A white supremacist website got hacked, airing all its dirty laundry

Enlarge / Patriot Front members spray painting in Springfield, IL. (credit: Unicornriot. ninja)

Chat messages, images, and videos leaked from the server of a white supremicist group called the Patriot Front purport to show its leader and rank-and-file members conspiring in hate crimes, despite their claims that they were a legitimate political organization.

Patriot Front , or PF, formed in the aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right rally, a demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in one death and 35 injuries when a rally attendee rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. PF founder Thomas Rousseau, started the particular group after an image posted online showed the now-convicted killer, James Alex Fields, Jr., posing with members of Vanguard America shortly before the attack. Vanguard America soon dissolved, and Rousseau rebranded it as PF with the goal of hiding any involvement in violent acts.

Since then, PF has strived to present itself as a group of patriots who are aligned with the ideals and values of the founders that defeated the tyranny of British colonists in the 18th century and paved the way for the United States to be born. In announcing the the formation of PF in 2017, Rousseau wrote: