Regurgitating the anti-scientific rhetoric of the far-right, Masters tweeted on February 10 that: “Making kids wear mask every day is child abuse.”įar from being an apolitical organic expression of working class resistance to “government tyranny,” the so-called “People’s Convoy” is being promoted, endorsed and funded by Republican Party politicians, far-right operatives and billionaires. He led protests outside the Lansing Capitol in April 2020, participated in the storming of the Capitol on January 6 and advocated last month that voters “unplug voting machines” if they “see something” they did not like in the upcoming election.Īrizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters, who was hand-chosen by billionaire Peter Thiel to serve in Trump’s 2016 presidential transition team, likewise expressed his support for the proposed truckers rally, retweeting a map of another proposed route beginning in San Diego, California, and ending in New York City. Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley, rallying the same elements that would participate in the assassination plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, tweeted this past Wednesday: “Sure would be a shame if a convoy of trucks surrounded the Super Bowl so that nobody could attend.” Kelley is the co-founder of the American Patriots Council. Let’s goooo…” while Finchem simply tweeted “Trucks=Freedom.” Shooting for over 500k trucks starting in Cali going to DC. Inciting her racist base, Rogers tweeted: “If Truckers shut down the Super Bowl it would partially be payback for Colin Kaepernick and the kneeling.” In another post on social media, Rogers wrote: “I am hearing rumors US Truckers are trying to beat the Canadian Trucker numbers. Surrounded by soldiers and metal fencing, Biden delivered last year’s State of the Union speech after an almost two month delay following former President Donald Trump’s failed fascist insurrection.Īdmitted Oath Keepers and Arizona Republican politicians Mark Finchem and Wendy Rogers on February 7, 2022, tweeted out their support for the rally.
on March 1, the currently scheduled date for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. Multiple news outlets described a map included in the memo which showed recommendations for truckers to occupy state capitals culminating in the protest ending in Washington D.C.
“Our truckers are gonna maybe start mobilizing and doing what we need to do, which is shut down D.C., shut down Sacramento, shut down Albany, shut down these states and these until we root out this evil that was almost perpetrated on us.” And God bless the Canadian truckers and the Canadian cowboys up there on the border.”Įxpressing hope in the “great potential” for American truckers to replicate the occupation, Schroder called for similar protest in state capitals across the country and in Washington D.C. In a recent Instagram video, the former “Silver Spoons” actor while holding a Bible said, “It’s an evil that is trying to be forced upon our children, upon us. Lending his support to the far-right movement was wealthy child-actor turned far-right activist Ricky Schroder.
He frequently streams alongside “America First” fascist Nicholas Fuentes. Sanchez has been a member of several white supremacist/neo-Nazi groups including the Rise Above Movement and Identity Evropa.
Singh revealed that the administrator of the group is a known neo-Nazi named Ryan Sanchez, alias Culture War Criminal. Tracking a Telegram group chat with over 600 members supporting a potential Los Angeles, California, convoy, independent journalist Vishal P. One flyer circulating on social media reads “Shut down the Super Bowl Medical Freedom Protest.” While the document apparently did not outline any specific threats, the agency noted it was tracking several social media hashtags, such as #ShutDownSuperBowl and #SuperBowlTrafficking. The memo was issued this past Tuesday by the DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. The bulletin warned that the proposed convoy, “could severely disrupt transportation, federal government, and law enforcement operations through gridlock and potential counter protests.” Among the chief proponents of the notwithstanding clause is Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, who supported the far-right "Freedom" Convoy's menacing occupation of Ottawa and its demands for the scrapping of all anti-COVID public health measures.
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