1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media. On October twenty second, twenty twenty five, 2 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: two men suddenly found themselves almost entirely unemployable. They didn't 3 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: have the same job, they weren't even in the same state. 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: But the bad day they were both having on October 5 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: twenty second was a consequence of a long and complicated 6 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: series of events that started at the same time and 7 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: at the same place for both of them, the evening 8 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: of August eleventh, twenty seventeen, in an empty field behind 9 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: the tennis courts at the University of Virginia, eight years 10 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: after they marched with tiki torches on the eve of 11 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: that deadly Nazi rally in Charlottesville. Men are now convicted felons. 12 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: One of them just had his law license suspended. The 13 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: other is running for Congress. I'm Molly Conger and this 14 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: is where little guys. This is an update to an 15 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: old story, an episode that originally ran on October seventeenth, 16 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, more than a year ago. That episode 17 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: is back at the top of your feed today in 18 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: case you missed it the first time, or if you 19 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: just want to revisit it alongside this one. That's an 20 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: unusual choice, especially considering Every episode of this show is 21 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: kind of part of the same long story told out 22 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: of order. Every episode connects back to some other storyline, 23 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: and they almost always feature some names I've mentioned before. 24 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: It's a small world, and theirs is even smaller. You 25 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: really can't talk about the lives of these weird little 26 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: guys without seeing all the places where their lives intersect. 27 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 2: So if I re. 28 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: Ran every old episode that helps add context to the 29 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: current one, I'd end up putting half the show's catalog 30 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,679 Speaker 1: up as reruns every month, and I think that would 31 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: get overwhelming. In this case, though, it felt necessary because 32 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: the man at the center of this story is trying 33 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: to erase that chapter of his life, and he's trying 34 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: to rebrand himself for a big second act. I don't 35 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: think we should let him forget that part of his 36 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: own story. But I didn't want to retell it all here. 37 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: I wanted to leave plenty of roomin this episode to 38 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: talk about this new venture of his, and I didn't 39 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: want to rehash the entirety of the old episode, but 40 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: I wanted to make it easy for you to revisit 41 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: that part of his story because the context is everything here. Obviously, 42 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: I write a new episode of this show every week, 43 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: but I'm never done thinking about the subjects I've written 44 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: about in the past. There are court cases. I keep 45 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: docket alerts on for guys whose custody status. I monitor groups, 46 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: I keep tabs on. I try to stay up to 47 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: date on these weird little guys even after their episodes 48 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: are done. And it's not usually a positive thing when 49 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: there's something in the news that's relevant to the show. 50 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: When I sat down to start writing this script, it 51 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: was Friday morning, and I had just seen on Blue 52 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: Sky that one of you posted a news story about 53 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: AT and T. The company had announced the end of 54 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and that listener connected 55 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: that news story back to an episode of this show. 56 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: It was an episode that had come out exactly a 57 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: year ago, the Ku Kluks Cable Access TV episode on 58 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: December fifth, twenty twenty four. In that episode, I was 59 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: talking about what happened to the millions of dollars that 60 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: Nazi stole from a Brinks truck in nineteen eighty four, 61 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 1: and that money ended up all over the place, but 62 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: some of it wound up in the hands of William 63 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: Luther Pearce and his Nazi group National Alliance. They used 64 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: the money to buy land in West Virginia where they 65 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:00,679 Speaker 1: built their Nazi compound, but they also bought ten thousand 66 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: dollars worth of stock in AT and T. And they 67 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: bought that stock for the express purpose of owning enough 68 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: shares to introduce shareholder resolutions three years in a row. 69 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: Starting in nineteen eighty eight, a neo Nazi showed up 70 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: at the AT and T shareholders meeting and introduced a 71 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: resolution to end the company's affirmative action policies. If you're 72 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: too young to remember that term, it was basically just 73 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: the eighties version of what we call DEI today. In 74 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, nineteen eighty nine, and nineteen ninety, shareholders 75 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: at AT and T rejected a racist idea proposed to 76 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: them by a literal neo Nazi. In twenty twenty five, 77 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: it's the president attacking those diversity initiatives, and this time 78 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: the company isn't fighting back. 79 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 2: None of these. 80 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: Stories that I tell on this show are ever really over, 81 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: because history doesn't work like that, So we're sort of 82 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: perpetually revisiting the events of the past and examining how 83 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 1: they got us into the current political predicament. But today 84 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: we're talking about a very specific update. Tyler Dikes is 85 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: running for Congress and Augustus and Victus has finally been 86 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: suspended from the Florida bar. On a surface level, these 87 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: events are unrelated. I would argue, though, that they are 88 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: in fact developments in the same story. Tyler Diykes was 89 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: the subject of that October twenty twenty four episode The 90 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: one Then's back at the top of your feed today. 91 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 2: He attended the. 92 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,239 Speaker 1: Unite the Right rally here in Charlottesville back in twenty 93 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:03,119 Speaker 1: seventeen and participated in the January sixth insurrection in twenty 94 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: twenty one. He was arrested and convicted for participating in 95 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen torch March in twenty twenty three, and 96 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: on the day that. 97 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 2: He was supposed to be released from. 98 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: Jail here, the doj unsealed a federal criminal complaint against 99 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: him for January sixth. He was sentenced to fifty seven 100 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: months in prison at the end of twenty twenty four, 101 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: only to be released three months later after he received 102 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: a presidential pardon alongside more than fifteen hundred other people 103 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: who'd been charged with crimes related to the events of 104 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: January sixth. As for Augustus and Victus, he hasn't actually 105 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: been covered in an episode of his own, but he 106 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: has come up a fair number of times on the show. 107 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: He's mentioned in that episode about Tyler Dikes because both 108 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: men were convicted on the felony charge of burning an 109 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: object with the intent to intimate for their participation in 110 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: that Nazi torch march on August eleventh, twenty seventeen, at 111 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: the University of Virginia, and that isn't the only time. 112 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: We've talked about him. 113 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: In the episode called an Accidental Nazi Rally from February 114 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: of this year, he was one of the local organizers 115 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: who stepped up to help an Islamophobic group put on 116 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: a nationwide series of rallies against the boogeyman of Sharia 117 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: law in the episode State Created Danger in May, he 118 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: was the attorney who ghost wrote the lawsuit filed against 119 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: the City of Charlottesville by two Nazis who thought the 120 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: police should have proactively assisted them in putting on their rally. 