Two years before Alex Jones partnered with Nick Fuentes聽through his streaming website, Cozy.TV, Infowars performer Millie Weaver warned Jones against associating with the antisemite, claiming that the FBI monitored him, texts show.
At the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Washington, D.C., last month, summit co-chairs Sam Brownback and Katrina Lantos Swett addressed a joint session. Noting the summit鈥檚 theme, 鈥淩eligious Freedom for Everybody, Everywhere, All the Time,鈥� Brownback characterized his idea of religious freedom as societies allowing 鈥渇reedom for the soul and respect for each other.鈥� But the rhetoric of individuals and groups present at the summit shows how extremists wield the language of religious freedom in a very different way: to oppress others.
Text messages released Tuesday between Proud Boys leader Henry 鈥淓nrique鈥� Tarrio and a lieutenant from the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department鈥檚 (MPD) Intelligence Bureau (IB) shed light on the department鈥檚 relationship with the Proud Boys ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
