On Oct. 12, 2022, Juraj Krajčík used a laser-sighted gun to open fireplace exterior a well-liked LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, killing two queer folks and wounding a 3rd. “Feeling no regrets, isn’t that humorous?” he tweeted. He killed himself a short while later.
The 19-year-old had additionally tweeted a hyperlink to a 65-page screed he’d authored advocating the genocide of queer folks, Jewish folks and Black folks. Krajčík mimicked and cited the writings of different white supremacist mass shooters, whom he known as “saints.” And in a “particular thanks” part, he expressed gratitude for the web group that had radicalized him.
“Terrorgram Collective,” Krajčík wrote in italics for emphasis. “You recognize who you're…. Constructing the way forward for the White revolution, one publication at a time.”
It was the primary time the Terrorgram Collective — a neo-Nazi propaganda outfit that makes use of Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, to encourage acts of far-right terror and to rejoice the individuals who commit them — had been cited in a mass assassin’s twisted treatise.
The Terrorgram Collective is on the coronary heart of the worldwide neo-Nazi accelerationist motion, probably the most excessive and specific iteration of white supremacism, which advocates lethal violence and different acts of destruction to hasten the collapse of society so that a whites-only world may be constructed instead. The collective produces propaganda — audiobooks, movies and memes — that travels throughout the online in hopes of inspiring the subsequent Christchurch shooter, who killed 51 Muslims in two mosques; the subsequent El Paso shooter, who killed 22 Hispanic folks in a Walmart; the subsequent Pittsburgh shooter, who killed 11 Jews in a synagogue; and the subsequent Buffalo shooter, who killed 10 Black Individuals in a grocery retailer.
The Terrorgram Collective maintains a horrifying hagiology of those shooters, calling them “saints” and sanctifying their likenesses with medieval-style church drawings. Final 12 months, to the alarm of antifascists and counterterror organizations, the collective produced a 24-minute documentary that glorified the murders dedicated by 105 “saints” over the past 50 years.
Regardless of the acute nature of this propaganda, and its direct affect on the Bratislava shooter, the identities of the folks behind the Terrorgram Collective, who use pseudonyms to publish their bile, have remained unknown — till now.
Proof compiled by a coalition of nameless antifascist researchers — together with from SoCal Analysis Membership, @WizardAFA, @SunlightAFA and@FashFreeNW — and revealed this week on Left Coast Proper Watch, an investigative information outlet, reveals that one of many Terrorgram Collective’s primary propagandists is Dallas Erin Humber, a 33-year-old lady residing in Sacramento, California.
HuffPost has corroborated the analysis indicating that Humber is the individual behind a number of Telegram accounts related to the Terrorgram Collective, and figuring out her because the narrator of the collective’s documentaries and audiobooks.
Humber didn't reply to HuffPost requests for remark made by way of electronic mail. Voicemails left to her relations went unanswered. Though she acquired and noticed a message HuffPost despatched to her on Telegram, she didn't reply however as an alternative blocked the reporter from messaging her once more.
One of many Telegram discussion groups that she frequented was deserted on Thursday after Left Coast Proper Watch revealed its article.
It’s unclear what Humber presently does to make a residing, though there’s proof she has at occasions made cash promoting artwork, and that she has labored as an instructional tutor. She additionally was a dildo saleswoman, posting movies by which she reviewed completely different intercourse toys — just like the “fairly spectacular” Posh Silicone Bounding Bunny — and providing coupon codes to her viewers.
Her unmasking comes not lengthy after one other Terrorgram Collective member might have been recognized in courtroom paperwork. Brandon Russell — the founding father of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, contemporary off a five-year jail stint for the illegal storage of explosive supplies — was arrested alongside along with his girlfriend by federal authorities in Maryland earlier this month for an alleged plot to assault energy stations and plunge the area into darkness. His usernames on Telegram are talked about in federal affidavits, and archived messages present him interacting with accounts related to Humber, the pair showing to coordinate the discharge of the Terrorgram Collective’s newest propaganda.