121 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: In the episode stand Back and Stand By that aired 122 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: in June, he was the attorney hired by Enrique Tario 123 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: to represent several members of the Proud Boys who are 124 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: currently suing the government for one hundred million dollars in 125 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: damages for what they feel was an unfair prosecutor against 126 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: them for orchestrating the events of January sixth. So it's 127 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: a name you've probably heard before on this show, even 128 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: if he hasn't officially been the subject of an episode. 129 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: Most of the times you've heard his name it had 130 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: something to do with the fact that he's a practicing attorney. 131 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: As of a few weeks ago, that's no longer the case. 132 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: On October twenty second, twenty twenty five, a clerk at 133 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: the Florida Supreme Court filed an order suspending Augustus Solenvictus 134 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: from the Florida bar. The suspension came just over a 135 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: year after his felony conviction, but they generously held off 136 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: until the State Court of Appeals dismissed his appeal. He 137 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: was given just thirty days to wind down his practice 138 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: in the best interests of his current clients. That same day, 139 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: October twenty second, twenty twenty five, Tyler Diykes lost his 140 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: job too. That afternoon, he tweeted, my name is Tyler 141 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 1: Dikes I was pardoned by President Trump from my actions 142 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 1: on January sixth, and I was just fired again. The 143 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: mass media relentlessly posts photos of my Nazi salute on 144 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: the Capitol steps about how I was a violent neo 145 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: Nazi terrorist. What makes me a Nazi? Loving my country, 146 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: loving my family. This is probably the third job I've 147 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 1: lost this year alone from this. Please, I need your help. 148 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: Thanks to the lies in the media, I'm almost completely 149 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,439 Speaker 1: unable to make a living in anything that isn't politics, 150 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: and that is their biggest mistake. 151 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 2: Do you know why? 152 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: It's a mistake that they attacked me so because now 153 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: I have no choice but to enter politics and fight 154 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: to make America great again. I don't have a choice. 155 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: But like I said, these two events are unrelated. They 156 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: don't have anything to do with each other except that 157 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 1: they share the same root cause. Augustus and Victus was 158 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 1: suspended from the Florida Bar because suspension from the Florida 159 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: Bar is automatic after a felony conviction, and Tyler Dykes 160 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: was fired from a series of jobs in South Carolina 161 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: after his release from prison because, despite that federal pardon, 162 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 1: he had quite infamously been convicted of felonies related to 163 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: his participation in two of the most infamous violent right 164 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: wing extremist events in America in the current century, the 165 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: Unite the Right rally and the Insurrection. Now, I can't 166 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: tell you for certain exactly why he lost his job 167 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: this time around, but I don't think it would be 168 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: a bad bed to put ten bucks on it, having 169 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: something to do with his weird behavior at the No 170 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: King's rally in Hilton Head a few days earlier. The 171 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: details are different, sure, but if you connect all the dots, 172 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: if you work backwards in each man's story, you'll end 173 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:27,679 Speaker 1: up at the same place. They became unemployable on October 174 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: twenty second, twenty twenty five, because they both lit that 175 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: tiki torch in twenty seventeen, and then they never. 176 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 2: Stopped doubling down on it. 177 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: Where that doubling down is leading them, though, is where 178 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: these stories split back off again. And neither of those 179 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: stories are anywhere near over yet, so we'll just have 180 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: to be satisfied with the middle of one of those 181 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: stories today. How to catching a felony at a Nazi 182 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: rally lost one man his licensed to practice law and 183 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:11,319 Speaker 1: set another down the path to electoral politics. When Tyler 184 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: Diykes made that post on October twenty second about losing 185 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: his job, he included a link to a now deleted 186 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: online fundraiser on the right leaning crowdfunding platform gives and Go. 187 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 2: Based on some of. 188 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: The other texts in that post, it sounds like the 189 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: fundraiser was geared more towards soliciting money for his personal 190 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: living expenses so he could devote himself full time to 191 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: the nebulous work of politics. Generally, he's not actually announcing 192 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: anything specific here, just that he's going to get into politics. 193 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: And the portion of the post I quoted here doesn't 194 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: include the strange way it began. The body of the 195 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: message is in the first person, right. My name is 196 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: Tyler Dykes was pardoned. I was fired. But before that, 197 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: the message is introduced as quote a message from our leader. 198 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: The account that currently functions as his official Tyler Dykes 199 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: for Congress campaign account didn't start. 200 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 2: Off that way. 201 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: He'd created the account a few weeks earlier, but it 202 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: was originally called b C. Pat's Assembly, which is short 203 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: for Beaufort County Patriots Assembly, and it is Beaufort in 204 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: South Carolina, which was a surprise to me. There's a 205 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: county with the same name in North Carolina, but in 206 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: North Carolina it's Beaufort. But this is Beaufort. Don't email 207 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: me about it. I looked it up. The domain for 208 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: Patriots Assembly dot com was purchased on October fifth. An 209 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: early post on the Patriots Assembly Twitter account refer to 210 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: Tyler Dikes as quote our leader or our chairman, or 211 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: a prominent leader in our new organization. But after that 212 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: October twenty second post, the account switches to first person language. 