A teenager who murdered two people outside of a gay bar in Slovakia, a teenager who stabbed five men at a mosque in Turkey, and a teenager who planned to destroy infrastructure in New Jersey had one thing in common: they'd all been reading terrorism manuals produced by a group of neonazi propagandists. A new indictment alleges two Americans are responsible for inciting acts of white supremacist terror all over the world. Original Air Date: 9.19.24 Sources: https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/heres-the-gore-artist-turning-terrorgram-manuals-manifestos-into-audiobooks https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/terrorgram-collective-leader-was-a-tucker-carlson-fanboy-and-failed-youtuber/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/21/slovakian-gay-bar-attack-great-replacement-conspiracy-theoryfast-spreading-racist-ideology https://www.wired.com/story/terrorgram-collective-indictments/ https://www.antihate.ca/uk_first_add_terrorgram_collective_proscribed_groups https://vsquare.org/bratislava-terrorist-radicalized-on-terrorgram-its-members-take-credit/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/canada-terrorism-far-right.html https://www.antihate.ca/terrorgram_neo_nazi_collective_heart_international_arrests https://www.gov.uk/government/news/terrorgram-collective-now-proscribed-as-terrorist-organisation https://www.postoj.sk/145241/pachatelom-bol-definitivne-juraj-k-jeho-primarnym-cielom-bol-eduard-heger https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6193e52959704a0c3b5b4b0c/t/6421ecf5721fc579c2799737/1679944949837/ARC_Terrorgrams+First+Saint_Bratislava.pdf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's a holiday again, so even though it's only been a few weeks since the last time I said it was a little awkward to be scrounging around for a rerun in a back catalogue of episodes that's only a few months deep, Here I am again.
What can you do?
It's not my fault we pack all our big holidays in so close together at the end of the year.
So there's no new weird little guy this week.
This is an episode you may have 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 200 of them in 2024 alone, according to data from the Gun Violence Prevention Group Everytown 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 14-year-old student were killed.
Five more students and one teacher were injured.
The shooter, a 15-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 Kosyukyatim.
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 2024, 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 Teragram 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 it 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, 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 Kosukyatim as a saint sets off alarm bells.
Two of the people behind the Teragram 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 7pm on a warm Wednesday evening in October of 2022.
Uri Benkulik and Matush Horvath were sitting outside of Tiplarin, a gay bar in Bratislava's city center.
Matush was studying Chinese at a nearby university.
Uri 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.
Music They were shot by a teenager who left behind a 65-page neo-Nazi manifesto before shooting himself in a nearby park.
August 12, 2024 was a sunny afternoon in the Turkish city of Eskişehir.
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 2024, a teenager in New Jersey who'd been planning to destroy power substations in New Brunswick was arrested at the Newark 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 shot.
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. - Between 1968 and 2021, 105 white men and women of action have taken it upon themselves to wage war against the system and our 105 white men and women of action have taken it upon themselves Our saints are the best of our brothers, and this is our legacy of white terror.
All three of these young men were incited to take action by propaganda produced by the Terrorgram Collective, a once-anonymous group of militant neo-Nazi accelerationists on the messaging app Telegram.
All three of them were radicalized by a 34-year-old dildo saleswoman from California narrating the manifestos of their idols, the mass shooters who came before them.
I'm Molly Conger, and this is Weird Little Guys.
Juraj Krejcik died by suicide sometime overnight after he murdered two people outside of a gay bar in Bratislava on October 12, 2022.
His body was found in a nearby public park early the next morning, but he didn't shoot himself right away.
Thank you.
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.
Krejcik walked to a local park and checked 4chan on his phone.
People were talking about him.
About his attack.
He wanted to see what they were saying.
4chan users quickly connected the shooting to his Twitter account.
As he'd walked home after the attack, he tweeted, On 4chan, they were already discussing the manifesto he'd tweeted out.
One poster asked, And this was the first post the shooter replied to.
He wrote, Because I felt like it.
If you're familiar with 4chan, 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 outsiders.
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, Krejciuk replied that he'd wanted to shoot the Slovakian prime minister, Eduard 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 4chan that night that he had wanted to shoot the Chabad house too, but he'd run out of ammunition.
Writing, Wish I could pull off more.
