This is popular front a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky

details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to Ali Winston, a reporter at the New York Times.

He's going to be speaking about a white nationalist militant street fighting group in the US that spread rapidly from 2017 to

2018 when they were all arrested and investigated by the domestic

terrorism unit of the FBI. If you live in America you might have heard

of them but generally outside there isn't a lot of information so Ali's going to

be speaking about how the Rise Above Movement kind of led the way for this militant

street activity of neo-fascists in America.

If you like what we're doing at Popular Front and you want bonus content, go to

Patreon. Tell us what is the Rise Above Movement? What is Ram?

So the Rise Above Movement is a relatively small, but

you know, a very well known, at least now in the States,

a group of white nationalists, fascists. States,

group of white nationalists, fascists, ultra nationalists,

there are a bunch of terms that can be used accurately to describe the group.

They were started in about 2016 in Southern California in I guess they

span Los Angeles and Orange County in San Diego which are three of the most

populated counties in California.

They were started by a guy called Rob Rundo,

a former gang member out of Queens,

who moved west in 2014 or 15, to try and kind of restart his life with the person he was seeing at the time.

And they, on their, they were formed about 2016 and they were kind of like an alt-right, far-right street fighting group. They started out as kind of a bar, you know, a little bit of a lads boxing club.

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