213 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: He's no longer pretending to be an entire organization, He's 214 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: just posting as himself now. And the very next day, 215 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: on October twenty third, he posted a now deleted video 216 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: to the right leaning YouTube Knockoff Rumble. According to posts 217 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: he made on other platforms announcing this video, it was 218 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: an hour long and. 219 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 2: It was called the J six Marine. 220 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: They tried to silence Colan my story of persecution and 221 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: why I'm fighting for christ and America. Honestly, whatever it was, 222 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: it shouldn't have been an hour long, and it needed 223 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: a more concise title. I mean, I'm not workshopping with 224 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: the guy, but come on, but the video is gone, 225 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: so I didn't have to watch it. His entire Rumble 226 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: channel is actually gone now and I was only able 227 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: to find a short clip of this video. Based on 228 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: the clip, though he seemed to be workshopping a campaign message. 229 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 3: Here's the thing. 230 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 4: The reason that all of our. 231 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 3: Republicans sit in congressmen are sick. That we're sick and tired, right. 232 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 4: The reason they're not doing anything is because they are 233 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 4: afraid of getting the same treatment that guy. They're afraid 234 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 4: of doing deportations because they're afraid of the last They're 235 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 4: afraid of the different attacks, the different phone calls, everything 236 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 4: they'll get. 237 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 3: And that's why they're not doing anything. 238 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 4: And so let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen who 239 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 4: are watching this, I'm not afraid. 240 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,719 Speaker 1: He was entering politics, all right. He was working up 241 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: to announcing that he's running for Congress. Like I said, 242 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: I only have this brief clip of that hour long video, 243 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: so I don't know what else might have been in there. 244 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what he said that made him want 245 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: to delete it afterwards. But if this clip is representative 246 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: of the whole video, it pretty much lines up with 247 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: other things that he's left online, like how he's really 248 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: fixated on making sure you know that it's unfair and 249 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: wrong to call him a Nazi. 250 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 3: And here's the thing. 251 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 4: They still call me a Nazi to this thick they 252 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 4: still randomy is all these evil, horrific things. But let 253 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 4: me tell you this, what makes me a Nazi? I 254 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 4: love Christ, I love God, I love my country. I 255 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 4: love my state, my family, in my community, and the 256 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 4: entirety of the Low Country area. And that's why I 257 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 4: live here because I. 258 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: Love you so much. 259 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 4: So does that make me a Nazi? Does love in 260 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 4: your family? Does loving God? Does love in your country? 261 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 4: Does that make you a Nazi? That makes you a Nazi? 262 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: Sophiets, this is the messaging he seems to have settled on. 263 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: He's bravely standing up to people who call him a 264 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: Nazi just because he's a good Christian man who loves 265 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: his country. I guess he knows he's going to have 266 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: to address the fact that people are calling him a Nazi, 267 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: and he's chosen to do that in the most disingenuous 268 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:48,199 Speaker 1: way possible. On November fifth, he registered a domain for 269 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: his campaign website and filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission. 270 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: He was officially throwing his hat into the ring for 271 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: the Republican primary in South Carolina's first congressional district. That 272 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 1: primary will be in June of twenty twenty six, and 273 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: it's a crowded field, with nearly a dozen Republicans vying 274 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: for the nomination, and there's no incumbent in the mix. 275 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 1: The current representative in South Carolina's first district announced in 276 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: August that she won't be seeking reelection. Nancy Mase is 277 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 1: running for governor instead. The first order of business for 278 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: a new candidate, after filing the paperwork and making the website, 279 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: is making the big announcement a launch party, right, You 280 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: have to create excitement around the campaign. You want to 281 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: recruit volunteers and get people to open their wallets. You 282 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: can't run a campaign without money and volunteers, and this 283 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: is your first shot at both of those. You're setting 284 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: a tone for the campaign. You don't want your launch 285 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: party to flop. So the newly ed Dykes for Congress campaign, 286 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: which is a name that sounds very cool but unfortunately 287 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: doesn't mean what it sounds like at all, set about 288 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: trying to generate buzz by mailing weird letters to people's 289 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: homes all over the first district. Someone who listens to 290 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: this show got one in their mailbox and sent me 291 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: a picture of it. 292 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 2: Thank you for that. 293 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 1: It is a single sheet of regular white printer paper. 294 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: It's not a slick, professionally printed campaign mailer, and it 295 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: actually doesn't announce that he's running for office. It starts 296 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: off with a big bold header that says our civilization 297 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: is being destroyed, and it goes downhill fast from there. 298 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: Civilization is being destroyed by communism, George Soros, christ Haters. 299 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,199 Speaker 2: Et cetera. The usual further down the page. 300 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: In this wall of text, which again is on a 301 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: sheet of plain printer paper, civilization is in bold again, 302 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: and this time it's spelled wrong. The letter also addresses 303 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: the quote slander on the leftist news that has falsely 304 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 1: labeled him a Nazi just because there's an out of 305 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: context photograph of him waving to a friend from the 306 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: steps of the Capitol Building. He closes the letter by 307 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 1: inviting the recipient to attend a rally on November ninth 308 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: to find out who Tyler Dykes really is. I guess 309 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: it's possible that there was more included in the envelope, 310 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: but there's nothing I can see in any of the 311 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,959 Speaker 1: multiple photos I've seen of this letter that mentions this 312 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: is a political campaign, there's no mention of him running 313 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: for office, there's no mention of a particular group that 314 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: funded the letter. It just says, hey, come to this 315 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: event to hear this guy tell you about how much 316 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: he loves God and hates Communism and how he's not 317 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: really a Nazi like they said in the newspaper. And 318 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: each letter was signed by hand I assume by Tyler personally, 319 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: in oddly childlike handwriting. Under the signature it reads US 320 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 1: Marine Corps veteran business owner Pardoned J six Patriot. He 321 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: also went door to door with a slightly nicer looking 322 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: flier advertising the same event, and these two failed to 323 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: disclose that the event had anything to do with a 324 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: political campaign. It was billed as a public assembly for 325 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 1: upholding immigration law, affordable housing, safe streets, and American values. 