Got nearly no ammo, bro.
Posters on 4chan 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 11.30pm, 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 4chan 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 on to 4chan 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 changes 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 4chan 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 a 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 4chan 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 asks him to spell out the N-word in 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 meme-speak for dying by suicide.
His last 4chan post was shortly before midnight.
4chan 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'm 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 4chan hoping to see his acts hailed as heroic, but they just laughed at him.
He was dead before Terrorgram canonized him, placing him in the pantheon of terror he worshipped.
Authorities in Slovakia weren't able to ping his cell phone location until 5 a.m.
The cell phone provider didn't have any employees working overnight.
His body was found in the park around 7 a.m.
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 2022. The manifesto was online for all to see.
In the manifesto, he includes the Teragram 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 Christchurch mosque shooting and recommends that shooter's manifesto.
He praises the terrorists' 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 Teragram 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 Bratislava shooting and the Terragram 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 4chan that night, he lied about something.
Earlier in this murderer's Q&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, They're channel owners, hence the Anon part.
Don't know their names.
They produce good content, though.
Krejcik 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 Terragram Collective.
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 30s living in Boise, Idaho.
Earlier this month, in September of 2024, Matthew Allison of Boise and Dallas Humber of Elk Grove, California were arrested and charged in a 15-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 Teragram Collective, that association of pseudonymous posters on Telegram that produce neo-Nazi accelerationist propaganda.
And now, according to the Department of Justice, the Teragram Collective can also be called a transnational terrorist group.
According to the allegations in the indictment, Krejcik was an active member of the group's chat for a year leading up to the shooting.
The following is the following.
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 for white men alone.
And they aren't just talking about it.
The Terragram Collective has produced a series of, how 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 their 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, Anders Breivik, Dylan Roof, Brenton Tarrant, Patrick Crucius, Anton London Patterson, 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 nightclub shooting, which killed nearly 50 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 pterogram 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 2019. In 2022, 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 Benjadik, was arrested in Slovakia in early 2022 and eventually sentenced to six years in prison for his support of terrorism.
And Slovak Bro isn't the only teragram author to land himself in prison.
Brandon Russell, the Atomwaffen 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 Terragram 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 U.S. is unknown right now.
As the leaders of the Terragram 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 buy 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 often 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 the 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, Will 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 2023, Humber posted numerous exhortations to followers that they should be targeting Gay Pride Month events, writing in one post, Mass shootings, arson, bombings, vehicle attacks, the list goes on, and the opportunities provided to you this month will be plentiful.
Don't let them go to waste.
What's more impactful?
Boycotting target?
Or getting dozens of targets in your sights and taking them out permanently?
Actions speak louder than words.
Direct, lethal action speaks louder than any boycott.
This Pride Month, give us what we truly need.
A new saint to be proud of, and a glorious new attack to celebrate.
You've got the means and opportunity.
All you need is the will.
Don't breathe a word of what you're pointing to anyone, and make it count!
Make it count.
That's a frequent refrain.
Make it count is the title of one of the group's terrorism manuals.
It's also the final line of the Bratislava Shooter's Manifesto.
The line itself comes from Siege, the collected essays of James Mason.
If the Turner Diaries is their Bible, Siege is perhaps a missile or a breviary.
Maybe the analogy doesn't hold, I don't know.
But Mason is the godfather of modern fascist terrorism.
Read Siege, who 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-80s.
The essays were collected and published in book form in the early 90s, but the text languished in relative obscurity until it was rediscovered by users of the Nazi forum Iron March in the early 2010s.
It's no coincidence that Adam Waffen 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 600 or so pages, depending on the edition you've bootlegged from some terrorism chatroom.
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 1982 newsletter, an emissive titled, Biting the Bullet.
Like much of the advice 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 instructions for damaging them.
Released around the same time, both in June of 2022, Make It Count is a light 14 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, RANGEFIND, 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 300-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 2022, after the still-unsolved attacks on electrical infrastructure in Jones County, North Carolina, on November 11, and Moore County on December 3, 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 wrote, Maybe that person could be you lining up your sights on these metal behemoths from the tree line, squeezing the trigger, and retreating from the area with a shitting grin on your face knowing the chaos you've just unleashed.
