Thank you so much friends!! ♥️ It is an honor to be finalists alongside you all and the absolutely incredible, urgent work you continue to lead in.

The Small Division winner of the Community Champion Award is “BREAL Academy: Black Radical Education for Abolition and Liberation” from @kcdefender.bsky.social.

The original video: youtu.be/BhQjYxBcqxw

The creator, @kcdefender.bsky.social , deserves way more views and subscriptions.

As said in this video, this is the future of the United States.

In our own reporting, various sources we’ve spoken to who are active in the organizing community (who will remain anonymous for reasons of safety), say that organizers were “surprised but un-intimidated by the college republican cosplay.”

In an interview with Bret Hamilton who traveled to the scene after hearing of the arrival of the fascist group, he told The Defender that “a community response had already developed when they got close to downtown,” and that “Kansas City community members were shouting for the fascists to leave.”

Patriot Front members have openly celebrated acts of white supremacist terror, including the mass killing of 22 people in El Paso, Texas in 2019.

Their chat logs framed the massacre as a form of “defense” against demographic change, reinforcing their commitment to the “Great Replacement” theory.

In 2022, the group marched through Boston with over 100 masked men, violently attacking Black artist Charles Murrell in broad daylight.

Civil-rights veteran Rev. Kevin Peterson describes the Patriot Front as “children of the KKK,” in his DemocracyNow interview following the racist Boston attack.

Missouri in particular is fertile ground. An Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights audit ranks MO the third-highest for Patriot Front activity.

The flash-mob-esque military-style performance might appear comedic—if not for the fact that the group is one of the fastest growing neo-Nazi organizations in the U.S., responsible for organizing violent street actions, celebrating mass murder, and spreading white supremacist propaganda.

Leading the march in Kansas City was white supremacist Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau.

Rousseau, a figure who goes to great lengths (to little avail) to exude paramilitary bravado, does little to strike fear in anyone.

On Saturday more than a hundred masked white fascists snapped open the rear doors of a convoy of U-Haul trucks and spilled onto the steps of KC’s World War I Memorial.

Faces hidden by white masks, they unfurled inverted U.S. flags and Confederate banners.

This means a lot coming from the 🐐 herself 🥹❤️ thank you!