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Getting started: see The Base’s profile at SPLC.
Adam Goodman & Neil MacFarquhar: A New Face of White Supremacy: Plots Expose Danger of the ‘Base’. A secret domestic terrorism investigation revealed that the violent neo-Nazi group was recruiting cells across the United States.
Grace Hwang: Examining Extremism: The Base.
Zachary Kamel, Mack Lamoureux & Ben Makuch: How One Man Built a Neo-Nazi Insurgency in Trump’s America: This is the inside story of how Rinaldo Nazzaro built the Base, a neo-Nazi terror organization—and how it all came apart.
Mack Lamoureux & Ben Makuch:
- A Proud Boys Lawyer Wanted to Be a Nazi Terrorist: But the Base, a terror group that has been the recent recipient of a lot of FBI attention, turned him down.
- Awaiting trial for his alleged involvement in a murder plot, Base member Michael Helterbrand allegedly joined a white power prison gang and sexually assaulted and burned a fellow prisoner.
- Members of Neo-Nazi Org The Base Indicted For Sacrificing Ram While on Acid.
Ben Makuch:
- Department of Homeland Security Confirms Neo-Nazi Leader Used to Work For It: The leader of terror group the Base once worked for an agency tasked with coordinating the U.S. government’s counterterrorism efforts.
- Neo-Nazi Terrorists Planned Fortified Compound in Michigan: The onetime leader of the Base, a neo-Nazi domestic terror group, planned on a “fortified” all-white compound in Michigan.
- Justen Watkins, a one-time leader of the Base now out on-bail while facing terrorism related charges, made disturbing Instagram posts before his arrest.