Late final 12 months, after Slovakian police discovered the physique of Krajčík, the collective started working making his 65-page pro-genocide tirade into an audiobook. The collective had achieved this with the writings of different mass shooters, particularly for Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch shooter. His “manifesto” impressed a wave of copycat killers, whom the collective then dubbed “Tarrant’s disciples.”
“That is sort of an enormous deal,” Humber says in a quick introduction to the audiobook, “however in case you haven’t heard, on Oct. 12, 2022, St. Juraj Krajčík, Tarrant’s sixth disciple and Terrorgram’s first saint, posted this manifesto on-line earlier than opening fireplace on f****ts at an LGBT espresso store in Bratislava, Slovakia.”
“We mourn St. Krajčík’s loss of life,” she added, “however his legacy is immortalized by way of phrases and motion ... His manifesto is absolute fucking fireplace and I believe you’ll actually get pleasure from it. When you’ve been round right here some time, it ought to resonate intensely along with your very soul. So with out additional ado, let’s get this social gathering began, Terror Bros.”
Unmasking ‘Miss Gorehound,’ The Narrator Of Terrorgram
The antifascist researchers adopted a protracted path of digital breadcrumbs to determine Humber, discovering that the 33-year-old has been a neo-Nazi since her teenage years, when she turned concerned in numerous far-right communities on-line, lots of them associated to anime artwork.
The researchers had been in a position to compile a portrait of a quickly radicalizing younger lady who used numerous usernames — fairly dictator, the Lolita of the Far Proper, Lil’ Lolita, hopelessfangirl, Lil’ Miss Gorehound — to ultimately turn out to be her newest, most alarming self: Miss Gorehound, the narrator of Terrorgram.
“Guten tag!” begins the bio part of a LiveJournal account known as “pretty_dictator,” created in 2003. “I'm a fourteen 12 months outdated Nationwide Socialist of full German descent.”
Pretty_dictator’s LiveJournal, the younger writer declared, was a spot for “the private insights of a fascist dictator in coaching” and “the story of a white woman with a dream.” The web page included “significant quotes” from a number of the most infamous Nazi-era figures, together with Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess.
It additionally included her actual beginning date, her hometown (then Elk Grove, California), and the title of her highschool (Laguna Creek) — all data that corresponds to Dallas Humber.
Different LiveJournal customers usually referred to pretty_dictator as Dallas, and he or she even made a bit on her web page for “Dallas-related hyperlinks.” Amongst these hyperlinks was the URL for her web page on DeviantArt, a web-based artwork group.
She glided by “hopelessfangirl” on DeviantArt, discovering an adoring viewers for her model of Nazi-inspired anime, together with a cartoon she drew of Dr. Josef Mengele — the Nazi SS officer also known as the “Angel of Loss of life” for his position within the mass homicide of Jews — smiling in entrance of the gates of the Auschwitz loss of life camp. “Pleased birthday Herr Doktor,” learn the caption.
In 2006, hopelessfangirl posted a brand new bio web page on DeviantArt, once more itemizing her hometown as Elk Grove, California, and itemizing amongst her pursuits “writing to serial killers.”
Within the ensuing years, the DeviantArt account turned much less energetic — a time that corresponds to a interval of seeming turmoil in Humber’s life. Though hopelessfangirl boasted she had a 4.2 GPA and was a part of a highschool rocketry group that received a contest sponsored by NASA, her goals of attending a prestigious faculty at 18 years outdated had been apparently dashed when she briefly turned homeless. In 2010, police raided her residence and arrested her boyfriend for possessing youngster pornography. (He was later convicted.) And in 2012, Humber was arrested for possession of a managed substance — methamphetamine — and sentenced to probation and a drug diversion program.
However by 2015, she was again on DeviantArt with a brand new title: Lil’ Miss Gorehound. “That is my new profile,” she instructed considered one of her followers, noting that she used to go by hopelessfangirl. “I’m so glad to be again!” she wrote in one other remark. “And glad to be drawing no matter I would like once more! (for silly difficult causes I needed to be offline and censored for some years.)”
