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    Prepping for a race war: documents reveal inner workings of neo-Nazi   
   group   
      
   Members of the Base at a gathering. The materials show how the group has   
   planned terror campaigns, vandalized synagogues and recruited new members.   
   Illustration: Guardian Design   
      
   Chats, audio and video obtained by the Guardian give a rare insight into   
   the workings of a disturbing white supremacist group   
      
       Exclusive: True identity of leader revealed   
      
      
   The Base, a US-based white supremacist “social network” that has recently   
   been targeted by the FBI in raids leading to the arrest of several   
   members, was active, growing and continuing to prepare for large-scale   
   violence.   
      
   The Guardian has obtained chat records, audio recordings and videos   
   provided by an anti-fascist whistleblower who spent more than a year   
   charting the inside workings of the Base.   
      
   The same infiltrator took control of The Base’s telegram channel in the   
   early hours of Saturday morning, US time, and posted multiple memes   
   mocking the group’s founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro.   
      
   The Guardian studied leaked materials relayed by the whistleblower and   
   pursued other lines of inquiry to exclusively reveal the real identity of   
   the Base’s secretive leader as Nazzaro, 46, from New Jersey.   
      
   Nazzaro is currently living in Russia with his Russian wife. Until the   
   Guardian’s exposé little was known about his background and he was only   
   known by the alias “Norman Spear”.   
      
   The exclusive materials show how the group has planned terror campaigns;   
   vandalized synagogues; organised armed training camps; and recruited new   
   members who extolled an ideology of all-out race war. The cache of   
   documents and recordings gives a rare insight into how such neo-Nazi   
   terror groups operate.   
      
   The Base – an approximate English translation of “al-Qaida” – began   
   recruiting in late 2018 and pushing for both the collapse of society and a   
   race war. Members of the group stand accused of federal hate crimes,   
   murder plots and firearms offenses, and have harbored international   
   fugitives in recent months.   
      
   It was the very real threat of violence that convinced the whistleblower   
   to infiltrate the Base and stay undercover for months, gaining the trust   
   of other members, only to later contact the Guardian to expose them.   
      
   The Guardian’s source said that in recent months “the pieces were coming   
   together to build the infrastructure for a strong, neo-Nazi militant   
   underground, with places to train, to make connections and expand the   
   network.” He felt he had to act to stop it.   
      
   The source said: “The ‘Norman Spear’ I spoke with told me in no uncertain   
   terms that the purpose of the Base is to cause the collapse of our   
   society, not survive it.”   
   How the Base communicates   
      
   The Guardian’s source, an anti-Nazi activist, rose to a position of trust   
   within the group, which allowed him to take thousands of screenshots in   
   chatrooms used by the Base since 2018.   
      
   In November 2018, those chats were infiltrated by antifa activists, and   
   members were outed, or “doxxed”, amid early media reporting. At this   
   point, the Base tightened up vetting processes and moved their chats to an   
   encrypted platform called Wire.   
      
   Under the motto “there is no political solution” the group embraces an   
   “accelerationist” ideology, which holds that acts of violence and terror   
   are required to push liberal democracy towards collapse, preparing the way   
   for white supremacists to seize power and establish an ethno-state.   
   The Base moved their chats to a platform called Wire and often discussed   
   plans of expansion.   
   The Base moved their chats to a platform called Wire and often discussed   
   plans of expansion. Photograph: Screenshots obtained from a Guardian   
   source   
      
   Members remained defiant following the arrest of seven alleged members of   
   the group in mid-January, calling it an “unjust political witch-hunt” from   
   the “liberal globalist system”.   
      
   Nazzaro urged members to double down and commit to a decades-long   
   insurgency, conceding they were “at least 20 years away from a full-   
   fledged civil unrest scenario”.   
      
   The US has seen a significant rise of white supremacist violent crimes in   
   recent years. Mass shooters have deliberately cited their neo-Nazi beliefs   
   as motivation for attacks which killed dozens of people in El Paso, San   
   Diego, Christchurch and more.   
      
   Some members of the Base were also involved with the neo-Nazi group   
   Atomwaffen Division, whose members have been involved in several murders.   
   A path to real-life violence   
      
   Included in the materials obtained by the Guardian is a record of members   
   signaling their intention to commit hate crimes and terrorize their   
   victims.   
      
   One such involved Richard Tobin, 18, whose handle inside the Base was   
   “landser”. He claimed to also be a member of Atomwaffen Division.   
      
   Tobin is currently in federal custody, awaiting trial for an alleged   
   conspiracy he organized inside the Base’s chatrooms.   
      
   Writing on 15 September last year in the Base’s chatroom Tobin wrote: “Our   
   whole purpose is gradual escalation and we’ve done absolutely fucking   
   NOTHING. It’s time to stop fucking around and get serious. Between   
   September 20-25 I want everyone who isn’t in a wheelchair to get out and   
   act. Flyers, windows, and tires. Let’s take back our image of strength and   
   cohesion.”   
      
   Tobin set out tactics for the vandalism, including instructions to “wear   
   gloves, cover your faces at all times, shoe covers if you can manage it”.   
      
   The Base’s founder Nazzaro, AKA “Norman Spear”, advised: “No point in   
   random vandalizing … Much more effective if it’s targeted.”   
      
   Tobin responded: “Yes, obviously. Focus on broad anti-white elements for   
   now, though. Nigger cars, jew businesses etc.”   
      
   He then offered a different idea: “Kristallnacht”, after the Nazi’s mass   
   vandalism of Jewish homes and businesses and the torching of synagogues in   
   1938.   
      
   On 21 September last year, a synagogue in Hancock, Michigan, was daubed   
   with swastikas and SS symbols. The following day, a synagogue in Racine,   
   Wisconsin, was defaced with an antisemitic slogan and the Base’s runic   
   insignia.   
      
   Tobin was charged on 12 November with orchestrating both of these   
   incidents, and another Base member, Yousef Barasneh, was charged last week   
   with vandalizing the Racine synagogue. Federal prosecutors allege that   
   they coordinated this in a private chat.   
   A synagogue in Hancock, Michigan, defaced with SS symbols.   
      
      
   Although inside the group Tobin was vicious, militant and angry, a custody   
   hearing attended by the Guardian in Camden, New Jersey, revealed the   
   defendant as a pale, nervous, overweight teenager.   
      
   None of his former comrades had made the journey to the gloomy courtroom   
   in downtown Camden, but he was attended by an older female relative   
   dragging an oxygen canister behind her, several prosecutors, and one man   
      
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