In 2017, Tyler Dykes marched in Charlottesville. In 2021, he breached the capitol. In 2026, he hopes to win a congressional election.

Sources:

https://www.postandcourier.com/beaufort-county/politics/tyler-dykes-campaign-sc1-congress/article_c255115c-45cf-430e-b4a4-160a322631e1.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/givesendgo-crowdfunding-extremism/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67681795/united-states-v-dykes/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/racist-crowdfunding-campaigns-extremist

https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/far-right-figure-ann-vandersteel-hosts-online-forum-election-denier

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/06/jan-6-prisoners-supporters/

https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/base

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/12/31/fbi-reveals-items-seized-base-leaders-hate-camp-michigan/4071226001/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-leader-of-neo-nazi-terror-group-the-base-was-just-arrested-in-michigan/

https://icct.nl/publication/bordering-hate-strategic-implications-white-supremacist-extremist-travel-between-united

https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/fbi-neo-nazi-leader-sought-white-ethno-state-michigans-upper-peninsula/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/fbi-arrests-the-base-michigan.html

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This episode originally ran on October 17, 2024. There is a brief new introduction, but it's back at the top of your feed for listeners who didn't catch it the first time around. Today's regular episode picks up where this one left off.

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-supporters-who-stormed-us-capitol-begin-leave-prison-following-sweeping-2025-01-21/
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-high-water-mark-of-the-jan.-6-prosecutions

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Tyler Bradley Dykes entered a guilty plea last year on the charge of burning an object with the intent to intimidate for his participation in the 2017 nazi torch march in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was sentenced to just six months and was probably expecting to see his parents waiting for him outside the jail on his scheduled release date... but it was the FBI who picked him up.

Sources:

https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/04/19/inside-southern-sons-active-club-part-i/

https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/04/19/inside-southern-sons-active-club-part-ii/

https://sunlight161.noblogs.org/technology-king-lowcountry-ceo-tyler-dykes-bluffton-sc-marine-nazi/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67681795/united-states-v-dykes/

https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/burning-hate-bond-review/

https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/unite-the-right-marcher-pleads-guilty-to-j6-charges/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/white-nationalist-active-clubs-1234835015/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/charlottesville-tiki-torch-rioter-endorses-donald-trump-jan-6-sentenci-rcna162209

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Molly answers your weird little questions and shares her personal conspiracy theory about who tried and failed to assassinate a nazi in 1967.

Sources:

Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, 'Mass Communication and Parasocial Interaction:
Observations on Intimacy at a Distance', Psychiatry 19: 215-29, 1956
https://www.participations.org/03-01-04-horton.pdf

Nadora, Mikhaela, "Parasocial Relationships with Podcast Hosts" (2019). University Honors Theses. Paper 771.
https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.789

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