text: TargetsFar Left groups have taken aim at Patriot Front in the past. In 2017, antifascist activists infiltrated and leaked years worth of Discord chats from the group. Numerous Patriot Front members were doxxed as a result. In another case of poor OPSEC, Antifa International leaked an operations order (likely stolen by scraping the National Policy Institute website) ahead of Spencer’s University of Florida speech, showing that Patriot Front had been hired to provide physical security. In 2019, the “Alpha Company” of black nationalist group Huey P. Newton Gun Club warned that Patriot Front’s presence in Dallas, Texas would be met with violence, but nothing would come from the threat. More recently, antifascist activists were able to identify members of Patriot Front by exploiting meta-data obtained in the early 2021 Parler social media app leak. In July 2021, members of Patriot Front clashed with Far Left activists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Patriot Front used the same delivery tactic seen in D.C., using a box truck to drop off and pick up approximately 50 members involved in the event.Neo-Nazi and Accelerationist groups have encouraged the pursuit dencetralized organizing, claiming that centralized groups like Patriot Front are too vulnerable to Far Left and law enforcement infiltration, lawsuits, doxxing, entrapment, and even member assassinations. One Accelerationist commented, “[E]ither you join a named group…and become a known enemy, or you remain an unknown enemy, preparing agitating, and fighting the war of the flea.”Final ObservationsIt’s alarming how quickly and adamantly many on the Right have accused this march of being a false flag event. Numerous conservative influencers took to social media, offering accusations that the D.C. march was nothing more than the FBI’s D.C. field office in costume or that it had to be a federal government false flag operation because no one has ever heard of the group before. Neither accusation is true. Another popular accusation is that because the Patriot Front marchers were so fit, this had to be law enforcement. This is also an untrue accusation. Fascist groups notoriously select for fitness because optics and aesthetics are fascist values. These groups routinely criticize other white nationalist groups for looking sloppy, and repeatedly turn away members or aspiring members from marches for being overweight.Conservatives can’t deny the existence of a fascist movement for two good reasons. First is the existence of self-proclaimed fascist groups, such as Patriot Front. The second is that Americans don’t stop moving to the social or cultural Right at Ted Cruz. There’s an authoritarian flavor of the social, cultural Right which promotes the use of government to enforce political boundaries, especially against the Far Left. History teaches us that fascist movements most often arise as a result of communist movements: Finland in 1929, Italy and Germany in the 1930s, Argentina in 1943, Chile in 1973, to name just a few. If history is any indicator, it should be expected that a reactionary fascist movement forms in the United States in response to the rise of the communist movement.Patriot Front has a long track record of activism and propaganda, from putting up stickers on light poles, posting flyers, and holding banners above overpasses during rush hour traffic, to conducting several successful marches. It’s a real group, and they will adopt new members based on this D.C. march. It’s why another march is also likely. – M.S.LOW INTENSITY CONFLICT INTSUMFar Left Activity Rollup & Outlook