Lil’ Miss Gorehound posted the identical disturbing fare as hopelessfangirl had: Nazi-inspired drawings alongside iterations of “ero guro,” a Japanese artform that mixes the grotesque and the erotic. Typically she blended genres, like within the on-line comedian e-book she authored that instructed a ugly love story about two SS officers — one lady and one man — having blood-soaked intercourse between bouts of slaughtering prisoners at a Nazi loss of life camp throughout World Battle II.
The title of the SS unit in her e-book was “Einsatzkommando5B.” She used an abbreviated model of this title to arrange an account on Instagram, utilizing the deal with @einsatz.kdo.5b.
In November 2019, she introduced to her Instagram followers that she had simply began a channel for her artwork on Telegram — the platform that had turn out to be a haven for probably the most excessive far-right figures on the planet. “HEY GUYS I MADE A TELEGRAM CHANNEL FOR MY ART! PLEASE SUB, LINK IN BIO,” she wrote. “My @ is MissGorehoundArt.”
On her Telegram channel, she posted a drawing that she had used as an avatar on DeviantArt: a cartoon of a white lady with blond hair and blue eyes outfitted just like the Christchurch shooter, a sonnerad (or black solar) — a Nazi image — emblazoned throughout her chest and a semi-automatic rifle adorned with racist memes and quotes in her palms. (This cartoon was featured in a July 2020 report by the Simon Wiesenthal Heart, a Jewish human rights group, elevating alarm in regards to the potential for Telegram to encourage terror assaults.)
MissGorehoundArt ultimately arrange different Telegram channels and usernames — together with MissG88, M_G, and Proper Wing Artwork Squad — to share disturbing messages and memes. After Los Angeles police killed a Black man named Keenan Anderson final month, she appeared to encourage her followers to assault anti-racist protesters once they took to the streets. “If this useless n****r leads to one other spherical of chimpouts, DON’T LET THE OPPORTUNITY GO TO WASTE,” she wrote. “You recognize what to do.” (She signed off on this message by calling herself “a humble farmer, tending to my stochastic terrorism backyard.”)
As soon as, in a chat group, Miss Gorehound forwarded a message from an account known as Proper Wing E-book Membership — an account she seems to have additionally run — praising the person who assassinated civil rights hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “HAIL SAINT JAMES EARL RAY,” the message acknowledged.
And one other time she shared a handwritten letter she allegedly acquired from a distinct “saint” — presently incarcerated on federal loss of life row at a maximum-security jail in Terre Haute, Indiana — requesting a chunk of authentic Miss Gorehound artwork. “When you haven’t began one thing already, how a couple of wizard with imply/unfriendly eyebrows ... ” the inmate wrote.
Miss Gorehound fulfilled the prisoner’s request, posting a drawing of a wizard earlier than placing it within the mail. “Completed Dylann’s wizard!” she wrote.
The drawing had purportedly been commissioned by Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed 9 Black worshippers in a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015. (HuffPost has not independently confirmed that Roof wrote the letter Miss Gorehound posted, however the tone and handwriting model seem to match different letters Roof has written from jail which had been later revealed within the press.)
Miss Gorehound despatched loving letters to different mass murderers, in accordance with screenshots of posts from Telegram and from her since-deleted Instagram account — all preserved by antifascist activists within the group White Rose Society Australia.
She wrote a Christmas card to the Christchurch shooter (“Expensive Brenton, Merry Christmas and Pleased New 12 months! We haven’t forgotten you ... Keep sturdy brother ... ”) and to Anders Breivik, the white supremacist who killed 77 folks in Norway in 2011 (“I’m certain you get many letters from mates world wide, however if you happen to’re , I’d like to be your penpal!”).
As soon as, when she shared different letters she’d written to those two mass murderers, Miss Gorehound revealed a giant clue about her actual, offline id. Earlier than placing them within the mail, she posted a photograph of the letters propped up in opposition to her cat. “Shoutout to Fluffies for being my backdrop,” she wrote in an Instagram caption.
