee the country, the severity of the charges which could send them to prison for the rest of their lives, and their own prior statements expressing a willingness to murder or to have murdered people they suspect

our cooperating witnesses against other Terogram members like Brendan Russell. These cooperating witnesses have been given permission by the government to testify in a closed court room without being named. In Brandon Russell's case. For Humber and Allison, there is not currently a date set for their next appearance in court, and with Humber and Allison in custody, the current version of the Terogram collective is dead. But what does that mean?

This is only one head of a hydra. Just as new leaders emerged after Slovak Borough was arrested in twenty twenty two, just as Brandon Russell continued to communicate with Humber after his arrest in twenty twenty three, a new poster will rise to take their place. Hopefully, this case signals a shift in the government's approach to throwing up

roadblocks in the paths of aspiring Nazi terrorists. Because a dildo saleswoman from California and a failed DJ from Idaho may spend the rest of their lives behind bars, but it's only a matter of time before a new voice starts whispering white terror into the ears of impressionable teenage boys who're desperate to die in a way that will impress, four Chan posters.