This is popular front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to freelance journalist Jason Wilson.

He mostly covers the militant far right in the US and their various connections

and he's going to be talking to us about the

base the base was up until recently a very active neo-Nazi American training

camp slash group is kind of confusing what stranger still is that

there's quite a big possibility that actually they were started by what could be even a Russian agent. Now it's not one of those weird, you know,

resist Twitter conspiracy Russia type things, it's like legit. So it's all very weird and

Jason's going to tell us all about it. If you like what we're doing here at

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Yeah so firstly I, we'll get into what happened and all of these weird theories and what have you, but first of all, just explain to us what is the base, like, or at least what was the base, I guess the kind of defunct now.

Just explain that to us.

Yeah, the base was, I suppose, the best way to describe it

is an accelerationist neo-Nazi, you know, network. They often talked about

themselves as a kind of social network. This guy, the guy who, the base and formed the base he was calling himself Norman Spear and

he cropped up on in social media and other places online around the end of

2017 not not too long after Charlottesville he he started showing up and at first he appeared on a lot of, you know,

neo-Nazi podcasts and made some YouTube videos.

And he was kind of identifying at that point

as someone who was associating himself with the

Northwest Front which was the organization of a guy called Harold

Covington and Harold Covington's idea which he called the Butler plan because it was

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