Antifascist researchers acknowledged Fluffies. Years earlier, in 2014, when Miss Gorehound was nonetheless going by pretty_dictator on-line — a username she used interchangeably together with her actual title, Dallas — she had posted a video of a similar-looking cat, with its distinctive white face markings, to YouTube.
“Fluffies, get out of there!” Humber may be heard saying to her cat, who’s sitting in a clothes drawer, within the video. “Come out of there! There you're! You’re so treasured! Awww!”
The Voice Of Terrorgram
Final fall, two days after the capturing on the Bratislava homosexual bar, the Terrorgram Collective posted a brand new 24-minute “documentary” it had been engaged on for months. It was launched with a last-minute dedication to the Slovakian shooter, “St. Juraj Krajčík.”
The documentary begins with a feminine narrator stating: “Between 1968 and 2022, 105 white women and men of motion have taken it upon themselves to wage struggle in opposition to the system and our racial enemies.” The following movie is a chronological celebration of those white women and men’s murders — a terror reel of shootings, bombings and our bodies, all set to a chilling fashwave soundtrack.
The web site Militant Wire, which displays violent extremists throughout the globe, together with the self-declared Islamic state and al Qaeda, wrote in regards to the Terrorgram documentary on the time, making particular word of the video’s narrator:
It's each hanging and seemingly incongruous to the fabric, the best way a younger, common feminine voice (devoid of ghoulish stylization or of discernible malice and hatred) not solely celebrates acts of terrorism whereas parroting well-established neo-Nazi tropes and slogans, however maybe most of all of the unburdened and slightly pure approach that this younger lady makes use of probably the most chopping of racial slurs and homophobic pejoratives. It's one factor to see edgy younger males describe mass assassin Dylann Roof as “Saint Roof” on a message board, for instance, and fairly one other to listen to a younger lady say it aloud and with out traceable irony.
The voice is Dallas Humber’s — the identical voice that had narrated all the collective’s earlier propaganda. On this newest documentary, her disturbing deadpan is used to explain a number of the most horrifying episodes in latest American historical past.
“Between Aug 1977 and 1980, Saint Joseph Paul Franklin kills 22 n****rs and race traitors and injures a minimum of seven in remoted sniper assaults throughout the U.S.,” she says close to the beginning of the video, set to footage of Franklin’s carnage and a clip of him smiling. “His high-value targets Embrace a race-mixing civil rights n****r and pornographer Larry Flynt.” (The FBI estimates Franklin, a white supremacist who later died in jail, killed “greater than 20 folks and severely injured six.”)
Later within the documentary, Humber celebrates some acts of terror in her hometown. “June 18, 1999,” she says, “Saints Matthew and Tyler Williams firebomb three synagogues in Sacramento, California. Then, on July 1, they kill two f****ts in Redding. The subsequent day, they firebomb a Sacramento abortion mill.” (The white supremacist Williams brothers had been arrested for these crimes. Matthew Williams killed himself in jail and Tyler Williams remains to be in jail.)
The documentary’s closing, one hundred and fifth “saint” is the white supremacist who, at 18, filmed himself killing 10 folks at a Buffalo grocery retailer final 12 months. “Might 14, 2022,” Humber says. “Saint Payton Gendron kills 10 n****rs together with a cop ... His manifesto and livestream propel accelerationism and the Nice Substitute again into the mainstream, simply as he supposed.”
Then Humber closes the documentary with a blood-chilling invocation.
“To the saints of tomorrow, watching this right now,” she says, “know that if you succeed, you’ll be celebrated with reverence and your sacrifice is not going to be in useless. Hail the saints and hail our wonderful and bloody legacy of white terror.”
Shannon Foley Martinez, a former American neo-Nazi who now works to de-radicalize extremists, says the Terrorgram Collective is a part of a protracted custom of white supremacist propagandists making an attempt to encourage violence. “One of many mechanisms of making martyrs is that it emboldens people to undertake actions that they in any other case may not,” she instructed HuffPost.
Extremists, she defined, are sometimes on a “quest for significance.”