326 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 1: And again, based on the photographs I've seen of these flyers, 327 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: they did not appear to even have his name on them. 328 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: It seems like mainly weird letters to people's houses did 329 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: not convince anybody it's a real my I am not 330 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: a Nazi. Flyers are raising a lot of questions already 331 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: answered by my flyers. 332 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 2: Type of situation. 333 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: You know, because despite his claim that the leftist news 334 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: had been falsely smearing him as a Nazi simply for 335 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: peacefully attending a political rally in our nation's capital one 336 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: day in January, if you google his name, you're gonna 337 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: see a lot more than that. And one of the 338 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: people who got this letter made it her personal mission 339 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: to make sure people understood what they were looking at. 340 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,119 Speaker 1: A Beaufort resident who, according to her Facebook profile, is 341 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: named Dawn, posted online a few days before the event 342 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: that she'd found some troubling information about the man behind 343 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: those letters. She posted screenshots of a few headlines about 344 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: Dikes's legal troubles and suggested that the VFW hall where 345 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: he planned to hold his event was not an appropriate 346 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: venue for this well technically, she posted quote, He's being 347 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: hosted by our local veterans of Foreign Wars. Tyler Diys 348 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 1: is a well documented troubled young man with a long 349 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: history of violence and Nazi ideations. Our VFW must not 350 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: understand the vile, dangerous cop attacking Cretan this lipless little 351 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 1: shit is. She followed up in the comments on her post, 352 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 1: saying that she'd called the VFW hall, and the man 353 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: she spoke to hadn't been aware of Diykes's history of 354 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: Nazi salutes and assaulting cops. He was pretty concerned to 355 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 1: hear about it. Not long after that phone call, the 356 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: VFW canceled on Tyler Dikes. The campaign then scrambled to 357 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: find a replacement venue and managed to book a conference 358 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: room at the Hampton Inn in nearby Okty. But Dawn, 359 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 1: this mysterious but determined woman on Facebook, caught wind of it, 360 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: and she called them too. I didn't do a ton 361 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 1: of digging on Dawn. I just scrolled through her Facebook 362 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: and based on what I saw, I have to respect 363 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: the level of civic engagement here. When the manager at 364 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: the Hampton Inn brushed her off over the phone, she 365 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: printed out a packet that included several news stories about 366 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 1: Tyler Dikes and she drove over to Okty to hand 367 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: deliver it. The hotel canceled the event a few hours later. 368 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: Just twenty four hours before his big launch party, Tyler 369 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,239 Speaker 1: Diykes was once again without a venue. He posted a 370 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: very weird video on his Instagram. He's infuming mad, but 371 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: still determined to hold the event. At an undisclosed location 372 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: that would only be revealed to his most loyal supporters 373 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: by text message one hour before it was scheduled to begin, 374 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: But Dawn already knew God bless her woman after my 375 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: own heart. The morning of the ninth, she posted on 376 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: Facebook that the event had been moved to a public 377 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,679 Speaker 1: park in the nearby town of Ridgeland. Not long after that, 378 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: Tyler Dykes emailed her and said that he had reported 379 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: her to the police for harassment and death threats. He 380 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: also posted on telegram that most of the people at 381 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: the event would be veterans and that they had concealed 382 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: carry permits implication there being everyone at the park will 383 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: have a gun. But it seems the launch party ended 384 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 1: up going off without a hitch at that public park 385 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: in Ridgeland. There's only one picture of the party. It's 386 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: a tightly cropped photo showing Tyler Diykes at a dress 387 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: shirt and khakis, standing in what looks like an empty field. 388 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure his throngs of armed supporters were just out 389 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: of frame, and he's only respecting their privacy by showing 390 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 1: absolutely no evidence that anyone was there. And I certainly 391 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 1: wouldn't publicly speculate that his mom might have taken that picture. 392 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 2: I don't know. 393 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: On the day of the campaign launch event November ninth, 394 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: a new fundraising page went up. The original fundraising campaign, 395 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: the one launched on October twenty second before any political 396 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: campaign had been formally announced or any candidacy statement filed, 397 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: raised at least three one hundred twenty five dollars before 398 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: it was deleted on November sixth, the day after the 399 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: FEC paperwork was filed. The new fundraiser was also on 400 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: gives and Go, which was a little surprising to me. 401 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: I mean, electoral politics is not exactly my wheelhouse, and 402 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: compliance with federal campaign finance laws is not something I'm 403 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 1: interested in. But I've donated to a campaign before I've 404 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: looked at a campaign fundraiser. They tend to use more 405 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: traditional platforms. Technically, you could just set up a PayPal account, 406 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 1: but that's not a good idea. Platforms like act Blue 407 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: and wind red are as the names imply the leaving 408 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: choices were Democratic and Republican campaigns, respectively, but there are 409 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: other options platforms like any dot and donor box. Most 410 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: campaigns choose a fundraising platform specifically designed for election fundraising. 411 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: It just makes compliance easier. The software automatically generates the 412 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: reports you need. You know, every donor is being prompted 413 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: to enter the information you're legally required to collect from them, 414 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: and they're designed with federal election law in mind. They've 415 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: built in things like the legally required language for disclosing 416 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: and detesting to the things the candidate is supposed to 417 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: disclose and the donor is supposed to attest. 