Image: From “Dozens of truckers set off in ‘Take Our Border Back’ convoy.”
January 26. Tess Owen: Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’.
January 26. Tess Owen: Trump Calls on ‘All Willing States’ to Send National Guard Soldiers to Texas.
January 29. Tess Owen: ‘Fedsurrection’ Looms Large as ‘Army of God’ Protest Convoy Heads to Border: Would-be participants are expressing fears that the demonstration could be a “psyop” or “honeypot,” spearheaded by the federal government.
February 1. Tess Owen: The ‘God’s Army’ Convoy Says Militias Can Join But No Big Guns, Please: Organizers of the convoy have tried to distance themselves from extremist elements, but their own militia connections are making it hard.
February 1. Kate Briquelet: Trucker Rally Turns Into January Sixer Worship Wagon.
February 2. Hannah Allam & Arelis R. Hernández: Texas border showdown is far-right magnet, hate trackers warn: As a convoy gathers in Eagle Pass, extremism monitors see vestiges of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s defiance of federal orders.
February 6. Seamus Hughes: FBI Arrests Would-Be Border Militia Member. Authorities say Paul Faye wanted to bring explosives and weapons to border. A common federal gun charge of Tennessee man reveals an extensive FBI investigation into border militias.
February 7. David Gilbert: Russia Is Boosting Calls for ‘Civil War’ Over Texas Border Crisis: An all-encompassing Russian disinformation campaign is using everything from bots to lifestyle influencers to powerful state-run media to sow division in the United States.
February 9. Odette Yousef: The border crisis is helping to mainstream a dangerous conspiracy theory.