“And if you happen to can turn out to be a ‘saint,’ if you happen to can turn out to be exalted for the issues that you just do, that takes this life that feels actually sort of meaningless after which offers it not simply which means, however this intense which means, and a legacy of destruction that carries you on perpetually,” Foley Martinez mentioned. “And also you see this in mass shooter manifestos. All of them form of amplify and speak about each other… They glorify the acts of those that got here earlier than them. Everyone’s at all times making an attempt to beat the file.”
Foley Martinez mentioned that it’s solely a matter of time till the Terrorgram Collective, if left unchecked, canonizes one other considered one of its followers as a saint.
“It's an absolute on condition that Terrorgram will encourage extra shootings,” she mentioned.
Precise Darkness
Earlier this month, federal authorities introduced the arrest of neo-Nazi couple Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel on expenses that they had been plotting to assault the Maryland energy grid system. Prosecutors allege Russell, who lives in Florida, and Clendaniel, who lives in Maryland, deliberate to make use of weapons to shoot 5 substations close to Baltimore to “fully destroy” the town.
Russell was a identified amount: He was the founder and chief of the Atomwaffen Division, an accelerationist neo-Nazi group chargeable for a wave of murders. In 2017, Russell, then a member of the Florida Nationwide Guard, lived with three different Atomwaffen members. After considered one of his roommates murdered his two different roommates throughout a dispute inside their Tampa residence, authorities arrived and located a framed picture of Oklahoma Metropolis bomber Timothy McVeigh in Russell’s bed room. Within the storage, they discovered that Russell had been stockpiling explosive supplies.
Russell skipped city, driving south with a small arsenal of weapons and ammo in his automobile. Police ultimately arrested him in Key Largo, not removed from the Turkey Level nuclear energy plant. (Later, Russell’s former roommate, the one accused of the double homicide, would inform police Russell had been planning to assault the nuclear plant.)
Russell was sentenced to 5 years in jail and was launched early, in August 2021. A short while later, prosecutors say he set about plotting the assault in Maryland. Federal affidavits filed in courtroom this month reveal that Russell had been utilizing a minimum of two pseudonyms in encrypted chats — Raccoon and Homunculus — to plan his assault on the ability grids.
Those self same pseudonyms seem in archived chats preserved by the antifascist researchers investigating Dallas Humber.
Final summer time Russell, writing as “Raccoon,” posted the Terrorgram Collective’s newest propaganda: an audiobook model of a 136-page screed they’d authored, narrated by Humber, imploring readers to commit acts of terror. (“Have you ever ever puzzled what would occur if the subsequent youngster drag queen parade acquired torn aside by a nail bomb?” Humber says. “I've. Many occasions.”)
When Russell posted this audiobook to Telegram, one other person was desperate to know if the feminine narrator could be narrating one other e-book quickly. “She's going to,” Russell responded. Humber chimed in, too, to reassure her fan. “I'll sooner or later,” she mentioned.
This transient interplay, amongst others preserved by antifascists, signifies Russell and Humber had been each working to provide the Terrorgram Collective’s propaganda.
Final July, they revealed an audiobook by which Humber reads aloud textual content beseeching neo-Nazis to assault energy grids. “Peppered all around the nation are energy distribution substations that hold electrical energy flowing ... ” Humber says. “Sitting geese. Worthy prey. They're largely unprotected and sometimes in distant places. They are often struck at with ease, and it may be achieved with out getting caught, permitting for a number of to be hit in a spree.”
Such assaults on the ability grid, Humber says within the audiobook, are “unquestionably simpler than capturing up random n****rs” as a result of “with the ability off, when the lights don’t come again on, all hell will break free, making situations fascinating for our race to as soon as once more take again what's ours.”
A latest investigation by Insider discovered assaults on America’s susceptible energy grid had been up 72% in 2022 over the 12 months earlier than — a interval of intensifying far-right rhetoric about destroying public infrastructure. General, these assaults have elevated by 277% since 2018.
What Now?
It’s unclear what regulation enforcement knew about Humber’s presence on Terrorgram, if it knew something in any respect.
The Sacramento Police Division didn’t reply to a request for remark, and the FBI discipline workplace in Sacramento declined to remark.