418 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 2: You know that paid. 419 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: Ford by or authorized by whatever campaign or committee, and 420 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: the contribution rules the donor promises they're abiding by. And 421 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: those platforms are compliant with current FEC regulations around reporting 422 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: credit card processing fees, which may not be the case 423 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: if you're using a fundraising site geared more toward personal fundraising. 424 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: But gives end go has a special place in the 425 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: heart of many January sixth defendants and their supporters. The 426 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,479 Speaker 1: crowdfunding site was originally launched in twenty fourteen as an 427 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: alternative to sites like gofund me because the founders felt 428 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: that mainstream fundraising sites were biased against Christians. I mean, 429 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: citation needed, but okay. When Tall Lavin spoke to the 430 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: site's founders for a twenty twenty one article in the nation, 431 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: they wouldn't give a firm answer to a question about 432 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: whether they'd support the clan. In the last five years, 433 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: gives end go has become a haven for right wing extremists, QAnon, weirdos, 434 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: people who got fired after some viral video of them 435 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: saying the N word, Kyle Rittenhouse, Proud Boys, the twenty 436 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: twenty two Canadian Trucker Convoy, guys, anti vax grifters, and 437 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: of course January sixth defendants. People who got kicked off 438 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 1: every other fundraising website found refuge on gibsend go. So 439 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: maybe it shouldn't be summarizing to me that the site 440 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: is now pivoting to be the demand where they find it. 441 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: They've added an optional donation page template for political campaigns, 442 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: one that collects the federally mandated donor information like occupation 443 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: and employer. I took a quick look around the site, 444 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 1: and I think Tyler Dykes is the only candidate for 445 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: national office currently raising campaign funds on gibs end go, 446 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: but there are a handful of state and local candidates 447 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: fundraising there now. Like I said, I don't think you 448 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: necessarily can't use a platform like gifts end go for 449 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: federal election fundraising. It just seems like it opens you 450 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: up to a world of possible problems. I am looking 451 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: forward to the Dykes campaigns first campaign finance filings. Will 452 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: they report that first thirty one hundred dollars from the 453 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: deleted fundraiser? Will they remember to report processing fees as expenditures. 454 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: Will the cost of the flyers for the launch party 455 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: be properly recorded as disbursements or maybe as in kind donations. 456 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: Will he hire someone to replace his mom and dad 457 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: as the committee's treasurer and designated agent. I can't wait 458 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:52,959 Speaker 1: to find out the campaign's first month has not been strong. 459 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: His first quarterly report isn't due to the FEC until 460 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: the end of January. But because he's using a public 461 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 1: fundraising page, I can tell you that as of end 462 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: of day December eighth, the fundraiser shows three donations for 463 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: a total of one hundred and seventy dollars and unrelated 464 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: to the fundraising. I can also tell you that I 465 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: accidentally discovered the list of bad words that gives end 466 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 1: go hard codes into the page that will prevent you 467 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: from submitting the form. I mean, it's got the classic 468 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: squear words you know ass ass, but the s's are 469 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: dollar signs ass, but the s's are five's ass. 470 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 2: But there's an underscore between each letter. 471 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 5: Boob boobs, boobies, boobs, but the o's are zero's boobs 472 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 5: with three o's boobs, with four o's boobs, with five 473 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 5: o's boobs. 474 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 2: With seven o's. 475 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: I think you can leave a comment if you spelled 476 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: boobs with six o's. 477 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 2: I didn't see that one on the list. 478 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 1: There's also a dizzying array of different ways someone might 479 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: choose to express the N word, and a surprising number 480 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 1: of unique terms, including variations on the word cock. And 481 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: there are some surprises on there, like some of these 482 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: words must have ended up on the band list because 483 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: of a particular incident, because if you just sat down 484 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,839 Speaker 1: to make a list of swears, I really don't think 485 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 1: it would occur to you to preemptively prevent the use 486 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:44,359 Speaker 1: of the term fifty yard cunt punt. I mean, this 487 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:51,240 Speaker 1: is extremely funny to me, obviously, but the actual point 488 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 1: here is this must be new because I've looked at 489 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 1: a lot of gifts end go fundraisers and they did 490 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,439 Speaker 1: not use to prevent users from leaving comments that said 491 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 1: Hyle Hitler, But now they do. 492 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:07,760 Speaker 2: It's coded right into the site. 493 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: You can't type arian spelled right, or several varieties of wrong. 494 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,760 Speaker 1: You can't type KKK fourteen eighty eight, anti Semitic slurs, 495 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 1: racial slurs, homophobic slurs. You can't type anything about. 496 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:23,720 Speaker 2: Hitler at all. 497 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: They must have added this after all the news articles 498 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: about Nazis leaving each other comments full of racial slurs 499 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 1: when they're donating to each other's fundraisers for Nazi stuff. 500 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: I means so much for free speech right, I guess 501 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:58,560 Speaker 1: even the free speech website doesn't need bad press. Aside 502 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: from the lackluster fundraiser, the campaign's online presence sucks. I mean, 503 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,440 Speaker 1: aside from the messaging, which is obviously very bad. It 504 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 1: is explicitly chrysto fascist. There's a lot of talk about deportation, 505 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: very very focused on deportation. But aside from that, aside 506 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,760 Speaker 1: from the messaging being evil, there's a lack of direction here. 507 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,400 Speaker 1: On the events page of the campaign website, it's just 508 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 1: a giant AI generated picture of breakfast food. It's announcing 509 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: an event called Dialogue with Tyler Diyke's, but under date, 510 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: time and location, it just says TBD and it's been 511 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 1: like that for weeks. I get that it can be 512 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: hard to get a location for an event, but it's 513 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 1: not hard to use a real photograph of a pancake. 514 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 1: Why am I looking at a hideous, swarped plate of 515 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 1: partially fused fruits and oblong egg yolks. 516 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:01,719 Speaker 2: It's just sloppy. 517 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: And I searched for more information about the campaign. I 518 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,399 Speaker 1: looked at the online presence he created, the website, the Instagram, 519 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 1: the Twitter, the telegram, and I looked in the mainstream news. 520 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,200 Speaker 1: I looked at local news in his area. I searched 521 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: on Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, rumble. I found one local newspaper article. 