And after a third still unsolved attack was carried out just a month later in Randolph County, North Carolina, Humber posted again.
Everyone, please take a moment to congratulate yourselves.
It seems as though this avenue of attack, an incredibly effective one at that, has really caught on.
I like to think that all our hard work in detailing its effectiveness and showing our community how easy it is not only to do, but to get away with, has helped encourage this.
Death to the grid, death to the system.
So the Teragram Collective isn't exactly taking credit for the grid attacks in North Carolina, but they aren't not taking credit for it either.
She does credit herself and the group with popularizing the idea.
She speculates that perhaps the attacker or attackers had read her work, read her words, and listened to her voice, and decided to act.
But there's no claim made that she knows who did it.
And maybe she doesn't.
We don't actually know whether these attacks were committed by someone inspired by the Terragram Collective at all.
Even if they were ideologically motivated, she didn't invent the idea.
And a similar attack out in Washington State during this 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 Bratislava.
And we do know that at least one would-be grid attacker was definitely in that chat and definitely in communication with the Terragram Collective.
Andrew Takastov was arrested in July of 2024 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.
Takastov had been a member of the Teragram Collective Chat since at least January of 2024. And in January of 2024, 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 telegram chat.
And this friend turned out to be an undercover FBI agent.
Around this same time, in January of 2024, Takistov asks in the Terragram 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 24-minute documentary The Collective put out in October of 2022. The video is a compilation of descriptions of over 100 white supremacist attacks carried out between 1968 and 2022. It is, in their words, their litany of the saints.
Humber narrates the video herself.
She is the voice of Terragram.
But she's not a 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...
It is both striking and seemingly incongruous to the material, the way a young, average female voice, devoid of ghoulish stylization or of discernible malice and hatred, not only celebrates acts of terrorism while parroting well-established neo-Nazi tropes and slogans, but perhaps most of all the unburdened and rather natural way that this young woman uses the most cutting of racial slurs and homophobic pejoratives.
It is one thing to see edgy young men describe mass murderer Dylan Roof as Saint Roof on a message board, for example, and quite another to hear a young woman say it aloud and without traceable irony.
She sounds...
bored, as she lists shootings, bombings, arsons, and stabbings just droning out this list of the dead.
The video was published just days after the shooting in Bratislava, but it had already been finalized before the attack, so he's not in it.
The list of their murderous heroes ends with the Buffalo supermarket shooter from May of 2022, but the video concludes with Humber's deadpan reading of an ominous message.
The list is always growing, and you could join it.
And to the saints of tomorrow watching this today, know that when you succeed, you will be celebrated with reverence and your sacrifice will not be in vain.
Hail the saints and hail our glorious and bloody legacy of white terror.
When Takistov asked if they had any more content like that video, Humber replied with a file, an audio recording of her reading the Jacksonville Dollar General Shooter's manifesto.
The manifesto, entitled A White Boy Summer to Remember, had just been released that month by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Department.
Umber quickly recorded the audiobook version for the Teragram Collective, as she had with many manifestos before it.
Her audio recording of the Bratislava Shooter's Manifesto was released to the chat within a week of that attack, just as she'd promised Krejcik it would be before he died.
A few months later, in April of 2024, Takistov posted again, thanking Humber for links to videos providing instructions on attacking energy facilities.
One video in particular had instructions for using mylar balloons to damage power lines.
Their conductive metal surface can start a fire when it comes into contact with electrical infrastructure.
Takistov 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 chatroom.
The one he didn't know was an undercover FBI agent.
Together, they drove around New Jersey, looking at substations.
Takostov 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." Takostov 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, Takostov met up with his new friend one last time.
This time they drove out to a warehouse full of trucking equipment.
Takostov 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 Terragram Collective publication that he'd already shared with the agent.
And then he tried to get on a plane.
Dagestov did not make his flight on July 10th.
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 Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison.
That indictment lists three individuals that the government is confident they can prove were incited to action directly by the Terragram Collective.
Attacker 1 is the Bratislava shooter.
Attacker 3 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 Terragram 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, 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 Terragram.
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 R. Dekay had ever directly participated in the Teragram Collective chats, but he certainly read their work.
He wasn't just inspired by some shared ideology.
He cites them directly in this manifesto.