“We had been unaware of this subject till you introduced it to us on this electronic mail,” Amar Gandhi, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace, instructed HuffPost. “I've forwarded this data to our Gang Suppression Unit, which investigates all bias-based crimes.”
There's a latest precedent for regulation enforcement figuring out the true, offline id of a Terrorgram propagandist, however selecting to withhold that data from the general public.
In July 2020 HuffPost revealed a report figuring out 27-year-old Andrew Casarez because the chief of a white supremacist community known as the Bowl Patrol. Like Humber, Casarez lived in Sacramento and used a pseudonym on Telegram to encourage his followers to turn out to be “saints” by committing acts of racial terror.
However the Southern Poverty Legislation Heart lately discovered Casarez’s title on a leaked copy of the 2019 federal no-fly listing. (Casarez, a pizza supply driver, was a “selectee” on the listing, which means he would have been topic to enhanced safety measures at airports.) This means federal regulation enforcement knew that Casarez was concerned with the Bowl Patrol for a minimum of eight months earlier than HuffPost’s article — a time frame when he continued to encourage his followers to commit mass shootings.
This, because the SPLC famous, “raises questions on how federal businesses reconcile investigative secrecy and public security.”
Spencer Sunshine — a veteran researcher of the far proper who's writing a e-book about James Mason, writer of the e-newsletter Siege, a foundational textual content for Terrorgram — instructed HuffPost it’s attainable that federal regulation enforcement has additionally identified about Humber’s makes an attempt to incite mass homicide, however has chosen to maintain that data to itself.
“Historical past has proven that they'll sit again to maintain gathering data and hold their hand within the pot even when typically murders are occurring,” he mentioned of the FBI’s investigations of white supremacist teams.
The company, he mentioned, usually waits for the best “political second” to take motion, “both when the costs are sufficiently big, or once they have the sources and so they have prosecutors who wish to pursue it.”
It’s additionally unclear whether or not Humber — now that her position in Terrorgram has been uncovered — may or could be prosecuted. Within the landmark Supreme Court docket ruling Brandenberg vs. Ohio, the courtroom dominated that advocacy of violence could possibly be punished solely “the place such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless motion and is more likely to incite or produce such motion.”
Arusha Gordon — affiliate director of the James Byrd Jr. Heart to Cease Hate on the Legal professionals’ Committee for Civil Rights Beneath Legislation — instructed HuffPost that it may be a excessive hurdle for prosecutors to leap to show that sure incitements are “seemingly” to provide “imminent” violence.
It is perhaps powerful, for instance, to reveal that Humber encouraging her followers to commit acts of terror quantities to an “imminent” menace in courtroom. The Terrorgram Collective’s propaganda doesn’t at all times declare a selected, upcoming date for its followers to do terror.
Different nation’s legal guidelines make it simpler to prosecute somebody like Humber. Lately within the U.Okay., 19-year-old white supremacist Daniel Harris was sentenced to 11 years in jail for making movies that influenced each the Buffalo shooter and the person who fatally shot 5 folks at an LGBTQ bar in Colorado Springs this previous November. Among the many movies Harris produced was one which promoted the “whole extermination of sub-humans as soon as and for all.”
Humber’s propaganda is simply as explicitly genocidal, and because it stands, she has appeared to encourage a minimum of one mass capturing — the one in Bratislava. The antifascists whose analysis unmasked Humber hope exposing her will stop her from inspiring one other.
“When somebody actively takes a task in encouraging folks to commit acts of terror and mass-violence, they're a hazard to anybody who occurs to have the misfortune of being in shut proximity to the subsequent radicalized neo-Nazi who heeds their name to violence,” the antifascist researchers instructed HuffPost in a joint assertion. “What they need is the twin advantage of anonymity and notoriety. They wish to stay anonymous and proceed doing what they do, freed from any consequence, whereas concurrently elevating their standing as some pseudonymous celeb amongst their friends.”
“And there’s no approach in hell that ought to be allowed to proceed unchecked,” they mentioned.
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