522 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,279 Speaker 1: You know, every time he's talking about his campaign, he says, 523 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,799 Speaker 1: I'm being attacked by the media. I'm being smeared by 524 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,720 Speaker 1: the media, you know, the leftist media. 525 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 2: It has it out for me. I'm being targeted. 526 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,720 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe I'm overlooking something, but I found 527 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 1: a single local newspaper article. I also found a segment 528 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,719 Speaker 1: that was recorded by a local TV news outlet. It 529 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,840 Speaker 1: is a brief interview he gave back in October, but 530 00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 1: the segment never actually aired on TV. As he was 531 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: talking to the reporter, someone else filmed it on their 532 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:08,880 Speaker 1: cell phone and he posted that video to Instagram. But 533 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 1: other than that, I only found a couple of interviews 534 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,319 Speaker 1: he's given in the last two months, and all of 535 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,480 Speaker 1: them were with right wing conspiracy weirdos whose content is 536 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: only available in some bizarre, impossible to access place like 537 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:30,920 Speaker 1: a Twitter live broadcast or downloadable only on Telegram. It 538 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 1: was while I was searching for these videos that I 539 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:38,279 Speaker 1: found out people are still using Getter. It was a 540 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,800 Speaker 1: right wing Twitter knockoff that had a brief moment after 541 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 1: the fall of Parlor in twenty twenty one, but before 542 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,920 Speaker 1: the rise of truth Social in twenty twenty two. I mean, 543 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,399 Speaker 1: if you asked me yesterday, I would have told you 544 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,120 Speaker 1: Getter isn't even on the Internet anymore. But apparently some 545 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:04,319 Speaker 1: people are still on get Her. Two of the four 546 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,200 Speaker 1: campaign interviews I found were with a confused sounding woman 547 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:13,120 Speaker 1: who calls herself Violent Vixen, one was with a daily 548 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,520 Speaker 1: prayer broadcast put out by a Telegram channel that supports 549 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,200 Speaker 1: January sixth defendants in their families, and the fourth was 550 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:25,000 Speaker 1: with a conspiracy theorist named Anne vander Steele. She used 551 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,239 Speaker 1: to be pretty big in the QAnon community, but that's 552 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,320 Speaker 1: not really the hot thing anymore. And I'll be honest, 553 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 1: I did not watch enough and vander Steele to tell 554 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 1: you what she's into these days. 555 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:39,200 Speaker 2: But in all of. 556 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:43,359 Speaker 1: These interviews, Tyler Diykes did not tell what I would 557 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:48,280 Speaker 1: consider to be the truth. He lied about the events 558 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,800 Speaker 1: leading up to him joining the Marines. He omitted any 559 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,239 Speaker 1: mention of why he is no longer a Marine. He 560 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,120 Speaker 1: pretends to address the Nazi allegations, but he's fighting a 561 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,480 Speaker 1: straw man. He's pretending everyone calling him a Nazi is 562 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,200 Speaker 1: just talking about January sixth, And he never mentions all 563 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 1: the Nazi rallies he went to, or the Nazi groups 564 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:09,480 Speaker 1: he was a member of. 565 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,200 Speaker 3: I had previously been at Cornell University at Atica, New York. 566 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,840 Speaker 3: I spent one semester there as an engineer in biomedical engineering. 567 00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,960 Speaker 3: But while I was there, I was actually driven out 568 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 3: and I left, and I did not read up and 569 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,120 Speaker 3: go back for the second semester because of how openly 570 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,799 Speaker 3: Communists that this staff and the faculty were. 571 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:42,799 Speaker 1: Oh, Tyler, Tyler, that's not true. Come on, it is 572 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,800 Speaker 1: true that he enlisted in the Marines after one semester 573 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:51,200 Speaker 1: of college, but he wasn't driven out because of communism. 574 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:57,960 Speaker 1: He felt calculus and chemistry. His own lawyer put that 575 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,560 Speaker 1: in a memo and filed it in federal court. He 576 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,719 Speaker 1: started at Cornell in the fall of twenty seventeen, just 577 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,799 Speaker 1: a few weeks after he attended the Unit the Right 578 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,600 Speaker 1: rally in Charlottesville. He was a straight A student in 579 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,240 Speaker 1: high school, but he found the college coursework much more challenging, 580 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,480 Speaker 1: and he failed two classes in his first semester, and 581 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,840 Speaker 1: because of that, Cornell did not allow him back for 582 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:29,279 Speaker 1: the spring semester. He was placed on academic leave, and 583 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,040 Speaker 1: instead of just taking that semester off to regroup and 584 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:36,080 Speaker 1: come back, he opted to drop out for good instead, 585 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 1: and that's when he enlisted the Marines. It was math, 586 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 1: not communism, that drove him out of Cornell. As for 587 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 1: his time in the Marines, well, he never actually says 588 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:56,240 Speaker 1: much about it. His campaign materials often feature a photo 589 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,759 Speaker 1: of him in his marine dress blues. He refers to 590 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,120 Speaker 1: him himself as a Marine Corps veteran, and he happily 591 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 1: accepts the perfunctory thank you for your service he's often 592 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,080 Speaker 1: given in these interviews, but he doesn't say what that 593 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,880 Speaker 1: service was. He says he fought for this country and 594 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,759 Speaker 1: that his time in the Marines made him the man 595 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,160 Speaker 1: he is today, but he never says that he was 596 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:26,360 Speaker 1: discharged to the reserves immediately following basic training. He was 597 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,560 Speaker 1: in the reserves from twenty eighteen until twenty twenty two, 598 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:36,400 Speaker 1: when he was given an other than honorable discharge. During 599 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 1: his time in the Marine Corps Reserves, he was actively 600 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:45,240 Speaker 1: involved in far right extremist activity. In January of twenty nineteen, 601 00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,279 Speaker 1: he was interviewed by an FBI agent from the Joint 602 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:52,800 Speaker 1: Terrorism Task Force regarding his ties to domestic extremist groups. 603 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:59,439 Speaker 1: The agent's affidavit doesn't say which groups. He hadn't joined 604 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 1: the Marines yet when he attended the Unite the Right 605 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:05,680 Speaker 1: rally in twenty seventeen, but he was a Marine a 606 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,760 Speaker 1: year later when he was one of a tiny handful 607 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,640 Speaker 1: of attendees at the anniversary rally in Washington, d C. 608 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:16,000 Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, and he was a Marine when he 609 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:21,880 Speaker 1: stormed the Capitol in January of twenty twenty one. The 610 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,680 Speaker 1: exact date of his discharge from the Marine Corps isn't clear. 