His manifesto, however, is written in Turkish, which you'd expect.
Because there's something a little strange about the manifesto Yuray Krejcik 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 Kupar, 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 Krejcik.
Someone maybe in their 40s.
The obvious answer, then, is, well, he plagiarized it.
Right?
It's copy-paste.
And that's surprisingly common.
A lot of manifestos lift large portions of their text from other similar documents.
But Kupfer checked.
He hadn't.
This isn't copy-pasta.
This isn't someone else's manifesto.
This was an original work.
But Krejcik couldn't have written it.
Kupar conducted a forensic linguistic analysis on the manifesto, the handwritten suicide note, several hundred tweets from his account, and the 4chan posts made 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 4chan posts and the suicide note were written by him alone.
According to Kupar's analysis, there are some telltale signs of two writers at work.
When Krejcik posted a photo on 4chan 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, which 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 2022, the month he claims he began working on the manifesto and the plan in arrest.
Cupper's report was published in early 2023, just six months after the attack and more than a year before the extent of Krajic's involvement with the Terragram chat administrators came to light after their arrests.
It raises some questions we may not get answers to.
Perhaps the criminal proceedings against Allison 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 foreknowledge, 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 Terragram 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, an independent investigative journalism outlet covering politics and extremism, identified Humber in March of 2023. The story was confirmed and re-reported by Huffington Post soon after.
Dallas Humber was Miss Gorehound, the voice of Teragram.
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 13, she was active on sites like DeviantArt and LiveJournal, 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 20 years.
She was describing herself as a national socialist in her online journal as early as 2004, when she was just 14.
By 2014, she was using one of the monikers she carried through to the present.
Lil Miss Gorehound.
Quoting from LCRW's 2023 write-up on Humber, quote, In its purest form, guro 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 hentai 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 2019, Humber had found her new online home.
Teragramm.
Her now nearly 20-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 Roof.
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 Roof, but the images she posted match the handwriting and style of known samples of Roof's letters.
In one letter she posted, Roof requests a drawing from her.
He asks for, quote,"...a wizard with mean slash unfriendly eyebrows, or a dragon, or an unfriendly-eyebrowed wizard riding a dragon." End quote.
I hope that's the only time I ever have to quote Dylan Roof.
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 51 worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, and to Anders Breivik, imprisoned in Norway for the murder of 77 people, most of whom were children.
It's unclear what, if anything, Humber does for a day job these days, but LCRW's write-up uncovered that for many years, she made a living as a dildo saleswoman, using the pseudonym Tex 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 2023 that, quote, it is an absolute given that Terrorgram will inspire more shootings if left unchecked.
And she's 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 87-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 2024, 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 15-count indictment is a violation of Chapter 18, Section 2339A, 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 2024, the UK formally added the Terragram Collective to its list of proscribed terrorist entities.
A Home Office announcement in April reads...
The Teragram Collective has been prescribed as a terrorist organization today after Parliament approved a draft order laid on Monday, the 22nd of April.
This order makes belonging to the Teragram Collective or inviting support for the group a criminal offense with a potential prison sentence of 14 years which can be handed down alongside or in place of a fine.
In addition, Section 58 makes it a criminal offence for a person to collect or possess information which is likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing for acts of terrorism, including where an individual views or accesses documents or records containing information of that kind.
The Terragram Collective has now been added to the list of prescribed organisations in the UK, alongside 80 other organisations.
And with that announcement, Terrorgram is now a foreign terrorist organization.
And because people died in at least one of the incidents the government laid out in the indictment as an act the defendants incited, they could go away for life.
As Ali Winston put it in that Wired article, quote,"...in other words, the U.S. is treating Terrorgram in ways similar 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-Qaeda.
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 Terragram 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 Ali 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 3D-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 Dylann 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 are cooperating witnesses against other pterogram members, like Brendan Russell.
These cooperating witnesses have been given permission by the government to testify in a closed courtroom 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 Teragram Collective is...
dead.
But what does that mean?
This is only one head of a hydra.
Just as new leaders emerged after Slovak Bro was arrested in 2022, just as Brandon Russell continued to communicate with Humber after his arrest in 2023, 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 are desperate to die in a way that will impress 4chan posters.
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