The "trucker convoy" holding at the Hagerstown Speedway outside of Washington, DC intends to approach the city as its leader demands Congress cave to his demands.

Lead organizer Brian Brase announced that he is close to obtaining a location near Washington, DC while urging his supporters to stay outside of the district.

Plans for truckers and other far-right activists to drive vehicles to the Capital Beltway today appear to be indefinitely on hold, with organizers issuing a last-minute invitation for supporters to gather at the Hagerstown Speedway 80 miles outside of Washington DC for an “all day” rally.

The announcement was made by an admin on The People’s Convoy (OFFICIAL) Telegram channel at 9:20 a.m. A flier posted in the comments advertises a “Weekend Rally for Freedom & Accountability” at the Hagerstown Speedway where participants converged last night. The flier indicates the rally will take place “all day” on Saturday, with note, “Stay tuned for more updates.”

A 68-year-old man sporting a hat that read “CNN: FAKE NEWS” -- and who attacked multiple officers at the U.S. Capitol with a pipe -- received one of the longest sentences handed down to date in connection with the January 6 riot.

Duke Edward Wilson, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison followed by 36 months of supervised probation and a fine of $2,000 by Judge Royce C. Lamberth. Wilson had pleaded guilty last September to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers and obstructing an official proceeding, both felonies.

Jim Clyburn, the South Carolina Congressman, isn’t a good public speaker. Even so, he speaks for me. He should speak for you, too.

Last week, during an interview with The Hill, the House majority whip put Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s fascist turn in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s infant republic:

The relationship between Christian nationalism and class in the US is less obvious than the racist dimensions of that extremist ideology.

Christian nationalism upholds the “natural” order, including white supremacy and the “traditional” family with age-old gender roles.

As the anti-COVID restriction trucker convoy lumbers across the country towards Washington, DC, it remains to be seen whether the national far-right mobilization will create significant disruption.

Inspired by the occupation of Ottawa and blockade of the Ambassador Bridge linking Canada to the United States last month, the convoy, which is scheduled to arrive in the DC area on Saturday, has become the primary vessel for far-right discontent. The organizers of the People’s Convoy, which departed from southern California last week, have said the vehicles will go no further than the Beltway, and many participants are reluctant to go into the city for fear of a law enforcement crackdown.

This past week a bill was introduced in the Tennessee legislature that would make some gun owners members of law enforcement if they have an “enhanced handgun carry permit.”

All it takes to get such a permit is a $100 fee and an eight-hour handgun safety course certificate.

Ryan Sanchez, a Groyper-aligned white supremacist, has pulled out of the People’s Convoy on the second day of the group’s trek from southern California to Washington, DC after getting called out by Three Percenter leader Erik Rohde.

Sanchez has made no secret of his desire to infiltrate the anti-COVID restriction convoy effort for the purpose of mainstreaming white nationalism into the broader conservative movement. In a post on Telegram earlier this month, Sanchez cited his involvement in the Stop the Steal rallies at Huntington Beach Pier in late 2020 as an example of white nationalists joining forces with MAGA activists to push the movement to take more radical positions. One of the participants in those rallies was America First Bruins founder Christian Secor, who goes on trial in June for assaulting law enforcement, obstruction of an official proceeding and breaching the Capitol in connection with his role in the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Maryland Proud Boy member who is organizing a trucker convoy support group “like a military operation” was the victim of an alleged assault while he was with then-national chairman Enrique Tarrio and two other high-profile far-right activists on election night in 2020, Raw Story has learned.

David Michael Nell, a 40-year-old resident of Mount Airy, Md., also known by his Proud Boys nickname “Ghost,” is the “state lead” of the Peoples Maryland/Virginia Convoy group on the social media app Telegram. In a comment on Telegram last week, Nell described the group’s purpose as “collecting supplies, having people ready for the sides of the road when [the convoy comes] through our territory and if they stay in our territory to supply them.” Nell added that the Maryland/Virginia support group will be responsible for supplying the convoy once it reaches of the Beltline around Washington, DC, its final destination, which is currently scheduled for March 5.

Inflation numbers for December indicate rising prices continue to be a major problem. The Personal Consumption Index, which the Fed uses to gauge inflation, was up 5.8 percent for the year that ended in December, a slight increase from 5.7 percent in the year before.

That’s the fastest price increase in 40 years. Wages and salaries in the fourth quarter increased 4.5 percent, which is robust — but not enough to keep up with inflation.

When Proud Boys from the Maryland-DC chapter showed up at the anti-vaccine Defeat the Mandates rally in Washington, DC last month, about half of the dozen-plus members wore skull masks, an aesthetic associated more with accelerationist terror groups like Atomwaffen and The Base than the street brawler network that asserted itself as shock troops for the MAGA movement.

This is installment three in a three-part series on accelerationism in the Proud Boy movement. You can read part one and part two here.

Americans used to worry about communists. We thought they were under and behind every bush and tree. Our anxiety came in two waves. Red Scare 1 (the early 1920s) and Red Scare 2 (the 1950s). Eventually, the Soviet Union became everything the United States was not.

The average American, however, could not tell a communist from their elbow. How, then, did Americans get so worked up their collective anxiety justified the government violating civil rights or ruining lives?

The state lead for a Telegram group organizing support for the upcoming trucker convoy to Washington DC is a member of the Maryland DC Proud Boys chapter, Raw Story has confirmed.

“We’ve been tasked with collecting supplies, having people ready for the sides of the road when they do come through our territory, and if they stay in our territory to supply them,” the Maryland DC chapter member wrote under the handle “Peter Venkmen” in the Peoples Maryland/Virginia Convoy chat on Telegram last night.