611 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,799 Speaker 1: When he was arrested in Virginia in twenty twenty three, 612 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,880 Speaker 1: the prosecutor referred to his discharge as having been quote 613 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:40,080 Speaker 1: last year, so I assume it must have been sometime 614 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:45,600 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. The records related to his discharge 615 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:50,360 Speaker 1: were filed under SEAL in his federal criminal case, but 616 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:55,319 Speaker 1: unredacted filings that refer to them specify that his discharge 617 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,879 Speaker 1: was because of something he did on November eighth, twenty twenty, 618 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,480 Speaker 1: and whatever that something was had to do with participating 619 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:12,400 Speaker 1: in prohibited extremist activity. Like I said, the paperwork itself 620 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,080 Speaker 1: is filed under SEAL, but I happen to know that 621 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:20,440 Speaker 1: on November eighth, twenty twenty, a security camera in Sumter County, 622 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,840 Speaker 1: South Carolina, captured footage of a man who looks exactly 623 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,960 Speaker 1: like Tyler Dikes taping up swastika flyers outside local businesses. 624 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,719 Speaker 1: He doesn't mention any of this when he's asked about 625 00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:39,719 Speaker 1: his service in those campaign interviews, obviously, and when a 626 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:43,080 Speaker 1: federal probation officer asked him about it in twenty twenty four, 627 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:48,799 Speaker 1: he lied. He said that he was asked to leave 628 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,560 Speaker 1: the Marines because he failed to show up for drill, 629 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,080 Speaker 1: so he was at a Nazi rally. In twenty seventeen. 630 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,279 Speaker 1: He was at another Nazi rally in twenty eighteen. He 631 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,600 Speaker 1: was interviewed by counter terrorism in twenty nineteen. He was 632 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,840 Speaker 1: caught on camera putting up Nazi flyers in twenty twenty, 633 00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,840 Speaker 1: and the Marine Corps ultimately discharged him for that in 634 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. By the time he was arrested in 635 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:20,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three for intimidating counter protesters with a lit torch. 636 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,040 Speaker 1: Back in twenty seventeen, he was a member of an 637 00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:28,960 Speaker 1: extremist group called the Southern Sun's Active Club, And all 638 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,319 Speaker 1: of this was in that first episode. 639 00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:33,640 Speaker 2: But I missed something. 640 00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,719 Speaker 1: There was one filing in his federal court case with 641 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:43,000 Speaker 1: an important detail that I missed the first time around. 642 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,480 Speaker 1: In a follow up to the original sentencing memorandum, the 643 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,000 Speaker 1: government added a few more details to their list of 644 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,800 Speaker 1: things Dykes had done in the past that would seem 645 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:59,480 Speaker 1: to indicate his involvement in extremist activity. Most of them 646 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,719 Speaker 1: were the things we've already talked about, the things I 647 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:09,440 Speaker 1: already know, but this one was new. It reads November 648 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:14,800 Speaker 1: December twenty twenty Dyke's travels from South Carolina to bad Axe, Michigan, 649 00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,400 Speaker 1: to participate in a field training exercise run by an 650 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:22,600 Speaker 1: organization called the Base. The Base is a United States 651 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,600 Speaker 1: based racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist group with cells 652 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,959 Speaker 1: in the United States and reported ties abroad. The Base 653 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,440 Speaker 1: encourages the hastening of a race war and aims to 654 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,359 Speaker 1: establish a white ethno state through violence against non white 655 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:42,960 Speaker 1: minority groups and the US government. Oh dear, we haven't 656 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,200 Speaker 1: had any reason to get into the Base yet. It 657 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:47,600 Speaker 1: hasn't really come up on the show. 658 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:50,240 Speaker 2: I think I did. 659 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:54,600 Speaker 1: Mention it in passing on an older episode, but I 660 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,360 Speaker 1: wasn't really telling you anything about the Base. I just 661 00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,839 Speaker 1: mentioned that I was at a hearing once for one 662 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:03,160 Speaker 1: of the members of the group who'd been arrested before 663 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,480 Speaker 1: he could enact his plan to kickstart a race war 664 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:06,320 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. 665 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:07,239 Speaker 2: It was a whole thing. 666 00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,040 Speaker 1: I don't remember why I was telling you about that hearing, 667 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,040 Speaker 1: but it was the day I walked out of the 668 00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,440 Speaker 1: bathroom at the green Belt, Maryland Federal Court Building with 669 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:21,120 Speaker 1: my dress tucked into my tights. And it was the 670 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,480 Speaker 1: same day that I grabbed that FBI agent's phone out 671 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,200 Speaker 1: of his hand because he couldn't figure out how to 672 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,480 Speaker 1: turn it off, and he was just fumbling with it 673 00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,959 Speaker 1: and fidgeting and pressing the buttons and doing it wrong. 674 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,480 Speaker 1: And I didn't want the judge to get mad at 675 00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,719 Speaker 1: the gallery because someone's phone was on, so. 676 00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,120 Speaker 2: I just did it for him. 677 00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,840 Speaker 1: I told you about that, but I don't think I 678 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:48,000 Speaker 1: actually told you anything about the base, so that paragraph 679 00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:54,120 Speaker 1: in that document is interesting. I hadn't had any reason 680 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,719 Speaker 1: up until this moment to think Tyler Dykes had been 681 00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,520 Speaker 1: involved with the BASS, but I'm not sure the date 682 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,239 Speaker 1: is right. I know the government is never going to 683 00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:08,319 Speaker 1: tell me anything juicy about a terrorist organization, and there's 684 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,640 Speaker 1: no point even asking. But I wish that someone could 685 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:17,760 Speaker 1: just confirm for me whether that's a typo, because I 686 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:22,040 Speaker 1: really think they had to have meant twenty nineteen not 687 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:27,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I know that there was a paramilitary training 688 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,640 Speaker 1: exercise at the compound in bad Axe, Michigan, over the 689 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:37,640 Speaker 1: weekend of November thirtieth to December first, twenty nineteen. There 690 00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:41,440 Speaker 1: was supposed to be another one in December of twenty twenty, 691 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,880 Speaker 1: but it didn't happen because the FBI raided the property 692 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,640 Speaker 1: in October of twenty twenty. If members of the base 693 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:52,640 Speaker 1: did get together in December of twenty twenty. Half the 694 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,200 Speaker 1: group wouldn't have made it because they were in federal 695 00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:59,640 Speaker 1: custody and wherever the meetup happened, it couldn't have been 696 00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:03,759 Speaker 1: the proper pretty in bad acts. So either as a 697 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,919 Speaker 1: TYPO and they met twenty nineteen, or there's something else 698 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,680 Speaker 1: going on here entirely that I have no other documentation about, 699 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,840 Speaker 1: and I have a lot more questions. I'm leaning towards TYPO. 700 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:23,879 Speaker 1: It happens more than you think. But also a lot 701 00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:25,759 Speaker 1: of guys who were in the base during that time 702 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,560 Speaker 1: period got arrested. I mean, whether or not the government 703 00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:33,400 Speaker 1: meant twenty nineteen or twenty twenty. If Tyler Diys was 704 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,439 Speaker 1: involved in the base during that time period either year, 705 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,440 Speaker 1: he was friends with at least one informant. There's no 706 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:44,719 Speaker 1: getting around that the FBI was in possession of a 707 00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:49,120 Speaker 1: lot of cell phones and computers that belonged to members 708 00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:53,680 Speaker 1: of the base got arrested during that time period, and 709 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:59,160 Speaker 1: several cells of that group were infiltrated or monitored. The 710 00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,800 Speaker 1: cell arrested in Maryland for plotting to start the Civil 711 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:06,320 Speaker 1: War was wiretapped. The cell arrested in Georgia for plotting 712 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,560 Speaker 1: to murder and anti fascist activists, and his wife had 713 00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:13,759 Speaker 1: an undercover agent in their crew. The guys living on 714 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,520 Speaker 1: the compound in Michigan got raided. So I feel like 715 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:23,560 Speaker 1: the government definitely knew Tyler Dykes was there. And I 716 00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,840 Speaker 1: don't just mean they know it now in this document 717 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,640 Speaker 1: they wrote in twenty twenty four, I mean they knew 718 00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:33,080 Speaker 1: it then. This isn't a recent discovery. So why is 719 00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,600 Speaker 1: this single paragraph and a last minute addend him to 720 00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,120 Speaker 1: a sentencing memorandum the only place this has ever come up? 721 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,240 Speaker 1: If the FBI knew then that he was a member 722 00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:49,120 Speaker 1: of a domestic extremist organization actively plotting to kick off 723 00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:53,279 Speaker 1: the Race War, a group that was explicitly seeking to 724 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,000 Speaker 1: recruit members of the United States military to carry out 725 00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,600 Speaker 1: acts of terrorism, why did the Marine Corps wait two 726 00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:04,520 Speaker 1: more year years to discharge him? Great question I wish 727 00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:09,239 Speaker 1: I could tell you. As Ever, this new piece of 728 00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:13,960 Speaker 1: information leaves me with more questions than it answers, but 729 00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,080 Speaker 1: it does seem to go pretty far in rebutting Tyler 730 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:21,279 Speaker 1: Dykes's claim that the people calling him a Nazi are 731 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,319 Speaker 1: being unfair, So. 732 00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:29,120 Speaker 3: Quite interesting you know, my experience is anily six For example, 733 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,839 Speaker 3: I brandeded the neo Nazi domestic terrorists because of a wave. 734 00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,279 Speaker 1: Every time he tries to hit back on being called 735 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:44,320 Speaker 1: a Nazi, he says he was just waving. He's referring 736 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,640 Speaker 1: to a specific photograph, one that was used in the 737 00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:52,000 Speaker 1: criminal complaint filed in his federal case. After fighting his 738 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:53,760 Speaker 1: way to the top of the steps of the Capitol 739 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:59,719 Speaker 1: Building on January sixth, he turned around and well, he says, 740 00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:04,640 Speaker 1: he would It's just a still photo. But i know 741 00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,320 Speaker 1: what it looks like to me, and I've seen a 742 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:12,799 Speaker 1: lot of photos of guys doing this. Here's the thing, though, 743 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,200 Speaker 1: that's not the only reason people are calling him a Nazi. 744 00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,319 Speaker 1: As someone running for office hoping to capture the extreme 745 00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,839 Speaker 1: right wing of the Republican Party, it's safe for him 746 00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:30,040 Speaker 1: to be proud of being a January sixth defendant. There 747 00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,319 Speaker 1: are large segments of the MAGA base that eat it 748 00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:37,480 Speaker 1: up when you say that you're a brave MAGA patriot 749 00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,560 Speaker 1: who stepped up to defend Donald Trump on January sixth, 750 00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:43,799 Speaker 1: and the woke mob is just trying to cancel you 751 00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:49,239 Speaker 1: because you love America right. So if he can blur 752 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,839 Speaker 1: the truth and convince people that, oh, yeah, I'm being 753 00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:56,239 Speaker 1: called a Nazi, but only because of this cool thing 754 00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,839 Speaker 1: I did that you like. That will work for him, 755 00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:05,839 Speaker 1: That's good for him. There's a degree of martyrdom associated 756 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,520 Speaker 1: with being a January sixth defendant. 757 00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:09,840 Speaker 2: He suffered for the cause. 758 00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,759 Speaker 1: He believed in MAGA, and he was willing to put 759 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,920 Speaker 1: himself on the line. He rarely misses an opportunity to 760 00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:21,280 Speaker 1: mention that he was a January sixth defendant. He also 761 00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,880 Speaker 1: repeatedly implies that he was the victim of a violent 762 00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,920 Speaker 1: police rate on his home when the FBI came to 763 00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,400 Speaker 1: arrest him on the January sixth charges. This is a 764 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,600 Speaker 1: popular refrain in that community. It is part of the 765 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:39,560 Speaker 1: martyrdom narrative. But in one interview, he was asked to 766 00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:45,960 Speaker 1: recount that harrowing tale, and he's forced to clarify that actually, 767 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:50,840 Speaker 1: he wasn't home when that happened. He doesn't mention that 768 00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:55,240 Speaker 1: not only was he not home that day, he hadn't 769 00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:59,440 Speaker 1: been home in months because he was in jail for 770 00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:05,439 Speaker 1: a felon he committed at a Nazi rally. So he's 771 00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:10,120 Speaker 1: trying to downplay the Nazi allegations by saying it's just 772 00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:14,000 Speaker 1: a smear against him for his brave, patriotic behavior at 773 00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:19,160 Speaker 1: the insurrection. The problem is, even if you believe he 774 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:25,759 Speaker 1: was just waving on January sixth, there's video of him 775 00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,080 Speaker 1: throwing Hitler salutes at a Nazi rally in twenty seventeen. 776 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:35,520 Speaker 1: I can show you photos and video from multiple angles. 777 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:40,279 Speaker 1: He wasn't waving on August eleventh, twenty seventeen, and there's 778 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:45,520 Speaker 1: no wiggling out of that one. And really we're not 779 00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,919 Speaker 1: just talking about how many times he gave the old 780 00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:52,600 Speaker 1: stiff arm salute during a riot. He wasn't just some 781 00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,440 Speaker 1: regular Republican voter who got carried away on January sixth. 782 00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,839 Speaker 1: He was a member of at least two different Nazi groups. 783 00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:02,840 Speaker 1: And that's just what the government has been willing to 784 00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:07,480 Speaker 1: corroborate on the record. He can post pictures of himself 785 00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,080 Speaker 1: in his marine dress blues on Instagram if he wants, 786 00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:13,839 Speaker 1: but he received an other than honorable discharge for doing 787 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,840 Speaker 1: Nazi stuff with his Nazi friends, and the Nazi conduct 788 00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,920 Speaker 1: in question took place before January sixth, twenty twenty one. 789 00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,360 Speaker 1: He wants voters to think he's being unfairly labeled a 790 00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,680 Speaker 1: Nazi for going to the Capitol in January sixth, but 791 00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:33,560 Speaker 1: the United States Marine Corps seems to be saying that 792 00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,880 Speaker 1: he was a Nazi before that. I don't have a 793 00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,240 Speaker 1: huge amount of faith in the voters that elected Nancy Mace, 794 00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:45,920 Speaker 1: but it's a crowded primary field and those people have 795 00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:50,919 Speaker 1: other options. I'm not actually worried about Tyler Dyke's winning 796 00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:57,239 Speaker 1: his primary. That's extremely unlikely. But I am really not 797 00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:01,480 Speaker 1: looking forward to a political landscape littered with guys like this, 798 00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,760 Speaker 1: Guys who are trying to kick in the Overton window 799 00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,640 Speaker 1: like it's an actual window on the northwest side of 800 00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:12,200 Speaker 1: the Capitol Building. 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